Re: [slim] Accelerated audio increment/decrement rate functionality
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46653 Question: What should the -opposite- button do in fast-forward etc.? - REW when in 8x-forward jumps to 2x-rewind (current behaviour) - REW when in 8x-forward jumps to 4x-forward I initially thought it should definitely be that changing direction decreases the speed. I was also convinced that this was what my Humax PVR does. However, when I checked, I found that the Humax actually goes straight into the opposite scan mode. I'm not yet decided on where to cast my vote, but when I discussed this with my wife, she was fairly on the side of keeping the current behaviour i.e. immediate change in direction. Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46653 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accelerated audio increment/decrement rate functionality
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46653 Question: What should the -opposite- button do in fast-forward etc.? - REW when in 8x-forward jumps to 2x-rewind (current behaviour) - REW when in 8x-forward jumps to 4x-forward skind56;294255 Wrote: What other buttons have an effect on FWD/REW, e.g. 'stop button' stops, 'play button' plays, 'pause' button? So if you wish to slow the FWD/REW process then hit stop/play then FWD/REW etc? At the moment if the device is in fast-forward or rewind, the following happens: play - goes back to normal playback pause - pauses and cancels ffwd/rewind, so when resumed will be normal playback stop - stops (and cancels ffwd/rewind) Actually, I'm not sure about that last one, but that's certainly how it should work if it doesn't already! Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46653 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accelerated audio increment/decrement rate functionality
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46653 Question: What should the -opposite- button do in fast-forward etc.? - REW when in 8x-forward jumps to 2x-rewind (current behaviour) - REW when in 8x-forward jumps to 4x-forward max.spicer;294264 Wrote: At the moment if the device is in fast-forward or rewind, the following happens: play - goes back to normal playback pause - pauses and cancels ffwd/rewind, so when resumed will be normal playback stop - stops (and cancels ffwd/rewind) Actually, I'm not sure about that last one, but that's certainly how it should work if it doesn't already! Max The above only applies to 7.1 - apologies! Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46653 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] what is jump back on wake?
Louis-David Mitterrand;289370 Wrote: Among two now playing screensavers, one is labeled (jump back on wake). I tried both and didn't see any visible difference. What does that jump do? Jump back on wake remembers where you were in a menu before the screensaver kicked in and will put you back there when the screensaver exits. The non-jump option would put you back to the Home menu. e.g. if you're in Browse-Albums-Monty Python Sings-14. Eric the Half a Bee and the screen saver kicks in, the next time you push a button you should be returned there. Without jump back, the next button push would put you back at Squeezebox/Transporter Home. It really could do with some better wording! Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46058 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] what is jump back on wake?
max.spicer;289375 Wrote: It really could do with some better wording! Actually, I wonder when you wouldn't want jump back on wake. A better solution might be just to remove the non-jump option. *Max awaits howls of protest* ;-) Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46058 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Spam PMs
Patrick Dixon;287280 Wrote: Any chance the forum administrators could do something to prevent spam by Private Message? Maybe prevent people sending PMs until they have a minimum number of forum posts - which is a common approach on other forums. Yes, that would be helpful. It doesn't happen often, but I've had a few of these and it is a tad irritating. On the other hand, I'm not sure I want to have to close one eye, turn my head through ninety degrees and unfocus the other eye in order to work out the word that is hidden in an image before posting. ;-) Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45773 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Spam PMs
bpa;287291 Wrote: I've got a few of these as well. Not commercial SPAM message but message about problems, nothing user confidential which should have been posted on the forum. I don't like discouraging user queries so I usually push them to start a public thread - some do, some don't. No, the ones I'm talking about are purely spam. Here's an example: * From: jenbarfar34384 Hello max.spicer, I am nee to the forum and I just want to step up to say hello. == = Visit my site! http://www.[urlremoved to prevent advertising it] ** It would be nice to have a report abuse button at the bottom of PMs. Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45773 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Spam PMs
Here's another timely example: * freegamexprt Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 0 freegamexprt is on a distinguished road Default Hi [Name} I'm new to the forum and just wanted to say hello. I look forward to hanging out here. Visit My Site http://[not going to advertise it!] ** I particularly like the [Name} bit - good bit of coding there! It would be good not to get these though! Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45773 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet power consumption and user habits
Siduhe;284723 Wrote: Probably not, but it is protecting the screens of my SBs (at least the way I have it set up). My SB2 is suffering a little bit of screen burn (where the : between the hour:minute is on the time). Only really noticable when brightness is on high, but I'm hoping that installing the Powersave plugin will stop it from getting any worse and/or occuring on my SB3s (although I think they have a different screen type from the SB2s anyway). That's the first time I've ever heard anyone report screen burn on a squeezebox. You could just set the off screen saver to a blank screen, of course. -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45367 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fast-forward/rewind redesign
It sounds to me as if you are needlessly mixing the scanner mode and accelerated playback modes. I think it would be much better if they were entirely separate. During playback, single presses of ffwd/rwd should trigger accelerated playback. Holding ffwd/rew when there is a current track (but not necessarily playing) should enter the scanner mode. Press UP/DOWN to go forward and back in the track position. Pressing Up/Down to move forward/back is somewhat counter-intuitive. Does left always have to exit a mode in the Squeezebox UI, or are there already some instances where this is not the case? Given that you enter scanner mode by holding ffwd/rew, it might make sense if during scanner mode you could use single presses of ffwd/rew to move the current position right/left. This would only be possible if the two modes were completely separate, as above. After using UP/DOWN, no further change for between 1-2s will automatically jump to the selected position and remain in the scanner. I can't decide whether I like this behaviour or not - I'd have to try it. My Humax PVR has a very similar scanner mode but it doesn't have the timeout. I'm trying to think if any other devices do similar. Press FWD to enter 2X fast-forward mode. Repeated presses will successively double the scanning speed. Similarly with REW for rewind modes. The fast-forward/rewind mode and rate is indicated next to the position counters. UP/DOWN scrolling can still be used. I don't think this makes sense when in scanner mode, but fully agree for playback mode. What happens when you reach maximum speed? Does it cycle back to slow speed? Does the cycle first go to 1x? What does the pause button do? Press PLAY to resume normal PLAY and exit the scanner. Any fast-forward/rewind mode is stopped and play continues from the current position. Any pending position change from use of the UP/DOWN keys is invoked. Does it make sense to be in scanner mode whilst ffwd/rewind is in effect, or would it be better to have scanner mode cancel ffwd/rewind? I'm not sure. Otherwise, good. Press LEFT to exit scanner without applying any pending change. Any fast-forward/rewind mode remains operational. See above. The scanner will exit when the screen-saver kicks in or any other display mode is invoked. Good. Currently fast-forward/rewind modes continue across track boundaries in the current playlist. Is this really useful? It seems to me that it would be better if play would stop when either end of the track is reached. Agreed. This revised proposal keeps the audio feedback. There has been some support for this although I remain to be convinced that it is really useful. I will look for feedback once the new scanner version (described above) is available. I don't like the audio feedback, but that's mainly due to how it's implemented. Audio feedback is a good thing and many devices do it much better. The current method basically sounds like a skipping cd, which is horrible. I've used devices that do this much better, but can't remember how they do it right now, or which devices! Hope that's helpful! Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41235 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for 1x 3.5mm F to 2xRCA M cable in UK
max.spicer;280312 Wrote: Thanks for all the help! I've just ordered some of these http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/1371. And they arrived this morning. Just over £7.50 for 4 adapter cables and a couple of stereo splitters, including delivery. Definitely recommended. Thanks again, Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for 1x 3.5mm F to 2xRCA M cable in UK
gary;280053 Wrote: I got mine from maplins, Trouble is the only thing i can find now is this:http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=1218doy=15m3C=SOU=strat15 , does the same job That's backwards, unfortunately. Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for 1x 3.5mm F to 2xRCA M cable in UK
Thanks for all the help! I've just ordered some of these http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/1371. Thanks again, Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Looking for 1x 3.5mm F to 2xRCA M cable in UK
I'm looking for a few 3.5mm female to RCA male cables in the UK. One like this - http://www.trianglecables.com/255-036.html. I just wondered if anyone could recommend a good online supplier in the UK. The site I've linked to does ship to the UK, but it seems a bit daft to put them in a plane. Yes, I am using this with a Squeezebox. Yes, I know that's heresy. Sorry! Thanks, Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for 1x 3.5mm F to 2xRCA M cable in UK
bobkoure;280065 Wrote: This is so you can listen to 'phones from the RCA outputs? Is is perceptibly better that way? Just wondering...(?) No, it's so I can plug a really cheap pair of speakers into a couple of boxes. Tragic, I know! Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Albums sortorder *very* mysterious
GoodVibrations;270293 Wrote: I have a very mysterious problem with the sortorder when browsing albums by name. Sounds like you've hit the same problem I'm getting. No solution as yet, I'm afraid. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7035 Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43571 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Albums sortorder *very* mysterious
max.spicer;270304 Wrote: Sounds like you've hit the same problem I'm getting. No solution as yet, I'm afraid. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7035 Max I think this is actually a MySQL bug. http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32202 Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43571 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Setting up internet radio stations
I'd like to set up my Squeezeboxen so I can quickly listen to BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 when I want to. What's the easiest way to do this? Cheers, Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42439 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Setting up internet radio stations
bpa;260392 Wrote: Since you are based in the UK you can listen to the WMA URL. So create two entries in SC7 Favorites - one for R3 and one for R4. You can do the same on SN. If you have AlienBBC installed then in SC7 you can also make Favorites entries for the RealAudio streams (as an alternative). How do I get the URLs? Thanks, Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42439 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Setting up internet radio stations
bpa;260401 Wrote: www.mikesradioworld.com www.radiofeeds.co.uk Try these Radio 4 RealAudio http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2.ram Radio 4 WMA http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/wm_asx/aod/radio4.asx Radio 4LW RealAudio http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/lwg2.ram Radio 4LW WMA http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/wm_asx/aod/radio4_lw.asx Radio 3 RealAudio http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/ram/r3g2.ram Radio3 WMA http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wm_asx/aod/radio3_hi.asx Ah, that seems to work - thanks! Oddly though, the Tune In URL feature doesn't appear to do anything, whereas adding them via Favourites works. Do you know why you get 4 tracks on the playlist when playing Radio 3 or Radio 4? Is there any difference between them? I first listened to the BBC on the internet just under 12 years ago. You'd think I'd have learned this stuff by now, wouldn't you! ;-) Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42439 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Receiver with no display - why?
Michael Herger;256312 Wrote: I'm curious about the rational behind removing the display from the new receiver. Because users have been asking for this kind of device. Good rationale. I was assuming that the products with display line (i.e. the SB3, at the moment) was going to be withdrawn. If they coexist, then I can see it makes sense. Thanks, Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41966 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Receiver with no display - why?
I'm curious about the rational behind removing the display from the new receiver. I understand that the controller now does all the display work, but can't see how this removes the need for a display on the receiver itself. The controller provides a great interface for selecting and browsing music, but I find the Squeezebox's display invaluable for actually seeing what is being played. With multi-room audio, this is especially an issue, as you get the possibility of one room's audio being programmed from somewhere completely different. Without a display on the receiver, how do people in the room know what they're listening to? Max -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41966 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Logitech to acquire Slim Devices!
I'm very happy with my Harmony 880. The pc interface does admittedly leave a lot to be desired (why can't I bypass the wizard???), but with a smallish amount of tinkering time it is now controlling my system very effectively. I haven't yet tried Logitech's support for the few remaining niggles, but am optimistic at the moment. Max makingmark;183861 Wrote: I just bought a Harmony 1000 and it's the buggiest piece of you-know-what I've ever had. Basic, advertised functionality does not consistently work. Programming is unreliable. It's frankly pathetic. And, as a poster aludes to above, Logitech seems to have a penchant for removing functions to keep their support costs down. I sure hope the knowledge transfer of how to build multi-function, reliable products is going to go from Slim to Logitech instead of the reverse. Slim has been incredibly responsive and hands-on with problems. Perhaps the open source model truly is the wave of the future. -- max.spicer What do we want? Smoother Analog VU with FLAC! When do we want it? At the soonest possible convenience to the hard-working yet undervalued Slim Developers. ;-) max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Forums too busy grumble
I spoke to Dan about this and he said he'd try raising the number of simultaneous connections that vbulletin allows. The issue itself is one for vbulletin, not slimdevices. Max dangerous_dom Wrote: Yeah, i have been getting a lot of 'server too busy' for a couple fo days now too'. Will post a bug, but seems ok at the moment. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22484 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Forums too busy grumble
I've noticed recently that when you get the forums too busy notice, it still updates the last visited information. This means that it still marks topics as read, even though you can't read them. This gets quite annoying after a while! I realise that this is likely a vbulletin issue, but is there nothing that can be done about it? 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22484 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] What's the point of Favorites?
I decided to try and use the new button on my SB3 remote the other day. However, I only seem to be able to add a single track as a favourite, not an album or an artist. Am I missing something obvious, or is this really all it does? Why would I want to map a button press to one song? 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22437 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim web interface and player selection
Ah, well I did say I spent 10 seconds with the code. ;-) It calls a function called something like getRandomClient. There's nothing to say that this always returns a different client though (or even that this function really gets called!). Max JJZolx Wrote: I don't believe it's random, as I always get the same player selected when there are either two or three active players on my network (depending on whether or not my system at work running Softsqueeze is connected). I asked a similar question a while back and, IIRC, it appears that the player selected is generally the first one listed in the prefs file, where they're sorted by MAC address. Which might as well be random... -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22281 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slim web interface and player selection
This question is mainly related to the Nokia 770 web interface, but it may also relate to the main interface. How does the interface decide which player to select in the dropdown list? Mine seems to always default to my Squeezebox3, regardless of the fact that it's not on, my Squeezebox2 is playing and I've just recently been using the web interface to control the Squeezebox2 (but have closed and reopened my browser since). Why doesn't the web interface use a cookie to store which player was controlled and then go back to that if it's not overridden by an url variable? 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22281 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim web interface and player selection
Aaargh, it's worse than I thought. I've just spent 10 seconds in the source and it appears that if there isn't a player specified in the url, the server picks a RANDOM player. Why would you want to do this? It means that not only do you not get the one you used last, you don't even get a consistent player. Humph! I'm going to start thinking about adding a cookie! Max max.spicer Wrote: This question is mainly related to the Nokia 770 web interface, but it may also relate to the main interface. How does the interface decide which player to select in the dropdown list? Mine seems to always default to my Squeezebox3, regardless of the fact that it's not on, my Squeezebox2 is playing and I've just recently been using the web interface to control the Squeezebox2 (but have closed and reopened my browser since). Why doesn't the web interface use a cookie to store which player was controlled and then go back to that if it's not overridden by an url variable? 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22281 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How random is Random Song Mix?
So do you conclude that there is or is not any statistical evidence that the random mix isn't being random? Max smc2911 Wrote: Despite having a mathematics degree, I too was initially suckered by the birthday paradox and was surprised by the frequency of multiple tracks from a single album in a random playlist. To recover my pride, since someone mentioned the birthday paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox), I could resist doing the calculations. Here are some probabilities for seeing at least two tracks from the same album (any album, not a particular album) for a collection of 350 albums (my collection) and 650 (Mike's). -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19696 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Question about cloth in the SB3 Box
Both of mine functioned as soon as I plugged them in. Took me longer to get my wireless network set up correctly about a year before I bought my first squeezebox, but of course that's a completely separate issue... Max slimdemage Wrote: It's for wiping the tears and sweat from your face that are caused by trying to make the product function. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22101 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem stopping Slimserver
Are you running as root (or a similarly privileged user) when you try and stop it? Max Dave Horoschak Wrote: Every time I try to stop Slimserver in Linux (.../slimserver stop), I'm getting a FAILED message. I'd like to create a script that stops Slimserver, starts Music Magic, and restarts Slimserver, but I can't do this if I'm not able to reliably stop the server. None of the log files seem to have any indications of a problem. This occurred with 6.2.1 and with the 6.5b1 I just installed. Any ideas? - Dave -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22006 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 i n What Hi Fi this month
Nice to hear someone finally talking about the audio quality of the squeezebox! However, that comes across as a fairly poorly researched review. Aside from the itunes mistake, they also say that it can play pretty much any music format - I'm surprised they didn't notice the lack of DRM. Whilst I personally don't care in the slightest about no DRM support, it's still an important bit of information to tell people about! Max Robster Wrote: They do a 'first test' of the SB3 this month and give it 5 stars but they do say To get running, download the software from www.slimdevices.com and install it on your PC or Mac running iTunes (or similar jukebox software) which is of course not true. They also have a test of wireless systems Sonos, Musicast and Philips which the Sonos wins, but SB3 wasn't incuded in that test. Rob http://tinyurl.com/l5g2s -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22017 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem stopping Slimserver
'pkill slimserver' should probably do the job nicely, but you're right - it's best to use the init script. Does the init script work when you run it manually? Max PS You'll get a better response in the Linux/Unix forum. Dave Horoschak Wrote: Two reasons: 1. I'm trying to use this as a part of a script and I have no way of knowing the PID ahead of time. 2. I wasn't sure if there were any other processes or cleanup that the server stop executes that don't happen when you kill the process. - Dave rudholm wrote: Is there any reason you don't want to just kill the process? -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22006 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can't use SB at full volume?
Isn't this what the preamp volume control is for? Max Mike Anderson Wrote: Some claim that if you don't play the SB at full volume (40), you're losing sound quality. I'd like to know if that's true, because when I run my SB2 at full volume it is too hot for the device receiving the signal (Behringer DEQ2496), and I seem to get clipping, at least as displayed on the Behringer meter (it goes into the red). Thus I have to turn the SB volume down to 35-37 to avoid clipping. Is it true that I'm losing sound quality by using the SB at volume 35 as compared with 40? It tends to sound better at 40 (at least when there's no clipping) but I can't tell if it's just because it's louder. BTW, I'm using the SB2 with optical digical output, Slimserver 6.2.2 6245 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 and firmware version 33. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21974 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is something wrong with my display?
Try pressing the Brightness key. The Squeezebox maintains two brightness settings - one for active and one for inactive. It switches to inactive after a few seconds of no keypresses on the remote. Max knassiri Wrote: I'm having a problem with the display on my sb3 going black when the screensaver is supposed to kick in. I've tried all of the different screensaver settings and they all result in a black screen after a several seconds of playing. Am I missing something here either on the remote or in the settings menu? -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21991 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Power over Ethernet
Yeah, wireless electricity is something that's long overdue. Come on Slim, get your act together! :-) Max stevieweevie Wrote: AFAIK you can buy PoE kit to use with any Ethernet equipment? Now Power over Wireless would be something I'd subscribe to! -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21936 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Anyone running Slimserver on a Mac Mini?
What's your disk situation? I've been tempted by a MacMini to replace my noisy server, but I need around 200GB of storage space for my collection, and also want to be sure I can easily add more disks if necessary. With the mini, I'm guessing that means external USB2 drives. Max Jungle Wrote: I have been happily running SlimServer on a Mac Mini since last Oct. It's a doddle on the Mac - even easier (IMHO) than on a PC. The mac Mini runs quiet/near silent so I can leave it on all the time. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21777 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Optimizing Slimserver on a dedicated machine
Since switching to MySQL I've definitely noticed things being a lot quicker. Then again, my slimserver machine is fairly underpowered (PIII 450 with 224MB RAM), so you may not see these effects if running on a decent machine to start with. If you know MySQL anyway, I'd say go for it. If you don't, go for it if you're feeling adventurous (shouldn't be too hard), or you think you need all the speed up you can get. Bear in mind though, MySQL isn't officially supported. However, it's hard to imagine Slim not supporting it anyway. ;-) Max mherger Wrote: thx. I looked through that thread and it appears that the MySQL mainly helps with scanning (please correct me if I am wrong). On my system it also sped up CLI requests (getting album/artist/song lists) by about 25-30%. So I guess searches and browsing the music collection will also profit (though I never experienced problems there). -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the StringEditor Plugin (http://www.herger.net/slim/) -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20641 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: When should I switch from SQLLite to MySQL?
I've never heard of ungrant. To be honest, if you're not comfortable with MySQL already, you may be better off using the supported solution i.e. the sqllite db. You don't need to specifically create the slimserver user. 'grant all on slimserver.* to slimserver' implicitly creates the user called slimserver. Max Patrick Dixon Wrote: Thanks, but that gives the same result. I think I probably need to create MySQL user 'slimserver' first (the wiki doesn't mention this at all) but I'm new to SQL ;-( Also the MySQL doc doesn't seem to mention Ungrant. GRANT and REVOKE, but not Ungrant. WTF is Ungrant? -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20281 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: When should I switch from SQLLite to MySQL?
Well prompted! I put mysql on my server last week in order to serve another application. Your post prompted me to take the obvious step of making SlimServer use it. Following the wiki entry, it took me an obsolute maximum of 5 minutes to set up. I'd say things definitely seem faster as a result, although I've not had much time to check. I'm convinced that random mix now takes less time to select tracks - the gap between starting a mix and the first song starting to play seems much shorter. 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20281 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The only downside I've noticed
I still have all my cds out, so browse through them to find an album then tell the Squeezebox to play it. Max cliveb Wrote: I'm a very satisfied SB2 user. The device is superbly thought out, and I sold my high-end CD player a few months ago as a result. But I've noticed one minor downside to this way of delivering music. It's not an SB problem specifically - it would apply to any network music player. Back in the days when I used a CD player, there was a wall full of CDs in a rack. When I fancied listening to some music, I'd walk up to the rack and start browsing, often scanning almost at random. I'd spot a CD that took my fancy and put it on. The network player approach is different. Browsing the entire music collection just doesn't work the same way. Sure, you can do a browse music - artists and step through the alphabet, but it just doesn't feel as convenient. I believe the end result is that you tend to pick an album you want to play in advance and put it on. (Note that when the CDs were in a rack, it was also very simple to find a particular album. So it seems to me that the operational paradigm of network players is more restrictive). Maybe I'm just peculiar and nobody else thinks this. but I'd be interested in others' thoughts. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20138 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix Genre Extended Character Bug
Thanks for that. I need to have a play with this as I don't know how the new callback mechanism works (Fred's rewritten the appropriate bits of random mix to work with this, and I'm not up to speed with it). Could you give me a transcript of loading an album via the cli. I'll then do it myself and work out what needs changing to have random mix exit appropriately. Max Dr Lovegrove Wrote: On 12/01/06, max. spicer max.spicer.21j9pz (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: If you look at the random mix code (around line 563) you'll see that it has a specific list of commands that it watches out for. If it sees one of these commands, it stops the mix. Run slimserver with d_plugins and watch out in the log for what command random mix receives in your case (it will say RandomPlay: received command Providing this command doesn't conflict with any other situations where stopping would be inappropriate, this command can just be added to the list. Please post the results here as I'm curious to know which command I missed! Ah, right, yup: 2006-01-12 19:19:37.0261 Matched Format: mp3 Type: mp3 Command: - 2006-01-12 19:19:37.0285 openSong: this is an mp3 file: file:///F:/mp3s/slim2/S/ Sonic%20Boom/Spectrum/01%20-%20Help%20Me%20Please.mp3 2006-01-12 19:19:37.0326 file type: mp3 format: mp3 inrate: 258 maxRate: 0 2006-01-12 19:19:37.0348 command: - 2006-01-12 19:19:37.0371 openSong: opening file F:\mp3s\slim2\S\Sonic Boom\Spectrum\01 - Help Me Please.mp3 2006-01-12 19:19:37.0678 seeking in 1833 into F:\mp3s\slim2\S\Sonic Boom\Spectrum\01 - Help Me Please.mp3 2006-01-12 19:19:37.0723 Streaming with format: mp3 2006-01-12 19:19:37.2656 RandomPlay: received command open file:///F:/mp3s/slim2/S/Sonic%20Boom/Spectrum/01%20-%20Help%20Me%20Please.mp3 2006-01-12 19:19:37.2699 RandomPlay: while in mode: track, from Downstairs player 2006-01-12 19:19:37.2747 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx New play mode: play 2006-01-12 19:19:37.2863 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx: Current playmode: play 2006-01-12 19:19:37.2890 RandomPlay: received command playlistcontrol cmd:load album_id:449 artist_id:1769 count:7 2006-01-12 19:19:37.3075 RandomPlay: while in mode: track, from Downstairs player 2006-01-12 19:19:37. We need to send 0 seconds of silence... 2006-01-12 19:19:37.3357 sending 0 bytes of silence 2006-01-12 19:19:37.8379 Got a track starting event 2006-01-12 19:19:37.8404 Song 0 has now started playing 2006-01-12 19:19:37.8432 RandomPlay: received command newsong 2006-01-12 19:19:37.8458 RandomPlay: while in mode: track, from Downstairs player 2006-01-12 19:19:37.8499 RandomPlay: new song detected (0) 2006-01-12 19:19:37.8524 RandomPlay: playRandom called with type track 2006-01-12 19:19:37.8547 RandomPlay: 6 songs remaining, songIndex = 0 2006-01-12 19:19:37.9631 RandomPlay: Starting random selection of 3 items for ty pe: track -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19969 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix Genre Extended Character Bug
Random mix will stop if you replace the current playlist. If you just add to the playlist, random mix will keep going. You can specifically stop the mix via the player and web ui, but I don't know if you can do this via the cli (probably not). Max Dr Lovegrove Wrote: On 12/01/06, jonheal jonheal.21in1b (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: I have some extended characters in my genres -- curly apostrophes and the like. In the Browse Genres view, they render fine. In the Random Mix Genre Selector view, not so nice. On the subject of RandomMix, is there any way to turn it off via the CLI ? In Moose I queue new music via 'playlistcontrol', but if the player's in RandomMix mode, it'll queue the new music, then carry on adding random songs to the end of the new playlist as it plays.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19969 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix Genre Extended Character Bug
If you look at the random mix code (around line 563) you'll see that it has a specific list of commands that it watches out for. If it sees one of these commands, it stops the mix. Run slimserver with d_plugins and watch out in the log for what command random mix receives in your case (it will say RandomPlay: received command Providing this command doesn't conflict with any other situations where stopping would be inappropriate, this command can just be added to the list. Please post the results here as I'm curious to know which command I missed! Max Dr Lovegrove Wrote: On 12/01/06, max. spicer max.spicer.21iuwn (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: Random mix will stop if you replace the current playlist. If you just add to the playlist, random mix will keep going. Indeed, although if I do a playlistcontrol cmd:load, which replaces the playlist via CLI, it doesnt seem to stop it.. Pretty simple bug to fix I guess.. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19969 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Feature request: alarm volume ramping
This is in the realms of a plugin rather than something that would be added to the core server, I would have thought. It's technically possible, but a bit obscure. Max stevekdavis Wrote: As I understand from this thread, the alarm takes 20 seconds to reach it's maximum. Would it be possible to add a bit more control? ie. Set alarm for 7am but I actually want to be awake at 7.30 and I never wake straight up. SO alarm comes on low at 7am and then increased say every 5 minutes up to the pre-set max. This will allow a more gentle wake up over a period. I guess you could just set 1800 seconds but not sure if you'll get much sound for the first 10 minutes. Is this do-able? Steve -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18240 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Feature request: alarm volume ramping
Have a look at Slim/Buttons/AlarmClock.pm, somewhere around line 24. You should just be able to change $FADESECONDS. I don't believe there is a pref for this atm (it might make sense for there to be a hidden one). There is a pref called alarmfadeseconds, which from it's name I would guess used to do this. However, I believe it is now just a toggle governing whether the fade should take place at all. If you're on Windows, I believe you will have to use ActivePerl in order for any changes you make in the source to take effect. I no nothing about this, but I'm sure there will be something in the Wiki. Max stevekdavis Wrote: How about just making the 20 seconds configurable and I take it from there :-) It's for someone who really struggles getting up in the morning and is looking a SAD lights and music and being woken slowly. ;-) -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18240 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Excluding Tracks
You can't do this at the moment, but you're right - it is a good idea. This was discussed only recently, so you'll probably find some more info if you search this forum. Max jonheal Wrote: I've seen numerous posts about excluding folders or genres from playing/playlists. For me, a much more valuable feature would be the cabability to exclude from play at the track level a la iTunes. I haven't missed something somewhere, have I? This feature doesn't exist, does it? I'm not sure why it's any more complicated than adding an exclude column to whatever table in the database contains track/path data. Then a checkbox to set that flag could be added to the Song Info screen. Then, I guess the SqueezeBox would have to be prevented from actually playing the track ... so I guess it's a little more complicated ... But if the server is never actually serving the track data to the SB ... -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19916 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How random is Random Song Mix?
The RandomMix plugin currently takes no steps to avoid playing the same
track more than once. However, I've started work on a change to stop
songs being played more than once using the last played timestamp
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2551). This will get
done, but I'm still recovering from the Christmas period atm so am
spending very little time on Slim stuff.
Max
JJZolx Wrote:
You're talking about the Random Mix plugin, correct? Given the way the
Random Mix plugin operates - by placing N items into the playlist, then
when on has played, selecting another, I wouldn't be surprised if it
does a very simple random selection with replacement. The plugin
author would have to answer this question.
I suppose a better method would be to do a random ordering of all
tracks that meet the selection criteria, hold that list in memory, and
feed them one-by-one into the playlist. But that's a very memory
intensive way of doing it when you have a large database.
A less memory-intensive method, a random select _without_ replacement,
would be to keep a list of tracks that have already been selected and
exclude them from the random query for the next track. In SQL, this is
easily done with a NOT IN ({set of track_id}) in the WHERE clause,
although this gets pretty expensive when that set grows large.
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[slim] Re: Feature Request: Random Mix profiles by player
I originally wrote this to be player specific, but changed it to be server wide after feedback from users and Dean. Feel free to create a bug for this and get people to vote - it wouldn't be terribly hard to change it back, but would take a bit of thought to get the web ui sensible. Max tonymcc Wrote: I love the new Random Mix selector, but I have 3 players that have different use cases. The living room gets played on ALL my collection, the garage player is just for me so I have a narrower, but still wide genre list and the bedroom player is mostly for quiet night time listening. It would be way cool to be able to specify Random Mix genre list by player rather than server wide... --Thanks! great job --Tony -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19478 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Extremely loud white noise from Squeezebox?!
You've said before that you don't recommend connecting a squeezebox directly to an amp. I think I must have misunderstood this. I have both my squeezeboxes connected to my integrated amp via analog interconnects. How else am I meant to connect them, short of buying pre-amps. I've never had any such problem with my squeezeboxes, by the way. Max seanadams Wrote: The CPU is getting out-of-sync with the DAC and s/pdif interfaces - it's unclear why at this point as we've identified no way to reproduce this, or any unit that's done it more than once. Your call if you want to send it in for replacement - there isn't enough data on this to advise yet. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19309 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Extremely loud white noise from Squeezebox?!
Thank you. That's the clarification I was hoping for. I couldn't really see how the squeezebox could suddenly make my integrated amp go so loud that it would start to damage things. I don't think I ever turn my amp up to even the half way point, so I'm hoping I'm in no danger. Max fuzzyT Wrote: mflint wrote: jonheal Wrote: Sean (or someone), can you please tell me where I find the SqueezeBox's Preamp Volume Control setting? Thanks. Sean covered it in this post: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=55632 it is unclear to me as to whether using the SB's Preamp Volume Control setting would actually result in signal attenuation when the SB experiencing this error condition. i would suspect that it would not. to clarify a bit: i believe that what sean is saying is that it may be unwise to directly feed the analog outs of the SB directly into the unattenuated inputs of a _power_ amplifier. particularly if that power amplifier, running at full output, is capable driving the connected speakers to destruction. feeding the outputs into a _pre_ amplifier (or the pre-amplifier section of an integrated amp or reciever) that has an analog volume control is safer. this because, unless the analog volume control is set to max volume, it will act as an attenuator to the high-output signal of a runaway source component. --rt -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19309 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix: possible to select x most recently ripped albums?
No, you can't do that, I'm afraid. The closest is to go into Browse Music-New Music, add your new albums and then shuffle the playlist. Max chrisgeary Wrote: as per the subject line. does this functionality exist? and better than that, the x number of recent albums ripped from the selected random mix genres only? -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19010 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix - Bug?
Probably. Assuming that the ignore flag is in the db, I guess random mix should honour it. File it as a bug. Max Keith Wrote: When using random mix I find that tracks that I have excluded in iTunes being played even though I have checked that I want these files ignoring. If I attempt to find these tracks with search or browse they are hidden so that bit works, so why does Random Mix pick them? Is this a bug? -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18915 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Portland Event - (was Re: Seattle Event)
Pah, would be much better if they came to old York! We have vikings and a guy that can't play guitar, mouth organ or sing, but nevertheless does all three at once with amplification and two dogs! Max radish Wrote: Ooooh New York :) Looking forward to that one. If you can make it pre-Christmas all the better, I have 2x SB3s to buy as gifts and getting them in person would be all the more fun! -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Portland Event - (was Re: Seattle Event)
No, it gets worse. At random moments in the performance, the guy gets his dogs to sing by playing twiddles on the mouth organ and shouting Sing Bess, sing. For some reason, this draws crowds of tourists, and they're not even lynch mobs. My favourite is his hand lettered sign saying Live Music, just in case you were in any doubt. But I digress... Max DrNic Wrote: Can either of the 2 dogs play the mouth organ or guitar - that might help the guy concentrate on the singing!! ;) Nic -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Used Squeezebox (SB1) or new SB3?
You need speakers for all the squeezeboxes. Unless you have active speakers or headphone, you'll also need an amp. Max EYE97 Wrote: Do any of these units come with a built in speaker or does it have to connect to a speaker? Cheers RJ www.eye97.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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18691 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Pandora.com
Now that's an unusual combination of words! Max Steve Baumgarten Wrote: super nice, super simple, flash-based interface -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18629 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Conspiracy theorists unite!
Eh? What did I miss? Max cbemoore Wrote: Okay then, I'll bite So what's a Shocker?? -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18613 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can I setup slimserver to log all files served?
Done, the new version lets you specify a log file and also disable the ftp part of the plugin. Get it from my website and please let me know how you get on. Could we move the discussion to the topic in the plugins forum though - having two threads confuses me! ;-) Max tomsi42 Wrote: Good, I will keep my fingers away then ;) Tom -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18520 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Feature Request: Squeezebox 3 remote connect to my home server
You could set up your work pc to handle the ssh tunnel. The squeezebox could then connect to the work pc, which would forward the requests over an ssh tunnel. I think putty can do this if you're stuck with windows. Max dean Wrote: You should be able to use a Squeezebox to connect, assuming your company's firewall doesn't block the necessary outgoing ports. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18574 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SQL Tutorial
Thanks for that recommendation! I've just been playing with this at work and am immediately a fan. It's easily better than our current favourite, WinSQL, and is cheaper too. I suspect we'll be buying a few copies in the not too distant future! For non-commercial use, this product is free so I'd definitely recommend giving it a look. Max Patrick Dowling wrote (in the dupe of this thread): I use and have been quite happy with Aqua Data Studio http:// aquadatastudio.com/index.html which has two versions one that is free for personal use and an older one which is free for all use commercial or personal. Pat -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18534 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim Devices is hiring!
Oh if only telecommuting from Britain were an option! Max dean Wrote: Slim Devices is growing and we need some help. We have several job openings for full-time positions and are looking for smart people who want to work at an exciting, growing, small company to help us and our community build great products. We offer benefits, flexible hours, telecommuting, stock options and a lot of fun. If you are interested in applying for any of these openings, please email your resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Embedded Systems Engineer: Slim Devices is seeking an experienced full-time embedded systems engineer. Ideal candidates would have experience in real-time systems, DSP, networking and audio. Service Engineer: Slim Devices is seeking an experienced full-time Perl programmer with networking and unix system administration skills to help us develop and deploy SqueezeNetwork. Tech Support: Slim Devices is seeking an experienced full-time tech support engineer to help our customers with installation and troubleshooting of our award winning products by phone, email and the web. Macintosh Windows, audio/consumer electronics, networking experience required. QA Manager: Slim Devices is seeking an experienced full-time QA manager in the San Francisco Bay Area to help make our open source, cross-platform software and cutting-edge hardware the best it can possibly be. Should have experience in creating test plans from the ground up for white box black box software testing. Networking, embedded, consumer electronics and/or audio testing a plus. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18569 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SQL Tutorial
Assuming you're talking about SQLLite, http://sqllitebrowser.sf.net. For ODBC or JDBC, winsql is very good: http://www.indus-soft.com/SynametricsWebApp/WinSQL.jsp. It has a free version, but also has non-free versions with more features. Max Jim Wrote: Anyone know of a reasonable freeware -GUI-Based- Windoze (possibly Linux too) SQL client? I personally use the excellant 'Navicat' (http://www.navicat.com) client but that costs money. I know Access could be used with ODBC but that's crap, and again costs money. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18534 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SQL Tutorial
I wouldn't say it was useless, although the lack of browse is a minor inconvenience. If you can still download the older versions, they do have browsing enabled in the freeware version - it was only recently removed. If my memory of version numbers isn't too far out, I think you want a pre 4.5 release (4.1?). Max Jim Wrote: I thought WinSQL but it is severely crippled in the freeware version as to prove useless (no data browsing for example). -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18534 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Being returned to Now Playing
Yes, the name isn't very good at describing it's purpose! Can anyone think of something better? I remember being completely confused by this when I first got my squeezebox - it wasn't until someone described it on these forums that I understood. Max dfk Wrote: Ah, that's what Jump Back on Wake does! Thanks for the tip. dfk -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18501 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Where to buy an IR Blaster?
Can you not ship a big boxful to the UK distribitutor and then have him arrange something? Max seanadams Wrote: 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... -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 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
[slim] Re: Being returned to Now Playing
Change your when playing screen saver to Now Playing - Jump Back on Wake. This will put you back where you were in the menus when you interrupt the screensaver. Max MattM Wrote: OK, bear with me while I try to explain this one... I'm a fickle kind of chap, and often put on music for just a couple of minutes or so before deciding I'd like to hear something else. Trouble is, the Squeezebox switches to 'Now Playing' very quickly, which means that when I change my mind I have to re-navigate through all the menu layers - particularly frustrating, for example, when I want to choose a track from a different album by the same artist. If anyone could tell me how to prevent the Squeezebox switching to 'Now Playing' unless I press the button on the remote, I'd be very grateful indeed. Thanks in advance, and apologies if I'm raising an issue that's old or which has an obvious solution! -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18501 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Options for remote power on of non ir amp
Thanks Dean. Glad to hear you're not Sean - that would just be weird. ;-) Max dean Wrote: I'm not Sean, but I do have answer from him. The IR blaster dongles are just infrared LEDs at the end of a long cable and are available from a number of sources, including us: https://secure.slimdevices.com/order/upgrades.cgi The output is from a CMOS driver going through CMOS switch and so it has a bit of inherent resistance and is current limited and will drive the LED directly, but will also work as a logic level output. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17974 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Options for remote power on of non ir amp
Sean, are you reading this and keeping quiet or not reading this? Any ideas on how I could get Sean's attention without at the same time bugging him? Max fcm4711 Wrote: Hi there I doubt the IR emitter I am using consists of more than the cable and the IR LED. So, yes, the output is designed to drive an IR LED directly. But again, Sean knows for sure. Felix BTW: I've written down some information about IR Blaster here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?IRBlaster -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17974 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Favorites button not working
I'd forgotten that. When I got my SB3, the first thing I did was push the new button on the remote. The server crashed. Instantly. I haven't pushed it since. ;-) Max kdf Wrote: On 20-Nov-05, at 11:03 AM, briansin wrote: Hi all, I cannot figure out how the favorites button on the remote works. Lets say I'm using internet radio, the instructions say I should be able to hold down favorites button to add to favorites. it's a known bug. for once, the docs were ahead of implementation. -kdf -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18381 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SBs keep turning themselves on
I'll have a look. It did it again this morning, so I tried using the menus and things. They all worked as normal. When I then pressed Power, it turned on. According to my wife, the player upstairs restarted its current track and possibly skipped to a new one whilst I was doing this. This in itself is odd, as the player downstairs wasn't playing, and I didn't do anything that would affect play state - I just navigated through some menus. Max Triode Wrote: Max, The player doesn't actually do anything special when in off mode, its just that the server sends it different screens to display and does not respond to all the remote keys. Hence whatever you are seeing is server issue [I'm assuming the player is connected to a server] [put a bt() in Slim::Player::Player::power if you want to know what it causing it to change state...] -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18290 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronisation
I've recently got two SqueezeBoxes (a v2 and a v3) so have tried synchronisation for the first time this week. I must admit, that this was pretty much the experience I had as well. I found that sometimes it would be perfectly in sync, but others tracks would restart just after starting and result in the synchronisation being way out. I haven't yet had a chance to look into this properly. Max kweller Wrote: Is synchronisation as flaky as it seems to be or it something strange about my set-up? When I play SoftSqueeze on the server it works perfectly but as soon as I synchronise with the player in the kitchen (wireless connected) it all starts playing up. As an example SoftSqueeze has just stopped. The kitchen player continued and then SoftSqueeze started again further down the track. The track on SoftSqueeze ended and it stopped again (presumably waiting for the kitchen player to catch up). Kitchen finished and they both started again. Surprisingly they are both in sync as one or the other is generally behind after a problem and players and SlimServer are all displaying the correct track details - I quite often find after that sort of problem they are displaying details of the previous track. I guess the answer is not to synchronise them but they aren't far apart so it would sound pretty awful if one was standing between them and they were playing different tracks. As I was about to send this the same thing happened again. Both SlimServer and SoftSqueeze are at version 6.2.1 Kevin -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18328 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SBs keep turning themselves on
It is 0. I've noticed today that the device isn't actually powering on, it's just displaying a screen as if it was - this morning I had the Plugins menu displayed. When I pressed Power, the device showed the welcome screen as if it had previously been powered off. Unfortunately, I didn't try using the arrow keys whilst it was in the off state. I'll try that if it does it again tomorrow morning. Max Richie Wrote: Max, Have you checked the 'brightness when off' setting is set to 0. If it's not, I find that turning the SB off makes the screen go blank and at some random point later the screen comes on again. I also seem to accidentally change the brightness settings when I upgrade the firmware. Richard -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18290 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB3 Display tilt feedback
A few people, including myself, were concerned about the tilted back display on the SB3 and how this would affect visibility. Now that I have an SB3, I thought I'd post some feedback. Basically, it's not a problem at all. My SB3 is on top of a wardrobe, so is about 2m off the ground. I generally read the display when sitting on my bed at the opposite end of the room. However, I find it's perfectly clear - the tilted back angle hardly makes a difference. Another plus for the VFD display! 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18270 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix suggested changes
I've just added this feature for you. There's now a checkbox at the bottom of the random mix web page to stop it continuously adding new songs. This is currently labelled Keep adding new stuff until I can think of some better text - suggestions welcome! This new feature should be in the next nightlies of the 6.5 trunk. If you try it out, please let me know how you get on. Max coldslabs Wrote: 2. The default behavior is to always add songs to Random Mixes. - I would like to have the OPTION of adding songs dynamically to random mixes instead of this being the default behavior. (I think the previous versions of the plugin had this functionality). I personally want to generate a random playlist which is static, with songs not continuously added (this is just how I'd prefer to use it and I avoid the 20 second delay between songs this way). Currently to do this I have to generate the playlist and then visit the web UI to stop adding songs. Even if the stop option were added to the Hardware UI, I would still have an extra step after creating a Random Mix. Being able to turn off this functionality once in the Web UI instead of every time I want a Random Mix would be great. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17937 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix suggested changes
How do you mean? You can get to the random mix settings by going to the Random Mix page in the web interface (look under Browse Music on the front page). These settings are at the bottom of the page. Max jmpage2 Wrote: Let me ask a stupid question, where are the random mix settings being mentioned here controlled? -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17937 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SBs keep turning themselves on
Since I've had more than one squeezebox, I keep noticing them turning themselves on. I leave my squeezebox downstairs powered off overnight, when I come down in the morning it's back on again. Likewise, the one upstairs was off at the start of the evening, but was on when my wife went into the room earlier. Neither device is starting to play, they just turn the display on and show the current menu or now playing info. I have the two devices synced, but they are set to power on/off independently. Up until this evening I was running 6.2.x, I've switched back to the trunk now in order to get back to coding (I took a break to enjoy the music!). Is this a known issue with synced players or a new bug? 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18290 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Powering up soaked SB2
Maybe this should be considered for when you release the pink SB3? Max dean Wrote: If the alcohol has evaporated, the player is probably ok and should work. And I bet it smells really pretty now. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18278 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Mountain View event tomorrow (Wednesday 11/16/05)
Mine too, dagnammit! However, if the Slim team fancy coming to York, I'm sure Robin and I could manage to get them a beer each. ;-) Max Robin Bowes Wrote: seanadams said the following on 15/11/2005 22:58: Come see and hear the new SB3 tomorrow at Slim Devices' World Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. The whole gang will be here. 3:00 PM - beer will be served. We can't wait to meet you! Sorry Sean, I can't make it. My flight tickets must have got lost in the post. :) -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18228 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Powered speaker hum
Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Wrote: does this occur only when both speakers are connected to the squeeze box? I'm not sure. I'll experiment tonight. Also, how are the speakers powered? Is there a separate supply for each speaker or are they daisy-chained together in some way? The left speaker is daisy-chained from the right speaker. The right speaker has a input from a separate power supply. 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18224 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Powered speaker hum
The speakers have an external power supply. This is plugged into a four way plug, which is plugged into the wall socket. The power supply plugs into the right speaker (which has the amp inside it) and a lead goes from the right speaker to the left speaker. My SB3 is plugged into the same four way plug as the speakers' power supply. Nothing else is plugged into the four way adapter. The SB3 is wireless, so has no other connections going into it. The SB3 is plugged into the right speaker via an rca interconnect, with an rca-minijack converter at the speaker end. I've tried using a cable with 2 rca at one end and a minijack at the other, and got the same hum. After speaking to a techy guy at work, I'm going to connect one of the speakers audio inputs to ground (a radiator or the earth pin on a socket) via a resistor. This will hopefully have the same effect as me standing there with my finger on the connector. Max pfarrell Wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:03 -0500, Mark Lanctot wrote: The question remains Pat, where could the ground loop be coming from? Kinda hard to tell from outside the room. If there's nothing connected to the computer speakers other than the SB and nothing connected to the SB, where could it be coming from? Are the speakers powered by the SqueezeBox? or are they self powered using AC power. If there is any connection from the wall jack to the speakers and also from the walljack to the SqueezeBox to the speakers, then there is a potential for a ground loop. Or wall to amp to speakers and also wall to SB to speakers. It doesn't take much of a signal when you are amplifying it for the speakers. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18224 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Feature request: alarm volume ramping
I've just got a squeezebox in my bedroom, so I may soon gain some motivation to do this. I certainly can't think why it wouldn't be possible. Max dallan73 Wrote: ...Get a second vote on that request. I'm pretty sure it's possible as the volumelock plugin gradually normalises the volume over a period of time. If only I could program in Perl. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18240 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Powered speaker hum
I've just run a cable from the left interconnect to the earth pin on the plug for the speakers power supply. I've also put a resistor in the middle of the cable. There's probably lots of reasons why this is a very stupid thing to do (which is why it's currently unplugged!), but it cured the hum nicely. I suppose my problems come when the cable becomes detached from the earth pin and wanders over to live or neutral... Max Roy Owen Wrote: On 11/16/05, Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes alex (AT) fiennes (DOT) org wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:57, max.spicer wrote: Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Wrote: does this occur only when both speakers are connected to the squeeze box? I'm not sure. I'll experiment tonight. Also, how are the speakers powered? Is there a separate supply for each speaker or are they daisy-chained together in some way? The left speaker is daisy-chained from the right speaker. The right speaker has a input from a separate power supply. Is the speaker power supply earthed? Alex Good point. You might try using a 3 prong adapter or ground lift. I've seen this problem many times at live music events. Usulally it happens when the mixer is at a differnt ground ponential than the instruments. Using a ground lift almost always solves thsi problem. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18224 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Who is the UK distributer for SB3?
Hear, hear! As a resident of the grim north, I've never even heard of them! Max Fifer Wrote: Didn't you mean to say 'one of the main high street av retailers in -the south of England-'? Although the BBC often make the same mistake, it's not -quite- the same thing. ;) -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18207 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Feature request: alarm volume ramping
Buy the squeezebox anyway. You'll regret getting the Roku! Max makingmark Wrote: You know, like a Bose Wave radio, that gradually increases the volume so you're not jolted awake when the alarm comes on. Adding this feature would tempt me to buy another Squeezebox instead of the Roku Soundbridge Radio. http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000243059438/ I'll file it as an enhancement request in Bugzilla. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18240 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Feature request: alarm volume ramping
Are you sure it doesn't already do this? The alarm code calls fade_volume. I haven't got time to read it through properly and have not yet used alarms, but this sounds hopeful... Max MrC Wrote: Now there's committment for you! :-) I've added the bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2582 -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18240 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Powered speaker hum
Whilst I wait for my T-Amp to arrive, I've got my SB3 plugged into some Labtek computer speakers. The speakers themselves don't actually sound too bad, but they have a fairly loud hum when the SB3 is plugged in. When powered on, but with nothing plugged into them, they are fine. The moment I plug in the SB3, they start to hum. However, if I touch the exposed metal parts of the rca connectors, the hum goes away. I'm not suggesting that this is the fault of the SB3, but is there anything that people can suggest to sort this out (short of standing touching the connectors all the time!)? My limited electrical knowledge tells me that I have mains hum and that there is a grounding issue. One thing of note, is that I'm fairly sure the speakers didn't hum when plugged into the SoundBlaster Live in my computer. 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18224 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Places to buy lossless tunes?
If you're going to get stuff from there, I personally would say go and use Shareaza instead. The artists get no money from tracks purchased from allofmp3.com, and I see no reason to give my money to some nameless Russion outfit that is not really legal anyway! Max bernt Wrote: Have a look at www.allofmp3.com. It's legal in Russia. ;) -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18214 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 in UK yet?
Mine was delivered today as well, and very nice it looks too! It's currently set up at work in a blatant attempt to gain some more sales for SlimDevices. Max kitschcamp Wrote: Hurrah! Mine arrived this morning - and even more amazingly, customs didn't stop it! Is it home time yet? :-) -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18010 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New Slimserver Features?
Zapping a song also removes it from the current playlist. This probably isn't what you want. I've never seen the point of zapping. Can anyone explain the rationale behind it? To zap a song, press and hold add on an item that is already in your current playlist. Max m1abrams Wrote: Actually this feature has been in Slim for a long time. You can ZAP a song, however for the life of me I can not remember the exact button you need to press on the slim remote to zap a song. But this should do exactly what you want. I obviously dont use it much, but checked it out in my early slim days. Check the manual for how to. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18134 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Need Australian female voice talent
Why Australian? I'd go for a sexy Swedish voice every time! Max seanadams Wrote: I'd like to spice up our phone system a bit... Looking for a professional who can record approx 20 minutes of announcements/menus, and be available in the future for updates. If you know anyone please ask them to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18104 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Random Mix and Crossfade
That's very strange. I've never heard of anyone having a problem like this. By default, Random Mix will select ten songs from your library (as filtered by the genre filter) and either add them to the end of your playlist, or replace your playlist with them, depending on whether you selected Add or Play. What happens next depends on the mix you selected: Random Song Mix: Every time a track ends, it will add another song to the end of the playlist. Random Artist/Album/Year Mix: Every time the last track of the current artist/album/year starts, a new artist/album/year will be added to the end of the playlist. The first time you start the mix, if an artist/album/year is picked that only contains one track, another one will be added to the end. Old songs will either be cleared or kept in the playlist depending on your settings. You can chose how many upcoming songs to maintain in random song mix. The default is 10, including the current one. This setting has no effect in artist/album/year mixes. Where's your 17 songs coming from? Have you set this in the Number of Upcoming Songs setting? What type of mix are you playing? The behaviour that you've said you'd like is exactly how Random Mix is meant to work. However, it doesn't (yet) prevent tracks being played more than once, so the mix will continue ad infinitum. Max ctviggen Wrote: I totally do not understand Random Mix. On my SB2 and Slimserver, when I select Random Mix and then Random Songs, it selects 17 songs then quits. I have the option of replaying those 17 songs or jumping through hoops to get it to select another 17 songs (i.e., I typically have to clear the current playlist and have to select something else, then come back to random). What I want to have happen is have the SB2/slimserver keep selecting from my library until every song has been played. Is this possible? Did I set some setting incorrectly? -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18100 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: any messages for auntie (BBC)?
No. Why use WMA rather than MP3? More devices support MP3. If you're going to go for a non-free format, it might as well be the ubiquitous one! Max bglad Wrote: the bbc are offering at least one live radio feed in WMA format - Windows Media Audio 9 32 kbps, 44 kHz, mono 1-pass CBR http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live_sportsextra_int.asx is this a good substitute for an mp3 stream? should the beeb be encouraged in this direction? -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18096 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to reliably/easily backup 100Gb of FLACs?
Welcome onboard, by the way. That's 3 York users now. Won't be long before we can have Slim parties. Or maybe not. ;-) 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18029 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to reliably/easily backup 100Gb of FLACs?
Why?? You're not very likely to loose two drives simultaneously, are you? This all sounds a bit over the top to me for a home music system (or is it not a home music system?). Max Robin Bowes Wrote: I recommend either RAID6 or, at the very least, have a hot-spare in your RAID5 array. -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18029 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to reliably/easily backup 100Gb of FLACs?
I went the other way as I figured it wouldn't be too bad once I got over the pain of the initial backup. However, I've still not yet managed a full backup of my data! I decided to use pbackup.sf.net to do incremental backups of my data to dvds. I use Nero's packet writer, InCD, to do the writing to DVDs. Sadly, InCD has crashed every time I've tried so far. Max pfarrell Wrote: Since 300GB disks are selling for well under $100 its a no brainer decision for me. 100GB of data is going to take 25 or so DVDs and that is a lot of disk shuffling -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18029 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Options for remote power on of non ir amp
Can't I just turn on on the first signal that I receive and off on the 2nd (and so on)? The plugin would then just send a signal on power state changes. Are there any details on the outputs from the headphone jack in this mode? Max fcm4711 Wrote: Hi all Here is an idea to (mis-)use IR blaster output to trigger a relay. One could code a plugin sending out an IR signal constantly while SB2/3 is turned on. A little logic (timer) hooked up to the IR blaster output detects the signal and turns the relay on for a couple of seconds. If more IR signals arrive within time the relay stays on. As soon as the SB2/3 is turned off no more IR signals are sent and thus the relay turns off some seconds later. Felix -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17974 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 wireless getting bizarre IP address
I thought Turbo-G modes needed every device on the wlan to be by the same manufacturer and have the same 3rd party extensions to the standard. I therefore wouldn't have expected it to work with the Squeezebox. Is this not the case? Max KitKat Wrote: I received my SB3s today (one wired, one wireless) and am having almost this exact same problem, except that mine is not fixed by rebooting the router. There have been quite a few posts to this forum describing essentially the same problem with new SB2s (search wireless DHCP), and based on my experience today, I think the problem originates in the Sqeezebox. I had previously assumed that many of the people reporting problems with their SB2s had only themselves to blame (using incorrect passwords, leaving MAC filtering on, etc.) but after today I have a different perspective. I'm running SlimServer 6.2 on a dedicated 2.4 ghz box running Windows XP professional, with plenty of RAM and available disk space, wired to a D-link DI-624 router (firmware version 2.7). I previously had a wireless SB1 (w/ graphics) and then (until yesterday) a wireless SB2 in the same location, and I never had a problem with either. I'm not sure of the original firmware on the SB2, but it had been running the most recent firmware release (26) without incident since I installed SlimServer 6.2 a week or so ago. When originally installed, both the SB1 and the SB2 successfully connected to my wireless network (SSID broadcast OFF, WEP encryption ON) on the first run through the configuration menu, and neither experienced any significant problems thereafter. (BTW, yes, I am aware that this configuration provides a level of security that many would consider inadequate). Prior to installing the SB3s today, I turned MAC address filtering OFF on the router. I then connected the wired SB3, which obtained an IP address in my local subnet (192.168.0.XXX) via DHCP and connected to the SlimServer without any problems. I then powered up the wireless SB3 and began configuration. I input the SSID and encryption key (which I triple-checked) of my network when prompted, and the SB3 connected to the network. I then selected Get IP address automatically. The SB3 obtained an IP address beginning with 169, i.e., automatic private network. I used the left arrow button to back up, rebooted my laptop to make sure that the router's DHCP server was working (it was) and tried again, with the same result. I then chose Static IP, entered a local IP address, and specified the IP address of the router for gateway and dns (the router has dns forwarding) and the IP address of the SlimServer box. Result: Problem: can't find SlimServer... etc. At each stage of this process at which connecting to SqueezeNetwork was offered as an option, I attempted to do so, with no success. I then restored factory default settings on both the router and the SB3. Even with the router wide open, the SB3 could not obtain an IP address, and although it claimed to have connected to the wireless network, it could not see the SlimServer box and could not access SqueezeNetwork. I then tried to connect using the Ethernet port; the SB3 obtained a local IP address via DHCP and connected to SlimServer immediately. I went back to the wireless connection, but could not get the SB3 to connect. The several times I checked the current configuration settings through the SB3 menu, I noticed that the wireless signal strength was reported as 0%, then would jump to 100%, then slowly cycle down, then abruptly drop to zero, then repeat the cycle. While this was going on, my desktop computer, which is one room farther away from the router than the SB3, and also uses a wireless connection, consistently reported signal strength as good or very good; I then confirmed that the signal was not experiencing any unusual fluctuation or degradation using Network Stumbler. I also sat the SB3 unit a foot away from the router and tried the configuration menu again, with no better luck than before. I sold my wireless SB2 on eBay and shipped it out yesterday, and I therefore could not test its performance against the SB3 with the same settings. I still have a wireless SB1 around, though (firmware version: 40) (I already sold it on eBay but haven't yet shipped it out) and so I restored it to factory default settings, disabled encryption on the router, and went through the configuration menu. The SB1 connected to the SlimServer with NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER. Although the SB1 reports weaker signal strength (hovering around 30%) than my computer, it is not showing the 100% to 0% pattern that the SB3 reports. I found this result so unbelievable that reset both the SB1 and SB3 to factory defaults again, and went through the configuration menu with the two units side by side. The SB1 connected without difficulty, the SB3 obtained an automatic private network address, and would
[slim] Re: Amusing, somewhat off topic iPod comment
I notice that the SB3 designer has worked for Apple... Max Jim Wrote: BAAA! As much as I hate Apple, I despe DRM and iTunes makes me want to puke I do love my iPod :D And how can you criticise it. it looks sort of like the new Squeezebox :D -- 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 max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17980 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
