[slim] Re: install bug -- print dialog opens?

2005-10-03 Thread ceejay
Is it possible that somehow you have managed to associate HTML files with printing on your system? To test this, find a random html file (there will be plenty in your explorer cache, if you don't have any of your own) and double click. Your default browser should open up - but if the print

[slim] Re: SB2 as bridge - with Tivo?

2005-10-03 Thread ceejay
If its complaining that it can't find a DHCP server then it sounds as if the SB2 is trying to connect using the wired LAN, which I believe it does by default if it detects a network cable plugged in (this being a sensible choice). Somewhere you should have a setup option to tell it to enable

[slim] Re: softsqueeze stutters at the beginning of songs

2005-10-03 Thread markonu
Hi. I read your post and I think I got kind of the same type of problem My installation I got 14 SB2 connected to one slimserver My network is a cisco network Slimserver is running on a powerfull windows 2003 Symptom : All the SB2 are playing the same album.And sometimes one of the SB2 stop

[slim] Re: wired / wireless lan

2005-10-03 Thread Fifer
Something else to consider ... if any of your other squeezeboxen are wireless, you can use the squeezebox as a wireless bridge, it seems SB2 only though. -- Fifer ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-10-03 Thread ob_kook
One way to get around the copywright question is to go with music that has the blessing of the owners. There is a good site for this called Live Music Archive (http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php), which has live shows posted by those who taped them either from the audience or

Re: [slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-10-03 Thread Mr Nõu
ob_kook wrote: One way to get around the copywright question is to go with music that has the blessing of the owners. There is a good site for this called Live Music Archive (http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php), which has live shows posted by those who taped them either from

[slim] Playlist synch with Linux and Windows

2005-10-03 Thread Peterb
I have a Slimserver running on Linux and a Windows workstation that is used to rip music and organize playlists with Media Jukebox. All music is stored on a Samba Share on the Linux box and works fine since the slimserver uses the same directory. However one problem is that the playlists that I

RE: [slim] Re: Streaming a radio station

2005-10-03 Thread CrzyMikeB
Luuk, I am glad you worked it out. Could you give us more details? Does anyone know if this will work with Sirius or XM (the internet versions)? Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of luuk Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 4:42 AM

[slim] Problem: Unable to connect to wireless network

2005-10-03 Thread matt1711
I have just bought a squeezebox 2 and even though it recognizes my wireless connection (belkin wireless), when it comes to actually connecting to it, it won't connect, it just comes up wioth the message: Problem: Unable to connect to wireless network !!!. This happens every time. I have a belkin

Re: [slim] Playlist synch with Linux and Windows

2005-10-03 Thread Niek Jongerius
ls /usr/playlists/*.m3u | while read -e FNAME do sed -e 's/M:\\/\/usr\/mp3\//g' $FNAME ${FNAME}2 rm -f $FNAME sed -e 's/\\/\//g' ${FNAME}2 $FNAME rm -f ${FNAME}2 done Any suggestions on improvements are welcome A few points: - The '-e' is not necessary (and it even seems

Re: [slim] Re: Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-10-03 Thread Geoff B
Sorry for stepping into this thread late, but there were two country titles missing: If My Nose Was Running Money, Honey, I'd Blow It All On You by Unknown Get Off the Table, Mabel (The Two Dollars is for the Beer) by Bull Moose Jackson Geoff (a fan of country titles, not the actual music) On

[slim] Re: why won't aac files stream across internet

2005-10-03 Thread mr_magicfingers
Yep, using a Mac. If anyone can suggest how to get the conversion going properly I'd appreciate it. thanks, J. -- mr_magicfingers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-10-03 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
Thanks for those...although I burned the disc last night and found almost all songs everyone had posted! I bought almost all music used, some I was able to download from the artist's website. Speaking of good country titles, have you heard of Billy's got his beer goggles on ? I heard the

[slim] Re: why won't aac files stream across internet

2005-10-03 Thread mr_magicfingers
Never mind, had moved the wrong file into the folder. Working now, although it's very slow to buffer across a network. Thanks, J. -- mr_magicfingers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Live stream time-shifting support (via third party)?

2005-10-03 Thread Aaron Zinck
IMHO Time-shifting live streams seems like a logical extention of Slimserver capability. Has anyone looked into what it would take for Slimserver to mesh with an application like Replay Radio or Replay Music (or any others...)? Could a plugin be written, or are the two technologies

Re: [slim] Re: Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-10-03 Thread Allan Hise
I'd be interested in seeing the final track list. Mind posting it? Allan On 03 Oct 2005, at 15:35 , PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: Thanks for those...although I burned the disc last night and found almost all songs everyone had posted! I bought almost all music used, some I was able to download

Re: [slim] Re: softsqueeze stutters at the beginning of songs

2005-10-03 Thread dean blackketter
Markonu, Are the two players that are being controlled both receiving signals from the remote control? This would mean that when you press play on two synced players, the group is getting two play commands, possibly when they are displaying different things. Is this the case? -dean On

[slim] Re: Flac comment tag. Excess text causing Slimserver to runbadly?

2005-10-03 Thread ModelCitizen
Doug Carter Wrote: On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:19:04PM +0100, Simon @ Home wrote: I now have PCBSD, which is supposed to be simple to install and leaves you with a gui (hooray!). ---end quoted text--- PCBSD looks interesting. Let us know how this works out! -- Doug Carter Well, you

[slim] Slim.exe CPU Usage and MMM reload interval

2005-10-03 Thread MeSue
Lately I have been noticing slim.exe hogging the CPU frequently and for long periods of time. It's causing other programs to crash and generally making my PC unusable. I think it is related to the MusicMagic Library Reload Interval setting because I have been doing a lot of tweaking to my files

Re: [slim] Re: Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-10-03 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
Sure. When I get home, I'll post it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/03/05 11:17 AM I'd be interested in seeing the final track list. Mind posting it? Allan On 03 Oct 2005, at 15:35 , PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: Thanks for those...although I burned the disc last night and found almost all songs everyone

Re: [slim] Flac comment tag. Excess text causing Slimserver to runbadly?

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin O. Lepard
Slimserver has run perfectly well on all o/s I've tried. Mine has worked fine on many flavors of OSX as well. However, since you're having some trouble and appear to want to use a *nix of some kind, have you tried downloading the slimcd.iso? I believe that will let you boot from the CD and

[slim] slimserver web page lite... for psp?

2005-10-03 Thread angelman
I am overjoyed to find I can now control my slimserver from my psp with the new 2.0 firmware. It works flawlessly. My only gripe is that the slimserver web page seems to use image completely unnecessarily for such things as the volume control and other bits of the web page. Is there a web page

[slim] Re: Alien BBC Garbled Sound

2005-10-03 Thread Neil Sleightholm
tygar Wrote: It would be great if the AlienBBC web page could be updated with this information!Done. I have included a link back to this thread and will update the information when I know more. Neil -- Neil Sleightholm ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Re: slimserver web page lite... for psp?

2005-10-03 Thread angelman
thanks thats great, I will try those out later :) -- angelman ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Slim.exe CPU Usage and MMM reload interval

2005-10-03 Thread opchiasm
I've had problems with slim.exe using 90-100% of my CPU for the last week or so. I've resorted to shutting it down when I use the PC. I've unchecked the MMM plugin, but it hasn't helped me any. -- opchiasm ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Re: Problem: Unable to connect to wireless network

2005-10-03 Thread ceejay
matt1711 Wrote: I have no security enabled on the router so I'm at a loss as to why my squeezebox won't connect. Please help A few random thoughts: (1) I'm sure you weren't really planning to leave it with no security, were you? Please tell us you've just done it this way for now while

[slim] Roku vs Slim, re Rhapsody

2005-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi As a long-time Slim Devices champion - having successfully convinced three friends to get Slimp3 or Squeezebox devices - I wanted to raise a discussion point with the group about Roku and Rhapsody. Something I've never been able to get working properly is the RealSlim plugin on the Slimp3.

Re: [slim] Re: softsqueeze stutters at the beginning of songs

2005-10-03 Thread Triode
Did you try patch -p0 perfmon.diff ? Otherwise I've no idea I'm afraid about this. Original Message - From: mkosma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:52 AM Subject: [slim] Re: softsqueeze stutters at the beginning of songs Okay,

Re: [slim] Re: .m3u not working in 6.1.1-1?

2005-10-03 Thread Damon Riley
Um. No. I had expected that the playlists used a relative path-- but that's not the case, I see. Search, replace. Rescan. Fixed. Thanks, -- Damon moobaa wrote: Just stabbing at the obvious... do the playlists still refer to the location of your files? :}

[slim] Re: Slim.exe CPU Usage and MMM reload interval

2005-10-03 Thread MeSue
Hmmm. I ended slim.exe, restarted SlimServer, and disabled the MMM reload by setting it to zero. I also have not modified any music files since restarting slimserver. Slim.exe is back to eating up my CPU. opchiasm, are you using the 6.2 beta? -- MeSue Sue PS: I want a Squeezebox boombox.

[slim] Re: Slim.exe CPU Usage and MMM reload interval

2005-10-03 Thread opchiasm
Yes, I am. -- opchiasm ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: UK Publicity: Squeezebox2 on The Gadget Show CH5

2005-10-03 Thread ceejay
Well, I think I've got it on my PC... however, don't anyone hold your breath, the SB2 got a short section within a short item. And I'm not entirely sure they got the point with a flaky comparison with a Sonos system. I'll edit/compress one down to a reasonable size and post it somewhere if

[slim] Re: Still seeing incorrect tags, even after wipe cache

2005-10-03 Thread JulianL
I had a similar problem and it was nothing to do with playlists. I had Blue Nile albums and then a phantom Blue Nile (The) album with one track in it. My problem was simple. At some point in ripping and encoding the album (with one step EAC to FLAC) I realised I had done something wrong so I hit

[slim] Re: softsqueeze stutters at the beginning of songs

2005-10-03 Thread mkosma
Indeed, I tried patch using the redirect as well as the -i (input file) command line. Should the patch work against the latest nightlies? If not, is there a different version of the 6.2 build I can get and should try? Also - what version of patch are you using? is it gnu patch? if not

Re: [slim] Re: softsqueeze stutters at the beginning of songs

2005-10-03 Thread Triode
I'm using linux: patch -v patch 2.5.9 Copyright (C) 1988 Larry Wall Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. patch -p0 perfmon.diff patching file Slim/Utils/PerfMon.pm patching file Slim/Utils/Timers.pm The diff should work for a recent nightly of 6.2. Anyway, don't get you hopes up

[slim] Re: UK Publicity: Squeezebox2 on The Gadget Show CH5

2005-10-03 Thread mikerob
I thought that the Squeezebox came quite well out of the feature. A 2 minute piece on primetime TV covering 4 different products for streaming music is not going to provide a detailed analysis of any of them, but from the perspective of the general public, I would think Squeezebox had the least

RE: [slim] Re: UK Publicity: Squeezebox2 on The Gadget Show CH5

2005-10-03 Thread Stuart Cooper
It is irritating... all their questions were answered, the whole iTunes purchased music issue explained s - l - o - w - l - y and yet they cite that as a main disadvantage - no mention of internet radio, the display or all the plugins etc. And their website hasn't been updated since the last

[slim] Squeezebox2 review in this months Home Cinema Choice (Supplement)

2005-10-03 Thread ultra238a
Hi, There is a review of the S2 in the What WiFi Entertainment supplement that comes with this month Home Cinema Choice. From memory I think that it is the only product that gets 5 stars (Sonos only got 4 stars). The only problem with the review what that it wasn't quite factually correct as it

[slim] Re: Problem: Unable to connect to wireless network

2005-10-03 Thread matt1711
Thasnks for the reply. I'm going to try a few troubleshooting things and see how I get on. Fingers crossed ! Much appreciated -- matt1711 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Problems with multi-disc albums

2005-10-03 Thread Richie
I'm still experiencing problems with multi-disc albums. So tonight I installed the latest 6.1.2 nightly and noted the results below (it works) and then installed the latest 6.2 nightly and noted the results (I don't think it works correctly). If no one has any suggestions I'll raise a bug. For

[slim] Re: UK Publicity: Squeezebox2 on The Gadget Show CH5

2005-10-03 Thread ceejay
30 seconds out of 2.5 minutes ... not bad. I have a 6MB windows Media Player Video file available if anyone could direct me where to post it (wll this forum take a file that big?) Ceejay -- ceejay ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: UK Publicity: Squeezebox2 on The Gadget Show CH5

2005-10-03 Thread dean blackketter
Probably not, but feel free to mail it to me and we'll host it on our web site. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-10-03 Thread Paul Webster
I know I'm very late for this - but my collection only turned up a dozen or so - then I went out to CDDB and ... 19562 hits ... I decided not to post them here - but you could browse yourself at: http://www.gracenote.com/music/search.html?q=moneyf=artistf=discf=trackx=33y=7 -- Paul Webster

[slim] Impossible to see all my files

2005-10-03 Thread Sébastien
Hi, Software 6.1.1 XP sp2 Itunes 5.0.1/4 Files : many uncompressed wav files, some aac files My library in iTunes seems to be all right but many files are forgotten by slimeserver. All wav files are formated like : 2Pac - Me Against The World - 1995 - 01;Intro;.wav I use iTunes to group

[slim] Bottom line re: Yahoo Unlimited Music?

2005-10-03 Thread alexwinsberg
jarredduq Wrote: Hello, I found a way to stream the Yahoo Music Engine to my squeezebox. Software you will need: This involves the combination of the following software: 1. Slimserver 2. Shoutcast Server http://www.shoutcast.com/download/serve.phtml 3. Shoutcast Audio DSP Plugin

[slim] Re: softsqueeze stutters at the beginning of songs

2005-10-03 Thread mkosma
Understood. Would you be willing to zip and mail me the patched perfmon.pm and timers.pm files? if so, you can send it to (mkosma at gmail dot com) monty -- mkosma ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Re: softsqueeze stutters at the beginning of songs

2005-10-03 Thread Triode
Please try tomorrow's nightly version of 6.2 - it should include the patch and plugin. [But don't get your expectations up that it fixes the problem!] Adrian Understood. Would you be willing to zip and mail me the patched perfmon.pm and timers.pm files? if so, you can send it to (mkosma at

[slim] Re: SB2 as bridge - with Tivo?

2005-10-03 Thread Vimes
Just a note that I had this exact scenario working (tivo bridged via sb2 and using the usb200M) a while back so keep the faith. A couple of questions: 1) can you connect with the tivo with a regular ethernet cable into directly into your switch? (in other words, take the bridge/sb2 out of the

[slim] Re: softsqueeze stutters at the beginning of songs

2005-10-03 Thread mkosma
understood! I will try tomorrow's. I don't expect it to fix the problem, but at this point I haven't made any progress towards a solution and more information is the only thing that seems likely to help. -- mkosma ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Broken links on plugins page

2005-10-03 Thread max . spicer
In a bored moment, I've just had a read through the plugin links page. The Random Mix plugin link is now broken as KDF's removed it from his site. Also, the alternative forums (what was that about???) site, mysqueezebox.com, has now become a domain placeholder page with nothing to do with

[slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-10-03 Thread Pale Blue Ego
Believe it or not, lots of artists and even record companies are GIVING AWAY mp3s. (Telarc even offers some tracks at 320k). I would check artist websites and small, high quality record labels. What we should do is create a list of good sites that offer free downloads. Here are a few I know

[slim] Re: SB2 as bridge - with Tivo?

2005-10-03 Thread tubesguy
Thanks again guys - My last message was not clear - the no DHCP server message was on the Tivo, not the SB2. Sorry about that, Ceejay. I had searched on bridge in the meantime, and found a thread that indicated that the bridge function needed to be turned on on the SB2. Did it, and I've got a

[slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-10-03 Thread Mike Anderson
It is NOT a criminal action to purchase iTunes songs and strip the DRM encryption, as long as you don't redistribute the music yourself. There's no copyright violation there; DRM is Apple's way of not having to depend on the copyright laws. You are probably going against your contract with

[slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-10-03 Thread Mike Anderson
Oh yeah, my own website offers lots of free music too: http://freeradicalradio.com -- Mike Anderson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-10-03 Thread Pat Farrell
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:43 -0700, Mike Anderson wrote: It is NOT a criminal action to purchase iTunes songs and strip the DRM encryption, as long as you don't redistribute the music yourself. There's no copyright violation there; DRM is Apple's way of not having to depend on the copyright

[slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-10-03 Thread Mike Anderson
pfarrell Wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:43 -0700, Mike Anderson wrote: It is NOT a criminal action to purchase iTunes songs and strip the DRM encryption, as long as you don't redistribute the music yourself. There's no copyright violation there; DRM is Apple's way of not having to

Re: [slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-10-03 Thread Brian Curtis
On Oct 3, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Mike Anderson wrote: It is NOT a criminal action to purchase iTunes songs and strip the DRM encryption, as long as you don't redistribute the music yourself. IANAL, but are you sure about that? The DMCA has a lot of verbiage about breaking the DRMs, etc.

[slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-10-03 Thread cmturner2
I disagree with several of the logical/common sense and moral reasoning points raised, but I don't particularly care to get into that here (feel free to PM me if you want). However I am also interested in hearing more answers to the originally raised question. FWIW eMusic has served me well for

Re: [slim] Re: UK Publicity: Squeezebox2 on The Gadget Show CH5

2005-10-03 Thread dean blackketter
Thanks to CeeJay, I've posted it here: http://www.slimdevices.com/photos/gadget.wmv Enjoy. -dean ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Broken links on plugins page

2005-10-03 Thread dean blackketter
Thanks, Max. Fixed. On Oct 3, 2005, at 4:50 PM, max.spicer wrote: In a bored moment, I've just had a read through the plugin links page. The Random Mix plugin link is now broken as KDF's removed it from his site. Also, the alternative forums (what was that about???) site, mysqueezebox.com,

Re: [slim] Re: Obtaining mp3s/flac/whatever legally

2005-10-03 Thread Robert Wallace
Amazon.com offers free mp3s of hundreds of artists - some quite popular, some trying to get a break: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/468646/ref=m_mh_mn_dd/103-5188174-5077459 Or, if this link doesn't work, go to Music and look for Free Downloads in the linkbar. Robert