On 13-Nov-05, at 11:36 PM, bcc wrote:
Jim Wrote:
Well, that's just given Slim a $$$ reason to NOT make the change (if
they would have done - unofficially of course) versus if they make the
change a bit of goodwill from a few SB1 users who want WOL who would
never have upgraded just for this
I have an old laptop and use external USB disks. My laptop didn't have USB 2
so I bought a USB 2 PCMCIA card, which also had the advantage of having two
ports (the laptop only had one). The card cost me about £15, from memory,
and was supported under Linux just fine.
With USB 2 external disks on
A new installation should use iTunes if detected (and hence the
playlists) but this is not foolproof.
In the Server Settings page, is 'use iTunes' enabled?
James
NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does
When I disable the iTunes plugin it works perfectly. but, it
no longer
uses iTunes which I want it to use. When I tell it to rescan
it reverts
to not using iTunes. When I switch it to use iTunes it plays
music for
a few seconds then stops then picks back up. What should I do?
Most
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?
I use Zap when I stumble across a song that doesn't play correctly - eg. if a
song skips due to a bad rip from a CD,
Cheers Tass that was it, had rebuilt the whole box and not re-installed
itunes.
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on 2005-11-13 16:50 Philip Meyer said the following:
I have some DTS flac files. I can stream these via my SB2 to a
surround sound amp, and it sounds superb.
...
I appreciate that it might not be possible to downmix
multi-channel data to stereo, but is it possible to simply turn off
the other
Just started using the RSS feed for these forums. Is there anyway of
knowing which RSS titles have been updated since the last visit?
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Hi Chris,
I had a look at the pronto ccf file as I hoped it would give me the on-
and offtimes needed to put together a lirc.org file, but unfortunately
it's in pronto's internal format and not man readable.
Felix
lostboy Wrote:
There is a pronto ccf for the velleman IR codes from
On 12/11/05, Geoff B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you considered leveraging the existing SQLite DB instead?
Instead of creating a .moo file, couldn't you just use existing
drivers to use the already-scanned data, like this one:
Anybody know what Firmware 28 fixed in 6.2.1.
I just noticed the rev in the nightly I grabbed over the weekend, but
can't find a mention of it in the forums.
When I searched bugzilla I got Zarro Boogs found.
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Does it work on the squeezebox?
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Kitschcamp Wrote:
I've ordered mine direct from SlimDevices about 2 weeks ago - I just
received the e-mail that it's winging its way from San Jose overnight
:)
Hurrah! Mine arrived this morning - and even more amazingly, customs
didn't stop it!
Is it home time yet? :-)
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They both work for me, SB2 on SS 6.1.1.
EDIT: fixed the version
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Hi all,
I've recently moved my music onto my new NAS (Synology DiskStation
101g+). The NAS is set to spin down the HD after 5 minutes of
inactivity. Once this is done, the HD should not spin up again unless
something accesses it. Likewise, the NAS's internal fan should not kick
in unless the
Does anyone know what might be causing this problem...?
Or of a way to debug/cure it...?
Could be that slimserver writes out configuration, DB or playlist changes
every x minutes. You could try to move these files to the machine running
slimserver so there's only the music files on the NAS.
Not sure why you would think you would get better sound quality from the
SB3 over your previous setup.
Both do a very good job with DAC duties. The SB3 might be slightly
better over your soundcard you listed, but that is a good soundcard.
What the SB3 is meant to be better at is not being
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? :-)
Talking of sales for SlimDevices..
Another friend of mine has just ordered a SB3.
Sean - could we have a system where by each referral translates to a discount
for the referer? Perhaps 50 referrals would equate to a free SB - whatever is
the current model?
You would need some kind of
ultra238a Wrote:
dabs.com have got free stock of both wired and wireless white SB3
available now. Looks like they have shipped quite a few already as
well.
All of the other dealers who have ordered white stock will also have
received their stock today as well.
www.dabs.com/squeezebox
danco Wrote:
Waking a system doesn't seem to me anything like rebooting. Everything
is back to where it was before sleep within a few seconds. This is on a
Mac.
I don't know how WOL is implemented on a Mac, but on a PC clone, the
entire memory and CPU are powered down, the disk is powered
I am now seeing another manifestation of this. Some artists simply are
not showing up in artist lists. It is because they only have songs
that do *not* have an album name. An option to list artists that have
only non-album (or blank album tagged) tracks would be really nice,
along with the
Just saw an announcement by Hong Kong cable broadband provider i-Cable
that they are now selling WMA DRM. They will be selling both English
and Chinese music for about $1.2 per song.
They listed a whole bunch of devices, with Roku Soundbridge being one
of them.
Hi!
I'm in progress to replace my mp3 with flac. Everytime I replace an
album I do a clear and rescan.
Is there a way to see how long time a rescan takes? Don't want to start
a scan if I plan to use the Squeezebox later.
Regards
/Bernt
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danco Wrote:
Waking a system doesn't seem to me anything like rebooting. Everything
is back to where it was before sleep within a few seconds. This is on a
Mac.
I don't know how WOL is implemented on a Mac, but on a PC clone, the
entire memory
I think there must be major differences here between Mac and Windows.What about Linux?
WOL
is a hardware thing not necessarily an OS thing. If the machine
is powered down then it MUST reboot to load the OS. However, if
the machine is in a hibernation state then the hibernation file can be
scraped
JJZolx Wrote:
This isn't an inconsistency. What you may not understand is that the
main reason for having this preference and the creation of the 'various
artist' (compilation) grouping is so that artists who _only_ appear on
compilation albums can be kept from appearing in the browse artist
m1abrams Wrote:
I am seeing more an more people come to the forums, wanting the SB3 to
act like a soundcard when it is much more than that. Why is this? Why
do so many people want to control thier music from a computer but want
to use a Squeezebox? This is confusing to me, I listen to
On Nov 14, 2005, at 6:54 AM, Daniel Cohen wrote:
There is nothing actually called hibernate on the Mac, I think
sleep on the Mac is somewhere between sleep and hibernate on
Windows, but I don't know Windows. Certainly Mac wake from sleep is
fast. I just tried putting my Mac to sleep in the
Is there an eta on the release of 6.5?
I've reported a bug that is scheduled to be fix in release 6.5. And
I'm on 6.2.1.
What happened to 6.3 and 6.4? :-)
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Also, the FooBar2000 player has an excellent and highly configurable
bulk conversion feature. Depending on the size of your library, you
might want to perform the conversion in batches.
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I don't know how WOL is implemented on a Mac, but on a PC clone, the
entire memory and CPU are powered down, the disk is powered down,
almost all but a small amount of logic on the network card are powered
down.
Actually WOL from standby is very fast on a PC running Win XP.
Typically if
bflatmajor Wrote:
What happened to 6.3 and 6.4? :-)
Good question!!
Unless there are significant changes that warrant a version jump?
;)
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Thanks, I should be ok based on this chart. I ran CAT5 to one of the SB2
this weekend, the other one I can't get a wire to very easily. Still
hoping to sort out this issue with audio drops
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I'd love to use Media Center to drive Squeezeboxs too but the people
there
polite mode
don't seem particularly helpfull or cooperative
/polite mode
I don't fancy our chances.
Craig
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dwc wrote:
http://www.sonic.net/dcarwin/images/corrupt-db.JPG
Track info not written to db. This is induced by browsing to folder
before scanning the folder (i.e before doing a db rescan).
It looks like maybe the Browse Music Folder autoscan isn't getting far
enough along before you hit
m1abrams Wrote:
Not sure why you would think you would get better sound quality from the
SB3 over your previous setup.
Both do a very good job with DAC duties. The SB3 might be slightly
better over your soundcard you listed, but that is a good soundcard.
What the SB3 is meant to be
I hear ya! The fact that it's not free probably doesn't help either.
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I wonder if it could be done in a MC plugin controlling Squeezebox via a
CLI interface like Moose does. Unfortunately my programming skills are
in Delphi and the MC SDK's are C based or I'd have a go myself.
Craig
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I've found the MC community in general unhelpful and even rude. I use
it, but only really as a tag editor. It's a nice piece of software but
the politics behind it are a PITA (for example, no native FLAC support
because one guy doesn't like it).
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I believe I've proven to myself that SlimServer messes up when creating
the slimserversql.db file from stratch *IF* there is an album with the
following tags:
album = album
artist = artist
I use those generic tags when ripping sometimes and then go to FreeDB
or where ever later to do the proper
Philip Meyer Wrote:
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?
I use Zap when I stumble across a song that doesn't play correctly -
eg. if a song skips
The interface for browsing by album art is fine except browsing by
album title is a pain when you would like to see all the albums by a
specific artist.
I believe if you set the ALBUMSORT tag (for FLAC) or TSOA tag (for MP3
files) then the server will use them whenever a sorted list of albums
Anybody know what Firmware 28 fixed in 6.2.1.
http://svn.slimdevices.com/
is your friend. In this case:
http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/server/Firmware/squeezebox2_28.bin?rev=5150view=log
Firmware 28 fixes bug 2356 where the current song may not be updated
properly. Also fix 2533 where the
I can confirm that this has happened to me also a few times. In my
eagerness to hear a new album which I am ripping to flac I sometimes
dive straight into Browse Folders and hit Play on the first track.
This plays fine but the following tracks won't until a full rescan is
done.
My workaround
Hey,
I'm using Slimserver 6.2 which for the most part works very smoothly
except when I use the Radio Tune-In.
This link works in Slimserver (I hear the radio):
mms://live.eonstreams.com/ccri_ma_boston_wkox_am.asf
Stream Info
===
Codec: wma2
Channels: 2
Sample rate: 32000 Hz
Bits per
On 13/11/05 at 21:01 -0500, Pat Farrell wrote
That said, I've watched folks talk about wake-on-lan for ages, and
I fail to see what about it is attractive. What are people
hoping to accomplish? It always looked to me as a solution
looking for a problem. Seems that getting a low power server
and
Thanks RT, I'll try those tests this evening. Last night I did pause
upon entering the folder before playing tracks, but I didn't record how
long I waited. I'll be a bit more professional tonight. Testing with a
db search and double checking with the SQL Lite client is a good idea.
Thanks,
bflatmajor Wrote:
Is there an eta on the release of 6.5?
I've reported a bug that is scheduled to be fix in release 6.5. And
I'm on 6.2.1.
What happened to 6.3 and 6.4? :-)
There is no ETA as yet for 6.5 - this branch of development was only
just started.
However, you can give it a
That's a question I've been sitting on for a while. How do you know when
a full rescan is done?
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a) You -shouldn't- need to do a wipe, just a rescan should work (and
will be quicker).
b) When the scan is complete the text SlimServer is currently scanning
your music collection... will be replaced by Your library contains...
on the front page.
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply...
I wasn't aware that such files existed.
Do you know what they're called or where I would find them...?
(I've had a look in my music folder (including hidden and OS files) but
there wasn't anything obvious in there).
Many thanks,
Andy.
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Thanks Felix, I had a good search for CCF to LIRC conversion/translation
etc., but haven't found anyone claiming to have found a way to do this.
If ever you need the info in the future there is a good explanation of
the pronto CCF hex format here
http://www.remotecentral.com/features/irdisp1.htm
radish Wrote:
a) You -shouldn't- need to do a wipe, just a rescan should work (and
will be quicker).
b) When the scan is complete the text SlimServer is currently scanning
your music collection... will be replaced by Your library contains...
on the front page.
My concern is about having
Which Tagging programs do allow editing of AlbumSort on FLAC files? I
currently use TagRename, which makes it easy to edit tags on many
tracks concurrently by creating masks. Only problem is that it doesn't
support the AlbumSort tag at all.
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I believe I've proven to myself that SlimServer messes up when creatingthe slimserversql.db file from stratch *IF* there is an album with thefollowing tags:Good, you should file a bug report at
bugs.slimdevices.com so you can get some movement on your
Do you know what they're called or where I would find them...?
You're on Windows? slimserver.pref should be the configuration file,
slimserversql.db the database. Playlists are stored in the folder you
defined in the server settings of the web interface.
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agentsmith Wrote:
Does anyone know if Slim has plan for Apple or WMA DRM?
I can't (muster the energy to) find the link, but Sean Adams (Slim
Deveces CEO) recently stated on another forum something to the effect
that folks should stay tuned for an announcement regarding WMA DRM
support.
OK, problem solved.
My TrendMicro personal firewall suddenly decided to block network
traffic coming from the slimp3 player.
Don't know if it was an automatic update or just a confused user. What
counts is that it is solved now.
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I'm sure there's a --d option which will log rescans, don't have a list
of them handy right now though.
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Which Tagging programs do allow editing of AlbumSort on FLAC files? I
currently use TagRename, which makes it easy to edit tags on many
tracks concurrently by creating masks. Only problem is that it doesn't
support the AlbumSort tag at all.
I've never used it, but Helium2 seems to support TSOA:
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 08:14 -0800, bflatmajor wrote:
Is there an eta on the release of 6.5?
What a silly question. :-)
I spent 6 years in grad school
trying to figure out when software would be done,
or how to estimate it. I'm not Doctor Pat because
I couldn't figure it out, and no one else
the non-working stream shows as having one channel. if that means it
is using WMA Voice codec, then that is the explanation. There is an
open bug mentioning that wma voice is not supported, and the comment
says waiting on microsoft
-kdf
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On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 08:14 -0800, bflatmajor wrote:
Is there an eta on the release of 6.5?
What a silly question. :-)
I spent 6 years in grad school
trying to figure out when software would be done,
or how to estimate it. I'm not Doctor Pat because
I couldn't figure
Hi,
You're on Windows?
Yes, SlimServer is running on Windows 2000.
I searched for both the files you mentioned and neither of them exist
on the NAS. (slimserver.pref exists in the server subdirectory and
slimserversql.db within .../server/cache).
Thanks anyway,
Andy.
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Hi,
I remember a couple of months ago some remark about the SB1 getting or
not getting support for WPA. I tried to find this on the forum but am
not able to search on WPA or SB1. Is there anyone who knows if there
will be WPA support on SB1?
Thank you,
Paul
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I remember a couple of months ago some remark about the SB1 getting or
not getting support for WPA. I tried to find this on the forum but am
not able to search on WPA or SB1. Is there anyone who knows if there
will be WPA support on SB1?
I asked, so that was probably me.
The answer at that
I searched for both the files you mentioned and neither of them exist
on the NAS. (slimserver.pref exists in the server subdirectory and
slimserversql.db within .../server/cache).
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hehehe... ;-)
No - actually though - I've just followed the units that are selling on
e-bay and it seems like they are almost all wireless units. It seems
wireless is much more popular. I have a WAP - but I've also wired most
of my house with cat5 - so I use wired everywhere I can.
I just
dean Wrote:
Thanks, that should be fixed now.
On Oct 24, 2005, at 5:46 PM, gharris999 wrote:
There's a little bug on your web order form. When you select the
white,
wireless SB3, the order details page labels it as a wired SB3. It
charges the right price, though.
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Hi,
What about playlists?
Don't have a playlists folder setup.
I had completely forgotten about the FileMon utility from SysInternals
- am using this now to monitor file/directory access to the NAS from
the server PC. Will post my findings.
Thanks,
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Ah, so I can go directly to doing a bug report -- will do.
I am new here. I was sort of expecting a confirmation discussion to
verify the bug before I reported it.
Posted as bug #2559
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Probably a confused user :-).
Software firewalls block traffic from programs unless authorized by
you. You authorized slimserver once no doubt, but when you install a
new version, the firewall picks up on that and considers the program
new..thus requiring you to authorize the program again
here is an interesting article I found, looks like installing linux on
xbox is not that hard althrough I havn't tried yet.
http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Getting_Started
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On 11/14/05, sgm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ah, so I can go directly to doing a bug report -- will do.I am new here.I was sort of expecting a confirmation discussion toverify the bug before I reported it.Sometimes that works and happens. However, bugs that are filed are much more likely to get
Dave,
Did you ever get a response from RadioIO ?
I've had my SB2 for a couple of weeks and rather liked the RadioIO
Acoustic and Jazz channels whilst listening from another room, but I
can't listen in the same room as the system as the 'static' is too
noticable. I've heard it on every RadioIO
On 14-Nov-05, at 2:02 PM, sgm wrote:
Ah, so I can go directly to doing a bug report -- will do.
I am new here. I was sort of expecting a confirmation discussion to
verify the bug before I reported it.
Posted as bug #2559
confirmation is useful, but you may get sent directly to the bug
On 11/14/05, kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
confirmation is useful, but you may get sent directly to the bugreports by some posters anyway. it forces someone else to do theconfirmation :)Well, in fairness he spent quite a bit of time himself validating the bug with very detailed description of the
Ah, now it works.
Cheers
Ray.
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seanadams Wrote:
Please give us a few days on this. We are testing these routers.
Ok, it's been more than a few days. Any news???
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I had it working on Slimserver 6.1 which leads me to believe it's an
issue with the newer version. I've tried for hours changing settings
but to no avail. I'm going to revert back to 6.1 and see if that fixes
the problem. I'm not convinced this is WMA voice bug...it's too easy to
blame microsoft
We are waiting for our CPU and OS vendor to provide us with a new
working version of the OS to test. It's out of our hands right now,
but we are working with them every day. Sorry for the delay.
On Nov 14, 2005, at 5:00 PM, jcyr wrote:
seanadams Wrote:
Please give us a few days on
When you Zapp is the song removed from your main library and then moved
to the Zapped playlist? If so, that's not what I'm after. I want to be
able to flag a song so that I can later use it to build, or add to, a
playlist. That could mean someting as simple as a check mark beside
the title in my
On 11/14/05, topshelfpete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had it working on Slimserver 6.1 which leads me to believe it's anissue with the newer version. I've tried for hours changing settings
but to no avail. I'm going to revert back to 6.1 and see if that fixesthe problem. I'm not convinced this is
I just bought a set of 'IR Extenders' to use in my kitchen with a SB1. The
stereo and SB are in the laundry room off the kitchen with the door shut, so
this would allow the SB to be controlled by pointing it to the extender in
the kitchen.
This worked great for about 12 hours, and has now
I guess I don't have any systems that go into S2 or S3 state. Are these
supported under W2K?
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gharris999: you probably should write to the support email address ...
it isn't for sure that the right people will find your comments here
stuck on the end of an old thread.
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topshelfpete Wrote:
it's too easy to blame microsoft for everything.
Ah, but so satisfying!
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MrC Wrote:
Which debugging options would show open files or file accesses?
--d_files will show opening and closing of files (by slim, not by the
db)
I don't know if anything will show accesses.
Some flag or other tells you when the cache is flushed, but I can't see
right now which it is (and
I recently installed Slimserver 6.2 and tried playing WMA files streamed
from the Slimserver6.2 in WinAMP/Windows Media Player. But the media is
not played by the WinAMP/Windows Media Player. Do anyone face the same
problem?
I have not installed LAME in the PC running slimserver. Is that the
Thanks Jacky...
Looks like an interesting Christmas project when my Live! account dies!
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I posted an answer to this in your other thread on the topic:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=65230postcount=3
Yes, it requires lame.
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spieler Wrote:
To get shoutcast to broadcast WMA files you need to use the spacial
audio plug-in for winamp instead of the shoutcast dnas server and dsp
plugin. It's not free ($45) but there is a free trial so you can see if
it solves your problems. This plugin transcodes wma files to mp3 on
James I have a large library of over 10,000 songs but my iTunes reload
interval is 500,000 . What should it be? Why is my Slimserver
performing so bad when using iTunes? Without iTunes it works
perfectly. Is anyone having this problem with 6.2?
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I've been a happy squeezebox owner for a couple of years - other
than the occasional 802.11 problem (not your fault), it works
great and I don't need to mess with it much. I hop onto slim-discuss
every once in a while and then get off again.
A few weeks ago, I discovered the forums (in fact, it's
My goal is to be able to control my amplifier (which has no IR remote)
from the squeezebox - specifically, turn it on and off as the
squeezebox turns on and off. I've read this is possible using the xPL
plugin?
Has anybody done this? Can anybody inform as to whether it's possible
using this:
On 14-Nov-05, at 5:07 PM, topshelfpete wrote:
I had it working on Slimserver 6.1 which leads me to believe it's an
issue with the newer version. I've tried for hours changing settings
but to no avail. I'm going to revert back to 6.1 and see if that fixes
the problem. I'm not convinced this is
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