Dear SlimDevices,
I love your products (plug for referral scheme!) and have 3 of them around my
house. The old Slimp3s still impress many visitors and just keep on running.
But Pandora is useless for me - it looks great.
All I see now is that for the next 6 months your time and resources will
mherger Wrote:
Thinking about it, the Flash demo streams to me in the UK. I assume
they
would tell through IP address. Maybe they will provide a UK
service.
This is the ad sponsored version - which isn't possible with the SB as
it
does not display graphical adds :-)
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Am
Um..if I change my server to use an IP hide program will it let me
subscribe?
I'm sitting in the same boat (living in Switzerland). But I don't fear IP
blocking. I think it's a purely legal issue with no technical limitations.
You can't pay as you don't live in the US. No need to check
Michael Herger said the following on 02/10/2006 09:17 AM:
Um..if I change my server to use an IP hide program will it let
me subscribe?
I'm sitting in the same boat (living in Switzerland). But I don't fear
IP blocking. I think it's a purely legal issue with no technical
On 10/02/06, 0xdeadbeef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The redraw obviously got much faster. If other windows are moved above
Moose, this looks pretty ok now.
However when moving the Moose window it still feels a little jerky and
sluggish. As if it was completely redrawn at certain times while
Wolfgang's Vault is a site which owns thousands of concert recordings
from Bill Graham's collection. There's a 128 kbps stream Vault Radio
available through a Flash player, but I'm having trouble finding the
actual URL.
Anybody want to give it a try? This is a killer station with stuff
Nice! Pogue's a big name in the Mac world,
Really? I thought it was a pretty poor article technically.
Was anyone else amused by this line?
Four kinds of audio-output connectors are provided, including RCA (red
and white) and digital outputs (optical and coax).
James
Hi,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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What software do you use to get the DTS files from DVD? DVD Decrypter?
I know it can demux to ac3 files, haven't tried with a DTS DVD.
SmartRipper. There's a thread in the ripping forum with full instructions
MrC Wrote:
Try this:
http://tinyurl.com/bgoum
Thanks Ill try it, but how did you get this random stream of characters
?! ...
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I'm using a variant of 6.2.2.
I've noticed a few instances where SlimServer has tagged a few of my
albums as compilations even though I did not tag them that way
myself. These are classical recordings that had different artists on a
few of the tracks.
I would prefer that SlimServer not make
A little off topic but...
DRM could be done in an Open Source model. The problem is that most
DRM models involve closed source licence agreements. So the
combination of having to occlude methods and the viral nature of the
GPL mean that the commercial DRM schemes (i.e. the big ones) are
kdf Wrote:
I'll stick with what it says in the roadmap: whatever it takes
In this latest case, its a SqueezeNetwork plugin. I expect other cases
may be similar, others different.
-k
That just what i was going to find and quote. PlayForSure could
concevably by handled in the SBs firmware,
Would it be possible to consider .dts as a separate filetype, then have
an option to enable or disable DTS playback for each player? That would
seem to be the most elegant solution.
I have the same problem, but this solution wouldn't completely work for me.
My SB2 in the lounge is connected via
My SB3 has started repeating tracks, when I play an album the first
track will repeat over over. It goes to the next one if I skip it on
but then plays that one over and over.
I have the latest firmware in the SB3, which fixed my Netgear problems,
and last nights slimserver software:
first place to look is on the web interface and in the player interface
(right hand screen in the Default skin) there is the Repeat options of
Off; One; All. You may have accidentaly set the repaet to One.
On the remote there is the Repeat button (middle button in the second
last row) which
That fixed it .. cant believe I missed it .. having a bad day at the
moment as the heating just started leaking through the ceiling and my
Harley won't start :-(
Thanks again
Dave
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I'd still like to know if this behavior has changed in 6.5, or if it can
be changed in 6.2.2.
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Ok, so I should uncheck FLAC - WAV and FLAC - MP3 if bandwidth permits
and also AAC - AIFF (and probably AAC - FLAC) on the File and all of
the Windows Media transcodings on the File Format screen, right?
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none of this explains why the free (listen to an ad) service cannot be
applied to the SN model.
It works on the Net. You can get the webbased stream outside the US
for free. sure you have to deal with the pop up but if you dont mind
that then its all good. The same principle could easily be
rick's cafe Wrote:
none of this explains why the free (listen to an ad) service cannot be
applied to the SN model.
It works on the Net. You can get the webbased stream outside the US
for free. sure you have to deal with the pop up but if you dont mind
that then its all good. The same
As I understand the GPL, a GPL program can load and run a non-GPL
program as long as it is packaged seperately.
The SlimServer is certainly loading and using Windows DLL's, for
example.
So a DRM add on would not, IMHO, violate GPL.
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the majority of the users are from 90210.
lol.
You could also use the zip codes from Manhattan. There are plenty of
them and they're mostly easy to remember. I remember 10001, but there's
a few more here:
http://tinyurl.com/8pg42
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Wow, what a cool site! I am just (barely) young enough to have never
been to the Fillmore(s), and just old enough to understand and
appreciate the significance of Bill Graham and the Fillmore.
Nosing around in firefox, I was able to come up with the url
These might be obvious questions but I haven't been able to find
definitive answers yet.
1) Is it correct to say that SlimServer under Linux is not able to use
WMADEC to transcode WMA files? Is there any other decoder that can be
used and does this decoder support WMA VBR? Can it be installed on
snarlydwarf Wrote:
Windows Media Player (and Winamp and probably most other mp3 stream
players) buffer things. Ie, to make it more resiliant to network
hiccups, it will try to keep the next few seconds of the song: there is
a setting in Winamp to control this, I would assume WMP would have
jonheal Wrote:
I'd still like to know if this behavior has changed in 6.5, or if it can
be changed in 6.2.2.
It can be changed under Server Settings - Behavior - Compilations
Select List compilation albums under each artist from the dropdown
list.
Slimserver treats albums with different
EnochLight wrote:
I think this might have been asked before but... when you have the 770
on standby and wake it up, how long does it take to connect to your
WiFi and actively refresh the 770 skin?
Well, I haven't timed the wake-up and load process, but I would
characterize it as fast enough
If I try to browse with the remote and don't keep punching keys very
quickly, Squeezebox goes back to the Now Playing screen. Is there a
setting that will give me more time to decide what I want whem I'm
browsing?
Go to Player Settings (web interface), where you can define the timeout
for
* jonheal shaped the electrons to say...
I've noticed a few instances where SlimServer has tagged a few of my
albums as compilations even though I did not tag them that way
myself. These are classical recordings that had different artists on a
few of the tracks.
I would prefer that SlimServer
* shawkie shaped the electrons to say...
1) Is it correct to say that SlimServer under Linux is not able to use
WMADEC to transcode WMA files? Is there any other decoder that can be
used and does this decoder support WMA VBR? Can it be installed on a
NAS (e.g. Qnap TS-101)?
You can install
or http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12345
after giving it Radiohead, Kaiser Chiefs and the Eels I'm getting US
bands. Its not so hot on UK pop. Clever idea and great tie up but not
my cup of tea. But none of the streaming radio systems are.
I still choose from New Music and pick an album
Great
Millwood Wrote:
As I understand the GPL, a GPL program can load and run a non-GPL
program as long as it is packaged seperately.
The SlimServer is certainly loading and using Windows DLL's, for
example.
So a DRM add on would not, IMHO, violate GPL.
Indeed - a GPL app can link to
... Am I being a bit thick here as I fail to see from a RIAA perspective
what difference it makes whether people from the UK are allowed access
to the visual ad version (which I understand they are allowed) or the
paid for non ad version (which they are not and which will be supported
by
Any ideas why this isn't working for me? Flash Player (which works fine
for Pandora) says now playing, but no sound. I'm stumped.
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Beatport do, if it suits your music style.
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sure you have to deal with the pop up
I tried the flash based player yesterday ... what pop-up? Is that coming soon?
What would be the point of visual ads accompanying a music stream?
People listen to music, not look at it. I had assumed they'd be
playing radio-style ads every few songs.
C.
Did anyone get what Songbird is good for?
The interface is 100% ripped off from iTunes. There's nothing wrong
with FOSS apps loosely modelled on commercial ones, but iTunes in
black is a bit much. Their graphics designer is good, but a bit of
originality would have been fine.
I pointed it to my
Thanks. I knew there was probably an easy answer.
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since I'm the 'Nokia skin guy', I figured I'd pipe in on this thread...
One of the things that hasn't been mentioned on this thread is that,
even if you aren't completely satisfied with how the 770 works today,
there is great promise for how it will work tomorrow. Already we've
seen that with
fairyliquidizer Wrote:
A little off topic but...
DRM could be done in an Open Source model. The problem is that most
DRM models involve closed source licence agreements. So the
combination of having to occlude methods and the viral nature of the
GPL mean that the commercial DRM schemes
I live in London in the UK and am looking to buy two SB3's.
With the $100 off two offer that is currently available by ordering
direct from Slim devices it would seem that even UK customers can save
money by ordering direct.
Looking at the site, there seems to be no duty on the SB to the UK
I ordered a SB2 last March from SD to the UK, as you say the price is
the price you pay slimdevices + delivery charge +17.5% (hence VAT on
the delivery charge).
Yes I agree with all your calculations and that you would end up paying
about £370 (given that you get the current exchange rate of
I haven't ordered an SB3 direct, but based on experience of buying from
America, you need to add on roughly 22% for customs fees as the courier
also charges a 'handling fee' where customs are involved.
Customs is also charged on the total amount including postage
Hope this helps you a little
My 770 had what I understood to be the latest software, the Dec 30, 2005
release. I suppose if I had used the older software and then got that
update I might have been impressed with the performance increase.
The fact remains, it was faster to find music with the lowly stock
remote than the
A couple of weeks ago I mocked up an order just to get as far as the
delivery pages in order to find out how much delivery was.
I was given two delivery options, one slow one for $45 or so and a
faster one for about $55.
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From here:
http://www.slimdevices.com/ups.html
In addition to duty and VAT, UPS may collect a small customs clearance
fee.
As with importing most things, its generally a lottery whether customs
pick it up or not
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nicketynick wrote:
Any ideas why this isn't working for me? Flash Player (which works fine
for Pandora) says now playing, but no sound. I'm stumped.
two things to try:
--update Flash to the latest version
--make sure Flash is sending audio output to the correct system device
Thanks! Just what I needed.
Looks like I'll be happy with my SB2 for a while. Reception is good now
that I've installed a Pre-N wireless router, and I actually like the
original black box better than the new one. (No offense.)
The new box looks better in person, though I like the old box
Did anyone get what Songbird is good for?
The interface is 100% ripped off from iTunes.
really? ewww. Scratch that off the to try someday list
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Someone here pointed out _'Coverflow'
(http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/)_ not too long ago - if that (or
something similar) could somehow be ported to the Nokia 770, it would
be immensely cool!
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oktup's
Don't want to flog a dead horse here... but just stumbled across the
hardware spec for the SB1:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?HardwareComparison
It says the SB1 has 8Mb of buffer RAM... This equates to almost 60s of
raw WAV audio @ 150Kb/sec. This would be more than adequate in
mattg Wrote:
My 770 had what I understood to be the latest software, the Dec 30, 2005
release. I suppose if I had used the older software and then got that
update I might have been impressed with the performance increase.
The fact remains, it was faster to find music with the lowly
stinkingpig Wrote:
It's not ignored, there's an excellent pair of plugins. Slimscrobbler
submits the songs you play to Last.fm, then the Last.fm plugin lets
Squeezebox play your stations. It would be nice if that same
capability
was there on SqueezeNetwork, though it gets more
Pale Blue Ego Wrote:
Wolfgang's Vault is a site which owns thousands of concert recordings
from Bill Graham's collection. There's a 128 kbps stream Vault Radio
available through a Flash player, but I'm having trouble finding the
actual URL.
Anybody want to give it a try? This is a
There are a number of ways:
1) view the page source of the player that is being used in the
browser, and hunt until you find the correct stream URL
2) use a proxy server which has logging capabilities. Just capture the
log while you are connecting and streaming to the station you desire.
3)
Have you considered where you would stand if you need to return a faulty unit?
I imagine it would cost a bit!
Phil
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Quoting Bennett, Gavin (LDN Int) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
All I see now is that for the next 6 months your time and resources
will be directed at a USA only product that does nothing to improve
or help the platform for non-Americans. The forum is going to be
swamped with newbies asking the
The SB3's display is a very pale cyan, significantly whiter than the
SB2's display, which has a distinct green color to it.
The SB2's display seems a bit brighter than the SB3's though. I think
this might just be a matter of the SB3 having a darker filter in front
of the display, though.
I was
JJZolx Wrote:
Could you definitely attribute the slowness to the 770? I've heard that
it's pretty slow, but at times (and very much depending on the server
hardward) SlimServer's web server response is pretty sluggish. You'd
have to directly compare the 770 to the web interface performance
Michaelwagner Wrote:
lol.
You could also use the zip codes from Manhattan. There are plenty of
them and they're mostly easy to remember. I remember 10001, but there's
a few more here:
http://tinyurl.com/8pg42
But that wouldn't work though, as it wouldn't match the billing address
of your
Craig, James (IT) Wrote:
Nice! Pogue's a big name in the Mac world,
Really? I thought it was a pretty poor article technically.
He's the author of those Mac Missing manuals, so he must be doing
something right. Maybe audio is not his forte.
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Fred wrote:
Technically of course you are right, it could be done.
The licensing can clearly be done, But I'm not sure
that the needs can be met.
But DRM is different in that it needs to grant access in what is
essentially a hostile environment (the user's home). In PGP or even
banking
Richard,
Windows XP Service Pack 2
This happens on both of my PCs
Bruce
- Original Message -
From: Richard Titmuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 4:50 AM
Subject: Re: [slim] Squeezebox display doubled
I really like the 770 as a slimserver remote. I play a lot of musicmagic mixes and it's great for that. I've not got the 770 skin as I got fed up with running Slimserver betas ages ago but the handheld skin with optimise switched on at 150% is perfect. The 770 skin might be better but it's not
Thank goodness someone else said it. That's
exactly what I was thinking when I tried it...
What does it do that I can't do already?
They're describing it as a revolution. File
playback, playlist creation? WinAmp, May 1997.
Graphic web browser? NCSA Mosaic, April 1993.
And organizing
It does sound like the problem kdf diagnosed. I suspect you have
previously used a softsqueeze version which emulated the SB1-graphics
display (half as many pixels high).
To remove this the easy answer is to delete the slimserver.pref file
while the server has stopped and then restart the
Please kick Pandora until the wake up to global markets
I am no expert, but I have a feeling that it has more to do with music labels policies than Pandora and SlimDevices.
And you have to Steve Jobs to argue with them
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It sounds like what happens when SB1 fonts end up being sent to the SB2
display. Getting rid of the prefs file may help. Perhaps in this case,
an upgrade to softsqueeze kept the mac address and is getting older prefs.
-kdf
Can you tell me where to look for these font files and Softsqueeze
Quoting Bruce Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It sounds like what happens when SB1 fonts end up being sent to the
SB2 display. Getting rid of the prefs file may help. Perhaps in
this case, an upgrade to softsqueeze kept the mac address and is
getting older prefs.
-kdf
Can you tell me
Bennett, Gavin (LDN Int) Wrote:
Dear SlimDevices,
I love your products (plug for referral scheme!) and have 3 of them
around my house. The old Slimp3s still impress many visitors and just
keep on running.
But Pandora is useless for me - it looks great.
All I see now is that for the
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oktup Wrote:
Someone here pointed out _'Coverflow'
(http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/)_ not too long ago - if that (or
something similar) could somehow be ported to the Nokia 770, it would
be immensely cool!
Absoflippinlutely. That is exactly what I hope the Slim/770 union
someday to be.
On 2/10/06, nico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't want to flog a dead horse here... but just stumbled across thehardware spec for the SB1:http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?HardwareComparison
It says the SB1 has 8Mb of buffer RAM... This equates to almost 60s ofraw WAV audio @ 150Kb/sec. This
Note: This is all complete guess work :)
fullness: 228868 (99%)
You're assuming that number is in bytes, let's suppose it's frames,
where a frame is 4 bytes (2 bytes per channel, 2 channels). That gives
us a fullness of 915472 bytes.
You're also assuming 8Mb is 8 megabytes, I think it's much
jmpage2 Wrote:
Slim is getting a lot of competition from Roku in the retail channel
and this is really an excellent way to have something out there that
differentiates them from the competition.
Other than not sucking? :)
(Geesh, I just wandered around their forums again... now I
As always, if you want it enough you can find out how to hack it.
Subscribing to Pandora cannot be that difficult.
However,
After recently trying both services It seems to me that Last.fm is
infinitely superior if you have anything but very obvious taste (I
think non-obvious taste may be called
On 2/10/06, rudholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The SB3's display is a very pale cyan, significantly whiter than the
SB2's display, which has a distinct green color to it.
The SB2's display seems a bit brighter than the SB3's though. I think
this might just be a matter of the SB3 having a
On 2/10/06, ModelCitizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a pain that you have to pay to stream your own radio stationthough :-(
Nobody wants to pay for anything any more, do they?Ben
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it's funny but i can recall people saying that about Firefox too
(shrug)
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That makes sense, as a purple-ish filter would explain both the shift
toward white and the drop in brightness (since it would subtract some
of the green).
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Ordered an SB2 direct from SD last summer and got hit with customs
charge (+DHL handling fee) about £35ish.
Worked out same price as ordering direct in the UK.
Seems pretty much hit and miss if customs charge you.
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On Feb 10, 2006, at 2:25 PM, bklaas wrote:
oktup Wrote:
Someone here pointed out _'Coverflow'
(http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/)_ not too long ago - if that
(or
something similar) could somehow be ported to the Nokia 770, it would
be immensely cool!
Absoflippinlutely. That is
Quoting Bruce Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Any other ideas?
player settings-dislpay
what fonts are listed for Font and Standby Font
By default, it should be standard for both.
If this not the case for you, I suspect your prefs file wasn't the
right one (dunno how that could have been).
As
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You laugh, but most americans think an american invented the telephone
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Pat:
Isn't Slimserver kinda like the playboy in the frat house?
I'm playing some music on the slim when my buddy comes to visit. He
says hey, what is that, I like it. I look at the display (or he
does), and say it's the new Madonna (or Springstein, or whatever)
album. (advertising).
He says
Cool. I did try the 8 megabit == 1 megabyte calc before and also got the
6-8 seconds theoretical value you quoted. But *empirically*, the results
seems to show that 2s is buffered, which agrees more with the
implication that only about 256 Kbytes are being buffered.
On my platform (UNIX) I can
Michaelwagner wrote:
Isn't Slimserver kinda like the playboy in the frat house?
SlimNetwork, and most radio stations, yes, I would agree.
SlimServer is my collection of CDs that I paid dearly for.
I'm playing some music on the slim when my buddy comes to visit. He
says hey, what is that, I
stinkingpig Wrote:
Oh get real, we all know there's no electricity outside of the U.S.
You laugh, but most americans think an american invented the telephone
No, he was born in Scotland, but he was in America when he invented
it. (Unless of course you're referring to Reis, Bourseul, and
Hello;
Can anyone suggest how I could simply use Slimserver to echo any sound
made by its PC host to the SB3? And yes, I mean every alert sound,
background website music, audio track, and beep--any sound coming out
of the PC's speaker.
In other words, essentially using the Slimserver/SB3 in
And of course, we were the first ones to surgically graft
telephones to every teenage girl in our country. ;-)
Nope that would be the Japanese. Or maybe the Finns :)
Victor
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And of course, we were the first ones to surgically graft
telephones to every teenage girl in our country. ;-)
Nope that would be the Japanese. Or maybe the Finns :)
*laugh* Well, maybe so. :-)
What's more amazing is that virtually no one knows who invented the
television. (And now
Kevin O. Lepard wrote:
What's more amazing is that virtually no one knows who invented the
television. (And now we're _way_ off topic.)
Philo T Farnsworth
At least that is what they taught me ages ago in EE class.
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hello,
to save diskspace and tidy things up, i have in the last few days,
downconverted a whole bunch of ripped CDs from their original WMA
Lossless to WMA VBR Quality 98. Conversion was batch processed through
dbPowerAmp.
when i try to playback (brand new SqueezeBox3, fw=v29, srvr=6.22) any
Perhaps a sound driver that output a bitstream that could be tuned in to
with a SB (via http if neccessary).
Something along those lines is the only thing that comes immediately to
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Kevin O. Lepard wrote:
What's more amazing is that virtually no one knows
who invented the
television. (And now we're _way_ off topic.)
Philo T Farnsworth
At least that is what they taught me ages ago in EE
class.
Isn't that the professor on
And of course, we were the first ones to surgically graft
telephones to every teenage girl in our country. ;-)
Nope that would be the Japanese. Or maybe the Finns :)
*laugh* Well, maybe so. :-)
What's more amazing is that virtually no one knows who invented the
television. (And now we're
I'd really really like it if this could be done in firmware. Distributing
binaries seems like a pain - and please remember that some of us don't run
Lintel (I run SlimServer on OpenBSD and on an Unslung NSLU2)...
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When will a Slimserver version be available which is supported on the
new Apple Intel chips. I just got one, and I am unable to download
V6.2 Slimserver. Any help would be appreciated.
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it's there now, but only as a nightly snapshot.
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/
Stick with the 6.2 nightly unless you can deal with random breakages in
the 6.5 nightlies.
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