On 16/02/06, Kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree that the screens are pretty intuitive and easy to use, but
everytime I've let people do it someone always comes along and mucks it
up. There will be 10-20 songs that are in the playlist from previous
people, and when the next person comes by
While we're talking Jukeboxes, somone posted a link to a Mac only
jukebox front end that worked like a conventional jukebox, displaying
album art on a rolodex type display. I have searched the forms, but
can't find it anywhere. Anyone remember what it was called?
Thanks
JQ
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I'm playing song A. While it's playing, I browse around and find song
B. I click the ADD button. While song A is *still* playing, I
browse around some more and find song C. I click the ADD button.
Now, when song A is finished, I would expect song B to start, but
it doesn't. Song C starts. Song B
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Weller wrote:
Even when they are synchronised the next problem you'll probably
experience is that they no longer display the correct track details,
Has anyone been working on this problem? The reason I'm asking is that
I'm using the 6.2.2 nightly from the
tyler_durden Wrote:
The SB3 uses a vacuum fluorescent display- the same thing that is used
for clock and counter display in most VCRs. I have old VCRs where the
display has faded to barely visible. I would expect the same thing to
happen to the SB3 display over time. By that time you will
Interesting that the little video implies that Pandora and Squeezebox
are linked somehow. Isn't the Pandora plugin just something a third
party made available? i.e. No legal relationship to Slim Devices.
Otherwise, nice to see it get an enthusiastic review from Mr. Pogue.
- Jasen.
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PAUL WILLIAMSON Wrote:
Who the hell is this guy Joe 6-Pack I keep hearing about?
And why is he concerned about audio quality while he's drunk?
I doubt most Joe 6-Pack's give 2 hoots about audio quality, and
even less about a computer.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/16/06 8:17 PM
snarlydwarf Wrote:
Interesting.
Most people I know have hundreds (if not thousands) of CDs and at
least decent stereos. They listen to music all the time. I would
love
to see a Squeezebox in all of their homes but it has to be a bit
easier
to set up
Dan,
I am using window's XP. Err - the file is kind of big - i tried
uploading to the FTP site - how do you do it? :P sorry for asking such
a basic question.
alvin
Dan Sully Wrote:
* alvinlim shaped the electrons to say...
How do I get the Squeezebox 3 to display thai language? I read
JohnQuirk Wrote:
While we're talking Jukeboxes, somone posted a link to a Mac only
jukebox front end that worked like a conventional jukebox, displaying
album art on a rolodex type display. I have searched the forms, but
can't find it anywhere. Anyone remember what it was called?
This
oktup Wrote:
This isn't CoverFlow again is it? :)
http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/
Thanks very much, I'd tried googling for all manner of stuff, but it's
just not a name that sticks in my mind for some reason.
I really like this interface, it'd be perfect if I could get it on a
770 web
OK ... this is going to be a hard one to pin down I think. But any
help/advice appreciated.
I have recently started using the multiple items in tags feature with a
semicolon (;) delimitor. In a few istances this is in the artist field,
and that appears to be working well.
In my genre field
Thats because you can either add at end of list or add next ... I seem
to recall that a add-and-hold gets you the latter, which is what you're
reporting.
Try a little experimentation, and have a look in the default.map file
for clues.
Either that or there's a bug and you're getting the wrong
It also gives you a display message when you add next, or add to end of
playlist - so watch what it says!
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funkstar Wrote:
The old VCRs are obviously also using old designs of screens, so who
knows, the modern graphical one in the SB2/3 may last a lot longer,
just like motern TVs and plasmas are less prone to burn in etc. So it
might be the SB20 with holographic projection you replace it with ;)
Patrick Dixon Wrote:
It also gives you a display message when you add next, or add to end of
playlist - so watch what it says!
Ahh...
Well, that's a problem because I'm right on the verge of needing
glasses, and from where I sit, the screen is kind of blurry blue-green
goo.
I have been
For historical reasons, a bare number in the genre field is
interpretated as a short cut for one of a short list of standard
genres.
It isn't clear what semi-colon support (a non-standard Slim thing) has
done to this support.
You may be tripping over this feature.
In this old standard, 12 was
The white SB3's were supposed to come with white remotes.
Interesting that the little video implies that Pandora and Squeezebox
are linked somehow. Isn't the Pandora plugin just something a third
party made available? i.e. No legal relationship to Slim Devices.
There is no Pandora plugin,
It also gives you a display message when you add next, or add
to end of playlist - so watch what it says!
Funny, but I was noticing this morning (whilst building a rather large
Last.fm seed playlist) that sometimes the text displayed and sometimes it
didn't.
Simon
jonheal Wrote:
W! I don't wnat glasses!!
So this really was a case of the blind leading the blind!!
Ceejay
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Disclaimer: I am not your lawyer. I am not an expert in copyright law.
This message is a gross overgeneralization.
Put this in context. The RIAA and MPAA do not like the results of two
court decisions, Universal v. Sony, 464 U.S. 417 (1984) (the Betamax
Case) and RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia,
I have wife and teenagers that demand easy and simple.. go figure :-)
I have a denon receiver in a hall closet, near our kitchen and family
room. Our music is played to speakers in both of these rooms. My
music server is in a back bedroom. I use 802.11g throught the house.
I need a setup
We had 3 SB3s synched all day yesterday, and they stayed in perfect
synch. I think the track details worked correctly, too, though I
wasn't paying a lot of attention to that.
I think it's a useful feature. It works well in our setup with wired
hardware all of the same generation.
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On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:55:09 -0800
SMWinnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Disclaimer: I am not your lawyer. I am not an expert in copyright law.
This message is a gross overgeneralization.
Put this in context. The RIAA and MPAA do not like the results of two
court decisions, Universal v.
Now that folks have had a chance to mess around with Pandora, are there
distinct differences between these two services? Should I pay for
Last.fm or wait for a free trial of Pandora? What are the pros and
cons of each?
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MeSue Wrote:
For the most varitey of ways for browsing a music collection, J River
Media Center for Windows is about the best I have found. But dammit, it
doesn't talk to SlimServer. My Workaround is to browse in JRMC, drag
drop what I want into MusicMagic, and send it to the SB from there.
My slimserver wouldn't work when I installed it while my antivirus
program was running.
I exited / disabled my antivirus program, reintsalled Slimserver, and
now it works fine, regardless of whether the antivirus program is
running or not.
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I do have quite a number of squeezeboxen lying about, so I might well
have just picked up another remote and left the one in the box by
mistake, but I *think* I would have noticed a white remote. or
else I'm more asleep than I thought
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I find that LastFM plays me a slightly wider variety of music, but often
from less popular (not in the pop music sense) bands. I also find
LastFM a bit more flexible because of the multi-user tagging system, so
I can say...play me all the songs that people have tagged as good songs
to listen
My SB2 and SB3 both exhibiting the same problem in my new network
environment.
I try to connect them and they fail to find the server. Subsequently,
whenever I power down and then back up, the SB's don't start up
properly - the scrolling Squeezebox startup screen stops half way
disappears. The
I have fixed this now, as my cable modem and the squuezebox are in the
same room. I have just swapped the connections round, so instead of my
internet connection going via a cable upstairs to my computer room, it
now goes via the Homeplugs and the Squeezebox uses the orginal cable.
Has been
* alvinlim shaped the electrons to say...
I am using window's XP. Err - the file is kind of big - i tried
uploading to the FTP site - how do you do it? :P sorry for asking such
a basic question.
Internet Explorer should be able to drag and drop a file into the 'incoming'
folder.
-D
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I know the connection from end to end is good, as I can plug a pc inand connect back via the switch to the router.
Any thoughts on how to diagnose/fix?Does your PC use 100mbit or 10mbit? It could be that your cabling somewhere is marginal Another suggestion is to make sure your switch and/or
Siduhe Wrote:
Also, you don't have to subscribe to LastFM to get the benefits - there
is a totally free option, but you don't get things like personal radio.
How much better are the subsciption features than the free service?
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my library contains 5704 albums with 26028 songs by 4549 artists is ~120
gigs in size and Slim server 6.2.1 is very slow.
i have a Dual 3gig Xeon box, 2gigs of memory and an old school slimp3
with the latest FW running at 128Kbs. i am on an Ethernet network and
the cables are fine.
my system's
2006-02-17 20:21:07.7458 install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't locate
DBD/mysql.pm
in @INC (@INC contains: C:\program files\slimserver\server\Plugins
c:/program f
iles/slimserver/server C:\program files\slimserver\server\CPAN
C:\program files\
http://www.last.fm/subscribe.php#features
I think it kind of depends what you're into. I have pretty eclectic
tastes (although doesn't everyone say that ?) and I have very definite
musical moods. So, I use the Personal Radio, Personal Tag Radio (i.e.
Saturday night songs or songs which use the
jasenj1 Wrote:
Since SlimDevice's product depends on copying CDs (and other sources) to
computers, I think this opinion from the RIAA that such copying is not
fair use is rather relevant to those of us with Squeezeboxes.
It's probbaly more of a reaction to Apple and the success they have had
I'm hoping someone can offer some advice on this - I've searched through
every post I can find on exbrowse3 and can't find report of a similar
issue.
I love the Exbrowse3 skin and have used it pretty much exclusively
since it was released. Unfortunately when I add an album into the
playlist the
bradesp Wrote:
Have you seen any noise over at the Media Center forums about possible
implementation of a plug-in for SB to work with Media Center? That
would be awesome for me since that's what I use now as my jukebox.
Seems like there are quite a few people who use both, but no plugin as
It looks like today Sirius changed the URL on where they stream their
Internet channels from. They're no longer doing it in house--
probably in anticipation of Stern streams being offered online. As
such, I don't think the current plugin beta will stream properly since
it pulls from the old
On 2/17/06, moonsammy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my library contains 5704 albums with 26028 songs by 4549 artists is ~120gigs in size and Slim server 6.2.1 is very slow.You should probably consider switching over the MySQL for your database needs.
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SlimServer 6.2.2 and OS Windows XP SP2
And what revision of 6.2.2? There should be a number at the bottom of the
first Settings page.
Are you running the latest nightly?
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Hi everyone,
I had an english assignment to make an ad for a real product. I chose
Slim Devices Squeezebox and put it together in Gimp. The slogan is
Squeezebox. Start a Fresh. So i chos a grayish to white gradient
symbolizing the old fading ou to the new. Hope you like it, im
certainly proud of
The thing that jumps out at me is that all of your text is one size.
There's nothing to attract your eye. Make your slogan much larger so
it will stand out. I also find the text hard to read against the
background. Making it all bigger would help, and you might want to
change the color to
Hi
I'm finding that using the standard/mainstream Genre classification for
my music is wholly inadequate in that there are many different styles of
music under a single Genre, if I'm in the mood for listening to Nirvana,
that doesn't mean I'm also in the mood for Yngwie J Malmsteen! Most of
my
Druw Wrote:
thanks for the suggestions, are you sure its one word?
Absolutely. I was a newspaper editor for 15 years. See this link:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/afresh If it's for English class, you
want to have the spelling correct.
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Thanks alot. Im editing it right now. Do you know where i can find the
Slim Devices font?
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Druw Wrote:
Hi everyone,
I had an english assignment to make an ad for a real product. I chose
Slim Devices Squeezebox and put it together in Gimp. The slogan is
Squeezebox. Start a Fresh. So i chos a grayish to white gradient
symbolizing the old fading ou to the new. Hope you like it, im
I have to say that after trying both I really like last.fm better. One
thing that irritates me about Pandora is that it won't let you skip
beyond a certain number of tracks an hour, which is extremely
irritating if you are just listening to new stuff to get a feel for it.
Last.fm sets up a very
Also consider going to the 6.2.2 beta version. They put some code in
there to counter one of the big performance issues of the web
interface, that is, re-counting the number of items in a large library
every time you display a web page.
That line that says Your library contains 32,000 songs by
I'd still make your slogan a little bigger, especially considering what
MrC says. It's in about the right spot on the page. Looking much
better, though. Great idea posting it here. Nice work.
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this is definitely a hack since I'm only slightly aware of what I'm
doing. Please be aware, I'm only slightly aware of what I'm doing, but
I really like the Exbrowse3 skin, so I wanted something, and this seems
to work. So unzip the attached to /server/HTML/ExBrowse3. Restart
SlimServer, make
Nice idea.
I'm not too excited by the web interface skin choices. What apps are
out there to edit/create new skins?
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fairyliquidizer Wrote:
Ok, I've gone off topic sorry.
Fairy
That's OK. I like MMM, too, but I'm a little concerned about the
duplicate tracks that are starting to show up when I call up an album.
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Kyle's
Kyle Wrote:
That's OK. I like MMM, too, but I'm a little concerned about the
duplicate tracks that are starting to show up when I call up an album.
What the heck is MMM?
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If you want a sharper logo (or other cool photos) look on this page:
http://www.slimdevices.com/au_press.html
My comments: The grey background/red text combo is a bit hard to read
towards the top and you might want to give the text a bit of space on
the left hand side (by moving the text to the
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What the heck is MMM?
MusicMagic Mixer
see http://music.predixis.com
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OK, I'm game.
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One thing I forgot to mention is that there are even scrobbler plugins
for iPod, Rio Karma and other music players for last.fm. This is
really cool as when I synch my iPod it uploads a list of all tracks
I've listened to so that last.fm can add it to my user profile.
...
that is the
I had the same issue with a similar library and a much lower spec
machine. 6.2.2 solved it with only some minor performance lags. I
also reduced library rescan to 0 (turned off) and just manually rescan
when I need to, as the rescan causes some performance lag.
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Weird - I didn't have to subscribe to anything. However, my email
client's security settings wouldn't allow me to click on the link so I
copied and pasted it into Firefox 1.5.Survey took about 3 minutes
(not the 10 to 15 they estimated).
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On the 3rd paragraph you didn't capitalize the S in Squeezebox, and
you made it two seperate words when it should be one. Also, the 3rd
paragraph feels grammatically cumbersome - you used multiple commas
when a semicolon might be more appropriate. For instance, you said:
Fit your Squeezebox
I have no problem paying for *ONE* CD. However, no one better *dare*
tell me what I can and cannot do with that copy for my own personal
use.
As a musician myself, I feel the RIAA can burn in hell.
In fact, I cast a *-jihad-* on them. May all of Islam rise up and
strike them down.
;-)
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I was glad to see a video review of the SB; I feel it doesn't get enough
promotion out there. But...
David Pogue annoys me, and worse yet - this particular review was
dirtied by a crappy English accent. I was embarrassed for him. It
made me want to club him like a baby seal.
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