thomsens;168812 Wrote:
This is the no brainer. I add some music and want to listen to it now.
But, I have to wait until all 12000 songs are re-scanned. Same deal
with playlists. It seems they get verified when imported.
You don't have to scan the whole of your music files again. Via the
I hold down the button for a
few seconds and let off and it goes to 2x scanning speed (which is much
too slow to be useful). I hit play and it will start playing fine.
However if I am at 2x and want to go to 4x and I press and hold
again, it will usually go to 4x, but it seems to jump forward
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JJZolx;168672 Wrote:
From a sales and marketing standpoint, it would be incredibly
shortsighted not to pursue support for DRM. There are realities of the
marketplace that dictate what features a product in a certain niche must
have.
Quite so. The average man in the street who buys some
Hello!
Since i've upgraded to the newest server Scanner.exe is crashing again
and again and again. I've tried to clear libary and rescan but i just
keep getting the windows error message that tells me that Scanner.exe
has encounter a problem
Error Signatur:
szAppName : scanner.exe szAppVer
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JJZolx;168672 Wrote:
From a sales and marketing standpoint, it would be incredibly
shortsighted not to pursue support for DRM. There are realities of the
marketplace that dictate what features a product in a certain niche must
have.
Quite so. The average man in the
I'd like to see a web interface for slimserver that resembles what you
get with orb 2.0.
What's orb 2.0?
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Hi,
Does anyone know of any companies in the UK that can repair
Squeezeboxes?
I have a SB 1 that has just died, no power, nothing. I've bought SB 3
just to survive but would like to try and getting my original one
working again.
Thanks
bte
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There is no way to do this currently. I guess a plugin could be written
to do this.
I think this has come up before, but some poeple get twitchy about the
implications of this. Especially when you can make the SlimServer
interface available online really easily.
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bytheedge wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know of any companies in the UK that can repair
Squeezeboxes?
I have a SB 1 that has just died, no power, nothing. I've bought SB 3
just to survive but would like to try and getting my original one
working again.
It will probably cost you more to get it
SD would also need to replace the perspex over the screen, pretty sure
that can't be white :)
Making it clear would expose some of the internals ans would probably
look a little home made if you ask me.
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kdf;168593 Wrote:
On 9-Jan-07, at 7:09 AM, hunta wrote:
SadGamerGeek;168520 Wrote:
I'll attempt to RTFM next time..
Does such a thing exist?
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AlbumArtwork
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?ToolsAlbumArt
simple thing: use Tag
ron thigpen;168315 Wrote:
The new proc looks to have a DSP, and real hardware FPU (very useful for
A/V codecs) and posts (notably bogus, and a single test, but...)
BogoMIPS of 320.37 vs 125.76 from the 770.
Now that is interesting. Especially when another new feature is uPnP
client support
Did you ever figure out how to get this working?
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funkstar;168868 Wrote:
Any ideas what DSP functions are available? Hardware MPEG-2/4
acceleration? Video scaling? both of those would make a massive
difference to the usability as media device.
Here's the Texas Instruments spec sheet for the OMAP 2420:
Peter;163189 Wrote:
Configure IP filters on your router and only allow certain IP addresses
in. That's perfectly secure and fairly easy to set up, provided your
'clients' have static ip's.
Regards,
Peter
I have had 3 different routers (Linksys, Netgear and now a US Robotics)
and I
I upgraded from slimserver 6.2.2 to 6.5 last night. I did this because I
wanted to be able to use the new Sirius plugin that is only supported in
slimserver versions 6.3. After install of the new 6.5 slimserver and
install of the Sirius plugin, I picked a skin and kicked everything
off. When I
I imagine you could use something like ShoutCAST or Icecast to stream
the MusicMatch playlist to the SB. I found a couple of links that
suggest that this is possible: -When MusicMatch is properly
configured, you can use Icecast, M3U, Shoutcast, and ASF/ASX (a
Microsoft video compression format-.
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I have my music stored (as FLAC) on a simple windows 2000 PC stuck to my
garage wall. I'm buying a laptop for the first time, and I'm stuck on a
Macbook. I'm also planning on buying a ipod as it now supports gapless
playback.
I want a mp3/aac version of my entire music library on the laptop
Hi, it appears that slimserver is looking for iTunes Music library.xml
but iTunes (since I don't know when) uses iTunes Library.xml. A link
does not work to solve this.
I tried searching the forums to see if this issue has been brought up,
but the search appears to be broken.
Is this a known
I'm not sure if you applied replay gain normilization/sound level tags
to your music/MP3's but if you have SmartGain turned on you'll
generally experience lower sound levels across the board.
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I converted all my FLAC files to MP3 using the appropriately named
FLAC2MP3 script. Do a search around here and you will find how to do
it. Basically you set it running and forget about it until it is
finished (a couple of days for 5,000 songs). Point iTunes at your new
MP3 diectory and you are
Does the I in the Iphone stand for idiot?
As in : only an idiot would pay that much for a phone that doesn't do
as much as a smart phone which can be almost free with a contract?
Idiotphone: no user replacable battery, locked sim card that is
probably harder to unlock than any other phone(or
It does have wi-fi.
Looks great to me apart from the phone bit - I don't need that at all!
James
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slimrick;168879 Wrote:
I upgraded from slimserver 6.2.2 to 6.5 last night. I did this because I
wanted to be able to use the new Sirius plugin that is only supported in
slimserver versions 6.3. After install of the new 6.5 slimserver and
install of the Sirius plugin, I picked a skin and
On 10-Jan-07, at 5:50 AM, hunta wrote:
- Another source of duplicates was the MusicIP cache. Tracks need to be
rescanned and any updated tags (=new tracks) validated. SS seems to
hang
on to the track in the MusicIP cache as mixable with the new version
also showing as unmixable until this is
One small error in this article is the statement ...any sonic
compromises resulting from the use of my WiFi network to transmit audio
data around the home were minimal. It should state that any sonic
compromises using WiFi are non-existent. Digital is digital regardless
of whether you're
In general, I hate cell phones, and wouldn't mind too much if a law were
passed allowing one to shoot annoying cell phone users on sight. I also
grow weary of Mac zealots that equate Steve Jobs with Jesus Christ
reach for the torches and pitchforks if anyone utters the slightest
misgiving about
I had this issue when I first got my Squeezeboxes over a year ago. I
eventually gave up on using WOL for precisely this reason and run my
server 24/7 instead.
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It is not true at all that all the HD are the same in term of
reliability.
Also between the same brand there is a lot of variability in the MTBF
(Mean Time Before Failure) between different models.
MTBF is rating indicating the expected number of power on hours (POH)
before failure will occur.
Interesting comment in the review:
In a poll on our website last September, 25% of respondents felt that
the magazine was losing the plot with its coverage of music-server
devices such as the Squeezebox. Rich Foster's response was typical: I
don't mind you covering things like [the Sonos
Heuer wrote:
I converted all my FLAC files to MP3 using the appropriately named
FLAC2MP3 script. Do a search around here and you will find how to do
it.
There are several. Mine is here:
http://robinbowes.com/projects/flac2mp3
I'm on the verge of releasing a new version - the last
sdevans;168893 Wrote:
I have my music stored (as FLAC) on a simple windows 2000 PC stuck to my
garage wall. I'm buying a laptop for the first time, and I'm stuck on a
Macbook. I'm also planning on buying a ipod as it now supports gapless
playback.
I want a mp3/aac version of my entire
Mark Lanctot;168927 Wrote:
There are some hard-core audiophiles that dislike any sort of wireless
or computer-based media streamer. It's a philosophical thing and at
this point does not reflect technological reality - any more so than
cables, but let's not open that 10-ton can of worms.
sdevans;168893 Wrote:
I have my music stored (as FLAC) on a simple windows 2000 PC stuck to my
garage wall. I'm buying a laptop for the first time, and I'm stuck on a
Macbook. I'm also planning on buying a ipod as it now supports gapless
playback.
I want a mp3/aac version of my entire
Craig, James (IT);168914 Wrote:
It does have wi-fi
It does, but it's not possible to download media except by a connection
to a Mac/PC. The WiFi seems to be solely for web browsing, although the
problem with WiFi outside the home is the lack of roaming agreements
between WiFi providers.
It's
jonheal wrote:
In general, I hate cell phones, and wouldn't mind too much if a law were
passed allowing one to shoot annoying cell phone users on sight. I also
grow weary of Mac zealots that equate Steve Jobs with Jesus Christ
reach for the torches and pitchforks if anyone utters the slightest
Mark Lanctot wrote:
Interesting comment in the review:
In a poll on our website last September, 25% of respondents felt that
the magazine was losing the plot with its coverage of music-server
devices such as the Squeezebox. Rich Foster's response was typical: I
don't mind you covering
snarlydwarf;168939 Wrote:
Hrrm, I guess worms would conduct and therefore be possible to be used
as cables, but I am unclear on where to get a 10-ton can of them, and
how to keep them alive.
I don't know if feeding audio current through them would keep them
alive but it might make their
CardinalFang;168945 Wrote:
It does, but it's not possible to download media except by a connection
to a Mac/PC. The WiFi seems to be solely for web browsing, although the
problem with WiFi outside the home is the lack of roaming agreements
between WiFi providers.
Widgets (as shown)
According to Wired Magazine the battery is NOT user replaceable.
That alone is reason enough for me to not buy it.
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tomjtx;168955 Wrote:
I don't know if feeding audio current through them would keep them alive
but it might make their lives more interesting until they die.
So even 10 tons of worm cable need a burn in time?
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Let me chime in on this:
Songs should be played as they are on a cd.
Par example: When I'm listening to Pink Floyd's The Wall, There is no
audible division between the songs. There should be no extra gaps
between the songs.
I just switched from Slimserver version 6.5.0 to version 6.5.1 and at
the
Peter;168948 Wrote:
jonheal wrote:
In general, I hate cell phones, and wouldn't mind too much if a law
were
passed allowing one to shoot annoying cell phone users on sight. I
also
grow weary of Mac zealots that equate Steve Jobs with Jesus Christ
reach for the torches and pitchforks
For best gapless results you should really use FLAC or Ogg. For MP3's
make sure they were encoded with LAME and that you do a full wipe and
rescan to pick up the right gapless data.
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CCRDude;168956 Wrote:
Widgets (as shown) obviously need the ability to communicate online, how
else could the Weather app show its data? And the Google Maps app...
would you call that web browsing? Looked like a dedicated app. And
then, it's MacOSX.
I specifically said media, as in music,
I used to have my system set up so I could press-and-hold the 7 button
and it would start a random track mix. I know it was an edit in the
default.map file, but I've recently re-built my server, didn't back up
the default.map file and now can't remember the syntax for the file.
I've had a
snarlydwarf;168962 Wrote:
So even 10 tons of worm cable need a burn in time?
Burn out or burn up might be a more accurate description
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Anyone use software to convert their MP3's? I've got about 100Gb of
MP3's, mostly in 320kbps and I want to create a copy of them in 128kbps
for use on my laptop/iPod etc.
I've seen plenty of software that'll convert the MP3's to a different
bitrate, but they all seem to only allow selection of a
CardinalFang;168971 Wrote:
Time magazine, engadget, gizmodo
I watched the updates on engadget yesterday getting updated and updated
and updated... I assume we speak about this here?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone
Where exactly does it tell about batteries or memory
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Perhaps I may be wrong here, but I'm not sure this is such a good idea.
Won't you be compounding compression artifacts by re-compressing an
already-compressed file?
Again, I may be wrong on this.
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tomjtx;168909 Wrote:
no user replacable battery
If this is true (and I realise it's open to question) it's criminal
considering the unbelievably and extremely crap battery Apple put in
the third generation iPod. 500 UK Pounds for a music player that played
good quality mp3s for only two hours
Ross L;168997 Wrote:
Search works fine for me.
Try a search with iTunes Music library with or without the quotes.
Blank page.
Steve.
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Search works fine for me.
By default I'm pretty sure iTunes calls it 'iTunes music library.xml'.
Have you tried searching your computer?
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Sure, it would be compounding the compression artifacts, but for
playback on a laptop or iPod the loss in sound quality might not be
that noticeable. Especially when weighed against the cost of re-ripping
everything!
You need something like Robin Bowes' flac2mp3.pl perl script, except
modified
iTunes 7 uses 'iTunes Music Library.xml'.
Steve.
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ModelCitizen wrote:
tomjtx;168909 Wrote:
no user replacable battery
If this is true (and I realise it's open to question) it's criminal
considering the unbelievably and extremely crap battery Apple put in
the third generation iPod. 500 UK Pounds for a music player that played
good quality
aubuti;168999 Wrote:
Or try the brute force approach: Load your backup copy of the music
library (you do have a backup, don't you?) into foobar2000, and convert
all of them to 128. Then re-backup the 320kbps version after the
conversion finishes.
No need to do that. Just load the 320kbps
Robin Bowes;168864 Wrote:
It will probably cost you more to get it repaired than to buy a new
one.
R.
... especially if you are happy with an SB1 and can find one on ebay...
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Robin Bowes;169010 Wrote:
I still can't believe you bought those bird flu protection kits at £30 a
pop. :)
R.I'm not sure of the relevance of that Robin but bird flu is still
bubbling under and history pretty much shows that it is inevitable that
a pandemic will occur.. so £30 for some
Who says they have to be alive? THAT should be an interesting ABX, as
well as smelly!
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Has anyone tried soldering RCA jacks on Cat-5 to make a really long
(100ft) digital coax cable?
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It won't work without baluns.
Something like this would give you the right impedance match:
http://www.svideo.com/500021.html
It's hard to say how far you might be able to go... would depend on the
s/pdif circuitry on either end, the quality of the cable, and the
environment in which it is
So, there are a couple of CDs that are UNPLAYABLE on SS because of this
problem. It's definitely pointing to the call to QuickTime (mov123)
and a delay in processing in the first 350ms.
My ONLY way around this is to re-encode from AAC to 320k MP3 using
iTunes. I can't get any Mac based FLAC
jonheal;169022 Wrote:
Has anyone tried soldering RCA jacks on Cat-5 to make a really long
(100ft) digital coax cable?
You'll need to use a balun at each end to get the signals right. I've
used them before for video with amazing results.
http://www.svideo.com/500020.html
-Greg
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You'd almost be better off converting to AES and back to SPDIF. AES can
go 330 meters with the proper cabling.
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Thx to the CTRL F5 trick my slim server is now a vivid array of colours
- i've never seen it look quite that good, dunno whats been happening
for the last 3 months but i have never been able to load a theme
correctly, until now
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The problem is EXCLUSIVE to AAC files converting to LAME to stream to
SB/TP. My ALAC (Apple Lossless) files do NOT have the problem.
SD... can we figure this out, PLEASE?!
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i got an email from support saying they have the IR module and also a
replacement screen since my screen is dead too. since i work nearby
they said i can stop by and pick them up. i just got back with my
replacement parts. now that is customer service!!!
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SteveEast;169005 Wrote:
iTunes 7 uses 'iTunes Music Library.xml'.
Steve.
I am using iTunes7 and when I add musc to my library iTunes
Library.xml gets updated. iTunes Music Library.xml which is what
slimserver is looking at, does not get updated. I have copied my
iTunes Library.xml to a
kdf;168986 Wrote:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16091highlight=random+default+map
Is your Random Mix plugin for 6.2 equivalent to the random playlist
functionality in 6.5.1? I couldn't find it at
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginsAudio
Do you still access it with:
ModelCitizen wrote:
Robin Bowes;169010 Wrote:
I still can't believe you bought those bird flu protection kits at £30 a
pop. :)
R.I'm not sure of the relevance of that Robin but bird flu is still
bubbling under and history pretty much shows that it is inevitable that
a pandemic will occur..
I just checked a second PC running iTunes 7 and it's using iTunes Music
Library.xml.
I had assumed iTunes kept this info in the registry, but a registry
search doesn't find it on my PC. Still, you might want to try
deinstalling and reinstalling iTunes - that's been known to work for
esoteric
Quoting morberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Do you still access it with:
7.hold = modefunction_PLUGIN.RandomPlay::Plugin-tracks
8.hold = modefunction_PLUGIN.RandomPlay::Plugin-albums
9.hold = modefunction_PLUGIN.RandomPlay::Plugin-artists
even though its no longer a plugin?
it's still a plugin; it's
I am not sure that the FLAC problem is the same bug that was discussed
before regarding ALAC.
I am one of the people who had clipping of the end of certain tracks.
SD support gave me a fix that solved the ALAC problem (in SS 6.5.1) by
revamping a file and using an older translator.
Since then,
SteveEast;168941 Wrote:
330,000 POH is roughly 37 years. I can cope with that. When you double
an extremely small chance of failure, you still get an extremely small
chance of failure.
Steve.
It's sort of like lottery tickets. Your chances of winning are almost
exactly the same whether
I was about to buy a Transporter, too, until I saw that it didn't
natively support wma lossless (in the forum). I think that the
SlimDevices help files are very unclear on this issue. Not all
slimserver builds can transcode wma lossless (I am thinking of the
Infrant NAS running Linux). When I
I've used 75 ohm coax cable with an F to RCA adapter at each end.
Correct impedence, works great, and is inexpensive.
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Mark Lanctot;168927 Wrote:
There are some hard-core audiophiles that dislike any sort of wireless
or computer-based media streamer. It's a philosophical thing and at
this point does not reflect technological reality - any more so than
cables, but let's not open that 10-ton can of worms.
Hi there,
Thinking about getting a NAS for all my music files. i currently am
running a pc tower with a USB hookup to an external drive for my music
files. The PC is wired to my router and the Squeezebox runs
wirelessly. I basically want the NAS to replace the external HD. I
can't connect
For the best audiophile results, they really need to be _silkworms_
suffocated first in a vacuum chamber. Of course, the vacuum must have
been created using a diffusion pump, and only krytox will do as the
pump oil.
:)
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Hrrm, I guess worms would conduct and therefore be possible to be used
as cables, but I am unclear on where to get a 10-ton can of them, and
how to keep them alive.
These worms are kept alive with a constant and liberal dose of horse
manure.
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NAS is Network Attached Storage. You'd connect it to your router with an
Ethernet cable in the same way your PC is attached.
Steve.
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I have successfully used 75 ohm coax (cable TV wire) to transmit S/PDIF
over a run of more than 200 feet.
However, any wire you use (coax or Cat5) cannot be carrying any other
signal at the time. And if you are using Cat5, it cannot be connected
to any active networking devices (no routers,
The Smokester wrote:
Hrrm, I guess worms would conduct and therefore be possible to be used
as cables, but I am unclear on where to get a 10-ton can of them, and
how to keep them alive.
These worms are kept alive with a constant and liberal dose of horse
manure.
I'm sorry, but that's a
SteveEast;169105 Wrote:
NAS is Network Attached Storage. You'd connect it to your router with an
Ethernet cable in the same way your PC is attached.
Steve.
No connection necessary to the PC?
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Thanks Ross.
I get this result (regardless whether slim.exe is running or not):
C:\C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe -remove
OpenService failed: The specified service does not exist as an
installed service
C:\C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe -install
slimsvc installed as
I'm just got my SB two days ago, and I love it, but Live365 is not
recognizing my password in Slimserver, and as a result I'm not getting
the VIP member benefits. When I go to server-settings/internet radio,
enter my live365 password, and then hit change, if I then back out of
that page and come
Again, the problem is NOT with LOSSLESS files but with AAC (Apple's own
'better then LAME' concept) that must use QuickTime to convert prior to
LAME converting for the server. In most cases, the first 350ms is lost
in the conversion, i.e. FIRST NOTE MISSING.
As I've mentioned before, Apple
That didn't fix it (didn't think so after the -remove command line
response).
Still in the starting stage...
Any other suggestions?
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Have disabled Norton auto-protect and Norton Internet security
altogether. Still crashes.
Installed the latest nightly build. Still crashes.
Thought some device (like disk array) might be powering down, but have
all of those settings set to Never turn off.
Have also tried setting all the server
Spotted an 800 in the wild (compUsa). The first thing that caught my
attention were scratches on the display. After attempting to rub the
marks off to no avail, I lightly scraped the display with my thumbnail
and sure enough it was permanently marked. I do mean lightly too.
They had the 770 next
Only indirectly, via Ethernet and your router. Typically you administer
them through their web interface.
Steve.
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We have all brands of Mobile Phones,Ipods,Sidekicks,Nextels
phone,Laptops
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I've been working the opposite direction re-ripping my CDs to flac as I
had previously ripped to mp3. When I get a new CD now, I rip both a
flac copy and an mp3 copy, correct tags on both and store them in
separate directories. Itunes looks only at the mp3 directory and I let
it organize things
Seems this is old hat. I was looking in the wrong forum.
An uninstall, then a reinstall fixed it. Thanks.
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tmarino;169126 Wrote:
I've been working the opposite direction re-ripping my CDs to flac as I
had previously ripped to mp3. When I get a new CD now, I rip both a
flac copy and an mp3 copy, correct tags on both and store them in
separate directories. Itunes looks only at the mp3 directory and
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