Re: [slim] Now Playing not keeping up

2008-03-02 Thread brdbointx
I noticed that slack.com stations are not accurately updating on the now playing screen. For example I had on the Depeche Mode station. First song was Prescious. This showed up/ If you right arrow over for more info and arrow down it showed the next song would be by the cure. When the next song

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-03-02 Thread pichonCalavera
pricebrad Wrote: I'm just not sure the SBC idea, while a good one, will be appealing to a whole lot of folks at that price point. If you could ALSO make an iPhone/iPod Touch interface for controlling SqueezeCenter, that would open up a lot more potential sales of SqueezeBox3 and

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-03-02 Thread SilverRS8
A new idea to solve this? We have playlists ofcourse where we create different once for each family member but isn't it a good idea to have Genre playlists/filters? Meaning the playlis/filterst would only consist of the in/exclusion of genres not actual tracks. This way you could create a

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-03-02 Thread killie99
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Re: [slim] Protecting Wireless Network From Intruders

2008-03-02 Thread danco
Pat Farrell;274387 Wrote: Only up to a point. Longer is only better if there is more entropy. Using four score and seven years ago, our forefathers... has about the same security as a three character password. The fundamental problem with passwords is that if they are strong, no

Re: [slim] Googlemail on Squeezebox - RSS / POP3

2008-03-02 Thread Siduhe
Did you try searching the forums? This has come up a number of times before. IIRC the authentication which Gmail requires poses additional challenges to getting the email via the email checker plugin. Not sure if you are running Windows, Mac or Linux but you may want to look at 'this thread'

[slim] Googlemail on Squeezebox - RSS / POP3

2008-03-02 Thread Suwarrow
Does anyone know how to get Googlemail (or any Pop3 email) onto the Squeezebox? I know Googlemail has an RSS Feed but I can't seem to input this feed into the RSS display on the Squeezebox. There is also an 'Email Checker Plugin' but the link doesn't work at the moment. Any suggestions?

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-03-02 Thread SilverRS8
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Re: [slim] Fast-forward/rewind redesign

2008-03-02 Thread muvster
The one thing I really miss at the moment is the ability to jump around in transcoded material by clicking in the SqueezeCenter track timeline (like I can for native streams). Whatever changes are made to FF/REW functionality, I'd be very happy if only support for that was added. I agree that

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-03-02 Thread Marc Sherman
mvalera wrote: Please see my announcement at the top of each forum for details on the delay. I'll post the manual as soon as I get a final one. Hey, Mike, please remember that some of us read this as a mailing list. Forum announcements don't get gated to the mailing list. Posting a

Re: [slim] Duet ETA?

2008-03-02 Thread Marc Sherman
JimC wrote: Actually, everyone who preordered gets *free* shipping, upgraded to Next Day (or Worldwide Express). We are really sorry about the delay and figured we would pick up the tab for shipping AND upgrade it, as well. What, no pony? :) - Marc

Re: [slim] Duet ETA?

2008-03-02 Thread Juliozaffo
I'll take a miniature Shetland. -- Juliozaffo Juliozaffo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15512 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43658

Re: [slim] Playlists all missing

2008-03-02 Thread dgstrat
Any other thoughts? Also, the displays on both Squeezeboxes are blank now when they're powered off. It's not the brightness button. Also date and time is checked off in settings wehn powered off.Lots of weird things are happening. -- dgstrat

Re: [slim] Protecting Wireless Network From Intruders

2008-03-02 Thread tamanaco
I love these discussions on network security... Some of my thoughts... - Don't spend $0.26 worth of time/money to protect $0.25 - The weakest link to your valuables is probably not the technology you're using to protect your wireless network. Perspective for the paranoid... most people pay

Re: [slim] Duet ETA?

2008-03-02 Thread Balthazar_B
...and I'll take a supersized Clydesdale :). -- Balthazar_B Balthazar_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7366 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43658

Re: [slim] Transporter knob seems bust.

2008-03-02 Thread Rodney_Gold
Any knob , detented or not , that takes the amount of effort to turn that mine does is either an ergonomic disaster or broken , it requires excessive force to turn , so much that my fingers are slipping on the knob. I can not believe this is at all normal , not one pice of equipment with knobs I

Re: [slim] Protecting Wireless Network From Intruders

2008-03-02 Thread Peter
tamanaco wrote: I love these discussions on network security... Some of my thoughts... - Don't spend $0.26 worth of time/money to protect $0.25 - The weakest link to your valuables is probably not the technology you're using to protect your wireless network. Perspective for the paranoid...

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-03-02 Thread MillmoorRon
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Re: [slim] Playlists all missing

2008-03-02 Thread Siduhe
You don't give much information about your system - XP, Mac, Linux, Slimserver 6.5.x or Squeezecenter 7.0? Itunes Playlists can be a bit tricky sometimes with Slimserver. It's important to check you have the right itunes .xml file input into Slimserver. There's a few other suggestions in the

Re: [slim] Transporter knob seems bust.

2008-03-02 Thread Ben Sandee
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Rodney_Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SuperQ , quit the patronization and please don't assume I'm an idiot with your responses , this cannot be at all normal and I'm asking for a solution , not to be told that its all in my mind. Rodney, I re-read the thread

Re: [slim] Protecting Wireless Network From Intruders

2008-03-02 Thread bobkoure
If you're looking for random set of letters you can remember, I'd suggest using what the spooks used to call a book code. Go through your favorite books, find a sentence that's really memorable, then just use the first character of each word in the sentence - so it was a dark and rainy night

Re: [slim] Transporter knob seems bust.

2008-03-02 Thread amcluesent
Hmm, diagnostics of haptic devices over the web isn't easy. But requiring that degree of force doesn't sound at all like the how my TP works. -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile:

Re: [slim] iTunes playlists - not so smart

2008-03-02 Thread Anne
extenso;259680 Wrote: Is there a way to make iTunes playlists browsable in SlimServer 7? I want them to behave like the library, browsable by artist, album, etc. Now they just show up as a large list of songs. Speaking of playlists, why canĀ“t the server detect so-called smart playlists

Re: [slim] Transporter knob seems bust.

2008-03-02 Thread SuperQ
Rodney_Gold;274477 Wrote: Any knob , detented or not , that takes the amount of effort to turn that mine does is either an ergonomic disaster or broken Then I would call Logitech support, they are friendly and helpful. You could have a damaged knob motor, or a manufacturing defect. They may

[slim] Sky.FM

2008-03-02 Thread sndavis
Hi folks; I'm attempting to listen to my premium sky.fm new age stream MP3 through my Squeezbox 3. Unfortunately, it's not working well. The stream keeps stopping and rebuffering. Worse, when it happens, the unit seems to freeze and not respond. Rebooting doesn't help. I've upgraded the firmware

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-03-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Marc Sherman wrote: mvalera wrote: Please see my announcement at the top of each forum for details on the delay. I'll post the manual as soon as I get a final one. Hey, Mike, please remember that some of us read this as a mailing list. Forum announcements don't get gated to the mailing

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Display problem

2008-03-02 Thread Mark Lanctot
Have you pressed the brightness button? Maybe your brightness is set to 0? -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon. SB2, Transporter, beta SBR, beta SBC, pre-production SBC

Re: [slim] Live show help in Squeezecenter

2008-03-02 Thread rydenfan
I cannot seem to find a way to do this using TAG. I am assuming there is no way to achieve it in Squeezecenter? -- rydenfan rydenfan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15335 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Sky.FM

2008-03-02 Thread bflatmajor
I listen to Sky.FM albeit its the free version and I never have a problem. Do me a favor and try to access on of their free streams and tell us what happens. Thank you -- bflatmajor bflatmajor's Profile:

[slim] SqueezeNetwork Homepage frames and firmware update

2008-03-02 Thread sc0tts0
The frames on the new SqueezeNetwork are too small to see the album art. The Squeezebox firmware upate (March 1st) fixed the previous unable to connect bug. -- sc0tts0 sc0tts0's Profile:

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-03-02 Thread killie99
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Re: [slim] Playlists all missing

2008-03-02 Thread dgstrat
I got fed up so i just deleted Slim Server from my PC, reinstalled and rescanned everything and it's all back to normal. Very strange. -- dgstrat dgstrat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6123

[slim] Arg. Hard Drive disaster wreaking havoc (Internet radio, favorites, etc)

2008-03-02 Thread Mike Anderson
I had all my music stored on an external hard drive, which just failed... I had it backed up, so I will hopefully be able to restore my music library, but this failure seems to be wreaking havoc on other parts of Squeeze Center. I had Squeeze Center installed on my C Drive, which is still

Re: [slim] SqueezeNetwork Homepage frames and firmware update

2008-03-02 Thread mortslim
Other then new colors, I don't see any significant changes. The interface seems to be some type of graphics interface rather than a text based interface. I think this causes problems with zooming, scrolling, separated buttons, etc. -- mortslim

Re: [slim] Remote control not working since server upgrades

2008-03-02 Thread diamar
I'm having the same problem since yesterday. All the buttons seem to map funny, and no amount of resetting or reinstalling hardware is fixing it. -- diamar diamar's Profile:

Re: [slim] Now Playing not keeping up

2008-03-02 Thread oddquad
brdbointx;274394 Wrote: I noticed that slack.com stations are not accurately updating on the now playing screen. For example I had on the Depeche Mode station. First song was Prescious. This showed up/ If you right arrow over for more info and arrow down it showed the next song would be by

Re: [slim] Playlists all missing

2008-03-02 Thread Siduhe
Good to know you got it sorted. Running SS from the command line (as suggested in one of the threads I linked to) might well had the same effect as the uninstall/reinstall, if you ever find it happens again. -- Siduhe

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-03-02 Thread killie99
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[slim] Inconsistent scanning of the music library

2008-03-02 Thread killie99
I've come across a problem with compilation albums and the scanning of them. Shown below are 2 scans I have just performed on my library with having made no changes to anything between the scans. Compilation albums seem to sometimes be reported as by various artists and other times they get

Re: [slim] Sky.FM

2008-03-02 Thread sndavis
I'll do that. In attempting to www.squeezenetwork.com to add a favorite, I get 500- Internal Server Error? What's up with that? -- sndavis sndavis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15805 View this

[slim] i tunes question

2008-03-02 Thread mgrosso
Does anyone have any idea if you can request that customer service take off the .drm (?) protection on itunes music in order to play purchased music on the squeezebox 3? Any idea if this is do-able for an additional fee? SD Customer support indicated that this may be a possibility. --

Re: [slim] Sky.FM

2008-03-02 Thread bflatmajor
What version of slimserver are you running? Download and install the latest. What operating system are you running? Check and see if your router has a firmware upgrade. If so, install it. -- bflatmajor bflatmajor's

Re: [slim] Transporter knob seems bust.

2008-03-02 Thread dean
Rodney: Please get in touch with the tech support team, they can walk you through diagnosing the issue with the knob. There should be some resistance in the knob due to the force-feedback function, but it shouldn't be that hard to turn. -- dean

[slim] Duet: Search large collection?

2008-03-02 Thread SlimTim
I'm considering buying the Duet and have a fairly large MP3 collection (about 50,000 tracks). Browsing through such a large collection is not a good solution (using the remote). I need good searching facilities. Can someone please consider the following and give me some feedback: 1) Search for

Re: [slim] Live show help in Squeezecenter

2008-03-02 Thread bephillips
You may be interested in my discussion of Foobar2000 with Live Show Tagger here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40816highlight=dimeadozen Once well tagged, you can show albums in SC (upper right in Fishbone skin, lower left in Default skin) sorting by Album title, or Year and

Re: [slim] i tunes question

2008-03-02 Thread radish
Apple will not help you remove the DRM on existing tracks. However, some tracks are now available without DRM at a higher price (so called iTunes Plus) - you can check via iTunes which of your tracks can be upgraded. -- radish

Re: [slim] Arg. Hard Drive disaster wreaking havoc (Internet radio, favorites, etc)

2008-03-02 Thread Mike Anderson
Well I installed the latest nightly of SqueezeCenter, and I've got Internet radio back, but my Favorites are still empty. Any way I can recover these? BTW, this is on Windows XP. Thanks again for any help. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical

Re: [slim] Arg. Hard Drive disaster wreaking havoc (Internet radio, favorites, etc)

2008-03-02 Thread JJZolx
Mike Anderson;274635 Wrote: Well I installed the latest nightly of SqueezeCenter, and I've got Internet radio back, but my Favorites are still empty. Any way I can recover these? Looks like Favorites are stored in the Playlists Folder. So if that folder was also on the drive that died, it

Re: [slim] i tunes question

2008-03-02 Thread Eric Seaberg
Also check Amazon's music downloads. They're priced a little less than iTunes yet are at 256K MP3 and no DRM. I'd prefer to purchase the CD from Amazon and rip it myself as Lossless, but if you need INSTANT GRATIFICATION, their downloads will play on the SB3. -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg -

Re: [slim] Live show help in Squeezecenter

2008-03-02 Thread aubuti
rydenfan;274518 Wrote: I cannot seem to find a way to do this using TAG. I am assuming there is no way to achieve it in Squeezecenter? Right. SqueezeCenter doesn't write tags -- it uses the tags you have. If your TAG program won't do it, you should try one of the other Mac programs listed in

[slim] Stop after this song?

2008-03-02 Thread bugmenot
Is there a way to tell SlimServer to continue playing the current song, to its end, but stop play after it finishes, retaining the contents of the playlist, and the current position within it? Either a built-in way or a plugin? In case anyone's curious, here's why I want such a feature: One

[slim] Latest firmware upgrade?

2008-03-02 Thread silverarrows
So, I just got a message to upgrade the firmware on my SB3, so I did. After that I can connect to the SqueezeNetwork but it is no longer connecting to the SqueezeCenter. I'm doing it via ethernet. Also, for some reason, I had all of my favourites wiped out. Seems like my profile on the

Re: [slim] SqueezeNetwork Homepage frames and firmware update

2008-03-02 Thread Michael Herger
The frames on the new SqueezeNetwork are too small to see the album art. What kind of source are you using when you're seeing this? Radio, Rhapsody, Pandora, ...? Do you always see it? A screenshot would probably answer the first question :-). -- Michael

Re: [slim] Latest firmware upgrade?

2008-03-02 Thread dean
Last week we moved and upgraded the SqueezeNetwork services in to a new data center. Some Squeezeboxes, due to local DNS problems, were not able to automatically move to the new data centers and so a firmware update was provided to help them move over. Once updated, your full SqueezeNetwork

Re: [slim] Latest firmware upgrade?

2008-03-02 Thread silverarrows
dean;274650 Wrote: Last week we moved and upgraded the SqueezeNetwork services in to a new data center. Some Squeezeboxes, due to local DNS problems, were not able to automatically move to the new data centers and so a firmware update was provided to help them move over. Once updated, your

Re: [slim] Stop after this song?

2008-03-02 Thread davep
Try the Sleep button on the remote. This has an option to sleep after current song which should mean it will switch off (i.e. go to standby mode) at that point. Without trying it I can't be sure it will retain the current playlist, but my guess is it will. davep -- davep

Re: [slim] Duet: Search large collection?

2008-03-02 Thread Peter
SlimTim wrote: I'm considering buying the Duet and have a fairly large MP3 collection (about 50,000 tracks). Browsing through such a large collection is not a good solution (using the remote). I need good searching facilities. Can someone please consider the following and give me some

[slim] Firmware upgrade problems

2008-03-02 Thread puzzler
So all weekend, every time I try to play something on Pandora, it tells me I need to do a firmware upgrade. Then it works for a while. Then, I switch back to SlimServer, and again, it tells me I need a firmware upgrade. And so on... Meanhile, I'm experiencing all sorts of problems. My

Re: [slim] Transporter knob seems bust.

2008-03-02 Thread Rodney_Gold
Whats patronising is someone telling me I don't have a problem when I DO Do you think I'm that naive or such an idiot that I don't know when a knob is working or not. I also contribute to many forums (lasers, engraving , high end audio, v8 cars , signage)and also give of my unpaid time where