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Hi,
I'm having a difficult time resolving a problem that I am sure is a
side effect of my LAN topology and hope someone here can offer advice.
Here is the situation:
Most of the PCs in the house connect directly to a primary router
including the slimserver host. All
Yes! In fact, the only reason to have the LAME option is if you're
planning on streaming over the network, where it would transcode to
MP3.
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I installed the 7.01 and still when I restarted my PC i get following
error.
Am I doing something wrong
Did you try removing SC and start all over again. Looks like some issue in
the MySQL installation or configuration.
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Excitement of receiving my Duet quickly faded two days ago after playing
with it for about half an hour. This device still needs lots of
stability work. The consumer side of me wants to rip Slim Devices a
new one. The Product Manager side of me understands the complexity of
releasing a device
Things have gone from bad to worse. First of all I treid listening to my
duet unsynchronised again and it is playing very choppily as if it has a
poor wireless connection (which it does). Maybe I got lucky on my first
listen. So I tried connecting my Homeplug (already had one) but could
not get
Eric Seaberg;287632 Wrote:
Yes! In fact, the only reason to have the LAME option is if you're
planning on streaming over the network, where it would transcode to
MP3, or if you need bandwidth limiting within your home.
Thanks. Yes I'm going to stream at 128 to work during the day, so I
If you think I over-reacted to jaffacake, take a look at his posts 13
and 15 to see what a real over-reaction is like!
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If you think I over-reacted to jaffacake, take a look at his posts 13
and 15 to see what a real over-reaction is like!
Please stop it now. This thread is about a review, not about your problems
with each other.
Have a nice weekend.
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I'm seeing a strange display issue in SC7 when looking at items that
have hebrew characters in them. This is on XP and Vista, IE7. Things
look fine in firefox. I attached a screen shot. Bascially when hovering
over a hebrew artist name in the artists view, the pop-up add/play/etc
control is
Well to cut a long story short it seems that since buying my Duet I am
part of the growing group of users who have been unable to use it
because we use Apple Time Capsules. There has been a release this week
which includes firmware for updating the receiver to fix this bug. I
have downloaded the
I didn't know you could get in to the WHS that way - only ever used the
WHS Console
Thanks for the advice, although it does seem a bit 'flaky' :)
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3 x wireless SB3 + a Duet
Hi all
First post, so please be kind!
Just wanted to say I got my Duet which arrived on Thursday from BT shop
online. After reading this thread I went to check my controller. Can't
make the battery cover creak or squeak at all (not that I want it
to!).
Thought you might like to know as it might
bonze;287668 Wrote:
I didn't know you could get in to the WHS that way - only ever used the
WHS Console
Thanks for the advice, although it does seem a bit 'flaky' :)
Not sure what you mean by flaky I use the remote desktop into my WHS
box a lot and find it rock solid, are you using it
Hi
I've got a new router (the uk BT home Hub) which has replaced an old
origo router.
Squeezebox ran fine prior to new router but on setting it up it won't
find an IP address even though it can find the network. Wants me to
specify an IP address (pretty sure I didnt have to do that before)and
In my case its not so much a creak or squeak, its more of a feel of
movement from what i believe is the battery cover when you handle the
remote it feels like the plastic battery cover has a slight give in
it... its really noticeable when I use the remote, and was probable
the first thing
Hi all
I have had my Duet 3 days now, and I'm very impressed with it
generally. However, there is one thing that is really annoying me!
It seems to randomly stop playing music. I am using FLAC files
streaming from my PC, but the problem also happened when listening to
internet radio when the PC
Same losing connection frequently problem here. Using a WDS setting of
3 Airport Extreme in our house. No problem whatsoever with other wifi
devices. WPA2 enabled.
OS: 10.5.2, SqueezeCenter 7.0.1
Very annoying especially given the comments from better half. Please
fix quickly or my life will be
Hi!
I tried to add the radio show Loveline to my podcasts in Squeezecenter
and it seemed to work in the way that I can see all the different shows
both in the SC and Dueet controller, but I can't play anything. Anyone
know what could be wrong ? The address I paste in (with username and
passwords
Hi,
Is it possible to allow a SB to bring my computer out of standby? I
leave my computer on a lot just because I might put some music on, and
would obviously then save a lot of power if I could just leave it in
standby and have the SB wake it up when I wanted to use it.
i'm running 2 SB3's
wyzard;287561 Wrote:
Good evening.
I understand that a update is being released this weekend for the issue
with the Time Capsule wireless connection.
How do you get the update on the receiver and the controller?
Thanks.
For the Controller firmware, SC7 automatically checks for new
Re connecting via the homeplug, did you re-do the network setup (reset
by holding the SBR button until it flashes red, then go through the
setup receiver process with the Controller)?
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Well I have to say, that until someone else picked up on the battery
cover, I'd never felt any movement while using it, or had any concerns
with it.
Even now though, It doesn't strike me as a problem.
During the beta program, there were coplaints that the cover was too
tight (this was more of a
I downloaded the latest version of 7.0.1 from the above link and was
very surprised when it automatically updated firmware and YES it was fw
88!
So far I have checked it out remotely using Tiger.. am on my way back
to Leopard in a very few seconds..
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Confirmed - nightly build of SqueezeCenter has new firmwares for
Transporter (37, up one), Receiver (23, up one) and Controller.
Confirmed - Transporter fw 37 connects to Time Capsule correctly and
works as normal. Yea!
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forddonald;287739 Wrote:
Confirmed - nightly build of SqueezeCenter has new firmwares for
Transporter (37, up one), Receiver (23, up one) and Controller.
Confirmed - Transporter fw 37 connects to Time Capsule correctly and
works as normal. Yea!
Are you running Leopard 10.5.2 by any
Maybe there is a plugin that does this already, but I haven't found it.
I think it would be great to be able to schedule the brightness level
of my Squeezeboxes.
I have a Squeezebox in my bedroom, and the brightness level when turned
off is normally set to 4, the highest level. I need to turn
Missed that step initially, should have stayed calmer and read the
manual however, the Homeplug does not wrok great unfortunately, so
the problem remains.
Current situation is that I now have the duet in the living room with a
signal strength of 12%, but it still plays! However the syncing
You're not the first report stating that wireless coverage isn't as good
with the SBR than it was with the SB3.
Both units contain the same chipset and both have 2 antennas. Some have
said it's the orientation, the upright position of the SB3 helping with
reception - I know the antennas in the
the SB3's do WOL wake on lan per default when you press the power
button.
Search wake on or wol on this forum.
The hard part can be to configure your pc/mac/'nix box to use it, and
figure if your network card etc supports it.
Sadly I've never heard of an wifi card thats support wol ? maybe from
No, I use SqueezeCenter on Debian in a VM.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1207
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No, I use SqueezeCenter on Debian in a VM.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1207
Ah well, thanks for letting me know..
Anyone else having trouble with Leopard 10.5.2?
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This has been happening to me on one of my SB3's (I have 2 SB3's, a
Transporter and a Duet). It happens to be the unit with the weakest
wireless signal strength (consistently between 40-50%). Basically,
every once in a while, when starting a track I get the white noise...I
can press play and it
PRGeno wrote:
Maybe there is a plugin that does this already, but I haven't found it.
AutoDisplay
regards,
Peter
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I have a weird problem with one of my SB3s. It keeps power cycling,
apparently randomly, and only when it is playing. If it is in standby,
it is stable. If I start playing a track, it appears to lose power,
then turns itself back on, reconnects to the network, and goes back to
playing the
Gibbo,just thinking aloud here...go in to your PC's bios
setup(usually delete) key when your computer boots up.select WOL option
and then save (F10). Now i'm wondering IF you use the Alarm function on
the SB will it wake up both ?.worth a try!.
cheers
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One of my SB3s starts playing (of its own accord)whatever it was playing
before I turned it off.
It's about a week old, I bought it for my bedroom, partly to use as an
alarm. It's the first time I've used the alarm function. I came back in
at 1am this morning to find it blasting out music. The
Hi
Recently upgraded to Squeezecenter...also am using a Transporter
recently purchased.
I rescanned my itunes database, but for some reason some albums just
aren't showing up in Squeezecenter...though they play if I play them in
itunes.
Don't think it has anything to do with filetypes, as I can't
It'd be helpful if you stated what version of Slimserver/SlimCenter you
were using and on what platform. But if SlimCenter 7 there are a few
threads about Random Mix causing just this sort of problem. I think
it's been cured in a newly released version of SC7. So, if you use
Random Mix try
I'm seeing a strange display issue in SC7 when looking at items that
have hebrew characters in them. This is on XP and Vista, IE7.
If you're still running 7.0, then you should update to 7.0.1. I recently
fixed that issues.
Michael
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Fair point, sorry.
I am using SC7, and I did use Random Mix although I don't think that
was the only playlist that I had trouble with.
I'll check out the thread. Thanks
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I did a look-up on google and I assume you are referring to Tact Audio
of New Jersey.
I would suggest the following:
Contest the charges with your credit card company. The credit card
company should not charge you and reverse the charges.
COD: That is generally a red flag that something is
Read my last comment (16 I think) in that bug. A title from an artist
with multiple track artists is not a Various Artists compilation.
Unfortunately Slim doesn't distinguish clearly enough between the two
in the settings pages and this leads to user confusion.
The current Compilation is a
Hi.
I can't seem to find my manual right now, so I was hoping someone here
could help me through the WoL set up on Windows Vista. I vaguely
remember going through Control Panel and Network and Internet (may be
different in English, this was an attempt at translating from the
Norwegian Vista
Testing out a brand new Duet, all works fine except no sound effects
from the built-in speaker, but works using a headset. I am assuming
that I got a defective unit, or is there something I am overlooking?
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Does your system need to include an SBR?
Could you not, for example, return it and get an SB3 instead? Clearly
the SB3 seems to work for you...where's the big win with the SB3?
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Network and Sharing Center - Manage network connections - Properties
on NIC - Configure.. - Power Management
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Slightly unrelated but since I got the Duet and a Harmony One remote at
the same time, I just want to comment that the Duet Controller blows
the Harmony away in terms of it's feel and aesthetics. Holding one in
each hand makes the Harmony feel cheap by comparison.
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iPhone;287421 Wrote:
I am not having any problems. Could one be holding it too tight while
one is fondling it? The battery cover should be removed once then
installed until the battery needs replaced.
A squeaky battery cover is not user error.
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I know the ability to use headphone is under work. What I'm then
interested to know is whether its possible to make an outward
ssh-tunnel on the controller. If that is possible you could bring the
controller to whatever place that has WiFi-coverage and make a
ssh-tunnel home to the SqueezeCenter.
My ISP (which also has video on demand) obliges me to use their not very
good modified SpeedTouch wireless router. I also have a much better
LinkSys WRT54GX wireless router. I find if I use the SpeedTouch then I
get drop out on the wirelss SB3, presumably due to interference (there
are a lot of
Thanks, that did the trick. The display is correct, AND the Hebrew
letters are showing up in the alphabetical sort area.
Nice!
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Since upgrading recently, I no longer have the option of selecting All
Songs using my remote. When browsing through the web interface,
however, I do notice that the option is still available. It is buried
in the Music Folder section now. This is not very convenient though
since I cannot select
I'll admit to not having read the whole thread. But I have had similar
scanning problems when hitting links/shortcuts in windows.
check
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39296
Try dir *.lnk /s to find the link, it should be a very quick check.
Good luck and apologies if it has
Two ways.
1. Use the ISP router to talk only to the Linksys. Connect the
Linksys wan port to one of the ISP output ports. (Configure the
Linksys to a different ip address range - this may not be necessary -
I'm not sure). Turn off the ISP wireless or use a different SSID (and
channel if you
If your username happens to be your e-mail address (and has an @ in it),
that can cause a problem.
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jaffacake;287341 Wrote:
The logs tell me I get my interference on my player that's located in my
TV cabinet. I blame it on the CRT, but it could be the Wii, PVR or
anything really.
So the Sonos boxes have the same issue even with a vertical antenna?
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Hmmmfound this in the change log:
Player UI:
* Suppress Play All at top level browse menus
Could this be why?
jdryyz;287834 Wrote:
Since upgrading recently, I no longer have the option of selecting All
Songs using my remote. When browsing through the web interface,
however, I do
Thanks!
Is there an advantage between the two?
And is using 2 routers better than using just one (in terms of
interference and bandwidth, not distance)?
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rbl;287833 Wrote:
I have also read that if you give both routers the same names and WEP
encryption then you get a stronger signal.
Wifi doesn't work that way. What will happen is devices will tend to
use the the stronger signal, which will likely be your Linksys.
What you could do is
I can't tell you how to follow my suggestion below on your ISP router.
But this is what I have done, and it may work for you.
I have two Airport Extreme base stations, one set up as a remote (or is
it a relay, I forget). To make sure that my Squeezebox connects only to
the nearer one, I have MAC
mherger;287800 Wrote:
I'm seeing a strange display issue in SC7 when looking at items that
have hebrew characters in them. This is on XP and Vista, IE7.
If you're still running 7.0, then you should update to 7.0.1. I
recently
fixed that issues.
Michael
That is great news! Since
knutm;287828 Wrote:
So.. does the Controller have a ssh-client? Can you create ssh-tunnels
with it? If it does, we just have to wait for the headphone-plug to
work, and hope the internal player is able to hook up to SqueezeCenter
through the ssh-tunnel.
afaik not atm. But it has an
James_B;287843 Wrote:
So the Sonos boxes have the same issue even with a vertical antenna?
No, not in the slightest...I was merely saying that there was more
background noise on the player located in the TV cabinet.
For reference, here's my current measurements in the various areas of
my
I have had Linksys, D-link and now a Netgear WNR3500.
I have never before had issues getting my SB3 to connect to my
network.
I just finished the last permutations on the device.
It seems that the ONLY way it lets me connect is using WEP.
Unacceptable.
I only tried WEP as I wondered if ANY
Squonk;287840 Wrote:
If your username happens to be your e-mail address (and has an @ in it),
that can cause a problem.
Thanks for the reply!! Yes it is an email address .. but would that
make it not play, but still show the names and such of all the
podcasts ... ? Any way of getting around
Try replacing the @ with %40, so [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be a%40b.com.
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radish;287864 Wrote:
Try replacing the @ with %40, so [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be a%40b.com.
Thanks very much for trying to help! I tried what you suggested and
also to change my username on their site to not include the @ symbol.
But I still get the same results, i.e. I see all the shows in
Any chance the scroll wheel could be made to go backwards when you're at
the beginning of a list? That is, if I want to hear some Wilco and
choose Artist, I have to start at 3 Doors Down and scroll and scroll
and scroll through several hundred artists to get there. It would be
nice if I could
daverich4;287867 Wrote:
Any chance the scroll wheel could be made to go backwards when you're at
the beginning of a list? That is, if I want to hear some Wilco and
choose Artist, I have to start at 3 Doors Down and scroll and scroll
and scroll through several hundred artists to get there. It
My battery cover also moves and creaks, but it is only one side (near
top). The other side doesn't compress at all when pressure is applied.
Unfortunately, the side that creaks is the one that a right-hander will
put pressure on when holding unit and pressing buttons with thumb--and I
am right
jaffacake;287818 Wrote:
Does your system need to include an SBR?
Could you not, for example, return it and get an SB3 instead? Clearly
the SB3 seems to work for you...where's the big win with the SBR?
Well I wanted (and use) the new controller, so for the player itself
the Duet is cheaper
After I added an ALBUMSORT tag to enhance the way album browsing works
on the Squeezebox Controller (getting it to sort by Artist then Year),
one of my SBCs was showing the wrong artwork for some albums. Seeing
that the problem did not exist on my other SBCs or on the web ui, I
figured it had to
Have you tried using a different wireless channel ?
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I think we might need to add a way for SC to tell SBC to dump it's
artwork cache after a rescan.
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PLynas;287883 Wrote:
Well I wanted (and use) the new controller, so for the player itself the
Duet is cheaper than the SB3. It is also smaller and more discreet so
fits in my living room better.
The controller is available for purchase separately and, I believe,
will work without an SBR.
I just downloaded the lattest nightly (7.0.1 - 18409) and got the same
error on updating the squeezebox3 (fw 86).
I don't think the unit is faulty until now never had any problems.
christian
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I'm not seeing your out of order problem in my album listing. I have
(almost exclusively) flac files.
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I came back today from two weeks vacation and made the SC update and the
SB3 Firmware update. It was a full success. Seems that all problems
have been solved. Shortly after I even installed the new Time Capsule
Firmware Update from Apple.
I am working with iMac 24, Leopard 10.5.2 and Time
TubThumper;287682 Wrote:
Hi
I've got a new router (the uk BT home Hub) which has replaced an old
origo router.
Squeezebox ran fine prior to new router but on setting it up it won't
find an IP address even though it can find the network. Wants me to
specify an IP address (pretty sure I
egd;183029 Wrote:
I've just rebuilt a w2k3 machine and installed SlimServer 6.5.2 - 11509
- Windows Server 2003 - EN - cp1252. Accompanying it is
Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread and MySQL
5.0.22-community-nt
I have a large FLAC library (~50k songs) but damnit, it shouldn't
Have you not considered applying tags per track, instead of per album?
e.g. if i have a 'various artists' album, and it has a track by an
artist already in my collection, I choose to make those track
compilation=0, all the others retain compilation=1.
So all the tracks by that artist appear
homehubs usually come with wireless encryption enabled.
Ensure you're entering the key correctly during setup.
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While we're on performance, could you telnet to the Thecus and
cat /proc/cpuinfo
?
What kind of bogomips is that puppy doing?
I'm running a Buffalo TS Pro II that's only doin' 498 and my speed is
wire-constrained... of course, I don't have any 100mb devices on that
segment (or my dlink
Interesting approach...I suppose it should work for me as long as there
is at least one track with the TRACKARTIST equal to the ALBUMARTIST. If
I tag that one track with COMPILATION=0 that might just get the desired
effect of putting the ALBUMARTIST in the artist list but not the
TRACKARTISTs.
From Boz, Owner of TacT Audio USA.
Dear Friends,
In any high tech product thing can go wrong. Products can be damaged by
company employees, shipping company and end users. In any case Tact
makes sure that the problem is promptly resolved to customers
satisfaction even if the unit was not
jaffacake;287940 Wrote:
Have you not considered applying tags per track, instead of per album?
e.g. if i have a 'various artists' album, and it has a track by an
artist already in my collection, I choose to make those track
compilation=0, all the others retain compilation=1.
So all the
I have closed this thread because it is off-topic - these forums are for
discussing Slim/Logi products. AVSforum/Audiocircle/Head-fi might be
better places to air your grievance.
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Just to add more data to this, I can scan the library on my N5200 with
my Windows HTPC over gigabit (and no, it's not Cat6, which is not
_required_ for gigabit) is roughly the same amount of time as the
SqueezeCenter module on the N5200 itself.
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bhaagensen;287851 Wrote:
afaik not atm. But it has an ssh-server (dropbear). A wild guess is that
it's technically straightforward, for someone in the know, to compile
dropbear with client support and add some kind of ui for configuring.
Ok, I took a look at 'the source'
radish;287129 Wrote:
That's only because Apple keep ALAC locked up. That's obviously not in
your best interest, because it made your life difficult, and there's no
technical reason for it, so why do it? I don't see why you'd continue to
support a company who intentionally made it harder than
I have a related problem with my transporter and receiver. When I synch
the receiver with transporter, it starts out OK. At song switches, the
transporter intermittently stops playing while the receiver continues.
stopping and starting playing helps...but it was easier to just stop the
I just got my duet and i am soo excited to get it all working with
rhapsody. So far it has been a frustrating day. I dont seem to be
able to get the PIN at all. I have searched this forum and tried
everything. (hold left button, connect to squeezenetwork, etc) No
luck. No PIN anywhere. I
I just got a MacPro 2.66 Refurb. I've been flipping back an forth
between the SB3 which is playing through a powered speaker set-up.
Sometimes I want to use iTunes mostly to play DRM'd music files. I also
have a USB powered headphone amplifier. So that is another reason to use
the MacPro.
Would
I have been having similar connectivity issues with the Duet. For the
past week, I have had to reset the receiver at least once a day to get
the controller and receiver to reconnect. I know just enough about
networking, which isn't much, to keep the Duet limping along. My
knowledge pales in
Another success: I just upgraded my SB3 to use firmware version 88,
which arrived with a recent nightly release of Squeezecenter 7.0.1. My
Squeezebox is now back in action, connecting without trouble to my Time
Capsule using WPA2.
Thanks to all the developers. As usual, you folks rule.
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Question:
denmennis;287975 Wrote:
I have had to overcome bandwidth issues...converted to smaller MP3
files and changed channel to 9 to avoid potential interference and this
has worked for me as long as the Duet is connected to the system and the
controller to the receiver.
dj
When you
I'm new here and could not find something that addresses my issue with
the Duet. When I play a song within an album (I don't play all..just
one song), is it possible to play the next song on the album
automatically w/out manually selecting the next song ie...I play the
second song in an album,
SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0 - 17793 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
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Click Settings.
Click Basic Settings.
Select Look for new and changed music.
Click Rescan.
Does nothing.
?
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hi all,
we have seen a lot of posts lately about trying to figure out how and
why SC7 does what it does depending on the files and tags and data it
finds (or doesn't find) in our mp3s and other audio files.
what i am proposing and requesting help on, is a wiki page that lays
out in a linear way
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