Re: [slim] Lounge music station changed it's url.

2010-03-02 Thread Roger66
norderney;521772 Wrote: This is from their Twitter feed: Yep. We're down. Major time. Sorry. 2:09 AM Feb 23rd via web Went to install some updates on the server last night and it died. Completely gone. Not sure when I'll be able to get a new server. 2:44 PM Feb 23rd via web

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. Android apps...?

2010-03-02 Thread Muele
There is also the SlimCtrl for Windows Mobile phones. I have no idea how it compares to the other apps for smartphones. But it beats the crap out of the browserinterface. http://sc.sciatec.de/ The browserinterface is nice for letting your guests access the squeezeboxes. They get quite impressed

Re: [slim] Moderator Wiki

2010-03-02 Thread Soulkeeper
Or somebody should at least take 5 minutes of their time to give admin rights to some (or all) of the serious users on the wiki. -- Soulkeeper Soulkeeper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35297

Re: [slim] No longer Scrobbling to Last FM

2010-03-02 Thread garym
Hmmm, not sure what's happening. similar set up (transporter and 7.4.2) and working fine here. only difference I see is that I'm running XP. But not sure why you have last.fm icon in system tray. What does this have to do with scrobbling from squeezeboxserver? The last.fm app in SbS is a

Re: [slim] No longer Scrobbling to Last FM

2010-03-02 Thread Ikabob
Also, additional suggestions: 1.on SBS/settings,recheck Audioscrobbler under player basic setup and then go to advanced and reenter your username and password again. 2.reset your player username and password too. I had similar problems a while ago. Good luck. -- Ikabob

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. Android apps...?

2010-03-02 Thread bobkoure
Archos has just announced a couple of Android driven tablets, which have much slower processors than the iPad, but will be lots cheaper. They already have a 5 tablet. Dell's coming out with a 5 android-driven smart phone (the archos tablets are not phones). I'm tempted by the Archos gear, but

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. Android apps...?

2010-03-02 Thread bobkoure
Muele;521834 Wrote: The browserinterface ... not really an alternative IMO. Erm... think -...Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad- might have just a -little- bit to do with that? -- bobkoure bobkoure's Profile:

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. Android apps...?

2010-03-02 Thread pippin
bobkoure;521890 Wrote: Erm... think -...Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad- might have just a -little- bit to do with that? No. The web UI is slow. No matter where you run it on. Browsers on mobile devices are also slow, even on iPhone and Nexus. WiFi and 3G are slow (high latency) on

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. Android apps...?

2010-03-02 Thread Muele
bobkoure;521890 Wrote: Erm... think -...Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad- might have just a -little- bit to do with that? Could be, but have you tried one of the smartphone apps? Even with the fastest server for the webUI they're not really comparable i think. -- Muele BR Mogens

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. Android apps...?

2010-03-02 Thread slate
pippin;521897 Wrote: No. The web UI is slow. No matter where you run it on. Browsers on mobile devices are also slow, even on iPhone and Nexus. WiFi and 3G are slow (high latency) on mobile devices, too. Regarding browsers; after hearing all the trumpets about how fast the new Firefox and

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. Android apps...?

2010-03-02 Thread m1abrams
bobkoure;521890 Wrote: Erm... think -...Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad- might have just a -little- bit to do with that? No that is not the issue. I have a dedicated modern quad-core with 4GB of RAM as my server and the webui is slow on an iphone browser. As pippin stated beyond

Re: [slim] Save on Logitech stuff

2010-03-02 Thread SteveEast
The US Logitech site seems to have a broken shopping cart. The page comes up but it's blank apart from standard headers. Tried different OS/Browser combos but no go. Steve. -- SteveEast 3*SB3, 1*Boom, 3*Radio. Currently running 7.4.1 release on Acer Aspire easyStore H340 WHS.

Re: [slim] Save on Logitech stuff

2010-03-02 Thread snarlydwarf
SteveEast;521924 Wrote: Update: It's working again now but the Radio is out of stock (both colours). These guys really don't want to sell anything do they? Well, in the case of the Radio, perhaps they are just plain selling way beyond expectations. -- snarlydwarf

Re: [slim] Save on Logitech stuff

2010-03-02 Thread SteveEast
snarlydwarf;521946 Wrote: Well, in the case of the Radio, perhaps they are just plain selling way beyond expectations. Especially as you can't buy a Touch, Classic, Receiver... Steve. -- SteveEast 3*SB3, 1*Boom, 3*Radio. Currently running 7.4.1 release on Acer Aspire easyStore H340 WHS.

[slim] SqueezePlay and Artwork Issues

2010-03-02 Thread Club1820
Anyone else having this issue? - For tracks that don't have artwork embedded in the tag, SqueezePlay displays the artwork of another tag. But not only this, it displays the SAME artwork for all tracks without embedded artwork. Not sure how it picks the artwork, but for every single track without

[slim] Synchronize Play without Power

2010-03-02 Thread fragfutter
How do you power off the SB Receiver? I'm running a SB Radio and a SB Receiver. Those two are synchronized, but only audio, not volume or power. When i start to listen to some music on the radio, i can go over to the other room, switch on the amp and voila, same music. What happens if i listen

Re: [slim] Moderator Wiki

2010-03-02 Thread Spencers
you have right with that,.moderator needed! -- Spencers Spencers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36793 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74373

Re: [slim] Moderator Wiki

2010-03-02 Thread Michael Herger
Or somebody should at least take 5 minutes of their time to give admin rights to some (or all) of the serious users on the wiki. Checking the page I'd say some moderator did his job, right? Are you still seeing spams? -- Michael ___ discuss

Re: [slim] Synchronize Play without Power

2010-03-02 Thread Spencers
So, you have a station, and you are conected on radion and satelite with it. you must have more connection on it. otherwise, you can't swich the chanels. you need to use, like auxiliar for satelite and tuner for radio. hope i was clear, and resolved your issue! -- Spencers

Re: [slim] Save on Logitech stuff

2010-03-02 Thread Spencers
logitec it's the best on audio. for pc i simply love it! -- Spencers Spencers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36793 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75722

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3

2010-03-02 Thread fphredd
Hi Frank, Moved to a new computer, installed mySQL ODBC driver using .msi file on link, but I'm getting the error saying it's not installed. Using 7.5 on XP referencing music on mapped NAS drive (as before). Any ideas? Thanks! -- fphredd

Re: [slim] Moderator Wiki

2010-03-02 Thread fragfutter
yeah. thank you. Anything i saw was tagged with the Category Spam. If something new comes up, i will tag it there again. -- fragfutter fragfutter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35184 View

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3

2010-03-02 Thread SilverRS8
fphredd;522017 Wrote: Hi Frank, Moved to a new computer, installed mySQL ODBC driver using .msi file on link, but I'm getting the error saying it's not installed. Using 7.5 on XP referencing music on mapped NAS drive (as before). Any ideas? Thanks! Hi, Is ACC reporting the ODBC

Re: [slim] SlimCtrl 1.3 out now

2010-03-02 Thread Locuth
Muele - I'll upload an update for SC tomorrow. The thing is, arztde had me convinced to display additional album information (artist and year) However querying this additional information takes rather long. I suppose this causes SC to timeout (particularly on a NAS) If no one opposes, I'll

Re: [slim] SlimCtrl 1.3 out now

2010-03-02 Thread Locuth
A couple of people had trouble on the registration page. Not the one inside SlimControl but the one on the webpage. I've fixed this issue (a bug in IE) Registration, i.e. submitting the Serial No to PayPal now works. Sebastian -- Locuth Use your PDA/Phone as SqueezeBox remote --

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3

2010-03-02 Thread fphredd
SilverRS8;522033 Wrote: Hi, Is ACC reporting the ODBC driver isn't installed? Did you download and install the v5.1 32 bit version of the ODBC driver? The 3.51 version will give the error you mention. Download the 32 bit version even is you have a 64 bit windows version. Frank Installed

Re: [slim] SlimCtrl 1.3 out now

2010-03-02 Thread Muele
Ok, I would like to try the simpler query. However, I think the artist-info along with the album title is really usefull. E.g. the in part of the list: the very best of... -- Muele BR Mogens 1 Radio, 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad.

Re: [slim] Save on Logitech stuff

2010-03-02 Thread AlxG
Am I correct to assume that pm337eymx and mir15 promotional codes only work though the Logitech website? If that#8217;s the case, all California residents must pay additional $27.75 tax. -- AlxG AlxG's Profile:

Re: [slim] SlimCtrl 1.3 out now

2010-03-02 Thread Locuth
I'll check the all tracks query for performance too. Maybe I can collect the album artist information incrementally. Like so: When the complete album list is loaded (initially) I'll skip the artist information. And when individual albums or groups of albums (artist-query) are loaded at a later

Re: [slim] SlimCtrl 1.3 out now

2010-03-02 Thread MusicManiac
Personally I appreciate the extra information myself. If it needs to be removed though, would it be possible to make it something that could be toggled via an option in the settings? ex: a check-box for additional media information. Without it checked, a basic query would be sent to the

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. Android apps...?

2010-03-02 Thread flattermann
bobkoure;521888 Wrote: Archos has just announced a couple of Android driven tablets, which have much slower processors than the iPad, but will be lots cheaper. They already have a 5 tablet. Dell's coming out with a 5 android-driven smart phone (the archos tablets are not phones). I'm

[slim] Squeezebox 3 won't play needledrops....

2010-03-02 Thread chevvies
...I use Amadeus Pro to store AIFF 24bit/44.1 needledrops on my MacBook. I then convert them to Apple Lossless in iTunes, and then make a playlist for the SB3, but if I use shuffle mode on the SB3 and one of them comes along I get a horrendous continuous digital clack-clack sound, what have I

Re: [slim] SlimCtrl 1.3 out now

2010-03-02 Thread Locuth
Yes, a user-setting would be an option too. I'll ponder over that tomorrow. -- Locuth Use your PDA/Phone as SqueezeBox remote -- http://sc.sciatec.de Locuth's Profile:

Re: [slim] SlimCtrl 1.3 out now

2010-03-02 Thread Locuth
I finally gave the SlimControl manual a workover. For those of you interested: http://sc.sciatec.de/SlimControl/quickstart_e.pdf On thing missing is the artwork 'flip-side'. But the rest looks pretty nice. -- Locuth Use your PDA/Phone as SqueezeBox remote -- http://sc.sciatec.de

Re: [slim] PDA controller solution

2010-03-02 Thread Locuth
I finally gave the SlimControl manual a workover. For those of you interested: http://sc.sciatec.de/SlimControl/quickstart_e.pdf One thing missing is the artwork 'flip-side'. But the rest looks pretty nice. -- Locuth Use your PDA/Phone as SqueezeBox remote -- http://sc.sciatec.de

Re: [slim] Interesting Debate On Sonos

2010-03-02 Thread gruntwolla
maggior;518370 Wrote: Wow, not much love for Squeezebox in that discussion! One guy posted he likes SB and had his post knocked down to a -11 rating. Don your flame retardant clothing if you plan on posting a repsonse. I don't understand this notion that the SB products are for geeks. I

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. Android apps...?

2010-03-02 Thread Locuth
As several authorities have already said - you cannot compare the speed of the web-interface of SqueezeCenter to a native application like iPeng, SqueezeCommander or SlimControl. The apps are much faster and more intuitive than the browser interface. Given that these apps cost a fraction of the

Re: [slim] Repeating Songs

2010-03-02 Thread Phil Leigh
sonartribe;521659 Wrote: I've got a problem with my SB Classic. When I want to play a random selection from a single artist, or the whole collection, I select Artist - All Songs. When I do this, it plays the first track, then when it finishes it plays the same track again. If I try the next

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3

2010-03-02 Thread SilverRS8
fphredd;522047 Wrote: Installed the correct one 'mysql-connector-odbc-5.1.6-win32.msi' but ACC says it's not there. Anything I should look for on the mySQL side? No not really. Things to check: - Firewall - Is the SBS remote? - Enable remote MySQL access (always required after an SBS