Re: [slim] Re: SB3 internal pic?

2006-02-01 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Wed 1 February 2006 15:05, Robin Bowes wrote: Patrick Dixon said the following on 02/01/2006 02:32 PM: In the Gallery! (I missed Status Quo too) Which Gallery? http://www.jssaudio.co.uk/JSSWeb/My_Homepage_Files/Page3.html A ___ Discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Feature request: Polarity control

2006-01-15 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Wrote: It is true that you system has to be pretty good to hear the difference. I had difficulty hearing it before i got the TacT RCS. I imagine headphones would do the job at a lower cost, however. Just out of interest - are you switching your phase before you go

Re: [slim] Re: Feature request: Polarity control

2006-01-13 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Fri 13 January 2006 01:57, P Floding wrote: JJZolx Wrote: I've added the following comment to bug/request #1976. Hopefully it would cover all needs in this issue: If it's important to you, then vote for the bug. Don't just CC yourself. By voting you automatically get CC'd with

Re: [slim] Re: Feature request: Polarity control

2006-01-12 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Thu 12 January 2006 20:12, Michaelwagner wrote: P Floding Wrote: With a high resolution system (a phase coherent one) the difference between correct and incorrect polarity on some recordings are very dramatic. I have one of those test setup CDs that plays honks and chirps at different

Re: [slim] Re: Smooth AJAX interface blows away any slimserver skin I've seen

2005-12-13 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Tue 13 December 2005 18:22, JJZolx wrote: snip I think an interface similar to this would be wonderful. One thing about AJAX, though, is that you need a very responsive server. SlimServer just isn't there yet, and certainly on many of the hardware platforms where it finds itself running,

Re: [slim] Re: Smooth AJAX interface blows away any slimserver skin I've seen

2005-12-13 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Tue 13 December 2005 21:57, radish wrote: I was suggesting the use of PHP only for the web interface. Fair enough, sounds a lot more reasonable. If you're gonna write the backend in something a little meatier (for example, Java) then there are some very nice web scripting systems

Re: [slim] Re: Squeezebox3 - Complete FREAKOUT stereo damage warning

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Tue 6 December 2005 17:06, enduser wrote: Dan Goodinson Wrote: enduser Wrote: There is no nice solution other than building in a quality peak limiter or running a scanner/filter on the digital data stream before it gets sent out the digital port for digital-to-digital situations.

[slim] Linux Journal, January 2006: Build a Home Terabyte Backup System Using Linux

2005-12-01 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
This article looks quite interesteing and informative and probably relevant... http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8590 I like the figure of $1.08/G with 3.2TB of storage. Although if you don't feel like doing it yourself then my local favourite server company is well worth a look:-

Re: [slim] Re: E-Mail/POP3 Checker Plugin for Win?

2005-11-29 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 08:14, Daniel Cohen wrote: On 28/11/05 at 16:24 -0800, mcremer wrote Yes, I did so, once with the Email.pm and once without it. The plugin still doesn't show up, neither in the plugins section on the web interface, nor on the equivalent menu item on the SB2 itself

Re: [slim] Re: Powered speaker hum

2005-11-16 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:57, max.spicer wrote: Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Wrote: does this occur only when both speakers are connected to the squeeze box? I'm not sure. I'll experiment tonight. Also, how are the speakers powered? Is there a separate supply for each

Re: [slim] Re: Powered speaker hum

2005-11-16 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 15:38, radish wrote: I think Max is in the UK. Over there it's much harder to disable earth on an earthed plug, you'd have to take the plug apart and unwire it. In some cases even that isn't possible. If you have a sealed plug, then use an extension cable that

Re: [slim] Powered speaker hum

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 21:47, max.spicer wrote: Whilst I wait for my T-Amp to arrive, I've got my SB3 plugged into some Labtek computer speakers. The speakers themselves don't actually sound too bad, but they have a fairly loud hum when the SB3 is plugged in. When powered on, but with

Re: [slim] Re: Wishlist: Less clunky (more iTunes-like) GUI

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 19:14, Jim wrote: Mike Anderson Wrote: For what it's worth, I'd be glad to pay another $50 or whatever for a really slick GUI Find 100 others with $50, and in the pure interests of money I'll make one :D if you can make a slick GUI that performs all the

Re: [slim] Re: Map of us all

2005-10-13 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:50, Fifer wrote: Just me in Scotland too. should be a bit better now... (although that should be North Middleton, but Edinburgh is obviously the closest proper town that they handle) Alex ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...

2005-09-21 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 12:52, Dan Goodinson wrote: My server is more or less dedicated, as is basically just a fileserver. Having said that, there is one other app which is constantly running - Folding At Home. (Kind of similar to Seti At Home or whatever). As a result, my CPU is

Re: [slim] Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-09-21 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 12:58, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: Pardon the interruption, but this is probably the best group to ask this question of... I need songs that have the word Money somewhere within the lyrics. I just got asked this morning to make up a CD filled with them. The only

Re: [slim] Artist/Artistsort tags not what is really needed

2005-09-19 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Monday 19 September 2005 14:21, JulianL wrote: Please excuse the slightly provocative title for this thread. This is definitely not me having a pop at the implementers, I am just hoping to stimulate discussion or even better find that there is a feature already in the software to do what I

Re: [slim] Re: FIR filters?

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 01:50, HoZ wrote: The ability to have software apply correction filters before the data hits the network is very appealing to me and looks to be substantially more affordable than the hardware alternatives. From the research I�ve done thus far, I think I would be

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Thursday 01 September 2005 09:32, Robin Bowes wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: seanadams wrote: A fine idea - please file a request at bugs.slimdevices.com. It's something we'd need to do in firmware, right at the end of our audio process. Actually, you could do this on the server by

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Thursday 01 September 2005 17:32, ephemere wrote: (1) Doing it on the server is probably not the right thing for anything other than a PCM stream because it would require a decode-encode step. Agreed. (2) I'm no expert, but it's more complicated than just a delay and gain adjustment. The

Re: [slim] Playlists????

2005-08-21 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
GDG On Sunday 21 August 2005 04:04, gdg wrote: In my opinion the single biggest limitation of using the Squeezebox and the Slimserver software is the inability to create playlists dynamically. In other words one can't easily create impromptu playlists from the listening position (using the

Re: [slim] Re: How much demand for an audio rack sized Squeezebox?

2005-08-05 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Friday 05 August 2005 15:20, MeSue wrote: Colin Burn-Murdoch Wrote: how about a SqueezeBox-BoomBox I would LOVE a Squeezebox Boombox to take out by the pool with me. In fact, I searched this forum just the other day to see if this idea had ever been tossed around--didn't turn up this

[slim] extending zapped functionality (was: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!)

2005-08-02 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
Matt On Tuesday 02 August 2005 16:02, Matt Alioto wrote: Would it then jump to the end of the currently auditioned track or would it continue playing it? My gut reaction is to continue playing because it is easy to jump forwards with the FF button if you need to, but you might want

[slim] building playlists versus auditioning tunes (was Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!)

2005-08-01 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
gdg On Monday 01 August 2005 10:51, gdg wrote: Dan, I guess the intro scan function solves the problem of building a quick playlist. The flip side of the issue is that I would like to put together playlists at my own pace, sometimes quickly and sometimes as an ongoing process. In a perfect

Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 02:11, Matt Alioto wrote: How about a send to plugin During the playback of any song, playlist item ect.. Hold down some button on the remote. A send to dialog would appear on the screen allowing you to choose an existing playlist to add that song to or option to

Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
Mat On Tuesday 02 August 2005 03:05, Matt Alioto wrote: Sorry Alex, I didn't see your post cause of the prepended subject line. The serious flaws part was cut off. sorry - thought that I would try and make it more accurate and relevant to the discussion... ;-) The reason I suggested to

Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
Matt On Tuesday 02 August 2005 03:23, Matt Alioto wrote: How about using my selection option and have the selection default to the last Playlist you sent to, Or to a predefined configurable default send to playlist? Would that be more acceptable? that would make more sense. Maybe a dual