Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-02-12 Thread Robin Bowes
ceejay wrote: Robin Bowes;268276 Wrote: What part of it can also be configured via the ethernet port do you not understand? R. Robin Actually, the whole point of this part of the discussion is that the SBR CAN'T be configured by its ethernet port. It will only, AFAIK, initially talk

Re: [slim] Can we avoid inflamatory titles?

2008-02-12 Thread Robin Bowes
guinness wrote: I appreciate the sentiment behind this thread, but I'm afraid I dont agree with it one bit. Do you think we should also put a stop to any of the I love my SB titles too, just to ensure that we dont ever sway too close to voicing an opinion in either direction? Forums are

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-02-11 Thread Robin Bowes
mvalera wrote: Our first priority is to get Duet out the door. I'm sure once things are settled a bit, either we or someone else in the community will come up with a way to configure a SB Receiver without a SB Controller. *cough* But it will have to be on a WiFi enabled device, like a

Re: [slim] Why Squeezebox sucks...

2008-02-11 Thread Robin Bowes
gbruzzo wrote: I would love to see a larger, portable touch screen interface (larger than the controller - which I have ordered and am waiting for eagerly): this is something Logitech might very well do one day, and it makes more sense to me than some of the fat player solutions people have

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-02-11 Thread Robin Bowes
djfake wrote: Robin Bowes;268246 Wrote: It can also be configured via the ethernet port. Yeah, cough is right. Why can't you configure it via wired ethernet? Most every network device embeds something to do this - I have a NAS device that does this. Okay, Logitech's first priority

Re: [slim] Logitech Losing an Opportunity

2008-02-09 Thread Robin Bowes
radish wrote: [an attempt to hold a rational discussion with MrSinatra] radish, If you look back at previous threads, you will see that MrSinatra doesn't let trivial issues like facts get in the way of his opinion. He sees things the way he sees things, and will swear blind that black is

Re: [slim] Logitech Losing an Opportunity

2008-02-08 Thread Robin Bowes
MrSinatra wrote: we slapped 4 500gig sata drives in it and used xraid, we got 1.3TB. so, it seems to me to be a nice low energy always on storage server that you can webaccess and so on. It may me nice and always on, but with 4x500Gb drives it will be anything but low energy. The lion's

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-02-01 Thread Robin Bowes
EnochLight wrote: Marc Sherman;264410 Wrote: ..If I recall correctly, SS6 was still getting last minute bug fixes right up to the day that transporters were available in stores...I'd also expect a few point releases to follow very shortly afterwards. - Marc The way Slim Devices works, in

Re: [slim] Attn: Logitech/Slim Devices - Amp Product suggeston (and POLL)

2008-01-30 Thread Robin Bowes
EnochLight wrote: I don't know about you, but I can't stand a flat, non-eq'd audio source when I am listening for enjoyment. If I were a mastering tech in the studio, sure - but not when I want to feel the thundering bass of Zeppelin's When the Levee Breaks! Get yourself a decent setup then

Re: [slim] TinyAmp S30 amplifier the perfect companion Squeezebox ?

2008-01-25 Thread Robin Bowes
radish wrote: radish;261013 Wrote: I just bought the new iteration of the T-amp for $65. Somewhat louder than the old one, same great sound quality and lousy build quality :) But it works great for small speakers small rooms, and you can't beat the price. So this is interesting. I read

Re: [slim] Frivolous Question ('Center' vs. 'Centre')

2008-01-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Herger wrote: Did you miss the ;) at the bottom of my post? Maybe. But it doesn't matter: the whole discussion is a joke :-). I just find it interesting to see how Anglophiles can care about their language, while we get spoilt with anglicisms. Worst of all some of them find

Re: [slim] Embarrased by Logitech - again

2008-01-24 Thread Robin Bowes
haunyack wrote: [diatribe snipped] Once you're over your anger (try kicking the cat) perhaps you'd like to give us some diagnostics? Platform (O/S, server spec, etc)? Server version? Your infrastructure (wired/wireless)? Any useful log msgs? FWIW, I have a Transporter and run the latest trunk

Re: [slim] Duet and Synology 407e NAS

2008-01-23 Thread Robin Bowes
RuneR wrote: Hello I was wondering, will I have trouble running the new (Duet)with SC on my Synology 407e. Well let me rephrase it will it run smoothly ? NAS spec: CPU Clock Rate: 266 MHz RAM Size: 64MB Probably. I've got SC installed on a Kurobox - slightly faster click I think, and

Re: [slim] Frivolous Question ('Center' vs. 'Centre')

2008-01-23 Thread Robin Bowes
bklaas wrote: this has come up in the past...my two cents: the English spell it 'centre' the Americans spell it 'center' SqueezeCenter, however, is a *product*. If you spelled it SqueezeCentre, there is no product with that name, and is therefore 'incorrect'. Another way of putting

Re: [slim] Frivolous Question ('Center' vs. 'Centre')

2008-01-23 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Herger wrote: Anglophiles, does that put this matter to rest? No, because you got it wrong in the first place. Imagine how idyllic life could have been: Wow, you got problems. Interestingly there's no Francophone, Germanophone, XYophone discussing. We suffer from these anglicisms

Re: [slim] Setting up internet radio stations

2008-01-19 Thread Robin Bowes
max.spicer wrote: I'd like to set up my Squeezeboxen so I can quickly listen to BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 when I want to. What's the easiest way to do this? Cheers, Max Using the remote: Internet Radio - Staff Picks - By city - London, UK - BBC Radio 3 (UK ONLY) - Go right to add

Re: [slim] Processing audio from .ts files?

2008-01-19 Thread Robin Bowes
amcluesent wrote: So, my Humax PVR9200T will record radio shows (i.e. BBC Radio 3) to .ts format files. I assume there is an 48Khz mp2 stream embedded in the .ts container. Anyone successfully processing .ts file content to allowing editing and then playback on SB3? I've not used it, but

Re: [slim] using a different computer to scan library

2008-01-18 Thread Robin Bowes
aubuti wrote: The idea is that my main SC machine is a Buffalo LinkStation, which streams just fine but takes almost an hour to scan my ~4000 track library of FLAC. Only an hour?? My collection of ~40k mp3 tracks takes about 8 hours! :) R. ___

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-01-18 Thread Robin Bowes
rtitmuss wrote: krikor;260123 Wrote: mvalera in a previous post in this thread indicated that they were not sure this was possible. I'm just trying to determine if I purchase just the controller and make it work as I've already got plenty of SB3s. I did see that Robin Bowes indicates

Re: [slim] Whole house audio but I need a controller

2008-01-17 Thread Robin Bowes
mflint wrote: Mine's a Seagate too, 320GB. Model ST3320620A. Is the cooling fan running in your Kuro? Yes, it is. I've got it up and running at the moment and seem to be holding steady at 45C, but I suspect the acid test will be when I rsync my mp3 folder to it. I'm planning to get one

Re: [slim] Slimserver seems to break albums by genre

2008-01-17 Thread Robin Bowes
snarlydwarf wrote: A ton of customers Just Work with the dropping of Common Album Names and the must-be-same-album-if-in-same-directory code. Common Album Names sucked. Agreed. I don't think it's an unreasonable requirement that tracks from the same album are in the same directory. R.

Re: [slim] Slimserver seems to break albums by genre

2008-01-17 Thread Robin Bowes
jezbo wrote: Whole-heartedly disagree. I'm a developer myself, and our happiness is not the issue, Correct. The customers much be happy, which most are. a product must be flexible enough to satisfy the majority of customers. Which it does. Making some rule rigid so that it only

Re: [slim] SB Receiver without controller?

2008-01-16 Thread Robin Bowes
ModelCitizen wrote: Robin Bowes;259137 Wrote: Or maybe sooner... Yeah, haven't you finished reading that Perl for Beginners book yet? Ha! I'm on page 5... ;) R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Sorting albums by year? Possible?

2008-01-16 Thread Robin Bowes
Espen wrote: (first post in this forum, hope this is the right sub forum). I have always named my ripped albums to folders named like artist - year - album title to allow a proper chronology when listing folders (alfabetically) in a filesystem. Is it possible to do the same in a

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-01-16 Thread Robin Bowes
krikor wrote: Perhaps it has been covered already and I missed it, but has it been confirmed that the new remote will work through an ad-hoc connection with an SB3 connected via wired ethernet to the server? I know there was a question as to whether or not this is possible. Yes, this will

Re: [slim] Sorting albums by year? Possible?

2008-01-16 Thread Robin Bowes
Espen wrote: Robin Bowes;259257 Wrote: Look for the Albumview options button just above (?) Help in the bottom left of the page. (I assume you're using the default skin) R. I use the standard skin (Logitech green so to say). I see no such button on the general front page. I am using

Re: [slim] Whole house audio but I need a controller

2008-01-16 Thread Robin Bowes
mflint wrote: I happily use a Kurobox HG/WR for SqueezeCenter 7 with a Squeezebox Controller. It has just 128Mb, but seems to perform well with my collection of approximately 4000 tracks. It also has gigabit ethernet (but probably not enough processor grunt to make use of it!) Matthew,

Re: [slim] SB Receiver without controller?

2008-01-15 Thread Robin Bowes
JJZolx wrote: mvalera;259084 Wrote: I don't understand He doesn't want a controller. Many existing users prefer to control their Squeezeboxes with laptops, PCs, PDAs, Nokia Nseries, iPhones, iPod Touches, etc. If you're going to place the SB in a closet, the $150 SBR makes more sense

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-01-14 Thread Robin Bowes
Peter wrote: OK, Let's compare it to a different but similarly priced product: I just ordered a Linksys (US brand) switch in Holland at centralpoint.nl, type srw2008mp for 276 EUR ($393) including taxes (VAT 19%) Without taxes that would be $330 USD Google takes me to Mwave.com as the

Re: [slim] Wireless - yes, Homeplug - No

2008-01-14 Thread Robin Bowes
Ken wrote: I have used Homeplug for a number of years (in UK) with input from router going in to one ring circuit and output from another ring circuit. There is a considerable drop in throughput; theoretically 14mbps and in practice less than 2mbps but this works adequately for Flac

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-01-10 Thread Robin Bowes
IRJ wrote: I was asking the question to find out if SD had perhaps made an error/missed an opportunity in not moving to an N standard WiFi receiver/contoller chipsets in their new units. SD obviously want us to innstall muliple units, however, reading the responses this is most likely

Re: [slim] Uh Oh

2008-01-10 Thread Robin Bowes
Diana Artemis wrote: Mitch Harding wrote: I would buy the SB regardless of the label, provided it's the same SB inside. The hardware is only part of the story. A very important part, but still a part. Just out of interest, does anyone know what kind of licence the SqueezeCentre Software

Re: [slim] Down to the wire between SB Duet vs. Sonos

2008-01-08 Thread Robin Bowes
blorty wrote: I'm looking at about 8 zones, some of which consist of in-ceiling speakers whose speaker wire runs back to central home theater panel in the family room. The other zones would simply be local bookshelf or outdoor speakers. OK. Are you looking to replicate that setup (all zones

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-01-08 Thread Robin Bowes
Skunk wrote: Tradewind25;255864 Wrote: I have a Squeezebox 3. I wish to add one of the new Receivers in another room, and ideally synchronize the two. Can I achieve this with my current SB3 remote, or would I also need to purchase one of the new Controllers? (I think I read that the

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-01-07 Thread Robin Bowes
IRJ wrote: Now they issue a new SB, the SBR, for an excellent $150.00. I became excited that I could pair with my original SBs and continue to control them all with my WiFi. Although some seem to think this is clunky, I find it highly satisfactory. But Nope! To conrol an SBR one needs the

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

2008-01-06 Thread Robin Bowes
ModelCitizen wrote: In the US the Duo costs 399.99 US Dollars (equiv. to 172.103 UK Pounds) but in the UK it costs 551.17 US Dollars (279 UK Pounds) What possible justification can there be for this almost 40% price hike for UK buyers? Er, I think your sums may have gone a little awry.

Re: [slim] Is it time to retire my Squeezebox?

2008-01-04 Thread Robin Bowes
Mitch Harding wrote: Since you still see your problem even with a wired network, then bitrate limiting for the purpose of reducing network bandwidth shouldn't matter, since the wired connection should have solved that. However, I suppose it's possible that the higher quality mp3 files were

Re: [slim] Songs removed from library when hard drive accidentally turned off

2008-01-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Herger wrote: Shame about this! I would guess it would be a pretty easy thing to fix, Patches are always welcome. and I can't imagine many find this feature to be useful... From the machine's point of view the file doesn't exist any more. Whether it's been deleted or the disc

Re: [slim] Songs removed from library when hard drive accidentally turned off

2007-12-31 Thread Robin Bowes
amorphia wrote: Hi all, I have a silly habit of forgetting to turn on my network hard drive where my music resides before trying to play a song on the squeezebox. Slimserver has a silly habit deleting the said song from the library index whenever this happens. This forces me to do a full

Re: [slim] Songs removed from library when hard drive accidentally turned off

2007-12-31 Thread Robin Bowes
sleepysurf wrote: I've encountered that problem myself a number of times... VERY frustrating. Playlist index can also be messed up in same fashion. Hopefully it's somewhere on their To-Fix list. I don't believe so. Now, if I could only find the thread in which I discussed this with kdf...

Re: [slim] Any word of SB4?

2007-12-29 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Herger wrote: (twice as good and half the price) What would double the SB's value for you? Value = (Quality / Price) ** 2 ? Interesting. ;) R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Can I plug an SB3 directly into my laptop?

2007-12-28 Thread Robin Bowes
haraldo wrote: Yeah Simplest to do the x-over cable and if it gets too much hassle, then you could always add a switch later. You don't burn any bridges by doing this. Let me also correct something else: a switch would be no help in this situation; switches do not, as a rule, run DHCP

Re: [slim] Multizones playing and PC power requirement?

2007-11-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Nickolay V wrote: I can not find any information on site and forums about computer hardware requirements for great number simultaneously playing squeezeboxes (8/10/20 or 32). I mean multizone audio multiroom mode. Can anybody make all information table for users : winwows PC / Linux PC /

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2 starts playing on its own

2007-11-29 Thread Robin Bowes
NauticusLX wrote: Bottom line: the display set to 0 brightness comes on if the phone rings, and the stream is interrupted if I make or receive a call. It's not set up in a way that's not intended, so don't say there's something wrong with my setup because nothing's wrong - other than these

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2 starts playing on its own

2007-11-29 Thread Robin Bowes
oreillymj wrote: It certainly has never been an issue for me and I believe it's not just me, the forum would be inundated if it was a universal issue. Mark, You're wrong about this. I have raised this issue at least 3 times on these forums and it has been quietly ignored. There is a bug

Re: [slim] Maxbitrate?

2007-11-29 Thread Robin Bowes
matek994 wrote: Hi, thanks for your reply. The problem I have is that when I select a song which is in FLAC format (MP3's are not affected) it starts to play, but then there are intermittent dropouts during the first half minute or so. After a while the song plays alright. Any subsequent

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2 starts playing on its own

2007-11-28 Thread Robin Bowes
NauticusLX wrote: This happened to me about 11 months ago and the thread was almost famous for a while. The problem was never really resolved, and continues. 1st, if you have DSL web access, incoming phone calls will turn on the device if it's off, and vice versa, the same for outgoing

Re: [slim] Issue: No Digital Outputs working

2007-11-28 Thread Robin Bowes
duloque wrote: Here is my weird problem: The analog output of my SB3 does well, but the digital ones only transport some calm silence. Neither optical nor coax out will give my speakers a single sound. Is there a solution or is my beloved SB3 broken? Plz help!! :( What have you got

Re: [slim] Posible bug in built-in MP3 decoder - please verify

2007-11-27 Thread Robin Bowes
damir wrote: it has the attention of the former CEO of Slim Devices, what more do you want?? Yes, that is the right question, thank you for pointing it out. I certanly want nothing from Sean/Slimdevices. He did what he has to do, I'm already grateful for response and pretty sure they

Re: [slim] Posible bug in built-in MP3 decoder - please verify

2007-11-26 Thread Robin Bowes
sikahr wrote: Through this thread (6 days/52 replays/1390 views) only me, dcote and Damir (and Sean/slimdevices I hope) cares to listen, all others blindly believe what I say? No, we just don't really care. You have reported a bug, and gone into excellent detail about how to reproduce it.

Re: [slim] Posible bug in built-in MP3 decoder - please verify

2007-11-26 Thread Robin Bowes
y360 wrote: Robin Bowes;245326 Wrote: No, we just don't really care. Nice, that royal we http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we we (wē) pron. 1. Used by the speaker or writer to indicate the speaker or writer along with another or others as the subject: We made it to the lecture hall

Re: [slim] Custom Title - possible?

2007-11-24 Thread Robin Bowes
amcluesent wrote: Yep, MusicInfoScr is great - esp. for classical music with a TP. Everything on the display :) Out of interest, how are you tagging your files, and how have you got MusicInfoScr setup to achieve this? How to it work with popular music? R.

Re: [slim] Posible bug in built-in MP3 decoder - please verify

2007-11-23 Thread Robin Bowes
fred7 wrote: Robin Bowes;244637 Wrote: sikahr wrote: Nobody knows the trouble I see ( hear) Nobody knows but me ( Sean) :))) and nobody cares! :) R. It sure seems that Sean Adams cares. This seems to be a minor bug if it exists at all. I'm sure that most companies wouldn't even

Re: [slim] New SB3 user, why does Airport Express sounds better?

2007-11-22 Thread Robin Bowes
minstrel wrote: My only possible explanation is that broadcasting from my Apple G5 directly to the AE via Airtunes somehow provides a more unaldulterated sound compared to using the SB3 off of my 801.11g network. You might like to make sure you're not bit rate limiting to the SB3. Looking

Re: [slim] Posible bug in built-in MP3 decoder - please verify

2007-11-22 Thread Robin Bowes
sikahr wrote: Nobody knows the trouble I see ( hear) Nobody knows but me ( Sean) :))) ...and nobody cares! :) R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Portable squeezebox with built in speakers?

2007-11-19 Thread Robin Bowes
iPhone wrote: I just don’t get all this about a portable SB3 with built in speakers. And then wrote: If you want to be portable, try what I use. I found one of those house cleaning caddies that my speakers fit perfectly into (the kind with the handle in the center with a tray on each side

Re: [slim] Work music setup

2007-11-16 Thread Robin Bowes
Gibbo wrote: The problem being, I hate working in silence, the lab will be far too open plan for people to have their own music on. I can understand that some people may not want any music at all, perhaps a system of randon play on the squeezebox, with certain genres / bands being banned from

Re: [slim] dealing with special chars in albumart JPGs?

2007-11-15 Thread Robin Bowes
dcote wrote: and to be honest, i would hate to have to re-arrange ~6500 files just because SS doesnt have a way to deal with this. ;-) You really should use a more hierarchical structure. It will make your life much easier. Something like this: f:/music/mp3/artist/album/ Most of

Re: [slim] Work music setup

2007-11-15 Thread Robin Bowes
Gibbo wrote: I'm working for a company that in the next 6 months will move to a new lab (i'm a chemist) i'm trying to convince my boss that in a lab of around 8-10 people, around 70 sq ft at a vague guess, radio just will not do as not all the people will be happy listening to any station,

Re: [slim] Is it posible to use RoboCopy to mirror a whole hard drive ?

2007-11-15 Thread Robin Bowes
Deaf Cat wrote: Cheers for that, both of you! Just double checking, so with Robocopy I can back up any *.exe files, like slimserver, mp3tag etc, and just reload if anything goes wrong (after of course XP is back on), Unless I get Ghost, yes? You can't copy any executable files that are

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

2007-11-09 Thread Robin Bowes
cepstein wrote: JJZolx;238771 Wrote: Find (or write) a script that transcodes from Flac to Mp3 and keeps the library updated. I schedule mine to run nightly and any updates to my Flac library are automatically reflected in the Mp3 library. I've written many (http://etree-scripts.sf.net/),

Re: [slim] Artist sorting works like crap

2007-10-05 Thread Robin Bowes
pichonCalavera wrote: I too would like to sort my artists by first name, for example, right now -David Bowie- appears between -Apocalyptica- and -Coldplay-, but I would like -David Bowie- to appear between -Coldplay- and -Elefant- instead. Is there a way to acomplish this? , I don't mind

Re: [slim] Artist sorting works like crap

2007-10-05 Thread Robin Bowes
pichonCalavera wrote: I too would like to sort my artists by first name, for example, right now -David Bowie- appears between -Apocalyptica- and -Coldplay-, but I would like -David Bowie- to appear between -Coldplay- and -Elefant- instead. Is there a way to acomplish this? , I don't mind

Re: [slim] Brand new Squeezebox supplied with used/faulty ac lead (UK)

2007-10-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: Empgamer;232967 Wrote: Not a good start for me this. Gone from being very excited about the whole thing to thinking that maybe I'd be better off ordering Sonos instead :-( But you had several top-level people at Logitech going to bat for you, including the former CEO

Re: [slim] Brand new Squeezebox supplied with used/faulty ac lead (UK)

2007-10-05 Thread Robin Bowes
xio wrote: Some people however, go out of their way to take offence I find. Pot. Kettle. Black! R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Brand new Squeezebox supplied with used/faulty ac lead (UK)

2007-10-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Empgamer wrote: @ Robin: Having had the experience I have with Datakits, I presume you feel I should be celebrating now that I have at last got a response? I shan't even waste my time addressing the rest of the dreck and will treat such banal comments with the contempt they deserve. You can

Re: [slim] Need advice on Amp Speakers

2007-10-03 Thread Robin Bowes
mike_zandvliet wrote: Hello everyone! I need advice from anyone who knows about amps and large speakers... if that's you - please read on! I am in charge of the music for an event coming up in a few months time, and have absolutely no idea what kind of amp and speaker set up I need.

Re: [slim] A satisfying crunch

2007-09-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Solvason-Pastuch wrote: David Oh, I know your pain. I have always, and still do, feel that this piece of equipment is nothing but a techie toy. Imagine how many cars there would be on the road if they had to update their software evry night. Zero! If evertime they crashed, someone

Re: [slim] Slim Devices logo faceplate on ebay

2007-09-25 Thread Robin Bowes
simbo wrote: Ben Sandee;229623 Wrote: That's a bit pricey for the bidding to start for a cardboard box. I'm sure the original SlimDevices boxes are stronger than Logitech ones. Or sound better. Or nine out of ten cats prefer them for sleeping in. Did you blind test that? R.

Re: [slim] SlimServer / Squeezebox 3 users - PLEASE TRY THIS! (Gmail lags SlimServer)

2007-09-21 Thread Robin Bowes
NeilF wrote: I can reproduce it at will... Open a browser (FireFox or IE) say to bbc.co.uk, and run the 5000kbps test in SlimServer... Get 100%. Move to the 'cbeebies' page (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/) results drop... Move back to bbc.co.uk, results return to 100%. All the time

Re: [slim] flac on squeezebox v3 rebuffering and dropouts

2007-09-16 Thread Robin Bowes
funkstar wrote: radii;227348 Wrote: The wireless network seems to be plenty fast enough; another machine in the same room clocks in at 450 kbyte/sec, and I never see rebuffering problems with Ogg. 450Kbyte/sec is a really poor wireless connection. You'll need in the region of 800kbit/sec

Re: [slim] For Sale: UK Audio Engine A5's black, as new

2007-09-13 Thread Robin Bowes
808 wrote: A pair of the acclaimed active Audio Engine A5's in black for sale. I've had these hooked up to the sb2 for less than a month from new, their now in a box ready to go. Girlfriend didn't approve of the size of the speakers, had to replace them with the tiny but excellent Aego M's.

Re: [slim] Slimserver 7 stability

2007-09-06 Thread Robin Bowes
JJZolx wrote: ds2021;225440 Wrote: Can anyone provide some feedback on their experience running SS7.0a? It seems that a 'bug fix (4638)' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4638) that I have been waiting on exists, but only in SS7. Given the warnings that precede the download of

Re: [slim] Bandwidth consumption

2007-08-26 Thread Robin Bowes
agentsmith wrote: My experience with Homeplug, even my Panasonic Homeplug AV, is that it does not go much over 4-5 Mega Bits per second. At least in my home electrical system they don't. Are you sure you're not confusing mega *bits* with mega *bytes* ? Homeplug is 85 mega *bits* / second,

Re: [slim] Title Display

2007-08-25 Thread Robin Bowes
jordi.c wrote: erland;222750 Wrote: I don't have the answer to your question, but until someone else give you an answer I have some questions. Why do you want to browse by music folder if your music is correctly tagged ? Do you miss some browsing mechanism in the standard tag based

Re: [slim] Network play causes RAID access errors?

2007-08-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Velcroman wrote: Still, I'm at a loss here. There's a clear, direct link between file access in SlimServer and this RAID error. Right? I don't _think_ it's an actual RAID error, I think there's some confusion in some piece of software somewhere, probably on nVidia's end. But what do I know?

Re: [slim] Opinion: which is the best OS to run SlimServer?

2007-08-21 Thread Robin Bowes
chris.mason wrote: Thanks for all the responses so far, very helpful. I'm going to play with both ClarkConnect and Ubuntu I think, and see what happens..! You mentioned you work with Solaris during the day - why not try OpenSolaris? R. ___

Re: [slim] Opinion: which is the best OS to run SlimServer?

2007-08-21 Thread Robin Bowes
4mula1 wrote: chris.mason;221771 Wrote: Mark, thanks for such a full answer. I'm pretty comfortable with Linux command line (I use Solaris in my job, and thats a possibility I guess). Solaris handles SlimServer pretty well. Some programs are a bit quirky to compile, but the resources

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze ---ssh client---ssh server/slimserver

2007-08-17 Thread Robin Bowes
mkanet wrote: I am guessing by the comments that what I'm asking is either not possible or there isn't the expertise necessary to help me achieve what I asked for in the title of the thread. Anyway, there is a good reason why I prefer to keep just a single discrete ssh connection. I have

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze ---ssh client---ssh server/slimserver

2007-08-17 Thread Robin Bowes
mkanet wrote: Great, could you please tell me what you did to make it work. I already forwarded ports 9000 and 3483 (client to server ssh forwarding) and pointed softsqueeze to localhost. That's actually the first thing I tried. I dont have any problems doing port forwarding for other apps.

Re: [slim] $100 for a better web-based browsing system?

2007-08-14 Thread Robin Bowes
katabasis wrote: ps. If this software had java support, lots of more people could contribute with improvements, included myself PPS. If you learned perl, you could contribute to this software and many other projects. R. ___ discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!

2007-08-10 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom wrote: Tom;219217 Wrote: You do know that Logitech is a European company, right? No, they are a Swiss company (Switzerland is not a member of the EU). Tom But last time I looked it was still part of Europe though. In the sense that Canada and Mexico are American, yes. They are. Both

Re: [slim] Logitech being absolutely OTT ?!

2007-08-10 Thread Robin Bowes
adamslim wrote: Robin Bowes;220157 Wrote: They are. Both are on the continent of North America [1] Just as Switzerland is on the continent of Europe [2] R. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America [2] p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Sheesh, the way people are reviving old

Re: [slim] Playing problems

2007-07-27 Thread Robin Bowes
apmadsen wrote: Why does it clear the playlist whenever i press play to play a song? It takes forever to add all the songs again. Because that's what play means. If you just want to add a song to the play list, press +. Isn't there a way to get around this, so that it behaves like any other

Re: [slim] My squeezebox is STILL acting up.

2007-07-23 Thread Robin Bowes
gdg wrote: Robin Bowes;216227 Wrote: As you obviously know all there is to know about the subject you won't be needing my help. Hope you fix it. R. In a transparent effort to blame me for the fact that I haven't been able to resolve this issue you accused me of not following up

Re: [slim] How about a for sale section

2007-07-22 Thread Robin Bowes
pfarrell wrote: I agree, I think a separate for sale by owner section would be a good idea. I've got a Benchmark DAC-1 that I'd like to sell to a good home. for sale postings really don't belong in the existing sections. And I'd rather sell it to a smart, talented and good looking person on

Re: [slim] How about a for sale section

2007-07-22 Thread Robin Bowes
Pat Farrell wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: Sorry Pat, I don't want a Banchmark DAC-1. :) Then it wouldn't be a good home at your place. But you have to admit that your reply is a tad OT. Do you want a for sale or not? What rules? It was an attempt at humour. You said: ...I'd rather sell

Re: [slim] My squeezebox is STILL acting up.

2007-07-21 Thread Robin Bowes
gdg wrote: All of a sudden a squeezebox, that has worked fine for 2 years, starts timing out and disconnecting and no one can give a hint why. F^*() You were given several hints in replies to your original post, but you don't seem to have responded to

Re: [slim] My squeezebox is STILL acting up.

2007-07-21 Thread Robin Bowes
gdg wrote: My system info is posted about 3 posts back. You said: AMD Athalon 64 Processor 3000+ 1.79 GHz 1.00 GB of RAM 200 Gig Hard Drive (90 Gigs free) All I can tell from that is that you should be OK for processing power and memory. It doesn't tell me: 1. What O/S and version of

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Robin Bowes
steelhead wrote: I have a new problem with my Squeezebox: all of a sudden, all music played over slimserver is choppy, I cannot listen to any tracks. I've had my Squeezebox for just over a month and it had been working fine. I get a clear signal with Squeezenetwork. I'm on Mac (Intel)

Re: [slim] My squeezebox is STILL acting up.

2007-07-21 Thread Robin Bowes
gdg wrote: Robin Bowes;216131 Wrote: gdg wrote: My system info is posted about 3 posts back. You said: AMD Athalon 64 Processor 3000+ 1.79 GHz 1.00 GB of RAM 200 Gig Hard Drive (90 Gigs free) All I can tell from that is that you should be OK for processing power and memory

Re: [slim] choppy music via slimserver

2007-07-21 Thread Robin Bowes
steelhead wrote: I'll have to get another e-net cord to try that. Thanks much for all your advice...I suspect I'll post again at beginning of the week. Looks like it is a wireless networking issue. Hope you get it sorted. R. PS. Note to gdg: Please read how steelhead has responded in

Re: [slim] How do YOU backup your music?

2007-07-16 Thread Robin Bowes
darrenyeats wrote: Robin Bowes;214209 Wrote: You have got it wrong! Curse that send button! Er, thank you. I think I'm going to stick with unison for the time being because what I'm after is a kind of mirror function (without using RAID) rather than a backup tool per se. Space

Re: [slim] How do YOU backup your music?

2007-07-13 Thread Robin Bowes
darrenyeats wrote: From what I've read from your link, rsnapshot isn't what I want. It seems rsnapshot is great for, erm, snapshots. But snapshots aren't backups. I want backups for when a disk fails, and it seems rsnapshot, by relying on hard links, is not intended to propagate data

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Boombox

2007-07-10 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: Power it by C cells, although one must ask how long they'd last given the Wi-Fi power demand - maybe a lithium ion permanent battery might be better, and it'd be a good selling feature. Power should be rechargeable cells - i.e. make sure it works with nx1.2v as well as

Re: [slim] Integrity/reliability of library scan process?

2007-07-05 Thread Robin Bowes
egd wrote: Version info as follows: 6.5.2 - 12047 - Windows Server 2003 - EN - cp1252 6.5.3 - 12232 - Debian - EN - iso-8859-1 Guess I'll update the Windows instance, do a full rescan and see whether there are any remaining differences. Yeah, that's probably the root cause, i.e.

Re: [slim] Bizzare - SB3 Switching itself on!

2007-06-11 Thread Robin Bowes
elziko wrote: It's happened twice today - once this morning and once this evening. My new SB3 just suddenly came out of standby and started playing music. I have no alarms defined when I look at my player settings in Slimserver (SlimServer_6.5_v2007-06-06). I have no other infrared

Re: [slim] Logitech Branding

2007-03-27 Thread Robin Bowes
JJZolx wrote: Is there any chance that those of use who have Slim Devices branded components could avoid having them retroactively branded Logitech by new firmware and software? Use a serial number, MAC address... something. Are you really *that* bothered? R.

Re: [slim] Wireless to stereo speakers

2007-03-26 Thread Robin Bowes
NauticusLX wrote: A wireless connection is almost always better, logistically, than a wired one, even if the sound quality is compromised - the extent to which is always subjective. The point is, a wireless hookup is possible, and desireable, for the individual who asked, so let's not

Re: [slim] IMG + CUE vs. separate tracks

2007-03-22 Thread Robin Bowes
Peter wrote: 325xi wrote: I know this subject has already been discussed to death, but I couldn't find an answer on this particular question - are there any advantages of ripping CD to separate tracks? SB seems to handle images with cue sheets very well, and such images are actually easier to

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