Re: [slim] Re: Remote Streaming Over Internet

2006-01-03 Thread Robin Bowes
Neil Cameron said the following on 03/01/2006 18:37: Or which port to forward ... It's in the FAQ on the slimdevices website. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong? ___ Discuss

Re: [slim] Re: SlimServer crashes while scanning: Perl interpreter failed

2006-01-01 Thread Robin Bowes
veloearl said the following on 01/01/2006 16:52: SlimServer should either know not to treat .cue as playlists, or let me tell it to ignore .cue files completely. And it should always validate the path length before looking for the file. Vote here:

Re: [slim] Songs out of order, albums misread, etc., v. 6.2.2

2006-01-01 Thread Robin Bowes
highdudgeon said the following on 01/01/2006 22:19: This is a x-post, but I'm really in a fit about this. Here goes: I'm having a problem since upgrading to 6.2.2. Here it is: Albums I have scanned in now show up with songs in random order. In some case, not all songs appear. Yes,

Re: [slim] Re: Computer won't wake up

2005-12-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Kyle said the following on 30/12/2005 22:59: Michaelwagner Wrote: and they tell me about large beach dance parties in the summer on Myrtle Beach. Yep. Shagging is huge around the Carolinas. It was invented at Ocean Drive, a beach just north of Myrtle Beach. Beach music is the music

Re: [slim] Anyone listen to David Gray -- White Ladder?

2005-12-29 Thread Robin Bowes
Kyle said the following on 29/12/2005 16:05: I ripped this CD the other night (EAC to flac), and some of the lows, particularly on the title track, are driving my sub crazy. That track is almost unlistenable except at very low levels. This is some kind of enhanced CD. Could that be creating

Re: [slim] Re: Getting Smartserver to see my iTunes playlists

2005-12-27 Thread Robin Bowes
coyotl said the following on 27/12/2005 15:23: Heuer Wrote: Seems to have happened since I moved the iTunes music folder to a different HD - the server cannot find the playlists. In my case, the iTunes music folder is in its default location. Slim states that we should 'file bugs'

Re: [slim] Using a Sony PSP as remote

2005-12-26 Thread Robin Bowes
jeremy said the following on 26/12/2005 11:43: Santa brought me a Sony PSP which I'd like to use as a remote for my SB2. I can connect the PSP to the web ok but when I try to use http://10.0.0.06:9000 (which works fine on my laptop) I get the message Communication with the server failed. A

Re: [slim] Re: Elpac power supply for the SB2

2005-12-24 Thread Robin Bowes
TriodeGuy said the following on 23/12/2005 18:17: Have to give Occam over at AudioCircle credit for finding this one. It's a very nice 5V 3A supply made by power one for $2.50! http://www.cascadesurplus.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/99/products_id/856 I purchased several of these and

Re: [slim] NAS Questions

2005-12-19 Thread Robin Bowes
Marc D.Field said the following on 19/12/2005 06:07: 930 wrote: (I did find various discussions of what I would really like to have running, music store and slimserver all standing alone on the NAS, but the technical requirements seem beyond my capabilities. Hopefully, this is something

Re: [slim] Re: Random Mix and Volume?

2005-12-12 Thread Robin Bowes
earthbased said the following on 12/12/2005 00:09: I create my FLAC files using dbPowerAMP and to my knowledge it didn't (doesn't) have a ReplayGain feature. How can I add this metadata to my existing FLAC files? If you're OK with running perl scripts from the command line, have a look at my

Re: [slim] Re: Map of us all

2005-12-12 Thread Robin Bowes
bernt said the following on 12/12/2005 15:49: Added my self. (BUMP) Who is admin for this group? Can you please remove one of my entries (Robin Bowes, York, United Kingdom) - preferably the one with the shout If a man speaks in a forest,and his wife's not there,is he still wrong?. I added

Re: [slim] Any recommendations for on-line purchase of SB2 (for UK delivery)?

2005-12-09 Thread Robin Bowes
Dan Goodinson said the following on 06/12/2005 16:56: I like the look of the SB2, and would prefer to buy that rather than an SB3 for the moment. I currently have an SB1 and am looking for an upgrade for the native FLAC decode. I did a quick bit of searching the other week for SB2, but

Re: [slim] Re: Any recommendations for on-line purchase of SB2 (for UKdelivery)?

2005-12-09 Thread Robin Bowes
Bart said the following on 09/12/2005 22:53: Robin Bowes Wrote: Want to buy mine? I fancy a SB3... I am in the UK and am looking, without success, for another SB2. Don't want an SB3 because it is the wrong form factor... Anyone else got one they want to sell on? How about a direct swap

Re: [slim] problem installing 6.2.1 on Mandriva 2006.0

2005-11-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Simon Oosthoek said the following on 18/11/2005 10:54: Hi all I'm trying to install the slimserver rpm for 6.2.1 on my laptop, running Mandriva 2006.0. It's not working, so far. I had similar problems when I installed an older version on Mandriva 2005LE, but I guess I managed to solve it

Re: [slim] problem installing 6.2.1 on Mandriva 2006.0

2005-11-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Simon Oosthoek said the following on 18/11/2005 13:41: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:37:11AM +, Robin Bowes wrote: Simon Oosthoek said the following on 18/11/2005 10:54: Hi all I'm trying to install the slimserver rpm for 6.2.1 on my laptop, running Mandriva 2006.0. It's not working, so far

Re: [slim] Re: Mountain View event tomorrow (Wednesday 11/16/05)

2005-11-16 Thread Robin Bowes
max.spicer said the following on 16/11/2005 12:51: Mine too, dagnammit! However, if the Slim team fancy coming to York, I'm sure Robin and I could manage to get them a beer each. ;-) Sure thing! An evening touring York's many fine hostelries would be a damn fine idea. R. --

Re: [slim] Re: How to reliably/easily backup 100Gb of FLACs?

2005-11-11 Thread Robin Bowes
music system?). It's not the system I'm protecting; it's the hundred of hours spent ripping and tagging several hunderd CDs! R. Robin Bowes Wrote: I recommend either RAID6 or, at the very least, have a hot-spare in your RAID5 array. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest

Re: [slim] Re: Amusing, somewhat off topic iPod comment

2005-11-10 Thread Robin Bowes
andy b said the following on 08/11/2005 20:11: I needed a music player I bought an ipod for one reason. 60GB. Me too. Mine's full though, so I'll have to re-transcode to a lower bit rate :) R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still

Re: [slim] Phones that don't interfere with wireless networking

2005-11-10 Thread Robin Bowes
Chris Brooking said the following on 10/11/2005 14:10: Robin, The DECT standard that's in use throughout Europe (including the UK) uses frequencies that stay away from the 802.11 standard. It only tends to be the US 900Mhz phones that have problems with WiFi. Ah, thanks. I must have got

Re: [slim] Repost?

2005-11-10 Thread Robin Bowes
TCM said the following on 10/11/2005 19:30: I've posted this question (about routers) in the beginners forum and I got a couple of answers. Then I thought that I would get more answers here (this forum is more active). TCM Wrote: Is there any router (with a reasonable price) that you

Re: [slim] Re: How to reliably/easily backup 100Gb of FLACs?

2005-11-10 Thread Robin Bowes
klausbgva said the following on 10/11/2005 19:59: The next solution will be a SATA Raid 5 controller with up to 8 drives. I recommend either RAID6 or, at the very least, have a hot-spare in your RAID5 array. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not

Re: [slim] Re: Repost?

2005-11-10 Thread Robin Bowes
TCM said the following on 10/11/2005 21:26: OK! I'm looking for a wired router with a built in switch. Right now there's only two computers and hopefully soon a Squeezebox 3 :-D. I'm also planning to get some kind of NAS device in the future. I've just built a house so I don't have too much

Re: [slim] Accessing the forum with lists? (Mailman)

2005-11-09 Thread Robin Bowes
jonolumb said the following on 07/11/2005 12:20: Hi there I am currently subscribed to the mailman server for a couple of topic areas on this forum. I receive the daily digest for that topic area, however, how do I reply to a particular post so that it turns up in that posts thread as a reply

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770

2005-11-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Victor Brilon said the following on 05/11/2005 00:58: I had posted these earlier, but I'll do it again in case you missed them. These are screenshots of browsing on the 770 in full-screen mode using the WebPad skin: http://victorland.com/slimp3/1.jpg http://victorland.com/slimp3/3.jpg

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770

2005-11-04 Thread Robin Bowes
Victor Brilon said the following on 04/11/2005 22:46: I have one. And yes, it kicks ass as a Slim remote :) I am s tempted by one of these... I am also s poor at the moment, so I'll resist for now. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is

Re: [slim] Re: WPA Personal vs. WPA-TKIP

2005-10-29 Thread Robin Bowes
Kevin O. Lepard said the following on 29/10/2005 00:02: popular and widely-used ones: the Linksys WRT54G For that router, you can what looks like some very nice firmware from Sveasoft (www.sveasoft.com) that expands its functionality. I haven't tried it, but it looks pretty nice. I use

Re: [slim] UK Computer Shopper round up of Wireless Media Players - Squeezebox 2/5

2005-10-28 Thread Robin Bowes
mattybain said the following on 28/10/2005 15:28: - No UPnP support Personally, I'd like to see UPnP support somewhere in either the SB or slimserver. What suprised me the most with this roundup is that there is absolutely no mention of sound quality. Like is that not important??? The

Re: [slim] Re: Is SS 6.2 ready for prime time?

2005-10-27 Thread Robin Bowes
agentsmith said the following on 27/10/2005 05:00: As posted by the previous poster, 6.2 is seriously broken. With server either not starting OR stopping itself continuously. I tried the 6.5 beta with similar results. For your information I ended up wiping an entire hard drive with a brand

Re: [slim] Re: Black or white?

2005-10-25 Thread Robin Bowes
max.spicer said the following on 25/10/2005 12:21: Everyone I've asked has said the same. I do feel strangely drawn to the white back though... CURSE YOU, SLIMDEVICES! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GO AND OFFER ME A CHOICE??? :-) You know, some people are never happy! :) R. -- http://robinbowes.com

[slim] Interesting link in svn trunk

2005-10-24 Thread Robin Bowes
I just sync'd with svn trunk and noticed this doc: http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/docs/squeezebox3/Squeezebox-v3-Owners-Guide.pdf?rev=4743view=log Looks nice! Expect an announcement soon... :) R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still

Re: [slim] Interesting link in svn trunk

2005-10-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Herger said the following on 24/10/2005 11:18: I just sync'd with svn trunk and noticed this doc: Have you noticed the forum's new favicon? :-) No, I read through gmane. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong?

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Spares

2005-10-22 Thread Robin Bowes
Dick Sternum said the following on 22/10/2005 19:35: Where can I get hold of a replacement screen for a Squuezebox (text) in the UK? Thanks. You may find that anyone who's upgraded to a graphic screen will have the text screen left-over spare. Alternatively, you could get a Graphic screen

Re: [slim] Re: Squeezebox Spares

2005-10-22 Thread Robin Bowes
ultra238a said the following on 22/10/2005 20:49: Or you could give the UK distributor a try as we do have some screen upgrades still in stock. That's what I meant by contacting Slim. Glad you sorted things out. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not

Re: [slim] Doubling up on songs in Slimserver 6.1.1

2005-10-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Steve said the following on 21/10/2005 13:35: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite few of my albums will have one or more songs listed twice as per the example here '[image: Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to try from here as it is really annoying when listening to shuffled albums.

Re: [slim] Re: Wireless or wired? Help me choose!

2005-10-17 Thread Robin Bowes
dangerous_dom said the following on 17/10/2005 17:21: Sorry, what went to say was that i plan to NOT buy a switch or whatever because i don't want to spend any more cash than i need to. What i want to do is run a cable directly from my NIC to my Squeezebox2 and need to know if i need a cross

Re: [slim] Re: Scan Speed Adjustment ?

2005-10-14 Thread Robin Bowes
Aaron Zinck said the following on 14/10/2005 18:15: This is how it =should= work but doesn't. You have to press the button for each increase in speed (e.g. 4 clicks to go to 16x). Not very intuitive. I've posted a feature request which addresses this and a few other usability issues.

Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?

2005-10-12 Thread Robin Bowes
Music Machine said the following on 11/10/2005 23:13: Two cents from the Peanut Gallery It seems like people are pretty happy with performance if they have around 350 or less albums in the database. 750 albums or more is about the place where no one seems satisfied with performance. Between

Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?

2005-10-12 Thread Robin Bowes
Michaelwagner said the following on 12/10/2005 14:22: Robin Bowes Wrote: However, the current architecture is such that any blocking operation will interrupt audio streaming if it blocks for long enough. From looking at the code, it seems that perl has no built-in interrupt handling

Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?

2005-10-12 Thread Robin Bowes
Michaelwagner said the following on 12/10/2005 15:17: Robin Bowes Wrote: If the core code is broken out into separate threads/processes with clearly defined interfaces then each process can be written in whatever language you like. I think each core element of the code should have its own

Re: [slim] Unable to Connect to SlimServer from Another Host

2005-10-11 Thread Robin Bowes
David Thomas said the following on 11/10/2005 12:51: My Machine: RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0, wireless, running slimserver. [snip] Is there a service that I need to enable on the Linux machine to allow the connection? Something in iptables, perhaps? You'll need to

Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?

2005-10-09 Thread Robin Bowes
ModelCitizen said the following on 08/10/2005 19:25: Unfortunately this laptop is not a high spec machine. It only has a 500ghz P3 processor and O.5gb Ram. You might like to check that - when I was logged in when you had CentOS installed the machine only appeared to have 192MB physical RAM .

Re: [slim] Re: Flac comment tag. Excess text causing Slimserver to runbadly?

2005-10-04 Thread Robin Bowes
ModelCitizen wrote: I'm sorry to post this again, but as SlimServer seem to run very badly for only me and no-one else at all, I'd really appreciate a reply from someone who understands the technicalities of exactly how the database, scanning, indexing and song/genre/artist/album listing works.

Re: [slim] Still seeing incorrect tags, even after wipe cache

2005-09-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Dan Goodinson wrote: I've got at least 1 tag that seems to be 'stuck' the SS cache. Slimserver can see a track by Primitives and also a track by Primitives, The. I want to get rid of the one by Primitives. Using the web panel, I've checked the file location for the one that says Primitives.

Re: [slim] Re: Using Squeezebox for Live Sound?

2005-09-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Ben Sandee said the following on 26/09/2005 23:47: If it's live audio, you can only buffer data as fast as the player plays it (real-time). If you want two seconds of buffer then you're going to need to delay playback by two seconds in order to guarantee that two seconds of buffer can

Re: [slim] Re: Using Squeezebox for Live Sound?

2005-09-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Ben Sandee said the following on 27/09/2005 00:05: On 9/26/05, *Robin Bowes* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so. Streaming is asynchronous. For example, if you stream at the playback rate then the buffer will soon fill up. How can you stream faster than

Re: [slim] Re: Ouch! My aerials broken!

2005-09-25 Thread Robin Bowes
DrNic said the following on 25/09/2005 13:07: Perhaps I should have added that I am in the UK. Looking at the Slim shipping policy (well UPS's) this $7.5 aerial would end up costing considerably more by the time it got to me!! Is this aerial just a standard 2.2 / 3 dB gain jobby? Their UK

Re: [slim] UK Publicity: Squeezebox2 on The Gadget Show CH5

2005-09-23 Thread Robin Bowes
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/22/05 11:26 AM I recently submitted a Squeezebox2 for review by Channel 5's The Gadget Show here in the UK. It is on the first episode of the new series, full details below. Is there any chance someone could record this and make it available?

Re: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Robin Bowes
Philip Downer wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 03:42 -0700, Fifer wrote: I haven't used them but 'this' (http://www.devolo.co.uk/uk_EN/button/dlanfaq.html) might help answer some of your questions. I can highly recommend the Devolo homeplug products they are very good, and they have now

Re: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Robin Bowes
Dan Goodinson wrote: Although it would seem that 85mbps adaptors are on their way, and should be available in the UK in a few weeks. Which manufacturers are producing these? Do you have any links? R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still

Re: [slim] BBC Six music on squeezebox?

2005-09-23 Thread Robin Bowes
Patrick Cosson said the following on 23/09/2005 13:50: Try this: http://stream.servstream.com/ViewWeb/BBCRadio_music/Event/BBCRadio6.asx I tried adding this as a Favourite on the Squeezenetwork but it didn't work. I see a WMA CONVERT ERROR - CHECK FILE TYPE. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If

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

2005-09-22 Thread Robin Bowes
keithleng wrote: okay. My last comment on the enthusiastic amateur remark. I'm sure there are some very talented people working on the SB. People who are, or could easily become, professionals if they so desired. I also feel that there will be people who are contributing/have contributed to the

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

2005-09-22 Thread Robin Bowes
MrC said the following on 22/09/2005 17:56: Please, lets get away from the Ozzie Rules/Metalica Sucks mentality here. Yeah, they both suck. Rainbow rulez! :) R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong?

Re: [slim] Re: Parental controls on albums or tracks?

2005-09-22 Thread Robin Bowes
jth said the following on 22/09/2005 18:11: If the server ever supports 'smart playlists', you could play all songs that don't have 'explicit' in their comment tag (for example). Smart playlists are the right answer to this and many other feature requests. Basically, if you can tag it and

Re: [slim] Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-09-21 Thread Robin Bowes
PAUL WILLIAMSON said the following on 21/09/2005 12:58: 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] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...

2005-09-21 Thread Robin Bowes
keithleng said the following on 21/09/2005 12:35: The truth of the matter is that the squeezebox software is, and always has been, very flakey. It is largely written by enthusiastic amateurs, and it shows. This is complete boll***s. slimserver, particularly the release versions is very

Re: [slim] Re: Equalizer implementation in SS or SB2?

2005-09-20 Thread Robin Bowes
rme wrote: I looked into this and it was way too complicated to try and implement. Yeah, me too! :) Perhaps one day... R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong? ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] How to use FLAC?

2005-09-19 Thread Robin Bowes
Munge wrote: I plan to get an SB2, use FLAC and then enjoy the music. But how do I actually use FLAC? I don't want to use the command line interface, and there must be a number of good FLAC interfaces out there. Which one should I use? I'm looking for a simple to use interface (encode to FLAC

Re: [slim] Re: How to use FLAC?

2005-09-19 Thread Robin Bowes
Munge wrote: 1. Are you using the Mac platform exclusively? 2. Do you have a lot of Apple lossless already? 3. Do you want to keep your Apple lossless? 1. No. PC only. 2. No 3. N/A It's just that I find iTunes easy to use, and I haven't seen anything else. Ok, that makes your choice easy.

Re: [slim] Equalizer implementation in SS or SB2?

2005-09-19 Thread Robin Bowes
rme wrote: Anyone know if there is a way to implement a good digital equalizer function (7 band or 13 band) in Slimserver or SB2 firmware which could be set differently for each player settings? I don't have a preamp or digital eq in my system so this would be great for me. If you have any

Re: [slim] Re: Replay Gain!!

2005-09-17 Thread Robin Bowes
rme said the following on 17/09/2005 14:29: You can include the option --replay-gain in the command line for the flac.exe in EAC. see http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html You can indeed, but it only calculates album gain for the track(s) specified on the command line, i.e. only the

Re: [slim] Re: Replay Gain!!

2005-09-16 Thread Robin Bowes
JJZolx wrote: Dave D Wrote: So for us dummies: would I need to re-rip everything? No. You just need to run a program that will examine each file and add the replay gain tags. I'm looking for a way to do that myself for a library of flac files, since I didn't add replay gain tags when I

Re: [slim] Re: Replay Gain!!

2005-09-16 Thread Robin Bowes
max.spicer wrote: Wouldn't do any harm. I think I've got a shell script that does the same thing. From recollection, it's as simple as using find to call metaflac on every flac file it finds. Not quite. You actually need to run metaflac in every directory containing flac files so that the

Re: [slim] Re: My ideal squeezebox

2005-09-15 Thread Robin Bowes
audiofi wrote: Yep, you're right, they were too small, I resized them to the same width as my Rotel amp: http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxfullwidth.gif http://audiofi.dudehost.com/other/squeezeboxfullwidthblack.gif Screen remains the same size as the current squeezebox. The

Re: [slim] Random Mix

2005-09-15 Thread Robin Bowes
Aynsley Blake wrote: I think I've found a bug/issue with the Random Mix feature. When you go to random track mix, it loads up 10 tracks, when it's played one, that track gets deleted from the playlist and another one gets added to the end of the playlist. In this way, it's always on track 1

Re: [slim] Re: (Way Off Topic) Name That Tune (From U.K. TV Series)

2005-09-14 Thread Robin Bowes
Dan Goodinson wrote: Just found a snippet on the web. The track is called Tricolore by Mover. Ah, well done! I got as far as eliminating all tracks except those by Mover but have been unable to find any samples or lyrics for either of the Mover songs. Where did you find the snippet? R.

Re: [slim] Re: (Way Off Topic) Name That Tune (From U.K. TV Series)

2005-09-14 Thread Robin Bowes
Simon @ Home wrote: I got as far as eliminating all tracks except those by Mover but have been unable to find any samples or lyrics for either of the Mover songs. Work a bit slow then Robin? :-) Heh. No, I did that last night. How's things? R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in

[slim] title by artist from album on Fishbone

2005-09-14 Thread Robin Bowes
Go on, remind me how to get fishbone to display the playlist in the format: title (by) artist (from) album Where the words in brackets are in a different colour/font. At the moment I only see track (from) album. I'm running from svn (at r4275). R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man

Re: [slim] title by artist from album on Fishbone

2005-09-14 Thread Robin Bowes
kdf said the following on 14/09/2005 17:05: On 14-Sep-05, at 5:39 AM, Robin Bowes wrote: Go on, remind me how to get fishbone to display the playlist in the format: title (by) artist (from) album Where the words in brackets are in a different colour/font. At the moment I only see

Re: [slim] title by artist from album on Fishbone

2005-09-14 Thread Robin Bowes
kdf said the following on 14/09/2005 21:17: This looks like it might be a server issue. I'm not finding any artist object being delivered to any current playlist. feel like filing a bug report? http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2125 R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in

Re: [slim] Re: Anyone tried making there own Cat5 Speaker Cable?

2005-09-13 Thread Robin Bowes
Simon wrote: I run two setups, one has Cat5e Twisted Twins, I found it a big step up in clarity and soundstaging from the old K20 I used before; so for my other system, I made up solid core Cat6 twisted twins with audionote silver plated banana plugs. These cables are excellent and noticably

Re: [slim] Re: FIR filters?

2005-09-13 Thread Robin Bowes
Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes wrote: From the sounds of things, the actual application of the filter to an existing sound file is not a major problem on windows - what is more of a challenge will probably be the insertion of this process into the audio chain utilised by slim server.

Re: [slim] Re: FIR filters?

2005-09-13 Thread Robin Bowes
joshk wrote: This is further down on my to-do list but it does look very doable. Robin basically gave the biggest hints and direction on how to get it done. Good luck and keep us abreast on your findings. Josh, I've just started looking at BruteFIR. I've built it without any external

Re: [slim] Slimserver 6.x on Mandrake 10.0+

2005-09-10 Thread Robin Bowes
Rockin said the following on 10/09/2005 03:40: Since there seems to be no help out in Unix/Linux forum, I am trying here. Please pardon any harsh comments, but this crap is really pissing me off as I've tried for a month to get the dang thing working. My new SB2 is gathering dust because of it.

Re: [slim] Re: Cannot Access Slimserver From Outside Router

2005-09-08 Thread Robin Bowes
jimwillsher wrote: Brilliant! I was doing the same thing. I had tried this many months ago and given up, but now I have seen the light. I have ports 9000 and 9090, TCP and UDP, all forwarded to my server. (Possibly overkill, I will experiment) I then open the stream in WinAmp or Media Player

Re: [slim] Re: Cannot Access Slimserver From Outside Router

2005-09-08 Thread Robin Bowes
cbemoore wrote: What are the security implications of opening up these ports on my router? Will I run the risk of a virus infection? The general view is that slimserver was not designed to be exposed on the internet and has not been extensively secured. (If this is not right, please correct

Re: [slim] Re: Cannot Access Slimserver From Outside Router

2005-09-08 Thread Robin Bowes
cbemoore wrote: Robin Bowes Wrote: A better solution is to use ssh and tunnel the slimserver traffic. I tried doing this ages ago when I first got my SB2, but I gave up eventually. Are there any simple instructions anywhere about how to set up an SSH tunnel? What did you try? What

Re: [slim] Re: Parental Control

2005-09-08 Thread Robin Bowes
Bruce Hartley wrote: not a bad idea, but loading large playlists can take an age. Also everytime you got new music, you would have to add it. what about a modification to the random plugin? Sounds like we need filters that can be (optionally) applied anywhere that returns a list of tracks.

Re: [slim] Re: Automatically restart crashed slimserver?

2005-09-06 Thread Robin Bowes
Jack Coates said the following on 06/09/2005 00:16: Robin Bowes wrote: Why's that? supervise, svc, multilog, all really useful tools. They've alway struck me as an attempt to reimplement SysV init scripts for distros that don't do SysV. I haven't missed their functionality. No, they do

Re: [slim] One more attempt...

2005-09-06 Thread Robin Bowes
CavesOfTQLT said the following on 07/09/2005 00:34: Okay, just a post to say I'm going to give the SlimServer system one more day before calling it quits and selling the SB2. Nothing should be this difficult to set up. I've binned Windows XP, installed Linux, finally got it loaded with

Re: [slim] Re: One more attempt...

2005-09-06 Thread Robin Bowes
CavesOfTQLT said the following on 07/09/2005 01:10: Robin if you want to ssh into the box go ahead. PM me with what details you need You have PM. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong?

[slim] Thoughts on requirements for slimserver computer

2005-09-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, I'm a doing a little market research and would appreciate your opinions by way of answers to the questions below. 1. Are you holding off buying a Squeezebox because you are not sure about setting up a computer to run slimserver? 2. Would you be interested in buying a server

Re: [slim] Re: Automatically restart crashed slimserver?

2005-09-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Jack Coates said the following on 05/09/2005 23:22: robinbowes wrote: This is of no help at all to the OP, but this thread has given me the impetus to get slimserver working with djb's daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html). ... only thing I use out of daemontools is setuidgid

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver over Internet?

2005-09-02 Thread Robin Bowes
chris wrote: Yeah, I'm also a little confused as to how could you do that unless the SB2 itself supported ssh tunneling? Perhaps you open the SSH tunnel on a local PC, and then point the SB at that machine as the server? (he says, guessing) Yes, that's exactly how you would do it. Set up ssh

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver over Internet?

2005-09-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Roy Owen wrote: For all of you that use Windows for workstations etc. http://www.bitvise.com has a very good (free) ssh client that is simple to setup for this (or any other) purpose. I use this solution at work with an SBG and it works great. PuTTY is the defacto standard ssh client for

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Robin Bowes
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 piping the audio stream through the appropriate processing program. What kind of

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Robin Bowes
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 piping the audio stream through the appropriate processing

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Robin Bowes
Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes wrote: if what you are referring to is the cross-feeding stuff to make headphones sound nicer, then HeadRoom has some docs here: http://www.headphone.com/products/faqs/about-headroom-crossfeed/ but it doesn't actually tell you exactly how to do it (obviously).

Re: [slim] Re: SlimDevices losing out in the UK

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Aslak said the following on 29/08/2005 23:40: Looking at AlienBBC I remember now what the problem was. I run SlimServer on my fileserver box (Fedora), and it dosn't have X, which is a requirement for mplayer. So I'm kind of screwed because I really don't want to clog up the machine with an X

Re: [slim] Moose - PC slim app

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Dr Lovegrove wrote: Ordered my 3rd squeezebox over the weekend, and to celebrate I thought I'd share the little pc application I've been working on for the past few months. It's called Moose and it's a fast non-web-based front-end for searching and selecting music. I've thrown some very rough

Re: [slim] Moose - PC slim app

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Dr Lovegrove wrote: Indeed, the server needs to be windows.. You can copy the moo file from the server to a remote machine (or share it over a network) though. True - but I run Linux! What would be *really* cool would be if you could use the existing slimserver DB through the CLI.

Re: [slim] Re: T9 or similar smart text entry

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
giulianoz wrote: Another way this could be done: add a filed in the songs table wich contains the numeric representation of the title/artist/song/whatever and do the seaqrch query on this field. i.e.: db field : metallica - 638255421 user input etall - 38255 query: select fields from table

Re: [slim] Re: SlimDevices losing out in the UK

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Dan Goodinson wrote: Slim Devices could distribute a complete, ready-configured OS on a CD for each major release. Then any technophobes would simply have to turn the PC on (and boot from CD) to have SS up and running within a couple of minutes. For those users that found it easy to use, they

Re: [slim] Re: SlimDevices losing out in the UK

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Richard Scales said the following on 30/08/2005 19:52: Just checked your web site and clicked on the link for a larger version of the Squeezebox - what do you see? Ooops! On a related note, I thought I'd check out Radio Paradise after hearing it recommended on these forums. I went to the

Re: [slim] Duplicate songs new artist folders appearing

2005-08-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Gregory Forrest said the following on 26/08/2005 14:26: I just rescanned and yet another copy of the songs were created...this explains it as I created most playlists via a text editor. I received no other replies so I figured I missed this in the bug search..I am going to search by a few other

Re: [slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?

2005-08-23 Thread Robin Bowes
radish said the following on 23/08/2005 23:51: BBobley Wrote: I use this very nice piece of Windows software called Second Copy. http://www.secondcopy.com/ Basically, you give it a source folder and a destination folder. The destination can be on another hard disk or even another computer

Re: [slim] Re: Software Release Notes for Beta and 6.1.2 Nightlies?

2005-08-16 Thread Robin Bowes
MrC wrote: I agree. It is more difficult to test new or changed portions of the code otherwise. I would love to see an accumulative change list included with each build. If you use svn to get the latest code, instead of downloading betas or nightlies, you can use the svn log command to see

Re: [slim] Re: Software Release Notes for Beta and 6.1.2 Nightlies?

2005-08-16 Thread Robin Bowes
dean blackketter wrote: On Aug 16, 2005, at 9:35 AM, MrC wrote: Hmmm. Clicking through dozens of links is not my, nor probably Yannzola's, idea of release notes. It may be possible for the build script to create a raw changelog from the checkin comments. It would certainly be better

Re: [slim] Re: Software Release Notes for Beta and 6.1.2 Nightlies?

2005-08-16 Thread Robin Bowes
kdf wrote: Quoting MrC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmmm. Clicking through dozens of links is not my, nor probably Yannzola's, idea of release notes. ok, your choice. I would agree. A load of links does *not* constitute release notes. I think svn log could be the answer. It would be nice if it

Re: [slim] Re: Software Release Notes for Beta and 6.1.2 Nightlies?

2005-08-16 Thread Robin Bowes
kdf wrote: Quoting Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf wrote: Quoting MrC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmmm. Clicking through dozens of links is not my, nor probably Yannzola's, idea of release notes. ok, your choice. I would agree. A load of links does *not* constitute release notes. yes

Re: [slim] Stopping killed server

2005-08-01 Thread Robin Bowes
kdf wrote: Quoting Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2005-07-31 09:21:38.601774500 EOF instead of response status line at /usr/local/ slim-svn-6/server/CPAN/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 300. 2005-07-31 09:21:38.601782500 ...propagated at /usr/local/slim-svn-6/server/CP AN/Net/HTTP/NB.pm line 32

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