[slim] You'll never walk alone

2005-05-25 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
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RE: [slim] Re: Problems with BBC Podcasts

2005-05-23 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
Carlos Wrote: I have been using the original wired Slimp player for over a year and have had no problems ripping and playing my CDs. I recently started downloading podcasts from the BBC Today program and have been trying to play them using slimserver and Slimp. They seem to play very

[slim] Problem with artists having accented characters

2005-04-14 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
I have a FLAC file with embedded cuesheet and tag information on the numbered vorbis comment format. The artist is Hüsker Dü. When Browsing Artist, this album occurs twice. One correct listing, and one listing with empty album. Having only this file in my Music Folder, slimserver displays: Your

RE: [slim] metadata musings

2005-04-07 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
Steinar Bjaerum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I am aware of the lack of an official metadata specification for flac. It is up to the user to put metadata in his preferred format into a METADATA block in the flac file. It is then up to the software accessing the flac file to parse

RE: [slim] metadata musings

2005-04-06 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
Steinar Bjaerum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... For what it's worth, I am a bit skeptical about how wise it is to support too many formats/methods for embedding FLAC metadata. Isn't it better to chose one or a couple of formats for the embedded tags, and strive for perfect support

RE: [slim] metadata musings

2005-04-05 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael Sent: 5. april 2005 21:52 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] metadata musings Sean Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... While a useful hack, I'm not so thrilled

RE: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-04-04 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Coalson Sent: 4. april 2005 19:45 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question --- Steinar Bjaerum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Josh Coalson wrote: --- Steinar Bjaerum [EMAIL

RE: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-04-01 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
- Josh Coalson wrote: --- Steinar Bjaerum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To extract a single track from an album-FLAC without complete transcoding, you suggest to re-encode only the first and last frame of the track on the server before streaming to the client, and stream the other frames

RE: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-03-31 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
Gordon Harris wrote: As a whole-disc/cue-embeded flac fan (I guess mostly because of my time investment in the format) I can live with the current Slimserver transcoding arrangement for the time being. I don't think I'd use any sort of track- ifying script, thank you. But, in terms

RE: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-03-31 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vidur Apparao Sent: 30. mars 2005 18:04 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: ... Quick followup:

RE: [slim] Squeezebox 2 audio quality.

2005-03-31 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
Take a look at http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1297085 where Sean describes how he has proven bit-correct output for FLAC decoding in SB2. Given this bit-correctness, your findings seem a bit strange. Steinar -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss-

RE: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-03-31 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
Steinar Bjaerum wrote: ... Is the FFWD/REW done by skipping to flac frame boundaries in the server before streaming to the client? Yes, we do some rudimentary parsing on the server to find frame boundaries. This involves looking for a frame header sync mark and then confirming

RE: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-03-31 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
Steinar Bjaerum wrote: Steinar Bjaerum wrote: ... Is the FFWD/REW done by skipping to flac frame boundaries in the server before streaming to the client? Yes, we do some rudimentary parsing on the server to find frame boundaries. This involves looking for a frame header

RE: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-03-30 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
-Original Message- Sean Adams wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 7:36 AM, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Quick followup: Does this also then mean that track based FLACs will support FF/REW within the track whereas the transcoded

RE: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-03-30 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
Sean Adams wrote: One thought on this: if we find that CUEd FLACs are inherently just a pain in the butt with no advantage in terms of gaplessness, would you accept as a solution a script to unCUE them? If you by this mean providing a script for us CUE fans to unCUE our CUEd FLAC

[slim] Request for SB1 information on www.slimdevices.com

2005-03-14 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
Hi. I am missing information about Squeezebox1 on www.slimdevices.com. It looks like all the information about Squeezebox1 has been replaced by information about Squeezebox2. Would it be possible to add a link to information (HW capabilities etc.) about Squeezebox1 (and I guess information about

RE: Superfast Ogg (was Re: [slim] French radio stations)

2005-03-12 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
I tried to open http://ogg.tv-radio.fr:1441/encodercityradio.ogg in winamp. There it is displayed that this is a stream with 32kHz sampling rate. Slimserver/Squeezebox1 has problems playing back ogg streams with sample rates different from 44.1kHz. I think you are hearing a 32kHz stream being

[slim] SB2 and radio streams

2005-03-09 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
If I have an URL of an MP3 radio stream (let's say a Norwegian radio station) will it play back directly on SB2 without the need for slimserver? I.e. act as a standalone internet radio receiver? Steinar ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] SB2 and FLAC

2005-03-09 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
I have started to rip my record collection to FLAC. I am using one FLAC file per album, internal cuesheets with tag information included as numbered Vorbis Comments. This works great with SB1 and server-side decoding. Will FLACs with embedded cuesheets and tagged using numbered VC work with the

[slim] SB2 and PCM formats

2005-03-09 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
What PCM formats are the DAC in the SB2 capable of delivering to the analog output? All the way up to 96kHz/24bits? What PCM formats are SB2 capable of passing through to the S/PDIF digital out? I am interested in knowing both the current status and the possibilities with future software

RE: SqueezeNetwork (was: [slim] SB2 and radio streams)

2005-03-09 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
, dean On Mar 9, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Steinar Bjaerum wrote: If I have an URL of an MP3 radio stream (let's say a Norwegian radio station) will it play back directly on SB2 without the need for slimserver? I.e. act as a standalone internet radio receiver? Steinar

RE: [slim] SB2 and FLAC

2005-03-09 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
I'm curious as to why you did this. I've also ripped my own collection to FLAC, but with one track per file. There are several reasons why I went for one album per file. - Bit-perfect backup of entire CD. Backup CD will be exactly equal to original when it comes to gaps between tracks etc. -

RE: [slim] Bit-correct digital out on Squeezebox?

2005-02-25 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kdf Sent: 25. februar 2005 18:34 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Bit-correct digital out on Squeezebox? Quoting Steinar Bjaerum [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At head-fi.org I came