functionality
out but just add a Wizard to help beginners get most of the settings
into a sensible starting position.
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he normal volume control, gives you the loudest volume you
can imagine wanting.
This feature was added relatively recently, so if you don't find it you
should download a more recent version of slimserver.
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your SBs are very confused from the changes in configuration and need to
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d your only problem was lack of wireless signal
strength, I think you would have done better to add a simple Wireless
Access Point instead of getting another router. If its not too late to
take the new Router back, you might wan
and a lot more).
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rouble, I think.
BTW - if you're keen on using "Performer" you might want to visit and
support my enhancement request to have Slimserver use this tag!
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2696
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the option of switching to mySQL. See
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20281 for a recent
discussion on this.
Have you tried this one?
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Bill Burns Wrote:
>
>
> For the SB1, the remote is the perfect size, when balanced on edge in
> front of the display, to completely hide it.
>
> You'll need a higher-tech solution for the SB2/3.
>
>
I'm using Win XP Pro SP2, patched up to date, and am not having any
issues. Might the Windows Firewall have got turned on at some point in
this process?
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connecting up the analog cable is creating an earth loop. Is it
possible you could use optical digital instead of the the coax?
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level browsing capability which allowed you to browse first by "owner"
and then by whatever else took your fancy. This turned out to be a
potential positive side-effect of some enhancements proposed a little
while ago - bug
Bad luck! I'm sure we can all appreciate the frustration... I think
you'd be perfectly safe to use an adaptor, assuming you have one to
hand that is. If not Dixons would probably sell you one for a fiver!
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s from the database and puts them in a
list, which you can scroll and then select one from. Have a 21st
option which says "none of these, find me 20 more".
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two WAPs).
Also, I found the Windows2003 utilities to set up networks unbelievably
clunky and frustrating to use, though once set up it does now just
work.
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scroll
through the list: click finger to play.
Any volunteers?
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c Library - select "Clear library and
rescan everything"
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ther posters may
be misunderstanding you). Once you've suffered the double indignity of
being sent music which is lossy AND DRM'ed, you can convert as much as
you like using lossless converters (WAV, FLAC, whatever) with
This was discussed recently in the Audiophiles forum...
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19855
And, no, you can't currently exclude a genre. You can only choose not
to include, which if you have multiple genre values isn't the same
thing, as you've just disc
his a harbinger of things to come for the rest of us digital music
users?
Discuss.
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g). I have a range for my normal LAN
DHCP range, plus for some reason 127.0.0.1 stated explicitly.
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. The default is zero, for full volume, so should be
ok, but worth a check in case its been altered while you have been
setting up.
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help pages
altogether, but hopefully that will be fixed quickly).
Regular expressions are (briefly) described (on my installation) at
file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mp3tag/help/options_format.html
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You should try the 6.2.2 version, which has changed this behaviour. It
is available here: http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_nightly.html
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See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18764 - or search for
other references to Shoutcast, which AFAIK is the only way to do this at
present.
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and Expression and Replace; I tried:
Genre
^(.*)$
$1;Quiet
... and it seems to do exactly what you asked for!
I love this forum, I learn something new every day...
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eft hand pane, type Rock;Quiet into the genre field, and
save.
5. Repeat for other genres.
Having said all that, I can't help thinking that a program to do what
you want shouldn't be too hard - all it needs to be able to do is
find the tag and rewrite it. What format are you
well for me too.
I also use MusicMagic Mixer as a PC-based player if I'm not playing to
a Squeezebox, or for generating interesting playlists (the latest
version 1.5 looks like it could be an itunes replacement for many - not
all - purposes)
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Or, if you are prepared to use your computer instead of the Player UI,
consider using instead some different software which is much better at
playlist generation and maintenance ... eg MusicMagic Mixer, which also
features Slimserver integration (f
Well, no good reasons from anybody, so
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2790
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ive the
same name you DON'T get asked if you want to overwrite an existing
playlist, which I suppose mught be considered a bug).
Still, I think this is what you were looking for, more or less.
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via the
shortcut.
This is on "6.5b1 - 5425 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252" and also "6.2.1 -
5226 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252"
I can't find anything that looks like this in the bugs list.
Can anyone think of a good reason why we might ha
t Genres to include -> (select just "quiet")
work for you?
Or were you trying to do something else?
Just curious...
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a new one, copy the text over, and delete the old one (making
sure you hunt down any cross references...)
And, no, it is not just you for whom List Pages select letter is broken
(also using Win XP and Firefox 1.5).
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entation on these programs is
> seriously lacking.
Google really is a remarkable tool... first link if you search for
"Music Magic" will take you to http://www.predixis.com/ ... here you
will find the free and paid for versions. AFAIK you need the paid
version to be able to use the Sli
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Definitely no moderating.
You could try editing one of the existing pages first - just make a
trivial change and see if it goes through for you.
If you're still having trouble, feel free to PM me... I've done quite a
bit with the Wiki and managed to make it work for me so f
specially if this is a "work" laptop and
your IT department have tried to lock everything down...
Look in your Owners guide for details of the ports that need to be
opened.
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around the
world, not just the UK.
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Have a look at Player Settings - Remote ... and see if "JVC_dvd" is
enabled. If so, turn it off...
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ats too many. Paradoxically, I think the
multiple-genre technique actually helps to reduce the number, because
you don't have to try to cater for the crossover cases (no need for
Folk-Rock... call it Folk;Rock ... ok thats not a great
Anything helpful for you here? ...
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19266
There seem to be some MX-500 users here.
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cked it off, neither of which is
terribly helpful. So I've just added a couple of links into it to make
it easier to find in the future.
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ke this one?
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RouterStatus
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im would say "call or write to
> Slim support" - support at slimdevices dot com.
>
> They are better equipped to help you with specific hardware problems
> than this forum is.
>
> http://www.slimdevices.com/su_tech.html
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
>
>
> Is the Tom Lehrer old material rereleased or new material?
Nearly all of it the very old stuff. Just a few items recorded in the
90's. I had it on LP, then transcribed to MD, now I have nice clean
material I have already put into slimserver...
Ceeja
ehrer (treble).
So the first thing to do was to get ripping!
BTW, in case any of those berks from the RIAA are watching, this is
what happens when we start using Squeezeboxes - we buy MORE CDs, not
less!
What else have people been enjoying today?
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/what/how you are doing?
Most of the browse behaviours go to Albums as the second step, but
Browse by Genre for me does as Munge describes, with an extra Artists
step in between. Perhaps report your version and platform as well?
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he kitchen - I
can't imagine wanting anything as ugly as a computer in either of those
places. Maybe the bedroom is next, I don't know.
This way we have what we really want - music EVERYWHERE!
Fantastic.
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http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1740
which seems to cover what you want. Shown as targetted for 6.5, though
I imagine thats a target rather thana commitment.
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seem to
have a habit of remembering stuff you'd rather they didn't especially
while you are fiddling with wireless settings.
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When my server (an
aging desktop) is especially busy, I do sometimes get dropouts on
Softsqueeze: I'm fairly sure I've never managed to stop a FLAC stream
to an SB.
But then, you'll find out for yourself soon, so why worry? :)
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indows Explorer). Slimserver, it seems, will
read through the directories and give you a flattened list of all of the
playlists it finds.
I guess you were probably wanting to make use of the hierarchy though
the interfaces, though?
Ceej
So this bit is probably a limitation
of mp3tag...
(6) Any chance of having "browse" dialogs for the various file/folder
selections?
(7) As commented previously - a PocketPC version would be very nice,
but only if it doesn't need so much horsepower as to be unusable.
Many
than we
have right now, hence the request! If you'd like to add some more
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captured by
EAC to be held - except in the file name, which brings us back to the
Browse Music Folder discussion...
Try FLAC!
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Well, everyone will have their own solution to this (the extra space is
a neat trick) but if it were me I'd rename them "A Christmas Album
(Grant)" and "A Christmas Album (Streisand)" so that if you are
browsing lists of Albums you can tell which is whic
Looks like soneone is contemplating a plugin that might be close to what
you want... you never know, if you give some input it might get written
to meet your needs! See the thread at
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18982
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Thanks for all your contributions!
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done as a plug-in, once at least some of the
others are done.
Looking forward to some comments and some votes!
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is one has gone on long enough!
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e already been used. All others can be used
multiple times and so should continue to appear as options in successive
browse levels." to clarify the bit about which tags can be used more
than once in the query.
I think (hope?) we are nearly done on this
that can be given a short name for the
> work. I looked in the OGG Vorbis recommendations and don't see any
> easy answer in the standard tags. I do have a suggestion. Let the
> user specify a tag name for an OGG Vorbis tag he wants to store and use
> to browse. It would appear in
7;m not that bothered
to be honest - I can see that some users will be more comfortable with
seeing "browse" and "search" kept separate, if only because it maps
better on to the Remote UI functions (which really do
neat idea would be if people felt free to create their own
HowToDoSomething page in the wiki, then link to it from the tips and
tricks page, and if appropriate from elsewhere in the wiki (including
the beginners guide).
Sounds like you are all set to start with WakeOnLAN and SqueezeNetwork!
ser) for a group of files, if thats what
you are looking for.
You select all the files, right click, select "tags", double click the
tag in the list that you want to change, enter the new value, ok, ok.
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> In File". Make its value "%_tag".
>
>
Thanks! No wonder I couldn't make that work ... is this (and
presumeably other hidden gems) documented anywhere?
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BTW, you didn't credit yourself at the bottom of the page, please
do (if you want!!)
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uot;view.. customise columns" I just see a list
of the tags in use, nothing about what type?
TIA
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days.
Have a look...
BTW, I've seen a couple of unrelated threads which I think would be
satisfied by the same Multi-Level Browse functionality that we have
described, so we may be able to get support from outside the Classical
users for that one.
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about putting your bit where it is.
Thoughts?
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(b) there is some stuff about this in the Owners Guide.
However there is certainly scope for expansion, so if you feel so
inclined, please dive in. Don't be intimidated - just click "edit" at
the bottom of the page, it is VERY simple.
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> Main new feature is the overhauled library window, with a swanky new
> albums list which displays thumbnails and things. See here:
>
> http://127.0.0.1/drlovegrove/slim/library016.jpg
>
don't think thats the right URL?
ely I don't think this needs distract us too much - I think
we've nearly agreed on what will work, and it should be a strength
rather than a weakness that the scheme can be used in more than one
way.
Unfortunately its my bedtime now (I don't kno
, so if you find something better be sure
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> multiple values for a tag such as Artist.
>
Careful. "Artist", in the Vorbis standard, should only appear once. You
can have multiple Performers, though.
And, as per my note above, all tags are not equal. "Album" and "Artist"
have special meaning for m
nality to merge these tags with
"artist", though backwards compatibility is of course a good thing.
>
> Ceejay suggested that the multi-level browse should display a list of
> Albums after each Browse step. That isn't consistent with the way SS
> works now and I don't k
welcome to the debate - any views on the rest of the stuff we've
been talking about, e.g. the suggested spec attached to my last post?
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l use anywhere?
Debate and new versions most welcome. Note in particular that
Multi-Level Browsing should be of interest not just to Classical
users!
When we have some consensus I would hope can post this as an official
enhancement request.
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Seems unlikely that this would be the problem... but don't RSS tickers
update every 30 minutes?
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rtet, chamber music) so that I can split of the works by one
> composer. Can I use Genre for this purpose?
>
Yes. See my notes on multiple genres. We'd need "genre" to be
included in the extended browsing functionality that we hav
tle fiddly for the
"extras" (like conductor). I'm still waiting for someone to point out
something better. Finding tag errors is usually just a question of
looking at the lists (of artists or albums), the discrepancies normally
leap off the (web) page.
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it MUST contain enough information to make it unique vs all other
albums, otherwise Slimserver (and other music players) will merge the
tracks of the ambiguous albums.
Lets give it some more thought and see if anyone else will join in our
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I still think is right) is to try to stop it becoming a full users
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use
ptional,
otherwise we'll be cluttering the UI for people who don't want to do
this.
More comments from anyone?
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quite similar. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709
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I've written, and I'm delighted to see
it!
BTW, GBP75 = US$135 approx (today!). And yes, I agree that as a
general rule US$ is the appropriate universal currency to use...
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of kludging going on here. There may well be a case for a separate
thread asking for more/better functionality!
In the meantime I'll have a go at bringing some of your comments and
suggestions into the Guide as it is.
Thanks again for the feedback!
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Jim Wrote:
> It's great the initiative ceejay started, but on some pages I can see an
> issue where some things are going to be changed, then reverted back and
> then changed again depending on what people think. I've left a dirty
> great comment on a page because I do
27;t work report back and someone else canhave a
go!
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stops rattling
- from the CLI, enter "rescan ?" [NB - this works but is not meant as a
serious answer!!!]
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>
Which is not a million miles from what I had in mind when I posted...
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18649
although the response so far has not been overwhelming.
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big page - a short sweet paragraph with a link to
a really good external reference could be just the thing we need.
Or just throw in your favourite resource under "other resources" at the
bottom of each page.
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