Re: [slim] How to Future-Proof your SB Setup

2013-04-10 Thread gerph
pablolie wrote: I am not sure when eventually the electronics would give out -they seem well build- but if I consider another 10-15 years of lifetime before I consider an alternative (not all that unusual with audio equipment), I am looking at the current LMS software becoming incompatible

Re: [slim] Change artist/album order [SBC]

2008-07-20 Thread gerph
interface, IIRC. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50045 ___ discuss

Re: [slim] How to list albums chronologically?

2008-03-16 Thread gerph
alphabetically. Is there a way to do this? TIA, .brum See bug#112. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112 Essentially, there isn't any option currently present. It's been requested for Quite Some Time (hence the low bug number). -- gerph

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

2008-03-16 Thread gerph
with the correct year, album, artist etc. See bug#112 - http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112 - for the request, to vote for it and for patches which do this. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Google bot making a mess of my Slim

2008-02-22 Thread gerph
protection easily cracked? I certainly don't want people listening to or downloading my music in my library. If google is getting past it sufficiently to change the tracks that play, then people can. -- gerph gerph's Profile

Re: [slim] Google bot making a mess of my Slim

2008-02-21 Thread gerph
MP3s. Basically... you don't put the controls to your cooker on the outside of your house, so don't do the same thing with SlimServer. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View

Re: [slim] Australians being screwed on price??

2008-02-06 Thread gerph
community. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43128 ___ discuss mailing

Re: [slim] Play this album?

2008-01-27 Thread gerph
(shows the track info menu, showing the 'love this track') Down (shows the title) Down (shows the artist) Down (shows the album) Play (plays that album) It's not quite as nice as your suggestion, but you don't have to actually hunt around to find the album. -- gerph

Re: [slim] Album art over remote stream?

2008-01-23 Thread gerph
work these days is on 7.0. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42586

Re: [slim] Change Album Order on SB Interface?

2008-01-13 Thread gerph
title, but it would be great to take it the next step to order the listing on the year. Sort of related to bug #112. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http

Re: [slim] Slimserver, Slimcenter, Duet, Jive - I'm confused!

2008-01-09 Thread gerph
just an application on top of that. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41978

Re: [slim] Large music library = slow Slimserver??

2007-12-12 Thread gerph
suggestions except for those things to look at. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41006

Re: [slim] Dedicated PC - current thoughts on specs?

2007-11-06 Thread gerph
the system, because just playing music should be using ~1.3% of the processor time for slimserver (your machine is 3x faster, so 1/3 of 4% processor time). (all this said, I'm intending on getting a new server which far outstrips the current one shortly...) -- gerph

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

2007-09-21 Thread gerph
, but don't be at all surprised that if your machine is doing a lot of processing then it runs poorly. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http

Re: [slim] Internet radio information display

2007-09-09 Thread gerph
the metadata becomes significant. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38231

Re: [slim] Multiple ARTISTSORT (etc) tags

2007-07-06 Thread gerph
say, the above reordering may quite happily be performed by the tag editor, and cause chaos. And the walls will come tumbling down. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View

Re: [slim] 6.5.1 - Issue with Number-based Text Search?

2007-03-10 Thread gerph
from the configured list if you think 'The' is an important qualifier on a name. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t

Re: [slim] Alienbbc stops after about 6 minutes

2007-02-09 Thread gerph
bpa;178954 Wrote: There are a number of processors which seem to confound the mplayer auto processor detect. One of the many things on my todo list - is to build a version of mplayer which uses no special instructions (SSE etc.) and a 386 instruction set. If Gerph has built a suitable

Re: [slim] Alienbbc stops after about 6 minutes

2007-02-08 Thread gerph
system, and I found that mplayer compiled up and ran just fine. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32572

Re: [slim] Bugs? inaccurate library counts and tag info displayed

2007-02-07 Thread gerph
APE tags. It's handy if you happen to have people give you files that are tagged with APE and you just couldn't care less about them, or if you know that you only use ID3v2 and you don't want ID3v1 confusing you (or - as is my case - you only use ID3v1 and don't want ID3v2 confusing you). -- gerph

[slim] Re: Automatic artwork resizing

2007-01-29 Thread gerph
serving them, whereas previously it'd just pick up the thumbnail graphic which had been pre-sized correctly and serve that. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread

[slim] Re: Simple Tagging Question: AC/DC

2007-01-04 Thread gerph
of the Verve Years gets tagged exactly like that, while the folder is named Flying Home- The Best of the Verve Years. For id3v2.3 tags, however, a / (as gerph may point out) is the official field separator, so some applications that adhere to the so-called id3v2.3 spec may treat AC/DC as two

[slim] Re: DBPoweramp DMC R12 beta is PERFECT ripper for Slimserver

2006-12-30 Thread gerph
, frame 'TCOM'). -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31115 ___ discuss

[slim] Re: Tag Merging

2006-12-20 Thread gerph
need to add the configuration manually. This is left as an exercise for the reader. In the Strings.txt file, I've just added the new strings to the top of the file to make extracting them and putting them in a suitable place easier. -- gerph

[slim] Re: How do I retag?

2006-12-17 Thread gerph
as well, as you mentioned) does it revert to ID3v1. SlimServer 6.2.1 was the last version I am aware of which has the problem you cite. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View

[slim] Re: Slimserver wants a FAST machine

2006-11-29 Thread gerph
reason for losing the ability to use pre-generated thumbnails, but it seems to me like a backward step. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Best Stream quality

2006-11-27 Thread gerph
of data formats, but each to their own. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30068

[slim] Re: Best Stream quality

2006-11-27 Thread gerph
Mark Lanctot;157807 Wrote: Whoops, my memory was off here, it's 1411 kbps of course. Edit coming up. Phew! I thought for a second that my mind was going more than it already is :-) -- gerph gerph's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Tagging Rescan Questions

2006-11-15 Thread gerph
'clear and rescan' ? I'm a little surprised it takes so long to do a full clear and rescan on your system - I don't know what processor you're on but with 34,000 files here it only takes about 2 hours-ish on a 500MHz system, using Linux. -- gerph

[slim] Re: ID3v2 tags recognized by SlimServer

2006-11-11 Thread gerph
within the limited realms of the ID3v2.3 specification with the correct flags, without multiple entries, and limiting yourself to encodings 1 and 2, then you may find that it works. It wouldn't be unreasonable for it to be rejected as invalid at this or any future point in time. -- gerph

[slim] Re: ID3v2 tags recognized by SlimServer

2006-11-11 Thread gerph
JJZolx;154140 Wrote: gerph, thanks for the reply. I understand what you're saying, but I'm really looking for SlimServer's behavior. What I mean is that the TXXX one won't work the way you expect, but the TSOP (et al) should. Your best bet if you want to check these things is to try the MP3s

[slim] Re: Tags Format Problem

2006-11-09 Thread gerph
, but I guess that's just a personal choice. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29572

[slim] Re: How would you like to browse your music ?

2006-09-26 Thread gerph
, rather than to put the information either into every file as an ID3v2 frame, or within the local directory structure. Then I went and did something else. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

[slim] Re: Will Slimserver work with re-tagging?

2006-08-16 Thread gerph
'forget all the music I have and update from scratch', and 'look for new and changed' when you want to say 'I've just changed a few things - notice them, please'. -- gerph gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php