Re: [slim] SB2: nothing on display. Dead?

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Re: [slim] SB2: nothing on display. Dead?

I will remove the wifi board tonight. Cheers. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86920

Re: [slim] SB2: nothing on display. Dead?

. Thanks everybody for your help. I shall post back if I'm able to get it going without buying an entire replacement! -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http

Re: [slim] SB2: nothing on display. Dead?

though -- I had no idea how much I'd be spending on a power supply, so you've given me a ball park I can work with! -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http

Re: [slim] SB2: nothing on display. Dead?

Right, I've bought it. I have my fingers crossed that it will bring my precious SB2 back to life! It's had a good run if not. Thanks again. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752

Re: [slim] SB2: nothing on display. Dead?

Okay, thanks, good suggestions! Would a faulty wifi board make the box appear invisible to the server too? (It's connected by ethernet.) -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View

Re: [slim] SB2: nothing on display. Dead?

was celebrating the arrival of a battery for my SB Radio yesterday, in time for barbecue season, and carried the Radio around the house only to encounter the dead SB2! From a high to a low, just like that. -- smst smst's

[slim] SB2: nothing on display. Dead?

; I love the SB Radio in my kitchen but can't justify buying something new with digital out. (Heck, I've just realised: no SB2 means no listening to my 5.1 rips! I'll have to start digging out DVDs...) Cheers, Steve -- smst

Re: [slim] Is third party plugins/applets important for your Squeezebox purchases ?

. For example, Stuart Hickinbottom's Lazy Search plugin is an essential for me; for a numeric remote like the (old) Squeezebox's, it's a surprise that it's not been rolled in to the core product. -- smst smst's Profile: http

Re: [slim] Information

mherger;311479 Wrote: http://www.slimdevices.com/subscribe/?p=subscribe I subscribed to that newsletter in September 2007 (and then again in January 2008, it seems) and have never received anything beyond the initial confirmations. Has there been no news in the last 9 months? -- smst

Re: [slim] Information

and bugzilla emails are there though. I've recently noticed another email newsletter has stopped coming, so I wonder if my ISP or my email forwarding provider are stopping them (despite me asking them to apply no junk filtering). -- smst

Re: [slim] Why is SlimServer so slow?

DanielTheGreat;279099 Wrote: Incidentally (smst), how do you create the little box around your code fragment? [You can see I'm a complete novice to this forum stuff.] Like so: *[**code]insert code here[/**code]* Code: insert code here

Re: [slim] Why is SlimServer so slow?

if metaflac is distributed with SlimServer or not; it's available from the FLAC website though.) Code: metaflac.exe --remove-replay-gain My DTS File.flac SMST, you've made some great suggestions about special tags for surround tracks - I heartily agree

Re: [slim] Why is SlimServer so slow?

with RG disabled, I imagine the last two are okay, but check anyway. Perhaps things have changed between SS 6.5.4 and SS 7, but I can't see why the server would apply RG with no RG tags set. -- smst smst's Profile: http

Re: [slim] Why is SlimServer so slow?

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Re: [slim] First Surround 5.1 Webradio !

: if it understands AC3 or DTS, it will play them back. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36771

Re: [slim] Announce: DirectPlaybookPDF - turn your music collection into a book

. I was hoping to avoid having a PC in the living room, however. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29630

Re: [slim] Quality of Slimserver

or the other.) -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35492 ___ discuss

Re: [slim] Announce: DirectPlaybookPDF - turn your music collection into a book

there's a need, then letting it be when it's satisfactory.) Cheers, Steve -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29630

Re: [slim] Announce: DirectPlaybookPDF - turn your music collection into a book

. Thanks again for DirectPlaybookPDF -- even though I haven't bought any hardware to use it yet, I appreciate the fact that the software exists and you've taken the time to make it work. -- smst smst's Profile: http

Re: [slim] Forum Cleanup

, etc) forum). Thanks for cleaning up the forums! -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34982

[slim] Re: Announce: Official SlimServer v6.5.1 Release

, and would refer to this very thread for follow-up discussion (keeping the announcements list free of follow-ups). This seems like a good time to raise the suggestion again. Thanks, Steve -- smst smst's Profile: http

[slim] Re: DTS rip from DVD

to the main AC3/DTS thread with some more information on using spdifconvert in a terminal on a Mac. It might be helpful to you. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread

[slim] Re: Will there ever be a video squeezebox ?

that, the model I bought integrates with a particular brand of modchip, and may not work with softmod XBoxes... I don't know enough about it to say for sure!) So the problem can be solved. -- smst smst's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Will there ever be a video squeezebox ?

except to learn commands on the Harmony, and maybe not even that as the official Microsoft remote/dongle is based on the same signals as RCA DVD players use.) -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

[slim] Re: DTS rip from DVD

of a DTS file). If you decide to take a look at it, do ask for any help you need in the other thread. BTW, smst, have you seen the DVD of Porcupine Tree at Rockpalast? It's pretty incredible, if you can find it. I think it was shot for German television and is tough to find in the States. I

[slim] Re: DTS rip from DVD

at the weekend! -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30461 ___ discuss

[slim] Re: DTS rip from DVD

or a CD/DVD writer...) Good luck with it. If you have any problems, please post back to the AC3/DTS thread (where problems are collected). -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View

[slim] Re: DTS rip from DVD

think it's easy to transform them (I tried it once but the resultant streams were never useful). But since you don't need to sample-rate convert anyway, it doesn't matter. :-) -- smst smst's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?

, so I was wondering if anyone knew of any legitimate ways to view them for free. Do they tend to be available in public libraries? (I'm in the UK.) University libraries maybe? -- smst smst's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?

to be stereo). That's just one receiver out of many, so maybe 6-channel PCM is still viable. I suspect that the best way to get this to work would be if a receiver supported MP3 Surround files natively, and could be passed the data over S/PDIF. -- smst

[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?

to support MP3 Surround, it might be possible to just wrap such a file in a WAV container (as we can do for AC3/DTS files sourced from DVD) and pass it straight through. Would be nicer if the SB2 could support it though. -- smst

[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?

be made to work, the SB2/3 firmware could probably do it for us. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112

[slim] Re: Surround MP3 supported?

/DTS, and then without firmware changes it'll pass right through. But that supposes that I can work out how to convert it; I'll probably have a look in the next few days. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Problem with FFWD/REW of Ogg Vorbis

the same error. (And presumably the built-in version would have been used by default, right?) Is this a known problem? Can anyone suggest something I've overlooked? Which debugging flags should I enable to help diagnose the error? Thanks, Steve -- smst

[slim] Re: Problem with FFWD/REW of Ogg Vorbis

I see; thanks for pointing that out. I can do without it, as I have done until now -- just wanted to be sure there wasn't something broken at my end. Cheers. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Problem with FFWD/REW of Ogg Vorbis

Vorbis). Thanks, Steve -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27862

[slim] Re: Squeezebox wav frequency limitations

it. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27593 ___ discuss mailing list discuss

[slim] Re: Squeezebox wav frequency limitations

Sounds like Bug#128: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=128 -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27593

[slim] Re: Mediamax

According to this page: http://www.axonix.com/howToBuy/basePricing.php ...the AudioDeck starts at $600 (US dollars I suppose) for a wired version. That's quite a lot more than the SB3 price, isn't it? -- smst smst's

[slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7

on the audio format. Do you use a format which supports multiple genres? (And does SlimServer support that?) You might be able to just add that NotForKids genre to the existing genre. -- smst smst's Profile: http

[slim] TRACKNUMBER tag in MP3s not recognised

for the track number? Thanks, Steve -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25312

[slim] Re: TRACKNUMBER tag in MP3s not recognised

for the suggestion. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25312 ___ discuss

[slim] Re: TRACKNUMBER tag in MP3s not recognised

for your help guys. -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25312 ___ discuss

[slim] Re: DTS problem

be through a custom tag or the presence of certain values (DTS, Dolby Digital, etc) in a genre list.) -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Is there an announcements-only mailing list?

http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/announce Perfect! Just what I was looking for. Is that referenced anywhere? I couldn't find it when I was looking for such a thing earlier. Thanks! -- smst smst's Profile

[slim] Re: 48KHz playback?

to the latest nightly for that new firmware and I still get a gap between AC3.FLAC files; I haven't tried stereo files since the update. (And that new firmware appears to solve my full-bitrate DTS issues too, which is extremely pleasing!) -- smst

[slim] Re: 48KHz playback?

/show_bug.cgi?id=128), right? Is this still slated to be fixed? -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=6405

[slim] Re: 48KHz playback?

it out with concert footage if I can find the time; you're just grabbing the stereo, not the 5.1 mix, right? -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: The only downside I've noticed

rescan, which is why I originally suggested using a disc's own barcode (and creating your own for those without one). I've typed all my CDs' barcodes in as metadata already, but the prospect of getting all that information may seem a little daunting... -- smst

[slim] Re: Zaireeka

to mono and used a Dolby Digital encoder to put each disc on a separate channel. Not quite as organic as doing it the proper way. :-) -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View

[slim] Re: Zaireeka

page of a novel to read the ending without experiencing the journey... And TBH it's not an album I tend to listen to very often -- it's certainly not as accessible as their proper albums. Still, it's nice to get these things working. -- smst

[slim] Re: DTS files

DTS (with the intention that any non-null value means this is digital). But I don't actually do anything with that tag. :-) -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: The only downside I've noticed

, essentially.) Cheers, Steve -- smst smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20138

[slim] Re: SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues

correctly -- I asked the other day and was told, IIRC, that the sign of each 16-bit word is inverted (or something along those lines). In theory one could modify the underlying WAV to compensate for this... -- smst smst's Profile

[slim] Telling SlimServer about new music (XML? CLI?)

URLs to try so I can play with it myself? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- smst ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss