[slim] Help me getting a job. ;)

2009-03-24 Thread jaysung
Hello, A friend of mine runs a business which is about hifi and home cinema. He has a customer who has: a 40 inch Sony tft display where he uses to watch movies. A decent hifi system where he now listens to cds. He will drop his cds all together and He will buy a ripping station with SC7 on it

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2009-03-24 Thread pippin
jaysung;409435 Wrote: Hello, A friend of mine runs a business which is about hifi and home cinema. He has a customer who has: a 40 inch Sony tft display where he uses to watch movies. A decent hifi system where he now listens to cds. He will drop his cds all together and He will buy a

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2009-03-24 Thread simbo
- browse album art (preferably in iphonish cover flow fashion on his fancy tft screen in full size, select the album he wants and make the transporter play it. I was working on a cover-flow-esque interface a while back that ran full-screen on my TV (see image below)... but when the

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2009-03-24 Thread autopilot
simbo;409452 Wrote: I was working on a cover-flow-esque interface a while back that ran full-screen on my TV (see image below)... but when the Controller/SqueezePlay came out it kind of made it redundant (3D's cool but not vital), so I stopped working on it. Full post 'here'

Re: [slim] Help me getting a job. ;)

2009-03-24 Thread jaysung
Hello, using a squeezebox controller would be an option but I wonder if the display is big enough. I imagine a person who is perhaps a bit aged and has trouble reading the display without his glases. Haven't any clue about the real world user experience with the controller (I am fully blind

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2009-03-24 Thread simbo
autopilot;409455 Wrote: Your time would be better spent doing something about that wallpaper. He he... tell me about it - we'd only moved in a few months before that picture was taken... and we still haven't got round to redecorating! -- simbo *bedroom:* squeezebox boom; *study:* squeezebox

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2009-03-24 Thread pippin
jaysung;409458 Wrote: PS.: Will take a look a ipeng. But it is an iphone's app isn't it? So the display isn't any bigger? It's 3.5, I believe, about twice the size of the controller's. You want to use the iPod touch instead of the phone as a controller, of course. Size: Well, depends. Of

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2009-03-24 Thread simbo
jaysung;409458 Wrote: btw. How do you guys get album art? There is a feature in SC7.3? Ripnas is claimed to do that as well but I read that it doesn't always get the covers right. Any hints on getting album art would be apreciated as well. SqueezeCenter won't get album art for you, you

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2009-03-24 Thread jaysung
Yep, it is dbpoweramp which is working in ripnas. So anyone about dbpoweramp and it's reliability with covers? What about an ipod touch? 3.5 inch screen ? Could someone think about a convertible netbook with a touch screen? Which skin would you use? Sleek, and quite simple not too much black text

Re: [slim] Help me getting a job. ;)

2009-03-24 Thread simbo
jaysung;409495 Wrote: Could someone think about a convertible netbook with a touch screen? How about a Nokia tablet (N700/N770/N800/N810)? -- simbo *bedroom:* squeezebox boom; *study:* squeezebox 3; *lounge:* softsqueeze; *conservatory/garden:* squeezebox receiver; *anywhere:* squeezebox

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2009-03-24 Thread iPhone
jaysung;409495 Wrote: Yep, it is dbpoweramp which is working in ripnas. So anyone about dbpoweramp and it's reliability with covers? What about an ipod touch? 3.5 inch screen ? Could someone think about a convertible netbook with a touch screen? Which skin would you use? Sleek, and quite

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2009-03-24 Thread jaysung
Well, basically the guy must have something REALLY exclusive. And if he spends some money on it that really supports the feeling. And ripnas was the first solution I found. Will take a look at Vortexbox. But ripnas is silent and can sit in the same room. Making cd ripping a living room task which

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2009-03-24 Thread Nonreality
iPhone;409557 Wrote: As for album art with dBpowerAmp, it gets it right more times then not. Everybody tends to have some CDs that don't match or can#8217;t be found, for those few all one needs is a scanner or AIO printer to put the cover art in. dBpoweramp gets probably 95 % of mine

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2009-03-24 Thread sredmyer
jaysung;409435 Wrote: Hello, A friend of mine runs a business which is about hifi and home cinema. He has a customer who has: a 40 inch Sony tft display where he uses to watch movies. A decent hifi system where he now listens to cds. He will drop his cds all together and He will buy a