[slim] AlienBBC BBC live problems

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Scott
Hi guys Hope I have the right place for this discussion. I am running AlienBBC on Win XP and got everythings working with MPlayer :) after some messing around. I can stream to softsqueeze all the archived Radio 4 programs but nothing playable comes under BBC live. I am using v0.94. Is

Re: [slim] Re: Re: Wow

2005-03-15 Thread Steven Moore
9662 tracks. On 14 Mar 2005, at 11:47 pm, Dan Sully wrote: * Steven Moore shaped the electrons to say... 2005-03-14 22:08:24.0652 SlimServer persist playlists... 2005-03-14 22:08:24.0657 SlimServer done start... Can't locate object method new via package Class::DBI::Iterator (perhaps you forgot

Re: [slim] Re: Re: Wow

2005-03-15 Thread Steven Moore
Started the server this morning and did a search, Cpu went to to 70% again without stopping, log 2005-03-15 08:18:16.3086 SlimServer done start... getpeername() on closed socket GEN6 at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/IO/Socket.pm line 206. getpeername() on closed

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze - where did the search UI go?

2005-03-15 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Titmuss[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The search and playlist are not working correctly with slimserver 6.0. I will fix this soon, but for the moment I have disabled this feature. Great stuff, thanks to all for the responses. Andy

[slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-15 Thread Nicholas Harmer
Chris Having just successfuly installed SlimServer 6 (March 14th nightly) on my LS-120, I recognised your problem regarding /etc/passwd. I has major problems with the display of vi in my telnet sessions, including the overwriting of the first line of each file, which makes it impossible to see

Re: [slim] AlienBBC BBC live problems

2005-03-15 Thread Neil Sleightholm
They BBC Live menu items don't work at the moment. You can achive the same thing by going through Listen again, Radio 4, Listen Live. To make this easier you can setup a playlist to go straight to the play live items e.g. #EXTM3U #EXTINF:-1,Radio 4 Live

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
While this is true, bandwidth / size is not really an issue any more in any kind of stationary setup. Harddisk sizes are such that even encoding your CDs in a lossless codec is hardly worth the effort anymore - if it weren't for tagging support I'm sure some people would just rip to .wav

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:42:40 +0100, Christian Pernegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] But there's one thing I just noticed: STREAMING. I Yes - if SlimServer could stream in ogg, there's a good chance it would make it into distros like Fedora etc. Streaming in flac/PCM is OK but not a lot of people keep

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:26:49 +0100, Christian Pernegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OGG is an open format. OGG is the default for the FEDORA distribution. MP3 was eliminated from FEDORA due to licensing considerations. You can of course obtain MP3 and install it, but the fact remains that MP3

[slim] Issues with Nightly 15-3-05

2005-03-15 Thread Neil Cameron
Much improved, but the most annoying thing is that Slimserver occasionally just does not move on to the next track in the playlist without another SKIP or PLAY to bump it along. Also, if I have a Track One with a non fully initially capitalised file name, I end up with two Track Ones in the

[slim] Just noise from Softsqueeze

2005-03-15 Thread Craig
Using Softsqueeze from 15/03 nightly's and all the previous versionssince V6aall I'm getting output is white noise. I've tried playing wav,aac and mp3 and they're all the same. Changing the Audio mixer and buffer size have no effect either. I'm using XPPro with an MAudio soundcard.

Re: [slim] Re: Nightlies

2005-03-15 Thread JJ
- Original Message - From: Dan Sully [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: [slim] Re: Nightlies * JJ shaped the electrons to say... Where does one download the nightlies and what is the version numbering

Re: [slim] AlienBBC BBC live problems

2005-03-15 Thread neil . coburn
This is normal - to quote the notes from the Alien BBC download page: Some menus do not work correctly - 5live and listen live. In the meantime, the 'Listen Live' links can be found through 'Listen Again' ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Compilations and artists

2005-03-15 Thread Graham
Hi My collecstion contains a large number of compilation albums, I use Itunes and they are defined as compilations in there so the artists do not appear on the artist list. I would like Slimserver to behave in this manner, does anyone know if this is possible ?. Thanks Graham

Re: [slim] RFI with SB. Will it happen with SB2?

2005-03-15 Thread Alan D. Falk
I did the search for existing threads on this topic. I must have done the search wrong or missed the thread. Anyway, a big thanks for the info. I guess, you pays yer money and takes yer chances, as a great American once said. Thomas B. Malsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Re: [slim] Compilations and artists

2005-03-15 Thread Marc Sherman
Graham wrote: Hi My collecstion contains a large number of compilation albums, I use Itunes and they are defined as compilations in there so the artists do not appear on the artist list. I would like Slimserver to behave in this manner, does anyone know if this is possible ?. Vote for bug 288. -

Re: [slim] Ordering SB2 in the Uk

2005-03-15 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Still[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DABS are still taking orders at their lower prices - ie £136 wired/£190 wireless. No wired in stock, showing 2 in next 3-4 days on the wireless. Are the chances of them delivering SB1s now zero or could there

Re: [slim] Re: Re: Re: Problem starting 6.0b1on FC3 (was Problem starting5.4.0on FC3)

2005-03-15 Thread John Rakestraw
Michael Peters wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:59:44 -0500, John Rakestraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: attrpms and dag and freshrpm's often have updated versions of core packages. If you use them (I don't) then maybe your perl modules already were what they needed to be (I don't know what they offer

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
Wait, you're telling me that the packages a certain commercial Linux distributor ships have any impact on the market? Sorry, but no. Linux marketshare is definitely growing - don't ignore it. Yes. But to push one product with another you need a far bigger chunk of the market than Linux

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:06:10PM +0100, Christian Pernegger wrote: Wait, you're telling me that the packages a certain commercial Linux distributor ships have any impact on the market? Sorry, but no. Linux marketshare is definitely growing - don't ignore it. Yes. But to push one

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
Yes - if SlimServer could stream in ogg, there's a good chance it would make it into distros like Fedora etc. Again, what has support of a particular format got to do with putting slimserver in a distribution? Nothing. Yes - that's SlimServer and not firmware, but if ogg is in firmware, a side

[slim] How to tag multi-cd flac?

2005-03-15 Thread Avi Schwartz
Hi, I was wondering how should I tag (i.e. what tag take to use) when ripping a multiple CD album so that slimserver will show them as a single album? Thanks, Avi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

RE: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Jason
I'm not so sure. While a lot of the people doing the coding and such are Linux advocates something like 80% of the downloads for Slim Server are for Windows. I would say most users on this list are aware of Linux and the advantages/drawbacks to using it (I myself run my slimserver on FC2) so

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Hunter
Interesting discussion. BTW, what is this KRUD (wink and nod to our friends at tummy.com) about FEDORA being a commercial distribution? It is not. The topic is a request to have OGG in firmware. I remember when MP3 was dropped from the distro. While I didn't switch my entire library like

RE: [slim] How to tag multi-cd flac?

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
I was wondering how should I tag (i.e. what tag take to use) when ripping a multiple CD album so that slimserver will show them as a single album? Set the value of the DISC tag to the number of the disc, then set the 'show multi-disc sets as single album' option in settings. C.

RE: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Jason
Do you also find it silly that hardly any portable players even support OGG? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hunter Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:40 AM To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS

[slim] Huge artist list

2005-03-15 Thread Danny Rego
I have an adam sandler album, and on his albums there are many artists, so a track might have this set... Artist : Adam Sandler; David Spade ...slim server takes that, and puts ADAM SANDLER in the artist list.DAVID SPADE in the artist list, and ALSO "ADAM SANDLER/DAVID SPADE" Is there

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Mark Komarinski wrote: Much of Slim Devices' success to this point can probably be attributed to Linux users. OK now where did you get that statistic from? -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Aaron Zinck
Come on, this hardly seems reasonable. It's one thing to request a feature, it's quite another to demand it. With most products you're lucky to get it to do what it advertises it can do--yet here you're making demands of slimdevices to add new features? They've provided hardware decoding of the

Re: [slim] Ordering SB2 in the Uk

2005-03-15 Thread Simon Still
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:58:10 + (UTC), Andy Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've ordered mine from Multitask Computing, at 199 including delivery. They have been taking quite a few orders apparently, so it could be mid-April before I get mine they said. It will be interesting to see

Re: [slim] Huge artist list

2005-03-15 Thread Neil Cameron
It's a Server option under Behaviour, option Composer, Band and Orchestra in Artists set it to "Don't" etc... Must have been changed on upgrade. -- Neil "Danny Rego" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I have an adam sandler album, and on his albums there

Re: [slim] Ordering SB2 in the Uk

2005-03-15 Thread Craig
I wouldn't touch DABS again with a shitty stick!!!, I got my SB's from Multitask with no problems. Craig ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Slightly OT: Converting MP3 bitrates

2005-03-15 Thread Aynsley Blake
This is a bit OT, but I'm looking for a utility for mass converting MP3 files. I have about 8500 tracks, all MP3 all 320kbps, all tagged and set up as \artist\album\tracknumber - trackname.mp3 I want to find a utility which I can point at the root of this directory structure and leave for a

RE: [slim] Slightly OT: Converting MP3 bitrates

2005-03-15 Thread Craig, James (IT)
Aynsley, I think that dbPowerAmp could do that. There is a converter type plugin for it. I used it to convert all my .ogg files to .mp3 when I realised how limiting ogg files are. (ha ha couldn't resist that given the other discussion going on!) James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Simon Oosthoek
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:59:43AM -0700, Jason wrote: Do you also find it silly that hardly any portable players even support OGG? yes, especially since there's a completely free (BSD style license) decoder available: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/hardware.html or directly

Re: [slim] Huge artist list

2005-03-15 Thread Neil Coburn
I have the same problem, which was reported as a bug and was supposed to be fixed in the 03/13/2005 nightly (though I haven't tried it) See: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

RE: [slim] Squeezebox2

2005-03-15 Thread Arthur Cheng
Dear Sean, Do you need someone from the group to work with Chinese Character for you? I know someone who may help! Arthur -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Adams Sent: Friday, 11 March, 2005 0:40 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject:

Re: [slim] How to tag multi-cd flac?

2005-03-15 Thread Olav Sunde
I have tried to get the 'show multi-disc...as single..' to work with flac images for some time without luck. Tag v. 2.0.42 have theese options: --title --artist --album --year --comment --track --genre There is no DISC tag here and it seems the album tag is not the same. I have also tried

Re: [slim] How to tag multi-cd flac?

2005-03-15 Thread Avi Schwartz
Olav Sunde wrote: I have tried to get the 'show multi-disc...as single..' to work with flac images for some time without luck. Tag v. 2.0.42 have theese options: --title --artist --album --year --comment --track --genre There is no DISC tag here and it seems the album tag is not the same.

Re: [slim] Huge artist list

2005-03-15 Thread Danny Rego
Thank you for sparing me the pain of searching through bugzilla. (nasty) Danny Rego - Original Message - From: Neil Coburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [slim] Huge artist list I have the same problem, which was

Re: [slim] Slightly OT: Converting MP3 bitrates

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
An other solution might be foobar2000. This little program has build-in masstagger functionality and can convert to several other formats. See www.foobar2000.org Karel On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:02:30 -, Craig, James (IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aynsley, I think that dbPowerAmp could do

Re: [slim] How to tag multi-cd flac?

2005-03-15 Thread Jason Voegele
Avi Schwartz said: I didn't get a chance to try Christian's suggestion yet, I will try tonight when I am at home, but as I understand it, FLAC (as well as Ogg Vorbis) are not limited to a given set of tags since they are held as OggV comments so I should be able to create a new tag named DISC

[slim] iTunes Update and Slimserver 6.0b1

2005-03-15 Thread Allan Hise
Does anyone have the iTunes update plugin working with Slimserver 6? I'm running last night's version of the server on OS X, and the server crashes shortly after starting with the plugin installed. Ideas? thanks! Allan ___ Discuss mailing list

RE: [slim] iTunes Update and Slimserver 6.0b1

2005-03-15 Thread Allan Hise
Hi James, Yep, I have the version for slimserver 6. The server isn't up long enough to turn on debug flags in the web interface, so if you could suggest which ones to turn on from the command line, I would appreciate it! Here's what I get in the log with the plugin in place: (note - I got the

Re: [slim] AlienBBC BBC live problems

2005-03-15 Thread Jules Taplin
Indeed. Thanks, Neil, for pointing that out. Actually... the pages that 'Listen Live' uses don't exist any more... so that menu option will probably just disappear altogether. Although we might have to rename 'Listen Again' to make it all make sense ;) -- Jules [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is

[slim] Invalid path name used in music file

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Moseley
Where do bugs get posted? This is on Debian Sid. I just now downloaded the 2005-03-15 nightly and started the server with the following script: #!/bin/sh CWD=$(pwd) ./slimserver.pl --daemon \ --audiodir $HOME/music \ --playlistdir $HOME/playlists \ --cachedir

Re: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
The signal is being upsampled to 24bits/96kHz for a better resolution of the output. The Behringer is also reclocking the signal and cleaning it from the control-bits (CRC, copy etc.). All together the soundstream is rinsed this way. Normally I would not expect any difference because, heh, the

Re: [slim] 6.0b1 iTunes problems

2005-03-15 Thread Healy
Aarrrg. Worked fine until I cleared the cache rescanned the db for recent changes. Now it's back down to only reporting 5% of my files. Back to the testing board. -Healy On Mar 13, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Healy wrote: Finally had the time to test, retest test again. It was a

[slim] Re: Problem playing everything

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Sully
* Craig shaped the electrons to say... If I go to browse albums on the player then hit play to play everything, it takes about 20 seconds to build the playlist ( 9000 songs) which is ok but during that time I get a lost contact with server message. This is the way I often use my player and it

[slim] Re: Invalid path name used in music file

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Sully
* Bill Moseley shaped the electrons to say... Where do bugs get posted? http://bugs.slimdevices.com/ $ cat server.log File /home/moseley/music/beatles/sgt_peppers_lonely_hearts_club_band/beatles - sgt_peppers_lonely_hearts_club_band - 01 - sgt_peppers_lonely_hearts_club_band.ogg does not exist or

[slim] Re: 6.0b1 iTunes problems

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Sully
* Healy shaped the electrons to say... Aarrrg. Worked fine until I cleared the cache rescanned the db for recent changes. Now it's back down to only reporting 5% of my files. Back to the testing board. Why did you clear the cache first? You should only need to rescan.

Re: [slim] Re: 6.0b1 iTunes problems

2005-03-15 Thread Healy
I tried a rescan first, then cleared the cache when that did not work. Slimserver was not picking up a recent addition of a miles davis box set long past the 600 seconds that was set in the itunes rescan time. I've hit a wall, I can't figure out what's going on. I backed up my entire iTunes

Re: [slim] Re: gapless playback with mp3 - another shot

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
kick On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:04:57 +0100, Karel Tromp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an proud owner of the SB1: would it be difficult to implement it on the SB1 or solve it in Slimserver? Karel On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:27:51 -0800, Vidur Apparao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like the

Re: [slim] Re: gapless playback with mp3 - another shot

2005-03-15 Thread Jason Holtzapple
Is there any particular reason you can't use a CD-length mp3 file + cuesheet? I've been using these since the beginning* to get gapless playback on slimp3 squeezebox. * 2002 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Re: Invalid path name used in music file

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:14:43AM -0800, Dan Sully wrote: Where do bugs get posted? http://bugs.slimdevices.com/ Should they be posted here before posting a related bug or (horrors) due to user error? No.. we're very case sensetive. Is that path a network share by any chance? No, it's

Re: [slim] Re: Problem playing everything

2005-03-15 Thread Craig
Dan Sully wrote: * Craig shaped the electrons to say... If I go to browse albums on the player then hit play to play everything, it takes about 20 seconds to build the playlist ( 9000 songs) which is ok but during that time I get a lost contact with server message. This is the way I often use my

[slim] Random play vs. non-random play

2005-03-15 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
Is there a way (talking about 6.0, not 5.4.x) to tell Slimserver to randomize some play modes and playing songs in order. An example of each: Random: Select an artist and hit play. It would be nice to be able to exclude some genres (like Christmas) on the fly, but I'll save that for

[slim] Serving DTS CDs

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Elen
I have a number of DTS CDs and I notice that if I rip content to .WAV (which should basically just suck the data off the disc) they don't decode at the SB end (you get white noise, which is what you get if you try lossy-encoding them). I am using S/PDIF coax out of the box into a surround

Re: [slim] Random play vs. non-random play

2005-03-15 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15/05 3:42 PM you can shuffle by song, or by album. current mode is what you get. There are already requests for several tweaks to random: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40

RE: [slim] iTunes Update and Slimserver 6.0b1

2005-03-15 Thread Allan Hise
I did more digging in log files and found that the require Mac::AppleScript::Glue line is actually crashing perl. Odd... very odd... Ayone else using this in OS X? Allan On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Craig, James (IT) wrote: Hi Allan, Have you downloaded the new version of the plugin for

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:13:26 +0100, Christian Pernegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes - if SlimServer could stream in ogg, there's a good chance it would make it into distros like Fedora etc. Again, what has support of a particular format got to do with putting slimserver in a distribution?

Re: [slim] AlienBBC BBC live problems

2005-03-15 Thread BenRubinstein
Jules Taplin wrote: Actually... the pages that 'Listen Live' uses don't exist any more... so that menu option will probably just disappear altogether. Although we might have to rename 'Listen Again' to make it all make sense ;) (speaking as someone who hasn't yet managed to get AlienBBC up -

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:09:21 -0600, Michael Alletto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a product states that it supports it it will just confuse people. Why? I mean really, OGG? Naming is everything and that name sucks. I don't think it sucks. It's no worse than mp3 or aac or flac. You try

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:23:32 +0100, Christian Pernegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would only be relevant if you were streaming formats other than mp3 to the sb as mp3, i.e. if you were transcoding to mp3 on the server. As long as you just pass through mp3 data to the Squeezebox you

Re: [slim] Serving DTS CDs

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Elen
Thanks for this... I gather SB2 corrects the problem. No guesses as to which unit will be connected to the surround system once the SB2 arrives, then! I might sign-invert a file to see what happens but apart from that I'll wait... --Richard E Aaron Zinck wrote: This has been discussed. The

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:31:06 +0100, Christian Pernegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait a minute, didn't you just bash mp3 halfway around the list because it was patent encumbered? Yet you consider AAC? I just don't get you... I didn't bash mp3. It is a very good lossy codec. mp3 (and aac)

[slim] Memory footprint with 6.0b1

2005-03-15 Thread James Dunn
Hi, I have a RH 7.2 system with 512MB memory in it I have 6.0b1 installed and 5676 tracks in it. I'm using MySQL as the database and It's nicely populated. I've iTunes disabled (and I've even renamed the XML file so that it can't be found). Everything generally works fine (unless I explore

Re: [slim] Rescan issue ...

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Reeve
Mike Reeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SlimServer_v2005-03-11.dmg + OS X 10.3.8 + approx. 3000 songs: - Rescan takes a couple of minutes SlimServer_v2005-03-15.dmg (and 03-14 also): - Rescan never seems to end (waited approx. 4 hours) ... As further background: (1) I'm

RE: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread JMK VTX
Erh, eh... Perhaps I'm missing something (literally) as I go from the SB via the phono plugs into a Krell PAM III pre-amp, Krell KSA-50 combo. As the preamp does not have digital in, should I be thinking of getting a converter and doing a conversion to analog outside the SB? - John -- No virus

Re: [slim] Issues with SoftSqueeze 2.0a11

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Titmuss
David Makoski wrote: I first report an issue with just getting static when I play a song. All music in Apple Lossless audio format. In the SoftSqueeze console I get: 10125 [AudioMixer-0] WARN javasound - Java Sound Audio buffer underrun bufAvail=3449216 11922 [AudioMixer-0] WARN javasound -

Re: [slim] Just noise from Softsqueeze

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Titmuss
Craig wrote: Using Softsqueeze from 15/03 nightly's and all the previous versions since V6a all I'm getting output is white noise. I've tried playing wav, aac and mp3 and they're all the same. Changing the Audio mixer and buffer size have no effect either. I'm using XPPro with an MAudio

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
I am stating point blank that the patent issues are in fact a problem for SlimServer ever being included in Fedora/Red Hat mainline distribution Then your feature request should not be 'please include native .ogg support in the sb2', it should be 'please try to get slimserver into an official RH

RE: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Jason
Why on earth would Slim give a damn if Slim server was included in mainline Linux distributions? Do you really think that the inclusion of Slim Server software is going to sell extra Squeezeboxes? Actually there is no reason Slim Server cannot be included in a core distribution as it is, they do

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Jason wrote: Why on earth would Slim give a damn if Slim server was included in mainline Linux distributions? Do you really think that the inclusion of Slim Server software is going to sell extra Squeezeboxes? While I may not think that native OGG in the firmware is much of a priority it

Re: [slim] Re: gapless playback with mp3 - another shot

2005-03-15 Thread Jason Holtzapple
Karel Tromp wrote: I have now app. 7500 mp3 files/tracks. Following your procedure I have to re-encode all of my cd's or glue-ing them together with audacity or some other program. Besides that, I just want to choose tracks from a album to make mp3-cd's for use in vacation. Therefore I think

Re: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
As told by several posts in this forum the DAC of the SB2 is a significant better one than the one used in the original SB. It can be most suprising what a seperate DAC (f.e. a behringer or an apogee) can do with the signal from the SB1 even without upsampling it. I bought the Behringer after I

Re: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Elen
Karel Tromp wrote: ...The Apogee Mini-DAC is also named as an excellent DAC for signals from CD, PC (yes) and other digital devices. I used to work for Apogee, so I'm biased (which way?), but their stuff is very good indeed. They often have specials of one sort or another, at:

[slim] Re: Rescan issue ...

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Sully
* Mike Reeve shaped the electrons to say... Please email me the log files. Thanks! -D -- ( ( ( [ ] ) ) ) In Stereo Where Available ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Hey, I think that is excellent. I sent in a request to SLIMDEVICES to have OGG added to the firmware as I mentioned in a previous post. As a side note, I'm surprised by the negative attitude of a few people regarding the adding of this feature. I don't use FLAC currently, don't have any plans,

Re: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
Now I am using the build-in DAC from Marantz SR5400 OSE AV receiver. It accepts the 24b/96Khz signal from the Behringer and delivers an amazing clear sound. But... the Behringer can do a bit of DAC converting by itself (through assymetric XLR connectors). When I can get a pair of cables for

Re: [slim] Re: 6.0b1 iTunes problems

2005-03-15 Thread Healy
OK, this is just wacky now: With an absolutely clean install and NO music folder and NO itunes folder, I get a wacked track count like this: Your music library contains 1 album with 0 songs by 1 artist. ran the server with the following command line options: --logfile /etc/slim/error.log

Re: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Elen
Karel Tromp wrote: till I am curious how the analoge output of the SB2 will sound related to the ones I use now On paper, ie the DAC chip in use, the SB2 DAC should significantly out-perform the one in the SB1. I never liked the analog outs of the SB1 and I'm expecting the one on the SB2

Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-15 Thread Marc D . Field
In article news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way Marc, one useful addition to your excellent script may be to advise that a copy is taken of the password file before any drastic editing. Excellent idea. Marc -- Marc

Re: [slim] Re: Re: 6.0b1 iTunes problems

2005-03-15 Thread Healy
On Mar 15, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Dan Sully wrote: * Healy shaped the electrons to say... OK, this is just wacky now: With an absolutely clean install and NO music folder and NO itunes folder, I get a wacked track count like this: Your music library contains 1 album with 0 songs by 1 artist. So this

[slim] Issues with SoftSqueeze 2.0a11 new info

2005-03-15 Thread David Makoski
I tried playing MP3s vs. my Apple LossLess audio, and MP3 seem to play just fine. Only the Apple LossLess produce nothing but static. As soon as I get my news reader to append I'll do that but for now I have to send seperate emails. Thanks, how this issue gets resolved.

[slim] Ogg Vorbis Support on SB2?

2005-03-15 Thread Dan
What is all this talk about the SqueezeBox2 not supporting Ogg Vorbis. The features page states that it does and that is why I bought one. Please don't tell me I can't play my Ogg Vorbis music files on the SqueezeBox2... Dan ___ Discuss mailing

[slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread Dave
Hi All, Ive just setup my new slimserver box running Mandrake 10.1 with the new Seagate 400Gb Barracuda HDD. Im about to re-archive my CD collection and now that Ive got space to burn Im considering using a lossless format of some description so as to repoducce the sweetest possible sound.

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread jan van mourik
Dave, Good forum: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=62 BTW. I just EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to rip my cds and compress to flac in one step. jan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Ogg Vorbis Support on SB2?

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:17:39PM -0800, Michael Peters wrote: Oh you can - the ogg files are decoded on the server, and then sent to the squeezebox either re-encoded as an mp3, flac, or unencoded as a PCM. Sorry if I missed something in this thread, but what's the down side of ogg-pcm on the

Re: [slim] Ogg Vorbis Support on SB2?

2005-03-15 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050315 19:07]: Sorry if I missed something in this thread, but what's the down side of ogg-pcm on the server? Bandwidth to the SB? I suspect that might be the issue for higher bitrates. (Yes, I'm not an audio engineer.) When you use mp3 or ogg, you have a

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:27:00 +1000, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose one thing to also consider is which encoder to use and does it have CCD or similar titling database support (on that note do lossless formats support tagging??) Anyways, if anybody has some advice that you think

[slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Haan
Ok, I've upgraded to 6.0. Pre 6.0, I would sometimes come across inconsistencies in artist names, or album names (and vs , or In vs in) and I would fix it by editting the tag and rescanning. My question - now, with 6.0 being DB based, how do I go about fixing inconsistencies like this? From:

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Haan
Ok, so, if I want to correct Song titles or otherwise, I still go and change the tag names? Or do I fix a value in a table? From: "Aaron Zinck" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Song Display Name

Re: [slim] biography plugin on Slimserver 6b1

2005-03-15 Thread Chris Johnson
Michael Herger wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:04:40 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upgraded to 6b1 today. Most things seem to work OK; I like the new features..and searching for song titles seems more stable than it used to be.. However, one of the greatest plugins of recent times - the biography

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:27:00PM +1000, Dave wrote: I suppose one thing to also consider is which encoder to use and does it have CCD or similar titling database support (on that note do lossless formats support tagging??) flac support Ogg tagging and cuesheets. I would guess that all

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread kdf
Quoting Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ok, but the question is, when I find an inconsistency (Alice in Chains vs Alice In Chains), where do I go to correct it? that all depends on the source: id3 tags, playlist, cue sheet, itunes, musicmagic, moodlogic. -kdf

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Oh and PS I'm all FLAC via EAC. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Haan
Whatever drives the way artist/album/song are listed within the web interface. I see one "Alice in Chains", and one "Alice In Chains" and I don't know what's driving the difference. If it's tags, I can fix it. Is it? If so, and I fix it, how do I make the fix reflect itself in the UI? From: kdf

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread kdf
Quoting Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Whatever drives the way artist/album/song are listed within the web interface. I see one Alice in Chains, and one Alice In Chains and I don't know what's driving the difference. If it's tags, I can fix it. Is it? If so, and I fix it, how do I make

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Haan
Ok, well, given that I fixed this sort of thing through fixing tags before, I'm guessing I'll fix via tags still. Thanks. From: kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Song

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