Re: [slim] Complete frustration
Siduhe;357719 Wrote: Not sure what the Debian skin is - try Firefox or Classic? If the default skin isn't running, try deleting your browser cache and perhaps also your database cache. How do you delete the browser cache and the database cache? -- norderney Transporter (Black) - Arcam A85 Amp - BW CDM1NT Speakers - Yamaha CDRHD1500 Recorder norderney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54794 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
pippin;357730 Wrote: Well, then let me share my outsider's view: When I first visited the US, back in 91, what I saw was a run-down country. I'd been in eastern Europe a bit the years before (Poland, Eastern Germany, Hungaria, then Czechoslovakia) and what I saw in the US in terms of public infrastructure was worse in many places. You could see a lot of homeless people in the street and the public perception of security was, well, just bad. My next visit was in 96 and it was hard to believe for me how much had changed. I had a few more visits and from 98 on the pleasure to work for a US company which brought me regular visits. It will amaze me forever how this country managed to change that dramatically in only 7 years! Compare that to what we've achieved in eastern Germany. The US did have a balanced budget, good mood, good infrastructure, a running economy, in simple words: a strong country. That was during the Clinton days, a Democrat, wasn't he? Compare that to what you see today. My last visit to the US was 4 months ago, and I have to say, it was still light years away from the state of '91. Still a powerful, energetic country. But the mood was different from the heydays of the late '90s and if I look at the pricing structure, I felt that if I hadn't had the chance to buy $$ cheaply with my (then much higher valued as today) Euros, I would have found a lot of convenience items and services hard to afford - a clear sign of inflation only compensated by cheap clothing and cheap electronics (both probably imported from China). So, I can't tell how all this feels from the inside, but from an outsider's perspective the last 8 years have been a huge step back while the 8 years before that had been the most astonishing transformation I have ever seen. Just my 2cts. i'm sorry, but your 'impressions' of things really carry no water. people were homeless in 91 but not 96 or 98? i don't think ANYTHING changed for the homeless, and still hasn't. anyone here can tell you that the country changed dramatically in the 80s. carter was a disastor and reagan came in and laid down the groundwork for the prosperity of the next 25 years. clinton meanwhile had to work with a republican congress who did constrain him and his spending, (welfare reform, etc...) the problems of the last 8 years started with 2 things, 9/11 and the republicans loss of identity, meaning they started spending like democrats and became corrupt as well. all these things along with some terrible fiscal sector policies, (the fed, glass stegall repeal, mark to market) all resulted in the economic mess now. if i were king, i'd bring in the fairtax, i'd balance the budget and start paying off the debt, and i'd increase the valuation of the currency by allowing the free market to set interest rates, (not the fed). -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What Wi-Fi Router For UK?
I went from Netgear DG834G to DG834N and got much better reception although obviously you need to change the card in the PC. Usually you can find offers for both in a package. I understand that you've already optimized your channel but for those others who haven't, you should try. Basically, everyone in my street was using channel 1 and when I moved to channel 2, my speed went from 130 Mbps to 270 Mbps. -- HectorHughMunro HectorHughMunro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16514 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54691 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 7.3 when?
Hi, Eagerly awaiting 7.3 for synch+crossfade on multiple players. Want to wait for the official release. According to the roadmap the schedule is 1st Novemberany news? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SoftwareRoadmap Thanks alex -- ajmitchell http://www.last.fm/user/ajmitchell ajmitchell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=800 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54804 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
Nonreality;357791 Wrote: Pippen they carry water with me. When someone always blames the other side it's time to take care. I'm really hoping the blame game stops and we start working things out here. It's possible but only if we let go of ideology and start fixing things the right way. This goes for both and all sides of the equation. just in case you missed it, i blamed both sides. while i ideologically am more to the right, in practice i recognize both sides as being scoundrals. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Need help!! Album art gone...
Good morning. I've been working on this problem for a while and am at a loss. I've had my Duet for a while now. Have had everything set up and my album art was showing fine on the remote. Suddenly it disappeared. I've tried everything I can think of to get it back, but have not had any luck. It shows in SqueezeCenter but not on the remote. I want it back on the remote!! Can someone give me some thoughts or suggestions on what to do on this. Just for some background, I'm running SqueezeCenter on an HP MediaSmart Home Server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- wyzard wyzard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15872 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54810 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
illegal war? tell me, whats a legal war? saddam broke the terms of the 91 armistice, that made what we did legal at least in terms of the armistice. as to the wmds, which is it? is bush a master-criminal villain who duped the world for his own gain, or is he the idiot who can't speak properly and bumbled it all? frankly, its all rather moot now. whatever anyone thought, getting rid of saddam is a great thing and establishing a democracy in the arab world, the first one at that, is also a great thing. i'm not a bush fan, i'm upset with many things he did... but i really get upset over this hand wringing about bringing freedom to iraq, when the very same people want us to do just that in darfur, a situation that would be much more bloody, and has almost zero national interest to us at all. (and i'm not necessary against helping darfur militarily, i'm just pointing out the hypocrisy) -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Power supply for SB3 options
As in a head: What options for PSU for SB3 are available other than USA ones (Bolder Cables, CIAudio and Wlborne labs) particularly for Europe market? Those units might not have CE certification and the shipping to Europe (Slovenia) is rather Risky, requiring additional declaration payments. -- Tubebox Tubebox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54803 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
MrSinatra;357815 Wrote: tell me, whats a legal war? Well there is a thing called the geneva convention, but you have a good point regarding international law and it's abstractness. However, there is a difference when you start a war on a country that has not attacked you. MrSinatra;357815 Wrote: saddam broke the terms of the 91 armistice, that made what we did legal at least in terms of the armistice. Two wrongs dont make a right. MrSinatra;357815 Wrote: as to the wmds, which is it? is bush a master-criminal villain who duped the world for his own gain, or is he the idiot who can't speak properly and bumbled it all? Bit of both, but when i say 'Bush' i also mean the people behind him who have the real control. Are you saying that US companies, including ones that the Bush administration with huge stakes, did not stand to make a lot of cash? MrSinatra;357815 Wrote: frankly, its all rather moot now. Is it?! We are still at war, no? MrSinatra;357815 Wrote: whatever anyone thought, getting rid of saddam is a great thing and establishing a democracy in the arab world, the first one at that, is also a great thing. It would be, but as lovely as it sounds, it wont ever happen. Even if it means that another 1,000,000 people must die before we realise. Thats a fundamental mistake the Bush (and British) administration made, they totally misunderstood the culture and religious fabric of that part of the world (and why the thought of Sarah Palin, who thinks Africa is a country was so scary) OR it's an excuse to excursive more power and influence (i suspect a bit of both). But it will never happen. We will never bomb away thousands of years of deeply routed religion and culture, democracy is beautiful but totally incompatible with that part of the world. Any idea that we have restored some real and long term democracy to Iraq is a complete illusion. -- autopilot *Lounge :* Squeezebox Classic - Cambridge Audio Azur 640a - Mission 701's. *Bedroom :* Squeezebox Receiver - Trends TA10.1 Class-T - Kef Cresta 1's *Office :* Softsqueeze - Logitech Active 5.1's. *Kitchen :* Squeezebox Boom -coming soon- *Roaming : * Squeezebox Controller - Logitech mm28 portable speakers / Shure E2c's *Controllers :* Squeezebox Controller x 2 + Logitech Harmony one *Server :* SC7.3b (Vista 64) + AlienBBC, iPlayer MusicIP headless. 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/domrevans/) autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.3 when?
Scheduled for first week of december according to this post: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54421 -- vrobin vrobin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54804 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
86atc250r;357725 Wrote: I love this argument - If Bush was as corrupt as many of you seem to believe, we *WOULD* have found WMD's, doesn't take a genius to think that one through. Comparing his administration to Nazi Germany is as ignorant as it is insulting for all of us on this side of the pond - regardless of your politics. So your argument is that as they did not fake the WMD's they are not corrupt at all? Even Bush is not stupid enough to have thought faking nukes would have been a good idea, there is no way they would have got away with it if you know anything about nuclear and chemical weapons production. Apart from the fact that there are other countries involved, the UN weapons inspectors would have demanded samples and they would known straight away the origin. No, when the so called intelligence became obviously flawed (intelligence from government agencies, so they must take some responsibilities) they rolled out a few more increasingly weak lies - it was because of 9/11 (which it had absolutely nothing to do Iraq). Then when people started questioning that nonsense then then moved on and said it was to stop his human rights abuses - which is odd, when you consider that many other countries (most middle east countries in fact) have far worse human rights yet the US (and know one else, im not singling out the US here) could be bothered, in fact often did business with them. And the predicted collateral damage was also moe than and people murdered by Saddam anyway (let alone the actual collateral damage, thats much higher). So basically we all know that Iraq was an illegal war, which was based on lies and was a cover for Bush and his administrations friends and families to profit from. Whats insulting, is that many American, British and other nations have lost good men and women simply so a group of the elite could get richer from the oil and the reconstruction/military contracts. Also, is not using the memory of all the poor innocent people who did on 9/11, when their deaths had nothing to do with this, not insulting to their memories? To be fair, I dont think the Bush etc actually thought that it would have got this bad, and they have done some things to put it right, but they still need to be held account for. My government too, im not attacking America im talking about the Bush and UK administrations. 86atc250r;357725 Wrote: It's unfortunate that almost no one else had the nuts to go over there with us and remove this dangerous person from a position of power. Even if the war was based on actual true facts, most countries had the good sense to see that it was pointless and would end in a mess. -- autopilot *Lounge :* Squeezebox Classic - Cambridge Audio Azur 640a - Mission 701's. *Bedroom :* Squeezebox Receiver - Trends TA10.1 Class-T - Kef Cresta 1's *Office :* Softsqueeze - Logitech Active 5.1's. *Kitchen :* Squeezebox Boom -coming soon- *Roaming : * Squeezebox Controller - Logitech mm28 portable speakers / Shure E2c's *Controllers :* Squeezebox Controller x 2 + Logitech Harmony one *Server :* SC7.3b (Vista 64) + AlienBBC, iPlayer MusicIP headless. 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/domrevans/) autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeezebox does not play, log fills up
Hello, I have installed squeezecenter 7.2.1 on Ubuntu 8.0 for x86. Some mp3 and alac tracks play fine, but some don't. For example, when I try to play any track of the Zauberflöte album, the squeezebox remains silent, and the log fills up with messages as the one below (ten a second). [08-11-08 15:19:32.0372] Slim::Utils::Misc::msg (1398) Warning: [15:19:32.0357] Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Player/Squeezebox.pm line 1215. This is a problem. Any idea about what could cause it, and how to solve it? Thank you in advance, and regards, JC -- andlauer andlauer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9594 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54817 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Internet radio favourites navigation
Lusa;357633 Wrote: I use SC 7.2 whit a squeezebox v3 on a NAS server DS207+ I don't use SN and all SN options are disabled The problem is that the icons etc working fine.. Line One: Station Name (upper left)dont work | ...KBPS (upper right)this working good Line Two: Artist - Song working good The problem is that the word Now playing overuled the Station name This problem is only if i use the favourites menu and put a station or a album from there.. If i use the plalist map and start a playlist from there the problem is solved and the follow i see Line One: Station Name (upper left) works | ...KBPS (upper right)this working good Line Two: Artist - Song working good What is the problem why it not work if i use the favorit list what a link is to the playlist? If I'm understanding you: - when you choose a station from your saved Favorites menu then upper left of display shows your Favorites folder name. - when you tune in a station NOT from Favorites then upper left of display shows proper station name If the above is correct it's normal and a simple fix. :) When you are in a Favorites folder that folder name IS the playlist and is being properly displayed as such. This is why you need to change the MusicInfoSCR setting DISPLAY PLAYLIST NAME AS RADIO STATIONS set to ON. Now, any time MusicInfoSCR sees a station URL it will make that URL the Playlist. Remember also to set your Screensaver to MusicInfoSCR: Settings Player (drop down menu) Basic Settings Screensaver when playing (drop down menu) Music Information Screen -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54710 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
pippin;357823 Wrote: as I said, it was the impression I got. I am very well aware that impressions don't always fit reality in every detail. Here in Berlin, for example, they solved the problem of too many homeless people lurking around in public places by simply pushing them out of the city center. They are still there, you just don't see them. US cities may have had similar strategies. let me just point to you a book called Bias by Bernard Goldberg. one of the things he talks about is the bias of news coverage. in the 80's and during bush Sr term, the press OBSESSED with the homeless issue. it was ridiculous really. and then something miraculous happened, clinton solved the homeless issue! except that, he didn't. the stats bear it out, he did NOTHING for the homeless, zilch, zero. but the press suddenly decided, after 10+ years it wasn't an issue anymore, so you, [meaning anyone] would think the issue was solved. it wasn't. that an example of bias in our media, and i'd argue, its liberal in origin. again, the facts are documented in the book. we also btw, try to zone homeless out of certain areas. the homeless in america are by in large not economic victims, but drug/alcohol related, and / or mentally ill. the liberals, way back when in their wisdom, fought to have the state release the mentally ill onto the streets if they weren't a danger to anyone. big mistake. pippin;357823 Wrote: On th other hand: 1. Your economic argument sounds a bit one-sided to me. It's true that the 90s saw a steady economic upturn but so did the 80s and obviously you would readily attribute this to the policies of the Reagan administration instead of the dramatically declining oil price after the energy crisis of the 70s. I do believe that there is such thing as good or bad economic policy and you even though you typically don't see the effect of that for the first 2-3 years you DO see it within eight years. come on... yes, cheaper oil helped, but cutting tax rates from 70% to 28% for the highest bracket was the real engine of change, as was cuttng capital gains and all the rest of it. pippin;357823 Wrote: it looks like a pretty clear vote in favor of a change from how it is now. For the moment, I think that's a pretty big chance! too bad it seems like its going to be a change to socialism. the problem is we don't even know if thats the plan. we heard change for 2 years, we never heard change to what, how, when, or why. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't Update Firmware with Universal Remote
Holding brightness down on my Logitech Harmony doesn't work (it works fine when you press it once to change brightness though). However, holding left works fine so I could set the player to autoupdate. Weird that. Other than that, Harmony controls it perfectly. -- charlesr charlesr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54578 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox does not play, log fills up
In fact it seems that my squeezecenter does not play tracks whose tags include accents (i.e. à, é, è, ê, ö, ü, etc.). It is systematic and reproductible here. It is rather annoying since I have a lot of classical music and french chansons, and therefore a lot of tags with accents. Should I signal this as a bug? Thank you for support and regards, JC -- andlauer andlauer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9594 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54817 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Email support is not very impressive
If it is unresolved, how do you know it is a simple problem/fix as you stated earlier? :) Jason markwm;357666 Wrote: It's unresolved. Support didn't bother replying. I emailed support again today and to let them know I haven't had a response. Hopefully I will get one this time. -- JasonJoel JasonJoel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54773 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Complete frustration
To clear the browser cache - in Firefox: Tools/Options/Privacy/Settings (tick Cache) then Ok and Clear Now. Procedure is similar for other browsers (in IE the Cache is called Temporary Internet Files or similar). To clear the Squeezecenter database cache - normally a full clear and rescan will be enough, but if not you need to find your cache folder by following the path set out in Squeezecenter/Settings/Information tab under Cache and then clearing the contents of that folder when SC is switched off. When you switch SC on again, it will rebuild the database from scratch. -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? -Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...- (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen) Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54794 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What Wi-Fi Router For UK?
Ross L;357680 Wrote: It doesn't surprise me that an SB3 doesn't perform as well as a wireless notebook, think about the antenna alone, it's smaller and covers a smaller area.How about giving us some guidance as to what we should realistically expect from the SBs Wi-Fi? Obviously there are many variables in the real world but in your lab, what are the testing conditions/results?HectorHughMunro;357783 Wrote: I went from Netgear DG834G to DG834N and got much better reception although obviously you need to change the card in the PC. Usually you can find offers for both in a package. I understand that you've already optimized your channel but for those others who haven't, you should try. Basically, everyone in my street was using channel 1 and when I moved to channel 2, my speed went from 130 Mbps to 270 Mbps.Sadly, changing the card in the SB isn't an option so far. You will see in the OP that I asked for some input from the manufacturer re upgrades. So far it's not been forthcoming. If your neighbours are all on channel 1 then you should switch to 6 or 11 as there is no overlap there. Channel 2 has a significant overlap with channel 1. -- rbz5416 rbz5416's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12089 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54691 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Small python / CLI script to query SC
It is not a plugin, it is not real coding ... just a simple script that
may be useful for some of you
As I wanted the name of the playing file in conky, I just wrote a small
python script to query Squeezecenter via CLI
Code:
#! /usr/bin/python
from telnetlib import Telnet
from urllib import unquote
from time import sleep
def query(server, port, player, commands):
tn = Telnet(server, port)
for command in commands:
tn.write(%s %s ?\n % (player, command))
sleep(0.2)
feedback = tn.read_very_eager().split('\n')
results = [(cmd,unquote(res)[len(player)+len(cmd)+2:]) \
for cmd,res in zip(commands, feedback)]
return dict(results)
if __name__ == __main__:
server = your_server # according to your server
port = 9090
player = 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX # according to your player
commands = (album, artist, title, time, duration)
res = query(server, port, player, commands)
print %(artist)s\n%(album)s - %(title)s % res
print int(long(res['time'])/long(res['duration'])*100)
conky.rc can be modified that way :
Code:
${color #837b7b}Currently playing: $color
${execi 15 ~/src/current_song.py | head -n 2}
${execibar 15 ~/src/current_song.py | tail -n 1}
Simple, but it works :)
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Re: [slim] What an election.
Goodsounds;357768 Wrote: Hi Pippin, I found your outsider's perspectives interesting - thanks for sharing them. Much of the 90s coincided with the upstroke of the business cycle. Especially the second half, which also included the dot com bubble. Little or none of this is affected by politics or governmental policies, either on the way up or on the way down. A fair amount of public infrastructure-type things apparent to a visitor are funded by state and local authorities rather than the federal government. In the US, unlike in much of Europe, the majority of local governmental revenue is raised locally, not as an apportionment of federal funds, and it tends to have pieces that are difficult to change - real property tax, sales tax, etc. In boom times, receipts (and so expenditures) swell. When growth slows (as we've had since the turn of the century), the opposite happens, which is why state and local budgets have been under such pressure in recent years. Most are not able to run deficits, as the federal government can. It's also clear that a lot of federal money has been wasted over the last 6 years. I agree with you, US infrastructure sucks compared to that in most European countries. On the other hand, our tax burden is rather lower. People are generally unenthusiastic about tax increases, so you get what you pay for. As far as moods go, a lot of that is dependent upon whom you speak to. Most of my friends and associates are middle class, still employed, and not too radically impacted by recent travails in our economy. There will be more problems, job reductions, etc., so things will probably get worse before they get better, but overall, I do not sense a heavy mood among people I know. Of course, none of them have lost a house or have been significantly bitten by recent problems, other than the downturn in the stock market. People who have suffered big losses, different story. Goodsounds, as I said, it was the impression I got. I am very well aware that impressions don't always fit reality in every detail. Here in Berlin, for example, the solved the problem of too many homeless people lurking around in public places by simply pushing them out of the city center. They are still there, you just don't see them. US cities may have had similar strategies. On th other hand: 1. Your economic argument sounds a bit one-sided to me. It's true that the 90s saw a steady economic upturn but so did the 80s and obviously you would readily attribute this to the policies of the Reagan administration instead of the dramatically declining oil price after the energy crisis of the 70s. I do believe that there is such thing as good or bad economic policy and you even though you typically don't see the effect of that for the first 2-3 years you DO see it within eight years. 2. What I see when talking to Americans recently (note: my last visit was BEFORE the LATEST financial crash), is that there is a lot of enthusiasm for politics driven by the impression that something has to change. People seem to be willing to vote (I heard this election had the highest participation rate for over 40 years) and to involve themselves to bring things forward. This is refreshing something to be jealous of from a German perspective. We've had consensus politics that over the time lead to worse and worse compromises for years and years now and people generally are completely fed up with politics and don't want to be bothered with it. The general perception is that it doesn't matter anyway whom you vote for since they will all do the same anyway. During the last election campaign there was a big issue about whether to raise the VAT (which is a federal tax in Germany) or not. The Socialists wanted to raise it by 2% the conservatives said it should stay where it was. When they finally teamed up after the election they found a compromise between those two positions in raising it by 3%... No joke! My feeling (again, as an outsider) is, that after the Bush years there is actually MORE enthusiasm for politics in the US because people see they have to care and if you look at the result, it looks like a pretty clear vote in favor of a change from how it is now. For the moment, I think that's a pretty big chance! -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Email support is not very impressive
well, I got a response to my 2nd email and now my issue has been escalated to the second tier of support. We'll see what happens. The 1st tier seems to be limited to a cut and paste re-install walk through. -- markwm markwm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12366 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54773 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
MrSinatra;357779 Wrote: i'm sorry, but your 'impressions' of things really carry no water. people were homeless in 91 but not 96 or 98? i don't think ANYTHING changed for the homeless, and still hasn't. anyone here can tell you that the country changed dramatically in the 80s. carter was a disastor and reagan came in and laid down the groundwork for the prosperity of the next 25 years. clinton meanwhile had to work with a republican congress who did constrain him and his spending, (welfare reform, etc...) the problems of the last 8 years started with 2 things, 9/11 and the republicans loss of identity, meaning they started spending like democrats and became corrupt as well. all these things along with some terrible fiscal sector policies, (the fed, glass stegall repeal, mark to market) all resulted in the economic mess now. if i were king, i'd bring in the fairtax, i'd balance the budget and start paying off the debt, and i'd increase the valuation of the currency by allowing the free market to set interest rates, (not the fed). Pippen they carry water with me. When someone always blames the other side it's time to take care. I'm really hoping the blame game stops and we start working things out here. It's possible but only if we let go of ideology and start fixing things the right way. This goes for both and all sides of the equation. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Need help!! Album art gone...
Have you... restarted the controller? restarted the server? updated to the latest official SC version? cleared the library and done a full rescan? Those are the things I would try first. -- MeSue Sue http://www.last.fm/user/MeSue MeSue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=985 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54810 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't Update Firmware with Universal Remote
Holding brightness down on my Logitech Harmony doesn't work (it works fine when you press it once to change brightness though). However, holding left works fine so I could set the player to autoupdate. Weird that. Other than that, Harmony controls it perfectly. When an original remote calls for a long hold, you have to hold for 3 seconds then press again with a Harmony. At least that's how it works for my DVR. I have not tried it for a Squeezebox yet. -- MeSue Sue http://www.last.fm/user/MeSue MeSue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=985 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54578 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
Pippin, Thanks again for your comments. Perhaps to surprise you, I was an Obama supporter and I am very happy about his victory. I worry a bit that his party's hardliners not have too much of an influence, but I trust his judgement at the helm. Also, perhaps to surprise you, I read that despite the very apparent surge of interest in things political in this election, ultimate voter turnout was like no more than a percentage point or so higher than the last presidential election. So, more noise, but not more people. Sie sind ein Berliner? I was in Berlin last year, for the first time since the wall came down (believe it or not). The changes are breathtaking. I realize a lot of money has been spent because of the return of the capital from Bonn, and as part of the reintegration of the East. But a lovely city with many nice people. And if English is not your native language, I must comment that your English is awesome. Thanks to everyone for an interesting conversation and change of pace. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Need help!! Album art gone...
MeSue;357915 Wrote: Have you... restarted the controller? restarted the server? updated to the latest official SC version? cleared the library and done a full rescan? Those are the things I would try first. Restarted the controller (at least turned it off and back on... is there another way). Cleared the library and did a full rescan. Updated to the latest official SC version Have not restarted the server, but will do that shortly. Thanks. -- wyzard wyzard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15872 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54810 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox does not play, log fills up
Definitely, file a bug .(or search for an existing bug that fits the problem) Similar issues have been corrected before ? and should be working now. -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54817 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Player Won't Connect
ok I'm going batty over this. I have a Sqeezebox 2. It will not connect to Squeezecenter on my Vista business pc. I have replaced routers, tried different versions of Squeezecenter and Slim Server. Re-installs and static IP's and wireless router security on and off. Different accounts under Vista and wired the player direct. It tries to connect but times out. Squeezecenter says it can't find my player. The Squeeze Network works perfectly. I can listen to internet radio all day long. When off the player stays connected and displays the time. All ports on the player work. I can only narrow it down to Vista. I don't have an xp machine at the moment to try. Any help would be great. Thanks! -- sterling1989 sterling1989's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4922 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54830 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Labelling transporter digital inputs....possible?
Hi guys, I just got my hands on a transporter (I've had a SB2 and SB3 for a few years now) and am loving it! It really is an awesome piece of equipment. At the same time as I bought the transporter, I also got myself a 'controller' which is really great too! Anyways, I was just curious if there is a way to rename the transporters digital inputs. For example...if I plug my PS3 into the optical input, can I change the 'optical' name to 'playstation' (for example) instead? Thanks all...I'm off to listen to some sweet tunes Cheers, Dave -- whams whams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18930 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Labelling transporter digital inputs....possible?
Hi, open strings.txt and find the string you'd like to rename and it's identifier e.g AUDIO_SOURCE_OPTICAL_SPDIF. Now create another file called custom-strings in the same directory with the same format (use tabs not spaces) and your own description. Restart SC. Done. kind regards, Markus -- schiegl schiegl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6654 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What Wi-Fi Router For UK?
rbz5416;357890 Wrote: How about giving us some guidance as to what we should realistically expect from the SBs Wi-Fi? Obviously there are many variables in the real world but in your lab, what are the testing conditions/results?Sadly, changing the card in the SB isn't an option so far. You will see in the OP that I asked for some input from the manufacturer re upgrades. So far it's not been forthcoming. If your neighbours are all on channel 1 then you should switch to 6 or 11 as there is no overlap there. Channel 2 has a significant overlap with channel 1. My problem was getting from the PC to the router not from the router to the SB. In that instance, no, nothing was changed in the SB. Re; the channel; yes, that's logical but in practice, trying each channel one at a time, the best speeds came in on channel 2 and they also stayed at those speeds for the longest time so I went with the trial-and-error results. -- HectorHughMunro HectorHughMunro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16514 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54691 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.3 when?
Great thanks for the info. -- ajmitchell http://www.last.fm/user/ajmitchell ajmitchell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=800 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54804 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Trying To Rescan Playlists
I am trying to rescan my playlists. After several attempts squeezecentre does not see the modifications to the lists. It has even managed to lose two playlists. Is there a cache i can flush somewhere? Is there a secret to getting this simple task to work? Such a great player but a really crap front end to it. This gets very frustrating. My wife has offered to purchase a Sonos for me for christmas, i may just have to take up the offer i think. -- Hung_Phat Hung_Phat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15510 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54834 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
MrSinatra;357815 Wrote: tell me, whats a legal war? That was probably a hypothetical question, but here's a real although greatly simplified answer. International law is comprised of treaties signed by various countries around the world. Basically if a country signs a treaty promising not do perform action X, and then they perform action X anyway, then action X is a violation of the treaty, and illegal. I don't like the term international law myself because it creates the impression that this law is being imposed on nations from some outside entity like the UN, and that's not really true. The UN Charter, for example, is actually a treaty (which the US has signed), and part of that treaty is that member states agree not to engage in military aggression without first getting UN approval. So to answer your questions, defensive wars are one sort of legal war. If Iraq attacked the US, the US would be totally within their rights to fight back. So US military action in that hypothetical war would be legal and Iraqi military action would be illegal, because the Iraqis were the aggressors. Now, if Iraq managed to convince the UN Security Council that the US posed a threat to the world community, or presented some sort of looming humanitarian disaster, they could attack the US once they had a UN resolution authorizing the attack, and that would also be legal. There are some other cases involving coming to the aid of an ally that's been attacked, etc, but that's the general gist of it. So with regard to the most recent war between the US and Iraq, only half of that war was truly illegal. The US attack was not authorized by the UN, and therefore violated a treaty and was illegal. The Iraqis, however, were (and still are) fully within their rights to defend their country against the country that invaded them. This if why Kofi Annan, the current US-backed Secretary General of the UN, considered the invasion to be illegal. Hope that helps. Now, there are some other angles on this, such as the complete lack of any consistent enforcement mechanism--which leads to justifiable accusations of case-by-case hypocrisy. We've also gotten UN approval in the past (for the Korean War) when it wasn't necessary, creating an impression that UN approval is needed for all wars (it isn't). There are also many conservatives who think the US should withdraw from the UN, and if that were the case then maybe we could attack whoever we wanted legally (I doubt it--there are still lots of treaties out there). So in simplified terms, the US broke a treaty. News at 11 ;) -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Error Code 5 during 6.5.1 Setup
I followed the steps above, only to find out that mysqld.exe process was not running (confirmed in task manager, yes I checked to view process from all users). I also confirmed in Services that both SqueezeCenter and SqueezeMySQL were stopped. On install of 7.2.1, I still get the error: C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\mysqld.exe An error occured while trying to replace the existing file: DeleteFile failed; code 5. Access is denied. This is trying to install 7.2.1 on Windows 2003 Server. I tried everything, and eventually just clicked ignore on that file - the rest of the install worked fine and the software seems to be functioning, but when looking at the file in windows explorer, mysqld.exe shows it's date as 7/28/08 (the date of an older release), whereas the rest of the files show a 10/21/08 date (the date of the current release). 1) why did this happen? 2) is this a problem? do I really need the newer mysqld.exe file? 3) how do I prevent it from happening again on the next software release? Thanks, ~marc -- mdrosy mdrosy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1523 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32367 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] enough election off topic discussions
Please -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] enough election off topic discussions
As the most recent offender, I apologize and promise to keep it to myself. -- CatBus CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54835 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SqueezeCenter and TwonkyVision won't work together?
I've recently installed TwonkyVision media server on my server to serve content to the PS3. It seems to clash with SqueezeCenter. Is there anyway round this? Basically my SB3 can browse songs etc etc but when I actually hit play nothing comes through?? I'm wondering if it's picked the songs up from Twonky rather than SqueezeCenter? Plus SqueezeCenter can see the player. Any help much appreciated! Cheers, Paul. -- probedb Paul. 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/probedb) probedb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7825 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54837 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] sb3 won't play anything?
since upgrading to the latest version my sb won't play a ything I get no movement on the vu meters and even tried squeezenetwork but no sound :( any thoughts on how to debug this? Any help appreciated :) Paul -- probedb Paul. 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/probedb) probedb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7825 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54839 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Pandora cutting off songs
Lately (last month or so) I've been having an issue with Pandora cutting off songs ~2/3 of the way through. When it does this it simply goes on to the next song. It is very annoying. Is there any way to figure out what is going on? Happens on all of my players (2 receivers and a Boom). I think the behavior is new since 7.2, but I can't swear to that. Jason P.S. Two of the players are wireless, the other is wired. Happens on all 3. -- JasonJoel JasonJoel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54838 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] sb3 won't play anything?
Try a Factory Reset of a Xilinx reprogram. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/PlayerFirmware -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54839 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] sb3 won't play anything?
Thanks for the info. I've discovered that it is Twonky (see my other thread) that is clashing with SqueezeCenter but I have no idea how to fix this. Twonky is a DLNA server as I believe SC is? -- probedb Paul. 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/probedb) probedb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7825 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54839 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] enough election off topic discussions
pfarrell;357984 Wrote: Please -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ Discussions are like TV channels - there are far too many of 'em, and not everyone likes the same ones. When you find one you don't like, it's easy to quickly move on to find another you will like. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54835 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Political BS
I subscribe to this list for Squeezebox info and not all of this political crap. This should be rejected. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] enough election off topic discussions
One election thread and two complaining about it. Why don't you just complain in the original election thread, then we'd only have one thread to avoid. Now there are three. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54835 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter and TwonkyVision won't work together?
They both use port 9000 by default. You have to change the port number for one or the other. -- MeSue Sue http://www.last.fm/user/MeSue MeSue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=985 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54837 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Internet radio favourites navigation
Ok, I got the plugin working but I don't have a Station Name option? Also when I play my local music is there a way for line 1 to show Artist. Album? -- MrGadget MrGadget's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5287 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54710 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
NFLnut;357556 Wrote: Douglas McArthur. What! Not Eisenhower... :-) -- Howard Passman .and still waiting for extra cradles.. Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] enough election off topic discussions
ModelCitizen;358040 Wrote: One election thread and two complaining about it. Why don't you just complain in the original election thread, then we'd only have one thread to avoid. Now there are three. None of these belong here. Go to dailykos or huffingtonpost to rant. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54835 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Labelling transporter digital inputs....possible?
schiegl;357961 Wrote: Hi, open strings.txt and find the string you'd like to rename and it's identifier e.g AUDIO_SOURCE_OPTICAL_SPDIF. Now create another file called custom-strings in the same directory with the same format (use tabs not spaces) and your own description. Restart SC. Done. kind regards, Markus Thanks for your reply... I did as you said and it now shows up as 'playstation' when going through the settings of SC but not on the transporter display itself (which is where I want to be able to display my own 'name' for each digital input), the tranporter still displays 'optical'. Ah well, maybe it can't be done or it is a firmware related thing that may become an option on later updates. Thanks all the same, Dave -- whams whams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18930 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Small python / CLI script to query SC
Check out pysqueezecenter. http://code.google.com/p/pysqueezecenter/ I came across it recently when I was looking to see if someone had a Python wrapper for the CLI. It looks pretty complete. -- claws claws's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19713 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54819 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where is favorites naming URL information stored?
Bump. Any ideas? -- SamS SamS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54614 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Political BS
It's a mild aberration. If it bothers you don't read it. It's no biggy. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54841 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] what channels to use
Thanks 11 improved my signal strength. Joel -- jmschnur Joel jmschnur's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8604 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54785 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Political BS
ModelCitizen wrote: It's a mild aberration. If it bothers you don't read it. It's no biggy. Sorry, it bothers me. And it comes to my email inbox. There are plenty of other places on the 'net to rant about politics. It has nothing to do with Slim Devices, Logitech Streaming Medea products, music or technology. Please stop. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Internet radio favourites navigation
MrGadget;358022 Wrote: Ok, I got the plugin working but I don't have a Station Name option? Also when I play my local music is there a way for line 1 to show Artist. Album? Playlist is station name. :) See previous post for setup. -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54710 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Great Product
Just wanted to drop a line to development..I picked up a classic on the advice of a friend and wow, my wife and I aren't quite sure how we lived without it for so long! Great product. It solves a lot of our problems.. Worth every penny. -- jamfree jamfree's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21048 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54848 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.3 when?
Yes and SqueezePlay should also be ready too in version 7.3 - should be nice I'm hoping... -- NewBuyer NewBuyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7862 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54804 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.3 when?
On 8-Nov-08, at 7:51 PM, NewBuyer wrote: Yes and SqueezePlay should also be ready too in version 7.3 - should be nice I'm hoping... SqueezePlay will be desktop ready, but audio playback is Beta. Anyone wanting to check it out can try the nightly builds already: http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/latest/7.3/ -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Help please
thanks to um, ME!! tech support was very little help, luckily I can bumble my way around a pc. :-) -- bflatmajor bflatmajor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=794 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54797 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Great Product
It is good isn't it? :) I would be really stuck without my Classics and my Boom, the only CD player I own now is in my car :) -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54848 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Questions
Hi, When I start the stream in a browser it takes a long time to start, 30 seconds or more. It seems like it is downloading more than it needs to. It gets Quicktime and I have tried many things to reset this with no luck. Also, there are several setting for random playlists, but they do not seem to do anything. Finally, as a stream, would others hear the same thing as me, like a radio? -Don ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Great Product
Glad you like it. Next you'll be wanting a boom for the bedroom/kitchen, and a Controller so you can browse better from the couch. :-) -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54848 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
CatBus;357979 Wrote: That was probably a hypothetical question, but here's a real although greatly simplified answer. International law is comprised of treaties signed by various countries around the world. Basically if a country signs a treaty promising not do perform action X, and then they perform action X anyway, then action X is a violation of the treaty, and illegal. I don't like the term international law myself because it creates the impression that this law is being imposed on nations from some outside entity like the UN, and that's not really true. The UN Charter, for example, is actually a treaty (which the US has signed), and part of that treaty is that member states agree not to engage in military aggression without first getting UN approval. So to answer your questions, defensive wars are one sort of legal war. If Iraq attacked the US, the US would be totally within their rights to fight back. So US military action in that hypothetical war would be legal and Iraqi military action would be illegal, because the Iraqis were the aggressors. Now, if Iraq managed to convince the UN Security Council that the US posed a threat to the world community, or presented some sort of looming humanitarian disaster, they could attack the US once they had a UN resolution authorizing the attack, and that would also be legal. There are some other cases involving coming to the aid of an ally that's been attacked, etc, but that's the general gist of it. So with regard to the most recent war between the US and Iraq, only half of that war was truly illegal. The US attack was not authorized by the UN, and therefore violated a treaty and was illegal. The Iraqis, however, were (and still are) fully within their rights to defend their country against the country that invaded them. This is why Kofi Annan, the current US-backed Secretary General of the UN, considered the invasion to be illegal. Hope that helps. Now, there are some other angles on this, such as the complete lack of any consistent enforcement mechanism--which leads to justifiable accusations of case-by-case hypocrisy. We've also gotten UN approval in the past (for the Korean War) when it wasn't necessary, creating an impression that UN approval is needed for all wars (it isn't). There are also many conservatives who think the US should withdraw from the UN, and if that were the case then maybe we could attack whoever we wanted legally (I doubt it--there are still lots of treaties out there). So in simplified terms, the US broke a treaty. News at 11 ;) that just isn't true. as i said earlier, iraq broke the terms of the 91 armistice, that gave us the right to take military action, and there is no question the gulf war was legal. and we also had resolution 1441 this time. i'm not sure what part of the UN charter you are citing that refutes what i just said. the idea that the UN decides what is and isn't illegal is a joke anyway. the UN is made up of dictators and despots, is a surreal place, and other than humanitarian efforts is totally ineffectual, (oil for food scandal, UN peacekeepers raping children epidemic). i have very little regard for it. the USA is the bulwark of freedom in the world, and gets very little credit for it. we beat fascism, we beat communism, and we will beat terrorism, and we do it while all the liberal nations of the world bemoan us, and don't carry their fair share either diplomatically, militarily or finanacially. frankly, i'm tired of the rest of the world getting a free ride off our backs, and showing such little gratitude. i refuse to sit here worried about removing a brutal dictator like saddam, while very same people who complain about that, want us to invade darfur. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What an election.
autopilot;357826 Wrote: Well there is a thing called the geneva convention, but you have a good point regarding international law and it's abstractness. However, there is a difference when you start a war on a country that has not attacked you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions i'm no expert, but which one there supports your point? as far as i can tell, they are about rules of warfare conduct, not how you start one. in any case... am i to take it from your comment that you consider invading afghanistan illegal as well? what about the first gulf war? in both cases, neither directly attacked the USA. are you calling those illegal as well? autopilot;357826 Wrote: Two wrongs dont make a right, that does not even come close to justifying the death of our friends fellow countrymen. that does not address my point at all. you said it was an illegal war. i just proved it wasn't. when saddam broke the terms of the armistice, we had all the legal justification any reasonable entity needs to take further military action. thats the whole point of signing an armistice, you are compelled to comply or face consequences. you are free to say it wasn't worth it but you can't credibly say it was illegal. personally, i'm not saying its what i would have done, but i can see the logic behind it. the armistice compelled saddam to pro-actively demonstrate destroing his WMDs that the UN had inventoried in the years after 91 and he did not do so. it was not on us to prove he had them, it was on him to prove he didn't, by destroying them in from of the UN. in fact, the WMDs are still today unaccounted for. this is the UNs assessment, not the USAs. given that saddam simply wouldn't do that, and since it was POST 9/11, i can see why it came to a head when it did. autopilot;357826 Wrote: Bit of both, but when i say 'Bush' i also mean the people behind him who have the real control. Are you saying that US companies, including ones that the Bush administration with huge stakes, did not stand to make a lot of cash? sorry, i consider this whole bit far left loony stuff. the whole idea that bush did this for personal gain is just obnoxious and vapid. not to mention the inherent contradiction of a little bit of both. autopilot;357826 Wrote: Is it?! We are still at war, no? depends what you mean. i would say we are in the final stages of an occupation, (liberation) not war in any traditional sense. we are at war in afghanistan still, and with terrorism still. i am confident iraq will emerge a stable democracy, and for that i am grateful and proud. autopilot;357826 Wrote: It would be, but as lovely as it sounds, it wont ever happen. Even if it means that another 1,000,000 people must die before we realise. not only is this typical defeatism of the left, but its wrong. i think in america, even the majorityof obama voters think that iraq will not end a failure. i actually think that helped elect him, if iraq had been more volatile, that probably would have helped mccain. autopilot;357826 Wrote: Thats a fundamental mistake the Bush (and British) administration made, they totally misunderstood the culture and religious fabric of that part of the world (and why the thought of Sarah Palin, who thinks Africa is a country was so scary) -OR- it's an excuse to exercise more power and influence (i suspect a bit of both). the palin thing isn't true, fyi. i don't want to get knee deep in it, but 1. it was unnamed sources, and 2. she had previous dealings with africa via charities so there is no way it could be true. in any case... i love how the liberal left who claims to be about non-discrimination and anti-prejudice, has no problem saying this racist argument, essentially that arabs are incapable of democracy. thats really despicable. autopilot;357826 Wrote: But it will never happen, we dont have the power anyway even if it was possible. We will never bomb away thousands of years of deeply routed religion and culture, democracy is beautiful but totally incompatible with that part of the world. Any idea that we have restored some real and long term democracy to Iraq is a complete illusion. As evil as Saddam was, Iraq was a secular nation and we knew that. Now we have opened the flood gates to even more religious madness. Not only is Democracy futile, but long term it will be worse now. not only is this a racist pov imo, but it also ignores the facts on the ground. how many elections do they have to have before you admit you're wrong? -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54678 ___ discuss
Re: [slim] enough election off topic discussions
slim should make an off topic forum. the general discussion forum can be misconstrued to mean anything, even though in practice it generally has meant general discussion about slim. a forum for topics NOT about slim stuff would be a good idea, imo. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.3b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54835 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] enough election off topic discussions
Goodsounds;358026 Wrote: Discussions are like TV channels - there are far too many of 'em, and not everyone likes the same ones. When you find one you don't like, it's easy to quickly move on to find another you will like. Amazing advice coming from the same guy who goes on a crusade every time he sees a discussion thread recommending Linux. -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys can be taught to cut code, and world peace is utterly unrealistic... Integrating MusicIP with SqueezeCenter...'*here's how*' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Integrating_MusicIP_with_SqueezeCenter). egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54835 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
