Re: [slim] New Transporters available

2015-03-14 Thread jimzak
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Re: [slim] LMS 7.90 change in sort behaviour?

2015-03-14 Thread gazjones59
Thanks for the advice. If I was starting again, I would do exactly as you describe; however my library is now of a size which means that updating all the Composer tags would be a major undertaking. I wanted a schema which was really simple and would work essentially independent of the software

Re: [slim] LMS 7.90 change in sort behaviour?

2015-03-14 Thread JohnB
gazjones59, My music library is also mostly classical and I also used to search in exactly the same way you do (my album name format is Composer - Work - Main performer ). However, now that there are the additional browse modes in LMS 7.9 I no longer use the search but use the composer browse

Re: [slim] New Transporters available

2015-03-14 Thread jimmypowder
jimzak wrote: I'll give you 950. LOL. LOL send me the money retard.LOl jimmypowder's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61215 View this thread:

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread ChipMonk
castalla wrote: Well said! No - not a member Well I am now, a right honourable member of uk-radio-listeners forum - but what a horrible forum and format. I can see why Yahoo is heading nowhere. So much for Cridland working with the best brains at the forefront of technology. Only thing

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread PasTim
ChipMonk wrote: Thanks garym - I should have said, I've already had a quick go at this but without much success. I couldn't get the plugin to load on my RasPi2 LMS and I got so much incomprehensible perl stuff loading onto my SD card that I ended up dumping it and starting again. . Castella

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread garym
PasTim wrote: The people I feel sorry for are those who just listen to Internet Radio without much knowledge of what's going on, will have lost Listen Again on March 9th, and will lose the replacement mp3 streams sometime sooner rather than later, particularly blind users. Folk able to

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread ChipMonk
garym wrote: I might as well be speaking a foreign language to them when I try to explain. You are absolutely right - we're now the weirdos. When I was young, more than almost anything else that you could do with your clothes on, I wanted near perfect sound reproduction, even though it was

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread castalla
ChipMonk wrote: It's a funny old world - but it belongs to them now, not us. It belongs to all of us - despite what The Man wants us to believe! Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Smart Radio Raspberry Pi + Squeezeplug LMS +

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread PasTim
The people I feel sorry for are those who just listen to Internet Radio without much knowledge of what's going on, will have lost Listen Again on March 9th, and will lose the replacement mp3 streams sometime sooner rather than later, particularly blind users. Folk able to get to this forum (or

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread ChipMonk
PasTim wrote: The people I feel sorry for are those who just listen to Internet Radio without much knowledge of what's going on, will have lost Listen Again on March 9th, and will lose the replacement mp3 streams sometime sooner rather than later, particularly blind users. Yep - that's

Re: [slim] Full scan hangs

2015-03-14 Thread skriefal
Which version of LMS? I had similar results with LMS 7.7, but the problem went away when I updated to LMS 7.9. skriefal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14095 View this thread:

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread ftlight
ChipMonk wrote: Meanwhile, I seem to be in the middle of a fracas with Jim Lesurf in Usenet uk.tech.digital-tv, who writes in Hi Fi News and turns out to be very much a BBC man. That's wearing me out quite enough for now - I'm beginning to think I should just keep my head down, use the fixes

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread garym
ChipMonk wrote: Ergo, it would be nice if there was a satisfactory and robust solution for integrating Airplay into LMS on Raspberry Pi's. Can anyone help please? On my Vortexbox (fedora linux) install of LMS, there is a method for installing a plugin that allows airplay to work with LMS

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread ChipMonk
garym wrote: On my Vortexbox (fedora linux) install of LMS, there is a method for installing a plugin that allows airplay to work with LMS and play through squeezeboxes. I have no idea how it works, but I did try it as a test and it did work. Is it some version of something I've seen

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread castalla
ChipMonk wrote: Well I am now, a right honourable member of uk-radio-listeners forum - but what a horrible forum and format. I can see why Yahoo is heading nowhere. So much for Cridland working with the best brains at the forefront of technology. Only thing clear is that he is Cock o' the

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread ChipMonk
castalla wrote: That's what they're counting on - inertia. They must all be on that fruity device juice ... BBC Radio 4 just had Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant as Book at Bedtime over the last two weeks. About a mysterious mist which leads to forgetfulness across the land, erasing of all

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread garym
castalla wrote: I did get airplay working via the the shairport plugin, but it was very hit'n'miss I gave up in the end. I also got bluetooth working with squeezelite but that was an even hairier experience, and I still don't really know what I did to get it working! my short experiment

Re: [slim] Full scan hangs

2015-03-14 Thread garym
ickstream hasn't affected my scanning. Go into LMS Settings Advanced and set your scanning log to debug. Then do the scan again and when it hangs, look at your scanning log and see what it is showing. This may provide some hints. And you can post it here too for others to look at. *Home:*

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread castalla
PasTim wrote: One problem I don't have, thank heavens. Home is an i-Free zone (apart from iPlayer!). I did get airplay working via the the shairport plugin, but it was very hit'n'miss I gave up in the end. I also got bluetooth working with squeezelite but that was an even hairier

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread garym
ChipMonk wrote: It's a funny old world - but it belongs to them now, not us. In the 1990s when younger folks I knew found out I had 5,000 CDs their response was always something like, wow, that's really cool. Now when people find out I have many thousands of CDs and have converted them to

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread ChipMonk
castalla wrote: here's an interesting titbit : James Cridland - a former big cheese of the BBC online mob - and a techno-elitist who probably renews to the latest wow-shite gizmo on a monthly basis ... Despicable but probably representative of the Audio Brewery mob. James Cridland,

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread Grumpy Bob
castalla wrote: here's an interesting titbit : James Cridland, on the Yahoo UK radio listeners group: Silly idea for a petition. You might as well also demand that the BBC also makes all its television programmes available in 405 line black and white, or that their website works

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread castalla
Cridland's blog states he is a 'Radio Futurologist' (pretentious or what?) and that: Since leaving the BBC in 2009, he has worked for a variety of businesses, including the receiver manufacturer Pure Fancy that! http://james.cridland.net Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread castalla
ChipMonk wrote: I think his pretentiousness is only out matched by his modesty, even-handedness and utter lack of complacency. Working with the best brains and in order to lock BBC Internet Radio into the domain of companies with the deepest pockets - Pure genius I'd call it. Remind me

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-03-14 Thread ChipMonk
castalla wrote: Cridland's blog states he is a 'Radio Futurologist' (pretentious or what?) and that: ''Since leaving the BBC in 2009, he has worked for a variety of businesses, including the receiver manufacturer Pure ...'' Fancy that! I think his pretentiousness is only out matched by

Re: [slim] Windows Users: Run a full library scan following time changes

2015-03-14 Thread kidstypike
mherger wrote: Anything particular needs doing with this version, or just wait until 21st March? Nothing to do. Except check progress when you do your first scan for new changed after the dst switch. It should no longer remove all tracks and re-scan them all. -- Michael

Re: [slim] LMS 7.90 change in sort behaviour?

2015-03-14 Thread pippin
For the details Michael will have to respond but essentially the search process is changed. It uses a full text search across all fields in your library and then has a ranking algorithm for the search results while in the past it was e.g only search in the album title field for album searches. It

Re: [slim] LMS 7.90 change in sort behaviour?

2015-03-14 Thread pippin
Yes, because there are now a lot more results so they need to be ranked to be useful --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for

[slim] LMS 7.90 change in sort behaviour?

2015-03-14 Thread gazjones59
Hello everybody. I have a mature LMS system running from a Wndows 7 machine servicing 4 touch/radio units. Having been a user for quite a few years, I have the system running as I want and it performs in a pretty much trouble free fashion. I switched to LMS 7.9 in the middle of last year, and

Re: [slim] LMS 7.90 change in sort behaviour?

2015-03-14 Thread gazjones59
I understand that the search process itself might have changed, but does that preclude the selection of a particular display order for the returned results? gazjones59's Profile:

Re: [slim] LMS 7.90 change in sort behaviour?

2015-03-14 Thread pippin
Search is now full-text-search --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8*

Re: [slim] LMS 7.90 change in sort behaviour?

2015-03-14 Thread gazjones59
Hi Pippin - thanks for replying so swiftly. Firstly I should thank you for iPeng which is indispensable to me. However, I don't understand your comment. I did notice reference to 'full text search' in the scanner progress messages - could you elaborate further?

Re: [slim] LMS 7.90 change in sort behaviour?

2015-03-14 Thread gazjones59
OK - there is presumably a reason that this was implemented but it is a big problem for me. In order to keep my classical music tagged effectively without using too many different tags, I have used a schema where i tag the Album Title as 'Composer : Work'. For example 'Sibelius : Symphony No.

Re: [slim] LMS 7.90 change in sort behaviour?

2015-03-14 Thread gazjones59
Emergency averted. A bit of searching revealed that the full text search option is a plugin which can be disabled. I did this and Hey Presto! - order is restored. Thanks for your help. gazjones59's Profile:

[slim] Full scan hangs

2015-03-14 Thread radish112
Hi. I am running a full scan, but the process hangs (the process has now been running for about an hour and is still ongoing). In the past, the process took only about 10-15 minutes to complete. As the image below shows, the initial processes are being completed very quickly, but I'm not