Re: [slim] Digital Output

2005-03-04 Thread Neil Hastie
Hi, Interesting results Mike, It is good to know the SB can put out an accurate stream in PCM mode albeit randomly. I tried Adrians patch a few months ago and couldn't get it to work. (In my defense it sounds like an Apogee Big Ben is a more useful piece of test equipment than an Audio Synthesis

Re: [slim] Proposal: more lists

2005-03-04 Thread Simon Still
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:06:15 -0500, Marc Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a lot of existing traffic on discuss could be avoided if the 6.x release announcements were posted to announce, with reply-to set to the developers list. I think a lot of the requests for 'forums' show that

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-04 Thread Phil Karn
momerath wrote: Phil is absolutely correct that the burden of proof is on the audiophile, and that a double blind study is the only practical way to prove the audibility of jitter. I intend to do this in the near future with some skeptical friends. By all means, if you can run a controlled test,

Re: [slim] US Supreme Court

2005-03-04 Thread kdf
Quoting Johan Hübner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf wrote: There was a recent ruling in Europe (not sure if it was EU-wide) that has decided that copying from one format to another was illegal. This means, if you buy a CD, you can only EVER copy it to another CD. being a european lawyer I

Re: [slim] US Supreme Court

2005-03-04 Thread Johan Hübner
kdf wrote: Quoting Johan Hübner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf wrote: There was a recent ruling in Europe (not sure if it was EU-wide) that has decided that copying from one format to another was illegal. This means, if you buy a CD, you can only EVER copy it to another CD. being a european lawyer I

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-04 Thread kdf
Quoting Phil Karn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: momerath wrote: Phil is absolutely correct that the burden of proof is on the audiophile, and that a double blind study is the only practical way to prove the audibility of jitter. I intend to do this in the near future with some skeptical friends.

Re: [slim] Proposal: more lists

2005-03-04 Thread Philip Meyer
I was going to suggest something similar. It has been said already that it is not a good idea to split discuss into many lists, because it's hard to categorise and people will post in the wrong list, or cross-post, etc. However, It appears that a lot of people on the discuss group have no

Re: [slim] US Supreme Court

2005-03-04 Thread kdf
Quoting Johan Hübner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf wrote: Quoting Johan Hübner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf wrote: There was a recent ruling in Europe (not sure if it was EU-wide) that has decided that copying from one format to another was illegal. This means, if you buy a CD, you can only

Re: [slim] US Supreme Court

2005-03-04 Thread Christian Pernegger
I've kept out of this thread until now because most people tend to view my views as a little radical. But here's my cue. as a person who has to perform daily in order to meet demands, [...] A cinema ticket at one of the big movie-houses here costs 8-10 EUR. The same movie on a DVD will set you

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0a2

2005-03-04 Thread Steven Moore
Sorry for the long post. Just installed 6.0a2, mac os 10.3.8. Cleared out all slim stuff I could find before install. Rescan went okay. Did a search for song name straight after scan, server crashed, from log: 2005-03-04 12:04:54.5966 SlimServer OSDetect init... 2005-03-04 12:04:54.5969

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-04 Thread Triode
Phil/Robin, I've been holding off contributing to this thread, but what the heck - here's a few views to fuel the thread (but I don't predend to be an expert in this area, just an enthusiastic amateur...) 1) Is jitter audable and where's the evidence: From my personal experience, yes [i.e I can

Canada Re: [slim] US Supreme Court

2005-03-04 Thread Paul_Colley
That's not correct: The media fees are not to compensate for fair use, since by the definition of fair use, no money was owed. The media fees compensate for copying onto blank media that would not otherwise be legal. This fee hasn't been addressed much in Canadian court --- accept for the

[slim] Volume Normalizing?

2005-03-04 Thread Mike
OOPS! I used the wrong subject earlier. Sorry. If I use the Volume Normalizer in WMP 10 will my volume of MP3's be normalized in SlimServer? Thanks, Mike ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: MP3 Tag Fix - Recommendations

2005-03-04 Thread Dan Sully
* Michael Peters shaped the electrons to say... (my system LANG is en_US.UTF-8 - which is no good for a lot of mp3 players, they assume en_US because the mp3 tag itself doesn't have a way to tell them otherwise) Actually that is only partially correct. ID3 v2.2: iso-8559-1 only (latin1) ID3 v2.3:

Re: [slim] US Supreme Court

2005-03-04 Thread Aaron Zinck
I appreciate everyone's responses and am understanding the situation a bit better now. I do think it's time for the music industry to entirely overhaul their cost and distribution structure to be more fair to the artists and the consumers. Something Christian wrote got me thinking and I wanted

Re: [slim] Volume Normalizing?

2005-03-04 Thread Gregory Hamilton
I don't think so. WMP doesn't modify the MP3 directly. To normalize your library, a utility like MP3Gain can be used. On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:05:45 -0600, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOPS! I used the wrong subject earlier. Sorry. If I use the Volume Normalizer in WMP 10 will my volume of

Re: [slim] Volume Normalizing?

2005-03-04 Thread Danny Rego
I do believe WMP stores the normalization volume in the tags though, so it would be nice if slimserver was clever enough to use that data to keep the levels normalized. Danny Rego - Original Message - From: Gregory Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Slim Devices Discussion

Re: [slim] US Supreme Court

2005-03-04 Thread Christian Pernegger
The price I have to pay for my entertainment has nothing to do with the#12288;work#12288;involved in the first place - so much for artist compensation. This isn't true at all. Certainly the one-time cost and the work that goes into producing a high-quality movie is far greater than the amount

Re: [slim] Digital Output

2005-03-04 Thread Mike Reeve
Neil Hastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried Adrians patch a few months ago and couldn't get it to work. (In my defense it sounds like an Apogee Big Ben is a more useful piece of test equipment than an Audio Synthesis DAX). Neil If you have a moment, may be you could try it again with the

Re: [slim] Digital Output

2005-03-04 Thread Mike Reeve
Mike Reeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: = The BAD news: Entering 'variable pitch mode' appears to be setting = the Fs bits in the Channel Status Block to 48KHz BTW I am only assuming that this is the case from the behaviour of the downstream box - I could be wrong ... ... if anyone has an

Re: [slim] SlimServer 6.0a2 problem with Pocket PC browser

2005-03-04 Thread Michael Herger
[..] However, I cannot control the server from the built in browser on my Pocket PC. I displays the status, Is this a very old Pocket PC? Could you try to use the EN skin? This is the simplest of all and should work on about any browser. but when I try to send any commands (e.g., next track,

RE: [slim] SlimServer 6.0a2 problem with Pocket PC browser

2005-03-04 Thread Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] However, I cannot control the server from the built in browser on my Pocket PC. I displays the status, Is this a very old Pocket PC? Could you try to use the EN skin? This is the simplest of all and should work on about any browser. It is not an old Pocket

[slim] 6.0: Can't call method bitrate

2005-03-04 Thread Jonas Nordström
When I try to play a newly added song, slimserver crashes with error message: Can't call method bitrate on an undefined value at D:/Program Files/SlimServer /server/Slim/Player/Source.pm line 1203. And a popup window saying: Error loading postback: 12029. I tried to restart, wipe cache,

Re: [slim] 6.0: Can't call method bitrate

2005-03-04 Thread kdf
Quoting Jonas Nordström [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I try to play a newly added song, slimserver crashes with error message: Can't call method bitrate on an undefined value at D:/Program Files/SlimServer /server/Slim/Player/Source.pm line 1203. And a popup window saying: Error loading postback:

[slim] Now playing on Startup?

2005-03-04 Thread Ted Cabeen
Is there a way to get the Squeezebox to go to the Now Playing screen when you start it up with the Power button on the remote or through the web interface? I know how to emulate the Now Playing button press through the telnet interface, but I'd like a way to have it come up there automatically

Re: [slim] Proposal: more lists

2005-03-04 Thread Jack Coates
kdf wrote: ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] - discussions about audio topics, external DACs, etc. why not pick your favourite list from audiophile sites? (just beating Coates to this comment) heh :) These aren't really opinions, just playing devils advocate on a few points. As I would end up being part

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

2005-03-04 Thread Marc D. Field
Hi, I am writing to announce a new article I wrote detailing how to install SlimServer on the LinkStation network storage product by Buffalo. The article goes into a lot of detail, including background on the Linux commands required for the installation (which should be helpful to people who are

Re: [slim] Digital Output

2005-03-04 Thread Jack Coates
Andrew Lucas wrote: Mike, This clock imprecision is indeed a known and documented issue. Squeezebox1 uses a black box DSP processor from a third-party supplier. It is a great mp3 decoder and has a lot of good features, but it also has a couple of irritating limitations like this that power

Re: [slim] Now playing on Startup?

2005-03-04 Thread kdf
Quoting Ted Cabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a way to get the Squeezebox to go to the Now Playing screen when you start it up with the Power button on the remote or through the web interface? I know how to emulate the Now Playing button press through the telnet interface, but I'd like a

Re: [slim] 6.0: Can't call method bitrate

2005-03-04 Thread Jonas Nordström
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:49:23 -0800, kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Jonas Nordström [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I try to play a newly added song, slimserver crashes with error message: Can't call method bitrate on an undefined value at D:/Program Files/SlimServer