Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-02 Thread Moses Leslie
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Jack Coates wrote: > 7710 songs. > > add all songs to a new playlist (35 seconds or so), then hit shuffle by > album (maybe 70 seconds before the webui refreshed with the new data). I > have high CPU usage, but that's what it's there for... it's hardly > interfering with anythi

Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
Moses Leslie wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Jack Coates wrote: FWIW, I get similarly poor performance with 6.0 on my setup, which I consider fairly hefty and underworked in general. I did get significantly improved responsiveness by changing the IO scheduler in 2.6 to cfq (don't even get me started o

Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-02 Thread Moses Leslie
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Jack Coates wrote: > > FWIW, I get similarly poor performance with 6.0 on my setup, which I > > consider fairly hefty and underworked in general. I did get significantly > > improved responsiveness by changing the IO scheduler in 2.6 to cfq (don't > > even get me started on th

Re: [slim] SS6 - Lack of confidence

2005-04-02 Thread Todd Fields
--- Iain Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know there a number of threads aroundf talking about should > I / > shouldn't I upgrade to 6 > > My experience > > I think I've got a modest requirement running on reasonable > kit - only > 5000 tracks on a P4 machine with 1GB RAM - 250GB disk. > M

[slim] Re: HTTP Server Caching

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Sully
* JJ shaped the electrons to say... I'm playing around with creating a new skin - right now just changing some CSS. Seems like the SlimServer HTTP server is dead set to keep caching HTML/CSS. How do you get the server to not cache this content so that you can develop the interface? Settings ->

[slim] HTTP Server Caching

2005-04-02 Thread JJ
I'm playing around with creating a new skin - right now just changing some CSS. Seems like the SlimServer HTTP server is dead set to keep caching HTML/CSS. How do you get the server to not cache this content so that you can develop the interface? __

Re: [slim] 6.0 Server stops at request for any playlist

2005-04-02 Thread kdf
Quoting Mike Morper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm running OS X 10.3.8 and I am now effectively dead in the water. As > soon as I request a song (either through the web UI or from my > Squeezebox, the server stops running. I restart it from the SlimServer > Preference panel it starts up again. But as

[slim] 6.0 Server stops at request for any playlist

2005-04-02 Thread Mike Morper
I'm running OS X 10.3.8 and I am now effectively dead in the water. As soon as I request a song (either through the web UI or from my Squeezebox, the server stops running. I restart it from the SlimServer Preference panel it starts up again. But as soon as a playlist is requested (or any other

Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread Greg Friedman
"kdf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > browsing in the player UI should be state-sensitive by client. It sounds > like > your server is getting clients mixed up. these should be uniquely > identified > by MAC address, which I can see from your log are unique. i can't say I > have > any idea how

Re: [slim] Problems using Slimserver 6.0

2005-04-02 Thread kdf
Quoting Floyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm having trouble running slimserver v6.0 on Linux > with Perl 5.6.1, connecting with a Roku M1000. 1) slimserver v6.0 is best used with perl 5.8 or better. 2) for use with roku products, you need to contact roku support -kdf __

[slim] Problems using Slimserver 6.0

2005-04-02 Thread Floyd
I'm having trouble running slimserver v6.0 on Linux with Perl 5.6.1, connecting with a Roku M1000. First, in order for slimserver to find the shared object files in the slime server distribution I had to create some symbolic links in the CPAN/arch tree: CPAN/arch/5.6.1 -> CPAN/arc

Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread kdf
Quoting Greg Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The skin is Fishbone, but I'm not convinced that a browser (or the Slim UI) > has been up in all cases where the problem has happened. I run SS as a > service on W2K3 and usually don't leave the UI up anywhere. It's possible, > though. right now, any

Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
Moses Leslie wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Jack Coates wrote: Free Lunch wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 3:45 PM, Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First, this is unique to 6.X. Playlist sorting performance is poor in 5.4.1 but not nearly this bad. First, the vmstat output shows the CPU being burned in Us

Re: [slim] AlienBBC and Mac installation instructions corrected

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Cohen
On 2/4/05 at 11:39 am +, Neil Sleightholm wrote Daniel Could you confirm that command line, on Windows to play an rpm file it would be: mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio2/paul_jones.rpm yes, and apologies. That's right for Mac OS X too. I can't say anything mor

Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-02 Thread Moses Leslie
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Jack Coates wrote: > Free Lunch wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2005 3:45 PM, Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > First, this is unique to 6.X. Playlist sorting performance is poor in > > 5.4.1 but not nearly this bad. > > > > First, the vmstat output shows the CPU being burned

Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread Greg Friedman
"kdf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > many thanks :) > deffo readable now. I'm a bit surprised on this one. it really does look > like > the server is just jumping to a different player. Which skin is being > used > here? Its a bit of a leap guess, but if a skin were to be refreshing at > the

Re: [slim] Bug in default skin?

2005-04-02 Thread kdf
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > This looks like a bug in the default skin (but it may already have been > fixed, I'm running 6.0 release not nightlies). > > If you click on an album title from the playlist (on the right hand side), > it tries to bring up the album info page on the left. However, it d

Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread kdf
Quoting Triode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kdf - Does this help? many thanks :) deffo readable now. I'm a bit surprised on this one. it really does look like the server is just jumping to a different player. Which skin is being used here? Its a bit of a leap guess, but if a skin were to be refresh

[slim] Slimserver is confused by directory and playlist with the same name

2005-04-02 Thread Thomas
I have observed a very strange behavious of slimserver (I have tried 5.4 and 6.0, they behave the same): I have a directory with subdirectories and a lot of songs in it. I have build a playlist with just some songs of that directory and called it exactly like the directory. The playlist itself

Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
Free Lunch wrote: On Apr 1, 2005 3:45 PM, Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Free Lunch wrote: Hi, ... say, sure does take you a long time to get information out of your disk... hdparm -tT /dev/[your-music-disk] please? I think you're on the wrong track. I am very picky about disk performance

Re: [slim] SS6 - Lack of confidence

2005-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
Iain Shaw wrote: I know there a number of threads aroundf talking about should I / shouldn't I upgrade to 6 My experience I think I've got a modest requirement running on reasonable kit - only 5000 tracks on a P4 machine with 1GB RAM - 250GB disk. Machine runs W2K Server and isn't used for too

[slim] Bug in default skin?

2005-04-02 Thread slim
This looks like a bug in the default skin (but it may already have been fixed, I'm running 6.0 release not nightlies).   If you click on an album title from the playlist (on the right hand side), it tries to bring up the album info page on the left. However, it doesn't work properly for me,

Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread Greg Friedman
"kdf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it seems that your attachment has come through corrupted, so its not much > help > yet :) Huh. Looks like OE posted it as format=flowed with an inline encoded attachment. Your reader obviously can't decode it. I've entered this as bug 1289: http://bugs.slimd

Re: [slim] 6.1 rpm? - Also missing 6.0.1 rpm

2005-04-02 Thread slim
> Hi, > > http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.1/ > > Is there a reason I can't see an rpm build? > > I usually auto-update each night, and need to recode my upgrade script > from /6.0/ - but ... > > Thanks, > Chris. The rpm build is also missing from the 6.0.1 folder as well as 6

Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread Triode
Kdf - Does this help? - Original Message - From: "Greg Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 8:45 PM Subject: Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries I'm having the same problem as the original poster. In my case, it's happening

RE: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread kdf
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Came out fine for me - just looks like it's uuencoded or something. Outlook > handled it with no problems. then someone with outlook can deal with it then :) -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http:

RE: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread slim
Came out fine for me - just looks like it's uuencoded or something. Outlook handled it with no problems. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kdf Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 3:12 PM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] 6.0 problem

Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread kdf
Quoting Greg Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm having the same problem as the original poster. In my case, it's > happening on a SB2 with 6.0. It's stopping at the end of FLAC tracks. I also > have an SB1 connected to the same server, but the two devices are not > synced. > > I've attached a d_s

Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread Greg Friedman
I'm having the same problem as the original poster. In my case, it's happening on a SB2 with 6.0. It's stopping at the end of FLAC tracks. I also have an SB1 connected to the same server, but the two devices are not synced. I've attached a d_source log. I believe that what I saw happen was as

Re: [slim] Speed of Browsing Music Folders

2005-04-02 Thread Vidur Apparao
Johnathan Hershbaum wrote: Hi, When I install version 6 or the 6.01 update browsing the music folders takes about 10 seconds When using version 5 it is 2 seconds. Machine is a 2.6gig celeron 512meg ram and xp sr1 with nothing else running. 2134 songs I have re-installed 5 and it is back to 2 second

RE: [slim] losing connection to server--a lot with 6.0.0

2005-04-02 Thread kdf
Quoting Rich Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just got my SB2 last night, and am generally very happy with it. > One problem though - when I try to connect to the RadioIO Classical > stream by using the remote, the server crashes. > I can connect to RadioIO Acoustic - no problem. But the Classica

[slim] Re: 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Sully
* Free Lunch shaped the electrons to say... First, this is unique to 6.X. Playlist sorting performance is poor in 5.4.1 but not nearly this bad. Is this "Shuffle by Album", "Shuffle By Song" or both? -D -- Because that is what our industry does. Churns out useless shit. Followed by inferior re-imp

Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-02 Thread Free Lunch
On Apr 1, 2005 3:45 PM, Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Free Lunch wrote: > > Hi, > ... > say, sure does take you a long time to get information out of your > disk... hdparm -tT /dev/[your-music-disk] please? I think you're on the wrong track. I am very picky about disk performance ;-)

Re: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread kdf
Quoting Simon Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Apologies for filling the list with individual issues but i figure > they're easier to keep on topic. > > I'm getting frequent 'stops' using 6.0 whether on SS2 or SB1s. Tracks > will play for a while and then the playlist will stop and i'll need to > hit

Re: [slim] RSS Question

2005-04-02 Thread kdf
Quoting Charles Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone know if there is a way to get the RSS feeds to auto-scroll > through the news items? I suppose this is a function of the RSS feed > itself, but if it could auto-scroll, that would be a nice screen saver > that did not require the remote

[slim] SS6 - Lack of confidence

2005-04-02 Thread Iain Shaw
I know there a number of threads aroundf talking about should I / shouldn't I upgrade to 6 My experience I think I've got a modest requirement running on reasonable kit - only 5000 tracks on a P4 machine with 1GB RAM - 250GB disk. Machine runs W2K Server and isn't used for too much else - hous

RE: [slim] AlienBBC nearly working, but need some help

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
What a total result!! I'm currently listening to "Ed Reardons Week" through SB :-) :-) :-) Well chuffed!! Absolutely top plugin - thanks Adrian :-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan Goodinson Sent: Sat 02/04/2005 19:24 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subjec

RE: [slim] losing connection to server--a lot with 6.0.0

2005-04-02 Thread Rich Freedman
I just got my SB2 last night, and am generally very happy with it. One problem though - when I try to connect to the RadioIO Classical stream by using the remote, the server crashes. I can connect to RadioIO Acoustic - no problem. But the Classical stream crashes the server every time. I'm runni

RE: [slim] AlienBBC nearly working, but need some help

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
Perfect :-) :-) Installed LAME into to appropriate folder under slimserver\server\Bin\MSwin32 Restarted slimserver, and LAME detected ok. Turned bitrate limiting down to 96, and it works a treat. I'll gradually up the bitrate until I find a happy medium. Cheers for your help dude

RE: [slim] AlienBBC nearly working, but need some help

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
Hi Adrian, Thanks for your help. Yes, this is a wireless network - my SB would normally stream MP3s from my fileserver, but I'm trying to get radio streamed instead. I've never used LAME for this purspose before, so the butrate is set to the default of 320. I installed LAME encoder into "C

[slim] Speed of Browsing Music Folders

2005-04-02 Thread Johnathan Hershbaum
Hi, When I install version 6 or the 6.01 update browsing the music folders takes about 10 seconds When using version 5 it is 2 seconds. Machine is a 2.6gig celeron 512meg ram and xp sr1 with nothing else running. 2134 songs I have re-installed 5 and it is back to 2 seconds to browse the music f

[slim] Squeezenetwork

2005-04-02 Thread Darren
Hi,   Received my SB2, and I'm loving it.  Thanks for the pony.   When will the Squeezenetwork be up & running?   Regards,   Darren ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

RE: [slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread Chris Saunders
Is this during sync between the SB1 and SS2? I've seen similar in 6b3 and haven't had a chance to give the final a good shakedown. But what I was seeing was all sorts of problems (which I can further post as I revisit Final 6) do to with Syncing between a Slimp3 and SS2. ChriS -Original Messa

RE: [slim] Dumb Linux newbie Softsqueeze question

2005-04-02 Thread Patrick Dixon
Yeah - it happened that way on my windows box too. And it put an icon on my desktop. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Coates Sent: 02 April 2005 18:57 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Dumb Linux newbie Softsqueeze question

Re: [slim] Dumb Linux newbie Softsqueeze question

2005-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
Patrick Dixon wrote: Thanks Jack "I don't use Fedora myself, but I'd guess that you don't have a Java plugin in whatever browser you're using, so it gave you some sort of "I don't know what to do with this jnlp stuff" message. You probably assumed that was a "download this?" message, waited a few s

Re: [slim] AlienBBC nearly working, but need some help

2005-04-02 Thread Triode
Is this a wireless attched player? If so do you have bitrate limiting set and lame installed? If not I would suggest setting bitrate limiting for this player (settings-player-audio). [requires lame to be installed] It may be that you don't have enough network bandwidth to stream otherwise. Ad

[slim] AlienBBC nearly working, but need some help

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
Ok - third attempt: Slimserver running on Win2k sp4 AlienBBC 0.94 (I installed all codecs from the mplayer downloads and installed them into the appropriate codecs folder) Slimserver 6.0.0 Squeezebox (original, not SB2) (firmware 40) I've been playing about with AlienBBC, as I thought it would

[slim] Test email (please ignore)

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
I'm having problems sending to the mailing list :-( ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] more 6.0 issues - synch issues. Volume 'resets' with each track.

2005-04-02 Thread Vidur Apparao
Simon Still wrote: I'm synching 2 SB1's and ss2. I've definitely got it set on all players NOT to synch volume but each time the track changes i'm getting the volume on the SB1 i'm listening to reset to 16. I turn it up to say 25 via the remote and the next track change takes it back to 16.

RE: [slim] Artist Sort Order

2005-04-02 Thread slim
Bingo! I previously had the default list (The El La Los Las Le Les). I tried clearing it to nothing, and rescanning - now everything's perfect again. Just to confirm my findings, I reset the list to the defaults, rescanned again, and it's all screwed up again. So there's something about that lis

[slim] AlienBBC working - sort of... Need a bit of help

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
Slimserver running on Win2k sp4 AlienBBC 0.94 (I installed all codecs from the mplayer downloads and installed them into the appropriate codecs folder) Slimserver 6.0.0 Squeezebox (original, not SB2) (firmware 40) I've been playing about with AlienBBC, as I thought it would be cool to get radio

RE: [slim] Dumb Linux newbie Softsqueeze question

2005-04-02 Thread Patrick Dixon
Thanks Jack "I don't use Fedora myself, but I'd guess that you don't have a Java plugin in whatever browser you're using, so it gave you some sort of "I don't know what to do with this jnlp stuff" message. You probably assumed that was a "download this?" message, waited a few seconds for nothing t

Re: [slim] Dumb Linux newbie Softsqueeze question

2005-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
Patrick Dixon wrote: Just trying a clean 6.0 & SQ2 installation on my FC3 installation, and having clicked all the buttons to download & start SQ from the html interface, it downloaded ok and then, well, nothing. So is it normal Linux practice to have to rummage around the filesystem to locate the

Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Snell
1. I just tried to unshuffle a playlist with 5147 tracks. The server went offline for 57 seconds, the music stopped, slimp3 display blanked, etc. See the vmstat output below. I can confirm this behavior with the 4/2 build (and similar behavior in 6.0) -- in my case (Mac OS X) the slim server pr

[slim] Dumb Linux newbie Softsqueeze question

2005-04-02 Thread Patrick Dixon
Just trying a clean 6.0 & SQ2 installation on my FC3 installation, and having clicked all the buttons to download & start SQ from the html interface, it downloaded ok and then, well, nothing. So is it normal Linux practice to have to rummage around the filesystem to locate the downloaded applicati

Re: [slim] more 6.0 issues - synch issues. Volume 'resets' with each track.

2005-04-02 Thread Ben Sandee
On Apr 2, 2005 7:18 AM, Simon Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm synching 2 SB1's and ss2. I've definitely got it set on all > players NOT to synch volume but each time the track changes i'm > getting the volume on the SB1 i'm listening to reset to 16. I turn it > up to say 25 via the remote

RE: [slim] Rotel RSX1056

2005-04-02 Thread Phillip Kerman
I'm using a 1m audioquest "VDM-1" cable. It didn't come with the Rotel. Thanks, Phillip > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Triode > Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 3:31 AM > To: Slim Devices Discussion > Subject: Re: [slim] Rotel RSX1

[slim] 6.1 rpm?

2005-04-02 Thread Chris Harris
Hi, http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.1/ Is there a reason I can't see an rpm build? I usually auto-update each night, and need to recode my upgrade script from /6.0/ - but ... Thanks, Chris. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.sl

RE:Perl 5.8 on SME6 [was Re: [slim] Re: Re: Is it time to recall 6? Anyone get it working onSuse orRH 7.2?]

2005-04-02 Thread Stefan Kuhnert
Hello Micheal you are the best. I have downloaded your tarball and followed your instructions. The slimserver v6 ist now running very well on my system. Thanks for your work. This should be an official download from the slimdevices website, to help out users like me. I have only one error messag

Re: [slim] SS 6.0 and RSS plugin

2005-04-02 Thread Roy Owen
Dave, I'm using the RSS screen saver on SBG's I don't think it's a connection loss as there are many entries in the log. The server crashed but not due (I think) to the RSS ScreenSaver as the screen saver was not running when the server crashed. On Apr 1, 2005 9:18 PM, kdf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

[slim] Musicmagic 'create' icon does not appear in search results - enhancement request

2005-04-02 Thread Simon Still
Right, MM is working well and delivering the goods but theres place in SlimServer i dont seem to be able to start a mix from. If i browse to "The Box Tops" I can create a mix from either the Atist, Album or Track as i drill down. However, if i search for "the letter" through the search function i

Re: [slim] "now playing" showing what just played last

2005-04-02 Thread Neil Cameron
Me too. -- Neil "Phillip Kerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Weird thing with 6.0.0--not sure how I got into this state... > but with a SB1 and SB2 both wireless they're both displaying the last song > played. Not just for a second or two... but while playing

[slim] 6.0 problem - playlist stops frequently at track boundaries

2005-04-02 Thread Simon Still
Apologies for filling the list with individual issues but i figure they're easier to keep on topic. I'm getting frequent 'stops' using 6.0 whether on SS2 or SB1s. Tracks will play for a while and then the playlist will stop and i'll need to hit pause to restart. It always happens at a track boun

Re: [slim] Lockup problem

2005-04-02 Thread Paul Wisneskey
FWIW, I just installed the latest nightly and my problems seem to have disappeared. Though I did notice that every time I install a new version I have to reset the login information on the service so that it runs under my account (so that it can access the network share). I doubt there is an

[slim] more 6.0 issues - synch issues. Volume 'resets' with each track.

2005-04-02 Thread Simon Still
I'm synching 2 SB1's and ss2. I've definitely got it set on all players NOT to synch volume but each time the track changes i'm getting the volume on the SB1 i'm listening to reset to 16. I turn it up to say 25 via the remote and the next track change takes it back to 16. ___

Re: [slim] "now playing" showing what just played last

2005-04-02 Thread Simon Still
On Apr 1, 2005 8:32 PM, Phillip Kerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Weird thing with 6.0.0--not sure how I got into this state... > but with a SB1 and SB2 both wireless they're both displaying the last song > played. Not just for a second or two... but while playing track 3 it shows > track 2. >

[slim] RSS Question

2005-04-02 Thread Charles Stanton
Does anyone know if there is a way to get the RSS feeds to auto-scroll through the news items? I suppose this is a function of the RSS feed itself, but if it could auto-scroll, that would be a nice screen saver that did not require the remote to continuously see various news items. Any ideas wou

Re: [slim] AlienBBC and Mac installation instructions corrected

2005-04-02 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Daniel Could you confirm that command line, on Windows to play an rpm file it would be: mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio2/paul_jones.rpm Neil Daniel Cohen wrote: > mplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio2/paul_jones.rpm

Re: [slim] Rotel RSX1056

2005-04-02 Thread Triode
On the basis that this is a bandwidth limiting problem - is there a case for trying a shorter piece of low capacitance cable first? [Something designed for high bandwidth use rather than audio use - e.g. cable for video signals, or off the shelf cable designed for spdif] I've found quite a diffe

Re: [slim] losing connection to server--a lot with 6.0.0

2005-04-02 Thread Jason Voegele
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:06 pm, Phillip Kerman wrote: > Is the "internet radio no computer" feature a feature of 6.0.0 server or > SB2? Considering that the *server* resides on a computer, I'd say that it's likely a feature of SB2. ;-) -- Jason Voegele Every word is like an unnecessary stain

Re: [slim] Gapless mp3 playback through MP3 to PCM decoding by lame

2005-04-02 Thread John Gorst
Karel Tromp wrote: OK, have lame.exe existing in slimserver/server/bin. Done with checkbox, heh, kept its change (very fine ...:-)). I am curious if there's any difference in playback quality for as I know the lame is a fine decoder too. But that later. First try: I still getting gaps between t

Re: [slim] RE: Discuss Digest, Vol 18, Issue 3

2005-04-02 Thread Michael Herger
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:49:18 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've seen quite a few posts discussion bugs and flaws on the 6.0 server release. I'm quite happy with my SB1 running on 5.4.1 now, but still, I plan on ordering a SB2. This needs to run on 6.0 - I can understand that. But is this version

Perl 5.8 on SME6 [was Re: [slim] Re: Re: Is it time to recall 6? Anyone get it working onSuse orRH 7.2?]

2005-04-02 Thread Michael Herger
Dave [..] I'm not suggesting there's anything you can, or should, do about it -- just expressing my disappointment at my own situation and hoping someone would say "But wait, here's a workaround!" A workaround? There is! :-) I just uploaded a tar ball of my perl 5.8.6 install, compiled and running