Re: [slim] Can I have more slim software players on single ip ?

2005-04-10 Thread Chris Laplante
Is it possible to do something equivalent (I tried this, it bombs) to the following: java -jar -Daudio.mixer='/dev/null' SoftSqueeze.jar I am running multiple SoftSqueeze instances on a server, and displaying back to lower-power machines that run slimp3slave locally to handle the audio. This setu

[slim] Re: iTunes playlist regression

2005-04-10 Thread Dan Sully
* Paul Forgey shaped the electrons to say... When it isn't working, I do get this output on the console every half second (doesn't seem to be d_ anything): Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at C:/Program Files/SlimServer/Slim/Buttons/Playlist.pm line 237. Are you running the 6.0.1 relea

[slim] Re: iTunes playlist regression

2005-04-10 Thread Dan Sully
* Paul Forgey shaped the electrons to say... I was going to PM you with my iTunes xml file but I couldn't figure out how to send attachments using this web board. Maybe I'm not allowed to? I'm not sure if this is possible yet - digging through the options. In the meantime, you can email it to dan

[slim] Re: Noise Spike at Song Startup

2005-04-10 Thread warc1
dean Wrote: > Hi Warc, > > Make sure that you have installed the latest version of SlimServer from > > our website. There was a fix in 6.0.1 for a problem that could cause > noise at the beginning of a track. > > If that's not the issue, it may be that the noise is actually in the > WAV fil

[slim] Squeezebox 2 not getting along with my stereo

2005-04-10 Thread demoleon
I just received my SB2 and my Meridian 861 is having trouble "locking on" to the digital connection. The 861 just clicks in and out constantly. My original SB would cause this behavior after a firmware upgrade but the clicking would stop after about 30 seconds or so and then it would play flawle

[slim] Apple Lossless

2005-04-10 Thread Frank Xavier Ledo
I recently purchased a used SB1 from a coworker upgraded to an SB2. Since purchasing it I have tried and failed to get SlimServer running on Linux to play Apple Lossless files. I tried FAAD (various versions as suggested by many sources) and got nowhere fast (could not find stream in ... blah

Re: [slim] Cue sheets and missing MP3 songs

2005-04-10 Thread michael
johnduley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using Slimserver 6.0.1 - trunk on Ubuntu linux (Debian!). Player is > SB2. > > When browsing music MP3 folders that contain cue sheets, the last MP3 > in each folder refuses to be listed/played by the Slimserver. If I > delete the cue sheet, all MP3s list co

[slim] Re: Squeezebox2, Universal Remote and Me

2005-04-10 Thread cutting
I am seeing the same thing. My Squeezebox2 does not respond as a JVC DVD to my universal remote. And, yes, jvc_dvd is checked in the remote box on the web interface. Any ideas? -- cutting ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http:

Re: [slim] Noise Spike at Song Startup

2005-04-10 Thread Jeff Coffler
Hi, The other problem I have encountered is also intermittent and relatively rare. Again when playing a long playlist, the server loses track of the song being played and shows the tag info from the previous song. As the next song is played, track info from the song that just finished is displayed.

Re: [slim] Noise Spike at Song Startup

2005-04-10 Thread dean blackketter
Hi Warc, Make sure that you have installed the latest version of SlimServer from our website. There was a fix in 6.0.1 for a problem that could cause noise at the beginning of a track. If that's not the issue, it may be that the noise is actually in the WAV files themselves. Is the problem re

[slim] Noise Spike at Song Startup

2005-04-10 Thread warc1
I just received my Squeezebox2 a couple of days ago. So far, I am really impressed and quite like it. However, there are a couple of bugs that I have experienced. The most annoying is a loud noise spike that occurs during the start of some songs when playing a long playlist. All of my music files

Re: [slim] Re: SB2: Fast forward with FLAC?

2005-04-10 Thread michael
JayNYC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you for the fast reply. Is Fast Forward with FLAC using > cue-sheets for entire albums going to be hardware dependent (ie: > Squeezebox 3) or firmware dependent? If firmware, is there an ETA? I suspect it's just a matter of teaching slimserver how to f

[slim] Re: Cue sheets and missing MP3 songs

2005-04-10 Thread johnduley
Many thanks! I will try... -- johnduley ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: iTunes playlist regression

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Forgey
I was going to PM you with my iTunes xml file but I couldn't figure out how to send attachments using this web board. Maybe I'm not allowed to? d_itunes has nothing to say. I tried restarting the server and browsing my playlists and music with this setting turned on. I've since noticed this is

Re: [slim] SlimScrobbler

2005-04-10 Thread Dave Dewey
Quoting Jack Coates ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Stewart Loving-Gibbard wrote: > >Dave: > > > >Ian Parkinson has been working diligently on a new version for 6.0, > >which is available via CVS. I'm running 6.0, but haven't made time > >to try it myself. > > > >I need to update the web page, but haven't

Re: [slim] SlimScrobbler

2005-04-10 Thread Jack Coates
Stewart Loving-Gibbard wrote: Dave: Ian Parkinson has been working diligently on a new version for 6.0, which is available via CVS. I'm running 6.0, but haven't made time to try it myself. I need to update the web page, but haven't done so yet. I would appreciate all interested parties pulling the

[slim] Re: Newbie question

2005-04-10 Thread mlsignups
Thanks for your thoughts. I'll probably order one tonight or tomorrow based on your info and some other research I've done. -- mlsignups ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: iTunes playlist regression

2005-04-10 Thread Dan Sully
* Paul Forgey shaped the electrons to say... I just upgraded to version 6.0.1 on Windows XP. While slimserver is able to see my iTunes data just fine, it no longer shows my iTunes playlists. While I do not remember exactly which version of the software I was running before the upgrade, it used to

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze2.0b3 and 6.1.0 nightlies

2005-04-10 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/10/05 4:47 PM >>> > I've not written the version for slimserver 6.1 yet, but by > the time this version of the slimserver is released I will have :). > The main feature I am planning is a much improved music > search/playlist. Softsqueeze 2.0b3 is the latest version at

Re: [slim] Newbie question

2005-04-10 Thread Damon Riley
Mike, it sounds as if the slimdevices combo will work for you. My music library is about a third the size of yours. A Pentium II is running Linux and the slimserver. The other two PCs in the house (one Windows PC on wireless and one wired Linux PC) can both operate the slimserver and control

[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread radish
Well, yes, most of my albums are "full", i.e. 72 mins, which will make them larger than 40-45 mins pop albums. But, I'm still not seeing the ratios. For example, I took a random selection of 4 tracks from an album, and compared them at different settings: 4 tracks, total play time 16:06 WAV: 162

[slim] Re: Daytime screensaver wierdness on SB2

2005-04-10 Thread rephlex
Running 6.0.1 with Firmware 9. -- rephlex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: 6.0.1 bugs

2005-04-10 Thread jmpage2
Thanks Dan-o -- jmpage2 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Newbie question

2005-04-10 Thread mlsignups
I have 10,000+ mp3 tracks stored on a computer and have been using an Audiotron for the last few years to stream it to a central amplifier and distribution system that in turn sends the music out to speakers in different areas of my house. I recently put in a new firewall/router and I can't get t

Re: [slim] SlimScrobbler

2005-04-10 Thread Dave Dewey
Quoting Stewart Loving-Gibbard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ian Parkinson has been working diligently on a new version for 6.0, > which is available via CVS. I'm running 6.0, but haven't made time > to try it myself. > > I need to update the web page, but haven't done so yet. > > I would appreciate a

Re: [slim] Re: SQL

2005-04-10 Thread kdf
Quoting JJZolx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > BKDotCom Wrote: > > Any chance the MySQL dbi stuff could be packaged with future releases? > That would certainly save some folks a bit of grief. > the fact that the code to allow the option should make it clear that it will be in a future release. however,

[slim] Re: Unwanted 'synchronisation'

2005-04-10 Thread relen
rtitmuss Wrote: > Press the apple key (ctrl on windows) while dragging the remote window, > > you can move it [remote and display] separately then. Thanks! I should have known that, I think... In fact I thought I'd tried it and failed... anyway it works fine. rtitmuss Wrote: > Check in the n

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze Audio Buffer Underrun

2005-04-10 Thread Richard Titmuss
Neil Cameron wrote: I did try JLayer - it made no difference. I'll email some new logs... Hmm. Please could you run Softsqueeze from the command prompt (see the Softsqueeze website for instructions), and when the audio has stopped get a thread dump by pressing Ctrl-Break in the console. If yo

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze Audio Buffer Underrun

2005-04-10 Thread Neil Cameron
I did try JLayer - it made no difference. I'll email some new logs... -- Neil "Richard Titmuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Neil Cameron wrote: > >>Any luck with the logs? >>Is there any chance that this problem is related to the fact that (no >>matter what

Re: [slim] Unwanted 'synchronisation'

2005-04-10 Thread Richard Titmuss
relen wrote: I open the SSQ2 on the iBook, bringing up the horizontal remote window as the vertical one partially overlays the display window (er... nevermind) Press the apple key (ctrl on windows) while dragging the remote window, you can move it separately then. The display comes up showing not

[slim] Re: SQL

2005-04-10 Thread JJZolx
BKDotCom Wrote: > Any chance the MySQL dbi stuff could be packaged with future releases? That would certainly save some folks a bit of grief. -- JJZolx JJ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/list

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze2.0b3 and 6.1.0 nightlies

2005-04-10 Thread Richard Titmuss
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: When starting up the softsqueeze that comes with the 6.1.0 nightly from 4/9, I get a message saying it is not the latest. I went to the sf site and that is sporting the same version I'm running. Are there ss nightlies too? Paul I've not written the version for slimserv

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze 2.0b3 trouble

2005-04-10 Thread Richard Titmuss
Neil Coburn wrote: I am running Slimserver 6.0.1, which generally is working really well. However, when I start and sync Softsqueeze, all I get is white noise from the Softsqueeze itself, and it resets the volume on the synced SB1 to 0. Any fixes? What version of Softsqueeze are you running, ma

Re: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Mark Bennett
Well for single albums, mine seem to vary between pretty small and very large: 164M/media2/Flac/Enya/Watermark to 689M/media2/Flac/Fish/Mixed Company (This CD is so long that I can't rip the last track, and I've tried 4 different DVD drives on Linux and Windows... It's also a live r

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze Audio Buffer Underrun

2005-04-10 Thread Richard Titmuss
Neil Cameron wrote: Any luck with the logs? Is there any chance that this problem is related to the fact that (no matter what I do) I can only run SoftSqueeze 2b2 and not 2b3? Sorry I have been busy over the weekend, and only just had a chance to have a look. I don't understand why you are ha

[slim] iTunes playlist regression

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Forgey
I just upgraded to version 6.0.1 on Windows XP. While slimserver is able to see my iTunes data just fine, it no longer shows my iTunes playlists. While I do not remember exactly which version of the software I was running before the upgrade, it used to work. This was also a known problem a whil

Re: [slim] Daytime screensaver wierdness on SB2

2005-04-10 Thread kdf
Quoting rephlex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm running the daytime screensaver when my SB2 is turned off. This > morning the time it displayed was off by at least three hours and one > second took more like 5 seconds to turn which is prolly why it was > three hours behind. When I turned the SB2 on,

[slim] Daytime screensaver wierdness on SB2

2005-04-10 Thread rephlex
I'm running the daytime screensaver when my SB2 is turned off. This morning the time it displayed was off by at least three hours and one second took more like 5 seconds to turn which is prolly why it was three hours behind. When I turned the SB2 on, the time started racing and setting itself to t

Re: [slim] Built-in Radio plugins

2005-04-10 Thread kdf
Quoting Philip Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi "Michael Herger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > >I just installed the latest nightly on my Windows machine and I did not > >have the double entries. What release did you use? > > > SlimServer_v2005-04-09.exe, but currently running in a console with "perl >

Re: [slim] Re: SQL

2005-04-10 Thread Jonathan Greene
sorry totally wrong list! -Original Message- From: "Jonathan Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, Apr 10, 2005 4:02 pm Subject: Re: [slim] Re: SQL actually AOL and GMail are on Sync using imap.aol.com for aol IMAP -Original Message- From: BKDotCom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: S

Re: [slim] Re: SQL

2005-04-10 Thread Jonathan Greene
actually AOL and GMail are on Sync using imap.aol.com for aol IMAP -Original Message- From: BKDotCom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, Apr 10, 2005 3:08 pm Subject: [slim] Re: SQL Working now.. don't know what I did. I did reset the user password.. beats me Any chance the MySQL dbi st

[slim] Re: Running with MySQL on Windows

2005-04-10 Thread Dan Sully
* BKDotCom shaped the electrons to say... Not Windows specific, but can slimserversql.db be safely deleted after switching to MySQL? Yes. -D -- you know, most free operating systems come preinstalled with their own high horse. ___ Discuss mailing list D

[slim] Re: Upgrading froom 6.0 to 6.0.1

2005-04-10 Thread Dan Sully
* BKDotCom shaped the electrons to say... Probably asked before (I did search) but: Can 6.0.1 be installed directly over 6.0? I've always uninstalled first.. Would the DB be maintained? (if using default SQLite) How about if using MySQL? ( would prefs be overwritten / need to reinstall the MySQL d

Re: [slim] Built-in Radio plugins

2005-04-10 Thread Philip Meyer
Hi "Michael Herger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >I just installed the latest nightly on my Windows machine and I did not >have the double entries. What release did you use? > SlimServer_v2005-04-09.exe, but currently running in a console with "perl slimserver.pl". >This is strange as I don't have tha

[slim] Re: 6.0.1 bugs

2005-04-10 Thread Dan Sully
* jmpage2 shaped the electrons to say... Browse by Artist... if I go to browse music, browse by artist and hit the "j" button on the keypad it jumps to the "j" artists but it is in the middle of the artist list instead of being at the top of the "j" artist listings. I'll let someone who's more fami

Re: [slim] SlimScrobbler

2005-04-10 Thread Stewart Loving-Gibbard
Dave: Ian Parkinson has been working diligently on a new version for 6.0, which is available via CVS. I'm running 6.0, but haven't made time to try it myself. I need to update the web page, but haven't done so yet. I would appreciate all interested parties pulling the current version and trying it.

[slim] Softsqueeze 2.0b3 trouble

2005-04-10 Thread Neil Coburn
I am running Slimserver 6.0.1, which generally is working really well. However, when I start and sync Softsqueeze, all I get is white noise from the Softsqueeze itself, and it resets the volume on the synced SB1 to 0.  Any fixes?     ___ Discuss ma

[slim] Re: Squeezebox2

2005-04-10 Thread Old Guy
Dean or anybody, My SB1 (still waiting for Platinum SB2 :-) "sometimes" has trouble connecting wireless network since I changed to Belkin Pre-N as well as Slimservre 6. Would you kindly let me know how you set up the Belkin Pre-N router? Sometimes it finds wireless network quickly (distance is

Re: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Wallace
I have a lot of CDs that were originally released on vinyl. That limits them, in most cases, to 25-40 minutes in length. Considering the rule-of-thumb of a bit over 10 MB / minute of audio, uncompressed and approx 50% compression with FLAC, I generally get 200 - 250 MB (in FLAC) for a 30 min

Re: [slim] Re: Running with MySQL on Windows

2005-04-10 Thread Christian Pernegger
> Not Windows specific, but can slimserversql.db be safely deleted after > switching to MySQL? I'd guess so... worked on linux :) C. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Missing Files On ReScan v6

2005-04-10 Thread Ben Sandee
On Apr 10, 2005 12:52 PM, maurice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...but I see another problem: the Fishbone navigation bar for titles > now looks like this: > > ( Z 1 2 S 5 8 1 9 A B A P A O A M A C A E A L B R B T B J F B V B E B H > B N B L B H P B P E B H B C T C F B C O C L C F C L C I D W D H D

[slim] Re: Running with MySQL on Windows

2005-04-10 Thread BKDotCom
Not Windows specific, but can slimserversql.db be safely deleted after switching to MySQL? -- BKDotCom ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Upgrading froom 6.0 to 6.0.1

2005-04-10 Thread BKDotCom
Probably asked before (I did search) but: Can 6.0.1 be installed directly over 6.0? I've always uninstalled first.. Would the DB be maintained? (if using default SQLite) How about if using MySQL? ( would prefs be overwritten / need to reinstall the MySQL dbi components ) Thanks -- BKDotCom _

[slim] Re: SQL

2005-04-10 Thread BKDotCom
Working now.. don't know what I did. I did reset the user password.. beats me Any chance the MySQL dbi stuff could be packaged with future releases? -- BKDotCom ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/list

Re: [slim] Re: Slightly OT: Small Amplifier recommendations

2005-04-10 Thread Todd Fields
--- Mike Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cheap and apparently good: > http://www.si-5.com/frontEnd/cm_productDetail.jsp?productID=18. > > Reviewed here: http://www.tnt-audio.com/ampli/t-amp_e.html. > Just set > the volume at a fixed position, and use the SB for volume > control. I boug

[slim] Re: Running with MySQL on Windows

2005-04-10 Thread JJZolx
BKDotCom Wrote: > See this: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html Thanks. That worked. I changed the password to an "old style" password and SlimServer started up. Why, if MySQL 4.1 is recommended, does SlimServer use old style passwords rather than the type introduced in MySQL 4

Re: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Jeff Coffler
From: "radish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB Wow. Mine average 500, I must have some kind of broken FLAC codec ;) Mine are much shorter as well. Here's a short samp

RE: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Phillip Kerman
>Shoot, most of my 5.25" disks that had sat in >> a box for 10 years worked the last time I went through them >> before their ultimate disposal. I think that magnetic media--although it's sensitive to fields--is notably better for long-term archiving. I believe CDs are estimated at about 10 yea

[slim] Re: Mis-match song playing and web-interface

2005-04-10 Thread Tourne
I have something similar but not quite the same. In the SlimServer window on the server, the highlighted song in the play list doesn't change at all, so the first played song remains highlighted. However, in the "now playing" area and on the Slimp3 display, the correct information about the curr

[slim] Re: Missing Files On ReScan v6

2005-04-10 Thread maurice
I waited until the 6.0.1 release to update my server which I have been running for 3 years (is it more?). After updating the SlimServer (from 5.4), it would not register the correct number of songs/albums/artist. After getting iTunes to reload its xml, I still would not get the correct number afte

[slim] 6.0.1 bugs

2005-04-10 Thread jmpage2
Couple of things I wonder if anyone else is experiencing. Browse by Artist... if I go to browse music, browse by artist and hit the "j" button on the keypad it jumps to the "j" artists but it is in the middle of the artist list instead of being at the top of the "j" artist listings. Shuffle/Unsh

Re: [slim] Built-in Radio plugins

2005-04-10 Thread Michael Herger
Philip I just installed the latest nightly on my Windows machine and I did not have the double entries. What release did you use? This is an issue with the 6.1 Windows build: I have added web interfaces to those plugins, they therefore moved to their own subfolders. But the original files have n

Re: [slim] Music Match Integration (was RE: Fishbone Home button problem)

2005-04-10 Thread kdf
Quoting garysargent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ok thats good, but how do you actually use it then?! > > I thought you could play a song, then tell it to generate a new > playlist from the song. > > Is there a way to do this from the web interface, because when I try > with the SLIMP3 remote (holding

[slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods

2005-04-10 Thread Tourne
I'm getting exactly this behaviour. Periodic very high CPU activity from slim.exe that lasts up to 20 minutes and stops the player. My library is about 25k songs. Having said that, although I'm trying to get it to use iTunes, I've not succeeded as yet, so I don't know if that is the issue, or no

[slim] Music Match Integration (was RE: Fishbone Home button problem)

2005-04-10 Thread garysargent
ok thats good, but how do you actually use it then?! I thought you could play a song, then tell it to generate a new playlist from the song. Is there a way to do this from the web interface, because when I try with the SLIMP3 remote (holding down play) all I get is the save playlist display. Th

Re: [slim] Music Match Integration (was RE: Fishbone Home button problem)

2005-04-10 Thread kdf
Quoting garysargent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've done all this and it looks like MusicMatch integration should all > be working. > > SlimServer spent ages loading the MusicMatch database (I turned on > debugging and saw it doing this). > > But how does it work?! I never see the "mm" even on track

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze Audio Buffer Underrun

2005-04-10 Thread Neil Cameron
The latest example from the debug log is: 26169765 [SlimTCP-1] DEBUG player - httpRequest=GET /stream.mp3?player=38:bc:7c:16:87:63 HTTP/1.0 26169765 [SlimTCP-1] DEBUG player - parsed strm: command=u format=109 crossfade=0 ipaddr=localhost port=9000 file=/stream.mp3?player=38:bc:7c:16:87:63 auth

[slim] Re: Cue sheets and missing MP3 songs

2005-04-10 Thread jth
I'd recommend archiving the cue sheets off to a separate directory tree or possibly giving them a separate set of file permissions so that the slimserver process can't read them. It has been problematic in many cases to have more than one object pointing to the same file or more than one piece of

[slim] Music Match Integration (was RE: Fishbone Home button problem)

2005-04-10 Thread garysargent
I've done all this and it looks like MusicMatch integration should all be working. SlimServer spent ages loading the MusicMatch database (I turned on debugging and saw it doing this). But how does it work?! I never see the "mm" even on tracks I know MM has processed. When I hold "play" down it

[slim] Cue sheets and missing MP3 songs

2005-04-10 Thread johnduley
Using Slimserver 6.0.1 - trunk on Ubuntu linux (Debian!). Player is SB2. When browsing music MP3 folders that contain cue sheets, the last MP3 in each folder refuses to be listed/played by the Slimserver. If I delete the cue sheet, all MP3s list correctly (and PLAY!) in the folder. I do not see

Re: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread jan van mourik
I used this in EAC (compression options -> External Compression -> Additional command line options): -6 --replay-gain -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T "comment=EAC 0.95prebeta5 / FLAC 1.1.0" %s And as an example these are the sizes for

RE: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Kevin O. Lepard
DVDs are not exactly archival There are lots of arguments on that. Frankly, I wish MO had caught on; that's probably the most "archival" there is. Even chiseling something into a rock won't last forever. Unfortunately, migrating data between old and new media isn't going to go away, though it

RE: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Phillip Kerman
DVDs are not exactly archival. Naturally, hard drives have the issue that your OS may not support the HD in the future. I often feel like a dung beetle copying all my stuff from computer to computer. Anyway, I just use HDs. Thanks, Phillip ___ Dis

[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread radish
> I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my > compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between > 200-400MB Wow. Mine average 500, I must have some kind of broken FLAC codec ;) More seriously, I think it must have to do with the type of music. I always s

[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread max . spicer
What flac options are you using? I think I'm using -6. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___

[slim] Re: Re: New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver

2005-04-10 Thread Dan Sully
* Mark Bennett shaped the electrons to say... Has anyone got a linkstation working with SS6? Yes - Linkstation was one of our testing boxes. It should run fine. Also, do these boxes have enough horsepower to handle AlienBBC decoding of Real streams? Probably not. It only has a 200Mhz PPC processor.

[slim] Re: Announce: New Forums - and email list gateway - Please Read!

2005-04-10 Thread Dan Sully
* John Gorst shaped the electrons to say... Yes - they'll take a few days to get setup however. Do we need to set them up with gmane - or have gmane started the signup process. I've let gmane know about the new lists. Not sure when they'll get around to it though.. -D _

Re: [slim] Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Mark Bennett
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 08:21 -0600, Robert Wallace wrote: > I'm probably a bit old-fashioned. I tend to think of hard disks as > production media not suitable to off-line long term storage. I'm sure > that's no longer the case... But for me it's not really long term. Since I rerun the backup ro

Re: [slim] Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Kevin O. Lepard
Of course, the ulitmate off-line backup of a CD, is the CD itself. Mine go into a box in the basement. *grin* Mine are in folders behind the bed. Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread healy
max.spicer Wrote: > Manuel Rathmann wrote (in "New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver"): > > [..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I > left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox. > > This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours > ripping

RE: [slim] Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Kevin O. Lepard
So you've got a backup solution AND a way of not having to run your PC all the time. Of course, the Buffalo Linkstation is just a PC, too. Running slimserver on it is a cool hack, but if reliability is really your goal, do you really want to hack the very device you're using to store the data?

Re: [slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Wallace
Oh, around 10 to 20 - Nice and accurate ;=) max.spicer wrote: How many FLAC albums do you get on a DVD on average? I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB. Nice and accurate! ;-) __

Re: [slim] Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Kevin O. Lepard
How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has anyone else got any workable

[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread radish
robertwallace Wrote: > I'm probably a bit old-fashioned. I tend to think of hard disks as > production media not suitable to off-line long term storage. I'm sure > > that's no longer the case... > > Any way, when I ripped my CD collection for the 4th (and final time) -- > > to FLAC -- I bac

[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread DrRobert
I have been trying to deal with the backup issues as well. My problems is scale; I currently have about 24000 ripped flac tracks on hard disks which is about half of my cds. This is currently taking up a little over 1.0 TB on my linux box. Duping the drives would be painfully expensive. A raid

[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread max . spicer
How many FLAC albums do you get on a DVD on average? I keep meaning to compile some statistics on the average size of my compressed albums, but a quick scan shows they tend to be between 200-400MB. Nice and accurate! ;-) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed

Re: [slim] Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Wallace
I'm probably a bit old-fashioned. I tend to think of hard disks as production media not suitable to off-line long term storage. I'm sure that's no longer the case... Any way, when I ripped my CD collection for the 4th (and final time) -- to FLAC -- I backed up the FLAC files onto DVD. Now, a

[slim] Duplicate genre entries with accented characters (6.0.1)

2005-04-10 Thread narya
I've filed a bug report regarding the subject. Anybody else, who has noticed quirks with accented characters, might like to have a look at it and add her/his own comments: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346 Alexander ___ Discuss mailing li

Re: [slim] Built-in Radio plugins

2005-04-10 Thread Philip Meyer
>This is an issue with the 6.1 Windows build: I have added web interfaces >to those plugins, they therefore moved to their own subfolders. But the >original files have not been removed. I hope this will soon be fixed. > Also Live365 seems to have its own subfolder now, but it seems that the li

Re: [slim] SoftSqueeze Audio Buffer Underrun

2005-04-10 Thread Neil Cameron
Any luck with the logs? Is there any chance that this problem is related to the fact that (no matter what I do) I can only run SoftSqueeze 2b2 and not 2b3? -- Neil "Neil Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Richard > > I've tried to post these (long) error lo

Re: [slim] Thanks for the Pony!

2005-04-10 Thread Ian Whalley
>>I'm kinda bummed... I didn't get a pony with mine (other >>than the discount that is :-) >Did you look thoroughly through the packaging? I didn't >notice my pony until I saw these messages. Then I looked in >the very bottom of the packaging, and found my pony tucked >away. I went back to the box

Re: [slim] Re: Rescan / Wipe Cache, where is the cache?

2005-04-10 Thread Jason Voegele
JJZolx said: > dsully Wrote: >> A rescan doesn't clear any data - just picks up new data. Old data is >> lazily removed as stated before. 6.1 will probably do active deletion. > Here's an idea for the interface then. I think it would probably be a > good idea to keep the ability to do a "fast" res

Re: [slim] CH Slim-Community Get-Together in Zuerich

2005-04-10 Thread Michael Herger
Am Sat, 9 Apr 2005 10:41:35 -0700 (PDT) hat Felix Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben: Hi there Felix Moser of K55 in Zuerich and myself are hosting a Squeezebox2 launch apero and a CH Slim-Community Get-Together on Wednesday, April 20 @ 6 pm. Cool! I'll be there! In addition to the brand ne

Re: [slim] Built-in Radio plugins

2005-04-10 Thread Michael Herger
Phil After installing the 10-April-2005 nightly, I notice that I have duplicate plugins listed and ticked: SHOUTcast Internet Radio Slim Devices Picks Radioio.com I have two SHOUTcast Internet Radio plugin settings sections on the Plugins page, and two on the "Internet Radio" page too. This is

Windows build [was: Re: [slim] Built-in Radio plugins]

2005-04-10 Thread Michael Herger
Dan/Dean/Vidur, After installing the 10-April-2005 nightly, I notice that I have duplicate plugins listed and ticked: SHOUTcast Internet Radio Slim Devices Picks Radioio.com The Windows build script does not seem to remove files. Those plugins have been moved to their own folders. The original

Re: [slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods

2005-04-10 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: I had something similar but possibly unrelated. For the last week and a half I have been running the compiled 3/14 nightly under WinXPProSP1. Tonight I noticed the service had gone "rogue" and was using all available cycles. This was after a wee

[slim] Re: Backing up ripped music

2005-04-10 Thread max . spicer
Manuel Rathmann Wrote: > Well Max - this is what I am exactly trying to work out. The idea I had > is > to buy a Buffalo Linkstation. [...] Oh sorry, I've hijacked your thread in that case. I hadn't understood what a linkstation was - I assumed it was just another piece of network kit. Maybe I

[slim] Squeezebox Alarm Playlist Selection

2005-04-10 Thread Patrick Delamere
Hi,   SuSE Linux 9.2 - Squeezebox2 – Slimserver 6.0.1   I have just organised my radio stations in my playlists folder into various sub folders.  However, now that I have done that, I can no longer use these playlists for my Squeezebox Alarm setting, as they are no longer visible in the

Re: [slim] Re: Mis-match song playing and web-interface

2005-04-10 Thread Simon Still
On Apr 10, 2005 12:33 AM, Charles Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vidur - I cant't reproduce it. It appears random. I tried playing > the same playlist again to see if it would recurr - it did not. Not > sure what else I could do to reproduce it. > > It was easy eneough to 'reset': if I

Re: [slim] Announce: New Forums - and email list gateway - Please Read!

2005-04-10 Thread John Gorst
Dan Sully wrote: * Chris Harris shaped the electrons to say... I read from news.gmane.org - will I still be able to do this for the new groups? Yes - they'll take a few days to get setup however. Do we need to set them up with gmane - or have gmane started the signup process. Cheers ___

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