Quoting Allan Hise [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Dan Sully wrote:
* jonsandys shaped the electrons to say...
It's a Squeezebox 1 running on XP SP2. Network equipment's a Belkin
Wireless 54Mbps adaptor and a BT Voyager 2100 router, although I had
the same problem with a
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:13:47 +0200, superbad
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In the server directory there is a file called strings.txt. You can
search for the phrase in that file and change it there.
Make sure you save both the original and the edited version with a
different name, because every time
Andy Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...
I've knocked up a Perl script that can convert a directory tree containing
FLAC files (either individual tracks or whole CDs) into another directory
tree containing MP3s (suitable tagged) if anyone is interested?
Could probably do with some
michael wrote:
Please pass it along. Most of the conversion scripts posted so far
have assumed one track per file. And the more the merrier anyway. :)
Since you asked, here's my version of flac-split as a python script.
This is truly a version 0.1, very raw and messy. I do use it to
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:16:08 +0200, Michael Herger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have created a web page with instructions on how to install my Perl
5.8.6 tarball on SME6 (aka e-smith) and other RedHat 7.3 based systems.
If you're running into troubles because you're still running Perl 5.6.x
A few things:
1) When the computer running Slim Server is off, I cannot acquire any
internet radio from the Squeezebox2 using the remote. When the server
is off, the display on Squeezebox2 is blank. I hit power, and it
attenpts to connect to slim server and then drops after a few seconds,
On 18/4/05 at 6:10 pm -0700, bec143 wrote
1) The signal strength ranges from around 50-66%. I have never noticed
a correlation between the dropouts and the signal. I fooled around a
lot with Macstunbler and changing the frequencies, but no major
affect.
2) I'll chack on the buffer stuff tonight.
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:55:02 +0200, Slim Pickins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) When the computer running Slim Server is off, I cannot acquire any
internet radio from the Squeezebox2 using the remote. When the server
is off, the display on Squeezebox2 is blank. I hit power, and it
attenpts to
Quoting Slim Pickins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A few things:
1) When the computer running Slim Server is off, I cannot acquire any
internet radio from the Squeezebox2 using the remote. When the server
is off, the display on Squeezebox2 is blank. I hit power, and it
attenpts to connect to slim
It's a graphical unit, but I had the same problem with my older
character based one.
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I practically wrote a bash script to do this but then ran into problems
with characters such as '* etc in the filenames - I couldn't work out
how to escape them safely. I would be very interested in both the perl
script and the python script that has been mentioned here. No
attachments have
I used MusicMatch to rip all the songs. I have read that there are
better tools for the job and frankly I wish I could remember which ones
were recommended. Any suggestions?
If you're on windows, EAC. There is some help on configuring it on the
web (search this forum), so don't give up if it
Hi,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
max.spicer[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I practically wrote a bash script to do this but then ran into problems
with characters such as '* etc in the filenames - I couldn't work out
how to escape them safely. I would be very interested in both the perl
Thanks, I look forward to seeing it. I was going to have one last look
at my bash script and then start again in Perl, so I'll hang on a bit.
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The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible
teeth
and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible
SoftSqueeze starts and runs fine... then CPU load gradually increases,
increases, increases, until SoftSqueeze locks. Plays music fine, (though
CPU fans ramp up due to load), until SoftSqueeze lockup. This happens over
a 15 minute period. Very repeatable, very consistent. SoftSqueeze and
I run mine on a PIII 400 with 512M ram and a 250G drive.
Runs Fedora Core.
Talking with Orb on 18 Apr 2005 at 4:45 about [slim] Building a house
server? we discussed:
What do people recommend for a basic house server?
I could get my hands on an old (very cheap) Pentium 3, 600 MHz, 256mb
On 19/4/05 at 1:55 am -0700, Slim Pickins wrote
1) When the computer running Slim Server is off, I cannot acquire any
internet radio from the Squeezebox2 using the remote. When the server
is off, the display on Squeezebox2 is blank. I hit power, and it
attenpts to connect to slim server and then
Dear all,
My Squeezebox2 is scheduled to arrive on Friday. I purchased a
200gb drive w/8mb cache for $94.00 and have been ripping music through
WMP at a 192kbs rate. My question is whether this rate is enough
quality? My home audio gear is fairly decent, running an Onkyo DTS
receiver, and
Why not rip an album at 192 and the same album at a higher rate and
judge the difference for yourself on the SB on Friday.
Everyone's hearing is different and 192 may or may not be good enough
for you.
Steven Moore
On 19 Apr 2005, at 2:57 pm, bjmacdow wrote:
Dear all,
My Squeezebox2 is
If you are going the mp3 route, I highly recommend using one of the LAME
encoder's high quality VBR presets.
version 3.90.3 with setting --alt-preset standard or
version 3.96.1 with setting --preset standard
are recommended. Using CBR is just wasting space in my opinion. You may
also want to
JTH,
I am the total Novice here. I just did a search on LAME encoders
as I did not know what they were. On Friday I will do a listening test,
and then, if necessary, reformat the 200gb drive and start over ripping
with LAME. Thanks for the suggestion.
You prefaced your suggestion with, if
Sure - I'll do it tonight and post.
vidurapparao Wrote:
Would it be possible for you to post debug output with the --d_source
debug flag turned on? Let me know if you need instructions for getting
the debug log.
Thanks,
--Vidur
radish wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions - the MAC
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 06:57 -0700, bjmacdow wrote:
WMP at a 192kbs rate. My question is whether this rate is enough
quality? My home audio gear is fairly decent, running an Onkyo DTS
receiver, and decent speakers and my thinking going into this process
is that I would not be able to hear
Hi
I'm not sure if this is the same problem so I'll describe the symptoms.
I sync one SB and one SB2. I them unsync the SB and the music stops
playing on the SB and continues on the SB2(normal so far). From there
on out the SB2 is one track behind on the now playing screen. I'm
running the
SlimServer Version: 6.0.1 - 2895 (installed from
SlimServer_v2005-04-18.exe)
WinXP SP2 on 1GHz mobile Athlon 4, 256mb RAM
When I use the ExBrowse2 skin, the memory footprint
just goes up, up and away, even if the player is
stopped. I also get a CPU spike of 25-40% every
five
--- jth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are going the mp3 route, I highly recommend using one
of the LAME
encoder's high quality VBR presets.
version 3.90.3 with setting --alt-preset standard or
I agree. Rip with Exact Audio Copy (EAC) in secure mode and let
EAC encode it for you as
Squeezebox2 supports mp3, flac, and wav in the hardware - so these are
natural choices if you're starting from scratch.
The other route is flac - http://flac.sf.net/. flac is a lossless audio
compressor. This means your music should sound the same as CD, at the
expense of greater file size than
Ok...I am a total novice at this. For clarification, does EAC have LAME
3.90.3 embedded into it as an option? Or do you rip through EAC and then
compress everything ripped again with LAME 3.90.3? Thanks for your
assistance and clarification.
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Ben, one of the best places I have found for information about
compressed audio formats is www.hydrogenaudio.org It contains a vast
amount of information but try not to be intimidated. When you have
time browse the FAQ section there. Since you are going to be using a
Squeezebox2, you should stick
CavesOfTQLT wrote:
Sorry to jump into this thread but reading those flac comments makes me
want to try it out. Can someone point me to a good 'copy that CD into
flac' site or just to indicate the steps/instructions I need to do this
using EAC or other software. So far all my CDs are encoded in mp3
--- bjmacdow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Ok...I am a total novice at this. For clarification, does EAC
have LAME
3.90.3 embedded into it as an option? Or do you rip through
EAC and then
compress everything ripped again with LAME 3.90.3? Thanks for
You have to download the LAME codec
Again IME, it's the small differences that you hear in a short A-B
listening test, that make the big differences to your enjoyment over
the longer term.
Source first is a hi-fi adage, and you can't get much more 'source
first' than looking after the bits on your disk. You can then buy a
better
CavesOfTQLT wrote:
Can someone point me to a good 'copy that CD into flac' site or just
to indicate the steps/instructions I need to do this using EAC or
other software.
from the FLAC FAQ:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#tools__eac_and_flac
How do I set up EAC to rip directly to FLAC?
See
We are having our small 25X20 kitchen gutted and redone so I thought now
is the perfect time to put streaming music into my house - starting with
the kitchen. A few questions: is the performance of the wireless SB2
good enough to get this version rather than a wired one?
My other question
Aaron Zinck Wrote:
I do have an
older version that's an unlimited, uncrippled (legal) shareware version
from
about a year and a half ago if you'd like me to send that to you.
Girder
has a timer plugin that I use to instantiate a girder macro once every
3
hours. The macro checks to
bjmacdow Wrote:
Out of curiosity...how much time would it take to burn a standard 12
track CD in EAC to Flac and/or LAME?There are acouple of ways to do it: you
could rip (not burn) to WAV,
and then setup a batch process to run overnight using flac and lame to
generate compressed formats,
On 4/19/05, dbls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I use the ExBrowse2 skin, the memory footprint
just goes up, up and away, even if the player is
stopped. I also get a CPU spike of 25-40% every
five seconds, in synch with the increases in memory
usage.
Gah, memory leaks.
Does this happen only
bjmacdow Wrote:
Thank you all for the information and for pointing us to the various
resources available.
I second that. Thanks everyone.
I'm currently trying -fuzzyT-'s suggestion of using _Mareo_, mainly
because I'd want something that can rip and encode to ogg and flac at
the same time,
On 19 Apr 2005, at 13:57, Neall wrote:
SoftSqueeze starts and runs fine... then CPU load gradually increases,
increases, increases, until SoftSqueeze locks. Plays music fine,
(though
CPU fans ramp up due to load), until SoftSqueeze lockup. This happens
over
a 15 minute period. Very repeatable,
Hi Micheal,
work perfect for me. No error messages during startup of slimserver.
Thanks
Stefan
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bjmacdow wrote:
Dear all,
My Squeezebox2 is scheduled to arrive on Friday. I purchased a
200gb drive w/8mb cache for $94.00 and have been ripping music through
So just look at $94 and consider what your time is worth. For
another $94 you could rip all your CDs to FLAC and never have
to do it
I practically wrote a bash script to do this but then ran into problems
with characters such as '* etc in the filenames - I couldn't work out
how to escape them safely.
OT and FYI, you were probably looking for set -f, which will stop
filename generation due to wildcard constructions *, ? and
I have never seen powered inwall speakers. Your best option would be to
buy some small in-wall speakers and an inexpensive amp as seperate
items.
As far as wireless SB2 performance, deep buffer and wireless-G means
most users won't have problems, but if your network is crap then you
will regret
CavesOfTQLT Wrote:
At the moment I'm just following the set-up on the mareo site, and then
I'll be ready to give it a track to rip.
Well after two hours trying I've given up on it. I keep getting errors
from the Mareo command line window and I'm at a loss where the problem
is. If anyone has
Just a comment on this whole hard disks are cheap so rip to FLAC
thing.
Yes, hard drives are cheap, you can probably get a couple of 200GB
drives and rip all of your stuff to FLAC.
Then if you want to back it all up effectively you will need to buy
another couple of hard drives or set up a
jmpage2 Wrote:
Just a comment on this whole hard disks are cheap so rip to FLAC
thing.
Yes, hard drives are cheap, you can probably get a couple of 200GB
drives and rip all of your stuff to FLAC.
You missed the point. Rip to FLAC so that you'll never need to rip
again. Say you had your
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 12:32 -0700, jmpage2 wrote:
I had a buddy with a bunch of music that was not backed up. His
motherboard went out and corrupted the hard drive. Now he gets to rip
400 CDs again.
Not at all clear to me that ripping to Flac or ACC or WMA or
anything else would have any
If you have 800 CD's, that's probably an investment of £6k-£12k
500Gb of disk (more than enough to hold 800 Cd's in FLAC) will cost
£500. (+£500 for a set of backup disks).
Surely it's worth it to:
1) get your CD's out of the room and into storage
2) never worry about having to re-rip to a
I'm apparently in the minority, but I'm running Libranet GNU/Linux (a
Debian distro) on a Pentium II (yes, that's Pentium Two). I did beef up
the memory and put in a fat hard drive and it runs fine. The drop-outs
I hear are usually wireless telephone vs. wireless network. As long as
I
If you're gutting the room, might as well run some CAT-5 cable in the
walls. (cat-5 can also be used instead of phone cabling )
of course it doesn't appear you'd be running it anywhere else in the
house... I'm all about wires when possible.
You're not a geek until you have a wiring closet at
--- bjmacdow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Out of curiosity...how much time would it take to burn a
standard 12
track CD in EAC to Flac and/or LAME?
This depends greatly on three things:
1) The speed of your CD drive - Obviously, the faster your drive
can extract the audio the quicker the
Here is a link to a site that I found interesting. Although he favors WMA
lossless for his collection--which many people here would disagree with--he
does offer a good discussion on using EAC and why a lossless format is his
preference.. Disclaimer: I am NOT taking a side on FLAC vs WMA.
I agree with earlier threads about the need for a better remote control
experience given my largish library.
I'm considering buying a wireless PocketPC device to run a thick client
app for SlimServer, like TelCanto or just the Slimserver Web interface.
The problem is, these things can get quite
- Original Message -
From: Jacob Potter
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:28 PM
On 4/19/05, dbls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I use the ExBrowse2 skin, the memory footprint
just goes up, up and away, even if the player is
stopped. I also get a CPU spike of 25-40% every
five seconds,
My error isn't quite the same--but I do have more info.
As I'm playing songs, only every OTHER song shows the no artist, no
album. It's weird because it never shows the RIGHT track info...it's
always either the first or second track on the album. But, as it goes, it
will show a track (the wrong
Rob,
Mareo really doesn't like any blank lines in the mareo.ini file. Make
sure every line that's not a command line has a semicolon at the
beginning. Make sure there's not a blank line at the end of the file --
very easy to overlook.
The command must be one line - no breaks. Use an editor
I did my A/B test with a good pair of headphones. One thing that I
noticed immediately -- the soundstage for an MP3 song (in comparison
with a non-compressed one) just collapses into practically nothing. A
song that immediately comes to mind is Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow
Taxi. The acoustic
Amen, brothers.
I have all my CDs as FLAC. When I need a bunch of tunes for my
portable, I drag them into foobar2000 (a player) and hit a button on a
pulldown menu. A suprisingly short time later, I have all the tunes I
wanted in a portable player format. Doing that without having to find
Ok. I have downloaded the dbpowerAMP program and it provides an option
of 1-8 compression for FLAC. Which would you folks represent. If
something is ripped into FLAC Format should the sound be the same for
each compression level, but the time it takes to rip each disc is
longer as the
bjmacdow Wrote:
Ok. I have downloaded the dbpowerAMP program and it provides an option
of 1-8 compression for FLAC. Which would you folks represent. If
something is ripped into FLAC Format should the sound be the same for
each compression level, but the time it takes to rip each disc is
Just dropped this into my playlists dir as kalx.pls
[playlist]
numberofentries=1
Title=KALX
File1=http://kalx.berkeley.edu/kalx.ram
And it's good. I'm ready to try some harder stuff like KFOG and KQED now...
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OK, I have attached the log as requested. Some notes as to what;s going
on:
00:04:20:05:35:a4 is my SB1 (Bedroom Squeezebox)
00:04:20:05:a3:c5 is my SB2 (Playroom Squeezebox)
First I start playing a flac album on the SB2 (@ 2005-04-19
22:37:09.8597).
Then I start playing an ogg album on the SB1
Jack Coates wrote:
Just dropped this into my playlists dir as kalx.pls
[playlist]
numberofentries=1
Title=KALX
File1=http://kalx.berkeley.edu/kalx.ram
And it's good. I'm ready to try some harder stuff like KFOG and KQED now...
KFOG was non-good:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ cat
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