[slim] Re: Music Library Sync files

2005-07-06 Thread Apteryx
I'm too lazy to bother with robocopy or similar - I found a windows synching utility somewhere (will track down its name when I'm there) - it runs a scheduled job to find and synch changes and new content from the ripping machine (winXP) to the media server (FC3). The ripping machine is also

[slim] Re: now playing bold font - can it be not bold?

2005-07-06 Thread bossanova808
Just tried it. Looks nice, no obvious problems but I have to say I find it much harder to read from my couch than the default font. Would work for me if there was less of a gap but we've got about 4m between the couch and the Sb here. -- bossanova808

[slim] Re: Streamingfrom slimserver to shoutcast server for broadcast..

2005-07-06 Thread BugDave
Jeff Moore Wrote: 2005-07-05-23:36:19 BugDave: Is it possible to use slimserver on my mac to stream to my shoutcast server that's on a server with a lot more bandwidth.. Well... a Rube Goldberg solution, with so many intermediate steps the complexity of the edifice would almost be fun

[slim] Re: Streamingfrom slimserver to shoutcast server for broadcast..

2005-07-06 Thread BugDave
kdf Wrote: can your shoutcast server connect to: http://slimserverIP:9000/stream.mp3 ? if so, then the server will see the shoutcast server as an http client and you can select tunes via the web interface and control playback from there. -kdf I suppose i could but that would mean i

Re: [slim] Re: Streamingfrom slimserver to shoutcast server for broadcast..

2005-07-06 Thread kdf
Quoting BugDave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf Wrote: can your shoutcast server connect to: http://slimserverIP:9000/stream.mp3 ? if so, then the server will see the shoutcast server as an http client and you can select tunes via the web interface and control playback from there.

[slim] Multiple Items In Tags not working for Album Titles

2005-07-06 Thread dip
The Multiple Items In Tags option (in Server Settings, Behavior) seems not to work for album titles but only for artists and genre. According to the description it should also work for album titles. Another problem exists when I have an album with multiple artists (say artist 1 and artist 2) and

[slim] Re: No pauses between tracks - not a problem!

2005-07-06 Thread cliveb
max.spicer Wrote: The work in particular (Rite of Spring) has been split into tracks, but each track has absolutely no pause between it and the previous track. This is the sort of thing that I would imagine could suffer badly when played via mp3s (well, flac actually), but the SB2 just

[slim] loosing contact when browsing new music all songs

2005-07-06 Thread Steven Moore
Using 6.1.b1 latest. on mac 10.4.1. ~ 12,000 tracks. Is anyone else loosing contact when browsing the new music all songs folder? Contact lost from 2 mins to 4 mins, sb comes back on as normal after this time. This is reproducible. Consulting console with d_info set the server is checking

Re: [slim] Re: ogg not recognized with id3

2005-07-06 Thread Maik Musall
Hi radish, On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:30:26PM -0700, radish wrote: While xmms may be able to play it, I've never heard of ID3 being valid on an Ogg file, so I wouldn't be surprised if lots of apps had trouble playing it. My advice is to convert the ID3 to real Vorbis tags. Thanks for that

[slim] Re: Streamingfrom slimserver to shoutcast server for broadcast..

2005-07-06 Thread BugDave
kdf Wrote: then use winamp to connect to slimserver, same url. use browser to control, set the player settings-audio-bitrate limiting to something reasonable for your connection bandwidth and go for it. Of course, this is optimised for single use, but slimserver isn't really designed to

[slim] Re: ogg not recognized with id3

2005-07-06 Thread radish
I'm not that up on linux tools for tagging, but vorbiscomment is the generic app for writing the tags (http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/vorbiscomment.1.html). If you're good with sed awk that might be enough, otherwise one of these tools should be helpful :

Re: [slim] loosing contact when browsing new music all songs

2005-07-06 Thread Jack Coates
Steven Moore wrote: Using 6.1.b1 latest. on mac 10.4.1. ~ 12,000 tracks. Is anyone else loosing contact when browsing the new music all songs folder? Contact lost from 2 mins to 4 mins, sb comes back on as normal after this time. This is reproducible. Consulting console with d_info set

Re: [slim] loosing contact when browsing new music all songs

2005-07-06 Thread Steven Moore
20 second pause here, using 6/5 nightly on Linux with 698 albums with 7881 songs by 740 artists. Check your mac's performance, is it pegging the CPU? What skin are you using? I get a 50 second pause using ExBrowse2 instead of Fishbone. Not using the web browser just the sb itself, perl

[slim] CallerID and displaying strings on ALL players

2005-07-06 Thread JohnQuirk
Hello all, For the last two years I ahve, on and off, been trying to get callerID working reliably from my server to my slim players. I've tried YAK and my preference Who's Calling which does Slim integration natively. With both of these programs I get the display on my server monitor when a call

Re: [slim] loosing contact when browsing new music all songs

2005-07-06 Thread kdf
Quoting Steven Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes I thought it was some sort of performance issue rather than a bug. Could these tracks not be read into a cache on slim server start up or after a rescan? loading all tracks into a memory cache was the method before 6.0. People hated it and kept

Re: [slim] Re: Tag organization question

2005-07-06 Thread A.J. Aranyosi
In response to a comment I added to a bug report, Ben Sandee told me, although I haven't tried this yet, that SlimServer supports certain ID3v2 tags that let you specify sorting criteria that are separate from the artist/album name. These tags are TSOP and TSOA for performer and album sort order,

Re: [slim] Re: Tag organization question

2005-07-06 Thread Ben Sandee
On 7/6/05, A.J. Aranyosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to a comment I added to a bug report, Ben Sandee told me, although I haven't tried this yet, that SlimServer supports certain ID3v2 tags that let you specify sorting criteria that are separate from the artist/album name. These tags

Re: [slim] Re: Squeezebox In Wall Kit

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Burling
--On July 5, 2005 10:16:59 PM -0700 Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again, and I'm always open for suggestions! To which I reply: How about cutting a dado in the back of the face frame, just deep enough that if you stick in the hook or fabric side of some stick-on velcro, then

[slim] Re: Synchronization and SoftSqueeze

2005-07-06 Thread alphabeta
My thoughts also MrC. Does anybody know if you get the same problems with real squeezeboxes or is it just soft-squeeze? I note the softsqueeze web site says Only the first track is delayed, synchronization seems fine after that. - In earlier version of Softsqueeze the first track probably will

[slim] Many missing songs

2005-07-06 Thread brinko99
Hello All, I have a song collection of about 20,000 songs. My problem is that the database scan does not pick up approx 5000 of the songs on disk. I have tried running the latest 6.1b and 6.0 nightlies. This has been a problem for me since moving to the 6.0 release. Are there any limitations

Re: [slim] Re: Squeezebox In Wall Kit

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Scott
Quoting Steve Burling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On July 5, 2005 10:16:59 PM -0700 Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again, and I'm always open for suggestions! Another idea, depending upon the size of the configuration, you might be able to get one of those plastic electrical boxes. I'm

[slim] Re: Many missing songs

2005-07-06 Thread JJZolx
brinko99 Wrote: Hello All, I have a song collection of about 20,000 songs. My problem is that the database scan does not pick up approx 5000 of the songs on disk. I have tried running the latest 6.1b and 6.0 nightlies. This has been a problem for me since moving to the 6.0 release.

[slim] Re: Squeezebox In Wall Kit

2005-07-06 Thread Mike Hanson
You could always depend on gravity to hold it in. The unit will be back-heavy, and will want to rotate in that direction. The frame will prevent it from rotating into the wall, so all you need to do is prevent it from slipping down. The mounting bracket itself might be enough to do that, or

[slim] Re: Internet Radio streams vastly louder

2005-07-06 Thread Dave D
sleepysurf Wrote: I've been listening primarily to Radioio feeds. My SB2 arrived yesterday (and now I have to leave town for five days--isn't that like taking a kid's Christmas present away?) Anyway, this was one of the first things I noticed, after the

[slim] Re: Many missing songs

2005-07-06 Thread brinko99
Well well.. I was formulating a very detailed description of my system and it's formatting and layout when I discoved the problem. My U2 directory is formatted as such: X:\mp3\U2\Concerts\U2 - album\## - U2 - song.mp3 X:\mp3\U2\Misc\U2 - song.mp3 X:\mp3\U2\The Singles\U2 - album\## - U2 -

Re: [slim] Re: Tag organization question

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Amster
Ben Sandee wrote: On 7/6/05, A.J. Aranyosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to a comment I added to a bug report, Ben Sandee told me, although I haven't tried this yet, that SlimServer supports certain ID3v2 tags that let you specify sorting criteria that are separate from the

[slim] Re: Many missing songs

2005-07-06 Thread JJZolx
brinko99 Wrote: Within the directory The Singles, there was a shortcut for some reason to X:\mp3\U2. This caused the Slimserver to stop scanning and not pickup anything after that. There were no songs in the database at all after U2. I don't know if this is expected behavior but

[slim] Re: Internet Radio streams vastly louder

2005-07-06 Thread sleepysurf
Sounds like we need somebody to write a RadioioGain plug-in g. -- sleepysurf aerius i, nht sub two, yamaha rx-v1000 (pre/pro), sunfire cinema grand 200 ~five (vertically bi-amped), squeezebox2 (streaming cd-quality audio), 300gb buffalo linkstation (remote flac audio file storage), blue jeans

[slim] Re: Many missing songs

2005-07-06 Thread brinko99
JJZolx Wrote: Whether it's expected would have to be answered by the developers. Is scanning halted whenever a circular reference is detected? Seems like it should recover more gracefully. I don't know if the scanning is actually haulted. I only really know that that no artists are picked

[slim] First impressions

2005-07-06 Thread Dave D
Just wanted to take a few minutes to thank you folks at Slim Devices for a superb product and maybe let a few lurkers out there know what a great product this is. First thing I noticed was that UPS was not too nice with the box. I thought to myself, Wish they would have packed this inside

Re: [slim] Re: Tag organization question

2005-07-06 Thread Ben Sandee
On 7/6/05, Michael Amster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is exactly what I want. I have been using EasyTag. I will see if it supports TSOP and TSOA. What platform does MusicBrainz run on (I am Linux at home)? Michael, You can see for yourself at musicbrainz.org. The SDK is GPL but the main

[slim] Re: First impressions

2005-07-06 Thread mkozlows
Dave D Wrote: Often a great product shows up with a substandard UI and it's a real shame (I am not necessarily referring to Roku here.) I am! That thing is horrid, horrid, horrid. The PlaysForSure capability was a very good thing (and I really do believe that this stuff is going to be

[slim] Re: First impressions

2005-07-06 Thread seanadams
Mkozlows, I hope you'll also share your impressions after trying Squeezebox2. It is really a huge advancement from Squeezebox1, let alone any competing tubular products. -- seanadams ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Re: Tag organization question

2005-07-06 Thread Niek Jongerius
I also use firstname, lastname, but my question to both of you is: Why do you still have CDs on the shelf? Mine are all in boxes in the basement. ;-) I've got my shelves behind glass doors in the living room. Nowadays it's merely decoration I guess (I haven't got anything else