[slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread seanadams
A fine idea - please file a request at bugs.slimdevices.com. It's something we'd need to do in firmware, right at the end of our audio process. What kind of delay would you want? Obviously the delay and mix levels would be configurable but I'm guessing you'd want a range of 0 to 1000uS or so?

[slim] Internet Radio

2005-09-01 Thread bernt
Hi! I have created a playlist with a few radiostations. Is it possible to make it show upp under Internet Radio like Slim Devices Pick do? Best Regards /Bernt -- bernt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Robin Bowes
seanadams wrote: A fine idea - please file a request at bugs.slimdevices.com. It's something we'd need to do in firmware, right at the end of our audio process. Actually, you could do this on the server by piping the audio stream through the appropriate processing program. What kind of

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Robin Bowes
Robin Bowes wrote: seanadams wrote: A fine idea - please file a request at bugs.slimdevices.com. It's something we'd need to do in firmware, right at the end of our audio process. Actually, you could do this on the server by piping the audio stream through the appropriate processing

RE: [slim] Internet Radio

2005-09-01 Thread Craig, James (IT)
Bernt, That would be very tricky. A playlist is not the same as an internet radio plugin, which is what SlimDevices' Picks is. You can see the playlist OK under the playlists menu though? James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bernt

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Thursday 01 September 2005 09:32, Robin Bowes wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: seanadams wrote: A fine idea - please file a request at bugs.slimdevices.com. It's something we'd need to do in firmware, right at the end of our audio process. Actually, you could do this on the server by

RE: [slim] 5.4.1 Trouble

2005-09-01 Thread Craig, James (IT)
Jeff, Did you have any additional plugins installed, either for 5.4 or 6.1 ? BTW I believe 6.2 is a far better choice if you're an iTunes user. It may be the 'beta' release but the core functionality is very reliable at the moment. You can always install a new version in a new directory and

[slim] Re: Internet Radio

2005-09-01 Thread bernt
Craig, James (IT) Wrote: Bernt, That would be very tricky. A playlist is not the same as an internet radio plugin, which is what SlimDevices' Picks is. You can see the playlist OK under the playlists menu though? James Yes, the playlist show up and works. Just want to do it more

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Robin Bowes
Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes wrote: if what you are referring to is the cross-feeding stuff to make headphones sound nicer, then HeadRoom has some docs here: http://www.headphone.com/products/faqs/about-headroom-crossfeed/ but it doesn't actually tell you exactly how to do it (obviously).

RE: [slim] Re: Internet Radio

2005-09-01 Thread Craig, James (IT)
It would be nice if you could add a named playlist to a player menu though. I wonder if anyone's working on this? I think maybe you could do this with a plugin that disguised a playlist as a radio plugin Hmmm James NOTICE: If

[slim] Re: Multiple Folders / Volumes problem

2005-09-01 Thread Beau
So is no one able to help on this? Even a link to where I might find the answer or suggested keywords for searching the forum would be very helpful as I'm all out of ideas on solving this one. TIA Beau -- Beau ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Folders / Volumes problem

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Herger
Even a link to where I might find the answer or suggested keywords for searching the forum would be very helpful as I'm all out of ideas on solving this one. This is most probably a permissions issue. And it's in the FAQ: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#troubleshooting-sharedvolume --

[slim] Can No Longer Connect To Slimserver Via Network

2005-09-01 Thread Neil Cameron
My DHCP Server did single-mindedly change the host PCs IP address, but I've compensated for that and still can't load the web page. Any ideas? -- Neil ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums?

2005-09-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
My music is normally ripped to MP3, but the same would apply to any audio format... What is the best way to manage albums that are mixed together? I actually try and avoid them as much as possible, but I picked up a new CD yesterday that I didn't realise was a mix album. So it got me thinking

[slim] Re: Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums?

2005-09-01 Thread radish
Most of my music is mixed. They're all ripped as individual tracks, I just don't ever use random mode or whatever. I listen to albums from beginning to start. That's how mixes are meant to be heard, and it's the only way that sounds good. Who needs random playlists when a DJ has already put

RE: [slim] Re: Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums?

2005-09-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
True enough - but by contrast, most of my music is not mixed. For me, that is the best part of SB - so long as my music tags are correct, I can tell SB to play me anything from the Chillout genre and it will play whatever I've tagged as Chillout. I've 'found' loads of stuff that I never knew I

[slim] Re: Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums?

2005-09-01 Thread Justme
I generally rip full CD's by a single artist, but like most I also have mixed CD's. I have run into the same problem, and I look at it this way: Generally, I listen to music based on the artist, a particular CD from an artist, a genre or a playlist. I never play mixed CD's unless I want to

[slim] Re: Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums?

2005-09-01 Thread mikerob
The majority of my collection are mix CDs that I also rip to individual tracks. I would listen to some mixes from beginning to end but despite the best intentions of the DJ, many mixes can get a bit samey after a while and have tracks that I would consider bad or indifferent in addition to the

Re: [slim] Re: Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off?

2005-09-01 Thread dean blackketter
We can make it an option. Patches welcome. On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: kdf wrote: On 30-Aug-05, at 8:05 AM, Matt Alioto wrote: Hi I was wondering if anybody knew if this was going to be changed back to the original behavior. I've searched the

[slim] Re: No sound (at all)

2005-09-01 Thread audiofi
Just to bump this up, I have been playing with it over the last couple of days and on startup, most times I don't get any sound at all. By closing flac.exe in task manager it springs into life though, I'm not too bothered about doing this each time, but was wondering if there would be a more

[slim] my most wanted features...

2005-09-01 Thread water
below I've described the features i'd most want to see in slimserver. I'll be entering them into bugzilla, but first I want to let them out here and possibly mature before I get on to entering them as requests... (or as support to already entered request...) - google suggest-ish search feature.

[slim] Re: my most wanted features...

2005-09-01 Thread radish
water Wrote: - google suggest-ish search feature. I'd like to be able to use the remote to start writing and then use the arrow key to browse through all the artist, albums, etc. that match the combination of letters I've enterd I'm not sure how this differs from the search function

Re: [slim] my most wanted features...

2005-09-01 Thread ron thigpen
water wrote: - google suggest-ish search feature. are you asking for this in the player or web user interfaces? - cover image wildcard, make it possible to have slimserver display any image in a folder as the cover image if theres only one image in there... seems sensible - an interface

Re: [slim] Re: I'm going to open the Realslim can of worms again...

2005-09-01 Thread Aaron Zinck
Hmmm. I don't think it's a problem with HookAndDie after all. I've also seen the problem you mention, where restarting slimserver makes things work. I've been meaning to figure that out and fix it, but haven't felt that motivated, though it's a nuisance. I also noted in my last update to the

Re: [slim] my most wanted features...

2005-09-01 Thread kdf
Quoting ron thigpen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - record radio streams to the harddrive ok. lots of potential wrinkles to thia, but i can see the utility. - live-radio function ala. live-tv in pvr's. This will let me pause the radio and pick up the stream again when i'm ready for it... more

[slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread ephemere
(1) Doing it on the server is probably not the right thing for anything other than a PCM stream because it would require a decode-encode step. (2) I'm no expert, but it's more complicated than just a delay and gain adjustment. The process is usually frequency-dependent. (3) One could make up a

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
On Thursday 01 September 2005 17:32, ephemere wrote: (1) Doing it on the server is probably not the right thing for anything other than a PCM stream because it would require a decode-encode step. Agreed. (2) I'm no expert, but it's more complicated than just a delay and gain adjustment. The

[slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread bjackson
I don't know if this would help anyone, but this is my favorite crossfeed CIRCUIT I've heard, but it might give some insight into the proven methodologies. http://headwize.com/projects/showfile.php?file=meier_prj.htm and this one isn't too bad:

[slim] Slimserver over Internet?

2005-09-01 Thread bjackson
Is it possible to use the Slimserver to broadcast over the internet? I ask because I am going away for the weekend, and my server will stay back at my apartment, but it is on a 40KB/s guaranteed upload and a static IP address. Could I just take my SB2 with me and have it connect to my server

Re: [slim] Re: Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off?

2005-09-01 Thread Triode
We can make it an option. Patches welcome. As per my previous posts I believe this should be an option... I'll have a go at it - put the bug down to me... Now the hard bit - agreeing what the option should cover. I think it should be (slight refinement to my previous post on the

[slim] Random Play/Mix Did you know?....

2005-09-01 Thread Craig
Did you know that KDF's Random Play plugin or Random Mix as it seems to be called in 6.2 has got functions that can be mapped to key presses? I made these changes to my custom.map 7.hold = modefunction_PLUGIN.Random-tracks 8.hold = modefunction_PLUGIN.Random-albums 9.hold =

Re: [slim] Re: Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off?

2005-09-01 Thread dean blackketter
Sounds good to me. Remote URLs should always stop at power off and then reconnect for the 2nd and 4th options below. How's this for text on the option: Power On Resume You can choose what your player

[slim] Re: Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums?

2005-09-01 Thread MeSue
Dan Goodinson Wrote: I guess I could create a new genre tag for each album... Why would you need a different Genre tag for each album? If you put all the mixes under one Genre, then you could just not use random mode when you play that Genre. -- MeSue Sue PS: I want a Squeezebox boombox.

[slim] Re: Random Play/Mix Did you know?....

2005-09-01 Thread MeSue
Thanks for the tip! -- MeSue Sue PS: I want a Squeezebox boombox. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] my most wanted features...

2005-09-01 Thread Steven Moore
What about a list of recent searches, sometimes I find myself looking for an artist again (after listening to a different one). Maybe a list of the last five search terms. It would save a bit of key punching. Steven Moore ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Re: Slimserver over Internet?

2005-09-01 Thread MrC
Slim doesn't broadcast, but you can certainly connect from any IP in the world given your firewall is set to allow ports 9000 and 3483 incoming and forwarded to your servers IP address (and the local firewall isn't blocking). If you have a trustworthy friend, ask them to download softsqueeze,

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver over Internet?

2005-09-01 Thread Aaron Zinck
Where is that setting? -- bjackson It's actually under player settings, not server settings. Go to player settings - audio ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Slimserver over Internet?

2005-09-01 Thread MrC
Sorry, I corrected my post above; it's in Player Settings-Audio on the web interface. Reduce Bitrate Limiting. -- MrC ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Slimserver over Internet?

2005-09-01 Thread bishopdonmiguel
Be advised, if you do enable port forwarding, your SlimServer application will be open to the world. At one time I saw an example of a google search that looked for open SlimServers. At a minimum, you might want to enable the password options in SlimServer. I can't recall what funtions these

Re: [slim] Re: Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off?

2005-09-01 Thread Triode
Before I put it in the wrong place - is this a per player (if so which screen?) or server behaviour setting? Sounds good to me. Remote URLs should always stop at power off and then reconnect for the 2nd and 4th options below. How's this for text on the option:

[slim] Re: Slimserver over Internet?

2005-09-01 Thread MrC
bishopdonmiguel Wrote: Be advised, if you do enable port forwarding, your SlimServer application will be open to the world. At one time I saw an example of a google search that looked for open SlimServers. At a minimum, you might want to enable the password options in SlimServer. I can't

[slim] Re: Internet Radio

2005-09-01 Thread bernt
Wow, this is great. Thanks! But then I download the plugin and save it to the pluginfolder and restart Slimserver the server don't start again. If I remove the plugin the server starts. Do I need to install something else to make it work. Running Slimserver 6.1.2 on Windows XP SP2. Best

Re: [slim] Re: Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off?

2005-09-01 Thread dean blackketter
Yes, this is a per-player setting. Probably should go in Player Settings - Audio On Sep 1, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Triode wrote: Before I put it in the wrong place - is this a per player (if so which screen?) or server behaviour setting? Sounds good to me. Remote URLs should always stop at

[slim] Re: I'm going to open the Realslim can of worms again...

2005-09-01 Thread gsamsa
Ah...I forgot all about the RealSlim service, because it never worked for me. I basically run HookAndDie manually after starting Rhapsody manually...kind of a nuisance, but that's basically all RealSlim does, AFAIK. I've SlimServer hang running RealSlim before because of a UPnP issue that I

Re: [slim] Re: Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off?

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Herger
Power Off / Resume mode: 1) Pause/Resume: Power off = pause, power on = unpause - continue playing same track at point paused. Hey, will this finally be the user interface to the autoPlay setting?!? Wow! Great news! I already thought I'd write a plugin for it :-) -- Michael

Re: [slim] Re: Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off?

2005-09-01 Thread kdf
On 1-Sep-05, at 9:14 PM, Michael Herger wrote: Power Off / Resume mode: 1) Pause/Resume: Power off = pause, power on = unpause - continue playing same track at point paused. Hey, will this finally be the user interface to the autoPlay setting?!? Wow! Great news! I already thought I'd write

[slim] Re: Search kills Slimserver 6.2b1 (was search kills server in 6.1.1 OS X)

2005-09-01 Thread leonyu13
Still not able to search reliably. Sometimes, if I type fast, I get search results without the server dying. But if I type just a single character, and wait about 1/2 second before continuing, the server will always crash. And even if I do get results, backspacing to change the search text

[slim] Symlinks behaving differently in SlimServer 6.x (windows)

2005-09-01 Thread ephemere
I have my library organized by directory structure. I always use Browse Music Folder, and I make heavy use of symlinks for cross referencing. For example... /classical/composers/bach/keyboard/wtc/gould /classical/performers/piano/gould/bach/wtc ...the first path is the actual directory of