[slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-08 Thread bossanova808
Ok, have been playing some more with Moose. Here follows a long list of thoughts and suggestions, which you are free to take on board or not as you see fit, I am very impressed with the work so far in any case, these are just a few things that might improve the experience a bit. I am browsing

[slim] Re: Anyone use ClarkConnect with SlimServer?

2005-12-08 Thread superpin
I am running a ClarkConnect 3.1 server/firewall with SlimServer. Works great, I have been using CC for a couple of years and find it perfect for me. Currently running on a Compaq SFF 1GHz P3 with 384 megs of ram. I have about 200 gigs of flac files and some odd MP3s etc. The CC also runs some

[slim] Question on Server requirements

2005-12-08 Thread Thomas Hitchcock
I am a surgeon at a large medical clinic and am looking to create a central music system for our operating rooms. I am soliciting advice on what would be the optimum operating platform for a server to route music files to 10 to 20 rooms or more simultaneously. I have used FLAC files on my two

[slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

2005-12-08 Thread cliveb
pfarrell Wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 08:19 -0800, cliveb wrote: Michaelwagner Wrote: id3v1 tags are stored, for some perverse reason, at the end of the file. There's nothing perverse about storing tags at the end of the file - it makes perfect sense. If they are at the front, then

[slim] Re: Buying SB3 in the UK

2005-12-08 Thread pedalhead
Audio T are -still- waiting to receieve the 2 units promised ages ago. The latest information seems to be that they were actually going to be sent last Friday...but again, this appears not to have happened. Seriously (to Progressive), if I need to cancel the order with them just say so, rather

[slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

2005-12-08 Thread cliveb
Mark Lanctot Wrote: Most of my APE tags contain *only* ReplayGain data added by MP3Gain, which is how it writes it. . So the solution would be to use Mp3tag to wipe the APE tag, then rewrite all ReplayGain APE tags using MP3Gain. Hold on a minute before you do this. The APE tags

[slim] Squeezebox recommendation from TheGuardian

2005-12-08 Thread Simon Still
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1660771,00.htmlhow do i listen to music away from my computer? The simple answer is to buy a SlimDevices Squeezebox 3Other players mentioned as alternatives in summary... ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Weird DHCP bug on Slimserver 3 with latest firmware

2005-12-08 Thread Phil Karn
kdf wrote: I have 192.168.1.34 as a static assignment for the mac address of the player (listed on the bottom and in player settings). however, the lease table shows an entry for 20:05:73:00:00:0C and has been given 192.168.1.100. i have 100-149 as a 7-day dynamic block of leases. Whether

RE: [slim] Question on Server requirements

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Brooking
A few thoughts: I would have thought that mp3 would be of sufficient quality for an environment that I imagine would be far from an ideal listening environment - plus I'd hope that you'd have other things to concentrate on ;-) Bearing in mind that the throughput on the wired connection is

Re: [slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-08 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 07/12/05, 0xdeadbeef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded to 6.5b. Is this an issue? Ah, might be.. I remember having general thumbnail problems with early 6.5's.. Thought they'd have fixed them by now.. I'll look into it.. --- Dr Lovegrovehttp://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove

[slim] Re: Question on Server requirements

2005-12-08 Thread _NK_
You could always use a linux server with a 1000Mb Nic (copper over CAT6 cable feeding a cheap Layer2 switch with just 1 copper 1000MB uplink (to the linux) and 24 or 48 or whatever 10/100 downlinks to the SBs and so on. That's the basic scenario Cheers Nikos -- _NK_

RE: [slim] Question on Server requirements

2005-12-08 Thread Ben Gladstone
thomas, in the UK you wouldn't need this complexity - simply get a licence from the Performing Right Society to play CDs in a health practice - £61.40 a year for 9 seats http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/redirect.asp?targetitem=3151subjectId=837 - seems pretty reasonable rgds ben My

[slim] Re: BBC Streams

2005-12-08 Thread Daniel Cohen
On 7/12/05 at 19:33 -0800, Milhouse wrote lostboy Wrote: As far as I can tell the order is presented exactly as it comes off the BBC website. The order of radio stations can be changed by modifying Plugin.pm (see this 'thread'

[slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-08 Thread bossanova808
Ok - new music sorting by date - was not working for me because I just moved the whoel collection from a local server to the NAS hence the change in tiem stamps. That will work fine in future though I am sure. I am not using 6.5, 6.2.1 is what they are up to over in readyNAS land. My folder

[slim] Re: E-Mail/POP3 Checker Plugin for Win?

2005-12-08 Thread mcremer
danco Wrote: On 28/11/05 at 16:24 -0800, mcremer wrote Yes, I did so, once with the Email.pm and once without it. The plugin still doesn't show up, neither in the plugins section on the web interface, nor on the equivalent menu item on the SB2 itself (how would it be called there, by the

[slim] Re: Buying SB3 in the UK

2005-12-08 Thread ultra238a
As Patrick and Sean have said already, they are working as fast as they can to get stock out of the door to not only us but other customers around the world. I can assure you that as soon as the stock arrives with us we prioritise every Squeezebox order regardless if it is for our trade or our

[slim] Re: Buying SB3 in the UK

2005-12-08 Thread pedalhead
Thanks for the reply Paul. Obviously everything I hear is via Audio-T, but originally I was told they would be sent two units from the first batch which would arrive the following week (that was more than 3 weeks ago I think). Then I was told they were being sent last Friday, for arrival early

[slim] Re: No More shutdown with xPLHal

2005-12-08 Thread Toby
I'm still interested in wether it is possible to say poweroff.exe not to shut down but to go into standby modus. I'm happy because now I can power off again my server pressing '1,2,3' on my SB remote. But with the new SB I can send a magic packet. So if the server is in the standby modus (by

[slim] Re: Clock no longer displayed in standby

2005-12-08 Thread SPotter
I got the same problem. Just acquired my new SB2 a few weeks ago. It was displaying clock in power off state. Now the screen is blank on Power off. I've tried removing the power plug and putting it back; I've tried running through set up. I've tried changing 'screensaver when off'. I've tried

[slim] Re: Purchased iTunes music not visible?

2005-12-08 Thread oktup
mikerob Wrote: If you have already bought music using iTunes 6 then iTMS won't let you buy music with an earlier version of iTunes. However you can set up a new iTunes account (and all the details can be the same except for the userid), buy music using iTunes 5 or earlier, then use JHymn.

[slim] Anything I should look for, or stay away from, in buying an external hard drive?

2005-12-08 Thread Kyle
Besides size, USB2 and maybe Firewire, of course. Are there significant differences between brands? -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Importing weather data

2005-12-08 Thread jakematic
Yep, I already have that. Its an awesome plugin and it is my off screensaver. I want to pull the data from my own station though instead of Weather.com . I looked at the code and thought I'd check to see if anyone else had done it before I spent the time writing a shell script (I know shell

[slim] Portable player suggestions

2005-12-08 Thread Simon Still
Apologies if this is a little off topic but i'm looking for a new portable player to sit alongside my Squeezeboxes. At the moment i've a first generation ipod 10gb. Battery life is poor and the charger is large. I'd like something that runs off either an AA or AAA battery and some flexibility in

[slim] Re: Anything I should look for, or stay away from, in buying an external hard drive?

2005-12-08 Thread gjrhine
I like my Maxtor 300GB USB. However, to get Windows XP Pro SP2 to recognize it in Explorer I have to turn it off and on every time after boot up. -- gjrhine Gary gjrhine's Profile:

RE: [slim] Anything I should look for, or stay away from, in buying an external hard drive?

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Brooking
What are you looking for from your drive? I'd favor a quality enclosure that you fit your own drive to (an Icybox, for example), and then not only do you have the luxury of choosing your interface (I went for a combined USB2/SATA), your capacity and your HD manufacturer, you can also replace the

Re: [slim] Re: Anyone use ClarkConnect with SlimServer?

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Lanctot
The last time I used ClarkConnect it was the 2.2 Firewall/VPN version. I had no need for any server capabilities, I wanted a firewall. Worked fine on my cable ISP connection. When I switched to DSL it became an unmanageable nightmare for some reason. It was only half-working, required

Re: [slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Lanctot
Hmm...you're right. And it may not be the solution anyway. I only found a few files with both ID3v2 and APE tags with title data in them, yet all my long title names are truncated in SlimServer, even those with only ID3v2 title tags. I'll live with it. cliveb wrote: Mark Lanctot Wrote:

RE: [slim] Re: Anything I should look for, or stay away from, in buying an external hard drive?

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Brooking
I'm sure they're both do an adequate job, but I reiterate - if you don't want anything fancy, get a third-party enclosure, and a reliable, quiet HDD from a manufacturer offering a 5-year guarantee. Might even be cheaper. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[slim] iTunes Soundcheck

2005-12-08 Thread essbee1964
Does Slimserver read iTunes Souncheck adjustments? I have music in AAC format and find the volume can change dramatically depending on the track especially in random mix mode. I have 'smartgain' selected. Also I use the analog VU meter as a screensaver that kicks in after 15 seconds...can I set

[slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

2005-12-08 Thread Michaelwagner
Mark Lanctot Wrote: I'll live with it. You said you're running 6.2.1? And it happens with artist and title, both? I'm running 6.2.0. I created a really long song title and it all worked. It's hard to imagine that they re-introduced the 30 character limit in 6.2.1 (albeit by mistake, but still,

Re: [slim] Re: Buying SB3 in the UK

2005-12-08 Thread Patrick Cosson
The is a little like the children's game Telephone. Information will get distorted as people repeat it. Slim Devices and Progressive are the most reliable sources of information about shipments to the UK. However we have experienced over a 300% increase in demand over what we did last

[slim] Re: Replaygain help

2005-12-08 Thread jwmelvin
Okay, I installed 6.2.2 from 12/7, and that didn't seem to do the trick. So, today I tried adding replaygain with Foobar, and now the song info display from the Slimserver web interface shows volume adjustment. Also - volume adjustment works now! It seems like somehow, it is not recognizing the

[slim] Re: Clock no longer displayed in standby

2005-12-08 Thread radish
(Does the brightness button work on power off state?) Yes What is the explanation for this change in behaviour? In my house, it usually means someone sat on the remote. -- radish radish's Profile:

[slim] Re: SB2 Stops Working

2005-12-08 Thread Keith
Stops dead as in the song is still displayed everything seems OK but the the clock stops and there is no response from the remote. The only way to get a response from the unit is to disconnect the power. -- Keith Keith's

[slim] Re: Question on Server requirements

2005-12-08 Thread radish
CD quality WAV is 1.4Mbit/s, in my experience FLAC is around 1Mbit/s, but will vary with compression levels. Therefore a standard 100Mbit ethernet will be just fine for streaming to 20 players - I wouldn't even try wireless unless you're happy to invest in multiple high quality (expensive) access

[slim] Random Mix - Bug?

2005-12-08 Thread Keith
When using random mix I find that tracks that I have excluded in iTunes being played even though I have checked that I want these files ignoring. If I attempt to find these tracks with search or browse they are hidden so that bit works, so why does Random Mix pick them? Is this a bug? -- Keith

Re: [slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Lanctot
The problem I had was, Mp3tag is set by default to only write ID3v1 tags. So you can write whatever you want in there, it appears to write correctly due to the text caching feature of Mp3tag, but it's written truncated. When I switched to ID3v2 tags, Mp3tag just took the truncated data from

[slim] Problem with SDB3 .. no radio

2005-12-08 Thread wimberrypie
Hi All Problem 1 : When I hit the slim server icon on the desktop I get The page cannot be displayed this is http://localhost:9000 However several desperate phone calls to friends suggested using http://192.168.0.2:9000 which works .. Why, I have no idea ! Problem2 : I have tried to connect to

[slim] Re: Portable player suggestions

2005-12-08 Thread eq72521
If you're planning on going with a single lossless library, I'm not sure that the T30 will work well for you. Even if it did support a lossless format, its storage capacity (max 1GB) wouldn't allow you to hold more than 3 (or maybe 4 or 5 classical) CDs, at best. Assuming you go with FLAC, your

[slim] Re: Question on Server requirements

2005-12-08 Thread JJZolx
Thomas Hitchcock Wrote: I am soliciting advice on what would be the optimum operating platform for a server to route music files to 10 to 20 rooms or more simultaneously. I have used FLAC files on my two wireless SB2 units at home with great success! I would assume that wired SB3 units

[slim] Re: SB Form Factor (wish)

2005-12-08 Thread eq72521
Michaelwagner Wrote: What a funny idea! But the controls are on the back of your head. How the h**l do you adjust it while swimming? I had a friend that had an FM radio for swimming back in the early '90s. I think that with these players the idea is that you set it playing whatever (radio or

[slim] Re: Importing weather data

2005-12-08 Thread GoCubs
Jake- The .txt file only has one line in it right (it's overwritten each minute with the current readings)? I don't have the time right now, but I think this should be pretty easy using Perl regular expressions. Since all of the data is on one line, you'll replace all the elsif's in gotWeather

[slim] Re: Portable player suggestions

2005-12-08 Thread dwc
Check into the Cowon (IAudio) X-5. www.iaudiophile.net - Sounds good. - Plays FLAC as well as mp3, etc. - FM radio, voice recording, etc. - No s/w required. It shows up as a drive letter, so drag and drop files onto it. The biggest drawback for some users is that it doesn't support browsing by

[slim] Re: Problem with SDB3 .. no radio

2005-12-08 Thread lostboy
Mark's advice to look at your network first is sound. Follow his pointers and if, having confirmed your network setup is OK, you still can't play radioio streams have a look at the following. A quick check on your ability to 'see' radioio's server from your slimserver pc is the first step. On

Re: [slim] Anything I should look for, or stay away from, in buying an external hard drive?

2005-12-08 Thread Christian Pernegger
Another vote for Maxtor here. I've been able to replace the drive without problems if it died or I wanted a bigger one. This will void the warranty on the enclosure, but you can always RMA a dead disk by itself. C. ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: E-Mail/POP3 Checker Plugin for Win?

2005-12-08 Thread kdf
Quoting mcremer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tried to convert the files POP3.pm and Email.pm to Unix Linebreaks, but the result is still the same: No E-Mail Plugin showing up, neither in the plugins section on the web interface, nor on the equivalent menu item on the SB2 itself. To avoid any possible

Re: [slim] Anything I should look for, or stay away from, in buying an external hard drive?

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Another vote for Maxtor here. Me as well. Just got the Maxtor OneTouch 300GB Firewire/USB2 model yesterday, plugged it into a spare Firewire jack on my PC last night and was all ready to go in a couple minutes. (This is to augment the 250GB model that I got last year. Man, those FLAC files

[slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

2005-12-08 Thread Michaelwagner
Mark Lanctot Wrote: And for those wondering, this isn't limited to classical music or techno - just try anything by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (31 characters). You'd think it was a duo, that Tom only had one Heartbreaker with him. ;-) Maybe Tom was one heartbreaker short the day of

[slim] Some songs not playing

2005-12-08 Thread Grot
I have downloaded an album with about 10 songs or so on it. The first song plays fine on the Slimserver, all the others do not. I can play them normally through Windows and Linux music players without any errors. There are no strange filename issues, all the songs look identical in regards to the

[slim] Re: SB Form Factor (wish)

2005-12-08 Thread Michaelwagner
I have a Slim near my treadmill. I just use the remote control to adjust it ... the treadmill has a pocket to store stuff in the console, and the remote fits in there just fine. ... I suppose, to continue this theme, I could call it a wheezebox! On days when I'm not inspired to run far, could

Re: [slim] Re: Anything I should look for, or stay away from, in buying an external hard drive?

2005-12-08 Thread Chip Hart
Chris Brooking wrote: I'm sure they're both do an adequate job, but I reiterate - if you don't want anything fancy, get a third-party enclosure, and a reliable, quiet HDD from a manufacturer offering a 5-year guarantee. Might even be cheaper. Let me add a vote to this

[slim] Windows Media Stream crashes Slimserver

2005-12-08 Thread Scott
OS X 10.3 Slimserver 6.2.2 Squeezebox2 When I select a MMS stream, it will crash the server. Upon restarting the server, the station is in my playlist, and upon starting it a second time, it will correctly begin playing. This behavior has been repeadly reproducible. Any suggestions for

Re: [slim] Re: Portable player suggestions

2005-12-08 Thread Simon Still
On 12/8/05, eq72521 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my setup now, I maintain two libraries: FLAC and lame 3.96.1 -V 6MP3.I know the MP3s are rather low quality, but as their target is the car/portable, small filesize is more important: I think you're completely right on that being the solution -

[slim] Re: Fishbone skin question

2005-12-08 Thread DrNic
kdf Wrote: cool. If you get around to screenshots at any point, please post those. I don't really see the issues you have described, but I also might be working at higher resolution. Although, I'm not sure offhand what I can do with those icons. They are made up of so few pixels

[slim] slashdotted!

2005-12-08 Thread Aaron Zinck
Good publicity www.slashdot.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Slashdotted!!

2005-12-08 Thread seanadams
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/12/08/1757259.shtml?tid=141tid=137 -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Portable player suggestions

2005-12-08 Thread tass
After reading that you guys maintain two libraries, why don't you look into MediaMonkey. Apparently one of the latest (beta) versions allows re-encoding on the fly while you sync a portable to it. I haven't tried this feature myself, but it at least sounds promising. -- tass

Re: [slim] Re: Fishbone skin question

2005-12-08 Thread kdf
Quoting DrNic [EMAIL PROTECTED]: KDF, this is going to seem like I've been making this up (or am just plain crazy) but I downloaded the screen grab software you suggested and went to see the differences in your web skin between 5.3.1 and 6.2.2 and (ah hem) they were both the same again!!

[slim] Re: Slashdotted!!

2005-12-08 Thread radish
Just saw that - looks like a decent review. Expect to see traffic in the linux forum increase all of a sudden :) -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread:

[slim] Help! My SB2 won't play music

2005-12-08 Thread PoW
After messing around with cli display commands last night. I woke up this morning and did not have the ability to play music on my sb2. I know the tracks are fine and I have tried both internet radio and normal files off my server. Basically the radio sits there in 'play' mode but no audio

[slim] Radio Keeps stopping

2005-12-08 Thread toonartist
Just bought the squeezebox 3 a couple of days back and found it to be fantastic. however, today it has started an annoying habit of turning off/ disconnecting the radio after a short while. check sleep mode and I haven't accidently switched it on. It's hardwired to a d-link 624. Any help

[slim] Spectrum analyzer details?

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Lanctot
I had always assumed the full-width spectrum analyzer screensaver worked like this: - from centre to the left was the L channel - from the centre to the right was the R channel - high frequencies were towards the centre, low towards the edges Now I'm not so sure about the last part. I'm

Re: [slim] Help! My SB2 won't play music

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Laplante
Chances are if you have changed some setting reloading firmware won't do anything, as all of those settings are stored on the server side in the config file. Have you tried Forget this player from the web interface / and or hand editing the prefs file to remove the player and restarting? -Chris

[slim] Re: E-Mail/POP3 Checker Plugin for Win?

2005-12-08 Thread mcremer
Thanks -- I feel we're getting closer to the problem. If I understand the log file right, some Cmd.pm seems to be missing and preventing Email.pm from running on the computer. Here's the full text: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and

Re: [slim] Re: No More shutdown with xPLHal

2005-12-08 Thread John Gorst
Toby wrote: I'm still interested in wether it is possible to say poweroff.exe not to shut down but to go into standby modus. I'm happy because now I can power off again my server pressing '1,2,3' on my SB remote. But with the new SB I can send a magic packet. So if the server is in the standby

[slim] Re: Portable player suggestions

2005-12-08 Thread eq72521
tass Wrote: After reading that you guys maintain two libraries, why don't you look into MediaMonkey. Apparently one of the latest (beta) versions allows re-encoding on the fly while you sync a portable to it. I haven't tried this feature myself, but it at least sounds promising. I've

[slim] Re: Portable player suggestions

2005-12-08 Thread eq72521
Simon Still: I'm with you on this overabundance of flash memory formats. I'd like it if my camera and MP3 player used the same, but alas it is xD and SD. I'm sure if I get a third device I'll have a third format with which to contend. More about the LDP200. First, cost. It's ludicrously

[slim] Re: Portable player suggestions

2005-12-08 Thread Brian Ritchie
I use a Creative Zen Touch, my wife has an envy-inspiring Zen Sleek. Battery times to make iPod owners weep, and (crucial for us) can handle WMA as well as mp3. We use Notmad Explorer (see http://www.redchairsoftware.com/notmad/) to drag-and-drop stuff from my music folders to the Zens; this

Re: [slim] Re: E-Mail/POP3 Checker Plugin for Win?

2005-12-08 Thread kdf
Quoting mcremer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks -- I feel we're getting closer to the problem. If I understand the log file right, some Cmd.pm seems to be missing and preventing Email.pm from running on the computer. Here's the full text: That looks about right. Try this link for Net::Cmd:

[slim] Re: Slashdotted!!

2005-12-08 Thread kefa
seanadams Wrote: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/12/08/1757259.shtml?tid=141tid=137 yeah, yeah, old news! picked up this story on the rss screen saver :-) -- kefa Fedora Core 4, Slimserver 6.2.1, Netgear DG834GT Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20 Squeezebox 2, Denon

[slim] Re: Importing weather data

2005-12-08 Thread jakematic
Greg- That's right, just the one line. Yes it updates it once a minute. I was thinking the same thing. I'll play around with it some and see if I can get the expression right. Thanks! Jake -- jakematic jakematic's

[slim] Re: SB3 - WMA lossless song gets cut off at end

2005-12-08 Thread luga00
After further investigation this happens with a lot of my music. The amount cut off at the end seems to variable - anywhere between 0 - 2 seconds or so. I would guess that the last buffer is not being played and as this last buffer could contain any amount of data depending on the very last

[slim] Re: E-Mail/POP3 Checker Plugin for Win?

2005-12-08 Thread mcremer
That was the missing link indeed - thank you very much. Guess that other users might appreciate it if you mentioned this file on your plugins page, as well. Another problem though: After editing the Email.pm file (adding pop server address, user and pw) and asking the Squeezebox to check for

Re: [slim] Re: E-Mail/POP3 Checker Plugin for Win?

2005-12-08 Thread kdf
Quoting mcremer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That was the missing link indeed - thank you very much. Guess that other users might appreciate it if you mentioned this file on your plugins page, as well. Another problem though: After editing the Email.pm file (adding pop server address, user and pw) and

[slim] Re: Slashdotted!!

2005-12-08 Thread ezkcdude
You guys are too quick. -- ezkcdude ezkcdude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2545 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18927

[slim] My SB3 wireless only works with wired ethernet

2005-12-08 Thread mcremer
As a proud and happy owner of the wonderful Squeezebox version 2, there was no question that I definitely had to order the new (and much better looking) SB3 once it would have become available. So I did, and as I could not resist the 2off100 offer, nearly every room in our apartment is now being

[slim] Re: Slashdotted!!

2005-12-08 Thread radish
Jim Wrote: Decent review? Looks like a review from someone who spent about 5 minutes with the thing. MP3 Player? C'mon this is slashdot, not ToysRUsthere are other formats than MP3 - and slashdot readers I think would know them. Well I guess I meant decent as in pretty positive.

[slim] Re: E-Mail/POP3 Checker Plugin for Win?

2005-12-08 Thread mcremer
kdf Wrote: not a clue, until you can provide the note in the event viewer or from running command line as you did before. -kdf Well, the command C:\Program Files\SlimServer\serverslim.exe --d_plugins does not show any particular error. The Windows event viewer says: Undefined

[slim] Re: SB3 - WMA lossless song gets cut off at end

2005-12-08 Thread radish
Yup - I raised 1434 and was about to suggest that it might be related. I haven't heard a jump of as much as 2 seconds, but certainly 0.5s is common. -- radish radish's Profile:

[slim] Re: My SB3 wireless only works with wired ethernet

2005-12-08 Thread JJZolx
Maybe I spoke too soon... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18923 -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

2005-12-08 Thread Listener
--- Comments on enhancement req classical v3.txt Other than the comments below, I think it is fine. Request 5 - User Defined Tag I appreciate your adding this request. You worded it in terms of an Ogg Vorbis user defined tag. My idea was just to let the user specify the name of some tag to be

Re: [slim] My SB3 wireless only works with wired ethernet

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Lanctot
What router are you using? Indeed, since the SB2 and SB3 use identical radio modules and identical firmware, it's quite puzzling. Plus BOTH your SB3s can't connect, yet your SB2 does. Routers definitely have something to do with it since my SMC 2804WBRP-G wouldn't work with my SB2 no way no

[slim] Re: SB Form Factor (wish)

2005-12-08 Thread JJZolx
bishopdonmiguel Wrote: How do I say this without offense? I like (really like) the style of the SB3 but not the form factor. Too tall for my situation/preference, although I understand it is perfect for some and I respect that. Thought I'd throw out an illustrative wish for the next

Re: [slim] Re: SB Form Factor (wish)

2005-12-08 Thread Ben Sandee
On 12/8/05, JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the stylized plastic affairs of the SB2 and SB3, plus a side headphonejack (who puts headphone jacks on the back of audio equipment??) is allthat is needed.Headphone jack on the back works great for cheapo powered speakers. Why do I want to see a bright

[slim] Re: Spectrum analyzer details?

2005-12-08 Thread Milhouse
Try this 'thread' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14935) for more info. -- Milhouse Milhouse's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=928 View this thread:

[slim] Re: SB Form Factor (wish)

2005-12-08 Thread JJZolx
Ben Sandee Wrote: On 12/8/05, JJZolx JJZolx.1zr02b (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: the stylized plastic affairs of the SB2 and SB3, plus a side headphone jack (who puts headphone jacks on the back of audio equipment??) is all that is needed. Headphone jack on the

Re: [slim] Re: E-Mail/POP3 Checker Plugin for Win?

2005-12-08 Thread kdf
Quoting mcremer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The Windows event viewer says: Undefined subroutine Slim::Music::Info::durationSeconds called at C:/Program Files/SlimServer/server/Plugins/Email.pm line 201. Thanks. which version of the server are you using now? -kdf

[slim] Re: Doubled entries after rescan 6.2.2

2005-12-08 Thread smr888
I'm still having this problem with yesterday's nightly. It's pretty frustrating not to be able to play an album without deleting every other track after selecting it. Are others able to rescan without causing duplicated tracks? If so, is there some sort of comprehensive uninstall for

Re: [slim] Re: Spectrum analyzer details?

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Lanctot
Wow, that answers all I wanted to know and more! So it does work the way I thought it should work. And since you tested it with tones, I must have been misinterpreting what I was hearing versus with what I was seeing. Although what I suspect is that choral voices (even the Vienna Boys' Choir!)

[slim] Re: Doubled entries after rescan 6.2.2

2005-12-08 Thread Dan Sully
* smr888 shaped the electrons to say... I'm still having this problem with yesterday's nightly. It's pretty frustrating not to be able to play an album without deleting every other track after selecting it. Are others able to rescan without causing duplicated tracks? If so, is there some

Re: [slim] Re: SB Form Factor (wish)

2005-12-08 Thread Ben Sandee
On 12/8/05, JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Headphone jack on the back works great for cheapo powered speakers. Why do I want to see a bright green plug coming off the side of my sb3?SB2 has it on the side and I happen to, unfortunately, be using my SB2 in that configuration and it's an

[slim] Re: The Favorites Folder

2005-12-08 Thread gjrhine
Can not be done? -- gjrhine Gary gjrhine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2481 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18862

[slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-08 Thread mikelis
BTW, just wondering.. Would anyone be interested in a WinCE pocketpc port ? YES! absolutely on my Pocket PC would be reat so i could control the server remotely. been waiting for something like this. Nice work! james -- mikelis

[slim] Re: Question on Server requirements

2005-12-08 Thread Michaelwagner
Thomas Hitchcock Wrote: My thinking was that we would ideally only allow each room to access the portions of the music that someone working in the room actually owns. My assumption is that we would be technically breaking copyright rules to allow everyone unlimited access to the entire

Re: [slim] Re: E-Mail/POP3 Checker Plugin for Win?

2005-12-08 Thread kdf
On 8-Dec-05, at 4:42 PM, mcremer wrote: The Windows event viewer says: Undefined subroutine Slim::Music::Info::durationSeconds called at C:/Program Files/SlimServer/server/Plugins/Email.pm line 201. right, this is a result of the audible alert. I've posted a new version which works on my

[slim] Re: How to stream Liquid Connect (indie103.fm)

2005-12-08 Thread mkosma
Resurrecting this ancient thread, I thought I'd point out that this best-of-all-radio station now has an mp3 stream available. See http://www.indie1031.fm. -- mkosma mkosma's Profile:

[slim] Re: Options for remote power on of non ir amp

2005-12-08 Thread hhoover
fcm4711 Wrote: Hi Hugh The output should be strong enough to do that. There is an internal resistance of about 50R (from the analog switch HC4066) but that should not impose a problem. I also do not see a problem having the output turned on all the time while SB is on. But right now

[slim] Re: Question on Server requirements

2005-12-08 Thread Thomas Hitchcock
Thanks for all the advice! Sounds like a standard linux server would be able to handle 10-20 streams of music simultaneously without serious issues. I'm glad to hear that Slimserver can be configured to handle larger loads like this. I will have to talk with our computer networking department

[slim] Re: SB3 - WMA lossless song gets cut off at end

2005-12-08 Thread luga00
Was this bug really raised way back in April? If I'm right in assuming that it has still not been fixed then I'm shocked as it's a class A bug, surely. It's a possible show stopper for me and the units will have to go back. If I'd bought a CD player that did this I wouldn't have kept it for 8

[slim] Not scanning whole library

2005-12-08 Thread dwillym
Just fired up the box and the slimserver doesn't scan my whole library...it only gets about a 3rd of it. it's pointed to 'my music' and everything and i've done a rescan, but whenever i do that the device disconnects and the webpage says i'm not connected any more. it's as if the device needs to

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