[slim] Re: Help with Cyrillic needed!

2006-02-22 Thread Dan Sully
* pankotskii shaped the electrons to say... I converted those tags using Ultra Tag Editor to ID3v2. It has an option to copy from ID3v1 to v2. Is that what I was supposed to do? Not sure what's next. I tried to rescan my music library and tried viewing files using UTF-8 encoding from View in

Re: [slim] Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Weller
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ceejay wrote: Man, the music obviously never stops in your house... It's not quite as it seems although the music is playing most days all day and, fortunately, SWMBO and I like the same music. SlimServer is running from a spare laptop and I leave it and

[slim] Re: Help with Cyrillic needed!

2006-02-22 Thread Dan Sully
* Dan Sully shaped the electrons to say... I converted those tags using Ultra Tag Editor to ID3v2. It has an option to copy from ID3v1 to v2. Is that what I was supposed to do? Not sure what's next. I tried to rescan my music library and tried viewing files using UTF-8 encoding from View in

RE: [slim] Quiet computer cooling?

2006-02-22 Thread Wlazlo, Philip
You can also look at components that use heat pipe cooling. Gigabyte have a range of NVIDIA cards that replace the fan with a heat pipe - no moving parts, so no noise. This is a tough one as the more powerful PC you have, generally the more fans you need. I have seen high end fanless cases,

[slim] Re: Cue Music Problem (6.2+ versions)

2006-02-22 Thread JayNYC
I have visited http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2752 but I do not know how to Add value to this bug report so that Browse Music Folders can see and play my CUE sheets married to FLACs. What do I do? -- JayNYC

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread fairyliquidizer
TCM Wrote: http://www.last.fm/user/ThisCharmingMan/ ...and yes, I do like The Smiths. What did you think of the last Morrissey album? I didn't quite see what all the acclaim was about. Give me Vauxhall and I any day! -- fairyliquidizer O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread bernt
TCM Wrote: Skönt nu när melodifestivalen har kommit igång eller...? ;-) Urk! Linda Bengtzing on top of my list. -- bernt bernt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1342 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread TCM
fairyliquidizer Wrote: What did you think of the last Morrissey album? I didn't quite see what all the acclaim was about. Give me Vauxhall and I any day! I must admit that I haven't heard it yet :-(. Vauxhall and I is great, but I also found You Are the Quarry quite good. -- TCM Quiet

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread TimM
Don't know what you'll make of this lot http://www.last.fm/user/grumpytim/?unique As for neighbours, mine haven't changed for about a month. Perhaps someone clever with the slimscrobbler group could get some group charts going if nothing else it should be a laugh. Tim -- TimM

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread CavesOfTQLT
fairyliquidizer Wrote: My wifes music appears in mine when I don't turn off the scrobbler quickly enough... I used to turn off the submitter when I wasn't using the SB for my own music, but found out later that when you turn it back on again it submitted all the tracks that had been played

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread oktup
Robin Bowes Wrote: You will notice that my Top Artist Overall is Torrents. This is not some strange band you've not heard of but stems from when I used to play music directly from Bittorrent downloads. ;) My first thought was, The Torrents! Good name for a band. Of course...

Re: [slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread Joar Nilsson
2006/2/22, fairyliquidizer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What did you think of the last Morrissey album?I didn't quite seewhat all the acclaim was about.Give me Vauxhall and I any day!You are the Quarry is totally great! Of course, most of his albums are. /Joarhttp://www.last.fm/user/filuhr/

Re: [slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread dijon
http://www.lastfm.com/user/dijon i have no friends... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Recording Internet streams for later playback

2006-02-22 Thread ericj
There was a very brief discussion, with alterntives for windows and mac at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=87217#post87217 The script is a major improvement over the one I sketched out in that note. The only thing that one might suggest is that the stream could be transcoded (say

[slim] no database

2006-02-22 Thread MattC
Hi All, I'm considering getting a squeezebox, and already have all my CDs ripped as flac files, and already have a mysql db as an index to them all, and also already have a web front end to select what I want to play. my question is this: is it possible to use slimserver without its database?

[slim] Latest nightly has destroyed my SlimServer - how can I recover?

2006-02-22 Thread ModelCitizen
Hello, In an attempt to test the pacth for bug 2018 I have installed the latest Windows nightly: downloads/nightly/SlimServer_v2006-02-22/SlimServer_v2006-02-22.ZIP Once installed the firmware updated to vs. 35 with no discernable problems. However, once Slimserver had stopped rescanning my

Re: [slim] Syncronising -- track restarts

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Weller
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Weller wrote: IME one of the biggest disappointments of the Squeezebox is synchronisation. I've just changed my SB3 so it connects via a couple of these 'homeplug' ethernet extenders rather than wireless. It's still early but I have had two days of rock

[slim] Re: problem playing mp3 - winamp media file

2006-02-22 Thread rick's cafe
hi mark... although the tracks were ripped as mp3's using winamp they were not given traditional .mp3 extensions... not sure why that is the case.. should i try to rename each file? however all tracks play fine with winamp... it is just sb3 which says it cant open file. also any idea on why the

[slim] Re: Where to buy SB2?

2006-02-22 Thread reeve_mike
Andrea Ken, MANY THANKS for the kind words - ENJOY the SB2! Mike -- reeve_mike reeve_mike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=995 View this thread:

Re: [slim] no database

2006-02-22 Thread Michael Herger
my question is this: is it possible to use slimserver without its database? No. If you want to be able to select your music from the player's interface, then you'll have to use the slimserver. -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer

[slim] Re: Latest nightly has destroyed my SlimServer - how can I recover?

2006-02-22 Thread ModelCitizen
Hmm... this is surprising. Slimserver is working as it OK if using the remote. It's just the web interface that's screwed. What can I do to recover and retain my settings? -- ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile:

[slim] Re: Could not Import songs with Chinese titiles in SLIMSERVERS 6.5

2006-02-22 Thread lkypeter
I had the same problem. Way to solve it is to go to tagrename website - could not remember exact address but google search should yield it. Download the 30 days trial and use it to convert the tag to id3 and it should be ok. Cheers, Pete lkypeter at singnet.com.sg -- lkypeter Peter Lye

[slim] Re: When is the next alpha Slimserver release?

2006-02-22 Thread Mark Lanctot
Slim does not commit to release dates. Some may not like this but it's better than rushing something that isn't ready. Slim also does not release alphas either. You have 3 choices: 1. Stable: 6.2.1. 2. Latest bugfix: 6.2.2. Updated nightly. The only thing holding back the release is the

Re: [slim] Re: Roku M500 + slimserver + flac/320CBR mp3 = breakups?

2006-02-22 Thread Mike Benjamin
goofygrin wrote: radish Wrote: That would be a disaster. You need to read up on biodiversity and how it relates to internet security. You're worried about a single hack taking down everything (coming from the banking industry, I respect that). But what's worse? A single point of failure

Re: [slim] Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread Jack Coates
http://www.last.fm/user/fairyliquidizer/ Lets find out whose music collections we like and whose we don't :-) http://www.last.fm/user/Stinkingpig/ I don't separate the family's music from my own. I like most of what the kids listen to, but I take no responsibility for any Jack Johnson in

Re: [slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread Robin Bowes
bernt said the following on 02/22/2006 06:22 AM: http://www.last.fm/user/ottovonkopp/ The girly tunes on top of the list is played by my wife and kids. ;) Yeah, of course they are. ;) Wait until my kids come to stay - Bob the Builder, The Wiggles, and Bear In The Big Blue House will be top

Re: [slim] Re: Quiet computer cooling?

2006-02-22 Thread Pat Dowling
I also built a pc based on recommendations from http://www.silentpcreview.com/index.php. I used a Antec Sonata case http://www.silentpcreview.com/article60-page1.html based on there review and have been quite happy with it. The dives are mounted on rubber grommets and it uses large slow

[slim] Re: Web display lags behind Squeezebox

2006-02-22 Thread cfraenkel
It is happening all the time here. At the moment, it is just one song behind, but often the display (and the web interface) lags 5 ~ 10 songs behind. I'll check out the bug report, thanks -- cfraenkel cfraenkel's

[slim] Re: Latest nightly has destroyed my SlimServer - how can I recover?

2006-02-22 Thread radish
Take a copy of the .pref files and reinstall a stable version. You may have to do a full rescan, or you may not. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Thai Language for Squeezebox 3

2006-02-22 Thread mp101
I had to rip my wifes Thai cd's using apple lossless, then converted to flac etc.. I had to do this because the database EAC uses for disc/track names never had any Thai titles stored, I believe Apple uses the other licendes database. Cheers -- mp101

[slim] Re: play music on computer while playing on squeezebox?

2006-02-22 Thread fotaq
Thank you. Through soft squeeze: select settings, then synchronize. -- fotaq fotaq's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4121 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21358

Re: [slim] no progress bar?

2006-02-22 Thread waldy
Is this not possible then? How do I get just elapsed time on my squeezebox without the progress bar? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Quiet computer cooling?

2006-02-22 Thread John Stimson
A couple of years ago, I switched my PCs over to Seasonic power supplies and Zalman CPU heatsinks. I also replaced any extra case fans with the Panasonic quiet 3 fans. All of that worked very well. The noisiest remaining component was the fan on my ATI video card. I got a Zalman heat-pipe

[slim] Re: Quiet computer cooling?

2006-02-22 Thread MeSue
I can vouch for the Antec Sontata II case. I built a new PC with it last month and it is about as silent as can be. I also used a fanless video card. The only time I hear it is when it gets a little warm in the room, there is a second PSU fan which comes on for a few seconds now and then… but

Re: [slim] Re: Latest nightly has destroyed my SlimServer - how can I recover?

2006-02-22 Thread kdf
Quoting ModelCitizen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmm... this is surprising. Slimserver is working as it OK if using the remote. It's just the web interface that's screwed. What can I do to recover and retain my settings? Have you changed from 6.5 to 6.2.2? The symptoms you describe really

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread technograndad
http://www.last.fm/user/technograndad (Still trying to work out how Coldplay got in there. Can I sue?) -- technograndad technograndad's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3651 View this thread:

[slim] Re: 48KHz playback?

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick Dixon
I have tested the latest nightly (22 Feb), which includes an SB2/3 Firmware update to V35, and 48KHz 24bit FLAC and WAV playback appear to work fine. Thanks to Dean I think. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk Patrick

Re: [slim] Re: Web display lags behind Squeezebox

2006-02-22 Thread Jack Coates
It is happening all the time here. At the moment, it is just one song behind, but often the display (and the web interface) lags 5 ~ 10 songs behind. I'll check out the bug report, thanks what skin are you using? I had this all the time with ExBrowse3, but haven't seen it in fishbone.

Re: [slim] no progress bar?

2006-02-22 Thread Mark Lanctot
I don't think so. You can cycle through the available Now Playing choices by pressing the NOW PLAYING key. If elapsed time is shown, the progress bar is shown. Several do not have the progress bar, but also don't have elapsed time. waldy wrote: Is this not possible then? How do I get

[slim] How to add a playlist to favorites?

2006-02-22 Thread drhanso
Hi folks, is there a way to add a playlist to favorites? -Hans -- drhanso drhanso's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2832 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21379

[slim] Re: 48KHz playback?

2006-02-22 Thread abdomen
Patrick Dixon Wrote: I have tested the latest nightly (22 Feb), which includes an SB2/3 Firmware update to V35, and 48KHz 24bit FLAC and WAV playback appear to work fine. Thanks to Dean I think. I haven't tested it myself yet, but that is great news. Thank you, Dean!! -- abdomen

[slim] Re: Latest nightly has destroyed my SlimServer - how can I recover?

2006-02-22 Thread ModelCitizen
I have only updated my 6.2.2 version to the latest 6.2.2 nightly. I'll find the .prefs file, copy it, uninstall SlimServer and try reinstalling the same nightly again (as I really want the latest patch that appears to cure the remote menu list jumt bug). Thanks. -- ModelCitizen

Re: [slim] Quiet computer cooling?

2006-02-22 Thread Jacob Potter
I'm using an Antec P180 with a Seasonic power supply and a Scythe SCNJ-1000 fanless CPU heatsink. It's incredibly quiet - to the point that the hum from my old stereo reciever sometimes drowns out the computer itself. I've got 3 case fans (besides the power supply), all running at 5 volts. The

[slim] update re: tech support email delays

2006-02-22 Thread seanadams
As mentioned in the other thread, we are running behind on returning tech support emails at the moment. Right now the queue goes back to Monday at 2:00am PST. If you are waiting for a response, please check out the resources on our web site including the FAQ and this forum. If you manage to

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread ceejay
http://www.last.fm/user/Ceejayfm/ Most annoying - someone beat me to Ceejay and then never used it! Unless of course it was me and I forgot. I must say the variety of musical taste being displayed here is most impressive - I'm sure that at least half of the artists on people's lists are ones

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread Browny
This is me: HTTP://WWW.LAST.FM/USER/BROWNYSV/ I'm not going to blame my selections on the wife and kids. Rubbish taste in music - and proud!!! -- Browny Browny's Profile:

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread ModelCitizen
ceejay Wrote: http://www.last.fm/user/Ceejayfm/ I must say the variety of musical taste being displayed here is most impressive. I still think LastFM is great... Yes, I am amazed too.. especially about how eclectic and catholic many people's taste seems to be. And yes, Last.fm is very

Re: [slim] Re: Latest nightly has destroyed my SlimServer - how can I recover?

2006-02-22 Thread kdf
Quoting ModelCitizen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ModelCitizen Wrote: I have only updated my 6.2.2 version to the latest 6.2.2 nightly. Not correct. I have managed to install the 6.5 version I think. Sorry to waste your time. no problem. at least it is explained. you'll be able to uninstall and

[slim] Re: Quiet computer cooling?

2006-02-22 Thread radish
John Stimson Wrote: I got a Zalman heat-pipe based heatsink for the video card, and I think that was a mistake. Although it reduced the noise considerably, I think that the weight and the mounting method put too much mechanical stress on the graphics processor chip, possibly cracking the

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread bklaas
http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ My wife also occasionally pops in Kelly Clarkson, but thankfully not enough to make a dent on my Top50. However, I'm especially proud of Beck at #2-- that's the work of my 21-month old daughter, who asks for Beck by name and dances to it. That grrl rulez. Que

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread nicketynick
I think we're overloading Last.fm - I can't get a connection. -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router nicketynick's Profile:

[slim] Re: Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread N�stor
http://www.last.fm/user/audiodev/ (...but I have just noticed that my submitting has not been working at all for a month or so, only the songs on lastfm radios seems to be appearing lately... need to recheck the new versions of the slimscrobbler for 6.5b1... and that Elvis Costello's Spike

[slim] Re: 48KHz playback?

2006-02-22 Thread smst
chrisal Wrote: Well I've actually tried ripping a 5.1 mix to seperate ac3 files then converting it to wav using your your utility (thanks btw) then encoding the files to flac and tagging them.You're welcome! Anyway, I've tried it out and I also get the gap between FLACs. I updated to the

[slim] Newbie problem with installing SlimServer on Linkstation

2006-02-22 Thread sb11
Hi everybody, I tried to install SlimServer on my LinkStation today (according to Marc D. Fields instructions). I have the following problem when running the SlimServer. After typing in the command ./slimserver.pl --daemon --prefsfile /mnt/slim-data/slimserver.pref --cachedir /mnt/slim-data in

[slim] Re: Recording Internet streams for later playback

2006-02-22 Thread zuvembi
ericj Wrote: There was a very brief discussion, with alterntives for windows and mac at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=87217#post87217 The script is a major improvement over the one I sketched out in that note. The only thing that one might suggest is that the stream could

[slim] Unable to stream at lower bitrate

2006-02-22 Thread puneetd
Because of frequent network interference, I have been trying to get slimserver to convert my flac files on-the-fly to MP3 for streaming to my SB2. I haven't had any success yet. Under serversettings-file types, I have checked the box for FLAC-MP3, but the following error message is returned:

Re: [slim] Unable to stream at lower bitrate

2006-02-22 Thread Mark Lanctot
Have you put LAME in the right place? In SlimServer help - Frequently Asked Questions - Where do I put the lame, oggtools or other transcoding programs? Under Windows, they should be placed in the C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin or the C:\Windows folder. On the Mac, you can place

Re: [slim] Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread Ben Sandee
On 2/22/06, Kevin Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Weller wrote: Today, for example, they've been on since about 07:00 and won't get turned off until around 19:00 this evening. And they've just gone off after 14 hours of *excellent* music. Mindyou, after seeing

[slim] Re: Gapless WAV/FLAC playback

2006-02-22 Thread thomyk
Today as was able to do some more testing. Finally I suceeded in playing back wav files without any gaps: 1. First thing I found out was that SlimServer is by default configured so that wav files are transcoded by the server to FLAC format. 2. By disabling transcoding of WAV to FLAC I could

[slim] Re: Help with Cyrillic needed!

2006-02-22 Thread pankotskii
Hi Dan, I have that non-unicode settings set for Russian in my Windows regional settins. Like I mentioned before, Windows sees those tags with no problem in my Music library. I will definately try that version of SlimServer and let you know. -- pankotskii

[slim] niles ts-1 control and squeezebox

2006-02-22 Thread jackaninny
i haven't looked really in depth but i was wondering if anyone had success configuring the niles ts-1 control panel to be used with the squeezebox 3? getting ready to possibly wire the house for a multi-zone system and i am looking at niles and russound multizone amps and wall controls. --

[slim] Re: Power Supply RF EMI

2006-02-22 Thread seanadams
BruceMR Wrote: So, I'm no power guru, but I've noticed huge AM interference like someone else posted (even many rooms away). This is from a bad power supply? Ok, then why is SlimDevices shipping such a bad power supply and when are they planning to provide an approved better one? I'll buy

[slim] Re: Gapless WAV/FLAC playback

2006-02-22 Thread radish
thomyk Wrote: What you can see is that there is no real gap (no silence) at the track change. However it seems as if there are some samples missing! Exactly. Are you refering to the following bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434 It seems to be a similiar problem if not

[slim] Re: Help with Cyrillic needed!

2006-02-22 Thread pankotskii
Not that one is English! :):) ButI installed the newest Slim Server andVol!!! I can see all my cyrillic tags!!! Even without converting all of them to ID3 v.2...Thank you Dan. It finally works!! :) -- pankotskii

[slim] Re: Squeezebox3 stutter/skip

2006-02-22 Thread dean
There's a new firmware version in the nightly releases, version 35, which should address some TCP throughput issues which can lead to stuttering. Please try the latest nightly release and post your experience. -- dean

[slim] Cheap plug for my Squeezebox G eBay auction

2006-02-22 Thread el payo
Hi- I apologize in advance for a blatant attempt at selling some old hardware. I'll only post this once. I have a Squeezebox (original issue, upgraded to the Squeezebox G) up for auction at eBay. It's a U.S. only sale, sorry to our international amigos.

[slim] Re: more wood cases

2006-02-22 Thread random . bits
Hi Chris, Would you mind sharing some of your hard work on configuring the TC-10? I am slowly getting the devices on the TC-10 to work for me. The Ethernet port works with module natsemi I have not figure out the X11 graphics driver yet. When you initially configured it, what did you use in

[slim] Naming stations on Last.FM

2006-02-22 Thread Kyle
Is there any way to name stations that you create on Last.FM by entering several artists? The url will be somthing like: lastfm://artists/2384832.29839,28445.387464,3848596.11228394 Is there any way to name it something like: Clapton, Cocker, etc.? -- Kyle

[slim] Re: Is there any way to generate a text file list of albums, etc?

2006-02-22 Thread Jon
Check out this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18804 -- Jon Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21355

[slim] Re: Power Supply RF EMI

2006-02-22 Thread mbonsack
seanadams Wrote: We have an alternate one but we do not normally ship it because it is much bulkier and most prefer the small supply. Is this, by chance, a linear supply others are raving so much about? -- mbonsack

[slim] Re: No sound from Squeezebox after reflash

2006-02-22 Thread dean
Firmware 35 is in the latest nightly and should fix this issue (and a few others) so you shouldn't need to downgrade anymore. -- dean dean's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2 View this thread:

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

2006-02-22 Thread MrC
kdf Wrote: Right, I've given Mail::Pop3Client a trial for use with the Email plugin, and accessing gmail accounts. The good news is that the SSL features work like a charm. The bad news is that gmail deletes the emails from the pop3 side of their server as soon as they are accessed.

[slim] Re: 48KHz playback?

2006-02-22 Thread dean
Renyao, do you have example files that I could get to try to reproduce the problem? Send me email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- dean dean's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2 View this thread:

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

2006-02-22 Thread kdf
On 22-Feb-06, at 9:33 PM, MrC wrote: Gmail only allows you to download messages once via POP: good. so I won't worry about it then :) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Is there any way to generate a text file list of albums, etc?

2006-02-22 Thread hal9000
I generated a great report using Media Monkey... http://www.mediamonkey.com/ I exported to Excel, deleted the track name and number, and then used an Excel function... Data/Filter/Advanced Filter/Unique Records Only ... The result: I got a great list of my FLAC catalog with