notanatheist Wrote:
You must be over in that place I hear of called Springtucky :)
Exactly, why I get such reliable wireless connnections across the
house: my neighbors don't have phones, let alone computers or
networks.
Eugene is trapped in 1968, but over here it's 1958...
I'm not sure
A couple of friends are using it and are very pleased - one put a pair in to link his router (which sits near his SB2) to the server PC which was just far enough away that closing a door broke the wireless link.They both said they were the easiest bits of IT kit they'd ever used - plug in, connect
Hi there,
I have no idea how this happened, but a little background.
I had SlimServer installed on my laptop for my SB3, with all my music
on a 120 GB IDE-USB drive, externally connected (obviously) through my
USB port. Unfortunately, this took away from the portability of my
laptop, so I
... SS 6.2... downloaded the latest version, and it kept shutting
down... so i rolled back.
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I have Devolo Turbo and I find they work fine for networking for a
wireless deadspt I have. I have the following observations:
1. Powerline network has analogous problems to Wireless: some pairs of
sockets will have poor throughput, other equipment on network can
affect transmissions (e.g.
I use powerline ethernet to connect my SB3 to my QNAP TS-101 as wireless
doesn't work through my Draytek router. I've not had any problems with
it.
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Cheers for another recommendation :)
Just having a little play with the Robocopy, seems a nice simple thing
but it does not seem to like spaces in the folder/dir names - is this
normal?
If I make up names of dir/folders with no spaces it works fine but with
the names already in place on the
Hi,
It strikes me that the DS Lite's Opera based browser and touchscreen
could be a great, cheap control for Slimserver.
Has anyone tried it.
Another idea is a 'fat client' that is made available as a 'game'
cartridge for Slimserver remote control.
These could help compete with the Sonos
We go through a lot of remotes around here. I seem to be on an eternal
quest to find the ultimate universal remote, because so far, I haven't
found it. We have a drawer full at this point -- all of them coming up
short in one regard or another. Adding a Squeezebox to the mix has just
complicated
matt24 Wrote:
Is it possible to have the following funcionality with the SB3:-
snip
Vote for bug/enhancement request
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956
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OMG! Brilliant!
Sorry I ever doubted.
Router: working within 5 mins of unpacking (wrt54G)
SB3: working within 4 mins of powering up
I somehow fear much of my spare time will now be spent exploring the
many plugins and extras SB offers.
Anyone else having 2nd thoughts? Worry not!
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Yes, I use them all over the house. We live in a old Victorian cottage
and wireless won't pass through the walls. I have 3 SB3's and a
dedicated music server in a cupboard under the stairs. I use the
powerline plugs for all the connections and they are fantastic.
The 85mbps ones typically give me
universalremote.com I have 3 and the are great. Choose the one that fits
your needs.
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JJZolx Wrote:
Is it just me, or does a device as intelligent as the Squeezebox
connecting to a server across the Internet in order to display a bloody
clock seem laughably ridiculous? Like Rube Goldberg ridiculous. Could
you put any more networking devices, cables, fibre optics, and 21st
In windows you have to quoto the directory path to get it work.e.g.robocopy D:\My Music E:\My Music /mir
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Deaf Cat Wrote:
Cheers for another recommendation :)
Just having a little play with the Robocopy, seems a nice simple thing
but it does not seem to like spaces in the folder/dir names - is this
normal?
If I make up names of dir/folders with no spaces it works fine but with
the names
anwars Wrote:
Hi,
It strikes me that the DS Lite's Opera based browser and touchscreen
could be a great, cheap control for Slimserver.
Has anyone tried it.
It's been discussed before. I don't think anyone has made it work.
It's a good idea though as the DS is widely available and pretty
jonheal Wrote:
On the Sony, one of the buttons cycles through the song title display
options. I don't believe there's a button on the SB remote that does
that, is there?
Try Now Playing, bottom left
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jonheal Wrote:
An aside. I mapped these remotes to JVC DVD codes. On the Sony, one of
the buttons cycles through the song title display options. I don't
believe there's a button on the SB remote that does that, is there?
Now Playing?
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You should be able to get a Harmony on ebay for around $150, if you're
patient.
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tommyz Wrote:
Try Now Playing, bottom left
TommyZ
That button cycles through the now playing options (different spectrum
analyzers, for the most part). What the button on the Sony cycles
through are different title format options, as in:
[1] my title.flac
1. my title
my title - my album
...
jwhittier Wrote:
I have a seperate computer that runs a slimserver to feed my SB1, the
computer that feeds the SB3 works. The computer that feeds the SB3
works from softsqueeze but the one that feeds the SB1 does not work
with softsqueeze. Here is the debug I get on the failure from the
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Development materials for a cartridge are on the order of several
hundred thousand dollars...
Development materials for a skin, though, are very cheap :)
There are conflicting reports as to whether the version of Opera on
the DS supports
The Harmony 880 (pretty much the top of their line) is available for
well under $200 in plenty of places:
http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Logitech_Harmony_880_Advanced_Universal_Remote,__7803953/sort_type=bottomline
The 550 659 are both around $100. Having tried many other options I'd
Radish, I've been bidding on some 880's recently. Can you tell me the
differences between these models? Is the 880 worth the extra dough?
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Philips/Marantz Pronto?
Neil
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We go through a lot of remotes around here. I seem to be on an eternal
quest to find the ultimate universal remote, because so far, I haven't
found it. We have a drawer full at this point -- all
http://allwaysync.com/
Great program I've been using for a while.
Bob
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Anyone tried to use this with Slimserver? I was kind of hoping that the
Wi-Fi capability would mean I could replace my Pronto and also log on to the
Slimserver Web page - but it doesn't look like it from the specifications -
shame...
Neil
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Kyle Wrote:
Radish, I've been bidding on some 880's recently. Can you tell me the
differences between these models? Is the 880 worth the extra dough?
Nice comparison chart here on Logitech's site:
After years of frustration with wireless I discovered these powerline
toys. Man, is it a relief. I bought 2 at first just to link my
desktop to the wireless router. After a week of heavenly no more
network disconnect, I bought more powerline adapters to link
everything, the desktop, laptop and
Anyone know if these things live happily with X10 devices?
Cheers,
Richard
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I know this has been discussed numerous times, but I can't seem to find
a straight answer.
I'm running:
SlimServer Version: 6.3.0 - 8148 - Windows Server 2003 - EN - cp1252
I want to play non-DRM AAC Files [.m4a] (my ripped CD's from iTunes).
I'm NOT using iTunes to manage my libary. I have a
I use SUSE and have found the following remote administration tools to
be exceptional.
1. The NX thin client/server software from www.nomachine.com. This
permits you to take remote control of your desktop from Windows. It is
also true thin client software, so you can have multiple
dean Wrote:
The new, backlit remotes are really nice looking and feeling. We'll be
selling them online soon, so you may be interested in upgrading to
that.
-dean
Do you know what the price of those will be, dean?
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fauzigarib Wrote:
Hi there,
I have no idea how this happened, but a little background.
I had SlimServer installed on my laptop for my SB3, with all my music
on a 120 GB IDE-USB drive, externally connected (obviously) through my
USB port. Unfortunately, this took away from the
Another vote for robocopy. I tend to like very simple software that
works. robocopy gets the job done.
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On the Harmony differences, I used to use a 659 and now have the 880.
The main advantages that I see are:
* It looks better - a lot better. The graphic/color screen helps but
the case design is also much nicer.
* The built in rechargable battery and cradle prevents the gradually
decreasing
Well, I have an unconventional answer if you're looking for something
other than a Harmony (which are, truly, great remotes). I use a URC
9910 from One For All (made by UEI). You can often find them for
around $30 on the internet (I've had good luck getting them REAL
cheap--$10--on Ebay
On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Pale Blue Ego wrote:
dean Wrote:
The new, backlit remotes are really nice looking and feeling.
We'll be
selling them online soon, so you may be interested in upgrading to
that.
-dean
Do you know what the price of those will be, dean?
At the risk of getting
I expect Dean will pop up here before long, but until then I'll just
jump in.
One of the things we'd like to do for the next release after 6.5 is
improve the UI as it relates to connecting to Squeeze Network and the
local Slimserver.
A lot of users would like their Squeezebox to be able to do
On Aug 4, 2006, at 10:17 AM, ChrisOwens wrote:
I expect Dean will pop up here before long, but until then I'll just
jump in.
POP!
There are a couple of things we're hoping to do for SqueezeNetwork/
SlimServer integration:
1. Sync settings favorites. Things like alarm clocks, display
Hi all,
MIPS Linkstation 250G, mipsel tools, Slimserver 6.3.1. All working so
far! :)
alienbbc-linux-v1.05_6.2-3.tar, mplayer pre8 and latest live555. No
problems building installing. I followed the instructions at
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17015 , though the
following
Thanks Greg. I will try to give it a try tonight and let you know.
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I've had this a lot now and it's getting annoying :(
At least twice a day the SB3 cannot connect to my Slimserver hosted on
my Intel iMac .. if I stop/start the server it connects fine again.
I'm running latest slimserver software.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Adam
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After finally getting SoftSqueeze and Squeezeslave to run as a service
on my xp sp2 box connected to a different server, I now also have this
problem. Unfortunately I fell sucker to the mp3pro format a few years
back and have a lot of music encoded as such. I'm not using it for new
stuff but I
I've been limping along on an old Apple Graphite Basestation. No G of
course, and limited encryption options. It really pumps out around the
house, but with two kids on WiFi, me and the Squeezebox the Squeezebox
has been dropping the music more often than I liked.
Only one kid has a G Wifi card
Some obvious ideas but I hope they help. Is your iMac falling asleep, is
your Energy Saver pref. set to sleep HD when possible? Are you still
logged on to the Squeezebox network.
I'm a newbie, but I'm a Mac newbie. So I hope this helps until a real
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If your turn the Squeezebox off for the night, connected to the
Squeezebox network, and have the alarm set, won't it wake up and play
music for an alarm?
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It will, but only if the alarm is also set on SqueezeNetwork. There
are two separate alarms.
On Aug 4, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Jazz1 wrote:
If your turn the Squeezebox off for the night, connected to the
Squeezebox network, and have the alarm set, won't it wake up and play
music for an alarm?
Jazz1 Wrote:
If your turn the Squeezebox off for the night, connected to the
Squeezebox network, and have the alarm set, won't it wake up and play
music for an alarm?
Yes. Keep in mind it never really goes off - you can see this if you
have the Date Time screensaver on (it gets the time
After becoming a SqueezeBox 3 user only a few months back I already own
three of them and really enjoy the product. When I was starting to rip
the CD collection I started out using FLAC as it was an open format.
However, as I did more research I found that it was much convenient to
base my
I doubt it. The only devices that support WMA Lossless right now are
those that run a Microsoft operating system (Windows Mobile phones and
PDAs, Portable Media Centers, and of course PCs).
That said, it hardly matters. I have a WMA Lossless library, and the
server transcode to FLAC is
I think the major issue here is that Microsoft charges a license fee to
have a WMA Lossless decoder. FLAC has no such problems. You were
probably on the right path when you first chose FLAC. :) The good news
is you can easily convert your files to any other lossless format with
no loss of
It worked!! But there was some channels missing, the howard stations
were the most noticable because I looked there first.
I updated the computer that feeds the SB3 and I can see station 100,
then I updated that computer that feeds the SB1 and no station 100. The
SB1 works now with 5.9 version.
Steve!
Thanks!! That was it... Good call!
Love this forum... I'm back with my SB3!!! :)
-Fauzi
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mkozlows,
That said, it hardly matters. I have a WMA Lossless library, and the
server transcode to FLAC is seamless.
What does this mean? I've just started messing around with flac, and I
found that it takes forever! Of course, since I'm completely new at
this, I could be doing it completely
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