Re: [slim] Music playing at work options?

Thanks for the reply, could you be a bit more descriptive please? what do you mean by an external enclosure? I know you can get hard drive enclosures with audio out, but they require a tv or something to view the files to decide what to play and thats not really practical. -- Gibbo

Re: [slim] SB3 showing the wrong time

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29155 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39729 -- bhaagensen bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread:

[slim] Wireless bridge w DOS client half works

I'm sorry if the following paragraphs seem to jump around a little. I've copied them from my Logitech support e-mails (over a period of weeks), with no solution from the support team. They suggested I try the forum. Sorry about the length of this post too, but describing everything I've tried

[slim] SB3 showing the wrong time

I have a SB3 connected to a Qnap TS209, everything works well, both are good pieces of kit. However since BST ended and we're back on GMT my SB3 is still showing the wrong (old) time. I don't know where the SB3 gets it's time from and how I configure it. So far I have logged on to the GUI for

[slim] Sound card w Toslink for playing DTS FLAC files

I'm a newbie to this forum, so forgive me if this topic has already been covered at length (please just direct me to the thread in that case). I recently acquired a couple of Squeezebox 3's, and have set up one with my Hi-Fi system, streaming the audio from my 'server' PC via a wireless router.

Re: [slim] SB3 reviewed in England's Daily Telegraph

haunyack;238594 Wrote: Would these users be satisfied with 160kpbs? I understand the economy of it, but with that bitrate, there is no reason as of yet NOT to purchase CD's or vinyl. For a lot of users, yes, 160kbps is probably fine. There are a lot of people out there who will be quite

Re: [slim] Sound card w Toslink for playing DTS FLAC files

Windows the card's drivers do a lot of processing to the sound before it gets out - mixing, eq etc and as you suspect this is killing the DTS bitstream. Try using ASIO drivers if you're not already, and look around the home theater forums (like avs) for tips on getting bitperfect output from

Re: [slim] Anyone using Windows Home Server?

FWIW, after installing SlimServer on my WHS box, I pointed it at d:\shares\Music (the path from the server's point of view, not the clients') to find my music. Installation was just like installing on any other Windows box. I remoted in to the WHS desktop, installed it, and it just worked. --

Re: [slim] How are you running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on Windows?

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[slim] SqueezeCenter 7.0 and Mac OS X 10.5

Hello Everyone, I finally got my SlimServer running on Leopard Mac OS 10.5. I'm using version 7.0 and so far no problems. I had unplugged my Squeezebox and let sit for awhile. I then plugged it back in and the SlimServer began to communicate. I'm now a happy camper. I also created a widget to

Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter 7.0 and Mac OS X 10.5

I finally got my SlimServer running on Leopard Mac OS 10.5. I'm trying to fix the start at boot issue right now. Would like to know what else you encountered. to communicate. I'm now a happy camper. I also created a widget to access my SlimServer and control my music. Yeah, Safari's new

[slim] Wireless Strength vs Network Test

The other day when listening to the SB3 (wireless) any FLAC song played started to fade in/out. This has on occassion happened before. I was able to minimize it by moving the router and SB3 a little bit. When this has happened before - I noticed that the wireless strength was low (50% - 68%)

Re: [slim] Mac Leopard Support

Slimserver is working ok for me on Leopard with Squeezebox, but the Softsqueeze gui doesn't even appear when I attempt to start Softsqueeze 3.4 20-50-30 -- Cintra Cintra's Profile:

Re: [slim] Playsist Gets Stuck During Synchronized Playback

upstatemike;238597 Wrote: The common theme seems to be mixing SB2/3s with SliMP3s or Softsqueeze. So is it definite that we can't synchronize an SB3 with Softsqueeze without encountering problems? This is how I synchronize and often (most of the time) have issues. -- Club1820

Re: [slim] Wireless Strength vs Network Test

Fade out? Wireless strength has nothing to do with volume of the audio. There are -many- ways to measure network performance: signal strength is only one of them. Signal quality, for example, is another metric, measuring how much noise is appearing on the network, which will require

Re: [slim] Harmony remotes

I am using the Harmony 1000. Love the large LCD color touch display. It has huge WAF! If something does not work properly (which isn't often) the better half can press help and the remote finds the problem for her and corrects it. No other universal remote I tried did this. Speaking of remotes,

Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data

CPAN has lots of modules for querying FreeDB. The problem you'll find is that they tend to need the DiscID or the cdrom available as /dev/cdrom etc... Searching through CPAN modules with freedb id3 finds WebService::FreeDB which looks like it will do the trick. However accuracy may be a

Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data

Musicbrainz often has that information, the catch is you may not agreee with their definition of release date. (ie, re-issues and remasters are supposed to get a new release date...) Allmusic.com may also have it, but they want a license signed before using their data. -- snarlydwarf

[slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

I have all my music CD's ripped to NAS storage as FLAC and this all works beautifully with Squeezecenter and my SB3. However, some times I would like to listen to the same music on a portable device. Currently I have an original 2GB Nano but I am thinking of getting a new device. 1. Should I

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

Quoting Paul_B ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have all my music CD's ripped to NAS storage as FLAC and this all works beautifully with Squeezecenter and my SB3. However, some times I would like to listen to the same music on a portable device. Currently I have an original 2GB Nano but I am

Re: [slim] Wireless Strength vs Network Test

Club1820;238688 Wrote: The other day when listening to the SB3 (wireless) any FLAC song played started to fade in/out. This has on occassion happened before. I was able to minimize it by moving the router and SB3 a little bit. When this has happened before - I noticed that the wireless

[slim] help with script to scrape album year data

Over the weekend I spent a little time trying to figure out a way to populate the year field in ID3 tags where it's missing. I wrote a Perl script (on Linux, but I think it's portable to other OS's) to zip through my collection, find files with missing year tags, and output the results

Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver

So when I got in tonight I found a network cable for the mini, wired it into the LAN and turned off the Airport. The SB2 immediately found the server and started talking. I didn't need to play with the firewall, enable sharing or anything else, it just worked when I went wired. It's interesting

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

3. Which Music Manager is best for ease of use, MediaMonkey, Sveta from dbPowerAmp. etc? IMHO (of course) OrangeCD. It understands how to scan FLAC and mp3 and can, with it's plug-in, also send music to be played on your SB3. I don't really want to rip to FLAC and MP3 and maintain two copies.

Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver

Yes that's right, the Mini and the SB2 were both connecting to the access point, and the SB2 was also operating as a wireless bridge (to an Xbox) for good measure! Then the mini would have been streaming the data wirelessly to the SB2. Sounds odd but it does work - I did it with a Vista laptop

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

J River Media Center is a pretty decent library manager, and has a FLAC plugin. As for portables, I use one of the many flac2mp3 scripts floating around to keep the mp3 tree in sync. -- radish radish's Profile:

Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver

So you were trying to have the MINI connect to your network wirelessly and ALSO have the SB2 connect wirelessly? The MINI was connecting to your access point, yes? I wouldn't even attempt that due to the amount of traffic put on the network! I really think you'll prefer the way it works by

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

If you're a windows user have a look at Anapod from www.redchairsoftware.com. It's not a music manager, more of an alterntive way of copying music to the iPod. I have FLACs organised in a folder structure (genre/artist/album) so I don't really need the library stuff. Anapod lets you drag/drop

[slim] Slimserver on Thecus 5200BR

Is there a wiki, docs or any other info on installing and configuring Slimserver on a fresh Thecus 5200BR? -- *Johnny Stork* Business Technology Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data

fantastico, radish! That looks like it might just work. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas the Nokia770 skin guy http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this

Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data

Discogs.com? They have a fairly google like search engine and the DB is pretty damn extensive. In fact, the biggest problem you're likely to run into is narrowing results down - even a pretty specific query like this:

Re: [slim] At the risk of chawing off Slim Devices...

JimC;235431 Wrote: Chumby may not have the required Java or CODEC support -- not really sure on that one. The Chumby can definitely play the /stream.mp3 URL and runs Flash apps, so in theory the SlimFX skin might work when combined with running btplay (the app on the Chumby that plays MP3

Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data

Discogs has an API. Doesn't look too bad. http://www.discogs.com/help/api -- bklaas the Nokia770 skin guy http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

1. Should I get a new iPod? If so which one, Touch, Classic? For all of my needs I'm staying with solid-state players, despite their obvious storage limitations. I like the durability, the size weight, and have no need to carry around 500 hours of audio. The new Touch, however, is overpriced

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

also, there are portables that support flac out of the box: http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#hardware (scroll down to portables) the iaudio and trekstor are pretty popular. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

JJZolx;238771 Wrote: Find (or write) a script that transcodes from Flac to Mp3 and keeps the library updated. I schedule mine to run nightly and any updates to my Flac library are automatically reflected in the Mp3 library. I've written many (http://etree-scripts.sf.net/), but that doesn't

Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data

bklaas;238755 Wrote: Digging my old CDs out for this would take WAY more time then just manually searching google for album release year. CDDB is not a good solution here, esp. because I don't have DiscIDs saved into the tags either. I started ripping music well before I understood why

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

cepstein;238768 Wrote: Transcoding is convenient? I find it to be a major pain. Find (or write) a script that transcodes from Flac to Mp3 and keeps the library updated. I schedule mine to run nightly and any updates to my Flac library are automatically reflected in the Mp3 library. --

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

JJZolx;238743 Wrote: Rip and encode in FLAC, but maintain a mirror MP3 library. This is by far the most convenient approach, at the cost of not a lot of hard disk space. Transcoding is convenient? I find it to be a major pain. I loved my Rio Karma

Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data

Benway;238717 Wrote: CPAN has lots of modules for querying FreeDB. The problem you'll find is that they tend to need the DiscID or the cdrom available as /dev/cdrom etc... Searching through CPAN modules with freedb id3 finds WebService::FreeDB which looks like it will do the trick.

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

cepstein;238778 Wrote: I've written many (http://etree-scripts.sf.net/), but that doesn't make the job any faster, use any less disk space, or make tag changes propagate automagically. I think the inital run on my system with 1600 album took about three days. Once done it won't likely need

Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver

A bonus, as I just found out, is that the SB wakes the mini up from sleep when it needs to play something. How cool is that? I love this thing :-) -- sugarmonster Toys: http://www.coolest-gadgets.com Photos: http://www.sugarmonster.net

Re: [slim] Slimserver on Thecus 5200BR

http://forums.hexus.net/thecus-care-hexus/ http://thecususergroup.proboards106.com/index.cgi http://onbeat.dk/thecus/index.php/Main_Page /DVB -- DVB DVB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13707

Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver

sugarmonster;238741 Wrote: Yes that's right, the Mini and the SB2 were both connecting to the access point, and the SB2 was also operating as a wireless bridge (to an Xbox) for good measure! Then the mini would have been streaming the data wirelessly to the SB2. Sounds odd but it does

Re: [slim] Mac Leopard Support

I've noticed that starting on system boot doesn't work for me with Leopard and 6.5.4. Starts manually fine, going to try on user login to see if that works. -- flatpackedworld flatpackedworld's Profile:

Re: [slim] help with script to scrape album year data

Thinking about it, Amazon Web Services might work well too - I know a lot of apps use it for getting cover art, you can give it some pretty vague queries and it will do it's best to match. The advantage that would have would be that parsing neat XML is typically easier than scraping HTML, in my

Re: [slim] Music playing at work options?

Do I really have no options? -- Gibbo Gibbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39738

Re: [slim] Music playing at work options?

Gibbo wrote: Do I really have no options? The Wiki has a fair amount of discussions of how to use SSH to tunnel from an office to your home SlimServer. Once that works, you can use any SquezeBox, Transporter or even Softsqueeze. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/

Re: [slim] Music playing at work options?

Just for starter you could buy two 40 gig iPods or one 80 gig. All kidding aside, what kind of WAN/LAN is available? Are you running an SB at home yet? -- iPhone iPhone's Profile:

Re: [slim] Mac Leopard Support

My squeezebox, with Leopard, is not able to find the Slimserver even If I try to start manually in the preference system. I did everything, no response... -- mario21 mario21's Profile:

Re: [slim] Music playing at work options?

Gibbo;238791 Wrote: Do I really have no options? It's a little unclear what you're trying to accomplish. Using an iPod/portable player is infinitely simpler than using a Squeezebox. Just not as flexible. Here are a couple of Squeezebox options: 1. Run SlimServer on a PC in the office.

Re: [slim] Mac Leopard Support

I tried with version 7 alpha. No response... -- mario21 mario21's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11423 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39401

Re: [slim] SB3 showing the wrong time

So to sum up what all the posts on this forum hint at, there appears to be a problem in the way that slimserver (running on a Qnap TS209) stores the timezone. There are workarounds available, however the good that these do is rubbed out when upgrading. From what I've read so far, this appears

Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver

Try it and let us know. Looking around these forums it seems that there's any number of working (or not) configurations so just because it didn't work for me doesn't mean you'll have the same issues. -- sugarmonster Toys: http://www.coolest-gadgets.com Photos: http://www.sugarmonster.net

Re: [slim] SB3 showing the wrong time

So the problem lies with the Qnap OS, does anyone know if they are addressing this issue? Thanks for the quick reply Andy -- Gumboe Gumboe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13535 View this

Re: [slim] SB3 showing the wrong time

Time and timezone comes from the OS, not SlimServer. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39751

Re: [slim] SB3 showing the wrong time

Gumboe;238810 Wrote: 1) Is the problem with slimserver or with the Qnap firmware? From reading the threads linked above, it looks like a problem withe the start script used by Qnap to launch slimserver. 2) Why is this still a problem for so many people? Because no-ones fixed it yet :)

Re: [slim] Squeezebox stopping

I find I'm getting the same problem at times but I need to check it's nothing up with the ripped tracks. I fairly certain now it isn't. Only noticed it on one SB3 at the moment. It's wirless running from a QNAP TS109 Pro on a Netgear DG834PN. Signal strength never lowe than 60%. Symptoms are

Re: [slim] Looking for SqueezeBox display

Thanks for the information. I had tried contacting support a few times, but it was during the whole Logitech switch, so it must have been lost. I received several messages from people with the old text screens and I was able to get one and get it up and working again. I forgot how much I

Re: [slim] Internet Radio failure to parse error

I had pretty much given up on getting internet radio streams to work with slimserver - but here it is, a year later, and after the last update - to version 6.5.5, it is magically working again. -- rfreedman rfreedman's

Re: [slim] Squeezebox and Local Radio?

Hello HAL, Before I start do you know how the script writes came up with the acronym for HAL9000? I am betting you already know since that is the handle you use, IBM minus one letter each. Have you tried Radio Time inside of Squeezebox Network? It is free all one has to do is sign up. Put in

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

I just got an iPod video 80GB (previous 5th generation) for my portable solution. I am using the Rebel Forces firmware Rockbox. It does flac, and frees your iPod from the Apple's Evil Empire (alas, this is what they've become.) http://www.rockbox.org/ Issues: No Rockbox yet on the latest

Re: [slim] Mac Leopard Support

mario21 -- I wonder if it is the Leopard fireall. How do you have your Leopard firewall set up? See part 3 of my post in another Leopard thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39749page=2 muski -- muski

Re: [slim] Squeeze is in baby

Seems that the band Squeeze would be the logical choice. Logitech is big enough to be a sponsor of the reunion tour. Squeeze the Logical Choice Sponsored by Logitech and their Squeezebox products I am no ad man but somebody that is should be able to do something with all the paradigms and

Re: [slim] Can't connect to OSX Leopard slimserver

I run Slimserver on a MacBook Pro and have wireless connectivity for my SB3s Transporters -- ie. everything is wireless (running through an AirPort Extreme now, previously an Airport Express). I upgraded to Leopard this weekend and got both Slimserver Inguz working fine. A couple of random