Re: [slim] Best way to make systems more available to the average Joe?

Pale Blue Ego;269956 Wrote: Yes, and that same article strongly suggests having it professionally installed and configured! - even though the Klimax is pretty basic compared to the SB3 or Duet. Well you would have to be so retarded to pay $20k for that, you would need help installing it.

Re: [slim] The Play button

NWP wrote: Why does the play button clear my playlist? If I wanted to clear my playlist I'd clear it myself. Why doesn't it just add the song after the current song in the playlist and play it? Wouldn't that make more sense? So what do I do if I want to play a song right now? Regards,

Re: [slim] The Play button

Hold down Add to add the songs as the next in the playlist. Then press forward. -- GoodVibrations GoodVibrations's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15333 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Best way to make systems more available to the average Joe?

Pale Blue Ego;269956 Wrote: Yes, and that same article strongly suggests having it professionally installed and configured! - even though the Klimax is pretty basic compared to the SB3 or Duet. All high-end Linn gear is supposed to be dealer-installed (unless your dealer decides you are

[slim] Failing Irish radio stations

The UTV set of radio stations refuse to play on the Squeezebox. They just rebuffer from 0 to 100%. Such stations include: Q102 mms://stream.u.tv/q102 Live95FM mms://stream.u.tv/95fm I've tried with both SqueezeNetwork and SqueezeCenter to prove that it isn't a geographical issue. Could it be a

Re: [slim] Best way to make systems more available to the average Joe?

As a recent newbie and a non- geek Joe, I have been following this discussion with great interest. The first place I got stuck was ripping 100 cd's to mp3 using itunes, then discovering the sound quality was poor. After looking at the forums I discovered EAC and also downloaded Foobar (which I

[slim] Power on--Wake on lan--Power on again - Why?

Why is it that once my server is sleeping and I press power on the SB wakes up the server and then, instead of going back to the on state it displays the off screensaver (for me DateTime)? -- gorman gorman's Profile:

Re: [slim] Best way to make systems more available to the average Joe?

mikeswingler;270030 Wrote: The UK equivalents Napster and Lastfm are not integrated and don't seem to be able to be accessed as easily as the US ones. Hi Mike. Napster is coming, although not sure when. Last.FM has been working well with the SB3 for some time now using this plugin -

Re: [slim] Best way to make systems more available to the average Joe?

maggior;269945 Wrote: Not to dimish the effort with this, but the real killer app would be to have a plugin like this for Windows since (for good or bad) most homes have a PC running some form of Windows and aren't prepared (at least initially) to dedicate a server to serving up music. I

Re: [slim] Best way to make systems more available to the average Joe?

I'm having a go a Windows version of CDImport. I put a CD player plugin together using cdda2wav.exe so I'm using it again. I've got the Info (and so got art work etc) and ripping to wav parts working but I'm having trouble with flac and the tags. Starting other command from Perl under Windows

Re: [slim] Failing Irish radio stations

I think there is a limitation that SB3 native needs mms URLs to use http transport. Usually a station forget to check the box to enable this facility (which also allows radio to tunnel using http through firewalls). If you have a Windows PC then try disabling Native/Built-in WMA decoding in

[slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

I've just switched to a new Vista PC and installed SC7. I'm having a problem with wake-on-lan. I can get the SB3 to bring PC out of sleep mode, but it doesn't stay awake. Keeps going back to sleep after the sleep period set in Vista. Previous PC (Vista) with 6.54 worked fine. I have wake on

Re: [slim] Best way to make systems more available to the average Joe?

mikeswingler;270030 Wrote: As a recent newbie and a non- geek Joe,...but I find I've got a new hobby, not a simple addition to my hifi system. (and I still haven't discovered how to make a playlist yet - is that what foobar does ??) Mike Swingler UK non-geek Joe Mike - the easiest way to

Re: [slim] Pls Clarify Duet IR capabilities

Mark Lanctot;269822 Wrote: I'm picturing that the IRBlaster plugin could kind of be extended to cover this. The codes and actions are already defined in your .conf file. IRBlaster includes a GUI to program actions in order and a time delay between actions. Without being a programmer

Re: [slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

parrydave44;270051 Wrote: Any suggestions how to get SC7 to override the Vista sleep schedule? Thanks Is the Plugin Windows: Prevent System Standby While Playing enabled ? -- PSSO Ole PSSO's Profile:

Re: [slim] Harmony remote and Squeezebox

rlsx;228562 Wrote: I did some snooping on the reaction of the server to the unrecognized IR commands. The following lines should be added to the file Slim_Devices_Remote.ir and then the server restarted. The direct commands become effective. menu_browse_album =

Re: [slim] Power on--Wake on lan--Power on again - Why?

Hi gorman I haven't tried myself, but I guess the state the player is in after you wake up your PC running SC7 depends on whether the player was on or off when the PC went to sleep as the player power state is maintained on the server side. Cheers Felix -- fcm4711 Everyone said: This cannot

Re: [slim] Internet Radio suddenly getting garbled

I routinely listen to Live365 stations, although not Soundscape. I have not encountered this issue. Does it occur with all the stations you listen to via Live365? Does it replicate if you connect via SqueezeNetwork? If it was me, I would update to the latest SC7 build, log out and log in to

Re: [slim] SB3 stops randomly

Could I ask a silly question...why are you using ogg-vorbis? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer

Re: [slim] SB3 stops randomly

hey phil, of course you can! :-) why do i use vorbis? 1. because i can. the main reason i bought the squeezeboxes is because the feature list says they play vorbis natively. 2. i am too lazy to encode my songs twice - lossless for at home and lossy for on the road. maintaining every track twice

Re: [slim] SB3 stops randomly

DanH: sounds like a very plausible explanation to me. i am pretty sure i didnt have this problem in the beginning, either. Phil: hmmm... i am not sure if that will yield results that are different from simply using regular mp3 files i already have. besides, i wouldnt even know which vorbis files

Re: [slim] Pls Clarify Duet IR capabilities

toby10;270055 Wrote: But I'm gathering that at some point, when the proper plug-in is written, I could (possibly) accomplish my goal of simple AVR control via IR from within the SBC. Correct? Yes, and it will happen at some, one way or another. Just soon i hope. It needs the IR and DAC

Re: [slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

Yep. Prevent Sleep plugin is enabled. I disabled and re-enabled which seems to have changed things. When I use windows then stop, PC seems to sleep after x mins as set. If I wake it by pressing power on SB3 remote it wakes ok. Goes back to sleep after a few mins. Fine. If I play some music

Re: [slim] Pls Clarify Duet IR capabilities

autopilot;270079 Wrote: Yes, and it will happen at some, one way or another. Just soon i hope. It needs the IR and DAC (headphone) working to fully justify the price tag IMO, although it very very good already. Yup, completely agree. Nice as it is, but I just need some basic AVR controls

Re: [slim] SB3 stops randomly

dcote;270081 Wrote: hey phil, of course you can! :-) why do i use vorbis? 1. because i can. the main reason i bought the squeezeboxes is because the feature list says they play vorbis natively. 2. i am too lazy to encode my songs twice - lossless for at home and lossy for on the road.

Re: [slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

Does SC7 run as service (as 6.5.4 did) or under your account -- PSSO Ole PSSO's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11678 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43546

Re: [slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

I think i cracked it. When it doesn't go to sleep, there is lots of heavy disk activity (for 10's of minutes). I've found a power setting that alters searching and indexing and now it switches off within a few mins. Maybe because I just moved 200GB of music files onto this drive. i guess

Re: [slim] SC7 with Vista- won't stay awake

Great! - For performance reasons, you should consider disabling indexing - Properties on a drive and disable Index this drive for faster searching -- PSSO Ole PSSO's Profile:

[slim] Now Playing not workling properly?

Hi all, I have a PC running Ubuntu 7.10, with SlimServer 6.5.4. I recently re-installed everything on this machine, after buying a new hard disk. I put back everything as it was before. When I play a track through my Squeezebox, I used to be able to go right at the Now Playing menu, which

Re: [slim] Pls Clarify Duet IR capabilities

toby10;270055 Wrote: Hey there Mark. Haven't chatted with you in a long while cuz your initial advice on my SB3 setup was so good I have not needed to bother you further!:) Heh heh, great! Most of what you typed above is completely lost on me (being the epitome of the technologically

Re: [slim] Add genre after extraction?

Wow, this is great. Thanks for all the responses. I used mp3tag, and it worked great. Will check out the others, too, as I re-structure and organize my library, eventually... Lori -- lorirobn lorirobn's Profile:

[slim] SB3 and Audioengine 2 - current draw

I have just made a few current measurements on my kitchen SB3 connected to a pair of AudioEngine 2 loudspeakers. All currents are measured on a 20A scale and at 240V (nominal). There is a +/- 0.02A error. Squeezebox 3 in standby with display off (or zero brightness) 0.02A Squeezebox 3 in

Re: [slim] DAC quality...SBR vs. USB-DAC vs. Apple TV

Unfortunately I don't have an SB3 or an SBR to compare with the ApplTV, I have a transporter. However, I also have an ApplTV, and my opinion of the analogue output is that it is extremely poor, with no dynamics or life in it at all. Consequently I use it via its optical out straight into my AV

Re: [slim] SB3 and Audioengine 2 - current draw

Thanks for the info. Sounds like the A2 uses about 10W in standby mode. Not great, but not too bad. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread:

Re: [slim] The Play button

Peter;270019 Wrote: NWP wrote: Why does the play button clear my playlist? If I wanted to clear my playlist I'd clear it myself. Why doesn't it just add the song after the current song in the playlist and play it? Wouldn't that make more sense? So what do I do if I want to

Re: [slim] The Play button

JimC;270154 Wrote: Read the manual? Shouldn't that be RTFM? - but then I guess you would have to lock the thread :-) -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk Patrick Dixon's Profile:

Re: [slim] The Play button

Patrick Dixon;270158 Wrote: Shouldn't that be RTFM? - but then I guess you would have to lock the thread :-) Unless, of course, the F is for free. -- jeffmeh jeffmeh's Profile:

Re: [slim] Now Playing not workling properly?

I see this when an item appears in the database, but its attributes have changed on the disc. Try a clear rescan. -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon. SB2, Transporter, beta SBR, beta SBC, pre-production SBC

[slim] Transporter fonts

Has anyone successfully modified the font files that are used by Transporter? I'd like to have a narrower font used for the second line of the Title/Artist/Album so I can fit more on that line. The three line display is too small. The next size up is the one that I'd like to change. It might

Re: [slim] The Play button

Michael Herger;269997 Wrote: Because that's what the Add button is for. No, the add button adds a song to the end of a playlist. I am saying that the obvious intuitive function for the play button would be to add the song immediately after the current position and begin to play it.

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

hoi ik heb gisteren in arnhem een squeezebox 3 gekocht en een synology 107 d met 128 geheugen en harde schijf 500 gb. De transporter vonden zij ook een overkill ook omdat ik een music fidelity dac heb die ik er mooi op kan aansluiten. wachten op de duet nee dus heeft mindere dac. Ik vond

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

Robin Bowes;269131 Wrote: Peter wrote: rene50 wrote: hallo mooi nederlands,ja ik heb veel mp3's op de pc staan of op de apple imac. ik heb een goede geluidskaart,maar ik vraag mij af of dat nodig is ,maar dat is misschien een domme opmerking. IK HEB EEN FOCAL ICUB SET DIE ZEER

Re: [slim] The Play button

NWP wrote: Michael Herger;269997 Wrote: Because that's what the Add button is for. No, the add button adds a song to the end of a playlist. I am saying that the obvious intuitive function for the play button would be to add the song immediately after the current position and

Re: [slim] The Play button

OK, so its add-and-hold to add after the next item, but the functionality is still there, Read some recent threads about party mode in which a similar request is discussed. There is a very simple change you can make to the key-mapping file if you feel so inclined. -- ceejay

Re: [slim] The Play button

NWP wrote: you could you possible release some sort of option patch that would the rest of us non-purists to have some reasonable functionality? Here we go again: non-purists, reasonable functionality and all just because people disagree with you... You can change the IR Default.map so

Re: [slim] The Play button

NWP;270179 Wrote: I am saying that the obvious intuitive function for the play button would be to add the song immediately after the current position in the playlist and begin to play it. Your obvious intuition must work differently than most. There's the 'party mode' idea, currently being

Re: [slim] The Play button

On 16-Feb-08, at 1:19 PM, NWP wrote: Working As Designed is really only a good response when ..it does. It's a simple fact. Design is a design and stating this is simply a fact, nothing more. The good new is, if you feel you need it to work differently, you are completely able to make it

Re: [slim] The Play button

Patrick Dixon;270158 Wrote: Shouldn't that be RTFM? - but then I guess you would have to lock the thread :-) Why on earth would saying Read The -Fine- Manual be a problem? -= Jim -- JimC well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that. -- BKlaas' college buddy

Re: [slim] The Play button

JJZolx;270186 Wrote: There's the 'party mode' idea, currently being debated in another thread and for the last several years. Essentially a concept that would lock the interface into working like that of a jukebox. It would keep anyone selecting songs from clearing the playlist. New

Re: [slim] The Play button

I am saying that the obvious intuitive function for the play button would be to add the song immediately after the current position in the playlist and begin to play it. Obvious because...? Intuitive because...? The iPod, which is probably the best known digital music access interface in

Re: [slim] Transporter fonts

The MusicInfoScreen plugin is well worth trying. Can't change the fonts but you can layout both screens with more info. -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this

Re: [slim] The Play button

On 16-Feb-08, at 2:17 PM, NWP wrote: kdf;270188 Wrote: The good new is, if you feel you need it to work differently, you are completely able to make it happen. Create a copy of Default.map, calling it custom.map. Thank you for this. Will this work for the Slimserver web interface, or

Re: [slim] Failing Irish radio stations

What I usually do to test this is to load the http:// version of the address into my web browser. In this case it's http://stream.u.tv/103fm. If my browser returns a 404, then I know it's an http problem. In the case of the UTVs, they open up a copy of WMP, so I don't think it's that. --

Re: [slim] Power on--Wake on lan--Power on again - Why?

Says Waking SlimServer for ~30s, then returns to off state. It takes my server 35s to start SlimServer, so have to press Power again to begin navigation. You're seen this enhancement request, but maybe others have not: '4782' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4782). This would resolve

Re: [slim] Media Server?

bigfool1956;269633 Wrote: Hi, On the QNAP you need to use port 9001 and not 9000. This is a small change required for the QNAP, because as you have seen the pre-installed media server already uses 9000. Thanks David. I used 9001 to start with, but cannot open the slimserver page

Re: [slim] Now Playing not workling properly?

I just tried doing a full rescan - no difference. I did wonder if it was a MusicIP problem - I've just realised its not running, but I since did another rescan, to no avail. Another symptom - when you select browse - album - album name - track name - you got nothing - comlete blank, after going

Re: [slim] Failing Irish radio stations

Another interesting observation: The UTV stations actually play on the non-beta version of SqueezeNetwork. Try Live95FM or Q102 to test for yourself! -- vinnielo *Come and try:* RadioFeeds UK Ireland for your Squeezebox! *http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/squeeze*

Re: [slim] Power on--Wake on lan--Power on again - Why?

Drives me nuts too. Drives me nuts too that the discrete IR codes for turning on when server is off line vs server online is different too. -- mswlogo Thinkpad XP SS Cat5 SB3 SPDIF-COAX Meridian 861V4 (Trifield, Room corrected, Upsampled) DSP5500 Mains, DSP5500HC Center, DSP33 Rears

[slim] Cannot Scan Multiple Disks with Mac Version of Squeezecenter 7

I just got a new Mac with the 10.5 OS and have been attempting to scan my music library on the Mac version of Squeezecenter 7 (the 2/16/2008 nightly). My music library is split onto 3 different hard drives. The Squeezecenter scan reads the files in the music folder on my primary drive with no

Re: [slim] iPod, FLAC and Music Managers

MuckleEck;266426 Wrote: I am another advocate for MediaMonkeydoes transcoding on the fly to my Ipodseems to kep everything neat and tidy as well just imho Echo one for MediaMonkey. I keep flac on my computer, and MM lets me set up rules to automatically transcode anything not

Re: [slim] Sleeping Mac (10.5.x) stops Slimserver

fyi... i removed and reinstalled and everything is fine now. -- smurfk1 smurfk1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3123 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43529

Re: [slim] How Long Before The Duet is On Sale?

As a by-the-by, Amazon's got it at 5% off with free shipping now, so maybe not a bad place to preorder from. -- mkozlows mkozlows's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Cannot Scan Multiple Disks with Mac Version of Squeezecenter 7

aeo12;270247 Wrote: I just got a new Mac with the 10.5 OS and have been attempting to scan my music library on the Mac version of Squeezecenter 7 (the 2/16/2008 nightly). My music library is split onto 3 different hard drives. The Squeezecenter scan reads the files in the music folder on

Re: [slim] iTunes alternatives

Sorry for the late follow-up. I did eventually resolve my iTunes library rebuilds. I don't understand what was going on. It seems to have been issue with confused resource forks on the file server (an Infrant/Netgear ReadyNAS) on which I store my iTunes library. Some combination of carefully

Re: [slim] The Play button

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:17:27 -0800, NWP [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The method would still be the play button. The play button would play your choice immediately without the often unintended oh while I'm at it, I'm going to clear your entire playlist for you too effect. You want it to interrupt

[slim] printout of the library

I would like to have a printout of my music library. Selecting the music of the next moment requires some inspiration, and this is supported by a simple print out stating all my tracks. One set of papers showing all the artists another giving all albums. Who knows a programme for such a printout

[slim] Missing accented files: iTunes and composed vs decomposed unicode

Files with accents in their names aren't showing up in my SlimServer library. This is an iTunes interaction problem. For example, I see this in the log file: 2008-02-16 22:23:51.7372 iTunes: file not found: /Volumes/media/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Wir Sind Helden/Soundso/04 Fu#776;r Nichts

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:26:00 -0800, rene50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Robin Bowes;269131 Wrote: Peter wrote: rene50 wrote: hallo mooi nederlands,ja ik heb veel mp3's op de pc staan of op de apple imac. ik heb een goede geluidskaart,maar ik vraag mij af of dat nodig is ,maar

Re: [slim] Transporter fonts

The MusicInfoScreen plugin is well worth trying. Can't change the fonts You can. In the latest build you can select different fonts for any element on the screen (though not for items within an element). -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] printout of the library

rohmilch;270265 Wrote: I would like to have a printout of my music library Look for the Album Catalogue Creator thread... it can't be much below this one. It sounds like just the ticket. MC -- ModelCitizen Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. It's the music, stupid.

Re: [slim] Missing accented files: iTunes and composed vs decomposed unicode

hmm.. I should have been more specific. If I browse to the file in Firefox on the Ubuntu machine, the URL contains %C3%BC. But if I do on the Mac, the URL contains u%CC%88. This implies the NAS is exposing one file name to the Mac and another one to the Ubuntu machine. Seems like the fix needs to

Re: [slim] Cannot Scan Multiple Disks with Mac Version of Squeezecenter 7

SlimServer/SqueezeCenter can't use OS X aliases... If you are adventurous you could give the patch in the following bug a try: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5584 It should add support for OSX aliases. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing