[slim] scare my sister . on her birthday

2011-09-16 Thread weilai
scare my sister . on her birthday this is a good birthday gift? http://is.gd/j0lCuG you agree with me ? -- weilai weilai's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49805 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Big Party

2011-09-16 Thread Phil Leigh
JJZolx;657983 Wrote: No, there are definitely 10 streams going out over the network. Each player must be sent its own stream. There's only one conversion process, though. All streams send data from that one process. If the network bandwidth used to send one 16/44.1 PCM stream is 1.411 Mbps,

[slim] Human Resource

2011-09-16 Thread common759
Human Resource Management (HRM, HR) is the management of an organization's employees. While human resource management is sometimes refereed to as a soft management skill, effective practice within an organization requires a strategic focus to ensure that people resources can facilitate the

Re: [slim] Human Resource

2011-09-16 Thread common759
How to manage a vacation tracking software? Creating an employee leave system is the most appropriate way of tracking leave benefits given to employees. It helps to manage time sheets and leave without interfering with other human resource information. The leave system manages annual leaves,

Re: [slim] Scrolling problem with ipad

2011-09-16 Thread Robberson
Just built new home. Have squeezeboxes driving most of audio throughout house. Have iPad and iPhone control of TVS so would like to add control for squeezebox as well. Noted 3-4 different options when looking at Apple Store. Any thoughts/suggestions? Looking for something stable that can run and

Re: [slim] Big Party

2011-09-16 Thread Phil Leigh
pcourtney;657984 Wrote: 2 reasons, one because we can, a fast ethernet network should be able to handle this, no other users or computers, just my iPad, and 10 receivers, if SBS cannot handle it, then I reckon SBS has much bigger problems with the whole architecture of how it's been coded in

Re: [slim] Best site to download music from in UK

2011-09-16 Thread emmawatson
Frankly to say, you have many site to download music. For example, you can 'download music from grooveshark' (http://www.apowersoft.com/article/download-music-from-grooveshark.html), pandora, napster, last fm, rhapsody etc. These are good streaming websites, where you can find millions of popular

Re: [slim] Big Party

2011-09-16 Thread Blisteringblue
aubuti;657993 Wrote: Did you mean 1TB? Personally I'd be more risk averse and convert them to mp3 or stream as mp3. No one will notice the lossless/lossy difference in a setting like that, but they will notice if you push the network over its limit. But I have no doubt you'll choose the hard

Re: [slim] Big Party

2011-09-16 Thread Phil Leigh
Blisteringblue;658066 Wrote: I'm no audiophile in any shape or form but I am an IT man and have to agree with this one. Surely in a party environment the music is a secondary event anyway? People are there to celebrate a wedding, eat, drink and socialise? They are not going to notice

Re: [slim] Several Problems

2011-09-16 Thread Blisteringblue
pski;657567 Wrote: They are very subject to brain farts. If there was a prize for quote of the week, you'd have my vote, quality ;-) -- Blisteringblue 'What am I listening to?' (http://www.last.fm/user/blisteringblue) 1 x Boom, 1 x Receiver, 1 x iPhone iPeng

Re: [slim] Big Party

2011-09-16 Thread pcourtney
thanks everyone for all the good advice, have explained this to him, and we are converting about 7 hours worth of wav to mp3, when I did a test for him this morning, he was very happy with the sound quality, yes this was in his office at work, but all the same it sounded pretty good, I think it

Re: [slim] Big Party

2011-09-16 Thread aubuti
One more bit of advice: make sure those MP3s have replaygain tags. And, assuming that you'll be playing a mix of tracks from various albums, set the SBs to use either Track Gain or Smart Gain. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile:

Re: [slim] Updating music files over the network

2011-09-16 Thread gruntwolla
Thank you for all your replies. Squeezeplug now controlling all my squeezebox needs. I downloaded Allway Sync, which now automatically detects any new music files, and copies them over the network to the external hdd attached to the plug. Still got to manually rescan for new music on the server

Re: [slim] Can anyone tell me why these streams won't play?

2011-09-16 Thread Nick_G
Thanks bpa. As I use MySB to access streams and I don't want to do transcoding I may file a bug report. I think I'll contact the stations in question too. -- Nick_G Nick_G's Profile:

[slim] Macro to resize artwork images

2011-09-16 Thread staresy
Currently I download artwork from the web, import it into photo shop, resize it to 300x300 and save it at medium resolution with a file name of image.jpg Easy enough but a bit labourious. Has anyone got a macro or exe that I can run, point to the jpeg to be processed and it will do all the work

Re: [slim] Updating music files over the network

2011-09-16 Thread w3wilkes
Should be able to set SBS to do a daily scheduled scan. Go to WebUI Settings - Advanced tab - Rescan Music Library in drop down. Then you can turn on the scan timer, pick a time and select what type scan you want. -- w3wilkes 2 Duets - 1 for upstairs and 1 for downstairs

Re: [slim] Macro to resize artwork images

2011-09-16 Thread JerryS
imagemagick does this and more things than you will ever wish to know about. Takes a bit of getting your head around but very powerful. http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php Jerry -- JerryS JerryS's Profile:

Re: [slim] Control your SqueezeBox or Transporter with Foobar2000

2011-09-16 Thread annoyingmouse
Ok so I was a bit too quick to say it was working completely because now I've found a little glitch and I'm back again wondering if anyone can help. It's a minor irritation but an irritation nonetheless. The script is playing music without issue but for some reason there's no gapless playback

Re: [slim] Macro to resize artwork images

2011-09-16 Thread jean2
staresy;658105 Wrote: Easy enough but a bit labourious. Has anyone got a macro or exe that I can run, point to the jpeg to be processed and it will do all the work for me? A useful tool if it exists. Just a thought. DrS Personally, I alway save it in the folder at max resolution, and I

Re: [slim] Harry Potter on Squeezebox

2011-09-16 Thread ksqueeze
ovonrein;609712 Wrote: Yeah, I tried to follow that link but, franky, completely failed to grasp what I was meant to do with the ZIP file. In the end, I worked out that I could tick Show all 3rd Party plugins in SBS/Plugins and there it showed up. I could then simply install by ticking,

Re: [slim] Harry Potter on Squeezebox

2011-09-16 Thread ksqueeze
I'm making some progress. I have now managed to get the plugin listed as enabled but now I don't know how to actually use it. I found this post below on the forum. It says I'm supposed to pick bookmark on the menu when a track is playing. Where should bookmark show up on the Squeezebox for me to

Re: [slim] Harry Potter on Squeezebox

2011-09-16 Thread bonze
I'm guessing it's a right click from the Now Playing screen to the menu where Bookmark pluginb should be. -- bonze TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3 - something Version: 7.7.0 3 x wireless SB3, and 2x Touch bonze's Profile:

Re: [slim] Macro to resize artwork images

2011-09-16 Thread luny
I use Album Art Extracter for RockBox. Works great. http://vcardenasblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/album-art-extracter-for-rockbox.html -- luny SqueezeBox 3 Squeezebox Controller SqueezeBox Touch Synology DS107+, CIaudio VDA•2 DAC CIaudio VDC•SB powersupply, Cambridge Audio 840A Monitor Audio

Re: [slim] Macro to resize artwork images

2011-09-16 Thread JJZolx
staresy;658105 Wrote: Currently I download artwork from the web, import it into photo shop, resize it to 300x300 and save it at medium resolution with a file name of image.jpg Why image.jpg? Squeezebox Server recognizes cover.jpg and folder.jpg by default. I do something similar, but use

[slim] harmon kardon hk-695-01 hookup?

2011-09-16 Thread tptperry
Just bought a squeezebox touch and wondering if I can hook my relatively old HK-695 01 speakers to it. It looks like I'd have to buy some connector to the cable ends coming out of the speakers. anyone have any experience here? thx -- tptperry

Re: [slim] SB3 Easy Modifications

2011-09-16 Thread myvinyl333
After much debate I ordered the power upgrade for the SBT. it did take 3 weeks, but I got it and it made a definite improvement. Tighter bass is the most evident. I will post a picture soon. I am very pleased! -- myvinyl333 http://www.iamnotjerry.com Supporting live Music

Re: [slim] Updating music files over the network

2011-09-16 Thread vrette
+2 for Synctoy 2.1. I have set it up with the task scheduler to automatically copy the files over in the evening and such. I've also used (and paid for) Allway Sync, but prefer Synctoy for its simplicity (setting up rules in Allway Sync can be a pain). Best of all, Synctoy is free. Another

Re: [slim] VortexBox 7.6.1 FAST! (sort-of)

2011-09-16 Thread pski
OK: After removing all the inbred artwork at using mp3tag to change all the 2011 albums to 2011 (to fix New Music,) VB 7.6.1 of 22 Aug cleared and scanned 27282 and 1915 albums in 20:33. This is in VMWorkstation 6.5 on an AMD (Compaq CQ5110Y Athlon Dual-core 2.5GHz host running Vista Ultimate

Re: [slim] VortexBox 7.6.1 FAST! (sort-of)

2011-09-16 Thread Ron Olsen
pski;658164 Wrote: OK: Why all the grief? Why isn't there an option to IGNORE inbred artwork? Because it hasn't been implemented, and I don't recall anyone asking for this feature before your post. Maybe you should file an enhancement request in Bugzilla. Glad you have things working now.

Re: [slim] VortexBox 7.6.1 FAST! (sort-of)

2011-09-16 Thread JJZolx
pski;658164 Wrote: Why all the grief? Why isn't there an option to IGNORE inbred artwork? Well, that's two different questions. 1. To answer the first, it's because there is a major BUG in the handling of embedded artwork. Which, apparently, nobody is any closer to figuring out. 2. As to the

Re: [slim] VortexBox 7.6.1 FAST! (sort-of)

2011-09-16 Thread JJZolx
Ron Olsen;658167 Wrote: Because it hasn't been implemented, and I don't recall anyone asking for this feature before your post. If SBS 7.6.1 could handle embedded artwork properly, and not choke when it encountered a problem, the feature wouldn't be needed. Maybe you should file an

Re: [slim] VortexBox 7.6.1 FAST! (sort-of)

2011-09-16 Thread pski
JJZolx;658172 Wrote: See my comment above and in the bug report. Even if it worked properly for everyone, there's no _reason_ to scan embedded images when you have cover.jpg files. +1 Also, it's putting my SB3 off instead of to sleep and why can't it remember I want to see Large artwork?

Re: [slim] MonkeySqueeze

2011-09-16 Thread Gingernut63
Arghhh Found a mistake in the 110912Beta which would stop the NAS settings from working. Have replaced with 110912Beta with 110917Beta which will definitely work. Sorry for any inconvenience, version control needs to be reviewed. http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19t=59907