Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2013-02-04 Thread swayzak
Apesbrain wrote: If you decide to do so, Mp3tag will in fact automate the embedding of artwork so long as your artwork has consistent naming. Just load in a folder(s) and select: Actions Actions (Quick) Import cover from file - Mp3tag will then ask you for the artwork name format

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-04 Thread Julf
JohnSwenson wrote: If it is decided to be a good thing, I will want to do a separate test board (with just the DAC and what it takes to do the DSD) to make sure it can be done without sacrificing the normal output. The problem is that unless we add a separate set of output jacks the output

[slim] How to determine the language of a song or album name ?

2013-02-04 Thread epoch1970
I'm experimenting with a voice interface for squeezelite. It speaks the current title, album, artist, remaining time and next song info. I use a TTS system, the chain is as follows: text | espeak | mbrola | aplay I'm using my favorite german-born english speaker voice (mbrola-de4) which is quite

Re: [slim] How to determine the language of a song or album name ?

2013-02-04 Thread Michael Herger
I could switch speakers or spoken languages if I could determine the language that should be used when speaking title, album, artist name. I don't think there is such a thing as a COUNTRY or LANGUAGE ID3 tag (not in my files anyway), so I am asking here if you'd know of a service I could query

Re: [slim] How to determine the language of a song or album name ?

2013-02-04 Thread Michael Herger
Though those results aren't 100% accurate and useful of course. Eg. Stephan Eicher, a Switzerland born singer: http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/artist/profile?api_key=FILDTEOIK2HBORODVname=stephan%20eicherformat=jsonbucket=artist_location He's living in France nowadays (doesn't really

Re: [slim] How to determine the language of a song or album name ?

2013-02-04 Thread reinholdk
I guess that's really a challenging task, depending on how accurate the result should be. Just googled and found a few interesting links (you might be aware of already). But statistical approaches mentioned in some of the linked sites are probably useless, given the fact that a song or album

[slim] Will SqueezePlay ever make it out of Beta?

2013-02-04 Thread ReValveiT
I mean, it functions great for me; it's just that I can't stand the SqueezePlay Beta in the top bar of the app! :) ReValveiT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=55767 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Will SqueezePlay ever make it out of Beta?

2013-02-04 Thread garym
ReValveiT wrote: I mean, it functions great for me; it's just that I can't stand the SqueezePlay Beta in the top bar of the app! :) not likely. it was never intended to be anything other than a way for developers to do testing with SqueezeOS. And now that the squeezebox line has been

Re: [slim] How to determine the language of a song or album name ?

2013-02-04 Thread mherger
http://developer.echonest.com/docs/v4/artist.html#profile This would at least tell you where the artist was coming from. Doesn't really help when he's coming from Switzerland: he might be singing German, English, French, Italian or whatever (plus a mix of it). But depending on the catalog you're

Re: [slim] How to determine the language of a song or album name ?

2013-02-04 Thread reinholdk
Seems like a common open source tool for this task is TextCat (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/, one of the links I've posted above). On this site, there's also an interesting link list. Looks like TextCat performs statistical analysis, so it could hardly be accurate from one or two

Re: [slim] How to determine the language of a song or album name ?

2013-02-04 Thread mherger
reinholdk wrote: TextCat can also be checked online: http://ntextcat.com/ (implementation from http://ntextcat.codeplex.com/). Growing up - Javanese :-) mherger's Profile:

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-04 Thread dustinsterk
JohnSwenson wrote: On sample rates, DSD etc here are my thoughts, the design I'm looking at will go up to 384 as is, hardware wise. Whether it will actually go that fast is going to be purely a software issue. As to doing DSD, a DSD over I2S implementation may not be too hard, but I can

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox: Product Name

2013-02-04 Thread simbo
BenH73 wrote: (although searching on both of these comes up with existing products) If there's one thing the 'Apple vs Apple' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer) cases have shown, it's that similarly-named brands can co-exist as long as they don't converge in the music

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2013-02-04 Thread Apesbrain
swayzak wrote: 20 mins for clear cache / complete rescan ?? Can't explain that discrepancy (I'm on HP i5 Win7 laptop with library on 500GB WD USB HD). Your library being on an external USB drive probably slows things down a bit compared to my internal SATA drive. No biggie. If you're

Re: [slim] How to determine the language of a song or album name ?

2013-02-04 Thread epoch1970
Thanks a lot guys. I'll have a look a these, that's great. epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98024

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-04 Thread Triode
JohnSwenson wrote: So I tried the debug and it said this: [02:15:21.189444] output_init:1340 unable to set output sched fifo: Operation not permitted This distro that comes with the board runs everything as root, so I don't think its a user/permission issue. Could this be something not

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

2013-02-04 Thread annoyingmouse
Probably far too late for the last two replies to this but an archived version of stuffedspacedog's instructions can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20110505035757/http://www.at-sea.com/FooSQ.html for future reference. The real reason I'm replying: I'm still using foobar to control my

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

2013-02-04 Thread doggod
annoyingmouse wrote: Probably far too late for the last two replies to this but an archived version of stuffedspacedog's instructions can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20110505035757/http://www.at-sea.com/FooSQ.html for future reference. The real reason I'm replying: I'm still

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-04 Thread eLR!C
Triode wrote: We need to find a better kernel for this as we definately want to run with a kernel which can prememt and ideally the linux rt patches (as touch). Could you try one of the other distros which runs on the beagleboard for the moment and see if this helps? The guys at LinuxCNC

Re: [slim] Updating Squeezebox Radio to Smart Radio

2013-02-04 Thread w7r
I'm sorry but there's no way I'll go this route - I've LMS, an SB radio and a couple of receivers all working beautifully, I was after a Touch but given Logitechs actions I've bought my last ever Logitech product, no more mice, keyboards etc, we had a Logitech reseller trying to push the products

[slim] NAS Help

2013-02-04 Thread shacky
I'm looking for NAS that can backup my PC and MAC files and stream to SB Touch. Anyone try this WD? http://www.macmall.com/p/WD-NAS-(Network-Attached-Storage)/product~dpno~8214518~pdp.gcebegd shacky's Profile:

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-04 Thread JohnSwenson
So here is where I am standing today: TT stuff on 3359 seems to work (UAC1.0 async works without hub) UAC2.0 async has clicks/pops Kernel that comes with board is not RT and doesn't support SCHED_FIFO Other kernels will probably support SCHED_FIFO but probably not RT - need to try them see if

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-04 Thread Triode
JohnSwenson wrote: So here is where I am standing today: TT stuff on 3359 seems to work (UAC1.0 async works without hub) UAC2.0 async has clicks/pops Kernel that comes with board is not RT and doesn't support SCHED_FIFO Other kernels will probably support SCHED_FIFO but probably not RT -

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-04 Thread JackOfAll
JohnSwenson wrote: Any thoughts of where we should go? UAC2 is a deal breaker, IMHO. UAC1, even if working perfectly, limits to 96k. I think that regardless of how good the on-board DAC is, and that a 192k SPDIF out is available, we must have a fully working UAC2 implementation. And by

[slim] This player is already registered to another user

2013-02-04 Thread pyewackett
Does anybody know how to reach Logitech re this issue on a used player? I found a web page to lodge a support question but it's been a week and I've had no acknowledgement at all about my support question. Not even a support number. Nada. I do see a telephone number but I had to think of

Re: [slim] This player is already registered to another user

2013-02-04 Thread aubuti
See the menu item Support in the upper right corner of this forum screen? Try that. It will give you information for contacting Logitech via email or telephone. Also, if you contact them by email be sure to check the spam filter on your email program, because tech support replies are often

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-04 Thread erland
JohnSwenson wrote: Any thoughts of where we should go? It really depends who we are going to try to convince to buy it. If we are mainly looking at audiophile geeks, good support for async USB DAC's is a lot more important than HDMI, most of them are going to be fine with a headless box as

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-02-04 Thread castalla
erland wrote: It really depends who we are going to try to convince to buy it. If we are mainly looking at audiophile geeks, good support for async USB DAC's is a lot more important than HDMI, most of them are going to be fine with a headless box as long as it sounds excellent with their