Someone mentioned that the problem only occurs with the optical
output, and the coaxial output is fine. Is that correct? I was
planning to use the coaxial output anyway.
I mentioned this. Upon reading your post I went back to try to find the
post that I thought I'd read about this. I can't
The Squeezebox is an 802.llb product, however, wireless g and b devices are
compatible with one another (thus the claim that the squeezebox works with g
networks)--they simply cannot connect to each other at g speeds. A b device
will connect to a g network at b speeds. And, in fact, when you add
"Danny Rego"wrote in message
You can try my WebLogger plugin (currently only
compatible with v5.4.x...v6 compatability soon)
http://www.regoroad.com/blog/_archives/2004/9/12/138828.html
If you have any questions/problems getting 'er
going with your setup, I'd be glad to
Dan Goodinson wrote
I thought there was some issue with CPU, which means that the PCMCIA
card couldn't be upgraded... I thought it was something related to bus
width or similar...
Sorry if I've given wrong info ;-)
No, you're fine--indeed the bus isn't sufficiently fast to handle a g PCMCIA
Patrick Cosson wrote
FYI...Slim Devices, along with other emerging technology companies,
submitted an Amicus (friend of the court) Brief to the US Supreme Court in
defense of the landmark 1984 Betamax ruling.
Below you can find an articled from the Associated Press summarizing the
case
Jason wrote
If you read back through the thread you will see that the MP3Beamer
creator
claims they tried to work with Slim Devices, but Slim was not interested
in
working with them.
Quite understandable if they are working their butts off on Slimserver 6
and
new hardware.
But you'll also
I appreciate everyone's responses and am understanding the situation a bit
better now. I do think it's time for the music industry to entirely
overhaul their cost and distribution structure to be more fair to the
artists and the consumers.
Something Christian wrote got me thinking and I wanted
If I use the optical output, does the SB still use any preamp
functionality?
Yes, it does.
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Bruce--if the long cable doesn't work out then you might consider 2 separate
units--you could use the Shadowplay plugin to remotely control one unit from
the other:
http://www.gwendesign.com/slimserver/dev_software.htm
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Ben,
In the web interface go to:
Player Settings - Display
Brightness settings are the first thing listed--try bumping your idle
brightness up a notch or two. There's no way, however, to separate the
screensaver delay and the idle delay (they're one and the same).
David Lister wrote
Thanks for your help.
No problem
I know that lame is not installed on my system (Windows 2000) - I have had
an error message informing me of this when attempting to convert flac to
mp3 streaming (in order to see if flac/mp3 conversion would work after
flac/wav streaming
If I get a Squeezebox, there won't be a full-screen display. How will I be
able to scroll/browse through my collection (I know I will be able to
search for specific albums/tiles/artists, but I would like to be able to
browse as well).
In softsqueeze use the arrow keys to navigate the
Timothy Knight Nelson wrote
Are you streaming lossless audio? The data rate for lossless is such
that it is close to the usable bandwidth for 10Mbps networking (10baseT
or 802.11b).
-Tim
In the interest of accuracy it should be noted that raw pcm at 1.4mbps is
not really all that close to
jan van mourik wrote
Pardon my ignorance, but would there be any difference in audio
quality between the SB2 and the SB when using the digital output,
optical or coax?
Thanks, jan
Hey Jan,
Potentially, yes. Two very tangible improvements will be the resolution of
the l/r channel switching
I think Timothy is talking about a 10Mb _network_, not only SB's 10Mb
interface connected to fast ethernet. If all the traffic is comming and
going to the same machine (running SlimServer) this could be a problem.
Ah, if that's the case then I'm in agreement.
2 My SB1 plays Live365 through the SPDIF connection so I'm not sure what
you mean.
I cannot play live 365 streams through my SPDIF connection, either. You
likely have a DAC that's capable of locking onto the unusual sample rates
that many live 365 streams are broadcast in.
Also, maybe, the DAC in the SB makes better sound than the digital out to
the DAC you're currently using.
Thanks,
Phillip
Good point, Phillip--seems slim has incorporated an excellent dac into their
new unit. One thing to be wary of, though: many mid-low end receivers will
add A/D then D/A
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Maybe this has been discussed before, but why not just
openly support Rhapsody?? Wouldn't this benefit both
Slim and Rhapsody?
I'd love to see Rhapsody support added to slimserver v6 be this by way of
Realslim or official
You could write a batch file that runs on startup which would launch
musicmagic first, then introduce a delay, and launch slimserver. Or you
could use girder to monitor if musicmagic's running, then once it's running
it could launch slimserver.
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Sorry for my ambiguity--just put lame_enc.dll and lame.exe directly in
slimserver/server/bin
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If you don't mind the size, I just bought a Dell 420SC server with a
160GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM and 2.53Ghz Celeron for $229.
Remarkable deal and should have plenty of power for the job with your
favorite flavor of Linux.
Title: Tritton NAS and SlimServer SW
You would have to actually install Slimserver on
the NAS itself. I know nothing about the Tritton but know that several
users have gotten Slimserver 5.4 running on their NAS's. The Buffalo
Linkstation is the only one that I've repeatedly heard success
Chris Mason wrote
I have no idea what that is. The MX-700 can only learn from IR codes
transmitted from the remote. I think you must be thinking of a different
system.
I believe the MX-700 has a port in the side of it for computer programming.
That's probably what Marc's referring to.
Either
This brings up a point I'd been wondering about - protecting things like
server settings from prying fingers (read: kids) through some type of
security.
Give the NoSetup plugin a try:
http://www.herger.net/slim/detail.php?nr=428
Also, the ability for different users to have different
Come on, this hardly seems reasonable. It's one thing to request a feature,
it's quite another to demand it. With most products you're lucky to get it
to do what it advertises it can do--yet here you're making demands of
slimdevices to add new features? They've provided hardware decoding of the
Phil Nelson wrote
Aaron Zinck wrote:
dean blackketter wrote in message
If you don't mind the size, I just bought a Dell 420SC server with a
160GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM and 2.53Ghz Celeron for $229.
Remarkable deal and should have plenty of power for the job with your
favorite
Having a single genre on a song is simplistic idea.
It is too subjective to be generally useful.
One of the reasons driving the SlimServer 6.*
effort is to allow more generalized data structure
so you can call a song rock and 'classic
and head banging all at once.
This capability is
some of the files I have, have multiple genre listings separated by
commas.
Was wondering if the browse by genre listings could be a little smart
and
show those items as well. I.E. If I wanted to make an 80s playlist and go
to the 80s genre folder, it would also include mp3s that have the
This will work. Can't offer any suggestions
as to the best bridge to get. Getting another netgear product will limit
compatibility issues, so perhaps you should look into something from
then.
"Damian Bloom"wrote
Hi
I am currently running a Netgear DG834G with a
card (wirelessly
I'll whole-heartedly weigh-in with support for this suggestion. This is
also a major obstacle to me considering a squeezebox2 as it simply won't
work with Rhapsody. And while the squeezebox is impressive for a number of
reasons (slimserver is especially flexible) I agree with the original poster
Okay, at the risk of missing the obvious, what is it with Slim Devices
and ponies? Is it some American in-joke, or do I just not watch the
right television/read the write books/listen to the right radio?
No, Max, I'm sure you're quite hip--the joke arose after it was requested
that a rather
Ah, yes, I had actually forgotten what the requested feature even was! I've
enjoyed the humor, nonetheless.
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No, Max, I'm sure you're quite hip--the joke arose after it was
requested
that a rather
I've just bought myself an Omnifi DMP1
http://www.omnifimedia.com/products/omnifi_details.jsp?productId=12541
I haven't installed it yet but I have been geeky enough to bring a battery
in off my car and listen to it on my home stereo.
It seems to be a great bit of kit apart from it has
Have you got any idea what the maximum sized hard disk you can replace the
original with?
No I don't, though I know folks have used 80 gig drives, so at least that
big.
Here's a good resource for you:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/omnifi/
and this one, too:
A couple questions about this -- is the simplecenter software a server
like slimserver, or is it a client that you can fire up only when you
want to update the contents of the car's hd? I keep a pretty tight
reign on my mp3 collection, so I don't mind much if the synch with the
car HD is a
The specs page for this device lists:
Operating Temperature: 5C to 55C
Where do you live? Have you ever had a problem using the player in the
winter?
Haha, no real trouble in the winter for me--I live in Gainesville, Florida
(USA). One cold (cold for us at least, maybe ~40 degrees, it was
(USA). One cold (cold for us at least, maybe ~40 degrees, it was probably
close to freezing that night) morning I got in my car to go to work and
for
40 degrees Fahrenheit
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If you are planning on a wireless B/G router (Linksys or other) consider
using a Buffalo Linkstation network storage device as the media server.
It can be located in a remote location (mine is in a bedroom closet,
along with my Linksys Wireless Router/Network hub). It's a lot cheaper
than
Where is this version 3 of the Rhapsody client? I haven't been able to
find it and this is the first I've heard of those features being added to
Rhapsody. This is rather exciting
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Aaron, I'd like to know how you got Rhapsody to auto-launch and stay
logged in via execute scripts. Can you post the way you did that?
To launch Rhapsody from the squeezebox you need KDF's execute-script plugin.
Install that and set up a directory in your slimserver\server directory
called
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this...I've been a bit under
the weather lately. You'll find the files here:
http://www.phhp.ufl.edu/~azinck/
Be sure to enable the AlarmTimer plugin. And this probably goes without
saying but this was designed for Windows. One more thing: you may
If you have your player set to no limit then OGG is being streamed as FLAC
so it's likely that either your 802.11b network can't handle the much higher
bandwidth requirements of FLAC or, if you're running this on a real old
computer, it may not be able to keep up with the transcoding from OGG to
Your subject line gave me a good laugh...:)
Thanks for the tip. Sorry to hear of your woes.
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Why does my stream still get reported as 320Kb/s?
does it report this even while you're actually streaming music? While I
don't know the details of how it works the silence that is broadcast while
no music is playing is 320K. When the music starts it should then report
the correct bitrate.
Checking the listen.com website looks like a major announcement April
26. Probably the broad release of the 3.0 service with to-go
features.
So has anyone tried the new Rhapsody with the existing Realslim plugin?
Seems unlikely that it'd work but I gave the new rhapsody a try here at work
The new client is pretty slick with some creature comforts.
It does not work with Real Slim. Real Slim does not recognize that
Rhapsody is running.
It does download 160kbps audio files. Mine show up as WMAs but I think
its likely that WMP is my default player for the type it downloads.
http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_audiofeast.html
I love the idea of audiofeast...can't justify the price, though. Do you use
it? How has your experience been? Right now I have my own audiofeast
setup which uses TotalRecorder to record all of my favorite NPR and American
Public Radio shows in the
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Can you grab stuff from the NPR archives that way as well?
Sure--you have to record it in real time but you can grab anything that's
available on their site. And with cartalk programming you can even get the
old shows
It depends on how sophisticated the firewall is and what ports they block.
The easiest thing would be to just try it. If you can find even just one
open port then you could use softsqueeze over SSH.
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There's a couple of BBC radio programs I'd dearly like to record for later
listening. Can AlienBBC handle this? If not, is there any other way
torecord apart from paying for the full version of spit Real Player?
AlienBBC cannot handle this but I've had loads of success recording internet
My SB1 was working fine, but now there is no sound from the receiver. The
volume is up on both and the receiver fm tuner produces sound. The SB has
the track playing symbol present. I can't get it to work either with the
optical cable or RCA. Any ideas?
I don't want to insult your
or perhaps you have headphones plugged in? if you don't have headphones
plugged in, how about trying that and seeing if you're getting sound there.
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Allen,
The great thing about this community is that, unlike with most other
software products, when something's not working you have a bunch of folks
who want to fix the problems in the software and are relying on folks like
you to find the bugs. So...rather than just giving up how about helping
This isn't really our position or our goal (see roadmap: http://
wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SoftwareRoadmap ) . We are working to
support the formats that are feasible and interesting to support, and
that includes DRM formats. Unfortunately, right now the most
interesting ones are not
All-you-can-eat _streaming_ subscriptions are fine, I was talking
about buying music. AFAIK the original poster was talking about Pay
For Sure.
With Rhapsody you can't purchase music *files*. If you choose to purchase
music you create a playlist with the music you want to purchase which is
It's clear that different people have different priorities when it comes to
how they pay for and consume music. I trust that the market will have
different approaches that will meet the needs of different types of
consumers. I'm sure each of us will continue to consume music in the way we
feel
Here in Austria there's a levy on blank media, scanners, printers,
photo copy machines, CD burners ... expressly for compensating content
producers for private non-profit copies of media. At the same time I'm
prohibited from circumventing DRM measures - I'd say the whole mess is
quite at odds
Really? - So I'd just have to put a sniffer on the network between the
two devices to get unencryted data? Unlikely, but worth a try. Is
there a network sniffer module for perl? :)
I'm not sure how the current realslim plugin works exactly, but it would
seem that however it works it's
If this isn't the case now, it soon might be. In a business where
exclusive contracts are the norm, why shouldn't one or more big labels
base their licenses on exclusive relationships with subscription
services? Or maybe they devise some sort of discount, where a
subscription provider has to
Is there any way to vote *against* enhancement or bug requests? The server
should show what's in your tags. Period. That way people can use their
tags however they want and they don't end up getting confused by having
Michael Jackson songs listed only under mICHAEL jACKSON simply because they
I know just what is going to happen...the day after I buy a Roku, Slim
is going to announce Rhaposody support!! :-)
Yeah...and there's another bit of irony that actually keeps me with the
squeezebox: when using RealSlim my Squeezebox actually has more complete
Rhapsody support than any other
I guess I have my own opinion of who should be getting abused right now.
I don't entirely understand what you meant by this statement but I hope you
didn't take any offense at my comment. I only meant to acknowledge you and
the sentiments that you've already repeatedly expressed about the
I'm sorry if this question has been asked before, but I couldn't
find the answer. I'm thinking of purchasing a SB2 to use with my
Rhapsody service. Can the SB2 be used as a virtual sound device on
my Windows XP machine? That way I could stream any audio
source to the SB2? Does SlimServer
I believe it may be unnecessary to use Total Recorder--I'm fairly confident
that Vidur's RealSlim plugin already does essentially the very same thing.
It just needs to be updated to support the new version of Rhapsody and
SlimServer. Perhaps Vidur could correct me if I'm wrong?
I think the huge bulge of electrical tape in the middle of the cord
should be fairly obvious =)
I'm surprised this works for you. Don't be surprised if the connection
flakes out or is slower than spec. High-speed data transfer through
twisted-pair cabling relies on the pairs being nicely
You can even use character combinations to make the separator more unique.
Something like %; would be a pretty safe bet, for instance.
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This is a currently known problem with the SB2.
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No problem here with my Harmony 676. :)
There's no problem using the squeezebox2 IR codes (which your Harmony is
using), the problem is that, for whatever reason, the SB2 does not
process/recognize other IR codes like the SB1 does. This is probably just
some sort of firmware setting. I
While I'd love to see support for Rhapsody, I don't recall ever seeing this
featured advertised for the SqueezeBox 2.
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I was actually able to get realslim running with SS 6.1, with a few
minor modifications. There was a thread in the developers forum a
couple weeks ago. There still appear to be occasional problems, and I
was planning on trying to resolve these before making this more well
known -- but then I
I realize I'm becoming boring, but you guys at Slim Devices ought to
read the reviews you post on your website. The one from Maximum PC that
you flaunt has as it's last word, Rhapsody. Do you think you would
have gotten that good a review if you didn't have that capability?
S, my question
Aaron,
I'm not a bad person, but when the company implies through the posting
of reviews that tout it's ability to stream Rhapsody and when it's
marketing literature specially states it supports real player I as a
reasonable person expect to be able to use it for the stated purpose.
When I
The review from Maximum PC is the one that's prominently displayed.
Since when does a product upgrade mean that functionality is taken
away?
It sometimes happens.
But aside from that...a 3rd-party plugin is not a product feature.
SlimDevices cannot be expected to support every 3rd party
I've been making an ass of myself to try to get a response from them
stating what their plans actually are. If they have no intention of
supporting a means to use squeezebox for streaming Rhapsody or any
other DRM service, they should have the stones to put that on the
website.
I believe
No I don't. Unfortunstly I'm past the 30 day period. Do you think Sean
will make an exception in my case?
I've found SlimDevices to be a very accomodating company, so perhaps they
will take it back. But why should they? You had *30 days* to figure out
that this wasn't the unit for you. I'm
The question is the title. The title is the question. Any idea?
I own a SB1 and tried ripping a Dolby Digital 5.1 file to FLAC. Playing
it back through SB1, with fixed digital volume, did not work on my DD
enabled receiver (as in: no sound at all while the tags got read
correctly).
Is it
Steven Moore wrote in message
Since the file sharing companies are being held responsible for what
people do with their computers then
the gun companies will now be sued for all the woundings and killings
by idiots with guns.
The car companies for people killed in accidents etc or will
Would someone care to give me a simple explanation of the various
operational states of a Squeezebox.
Looking through player settings, we have different settings for both
screen savers and brightness and their relationships to player states.
But those states are described differently.
But to be hinest, I don't think this would offer any new functions on
the remote to make it easier to use, just allow me to control all my
devices (in a more limited way) with one remote.
You actually could (quite easily) add functionality--take a look at the .map
and .ir files...by
I'm still using 5.4 but don't feel like signing up for the forum so I can't
actually vote. I'm using 5.4 since it works well with Rhapsody/Realslim and
meets most of my needs (I have a non-graphical SB1).
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Sean, what does this mean for the SB2's ability to have discrete power
on/power off codes? From a recent thread here, I got the impression
that this feature was forthcoming.
Once the SB2 is updated to recognize other IR signals (the sb1 and slimp3
can currently do this) then you'll have no
You can get pretty close to your flag idea if you take advantage of the
zapped songs functionality. When playing a song in Now Playing, if you
press and hold the add button the song will be removed from Now Playing
and added to your Zapped Songs playlist. Once you've added all the tracks
you
Ha...sorry...I didn't see this branch before I posted this same idea to the
other branch...
Isn't this pretty much what the 'zapped' playlist does?
You press and hold the 'add' key to move the currently playing song to
it, rather than just delete it.
I haven't used it for a while but I
Does the handheld skin not work well?
The Sony PSP will have Web browser capability with the 2.0 firmware to
be released on August 12, 2005.
It would be great if a new Sony PSP specific web page served by the
SlimServer could be created. It would be formated for the small screen
of the
So this is off-topic, but are you the same gonk as the fellow from the
Outlaw forums?
So I have now opened the SB2 and yes, you can rotate the display and the
cable is just long enough. I had to cut two small supporting tabs as
some leads on the PCB to the display got in the way. But there
now I'd like to be able to listen remotely using
SoftSqueeze, and I don't have the bandwith to stream
the lossless tracks.
No need to complicate matters with multiple libraries...Slimserver can do
downconversion on-the-fly on a per-client basis. In the web interface go
the player settings
I realize that this would be difficult to implement accross platforms,
but would it be possible for Slimserver to respond to keyboard shortcut
commands...? For instance:
Play or pause a file. CTRL+P
Stop playback. CTRL+S
Mute the volume. F8
Increase the volume. F10
Decrease the volume. F9
I suppose it'd be possible to do this with a clever javascript skin though
that may be tricky.
There are keyboard shortcuts in ExBrowse2 and Default2:
Z - previous
X - play/pause
C - play/pause
V - stop
B - next
R - toggle repeat
S - toggle shuffle
-, = - volume down and up
- Jacob
Newbie here, so please be gentle if I ask something which has already
been answered.
I'm a strickly a two channel guys BUT have a Home Theatre which
currently uses PowerDVD to Project on a screen and sound via a long
coax cable from my Computer, to an external DAC.
As a Video player
This is not strictly a Slim Devices query, but someone may have some
insight they wish to share. I have an original SLIMP3 player which has
served me well. I'm interested in upgrading to a new SB2 for my master
bathroom, but I'm having trouble finding an appropriate receiver. I am
looking
Do you need a whole receiver or just an amp?
Also need a receiver. My wife likes to listen to a few radio stations
that do not stream and it would be a problem if she could no longer
pull them in.
Thanks,
Jon
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Sorry--if I'd read your original post more carefully I
I've been trying to set up a new (new to me...old in actuality--it was
given to me by a friend) server these past couple of days but have had fits
getting the Realslim plugin to work. There have been a number of problems
(I've always had a number of problems initially configuring realslim), but
I don't know why I didn't think of this originally but it occurs to me that
I should have posted this in the 3rd party plug-ins forum. Sorry about that
folks! I'll move it there now...
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I'm attaching a modified version of HookAndDie.exe. I made some comments
a while back about what I modified in the realslim forums on
sourceforge. Let me know if it makes any difference.
+---+
|Filename: HookAndDie.zip
Hmmm. I don't think it's a problem with HookAndDie after all. I've also
seen the problem you mention, where restarting slimserver makes things
work. I've been meaning to figure that out and fix it, but haven't felt
that motivated, though it's a nuisance. I also noted in my last update
to the
Where is that setting?
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It's actually under player settings, not server settings. Go to player
settings - audio
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I've SlimServer hang running RealSlim before because of a UPnP issue
that I fixed by manually setting IP address in common.pm. If you've
done this, make sure you've set the correct IP address for your new
computer rather than just copying the file over. (This might be
obvious, but I thought
Jim's right, of course, I just wanted to add a bit
of clarity: he's referring to selecting the player from the drop down on
the top-right of the screen, not from the panel on the left.
Are you sure you chose the right player in the web interface? You
need to select the player then start
dean Wrote:
Given that you've heard it in SoftSqueeze and on the hardware player, I
suspect it's a problem in the original RadioIO data. I'd drop their
customer support folks a note.
That's exactly what I will be doing, but it would be nice to say that
I've found other people who have
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