Re: [slim] Re: Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-10-03 Thread Geoff B
Sorry for stepping into this thread late, but there were two country titles missing: If My Nose Was Running Money, Honey, I'd Blow It All On You by Unknown Get Off the Table, Mabel (The Two Dollars is for the Beer) by Bull Moose Jackson Geoff (a fan of country titles, not the actual music) On

Re: [slim] Re: Problems with multi-disc albums

2005-10-05 Thread Geoff B
I've also had problems with this functionality, running a recent 6.2, with the same setting for multi-disc albums. In fact, I get NO (Disc N) labels appended to my album titles. Could someone please confirm what the actual tags are that should be added for MP3 and FLAC? I have DISC and DISCC

Re: [slim] Trouble tunneling SoftSqueeze over ssh

2005-10-05 Thread Geoff B
On 10/5/05, Wendy Seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the thorough response. That works beautifully. (until the network connection gets congested and the flac streams start stuttering or echoing...) --Wendy FWIW, I use Bitvise's Tunnelier (as suggested by another poster), available

Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets

2005-10-11 Thread Geoff B
On 10/11/05, Richie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was a bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248 and it was fixed about a week ago. If you try the latest nightly you'll probably find it does what you want. Richard Ok, I installed the latest nightly, and this is the summary of

Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets

2005-10-14 Thread Geoff B
On 10/11/05, NickM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff - you're right (I think), but then so is Takashi. So, how about this for a future FEATURE request:- 1.If the Group Discs setting is checked, -- NickM Hi Nick, Your post was cut off, but in fact, it's working ok for me at the moment. All

Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets

2005-10-17 Thread Geoff B
On 10/15/05, CavesOfTQLT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just had another look at my set-up and NickM is right, the web-ui and the SB2 show CD1 Track1, CD2 Track1, CD1 Track2, etc. even though I've got the disc number tags set as 1 for CD1 and 2 for CD2. It gets even worse when you have 3,4 or

Re: [slim] Wireless or wired? Help me choose!

2005-10-17 Thread Geoff B
On 10/16/05, dangerous_dom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure which to go for; a squeezebox wireless and a wireless card for my PC, or a squeezebox wired using this http://www.devolo.co.uk/uk_EN/produkte/dLAN/mldlanhsstarterkit.html What are the pros and cons of each option. Bearing in

Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets

2005-10-18 Thread Geoff B
On 10/17/05, NickM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff, your work around sounds OK - except, I use JR's MediaCenter to rip tag - and for the moment, I can't figure out how to edit the tags that you suggest. Having a quick look up on ID3 formats, I think (someone please correct me if I

Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets

2005-10-18 Thread Geoff B
On 10/18/05, snarlydwarf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we're looking in different places, but id3.org shows TPOS.. and no 'DISC' or PARTINSET'... perhaps your labeller is showing different names than what it actually uses, but id3 v2.3 should be using TPOS. (In fact, id3 field names are

Re: [slim] Re: Moose 0.05

2005-10-31 Thread Geoff B
On 10/28/05, Dr Lovegrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/10/05, mattybain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is starting to look really good! I just wished I had some programming ability left (years of neglect) to be able to help you develop this. No worries.. Im actually enjoying coding it,

Re: [slim] Companion programs to SlimServer

2005-11-02 Thread Geoff B
On 10/31/05, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) to manage tags. I like the interface but sometimes the tag changes don't take and I have to do it in foobar. I also use MP3Tag, and used to find the exact same issue you describe. What it turned out to

Re: [slim] Companion programs to SlimServer

2005-11-02 Thread Geoff B
On 11/2/05, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! This should help a lot. I was seeing more errors last night in how the tags were being interpreted. Thanks very much! No problem. I should probably add the warning to back up your files first, or at least play with a small set first

Re: [slim] Companion programs to SlimServer

2005-11-02 Thread Geoff B
On 11/2/05, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's one critical step that was omitted What, only one? :) In fact, I was writing mostly from memory, since I couldn't access my MP3Tag at home (hurricane Wilma knocked out our cable connection). I feared there were a couple of things I

Re: [slim] Slightly OT: Networkable PC controlled speaker selector?

2005-11-02 Thread Geoff B
On 11/2/05, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a speaker selector box that can be installed on a network and controlled via PC? It could use traditional speaker wire, but it would be nice to control the volume and source via a PC on the network. I love my squeezebox, and I love the fact

Re: [slim] Re: Help mounting a SB3 into a wall

2005-11-07 Thread Geoff B
On 11/5/05, hashref [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I've been typing this I have been thinking of other ways. Like framing the unit. Maybe I'll make a stainless steel frame for it. Stainless steel sheets are not really that expensive so I may buy a 1' x 1' plate such as the one here. -

Re: [slim] Re: How to reliably/easily backup 100Gb of FLACs?

2005-11-11 Thread Geoff B
On 11/11/05, clumsyoik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if a virus/small child/hardware fault corrupts some of your data without you realising? When it gets automatically rsync'ed to the backup, your data is gone for good. I use a system someone else already mentioned; external drive, USB

Re: [slim] Re: Wishlist: Less clunky (more iTunes-like) GUI

2005-11-11 Thread Geoff B
On 11/9/05, Dr Lovegrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/11/05, Michaelwagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, that's not quite correct. As of when I looked at it last, it rescanned the files on it's own and didn't use the slim database. -- Michaelwagner Indeed, the library

Re: [slim] Parsing status.xml

2006-03-21 Thread Geoff B
On 3/21/06, jonheal wrote: I'm trying to parse http://localhost:9000/xml/status.xml to grab values in order to build a page on our public web site that shows what's currently playing on our SqueezeBox. I'm using VBScript and DOM. The file -- and I guess it's not really a file but generated

Re: [slim] Re: Parsing status.xml

2006-03-21 Thread Geoff B
On 3/21/06, jonheal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: geoffb Wrote: On 3/21/06, jonheal wrote: I'm trying to parse http://localhost:9000/xml/status.xml to grab values in order to build a page on our public web site that shows what's currently playing on our SqueezeBox. I'm using

Re: [slim] Re: Starting over

2006-03-21 Thread Geoff B
I use the SyncBack (free version), and it works very well. It can be set to give you a preview screen of the actions that will be taken, so the first few times you run it you can make sure set it up correctly. http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html Cheers Geoff On 3/21/06, Kyle [EMAIL

Re: [slim] Re: Slim web interface and player selection

2006-03-21 Thread Geoff B
On 3/20/06, JJZolx wrote: User-specific settings in the Slim Server web UI, with a couple of exceptions (some stuff in the Fishbone skin), are totally absent. Yep, I think this was mentioned a while back - the Fishbone skin sets a cookie. This doesn't seem to work consistently though,

Re: [slim] Re: SB2 not connecting with WPA and AES

2006-03-31 Thread Geoff B
jph Wrote: I'm genuinely curious, why are you chomping so hard for AES? jcyr wrote: Simple. I bought the SB2 instead of the Roku based on their advertized support of WPA2/AES. I feel the product was, and continues to be, misrepresented. So do you actually have a need for AES over plain old

Re: [slim] Re: How does everyone tag artist names?

2006-04-02 Thread Geoff B
On 4/2/06, smc2911 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJMUK Wrote: At least with MP3tag you can sort all your albums in one list by Artist and then select each Artist in turn to set the new tag. Great advantage if you have multiple albums by same artist. It also, of course, will include any on

Re: [slim] Customize Fishbone

2006-04-03 Thread Geoff B
On 7/7/05, evanhood wrote: Also, if the person who created fishbone happens to read this, the only other thing that would be nice, would be the ability to increase the font size, or at least the size of the buttons that add songs to the playlist since the text size in IE has no effect on this

Re: [slim] Re: How does everyone tag artist names?

2006-04-03 Thread Geoff B
On 4/3/06, timmorris wrote: OK, I'm struggling. It's been almost twenty years since I've used grep on unix. 1. Are there any primers on how to use the expressions to do some clever string searching. 2. How do you then use parametric options to perform the editing you want. First off a

Re: [slim] Re: Wish List

2006-04-03 Thread Geoff B
On 4/3/06, rock wrote: funkstar Wrote: I think your first two have been sugested before. Personaly i can't see them happening. I would guess that two of the bigest cost componets are the processor/decoder module and the wirless interface, both of which you would need for either a

Re: [slim] Re: Wish List

2006-04-03 Thread Geoff B
On 4/3/06, rock wrote: geoffb Wrote: Isn't a headless system that can do four different streams to four different amps just the same as a PC with four good-quality sound-cards, running four copies of either SoftSqueeze or SqueezeSlave, running to four remote sets of speakers? Yes,

Re: [slim] Re: Fishbone skin - Handheld skin (Modified) for browsing Speed

2006-04-03 Thread Geoff B
On 4/3/06, CDMasterworks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi M8 Zip File for h3 is corrupt Kind Regards CDMasterworks You'll probably find that it's the old problem with zip files on the forum. What browser are you using? In IE, if I right-click and use 'save target as', I end up with a perfect

Re: [slim] Re: SB2 not connecting with WPA and AES

2006-04-04 Thread Geoff B
On 4/3/06, jcyr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: geoffb Wrote: Somoene asked me a long time ago when I was stuck on a similar principle issue, would you rather be right, or happy? What would make me happy is for SD to remove their false claim of WPA/AES support from their product description.

Re: [slim] Slightly different wireless network problem!

2006-04-04 Thread Geoff B
On 4/4/06, neilcoburn wrote: I realise there are loads of threads re network problems, though these all seem to refer to problems of Squeezeboxes connecting wirelessly to routers/access points. I have a slightly different issue. Since moving house, the PC running Slimserver is a long way

Re: [slim] Re: Thinking of buying/building linux based music server...

2006-04-04 Thread Geoff B
On 4/2/06, Jack Coates wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: lnxguru wrote: If you want to practice your Linux skills you could use telnet/ssh for command line or consider using a remote X server. Cygwin and Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows. The power and RAM you'll need for

Re: [slim] Is there an announcements-only mailing list?

2006-04-05 Thread Geoff B
On 4/5/06, Michael Herger wrote: I would like the announcements to be for official Slim business (new versions of the server, HW, etc.) http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/announce What I think would be great if this could be cross-posted to, as per the OP's suggestion; I too would

Re: [slim] WEP problems

2006-04-06 Thread Geoff B
On 4/6/06, dlucas wrote: I am using Windows XP zero wireless config set to shared and 64-bit WEP. I am using a 5-digit code as the key. From what I know, and from my own WEP setup, 64-bit keys should be 10 characters in length. If I enter 1234512345 in Windows, that exact same string goes

Re: [slim] Can a SqueezeBox control volume of another SB

2006-04-06 Thread Geoff B
On 4/6/06, LarryD wrote: I think I can solve (A) with two SqueezeBox3 devices: one upstairs working with the infrared remote control; and the second attached to the Amplifier (in the basement). The first SqueezeBox3 would only control the second one. Usually I would not have anything

Re: [slim] Re: Network Activity

2006-04-07 Thread Geoff B
On 4/7/06, Michael Herger wrote: The server I am running, runs on linux and if I check dmesg there will be hundreds of lines of server contacting each of the various Squeezeboxes in just a few seconds. dmesg is about boot messages, isn't it? I can't see anything slimserver related in

Re: [slim] Re: Network Activity

2006-04-07 Thread Geoff B
On 4/7/06, paulrusnak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am basing my observations on the fact that the network lights on my hubs and server are always blinking like mad an I can see a marked difference in the speed of my network if I unplug all of my Squeezeboxes. It seems to have gotten much worse

Re: [slim] Possible??? - Remote Squeezebox

2006-04-21 Thread Geoff B
On 4/20/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:25:15 -0500, Ben Sandee [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 4/20/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, the last issue would be security. You would probably want to investigate some sort of VPN solution between the

Re: [slim] Re: Possible??? - Remote Squeezebox

2006-04-21 Thread Geoff B
On 4/21/06, Mark Lanctot wrote: geoffb Wrote: PC requirements aside, presuming that you didn't put any security in place apart from router IP filtering at the both ends, that would still leave you open to whatever exploits your routers expose. For example, there's at least one router I

Re: [slim] Re: New promos on www.slimdevices.com

2006-05-24 Thread Geoff B
On 5/23/06, rudholm wrote: I thought to myself I'll take about fifty billion --that ought to be enough for my danish. We're obviously talking British billions here, right? :) Geoff ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Second disc not coming up in New Music

2006-05-24 Thread Geoff B
On 5/24/06, bossanova808 wrote: Ok, I recently added classic German speed metal albums 'Keeper of the Seven Keys' parts 1 and 2 by Helloween to my music folder (on an infrant ReadyNAS, 6.2.2) (As MP3s, tagged with ID3v2 and APEv2). No multi-disc tags set or whatever. They're done as separate

Re: [slim] Re: HTC Universal / t-mobile MDA Pro as remote

2006-05-24 Thread Geoff B
On 5/24/06, Davidy80 wrote: dangerous_dom Wrote: You are probably getting the IP address wrong. I did this until i used the Squeezebox 3 to check the slimservers IP address and realised my mistake. No, the IP is correct - I can access it from other PC's in the network. Do you have any

Re: [slim] Re: HTC Universal / t-mobile MDA Pro as remote

2006-05-24 Thread Geoff B
On 5/24/06, Davidy80 wrote: geoffb Wrote: On 5/24/06, Davidy80 wrote: Do you have any filtering set up in the Server | Security settings? Password protection? (maybe the handheld browser isn't comprehensive enough to prompt for login details?) Maybe the browser can't render the page for

Re: [slim] Soundtrack albums and Browse by artist

2006-05-24 Thread Geoff B
On 5/24/06, Glenn Coombs wrote: I want to be able to see an artist called Soundtracks when I browse by artist. This may not help, but I achieve the same end result by tagging the genre as Soundtrack (or Rock;Soundtrack as appropriate). Then I just Browse Genres - Soundtrack - All albums.

Re: [slim] Re: server database is case sensitive and that's bad. read why.

2006-05-24 Thread Geoff B
On 5/24/06, JSonnabend wrote: Perhaps a better solution would be to stop SlimServer from messing with DB entries once they've been populated. That way, anyone could write an external app to populate the db without worrying about tags, sorting algorithms, etc. As it stands now, SlimServer

Re: [slim] Re: server database is case sensitive and that's bad. read why.

2006-05-24 Thread Geoff B
On 5/24/06, JSonnabend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @geoffb: I disagree that the tags are the actual data. I keep my actual data in an Access DB (I use CATraxx). A real DB is more efficient than file-to-file tags, whose real purpose is to allow players to extract data about tracks they're

Re: [slim] Re: Soundtrack albums and Browse by artist

2006-05-25 Thread Geoff B
On 5/25/06, Glenn Coombs wrote: It seems inconsistant to me that slimserver has identified an album as being a compilation (by virtue of the artist tags being different), but has then decided not to apply the same rules it does when it identifies a compilation album by virtue of the TCMP or

Re: [slim] Wireless SqueezeBox 3 for only £192 inv VAT

2006-05-31 Thread Geoff B
On 5/31/06, Bill Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rudholm wrote: Surely someone has suggested webmail already? Is that not an option? You could probably even get a webmail account that automatically forwards messages to your work address so you only have to access the webmail interface for

Re: [slim] Re: Another 6.2.2 issue - 'corrupt' tags

2006-06-02 Thread Geoff B
On 6/1/06, smc2911 wrote: OK, it looks as though my problem is more complicated that I thought. Even after regenerating the MusicIP cache with no archiving, I still ended up with the strange squares in my tags when viewed from Slimserver. If I disabled the MusicIP server and did a rescan, all

Re: [slim] id3 inventory

2006-06-06 Thread Geoff B
On 6/5/06, bklaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did an audit of my entire collection's ID3 tags, and found that in most cases I have both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. In a recent thread I was reading here someone mentioned that getting rid of ID3v1 tags altogether is a good idea, esp. in terms of

Re: [slim] Re: Is there an easy way to convert APE to FLAC in batch mode?

2006-06-07 Thread Geoff B
On 6/6/06, NickM wrote: Why bother? SlimServer can handle APE's fine. I think (on a SB2/3) FLAC gets streamed and played natively, whereas APEs get transcoded. Cheers Geoff ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Re: Fishbone Tan problem? - 6.5

2006-06-26 Thread Geoff B
This is probably a reasonable thread to add this to, since it relates to Fishbone (tan). I have found colour problems with tan also, but only in the TrackStat page. The top part shows correctly, but clicking on one of the stat entries produces a track / album list that uses white font, which is

Re: [slim] Squeezebox G1

2006-07-13 Thread Geoff B
On 7/12/06, socialxray wrote: Are there any other gotchas when integrating a Squeezebox G1 into a SB3/SS6.3 environment? I think the only other thing apart from Michael's comments is the wireless side, if you are going to be using wireless. The SB1 is 802.11b, and SB3 is 802.11g (I believe -

Re: [slim] Re: [Fun] - Listening time with large collections

2006-07-24 Thread Geoff B
On 7/24/06, Mark Lanctot wrote: Very cool. So there's not actually much of a point to gathering up 100 000+ tracks because you'll never have the time to listen to all of them. Never thought of it that way! One thing to be said for a large collection is that it presumably lowers your

Re: [slim] Re: Slim splits CD into 2 or more Albums

2006-08-07 Thread Geoff B
A good way to check for inconsistencies, and unusual tags in MP3Tag: select all the files in the album, and press Alt-T to get the list of tags. Check that the 'Album' and 'Artist' tags aren't shown as something like keep (which indicates that they aren't all the same) - it should be the actual

Re: [slim] Can slimserver generate a report?

2006-08-11 Thread Geoff B
On 8/10/06, 95bcwh wrote: All, Not sure if this has been asked before, I wonder if there's a way to get some kind of reports or catalogue out of slimserver software? I have thousands of album on my hard drive and I want to generate a report sorting each album by its name, or by its artist. Is

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver scan procedure needs some serious work!

2006-08-15 Thread Geoff B
On 8/15/06, ModelCitizen wrote: This thread seems to be getting perilously close to a small bugbear I have. I add a playlist from my computer upstairs and would ideally like to go downstairs to listen to the playlist instantly on my hifi. I can't though because SlimServer insists on scanning

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver scan procedure needs some serious work!

2006-08-16 Thread Geoff B
On 8/16/06, MrSinatra wrote: Michaelwagner Wrote: That's factually incorrect. He wrote: after saying that the quality of the code was such that it had to have been written by an intern. I think the implication is clear. no, its not factually incorrect. his first post starting the thread

Re: [slim] Re: play file automatically

2006-08-16 Thread Geoff B
On 8/16/06, Michael Herger wrote: But the link to the executable is currently dead :-(. Maybe you could write the author to ask for it. Niek just sent me the new links for sstime: - C source: http://www.qwertyboy.org/files/sstime.c - Windows .EXE: http://www.qwertyboy.org/files/sstime.exe -

Re: [slim] SS reports more artists than trax on some albums!

2006-08-16 Thread Geoff B
On 8/15/06, MrSinatra wrote: guys, i'm browsing artwork, and every so often, clicking on an album to look at the songs on it. i noticed it oftentimes lists way more artists then are on the album! for example: 1 album with 7 songs by 6 artists. in reality, only one artist, and in checking the

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver scan procedure needs some serious work!

2006-08-17 Thread Geoff B
On 8/16/06, fingers wrote: actually yes it does! I run SlimServer on multiple machines. All the machines are a minimum of 2.8GHz up to 3.06GHz. All my machines have 1GB of RAM and large hard drives with more than enough space remaining on each drive. Everyone of my machines not only

Re: [slim] Re: Will Slimserver work with re-tagging?

2006-08-17 Thread Geoff B
On 8/16/06, dnighorn wrote: Does TagRename work with Apple Lossless files? As I understand, these tags are different from those used on MP3 files. If your tagging software doesn't support updating the modifed date/time, AND you're on Windows, you could use one of these: FileTouch:

Re: [slim] Re: splitList: /?

2006-08-17 Thread Geoff B
On 8/16/06, windowshade wrote: Thanks for the reply. My first post was pretty vague and needs clarification. (The answer is not in the wiki, or in the forums as far as I can search.) I already use foobar2000 for tagging. Wherever I can, I use multiple tags: this works in FLAC and in GENRE in

Re: [slim] Re: splitList: /?

2006-08-18 Thread Geoff B
On 8/18/06, dip wrote: windowshade Wrote: Only the first ARTIST from an ID3 tag containing multiple ARTIST tags is read by SlimServer. Perhaps I'll run this one by support and find out if that's intended behaviour... I use multiple artists in the ARTIST tag for vorbis and flac files with as

Re: [slim] Re: splitList: /?

2006-08-18 Thread Geoff B
On 8/18/06, Michaelwagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MP3 code is actually separate from the vorbis code in Slim, so it's possible something works in one and not the other. It's been most of a year since I poked around much in that code. I do seem to recall that the multiple tag extension

Re: [slim] Amplifier that SqueezeBox can turn on?

2007-04-09 Thread Geoff B
On 4/8/07, Peter wrote: Looks interesting. Am I correct that you can also connect a TV set to it and it will switch to whatever source (SB/TV) is supplying audio at that time? And the sensitivity is such that it won't turn off the amp if you're playing music at a low volume? I needed to use

Re: [slim] Can the Logitech Harmony 880/890/1000 Control the SB?

2007-05-23 Thread Geoff B
On 5/20/07, Charles Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any one know if the Harmony 880/890 or 1000 can control the SB? If yes, can it do all the functions of the SB remote? The 880 rocks! Mine controls a TV, DVD/VCR player, CD player, amp, MythTV box, X10 controller, and of course the SB3.

Re: [slim] slimserver artist display question

2007-06-19 Thread Geoff B
On 6/19/07, pasil wrote: The library displays every artist but one in alphabetical order by first name which is fine. But Steve Earle is ordered with the E's -it is not displayed as Earle, Steve either. Are you sure there's not an ARTISTSORT tag in the files? (see

Re: [slim] Network over electrical wiring

2007-06-19 Thread Geoff B
On 6/19/07, Kyle wrote: SuperQ;209718 Wrote: Homeplug would be a cool additional connectivity option for the squeezebox. I use wifi to my SB2 in the garage.. but it would be sweet to be able to just plug it in.. That would require moving the PSU into the device.. maybe not a bad idea

Re: [slim] slimserver artist display question

2007-06-20 Thread Geoff B
Did you check all the files? I don't know, but would guess it's possible for one of them to affect other files with the same artist. Are they stored in directories in any kind of unusual way? Slimserver guesses tags sometimes based on the folder name (but that shouldn't make a difference here).

Re: [slim] Cannot stream remotely

2007-06-20 Thread Geoff B
On 6/19/07, mschiff wrote: I will be using SSH once I have this working. Just wanted to take baby steps at first. I've never set up SSH, any pointers? I found it easier to set up SSH first, since one pipeline takes care of all the ports - you don't have to worry about ISPs filtering anything,

Re: [slim] Cannot stream remotely

2007-06-20 Thread Geoff B
On 6/19/07, mschiff wrote: I will be using SSH once I have this working. Just wanted to take baby steps at first. I've never set up SSH, any pointers? One more thing: if you do go the SSH route, you might want to change your default port, it'll help avoid people pounding on it all day (although

[slim] Harmony 880 Issue

2007-07-23 Thread Geoff B
Hi All, I use the Harmony 880, and love it, but still haven't found a way to solve the issue of needing to hold down a button for some operations (most commonly, the Power button to force a restart). I can't find this in Default.map (I was hoping to remap it to a custom keypress). Has anyone

Re: [slim] Harmony 880 Issue

2007-07-23 Thread Geoff B
On 7/23/07, kdf wrote: Those special functions are not part of slimserver software Thanks, KDF - I was afraid of that. I'll try doing a learn on a long hold, but I'm not holding out much hope... Has anyone else managed to work around this issue with the 880? It repeats enough to do things like

Re: [slim] Best Universal remote for Squeezebox?

2007-07-24 Thread Geoff B
On 7/23/07, agentsmith wrote: Bob, where did you get the code the your Harmony. I have a 880 and got my Slim codes from the Logitech site, the menu layout is kind of messy. But then I have not accessed their site for ages. I've found that most Harmony profiles don't have EVERY function

Re: [slim] Best Universal remote for Squeezebox?

2007-07-24 Thread Geoff B
On 7/24/07, ceejay wrote: mbonsack;216672 Wrote: What's wrong with the 885 and a Panny plasma? I use the 676 and it works just fine with my Panny commercial display... I think this may depend on where you are - but current Panasonic Plasmas sold in Europe have some very messy command

Re: [slim] Best Universal remote for Squeezebox?

2007-07-24 Thread Geoff B
On 7/24/07, agentsmith wrote: earthbased;216708 Wrote: Try using an eraser on the contacts. EB Yes I heard about that trick and tried it unsuccessfully My remote is quite new and hardly ever used do that may not be the problem. I called their support, and they were excellent - after

Re: [slim] Harmony remotes

2007-07-25 Thread Geoff B
On 7/25/07, Gibbo wrote: Whilst we seem to be on the topic, how do they deal with buttons such as browse and search as these aren't actual buttons on the remotes themselves? I'm thinking of one of the low level ones such as the 555. As far as I can tell, the 555 / 550 works the same way as

Re: [slim] Harmony remotes

2007-07-25 Thread Geoff B
On 7/25/07, Gibbo wrote: Cheers, what I needed to know!!! Anyone who owns any of them, is it really worth paying twice the price of a 555 for the 885 (or 550 and 880)? does it mean anything other than the cradle, colour screen, and more slots (as above)? For me, the cradle is the biggest

Re: [slim] Harmony remotes

2007-07-25 Thread Geoff B
On 7/25/07, badbob wrote: I would seriously re-consider not buying a Harmony remote 1) Require a net connection Only for the initial setup (and the occasional reconfig) - and for many devices this is common. The first thing I did when I installed my squeezebox is download the latest slimserver

Re: [slim] Harmony remotes

2007-07-25 Thread Geoff B
On 7/25/07, badbob wrote: I understand that if you have a DSL connection it isn't a problem. I do have DSL, but even so I don't like the idea of Harmony design. If you're a CI this required net connection is stupid, my local dealer had to configure a Harmony remote for a client, but the

Re: [slim] Remote stopped working

2007-07-25 Thread Geoff B
On 7/24/07, yoffer wrote: Had my SB3 for 3 weeks now and all of sudden the remote has stopped working completely, I tried replacing the batteries but that hasn't made any difference, just wondered if anybody else had experienced the same problem, or am I just unlucky. As well as Anoop's

Re: [slim] Phone calls cause SB to turn off.

2007-07-26 Thread Geoff B
On 7/26/07, NauticusLX wrote: mvalera, the phone is 10 years old, and uses a protocol that predates the 2.4 GHz. Doesn't that make my problem even more improbable? It seems that getting a newer phone wouldn't resolve the problem. This must be happening to others, I wonder what they do.

Re: [slim] Phone calls cause SB to turn off.

2007-07-26 Thread Geoff B
On 7/26/07, Geoff B wrote: Does the SB stop working the instant you press the talk button on the phone? This would suggest something other than interference from the phone, since in my case the SB happily wound it's way through it's buffer before dying. I had the same problem

Re: [slim] Changing the remote's functionality

2007-07-30 Thread Geoff B
On 7/26/07, thomsens wrote: I would like to change the volume control on my remote to control my pre-amp instead of the transporter since I leave the volume at max all the time on the transporter. Does anyone have a pointer on how to remap the buttons or any pointers? With guidance, I

Re: [slim] sorting FLAC MP3 files

2007-08-01 Thread Geoff B
On 8/1/07, FTJoe wrote: Thanx - that's why I conceded it might be easier to just reference my MP3 library (not originally sourced from CD). My original thinking was I could just make all flac and it would be simple to operate against these files. I'm still trying to figure out the music

Re: [slim] Hamachi user: No connectivity today?

2007-08-01 Thread Geoff B
On 7/20/07, shadowboxer wrote: TCM;215649 Wrote: *bump* shadowboxer: are you still using Hamachi or have you switched to something else? I'm curious whether your problem was permanent or not. Are there any people still using Hamchi? Since the Hamachi software update, it completely

Re: [slim] sorting FLAC MP3 files

2007-08-01 Thread Geoff B
On 8/1/07, FTJoe wrote: I guess I'm now struggling on how to convert my WAV files to flac. I don't want to re-rip all my CDs but without the tag info on a WAV file, and the track number as part of the file name, I'm stumped what to use to get my WAV files to flac with tag info. I guess

Re: [slim] sorting FLAC MP3 files

2007-08-01 Thread Geoff B
On 8/1/07, FTJoe wrote: I believe Itunes keeps the tag info separate. I already have every song stored as Apple lossless. I did a quick search before and didn't notice anything that might convert these, but it looks like maybe dbpoweramp might help. I did a quick sample run and I think it's

Re: [slim] sorting FLAC MP3 files

2007-08-06 Thread Geoff B
On 8/4/07, FTJoe wrote: Okay - just to close and ask one more question...why shouldn't I just use the Apple Lossless. It appears to be supported (at least in the software). I've never used it, but isn't it transcoded before being sent to the SB? So that either means lower quality (if

Re: [slim] Still possible to buy SlimDevices (not Logitech) SB3 in UK?

2007-08-10 Thread Geoff B
On 8/10/07, benedict wrote: jeffmeh;220105 Wrote: Ah, UK date format. For a moment I was wondering how you could be so patient as to perceive no problems with a four month wait, lol. Ref UK/US date format – it's always puzzled me why the Americans order their dates the way they do. Surely

Re: [slim] Making a Fave Playlist

2007-08-29 Thread Geoff B
On 8/29/07, Barry McLarnon wrote: Another nuisance with the tag approach is that my scheduled nightly rescans don't pick up the changes, so I have to do a complete library rescan periodically. What are you using to change the tags - does the file-modified date change? I'm not sure, but from

Re: [slim] Re: Need Australian female voice talent

2005-11-17 Thread Geoff B
On 11/17/05, dwc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: England - Australia = easy New Zealand - Australia = not so easy Not as hard as you think: NZ=Fish and chips Aus=Feesh and cheeps Geoff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] ssh/slimserver/softsqueeze

2005-12-02 Thread Geoff B
On 12/1/05, kkitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have slimserver 6.1.1 working with both a SB3 and with various computers running SoftSqueeze on my local LAN. I'd like to set up SoftSqueeze at work to access my slimserver at home. I have set up my firewall/router to forward port 22 to

Re: [slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

2005-12-07 Thread Geoff B
On 12/7/05, Mark Lanctot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the solution would be to use Mp3tag to wipe the APE tag, then rewrite all ReplayGain APE tags using MP3Gain. That would ensure all artist/title data is in ID3v2 and that the APE tags contain *only* ReplayGain data. That's a long

Re: [slim] Re: SB Form Factor (wish)

2005-12-09 Thread Geoff B
On 12/8/05, Ben Sandee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Headphone jack on the back works great for cheapo powered speakers. Why do I want to see a bright green plug coming off the side of my sb3? SB2 has it on the side and I happen to, unfortunately, be using my SB2 in that configuration and it's an

Re: [slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

2005-12-10 Thread Geoff B
in the LH pane. But you can just hit alt-T (I think) to get the tags window up, and double-click the tag you want to change. Cheers Geoff B ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Remote Streaming Over Internet

2006-01-03 Thread Geoff B
-jar C:\Program Files\SoftSqueeze\SoftSqueeze.jar Hope that helps Geoff B ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Remote Streaming Over Internet

2006-01-04 Thread Geoff B
On 1/4/06, Michael Herger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTTP Port, and '3483' as Slimserver SlimProto Port. Is this right? Should there be a 9090 in there somewhere? You don't need 9090 (it's the CLI), but 3483. Configure the mapping for this port, too. Bugger, sorry - my fault, I

Re: [slim] Re: Remote Streaming Over Internet

2006-01-04 Thread Geoff B
your upload speed. Alternatively, some ISPs have higher upload speed options (at a price, of course!). Cheers Geoff B ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Remote Streaming Over Internet

2006-01-04 Thread Geoff B
to change the default port (22) to something higher and more random. Hope that helps, Geoff B ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

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