Re: [slim] Re: Archiving classics

2005-11-07 Thread Geoff B
On 11/6/05, Michaelwagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think an intermediate step, before we go to Pat's full blown database > that stores its own stuff, we should make better (full?) use of the MP3 > (and other format tags) that are defined today. > > Pat (or someone else, don't remember) poin

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. -> > ht

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 e

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,

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 http

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

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 pro

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

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

2005-12-10 Thread Geoff B
like it a lot. Hi guys, In fact, I think you've followed everything through the utmost conclusion - you can't change what appears 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 _

Re: [slim] Re: Remote Streaming Over Internet

2006-01-03 Thread Geoff B
e name. Mine says: "C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_07\bin\javaw.exe" -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 mis-r

Re: [slim] Re: Remote Streaming Over Internet

2006-01-04 Thread Geoff B
e, go to player settings | audio | bitrate limiting. Choose a value that fits easily within 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
he steps in the second link, above, and it worked ok. I then did a bit of digging to find how 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

Re: [slim] Re: Remote Streaming Over Internet

2006-01-04 Thread Geoff B
On 1/4/06, Neil Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Geoff; unfortunately none of those sites explains how to generate Key > Pairs - or what to do with them. I've found sites that purport to explain > it; but not simply by any means! Sorry, can't remember any more of how I tweaked it. Ther

Re: [slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2006-01-05 Thread Geoff B
On 1/5/06, Dr Lovegrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As in CTRL+P, etc ? Yeah, that shouldnt be too tricky.. Moose would > need to be the selected app though.. You could use the method referred to in the last message of this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.

Re: [slim] Re: Remote Streaming Over Internet

2006-01-05 Thread Geoff B
On 1/4/06, Neil Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Geoff; unfortunately none of those sites explains how to generate Key > Pairs - or what to do with them. I've found sites that purport to explain > it; but not simply by any means! One more note on this: there is a reasonable page here d

Re: [slim] Can I use Palm Treo 650 as a Bluetooth Remote without Salling Clicker?

2006-01-06 Thread Geoff B
On 1/6/06, Peter Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wondered if anyone has had experience using the Palm Treo 650 as a > remote control for slimserver. > > I recently purchased the SB3 with the expectation that I could use > Salling Clicker on my Treo 650 to control the slimserver, but as it > t

Re: [slim] Re: Can I use Palm Treo 650 as a Bluetooth Remote without Salling Clicker?

2006-01-06 Thread Geoff B
On 1/6/06, Peter Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Geoff, > > So does the pTunes program allow you to control the slimserver (browse, > stop, play, etc) from the handheld? > > Does it also support cover art? In fact, I don't have a Treo 650, so haven't tried it. I would suspect not, rathe

Re: [slim] How random is Random Song Mix?

2006-01-06 Thread Geoff B
On 1/6/06, Kevin Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max.spicer > wrote: > > The RandomMix plugin currently takes no steps to avoid playing the same > > track more than once. However, I've started work on a change to stop > > songs being played more than once > > Ar

Re: [slim] Re: ADDing a genre tag without replacing it for multiple files

2006-01-10 Thread Geoff B
On 1/10/06, ceejay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mp3tag can nearly do this, with a little care you can get what you > want, though its a bit more manual than you are probably looking for. In fact, I think it's even easier. You can create a 'replace' action in MP3Tag for the genre field, with a form

Re: [slim] Re: ADDing a genre tag without replacing it for multiple files

2006-01-11 Thread Geoff B
On 1/11/06, ceejay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SlimPvC Wrote: > > had a bit of a hard time to find out how to use the reg exp because it > > was nowhere in the help section. > > ... another thing I've learned about mp3tag over the last couple of > months is that what you are looking for probably

Re: [slim] Re: The only downside I've noticed

2006-01-17 Thread Geoff B
On 1/17/06, cliveb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it's worth, I control the SB2 purely through the standard > remote. I do this also, and know exactly what you mean about wanting to scan quickly through CDs to see which one 'jumps out'. One thing that sometimes works well is to hit one of

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-18 Thread Geoff B
On 1/18/06, Dr Lovegrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the library album art... > > Firstly it looks at the 'thumbnails' setting in the options dialog. > If this is set to an empty string, it doesnt display thumbnails in the > library window. It sounds like this differs from the standard SlimSer

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 9

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), ava

Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets

2005-10-11 Thread Geoff B
On 10/11/05, NickM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Clive - the reason I question whether it's a bug or not, is that > under the Server Settings, Behavior, there is an option to "Group > Discs". So someone has obviously thought about the problem, just not > quite enough for a flexible solution.

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 sum

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 mo

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

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. Beari

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 a

[slim] Forum/List Attachments

2005-10-20 Thread Geoff B
Hi All, I read several of the forums via the mail gateway (using GMail), purely due to personal preference. WITHOUT starting the forum vs mailing list debate again, I wanted to find out (presumably from Slim Devices) whether it is possible to get the forums altered to handle a few improvements: -

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

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

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

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 mi

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

Re: [slim] UI Nuisance Now Playing

2006-02-13 Thread Geoff B
On 2/11/06, Mark Lanctot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not seeing what you're seeing. > > What do you mean by "if the screensaver jumps to > Now Playing as you are pressing the button to jump > to Now Playing"? On mine, the screensaver remains > on unless I press something. It never goes back

Re: [slim] Re: Maximum Album Name Length?

2006-02-13 Thread Geoff B
On 2/12/06, jpj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One reason is probably my preferred tagging tool, the > industrial-strength MP3 Tag Studio: > http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/ > > Such an insanely > powerful app really should be the geek's tagger of choice. Try it, > you'll like it. Looks interesti

Re: [slim] An experiment - Slimserver and Microsoft SQL

2006-02-20 Thread Geoff B
On 2/16/06, blueranger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, OK, so I was bored!! > > I sat down in front of my server the other afternoon, browsed these > pages and saw that other people were successfully changing over from > SQLite to MySQL. I already have Microsoft SQL installed on my server, > the

Re: [slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-20 Thread Geoff B
On 2/1/06, dborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I should try a small subset of my music collection with maybe 1 > or 2 multi-disc albums and 1 or 2 "various artists" albums. Now it takes > too long to go change everything (even if Mp3tag is good) and then > rescan the whole database. This mak

Re: [slim] Fatal YAML bug 6.2.2. Fix needed.

2006-02-20 Thread Geoff B
On 2/20/06, ianwi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The most recent thing I did was add some new music a few days ago. It > played alright. That's the last change I've made to the server. I'm not a Perl programmer either, but perhaps this points to a corrupt .db file? Especially if nothing's been chan

Re: [slim] Bugs.slimdevices - hard to find bugs (Patrick Nixon, help!)

2006-02-20 Thread Geoff B
On 2/20/06, Simon @ Home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm CC'ed to a bug about the remote jumping through menu items. > There are some settings in this bug report that I want. But I can't find the > bug by searching bugs.slimdevices. A search on say,remote jump gives > me zillions of bugs a

Re: [slim] Re: support - how long does it typically take to respond?

2006-02-21 Thread Geoff B
On 2/21/06, seanadams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're interested in applying for a tech support position please > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't that another way of saying, "Patches welcome..."? :-) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevic

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

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.

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 PROT

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, especia

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

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 inclu

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 th

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. > > F

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

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

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

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 des

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

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

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 w

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 atta

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

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

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

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 ro

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 http://lists.

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

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 "upda

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 p

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 COMPI

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 interf

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 th

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 h

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 http://lists.slimdevic

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 random-p

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 "" (which indicates that they aren't all the same) - it should be the actual alb

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 all

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

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 th

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 pegs

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

2006-08-17 Thread Geoff B
On 8/16/06, dnighorn wrote: Does Tag&Rename 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: http://www

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 MP

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 &

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 d

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 t

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 S

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 http://wiki.slimdevices.

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 ba

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 (althoug

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