Re: [slim] Re: Defaulting to the clock when SlimServer shuts down

2006-03-03 Thread Jack Coates
kyleki wrote: I run slimserver on the Linux side of a dual boot machine. Sometimes I do boot into Windows which leaves my SB2 display blank until I boot back to Linux. The machine is always running, but not always in a 'slim-friendly' way. ;-) The main reason I don't also run slimserver from

Re: [slim] Re: Artists showing up twice in Browse Artists

2006-03-02 Thread Jack Coates
Arg - now the artist is showing up THREE times! Do you have the Lazy Search plugin installed? -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: Need a small desktop clock, similar to Yahoo widgets

2006-03-02 Thread Jack Coates
heavily last time I sat in a cube farm: http://www.deathclock.com/ -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss

Re: [slim] Can we get SlimServer on a Penguin?

2006-03-01 Thread Jack Coates
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3880195342.html Not sure I like the look of where that network cable is going... heh... they said pecker... heh-heh... Pretty cool, but I'm sure it's way too slow for Slimserver. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent

Re: [slim] Re: Linksys's new Slim-killer

2006-02-28 Thread Jack Coates
, no doubt it would have been a much more likely candidate. ... CaptainObviousDifferent people have different needs, and therefore different products are introduced to the market. These products fail to meet the needs of all people. News at 11!/CaptainObvious -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org

Re: [slim] Re: New QA Manager

2006-02-28 Thread Jack Coates
/search.php?searchid=155457 Search, Advanced Search, User ID = stinkingpig kidding, ha, it's a joke :) -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: How much free space do I really need to leave on my HD?

2006-02-28 Thread Jack Coates
% as a steady state is fine. What about swap space? Only an issue for the main OS drive, presumably this is a music-only volume. Fragmentation? Only an issue for Microsoft filesystems. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies

Re: [slim] Re: How much free space do I really need to leave on my HD?

2006-02-28 Thread Jack Coates
agree with the spirit of your comment and should have said similar, which is that you gotta use the filesystem in order to produce fragmentation. A read-only store won't have the problem. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking

Re: [slim] Re: How can I speed up the web interface?

2006-02-26 Thread Jack Coates
checking out. Moser for instance should be very fast. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Discrete Codes

2006-02-26 Thread Jack Coates
is focused on core functionality -- imagine a house where the housecleaners keep the front half nice, but there's a construction project going on in the back. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I

Re: [slim] Rescan speed - is this normal?

2006-02-26 Thread Jack Coates
a recursion loop, or a corrupt file? -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate Artists

2006-02-25 Thread Jack Coates
. In the meantime, just rebuild your database and don't use Browse Music Folder :) -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Linksys's new Slim-killer

2006-02-24 Thread Jack Coates
stereo. No display, no remote, no computerless usage. Oh, and it's a Linksys -- the people who've produced two DOA's and two damaged-but-barely-functionals that I've bought. I might pay more for a Squeezebox, but I know it will work or be replaced if it doesn't. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot

Re: [slim] Re: Remaining Time display is bass-ackwards

2006-02-24 Thread Jack Coates
kdf Wrote: and here I thought for sure you had to be joking You think I'd kid around about something like this? The glass shouldn't be depicted as half full when it is actually half empty. Make mine a Balvenie, as long as you're filling glasses. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org

Re: [slim] Re: Is a Slim boombox really feasible?

2006-02-24 Thread Jack Coates
... important thing is that it's all in one box so you can carry it around. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Crashing SLIMP3

2006-02-24 Thread Jack Coates
? I don't recall if 4.x had to chew on it for a while or not... -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss

Re: [slim] How can I speed up the web interface?

2006-02-24 Thread Jack Coates
usage shoots up to about 98% busy (slimserver.pl). browse music folder is a lot slower than the other methods. Also, which skin are you using? If you specify Light or Handheld and Browse New Music, does that perform well? Is the browser on localhost, or on another machine? -- Jack Coates

Re: [slim] Re: Is there a play history feature?

2006-02-24 Thread Jack Coates
music feature :) Oh wait, that's not very simple... maybe I'll just finish cleaning out the inbox and go to bed. in the meantime, use slimscrobbler and last.fm to get what you want. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so

Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate Artists

2006-02-24 Thread Jack Coates
://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/development/slimserver-development/lazy-search/)? It had a problem with 6.1/6.2 and would cause duplicates when you used browse music folder. This was fixed in the 6.5 branch only. FWIW, I use Lazy Search on 6.2.1 and just avoid browsing music folder. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot

Re: [slim] What's next from Slim? Speculate here.

2006-02-23 Thread Jack Coates
Pale Blue Ego wrote: I'm thinking the folks at Slim have been a little too quiet lately. Either they're bogged down filling orders, out blowing their recently-acquired fortunes, or working up some new stuff in the lab. So, what might the next hardware offering be? I've got 2 ideas that spring

Re: [slim] Is a Slim boombox really feasible?

2006-02-23 Thread Jack Coates
Kyle wrote: Most boomboxes sell for, I'd guess, $150 to $250. A Slim boombox would be starting with a $300 streaming component and then you would have to add speakers, an amplifier and maybe CD and radio, too. Knowing the quality audio that Slim Devices likes to deliver, I doubt this would be

Re: [slim] Re: Roku M500 + slimserver + flac/320CBR mp3 = breakups?

2006-02-23 Thread Jack Coates
mkozlows wrote: But apparently other people don't care, and they listen to playlists instead of albums, and it turns out that maybe different programs are good for different styles of usage. different people have different needs? But, but, doesn't everyone know that I know what's right

Re: [slim] Who are you on LastFM?

2006-02-22 Thread Jack Coates
in there :) -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http

Re: [slim] Re: Web display lags behind Squeezebox

2006-02-22 Thread Jack Coates
. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http

Re: [slim] Squeezebox for the Blind?

2006-02-20 Thread Jack Coates
song. there's been conversation, which always ends with shouldn't be too difficult and someone going off to investigate. Apparently it's more difficult than it looks. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across

Re: [slim] Re: Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?

2006-02-19 Thread Jack Coates
Steve Baumgarten wrote: This is the dirty little secret of the satellite radio industry: what they're broadcasting sounds like crap. I was actually shocked at how bad Sirius sounds over the air; I expected it to sound better than the crappy WMA stream you hear online, but in fact it sounds

Re: [slim] Re: Last.fm or Pandora?

2006-02-17 Thread Jack Coates
. ... that is the first thing that has ever made me want to replace my iRiver ihp-120. dang! -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: Potential Squeezebox killer? iTunes fans might think so...

2006-02-13 Thread Jack Coates
interface design of the Naughty Naughts is lost forever, and those damn kids won't get off the lawn. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: stream.mp3 problems

2006-02-13 Thread Jack Coates
settings to resample to lower bandwidth. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Potential Squeezebox killer? iTunes fans might think so...

2006-02-12 Thread Jack Coates
to increase for a bigger battery. ... The Apple device will do well among those who don't do any product research and those who do legitimately find it to meet their needs. Most who do any searching for a product will end up at Squeezebox. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific

Re: [slim] Re: Potential Squeezebox killer? iTunes fans might think so...

2006-02-12 Thread Jack Coates
one. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http

Re: [slim] In anticipation of my new SQUEEZEBOX - what should I do?

2006-02-12 Thread Jack Coates
listen to a lot of Internet radio, AlienBBC is cool (but can be a hassle to get installed). -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: How would Slim do DRM?

2006-02-11 Thread Jack Coates
or media theft: every copy of the product represents a lost sale. In actuality, every copy represents a marketing opportunity, in which the recipient discovers something that they didn't have before. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin

Re: [slim] Re: How would Slim do DRM?

2006-02-11 Thread Jack Coates
measurable effect it all, it would probably be a positive effect. But if it isn't recorded in an RIAA-controlled studio and sold through an RIAA-approved outlet, it must be stopped? Craziness. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking

Re: [slim] Re: NY times/ Pandora

2006-02-10 Thread Jack Coates
there's no electricity outside of the U.S. How could people have Squeezeboxes without electricity? :) -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: SB 2 vs 3 differences

2006-02-10 Thread Jack Coates
would be fairly likely to get knocked over regularly. Each has its own place, depending on the location. Pun intended, sadly. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: Songbird

2006-02-10 Thread Jack Coates
Did anyone get what Songbird is good for? The interface is 100% ripped off from iTunes. really? ewww. Scratch that off the to try someday list -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean

Re: [slim] Re: NY times/ Pandora

2006-02-10 Thread Jack Coates
_way_ off topic.) Yeah, TVs have terrible audio properties, and there's not even any Slimserver support? Lame. Besides, if it's not Scottish, it's c*ap! *l -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western

Re: [slim] Re: next album button?

2006-02-09 Thread Jack Coates
human endeavor. It ain't pretty, but just be thankful that the SDI bugzilla is open to the public and as small as it is :) -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: NY times/ Pandora

2006-02-09 Thread Jack Coates
stinkingpig Wrote: Hey Jack! http://www.last.fm/user/Stinkingpig/. You like leadbelly? yup. So do the kids. I take no responsibility for any Coldplay in there though, that's the wife. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies

Re: [slim] Re: NY times/ Pandora

2006-02-08 Thread Jack Coates
, and I could see their service improving at some point. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: Speaker Recommendation for non-audiophile

2006-02-06 Thread Jack Coates
Kevin O. Lepard wrote: The Edirol self-powered speakers have been spoken of favorably here. Kevin I like mine. However, I don't think they're intended/marketed as computer speakers, but rather as musician monitors that can incidentally be hooked to a computer, squeezebox, or whatever. I

Re: [slim] Re: OT: Slim's HQ in Google Earth?

2006-02-06 Thread Jack Coates
seanadams wrote: Nope, that's a recycling center. And the next building to the West is a great place to get a German transmission repaired. Slim Devices is in the next building south of there, the one running East-West. Interesting... using the address, Google Earth/Maps is about three

Re: [slim] Re: I want a Squeezebox boombox

2006-02-05 Thread Jack Coates
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/06 12:21 PM Yeah I'm not interested in a video solution from Slim just yet; I like the fact that their speciality is an audio device. I pretty much agree. I like having an audio only device in some locations. I have no

Re: [slim] Slimbox for travellers

2006-02-04 Thread Jack Coates
klausbgva wrote: I am travelling quiet a bit and am looking for a smart way to take the slimbox along. In most hotels I can connect wireless with the laptop and squeezbox. I had planned to take my slimbox on the trip. But that means take along: the BOX, Powersupply and a pair of powered

Re: [slim] Re: Fast-forwarding and rewinding woes

2006-02-03 Thread Jack Coates
dangerous_dom wrote: While i love my SB3, Fastforwarding/rewinding is an absolute joke. Even with WMA, MP3 and FLAC (all native) it never seems to work properly, at all. Another major bug with an otherwise great bit of kit. works fine for me, using MP3, SS ver 6.2. I don't use it much

Re: [slim] Re: Fast-forwarding and rewinding woes

2006-02-02 Thread Jack Coates
Skunk wrote: I tried testing FF RW feature after a recent thread without first considering what was playing, which was Brian Eno and David Byrne, My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, and in the middle of song two I couldn't tell if I was going backward or forward, or even double speed or real time.

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3

2006-02-01 Thread Jack Coates
fairyliquidizer wrote: Hi! I've just ordered the Squeezebox 3. I have hesitated on this move for a while as I wanted: 1. UPNP support so that I can run an Appliance as a server rather than my beast of a PC You can run an appliance as a server now without uPNP, though performance is a

Re: [slim] Re: I want a Squeezebox boombox

2006-02-01 Thread Jack Coates
Mark Lanctot wrote: Now that I'm using one as an alarm clock radio I'm inclined to agree! Just something simple. A small class D amp chip like the Tripath TAA2009 - nice-sounding but cheap, 9W/ch at 89% efficiency, good for battery power consumption and average output power for a boombox.

Re: [slim] Re: Squeezebox 3

2006-02-01 Thread Jack Coates
fairyliquidizer wrote: Thanks Sean :-D This is all very friendly tonight :) stinkingpig Wrote: You can run an appliance as a server now without uPNP, though performance is a bit suspect with large libraries. uPNP is yet another solution in search of a problem. Is this done by

Re: [slim] Re: BOM for stand-alone Music Server

2006-01-30 Thread Jack Coates
Jon wrote: When you say avoid wireless, are you referring specifically to the end-to-end connection between the server and the Squeezebox (via a wireless router), or just to the portion of the connection between the server and the router? I have two Squeezeboxes arriving next week, I was

Re: [slim] Re: When should I switch from SQLLite to MySQL?

2006-01-30 Thread Jack Coates
rkeeney wrote: macallf Wrote: I had the same problem using MySql 5. Removed 5 and installed 4.1, recreated the slimserver database and assigned all permissions to user slimserver. Thanks, Mark. I had noticed warnings from others about using v5 so I installed v4.1 and no luck. I

Re: [slim] BOM for stand-alone Music Server

2006-01-29 Thread Jack Coates
pankaj wrote: Hello I'm considering getting my local computer hardware supplier to put together a standalone, low-cost, 24x7 computer to serve as my music server, and I was looking for some advice on what is the minimum I should purchase, a Bill-Of-Materials (BOM) so to speak. For example, I

Re: [slim] Re: Off-topic: zip file expander

2006-01-29 Thread Jack Coates
Kyle wrote: MrC Wrote: You mean different than the one built into Windows XP? I've got XP Pro, but the only expander I can find on my machine is StuffIt, which has nag screens. Is there a built-in that doesn't have nag screens? It does, though installing something else may have

Re: [slim] Re: Off-topic: zip file expander

2006-01-29 Thread Jack Coates
Skunk wrote: I love 7-zip too. So refreshing :) When will someone put all this freeware together into a OS 'for dummies'- like MS but free (?) http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ http://www.theopencd.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_software_packages -- Jack at

Re: [slim] Re: When should I switch from SQLLite to MySQL?

2006-01-25 Thread Jack Coates
Patrick Dixon wrote: Hmm, well I've spent the 5 minutes and I'm getting nowhere ... I'm getting: mysql Ungrant all on slimserver.* to slimserver [identified by 'password']; ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version

Re: [slim] Re: New Product Idea: Integrated Amplifier

2006-01-22 Thread Jack Coates
dlashof wrote: Fair point. I'm vaguely aware of some of the high end systems costing $1000, but my sense is that the market for that is quite limited. Apple has demonstrated that there is a huge market for digital music systems if you make them user friendly and hit the right price

Re: [slim] Re: New Product Idea: Integrated Amplifier

2006-01-22 Thread Jack Coates
dlashof wrote: Fair point. I'm vaguely aware of some of the high end systems costing $1000, but my sense is that the market for that is quite limited. Apple has demonstrated that there is a huge market for digital music systems if you make them user friendly and hit the right price

Re: [slim] Easy question

2006-01-22 Thread Jack Coates
bevege wrote: I've used squeezebox for a while to stream music to my computer at work. I showed my brother-in-law and he wants to set up a server. My question is, if the server has a sound card can you just listen to the music right off the server? For example just plugin the sound card

Re: [slim] Re: MusicGiants

2006-01-22 Thread Jack Coates
Jacob Potter wrote: On 1/22/06, nelamvr6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use Microsoft Windows Media Digital Rights Management software to make sure all the music you have is fast, safe and protected. Yeah, I'm sure that's why they use it. They're only looking out for us! Well,

Re: [slim] Re: Easy question

2006-01-22 Thread Jack Coates
bevege wrote: Good point! The only problem is that he doesn't have X-Windows installed, it's a clarkconnect box. Does anyone know of a good command line or even better, web based mp3 player? I can do some searching but would like to hear from you all. I just thought slimserver would be cool

Re: [slim] Re: iTunes and DRM

2006-01-16 Thread Jack Coates
kewe65 wrote: To be accurate, they play audio on machines that have QuickTime installed - it does not use iTunes. And since you must have QuickTime installed to use iTunes (DRM files or not), I'm not sure what the big deal is? Music Library is a Java-based program that uses the QuickTime API

Re: [slim] Re: iTunes and DRM

2006-01-16 Thread Jack Coates
kewe65 wrote: ... No, the files are decoded prior to the soundcard. A programmer reverse-engineered the quicktime API for the protected format and put the method in a book - QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook By Chris Adamson The software I'm talking about, Music Library, is unique in

Re: [slim] Re: iTunes and DRM

2006-01-16 Thread Jack Coates
kewe65 wrote: ... Can't Slimserver just be configured to stream to the Squeezebox whatever is being delivered to the soundcard? That would be pretty cool: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643. I added my vote. All I'm really interested in is playback of these files. I intend

Re: [slim] Attention Slim Devices: Apple/iTunes store DRM question...

2006-01-15 Thread Jack Coates
and current Billboard hits will be tougher to find unless you go to allofmp3. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] iTunes and DRM

2006-01-15 Thread Jack Coates
? -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http

Re: [slim] Re: AllofMP3.com

2006-01-15 Thread Jack Coates
websites and would be happy to sell you their songs, T-shirts, c through that channel. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: AllofMP3.com

2006-01-15 Thread Jack Coates
there, and they make music in all different styles. Look for them, listen to them, buy from them. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: iTunes and DRM

2006-01-15 Thread Jack Coates
snarlydwarf wrote: kewe65 Wrote: All three of these software packages play protected iTunes files with no problems whatsoever. They play it on a machine that has iTunes installed and don't send it to other devices. exactly:

Re: [slim] Re: Nominate Squeezebox as Home Entertainment Device of the Yearon Engadget

2006-01-14 Thread Jack Coates
? -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox Freezes on startup

2006-01-14 Thread Jack Coates
. Is this happening to anyone else? Did I get a bunk one? Steve sounds like a hardware problem to me -- I'd contact support. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver-ready NSLU2 NAS or better?

2006-01-13 Thread Jack Coates
also add a $30 PCI card to handle the bigger disk. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [slim] Can multiple PC players listen to the same playlist?

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
. One master playlist, and everybody just tap into that stream. Thanks for the help in advance, Ben The only way to do that is to use SoftSqueeze and synchronize. The individual non-Softsqueeze media players will each show up as separate players and will have their own playlists. -- Jack

Re: [slim] Output Signal strength?

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
if you find SB2 information, it's applicable. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Synchronization

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
or the Slim protocol itself support resynchronization at a regular interval. That would probably help mitigate drifting. Not at this time. Currently the synchronization is done at the beginning of tracks. The developers are aware and considering the problem. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle

Re: [slim] SB1 SB2 cases interchangeable?

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
Hi, I'm considering upgrading to an SB2 before they're all gone, but there are only silver ones left at this point. Will I be able to swap the black case from my SB1 (graphical) with the silver SB2 case? thanks, Greg I think so - externally the cases are the same. -- Jack Coates

Re: [slim] Manual

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
where I can listen to music or try to listen to music. I even saw a screen go by that said I had a 70% signal strength. But I can't browse my music at all, much less play it. So I need an up to date help file somewhere. Help!! Thanks Bruce S. Did you install the server software? -- Jack

Re: [slim] Re: Squeezebox freezes with phone?

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
land on the channel your WAP uses. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Squeezebox freezes with phone?

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
). That's pretty unlikely though. Vonage is pretty lightweight, I doubt it's the problem. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Is slim still good in 2006 ?

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
be reaching its limits. Then we can run Slimserver on Beowulf clusters of small NAS devices Hopefully you don't see my response as confrontational. It's interesting to speculate on future trends as it relates to our favourite toy. :-) quite :) -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org

Re: [slim] Re: Manual

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
from your wireless router. Is it supposed to hand them out? Have you tried setting a static address? -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

Re: [slim] Re: Manual

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
that doesn't match the easy-startup assumptions. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Manual

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
slimserver ports are OK. If you can get to Network Setup Address, or Settings Information Player Information Player IP Address, did the Squeezebox get an address? Can the Slimserver machine ping it? -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin

Re: [slim] Re: Manual

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
it give an address? Is the address right? 4) Squeezebox searches the network for a Slimserver -- second potential problem. Is the Slimserver PC on the same network? Is Slimserver running? Is the firewall open? 5) It connects, it updates its firmware and is good to go. -- Jack Coates

Re: [slim] Re: Manual

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
. Next step -- on the slimserver PC, verify that the Slimserver is running and that the firewall isn't blocking it. Windows Firewall exceptions don't always take effect on the first try, so try temporarily disabling it. Also make sure you don't have other firewalls helping out. -- Jack Coates

Re: [slim] Re: Manual

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
use DHCP in their networks. From what you've posted, it seems like you've got DHCP working though. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander - traditional

[slim] SqueezeboxG for sale

2006-01-12 Thread Jack Coates
not do the upgrade, this one came from Slim Devices with the screen installed. $100. I'm in the Bay Area (Berkeley), and I'd prefer to sell it to someone local and avoid shipping hassle. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin with the ladies

Re: [slim] Re: What's the minimum slimserver version required for SB3?

2006-01-09 Thread Jack Coates
into a loop. maybe that's exactly what it's doing. I'll bet you've got something in your library that causes the db rescan to go wonky. There's a nightly db rescan in 6.x. Try pointing it at a subset of the library. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! I spent all me tin

RE: [slim] Tag Issues

2005-12-30 Thread Jack Coates
This sort of thing happens to me fairly often (maybe every time that I add music to an existing artist?). I usually get a second listing for that artist, but I've had your problem too. Anyway, wiping the database and rebuilding always fixes it for me. -- Jack At Monkeynoodle.Org: It's A

Re: [slim] Re: Synchronization should use fine-grained network clock

2005-12-28 Thread Jack Coates
mikeb Wrote: A heart-beat sent to the server by each client with a frame number and ntp time synched time stamp would allow the server to send a signal to the client to advance the track 3 frames to catch up with the other clients. Personally, that's not a route I would prefer. Assuming

Re: [slim] Re: Synchronization should use fine-grained network clock

2005-12-28 Thread Jack Coates
Jack Coates wrote: Anyway, as others have noted, multicast doesn't like wireless. There may be issues with layer 2 ethernet multicast over certain vendors' APs, but the standard layer 3 routed multicast packets (that I at least was speaking of?) will work fine regardless of the layer 2

Re: [slim] Synchronisation sadness

2005-12-21 Thread Jack Coates
Is it just me, or are there quite a few problems with the synching of the devices. I'm running 1 Squeezebox2 and 4 PC's all with the softsqueeze 2 software. It was always a little flaky, but I've just upgraded the server to the latest version, and rather than improving it, it's caused a

Re: [slim] Re: Native AAC Support

2005-12-18 Thread Jack Coates
... I'm not sure what the harshness towards 'average users' is all about. While Slimserver and Squeezebox are wonderful and have a fantastic number of options, it does sometimes seem that ease of use and simplicity take a back seat. Again, only going by my experience, but I've had the SB2 for

Re: [slim] Network problems with WIRED SB3

2005-12-18 Thread Jack Coates
I've noticed most of the discussion re: network problems is with wireless connections, but I have a wired SB3 that displays many of the same characteristics - sometimes... If I use a pre-made (molded ends) ethernet cable to connect to my router, the SB3 seems to work great. Menu selection

Re: [slim] Player shows double tracks

2005-12-18 Thread Jack Coates
A number of my albums show double tracks in the player. http://timothydehan.com/images/double.JPG. When looking at the actual folder there are no double tracks. These only show up like this in the Player view. No other views within SlimServer show double tracks like this. What is

Re: [slim] Re: Native AAC Support

2005-12-17 Thread Jack Coates
... Most average users likely use WMP or iTunes. The lossless choices are WMA or M4P. I think if you asked an average user what FLAC was, they'd have no idea and probably not care. If FLAC is ever supported by WMP/iTunes, it will become a major format, but I won't hold my breath. Lemme

[slim] articles to ignore when sorting broken in 6.5?

2005-12-14 Thread Jack Coates
It's not working for me with the 12/13 release. -- Jack At Monkeynoodle.Org: It's A Scientific Venture... Believe what you're told; there'd be chaos if everyone thought for themselves. -- Top Dog hotdog stand, Berkeley, CA ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: Portable player suggestions

2005-12-11 Thread Jack Coates
fathom39 wrote: This looks interesting - I've seen the 60GB advertised for $299 after rebate. I'm very happy with my iRiver IHP-120 -- I've had it for two years, and it's been a solid performer the whole time. -- Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... If this is

Re: [slim] Re: Can I use a Squeezebox as a remote sound card?

2005-12-10 Thread Jack Coates
radish wrote: The couple I can think of which I know do audio are windows only, so I guess won't fly for you. That obviously also won't satisfy your mix requirement. esd and artsd are both network transparent, which would get all your *nix boxes playing on one sound card. -- Jack At

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2

2005-12-04 Thread Jack Coates
Khuli Wrote: Might be an idea to build them in black/white only, but have coloured cases available to purchase? skins, like the cell phones now have. or a skin in a can, :-) http://krylon.com/main/product_template.cfm?levelid=5sub_levelid=10content=product_list -- Jack At

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