Re: [slim] audiophile cred

2005-02-17 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Amster wrote: Well, yes - I need an oscilloscope and do not own one. I am sure that my 3 PSUs are working as designed (+5V digital, +5analog and +-15v analog). +5 analog? What's that for? As far as I could see, the DI/O requires +5V for the digital board and +/- 15V for the analogue

[slim] flac2mp3.pl v0.1.4

2005-02-17 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, I am pleased to announce v0.1.4 of my flac2mp3.pl script. Download it here: http://robinbowes.com/filemgmt/visit.php?lid=4 Changelog: # v0.1.4 # - Fix for files with multiple periods in filename, e.g. 01 - Back In #The U.S.S.R..flac would be converted as Back In The U.mp3 # - Fix for

Re: [slim] Why didn't they buy a SqueezeBox?

2005-02-22 Thread Robin Bowes
Larry Truesdale wrote: Your math is too simplistic. Deliberately so. Typically, most 802.11b environments can sustain no more than 2-3 Mb/s. The peak bandwidth under ideal (and unusual) circumstances is 4-5 Mbps. I know this. That's why I have my wireless Squeezebox on a dedicated access

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-02-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Christian Pernegger wrote: Quotes from: http://www.digido.com/portal/pmodule_id=11/pmdmode=fullscreen/pageadder_page_id=28/ First paragraph on that page: October 2002 I hesitate to remove this older article from our website, as it is still informative, but I highly recommend that those

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-02-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Christian Pernegger wrote: [healthy skepticism snipped] Either the bit stream is tranmitted intact or it is not. There is no in-between. Sure, the waveform is distorted but there would have to be in insane lot of this line induced jitter to actually flip bits. You're missing the point

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-02-28 Thread Robin Bowes
T wrote: No, the vertical settings appear to be the same - this suggests that signal levels are different, i.e. the output from their gadget is higher. Probably, but it no longer a fair test to show rise time and jitter if the amplitude/time ratio is not constant. It is irrelevant if it is due

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-02-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Christian Pernegger wrote: You're missing the point completely. It's not as simple as the bitstream is transmitted intect or it is not. At the implementation level, this bitstream is actually a sequence of precisely-timed voltage transitions. This stream is decoded by the DAC to produce the

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-02-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Christian Pernegger wrote: Check again. You may have been *thinking* reclocking, but you didn't mention it. [...] That relates to buffering, which is *not* what we're talking about; at least, it's not what *I'm* talking about. Once you use a buffer / FIFO you'll want to read what was written to

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-01 Thread Robin Bowes
Julian Alden-Salter wrote: Robin, What difference do you hear? Without launching off into audiophile rambling about 'inner detail' and 'timbre'. The dpa just sounded more realistic, detail was easier to hear and transients (i.e. drum strikes) had more impact whilst the squeezebox sounded muffled

Re: [slim] Pitch control

2005-03-01 Thread Robin Bowes
Danny Rego wrote: Does the pitch control only work with the analog outs? or should it work with digital outs as well? I have an idea for a plugin for guitar players/musicians that would tune the music to your instrument to help you practise, but I can't seem to get the pitch control to work.

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Jack Coates wrote: dean blackketter wrote: On Mar 2, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Dan Goodinson wrote: I want a pony. Please file a feature request on http://bugs.slimdevices.com http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918 Just voted for this. :) R. -- http://robinbowes.com

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Phil Karn wrote: The big flaw with this particular measurement (other than the horizontal sweep has been blown up to greatly exaggerate the problem) What makes you think that? Because I can read a scope legend. The scope has been blown up in the horizontal direction to exaggerate the jitter

Re: [slim] Squeezebox installation creates IP address conflict

2005-03-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Phil Karn wrote: If you have a typical small home router box with DHCP support (e.g., Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, SMC), it will generally let you specify the range of addresses that it will allocate dynamically. Allocate a reasonable number of addresses in your subnet to the dynamic pool for

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-03 Thread Robin Bowes
Phil Karn wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: What information on that image tells you that? It seems to me you're not understanding what you're seeing. The legend says the time trace is 5 ns/div. A pair of measuring lines implies that the jitter on the uncorrected is somewhat less than that, about 3 ns

Re: [slim] Suggestions for 802.11g Wireless Router?

2005-03-13 Thread Robin Bowes
Mike Hartley wrote: Now that the native 802.11G SB2 is out, I am going to purchase a wireless DSL router to accomodate it. The router has to have PPPOE; firewall, DMZ, and port-forwarding capability; and at least one ethernet wired connection for my main PC. I am considering a Netgear WGR614NA,

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-16 Thread Robin Bowes
Dave wrote: Hi All, Ive just setup my new slimserver box running Mandrake 10.1 with the new Seagate 400Gb Barracuda HDD. Im about to re-archive my CD collection and now that Ive got space to burn Im considering using a lossless format of some description so as to repoducce the sweetest possible

Re: [slim] Batch File type conversion

2005-03-23 Thread Robin Bowes
Craig wrote: I'm writing a program to back up a music library and have been asked about making a duplicate library but in mp3 for use with a portable player. Can I use mov123.exe to convert between aac and mp3? and if so where can I find the commands? I wrote this [1] script to convert between

Re: [slim] Will the amp on SB2 have a little more juice than SB1?

2005-03-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Sean Adams wrote: Yes, Squeezebox2 has 6 volt peak-to-peak line out levels, which is the standard for high-end equipment. Squeezebox1 is 3Vpp. Sean, How is this output level determined? Is there anyway to tweak a SB1 to increase the output levels (other than adding a x2 voltage gain stage!)?

[slim] Replacement antenna?

2005-03-27 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, I managed to be rather too rough with the antenna on my wireless SB1 and broke it by screwing it in too hard. I presume (hope?) it's a fairly generic part and that I can pick up another one fairly easily. Can someone provide me with the spec. for the connector or, beter still, point me at

Re: [slim] Replacement antenna?

2005-03-27 Thread Robin Bowes
Robin Bowes wrote: Hi, I managed to be rather too rough with the antenna on my wireless SB1 and broke it by screwing it in too hard. I presume (hope?) it's a fairly generic part and that I can pick up another one fairly easily. Can someone provide me with the spec. for the connector or, beter

Re: [slim] Squeezebox2 audiophile question

2005-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Jason wrote: Volume has always been controlled server side, which would mean digitally. I'm sure someone more qualified will confirm this, but this is just plain wrong. The volume is controlled internally within the main chip in the SB. R. -- http://robinbowes.com

Re: [slim] Apple lossless vs Flac

2005-03-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Chris Glushko wrote: But, what if you have a very large music collection and use an iPod where you interchange tracks often? This would mean that for every new track you want on your ipod, you'll have to go to your flac library, decompress the file, import it into iTunes, tag it in iTunes,

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2 audio quality.

2005-03-31 Thread Robin Bowes
Mike Hartley wrote: If that is the case, the sound should be identical since FLAC is lossless. Not so. There is a possibility that the timing (i.e. clock rate) is different between flac and PCM. That's pure speculation, but I'm just pointing out that just getting the bits the same doesn't mean

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2 audio quality.

2005-03-31 Thread Robin Bowes
Jason wrote: but it's almost impossible to believe that with an external DAC that he could hear much if any difference to begin with. Hey, are you Phil's twin? :) R. -- http://robinbowes.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] kinks in the SB2?

2005-03-31 Thread Robin Bowes
Phil Karn wrote: It just occurred to me that I could try forcing the Ethernet down to 10 megabits/sec and see if the problem still occurs. If it's indeed due to DAC starvation from lack of proper CPU real-time management, this might work around the problem by limiting the peak speed of the

Re: [slim] Major network problems, please help

2005-05-06 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Herger wrote: Do you have a firewall installed and activated (XP comes with an integrated firewall!). Be sure to check the FAQ about that: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#networking-firewall Hmmm. That's confusing. It says: You will then need to add three exceptions for these

Re: [slim] All PCs and SB wireless to adsl hub... but want to stream pcm. Solution?

2005-05-15 Thread Robin Bowes
Simon @ Home wrote: Hello. Hi Simon, how's it going? Can anyone suggest a (not expensive) solution? Does it exist? I am getting quite fed up of not being able to listen to my lossless files on my hifi. How about this: http://variant.ch/phpwiki/WikiBlog/2005-02-27 R. -- http://robinbowes.com

Re: [slim] Flac to MP3

2005-05-15 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Teigen wrote: My collection is in Flac. I need MP3 for a portable. Whats the best program for windows to convert Flac to MP3? Mark, I don't know about best but I use the following script: http://robinbowes.com/filemgmt/viewcat.php?cid=4 As of writing, v0.2.1 is the latest. I've not got round

Re: [slim] Plugin Suggestion

2005-05-15 Thread Robin Bowes
Patrick Dixon wrote: The idea came to mind when I heard about how an IT manager had explained to his boss that two disks in their RAID 5 array had died at the same time (causing the loss of a month's data), because they had been bought at the same time ;-) A more likely cause would be IT Manager

Re: [slim] Considering Purchase

2005-05-15 Thread Robin Bowes
Jack Coates wrote: cpriest wrote: Hi all, I'm considering purchasing this slimbox2 and I was wondering if I am able to re-route the sound coming from my windows box to the slim box? Right now I'm quite attached to using Yahoo Launchcast. Is there any way that I can play music 'to' the slimbox2?

Re: [slim] coax digital output glitches w/AC power spikes

2005-05-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Sean Adams wrote: [flame suit on] Personally I find it unfortunate that S/PDIF was ever specified to run over coax copper in the first place. There are some who claim it's better than fiber for various reasons, but all empirical data says that optical S/PDIF is FAR more reliable, works

Re: [slim] SlimScrobbler 0.30 released

2005-05-31 Thread Robin Bowes
Craig, James (IT) wrote: BTW everyone there is a SlimScrobbler group on AudioScrobbler - only 30 members at present although almost 70 - no, 80 now - are using the Scrobbler plugin! Up to 33 now. R. PS. kdf, you listen to way too much U2! :) -- http://robinbowes.com

Re: [slim] Re: NAS Drive Running Slimserver Solution

2005-06-02 Thread Robin Bowes
ultra238a wrote: How would you guys like the sound of a box with Gigabit Ethernet, much faster CPU, runs Slimserver out of the box and.. you can run your own software on it? Oh and a projected retail price of £199.99 with a 120Gb (maybe a 160Gb) price point ($320 for our American friends)!

Re: [slim] Re: Play for Sure songs

2005-06-03 Thread Robin Bowes
NHGuy wrote: I would agree if that independant review was not so prominently displayed on their website as a reason to buy their product. The link you gave was www.slimdevices.com/marketing/resellers-guide.pdf This is buried in the Resellers page - hardly what I would call prominently

Re: [slim] Re: Play for Sure songs

2005-06-03 Thread Robin Bowes
NHGuy wrote: Jacob, Go up a few messages and read the marketing blurb from their maketing manager talking about how great the realslim plugin works in Squeezebox. Post a link. I'm not a lawyer, nor do I expect to have to parse the the reviews posted on a website to ensure the 100% accuracy

Re: [slim] Re: Play for Sure songs

2005-06-03 Thread Robin Bowes
NHGuy wrote: The review from Maximum PC is the one that's prominently displayed. So why did you post a link to the resellers' guide when asked to show where this claim is prominently displayed? Since when does a product upgrade mean that functionality is taken away? So, you've *assumed*

Re: [slim] Re: Play for Sure songs

2005-06-03 Thread Robin Bowes
NHGuy wrote: # What was aggravating to me was the response from the CEO stating, and I paraphrase, that they were working on more interesting things( this is way up at the beginning of this thread). Sean Adams said: This isn't really our position or our goal (see roadmap: http://

Re: [slim] New Wiki categories

2008-03-18 Thread Robin Bowes
JimC wrote: As you may have seen from my earlier post, we're going to be migrating from kwiki to mediawiki. I'm currently going through some housekeeping in preparation for the Great Re-editing that will start later this week and I wanted to float a question to the community: Should we

Re: [slim] Grave doubts about Logitech 'support

2008-03-27 Thread Robin Bowes
One (important) point that no-one has yet pointed out is that I don't believe that Mandriva is an officially supported platform. Although, on looking this up in the FAQ, it only says: Squeezebox, Transporter and SlimServer are officially supported under: * Windows NT/2000/XP, * Linux

Re: [slim] 64 bit Slimslimer

2008-04-01 Thread Robin Bowes
badbob wrote: How come a 64 bit version wasen't been released? Because you don't need a 64-bit version. It would just be bigger. R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] How do you use your Squeezbox/Receiver/Transporter

2008-04-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Khuli wrote: MuckleEck;286440 Wrote: I see no point in syncing the bedroom SB Depends what sort of parties you have ;) Nah, you'd want different music in the bedroom - Barry White, for example ;) Personally, I've found that Bill Wither's Greatest Hits never fails :) R.

Re: [slim] The Guardian reviews Sonos

2008-04-03 Thread Robin Bowes
jaffacake wrote: The review is fairly flawed in several areas, but not entirely surprising given the limited research the author often does for his articles. snip Ahem, unlike your totally fair and thoroughly researched cnet reviews, eh Ben? More FUD from the Sonos fanboy. R.

Re: [slim] The Guardian reviews Sonos

2008-04-03 Thread Robin Bowes
jaffacake wrote: Robin Bowes;287134 Wrote: Ahem, unlike your totally fair and thoroughly researched cnet reviews, eh Ben? More FUD from the Sonos fanboy. R. Very much unlike. At least everything in my review was accurate and factual. Did you write that review [1] based on having

Re: [slim] The Guardian reviews Sonos

2008-04-04 Thread Robin Bowes
jaffacake wrote: I have absolutely no desire to waste my time defending myself against false accusation and speculation. Robin Bowes, and others, are attacking me with untruths and guesswork. This is damaging to my reputation yet you choose to allow it to remain within your forums. I can

Re: [slim] Questions re: bridging with SBR

2008-05-10 Thread Robin Bowes
mflint wrote: (For some reason, Net-UDAP couldn't discover the SBR unless it was hard-wired to my router) I wrote the tool specifically to configure a factory-supplied (i.e. no config) SBR from a PC without requiring a SBC. Until the SBR is configured, it cannot connect to any wireless

Re: [slim] Sharing a server

2008-05-10 Thread Robin Bowes
jaffacake wrote: Thanks to all for the responses. A few more ideas... One way to do this would be to run multiple instances of SC. If you want to run these on the same box, you would need to use different IPs for each instance. You'd probably also want to use a system-installed MySQL

Re: [slim] Questions re: bridging with SBR

2008-05-11 Thread Robin Bowes
Peter wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: Even when configured, the UDAP protocol is UDP-based so the UDAP source (PC) and UDAP destination (SBR) have to be on the same network segment. There's no causality in that. UDP works fine over the Internet. You probably mean it's broadcast based which

Re: [slim] Filing Bugs - Any Point?

2008-06-04 Thread Robin Bowes
rbz5416 wrote: Brown nosers need not post telling me it works for them - I'm not interested. I AM interested in why this bug report appears to be being completely ignored. Displaying attitude like that will not help your cause. Bugs are prioritised and dealt with accordingly. I do not work

Re: [slim] Filing Bugs - Any Point?

2008-06-04 Thread Robin Bowes
is therefore likely a low priority to SD and, because it's not getting the attention *you* feel it should have you extrapolate from that that Logitech aren't committed to the product line? Ha ha haha . rbz5416 wrote: Robin Bowes Wrote: Displaying attitude like that will not help your cause It's

Re: [slim] Filing Bugs - Any Point?

2008-06-04 Thread Robin Bowes
rbz5416 wrote: Zzz Unsubscribes. By! R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] faulty transporter anyone?

2008-06-04 Thread Robin Bowes
bad.wolf wrote: Anyone else had similar experiences? Yeah, some guy posted in the audiophile forum with exactly the same issues. :| R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Questions re: bridging with SBR

2008-06-07 Thread Robin Bowes
NathanielK wrote: in the shell window, I can execute the help and list commands, but when I try discover I get a huge amount of text. I copied it to notepad and it seems to be this, repeated over and over: Use of uninitialized value $rawstr in length at C:/UDAP_Thing/scripts/../src/Net

Re: [slim] Questions re: bridging with SBR

2008-06-08 Thread Robin Bowes
NathanielK wrote: Low and behold, when I ran the shell, if worked exactly like the short instructions in the post by jrfuda; even discovering and configuring over my wireless network. Glad it's working. It sounds like this was a network issue, and the scripts are not entirely bulletproof,

Re: [slim] Questions re: bridging with SBR

2008-06-09 Thread Robin Bowes
NathanielK wrote: I find it very hard to believe that all of these different sources would mention the bridging feature yet not a single one acknowledges the fact that it is unsupported in the interface or documentation for the product. Nathaniel, From what I can gather, bridging is

Re: [slim] Duet Receiver Break Up with 85% signal !

2008-06-11 Thread Robin Bowes
tonythetiger wrote: Thanks all for the replies. I have changed to FLAC but not sure if it's helped. The TX rate has dropped to 2Mb some times, and has been 0 before too. I wasn't sure if that was SqueezeCenter not pumping out the tracks or if that was just bad network. Anyways, it seems

Re: [slim] Improvements in Duet?

2008-06-26 Thread Robin Bowes
ianstuart wrote: I have been having connection problems with my two Duets for the last several months. Support now blames the Netgear Range Extender that I bought to permit the receivers to work more than 15 feet from the router. Odd that my old SB3 works perfectly with the Range Extender and

Re: [slim] Duet review on Notebookreview

2008-06-26 Thread Robin Bowes
MrSinatra wrote: i am suggesting that developing SC as the only pgm possible to power the hardware isn't the best soluton, given its serious limitations, which are legion. Mr. Sinatra, you're talking bollocks again. SC has its flaws, yes, but from the way you talk anyone would think it's

Re: [slim] Duet review on Notebookreview

2008-06-27 Thread Robin Bowes
MrSinatra wrote: yeah, how DARE i have an opinion that doesn't require pom poms. what was i thinking? Straight in with the fan boy line of defence, I see. *yawn*. i stand by what i said, and if u don't like it or disagree, fine, but i find NOTHING exaggerated with what i said. You

Re: [slim] Duet review on Notebookreview

2008-06-27 Thread Robin Bowes
MrSinatra wrote: don't ignore the context of what i said... Ok, here's what you said, in its entirety: again, i respect SC and i'm not saying it should be thrown overboard, but why force it to be the only solution? You then follow that up with: i was talking about what slim does, and they

Re: [slim] UK Heads UP

2005-07-08 Thread Robin Bowes
Neil Davidson wrote: Just noticed that Scan.co.uk has both wired and wireless in black and silver on their Today Only page for the weekend. Only a few £ less than their normal price, but I had no idea they even stocked it :) (http://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly/ for those that are interested) I

Re: [slim] UK Heads UP

2005-07-09 Thread Robin Bowes
Simon @ Home wrote: Only a few £ less than their normal price, but I had no idea they even stocked it :) (http://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly/ for those that are interested) I hate you. You've made me spend money!!! You too huh? :-) Yeah, I've been making excuses for too long now. This

Re: [slim] Re: UK Heads UP

2005-07-09 Thread Robin Bowes
Paul Webster wrote: I did the same ... 2nd one ... wife on holiday ;) I think I saw that we get a free LAN card as well - not that it will help me much ... maybe I can find a PC with 10Mb card and replace it. Free LAN card? Where did you see that? R.

Re: [slim] Re: UK Heads UP

2005-07-09 Thread Robin Bowes
Fifer wrote: Top of the /todayonly page. Free gift with any order over £149 (ex VAT Delivery) - Dlink DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI NIC. I'm seriously tempted (I don't need a NIC but I want an SB2). Which colour though? Ah, got it. I dare say I'll be able to use that somewhere. I had the same

Re: [slim] Naxos radio

2005-07-10 Thread Robin Bowes
weedie wrote: Has anyone hooked up their squeezebox to play the streams from http://www.naxosradio.com ? If so, how? Hmmm, from their website: - 64Kbps Broadband [Near CD quality] They're kidding, right? R. ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Small font duplicate text on brand new SB 2 display

2005-07-13 Thread Robin Bowes
ModelCitizen wrote: I have a problem with my brand new Squeezebox 2. The text on the display is tiny and spreads over four lines (vertically), the top two being duplicated on the two below. The text is just about too small to be intelligable. I received my new SB2 and just replaced the SB1 with

Re: [slim] Re: UK Heads UP

2005-07-14 Thread Robin Bowes
DrNic wrote: max.spicer Wrote: If the platinum doesn't grow on you, you could always send it back and get a full refund or probably an exchange from SlimDevices. That's what the 30 day returns policy is there for after all. I'd be interested to see how this works in the UK, though. Max

Re: [slim] Re: 2 players, 1 network = stopped working

2005-07-22 Thread Robin Bowes
max.spicer wrote: I'm in the UK. Thanks for the link - I'd definitely not come across that before. Interesting that Dean regards the association between SlimDevices and cannabis as fortuitous. :-) :-) Why do you think it takes so long to get releases out? ;) They're in California. What do

Re: [slim] Re: 2 players, 1 network = stopped working

2005-07-22 Thread Robin Bowes
dean blackketter wrote: Whoa! Dude! You are killing my buzz! On Jul 22, 2005, at 1:41 AM, Robin Bowes wrote: max.spicer wrote: I'm in the UK. Thanks for the link - I'd definitely not come across that before. Interesting that Dean regards the association between SlimDevices and cannabis

Re: [slim] Cricket on the squeezebox

2005-07-23 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Hughes wrote: On 7/22/05, waldy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Want to keep track of the Ashes test match score on your squeezebox? Updated Cricket (TMS) plugin available from http://www.wizfamily.co.uk/slim/tms.html Nothing to do with the plugin but has anyone noticed anything familiar

Re: [slim] Re: Replaygain

2005-07-26 Thread Robin Bowes
dean blackketter wrote: No, but it does require some support in the player firmware to do fine-grained volume control on a per track basis after decoding. Dean, There is a reason why the flac flag to turn on replaygain is: --apply-replaygain-which-is-not-lossless See this thread:

Re: [slim] Re: Recommendations for server hardware?

2005-07-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Herger wrote: I recently built myself a ITX based slimserver appliance for my own use. Not cheap, not ready for that huge FLAC collection (due to 2.5HD), In my experience, it's the storage that causes the bulk of the problems. For example, I have a large flac collection and am

Re: [slim] Re: Can SB2 work with Network-Attached-Storage directly ?

2005-07-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Stuart Cooper wrote: You can also now run SlimServer on The Nexon NAS 1000 device: http://www.multitask-computing.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=37 0 Ooops! Word-wrap broke your link! It's a 1Tb box which has won the PC Plus UK Performance Award in a stand-alone review featured

Re: [slim] Re: Recommendations for server hardware?

2005-07-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Herger wrote: IMHO, the best solution is to locate the computer running slimserver well away from your listening environment so noise is not an issue, and size is less of a problem. It's cheaper too as you don't have to have the server on display so looks are not an issue and you

Re: [slim] Re: Replaygain

2005-07-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Yannzola wrote: dean Wrote: Yannzola asked if it would be down sampled which is probably a misuse of terminology. (Downsampling, means to change the sample rate of a signal.) Yup, it =was= misuse of the word on my part... but Robin caught the right drift. What I meant to ask was if the

Re: [slim] Re: Replaygain

2005-07-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Robin Bowes wrote: Yannzola wrote: dean Wrote: Yannzola asked if it would be down sampled which is probably a misuse of terminology. (Downsampling, means to change the sample rate of a signal.) Yup, it =was= misuse of the word on my part... but Robin caught the right drift. What I

Re: [slim] Is there any software version that will actually work for me?

2005-07-27 Thread Robin Bowes
Simon @ Home wrote: I've just ordered a 3.2mghz PC and am hoping this sorts out my problems and that Slimserver, for the first time since I have been running it, works as I expect it to. It probably will if you install Linux on it :) R. Simon Turner Barcombe UK

Re: [slim] Re: Is there any software version that will actually work for me?

2005-07-27 Thread Robin Bowes
radish wrote: It probably will if you install Linux on it :) Amusing, but hardly accurate. I, and many others, run SS on windows with no problems. Sorry. Private joke. I used to live near Simon and we met up a couple of times to get all geeky about music, hifi, and our Squeezeboxes. He'd

[slim] Stopping killed server

2005-07-31 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, I'm running slimserver on Fedora Core 4. I left a track paused overnight, then stopped it this morning (turned the player off). Sometime later, slimserver died. This is the log: 2005-07-31 08:59:04.759859500 2005-07-31 08:59:04.7349 00:04:20:05:b6:5b: Switch ing to mode stop from

Re: [slim] Stopping killed server

2005-08-01 Thread Robin Bowes
kdf wrote: Quoting Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2005-07-31 09:21:38.601774500 EOF instead of response status line at /usr/local/ slim-svn-6/server/CPAN/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 300. 2005-07-31 09:21:38.601782500 ...propagated at /usr/local/slim-svn-6/server/CP AN/Net/HTTP/NB.pm line 32

Re: [slim] Re: FPC Cable for Display

2005-08-01 Thread Robin Bowes
CardinalFang wrote: Wow - fast reply - thanks! I'll see if I can source longer lengths, otherwise I'll have to think of something else. I suppose I could extend the other side of the motherboard and have screened cable to case mounted RCA plugs etc if all else fails. Paul, Is this any good:

Re: [slim] Re: Software Release Notes for Beta and 6.1.2 Nightlies?

2005-08-16 Thread Robin Bowes
MrC wrote: I agree. It is more difficult to test new or changed portions of the code otherwise. I would love to see an accumulative change list included with each build. If you use svn to get the latest code, instead of downloading betas or nightlies, you can use the svn log command to see

Re: [slim] Re: Software Release Notes for Beta and 6.1.2 Nightlies?

2005-08-16 Thread Robin Bowes
dean blackketter wrote: On Aug 16, 2005, at 9:35 AM, MrC wrote: Hmmm. Clicking through dozens of links is not my, nor probably Yannzola's, idea of release notes. It may be possible for the build script to create a raw changelog from the checkin comments. It would certainly be better

Re: [slim] Re: Software Release Notes for Beta and 6.1.2 Nightlies?

2005-08-16 Thread Robin Bowes
kdf wrote: Quoting MrC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmmm. Clicking through dozens of links is not my, nor probably Yannzola's, idea of release notes. ok, your choice. I would agree. A load of links does *not* constitute release notes. I think svn log could be the answer. It would be nice if it

Re: [slim] Re: Software Release Notes for Beta and 6.1.2 Nightlies?

2005-08-16 Thread Robin Bowes
kdf wrote: Quoting Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf wrote: Quoting MrC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmmm. Clicking through dozens of links is not my, nor probably Yannzola's, idea of release notes. ok, your choice. I would agree. A load of links does *not* constitute release notes. yes

Re: [slim] Re: Backup: REV drive or external HD?

2005-08-23 Thread Robin Bowes
radish said the following on 23/08/2005 23:51: BBobley Wrote: I use this very nice piece of Windows software called Second Copy. http://www.secondcopy.com/ Basically, you give it a source folder and a destination folder. The destination can be on another hard disk or even another computer

Re: [slim] Duplicate songs new artist folders appearing

2005-08-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Gregory Forrest said the following on 26/08/2005 14:26: I just rescanned and yet another copy of the songs were created...this explains it as I created most playlists via a text editor. I received no other replies so I figured I missed this in the bug search..I am going to search by a few other

Re: [slim] Re: SlimDevices losing out in the UK

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Aslak said the following on 29/08/2005 23:40: Looking at AlienBBC I remember now what the problem was. I run SlimServer on my fileserver box (Fedora), and it dosn't have X, which is a requirement for mplayer. So I'm kind of screwed because I really don't want to clog up the machine with an X

Re: [slim] Moose - PC slim app

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Dr Lovegrove wrote: Ordered my 3rd squeezebox over the weekend, and to celebrate I thought I'd share the little pc application I've been working on for the past few months. It's called Moose and it's a fast non-web-based front-end for searching and selecting music. I've thrown some very rough

Re: [slim] Moose - PC slim app

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Dr Lovegrove wrote: Indeed, the server needs to be windows.. You can copy the moo file from the server to a remote machine (or share it over a network) though. True - but I run Linux! What would be *really* cool would be if you could use the existing slimserver DB through the CLI.

Re: [slim] Re: T9 or similar smart text entry

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
giulianoz wrote: Another way this could be done: add a filed in the songs table wich contains the numeric representation of the title/artist/song/whatever and do the seaqrch query on this field. i.e.: db field : metallica - 638255421 user input etall - 38255 query: select fields from table

Re: [slim] Re: SlimDevices losing out in the UK

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Dan Goodinson wrote: Slim Devices could distribute a complete, ready-configured OS on a CD for each major release. Then any technophobes would simply have to turn the PC on (and boot from CD) to have SS up and running within a couple of minutes. For those users that found it easy to use, they

Re: [slim] Re: SlimDevices losing out in the UK

2005-08-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Richard Scales said the following on 30/08/2005 19:52: Just checked your web site and clicked on the link for a larger version of the Squeezebox - what do you see? Ooops! On a related note, I thought I'd check out Radio Paradise after hearing it recommended on these forums. I went to the

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Robin Bowes
seanadams wrote: A fine idea - please file a request at bugs.slimdevices.com. It's something we'd need to do in firmware, right at the end of our audio process. Actually, you could do this on the server by piping the audio stream through the appropriate processing program. What kind of

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Robin Bowes
Robin Bowes wrote: seanadams wrote: A fine idea - please file a request at bugs.slimdevices.com. It's something we'd need to do in firmware, right at the end of our audio process. Actually, you could do this on the server by piping the audio stream through the appropriate processing

Re: [slim] Re: Crossfeed Plugin

2005-09-01 Thread Robin Bowes
Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes wrote: if what you are referring to is the cross-feeding stuff to make headphones sound nicer, then HeadRoom has some docs here: http://www.headphone.com/products/faqs/about-headroom-crossfeed/ but it doesn't actually tell you exactly how to do it (obviously).

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver over Internet?

2005-09-02 Thread Robin Bowes
chris wrote: Yeah, I'm also a little confused as to how could you do that unless the SB2 itself supported ssh tunneling? Perhaps you open the SSH tunnel on a local PC, and then point the SB at that machine as the server? (he says, guessing) Yes, that's exactly how you would do it. Set up ssh

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver over Internet?

2005-09-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Roy Owen wrote: For all of you that use Windows for workstations etc. http://www.bitvise.com has a very good (free) ssh client that is simple to setup for this (or any other) purpose. I use this solution at work with an SBG and it works great. PuTTY is the defacto standard ssh client for

[slim] Thoughts on requirements for slimserver computer

2005-09-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, I'm a doing a little market research and would appreciate your opinions by way of answers to the questions below. 1. Are you holding off buying a Squeezebox because you are not sure about setting up a computer to run slimserver? 2. Would you be interested in buying a server

Re: [slim] Re: Automatically restart crashed slimserver?

2005-09-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Jack Coates said the following on 05/09/2005 23:22: robinbowes wrote: This is of no help at all to the OP, but this thread has given me the impetus to get slimserver working with djb's daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html). ... only thing I use out of daemontools is setuidgid

Re: [slim] Re: Automatically restart crashed slimserver?

2005-09-06 Thread Robin Bowes
Jack Coates said the following on 06/09/2005 00:16: Robin Bowes wrote: Why's that? supervise, svc, multilog, all really useful tools. They've alway struck me as an attempt to reimplement SysV init scripts for distros that don't do SysV. I haven't missed their functionality. No, they do

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