Re: [slim] Can I connect both SB2 and an SB3 and use at same time?

2008-03-25 Thread John Rakestraw
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:46:37 -0700 pcumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I connect SB2 and an SB3 and use at same time without issue? Yes. -- John Rakestraw Director, Faculty Programs Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship Georgetown University

Re: [slim] how to skip/bypass songs

2008-02-21 Thread John Rakestraw
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Re: [slim] Alarms - is this possible?......

2007-10-14 Thread John Rakestraw
that I added a track from our local collection as a second item in this playlist -- now, when the SB can't get to the Internet (or to that radio station), it plays the 2d song on the playlist -- a good backup. -- John Rakestraw signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [slim] Not an SB3...

2007-03-13 Thread John Rakestraw
My wife suggested that we replace the Radio Alarm in the bedroom for a Slim driven device (quite a step forward for a technophobe!). I'll say up front that what we do won't satisfy everyone, but it works well for us. We use our old SB-1 as an alarm clock, but we wake up to NPR news rather than

[slim] slimserver memory usage

2007-02-22 Thread John Rakestraw
Hi -- I'm running SlimServer 6.5.1 on a Fedora Core 6 box (512Mb RAM, Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz.) SlimServer finds all of my music and streams it just fine to 3 Squeezeboxen, but slimserver.pl uses an increasing amount of memory the longer it runs. When I start it up, top shows it to be using about

Re: [slim] Wheres everybody buying music now?

2006-07-02 Thread John Rakestraw
price goes to the artist, buyer can set purchase price in a range from $5 to $18, wide choice of both lossless and lossy music formats, no DRM) and their music collection is growing. -- John Rakestraw ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] RG-6 cable for Squeezebox (slightly OT?)

2006-06-15 Thread John Rakestraw
is about 20 feet (or 6 meters). Thanks. --John -- John Rakestraw ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] RG-6 cable for Squeezebox (slightly OT?)

2006-06-15 Thread John Rakestraw
have some on hand, I have many things to do this weekend, and it would be great if I didn't have to go out hunting other cable. So I was wondering if it would work. -- John Rakestraw ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http

Re: [slim] Wireless Problem

2005-04-05 Thread John Rakestraw
I received my SB2 yesterday and had similar problems. I was going to post tonight after more investigations, but I'll piggyback here. I'm running two wireless networks, both with Linksys APs. My SB1 has been running consistently (and, I'll say, with no drops) on an 801.11b network dedicated

Re: [slim] Wireless Problem

2005-04-05 Thread John Rakestraw
I updated to the latest nightly (slimserver-2005_04_05-1.noarch.rpm), upgraded the firmware and my SB2 will now connect to the 802.11b AP. BEFW1154 ver 2. Connection strength varies for the most part between 70% and 90%, with occaional drops to 50% and peaks at 97%. So far so good. However,

Re: [slim] FC3, Softsqueeze, and MusicMagic

2005-04-05 Thread John Rakestraw
I updated to the latest nightly to deal with another issue and SoftSqueeze now works. (Not claiming a causal connection, but I'm glad it's working.) Great program. --John ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] FC3, Softsqueeze, and MusicMagic

2005-04-04 Thread John Rakestraw
Richard Titmuss wrote: Sorry, I should have been a little more instructive here. The rpm will install Softsqueeze in /opt/softsqueeze. Use the /opt/softsqueeze/softsqueeze command to run softsqueeze. You will also find a script to start Softsqueeze headless, and desktop icons you can copy to

Re: [slim] FC3, Softsqueeze, and MusicMagic

2005-04-03 Thread John Rakestraw
Hi Richard -- Thanks for your response, and thanks for all the work you put into this. Do you have more than one version of Java installed on your machine? One way to find out would be to run 'locate bin/java'. If you do, try changing the path of JAVA_HOME to the other version of Java. I have

[slim] FC3, Softsqueeze, and MusicMagic

2005-04-01 Thread John Rakestraw
My set-up -- Fedora Core 3 Slimserver 6.0.1 Softsqueeze 2.0b3 I've run SoftSqueeze successfully (from the command line) since getting my squeezebox. (I struggled a bit early on, but found help in the 1/8/05 thread in this discussion list with the subject [slim] help with running softsqueeze on

Re: [slim] Linux command-line tagging / ripping (flac) software recommendations

2005-03-17 Thread John Rakestraw
I'm using the script called crip: http://bach.dynet.com/crip/ crip is a terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool for creating Ogg Vorbis/FLAC/MP3 files under UNIX/Linux. It is well-suited for anyone (especially the perfectionist) who seeks to make a lot of files from CDs and have them all

Re: [slim] Re: Re: Re: Problem starting 6.0b1on FC3 (was Problem starting5.4.0on FC3)

2005-03-15 Thread John Rakestraw
Michael Peters wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:59:44 -0500, John Rakestraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: attrpms and dag and freshrpm's often have updated versions of core packages. If you use them (I don't) then maybe your perl modules already were what they needed to be (I don't know what they offer