Re: [slim] switched to wireless -- now squeezebox reboots at random

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Peters
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:21:23 -0800, Ralph Edington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can tell, Squeezebox is COMPLETELY and TOTALLY WORTHLESS for the advertised purpose of wireless music. Maybe you got a bad unit. Did you try contacting customer support? -- http://mpeters.us/

RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-25 Thread neil . coburn
I had similar problems which were solved by using 64 bit WEP instead of 128 bit. I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience and ask a question... I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the

Re: [slim] Gnome Panel Applet

2005-02-25 Thread al
cool, should have a beta by the weekend, just in the process of cleaning up the files/README etc., and doing some testing/tweaking. Michael Peters wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:16:21 +, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And also is there anyone interested in testing it when I`ve got something to

[slim] Changing the function of press-and-hold Pause

2005-02-25 Thread bart maguire
Is it possible to change the function of the Pause button on the remote control? Currently press-and-hold Pause stops the playback immediately, I would like it to stop after the current track finishes. I can always press the Power button to get it to stop immediately. Oh, and looking through

Re: [slim] switched to wireless -- now squeezebox reboots at random

2005-02-25 Thread Marc Sherman
Ralph Edington wrote: I would have expected Slim Devices, or any competent designer of wireless electronics, to have provided a reasonable workaround -- dropouts, anything -- but REBOOTING, frequently and randomly, is absolutely, positively unforgivable. Have you contacted [EMAIL PROTECTED] It

RE: [slim] Need advice on housing 30K of songs

2005-02-25 Thread Carl Maskelyne
I have 40k at MP3 128-320kbs very quick on iTunes (1 hr scan). Slim server takes 1 1/2 hrs to scan. Backup solution firewire drive that I copy to once a week and take into the office to use there. The copying of this much data will take a good few hours but this solution work quite

RE: [slim] Remote streaming with Netgear router?

2005-02-25 Thread Carl Maskelyne
Toby, I have exactly the same setup. Are you using the router as a modem as well? Also do you know how to access the web interface? Is you PC already connected wirelessly? Drop me a mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will give you the additional instructions that you need. Regards, Carl

Re: [slim] 6.0a1 Installation

2005-02-25 Thread Jason Holtzapple
Chris O'Shannassy wrote: Hi; Hopefully this can just be chalked up to my extremely limited knowledge of perl slimserver, but the alpha version of six isn't working for me. I've currently just extracted the files under my home account (don't want to mess with my functioning version) and am

RE: [slim] Wireless Rebooting (formerly My NOT goodwirelessexperience)

2005-02-25 Thread Christopher Jacob
Hey Ralph, Is the machine running slim server by any chance wireless? In my experience, the squeezebox handles wireless dropouts without much problem but will reboot if the server losses network connectivity. My server is not wireless but the CAT5 that is plugged into it is missing the little

Re: [slim] Forum Style rather than Lists

2005-02-25 Thread momerath
Another solution is to use Gmail for your mailing lists. It has a unique interface that closely resembles the flat-threaded forum style that seems most popular (I prefer branching threads personally). Its also much faster than most web applications owing to its use of javascript moderated xml

RE: [slim] Bit-correct digital out on Squeezebox?

2005-02-25 Thread kdf
Quoting Steinar Bjaerum [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At head-fi.org I came across this thread: http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=106249 Any comments, Sean? he already left comments in the very thread you have linked here. -kdf ___ Discuss

RE: [slim] Bit-correct digital out on Squeezebox?

2005-02-25 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kdf Sent: 25. februar 2005 18:34 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Bit-correct digital out on Squeezebox? Quoting Steinar Bjaerum [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At head-fi.org I came

Re: [slim] 6.0a1 Installation

2005-02-25 Thread kdf
Quoting Chris O'Shannassy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi; Hopefully this can just be chalked up to my extremely limited knowledge of perl slimserver, but the alpha version of six isn't working for me. I've currently just extracted the files under my home account (don't want to mess with my

Re: [slim] Forum Style rather than Lists

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Peters
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:26:44 -0600, momerath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another solution is to use Gmail for your mailing lists. It has a unique interface that closely resembles the flat-threaded forum style that seems most popular (I prefer branching threads personally). Its also much faster

Re: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-25 Thread John Hernandez
Michael Peters wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:20:40 -0800, Phillip Kerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought cracking WEP was relatively easy too. It's not cake to crack - it takes collecting data for as long as a month or so in order to have enough to do it. Sure, it can be done, but it's a

Re: [slim] Wireless Rebooting (formerly My NOT goodwirelessexperience)

2005-02-25 Thread kdf
Quoting Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:23:14 -0500, Christopher Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My server is not wireless but the CAT5 that is plugged into it is missing the little retaining clip (keep forgetting to replace the cable) You can replace just the

Re: [slim] Bit-correct digital out on Squeezebox?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Peters
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:34:03 +0100, Steinar Bjaerum [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am thinking about playing an uncompressed WAV, recording the signal at the digital output and comparing the recording with the original WAV. Be careful when you are doing so - a lot of sound cards will resample

[slim] Slimbox-Newbie with questions

2005-02-25 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi all! I just received my Squeezebox yesterday, and so far I love it! First of all a bit about my configuration: SlimServer 6.0a 2005-02-25, generic tarball server machine: Dual 1.6 GHz Athlon MP, 1 GB RAM The Squeezebox is bridged into my WLAN via an AirPort Express :) Music playback works

Re: [slim] help with native WMA

2005-02-25 Thread Vidur Apparao
Vidur Apparao wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The native WMA to wav streaming does not seem to work at all for me. On both my Squeezebox and on SoftSqueeze (on the same machine as the SlimServer), SlimServer gives me the following error: Opening stream failed with error code 0x80070003 When I

RE: [slim] Bit-correct digital out on Squeezebox?

2005-02-25 Thread Julian Alden-Salter
Hi, I use an audio synthesis dax decade with my squeezebox. I must first point out that I'm extremely happy with the replay however a few weeks ago I invited some friends round to have a listen to the squeezebox and compare it to a couple of dedicated transports. The other transports were from dpa

Re: [slim] switched to wireless -- now squeezebox reboots at random

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Graham
Unfortunately this is probably a user error. I've had my wirelessboxsince the middle of November andthere have been maybe 3 times that ithad a blip (a couple of seconds) then restarted from where it left off. I love thisunitas now I have no need for my Sony 300 disc changer (Willing to sell

Re: [slim] 6.0a1 Installation

2005-02-25 Thread Chris O'Shannassy
Hi; Your comments are true enough, and I've now installed this extra module, and am up and running. Hey, at least I know a _little_ more about perl now A couple of comments on the installation though: I was already running perl 5.8.5, the installation requirements for slimserver

Re: [slim] Need advice on housing 30K of songs

2005-02-25 Thread Chris O'Shannassy
You're not copying the whole collection across each week are you? Just syncing the two? (rsync or something else...) It should only take a few hours the first time, after that it'll depend on how much has changed but I'd be surprised if it took more than a few minutes. Chris Carl Maskelyne

Re: [slim] Linux box to stream music, interface look familiar?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Herger
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:19:28 -0600, Michael Alletto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4933903950.html Scroll down to the pictures of the web interface. Does it look like slimserver to anyone else? And they are charging $70 for the software only. If they are really

RE: [slim] Slimbox-Newbie with questions

2005-02-25 Thread Christian Pernegger
While I don't know that I am much help with the rest of your post, the on thing that I would point out is that the version you are running (6.0a) is considered alpha at best. Not that it doesn't work well, but it is not ready for production release. You may consider dropping back to the current

Re: [slim] Linux box to stream music, interface look familiar?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Peters
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:19:28 -0600, Michael Alletto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4933903950.html Scroll down to the pictures of the web interface. Does it look like slimserver to anyone else? And they are charging $70 for the software only. If they are

Re: [slim] Linux box to stream music, interface look familiar?

2005-02-25 Thread momerath
I think if they are distributing the code outside their organization (whether selling it or allowing download), they have to make their source available upon request (by anyone). Even if they only have to make it available to customers, it must be supplied under the GPL, which would allow those

Re: [slim] Linux box to stream music, interface look familiar?

2005-02-25 Thread Walter Wullschleger
... it definitively looks like slimserver. check this out http://www.mp3beamer.com/ss_mp3beamer.html and softsqueeze screenshot on their product page http://www.mp3beamer.com/ss_java.html it seems that MP3Beamer is using slimserver as the core streaming server. Even port 9000 is used. I did

[slim] Re: 6.0a1 Installation

2005-02-25 Thread Dan Sully
* Chris O'Shannassy shaped the electrons to say... Okay and if anybody is interested, I also had similar problems with the DBI module, (and then the 1.38 version of the DBI module which I installed was too old, it needed the 1.46 version) Anyway, it's all working now. (Hopefully, just

RE: [slim] Linux box to stream music, interface look familiar?

2005-02-25 Thread Dave Owen
So, probably a few things to do here: #1: someone should set up a web page (linked from SlimDevices.com, so it hits the search engines quickly) that talks about this product by name and how it is based on SlimServer, which is freely available. Hopefully some of the consumers that are considering

Re: [slim] Linux box to stream music, interface look familiar?

2005-02-25 Thread Graham Scott
Michael Herger wrote: ...and have a look at the Java interface. They did not even change the name on the screenshot... http://www.mp3beamer.com/ss_java.html wow! my original softsqueeze interface. I did a big comedy double-take when I clicked that link

RE: [slim] Linux box to stream music, interface look familiar?

2005-02-25 Thread Dave Owen
Incidentally, I just emailed the folks at LinuxDevices suggesting that they would be doing their readers a service by noting that the MP3Beamer software appears to be based on SlimServer, a GPLd project available for free (after validating it with the MP3Tunes people, of course). :)

Re: [slim] Bit-correct digital out on Squeezebox?

2005-02-25 Thread Sean Adams
See my comments/suggestions in that thread. Jefemeister says it's correct except for inverted amplitude. I haven't confirmed this yet - AFAICT we have the DSP configured correctly, but if it is wrong, it's easy to fix by tweaking the volume function. On Feb 25, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Steinar

Re: [slim] openSong with duration 0

2005-02-25 Thread kdf
Quoting Andreas Huster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to play a .wav file from slimserver running on RedHat 9 to Windows Media player on another computer. This fails with the following entry in the log: 2005-02-25 21:54:39.2391 openSong on: file:///home/huster/music/Mozart/test.wav

RE: [slim] switched to wireless -- now squeezebox reboots at random

2005-02-25 Thread JMK VTX
If this is user error, I'd like to be the first to have someone show me where I've erred. At the SB will play for hours w/o a problem; other times (and almost exclusively when when playing Internet Radio) it will reboot and recommence playing. It's extremely annoying. My wife will not