dress.."
So the SB itself needs to be able to get online.
Can you connect to Squeezenetwork? I bet not.
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It's technically a "theme" or skin, not a plugin, since it really runs
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Easy to do with Erland's SqlPlayList. (And sooo much more.)
Get TrackStat, SQLPlaylist and DynamicPlaylist from Erland's site:
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pecially if you are using the max
> compression setting.
So you are saying that flake is... flakey?
(Sorry, long day and I couldn't resist.)
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;localhost' not 127.0.0.1 in the server name tab.
Other than that it just worked. (Well and the ssh command line is
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Unplug the squeezebox, count to 3 (because I am superstitious), plug it
back in, and hold the ADD button on the remote.
That will reset it to factory defaults.
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then a Unix box of some sort is really ideal. No need to have a GUI
and associated memory usage; easy to bury the box in a cabinet and not
worry, etc
Which distribution depends pretty much on religion and what your
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In Server Settings, File Types, click of the WMA -> WMA (built-in) and
make sure the WMA -> FLAC or WAV is checked.
If that worked, you ripped things using Microsoft's "WMAPro" codec.
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album, but I think I'll just have to
> live with that for now.
That should be easy as well... what format are these, and what sort of
directory structure are you using?
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li Peppers merger...)
Are you using iTunes or MusicIP? Is the iTunes-TCMP tag being set at
all?
The clue may be in the tags for those two albums and why on earth they
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artists releases" which may confuse Slimserver on single artist
releases with the same name...
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download the software, install it, and play with it from a laptop or
another machine to see how well it works.
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The PIN is only on Squeezenetwork, it should be under Settings on the SN
menus.
It does not show up on a local slimserver.
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bpa, your first url got truncated. But, yes, this works fine for me,
too: http://icecast1.cbcradio3.com/r3.m3u
I found it by clicking the "mp3" link on the flash player, and having
XMMS tell me what it was playing.
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>
The error is "Can't create/write to file
'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\#sql_17c4_0.MYD"
The most common reason for failing to write to a Mysql file is ... you
uot; not "executable")
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My TV has no buttons. (Well it has a power switch, but that is
god-knows-where on the back...)
As for Dynamic Playlist, yes, look at Erland's collection of plugins.
Use Trackstat, SQLPlaylist and DynamicPlaylist and you should have what
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Can you convince your AV software to not mess with .MYD files?
Most AV packages allow for "excluded file types"
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Ah but you havent seen the real evil... the SB is cheap compared to what
your CD budget will soon be.
It changes how you listen to music enough to make you want to throw
buckets of money at CD vendors...
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under the WMA name. Some of these are not supported. The most common
would be WMA-Lossless and there is a WMA-Speech codec (designed for
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next day/week/month/year or multiples thereof?"
If so, I buy it.
If the SB does what you want, then go for it. If not, then don't.
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t: you will
need to use the proper IP of the machine, or with Windows machines, the
-name- of the machine usually works.
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It's completely offtopic here. Even moreso than the usual stuff.
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hey are a Various Artists release?
I have albums that are Various Artists and span multiple discs: but
these require being filed correctly by directory.
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Sounds like a DNS issue. No clue why you would have problems with
radiotime but not lastfm, since both use DNS. (ie, it can't convert
opml.radiotime.com to an IP: "Couldn't resolve IP address for:
opml.radiotime.com"
The SB1 doesn't support WPA, so you will need to use WEP on your router.
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There are also links to "Buy this as mp3!" from album pages.
Almost bought Liquid Tension Experiment, but alas, they are missing two
tracks from the mp3 download for some reason.
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is yours. Just whatever you do,
you have to be consisent, but that is the fun of tagging things
correctly and there is really no way any software is going to be
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I wouldn't blame the
router or wireless: wired ethernet is pretty well understood and router
makers would have to work hard to screw it up to make things break, and
since it is the same on an SB2 and SB3, I wouldn't expect a
compatability proble
sn't really workable: since it doesn't try anything
clever anyway (or you would have horrible things like "King Crimson"
sorting in the C's), it knows what it knows based on your tags. Stop
telling it that "David Bowie" should be sorted as "Bowi
etting what you paid for... but at least
keep the blame in the right place.
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t using http as a transport.
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ic library.
Choose Treat multi-disc sets as a single album.
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rtist=Bob Dylan
comment[15]: DATE=1994-00-00
comment[16]: TRACKNUMBER=1
comment[17]: Album=The Genuine Bootleg Series, Volume 1
comment[18]: DISCNUMBER=3
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ets much more complex in a huge
building since you have not only next door neighbors but also above and
below...
Between that mess, all the other junk on 2.4G (phones, microwaves, baby
monitors...) it is amazing it
the external GPS for the N800 or even a standalone GPS).
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o a second
sound card.
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stening room?) to start playing songs?
Why would Slim/Logitech make a device that required you to keep a noisy
machine in your living room so that you could control a music player?
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nor any prior purchased files, and refusing to
work even with other products from the same company let alone others.
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handle anything more than
Artist/Track/Album. Genre, Year, Composer, Band are very useful for
some collections and trying to get those all crammed into path/file
would be icky.
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, HTTP, SMB, whatever. Try to minimize
wireless hops so devices don't have to wait for the network to be
available).
But, again, Signal Strength by itself is a meaningless number.
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Musicbrainz often has that information, the catch is you may not agreee
with their definition of release date.
(ie, re-issues and remasters are supposed to get a new release
date...)
Allmusic.com may also have it, but they want a license signed before
using their data.
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Permissions on the files?
(ie, does the Slimserver user have permissions to read them...)
I downloaded an album from Amazon and it worked fine.
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It does less?
News to me...
It also sounds better, since it doesn't resample everything.
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urce so you are free to fork it if for some reason you get mad at
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And more little "we cut corners" things:
M1001: 280x16 VFD (4480 pixels)
SB3: 320x32 grayscale pixels (10240 pixels).
No wonder the display looks so icky in the Soundbridge pics.
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l.. run Slimserver on both, and hold the
left arrow to choose which server.
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ibrary plugin.
(Plugins are a -huge- advantage to SlimServer... and again, Roku only
kind-of-sort-of supports SlimServer with the Soundbridge and even that
is with an ancient version of SlimServer. So, no, plugins may or not
work with the Soundbridge.)
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In SC7, yes.
There is a little "Sort by" with a choice of Album / Year, Album /
Year, Artist, Album / etc at the top of the browse page.
"Year, Album" would probably be what you want.
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Check to make sure the SB didnt get confused about its own MAC address.
(Ie, it should start with 00:04:20. If it gets confused, it will almost
always lose that part.)
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on any directory "above" your music directory could break things, as
well as running the server under a different userid than before.
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have been repaired six months
ago?
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Did you used to use a router between your modem and the PC?
Did the tech remove it?
Put it back in, though you will probably have to set it to use the same
MAC address on the cable address as the PC the tech used to set things
up or go through their authorization process.
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SB-Boombox.. the Jive
would be more useful. And even nice while mowing the lawn.
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rs" vs "how fast can I acquire music"
So far, I am well ahead of the flash and HD manufacturers.
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> jack. will it also have a color screen? will it have any onboard
> storage? bluetooth?
yes, yes, no.
(bluetooth is dumb when you have 802.11g... unless you like being
borged with bluetooth phone headsets all day... I can deal with a
headphone cable.)
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e you cited stated. You know, the one you now
say to ignore because you really meant something else...
>
> i know, i was just saying that in general. its just that a SB is
> obsolete or will be soon, given the facts.
>
In general everything will be obsolete.
facts"
You didn't.
Yes, I am such an ass. I expect people to say what they mean and mean
what they say: if you really MEANT "here is a product" then why not SAY
that instead of pointing to an article that you the
it doesn't. It talks about a walkman transmitting to your
stereo wirelessly... just like the article you cited....
I can read quite well, actually... can you?
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It's actually an old feature. SC7 has better syncing, though (ie they
will track a lot closer to each other).
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Cape11;242207 Wrote:
> And then again, why display an image? What is needed is a display of
> text. So why not allow the presentation of .txt files as the second
> image?
Why not just use the LYRICS tag, which works fine?
(USLT on mp3, but LYRICS on Flac...)
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Cape11;242416 Wrote:
> SnarlyDwarf: ah yes, I think I begin to see your point. I've just
> downloaded Tag&Rename (3.3.5) on trial and I can now see the Lyrics
> tag. And yes, it's very useful, especially as this tag remains 'fixed'
> to the main flac fil
y the lyrics track by track? I'm stuck on that.
Click on the track name on the right hand pane, that will bring up the
Song Info on the left hand pane, which will have all the usual info
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support, etc).
If you're as paranoid about misrepresentation (either deliberate or "it
looks just like that picture!" mistakes), just get an SB3.
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seanadams;243281 Wrote:
> Too bad there isn't a numerical spec for usability.
1) Remove TV/etc from listening area.
2) Determine mass of listener
3) Measure butt imprint on the couch.
4) After various intervals, re-measure butt imprint.
The deepest butt imprint wins.
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restricted even internal to Microsoft. You will have a very long
wait before anything supports ZuneDRM.
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Grouping of some sort... I am unlikely to get any other Sonny Bono
albums, so no reason to give him a whole directory.)
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three different directories: they are 3 different albums. The last two
are in the same directory, they are on the same album.
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> to put on our portable players)
If that's what turns you on... most of us would find that solution does
not scale at all.
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gdg;243969 Wrote:
>
> BTW You can't delete the playlist if it was created somewhere else.
Sounds like a permissions issue.
You should fix that.
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I think it is less important than that.
Is it a bug that when you crank up the volume on a really low volume
mp3 you can hear artifacts?
It seems like expected behavior to me.
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aw in your methodology and contradicts your claim:
there was no use of the SB3 firmware for decoding that mp3... you used
LAME. Yet the SB3 is 'distorted' and the PC isn't?
Perhaps your PC sound card is resampling to 48khz and confusing the
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control, since my official JVC remote -did- change the
volume on the SB...)
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(Not bad for background music, but
not about to pick up subtleties...)
But from looking at the waveforms in those files, yeah, I am sure two
of them sound the same, one is almost silence and one is... I have no
idea what. Squigglies?
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whatever license debate comes in.
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me... Maybe he didn't have a ballast or needed a space heater...)
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Mike White;245707 Wrote:
> Although DOS 2.0, PIP etc, etc does.
>
> How about 8 inch floppy disks?
Actually it was Concurrent CP/M-8/16.
So, yeah, 8 inch floppies, but no DOS.
PIP, of course, but not DOS.
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interface does... which means no more hiding a headless server in the
closet unless you use vnc or rdesktop to choose songs.
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Server Settings -> Look for new and changed music.
That should only take a couple minutes.
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in components seems to
be black.. give it a few years and silver will be back in)
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. Adding
in several layers of code would make them cry.
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It sounds like networking to me, specifically firewalls.
Yes, even localhost can be firewalled from talking to itself.
Looked at your firewall logs?
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annoying fast. You shouldn't need to press the hidden reset
button, just a power cycle. (I never know if hiddent reset buttons do
a 'factory reset' and wipe settings, which would be even more
annoying.)
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and registered the Squeezebox to your account.
You would have to go to squeezenetwork.com and delete that player from
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was trying to unload supply, they would be doing something like
their White Sale.
Sales are designed to increase revenue.
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s buy 2 get free. It means Coke made Safeway a special deal
and Safeway may even cut their margin hoping the sale pulls customers
from competitors. Or Safeway may just cheat and buy a months supply at
the -end- of the promo period and go for a month wi
Router filters are almost always for the connection between the internet
and the local network. Ie, they won't block local port to local port.
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offhand on Linux.
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DLNA provides a mere subset of what is available in Slimserver...
I would think "providing less functionality" would be low on the list
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s Filesharing") to get
your music onto the machine. (And of course use an external USB drive
for backups.. be paranoid! One power belch and you could lose a drive
which.. sucks.)
Do-it-yourself-NAS for a lot less than most commerical NAS boxes, and
plenty of power. All for less than t
Doesnt the server create it when it starts up?
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Jonathan Miller;251737 Wrote:
> Last time I looked a Dell Linux machine cost more than the equal
> Windows machine.
No, they are about $40 less.
(Ie, the Optiplex 330N, is $335 while the 330 is $375. That comes
with either XP Home or Vista Basic, other OS's cost more.)
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> snarlydwarf wrote:
>
> > Use one of those with a copy of one of the CD-Rom based servers (I
> > think there is one based on Debian Linux and one based one FreeBSD)
>
> Snarly >>> Sorry to butt in on this thread, but I was intereste
phics card, etc, I don't see
a reason to buy anything other than the cheap box I just want a
mobo, case, cpu and some ram, actually. Just too lazy to shop around
for all the parts and don't want to pay &qu
for one or maybe two machines copying files at
"acceptable" speed.
A business NAS is going to have beefier hardware and is even harder to
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