Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] More nonsense from Hi-Fi World...
Oh go on, don't leave the rest of us hanging... Any chance it was an (belated) April Fool? Missed the old SD 1 April news announcements btw. Closest that came to making me smile today was: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hadron-collider-ii-planned-for-circle-line-1932744.html -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? "-Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...-" (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen) Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76709 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] More nonsense from Hi-Fi World...
Oh go on, don't leave the rest of us hanging... Any chance it was an (belated) April Fool? Missed the old SD 1 April news announcements btw. Closest that came to making me smile today was: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hadron-collider-ii-planned-for-circle-line-1932744.html -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? "-Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...-" (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen) Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76709 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter suddenly dead and not responding to anything
I'm also very surprised by this - if it's within warranty the obligation in the UK (and this should be the same across the EU) is to repair or replace first, then refund if repair/replace cannot be done for a reasonable cost. The Transporter is a seriously expensive piece of kit and there should be proper support available. A possible alternative would be to speak to some of the people who mod the Transporter - they may have an idea what is wrong, and if they will quote you to repair, I suspect you would be within your rights to pass this cost onto Logitech. Also, if the goods are faulty and within warranty (rather than not suitable), you do not have to take a credit note - a full refund should be given. I think this the same in Germany as the UK. -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? "-Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...-" (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen) Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70283 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] New Rules
As an avid reader of the Audiophile forum (and a very occasional contributor) I have to say I find the personal element really detracts from what are otherwise really very interesting discussions. For me the key thing is how these rules are applied in practice - i.e. consistently, so people are treated equally, and with a bit of common sense, so threads don't get locked down and people banned unless they've been given an opportunity to wind their necks in. Personally, I think we should give Slim Devices and Mike a chance to show us how they want to moderate this forum in practice. Also, I have to say, if people can't make their points and put their views across without resorting to personal insults, it does rather suggest their views don't have sufficient force to stand on their own two feet (IMHO). -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? "-Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...-" (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen) Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54775 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] "non-audiophile audio enthusiast"?
I understand the term audiophile (in its original and non-pejorative sense) to mean the aim of reproducing the original music performance/experience as closely as possible. An audio enthusiast is someone who enjoys the act of listening to and being affected by music and aims for a sound which is enjoyable at a subjective level. Within this context (also highly subjective, I accept), I would also say I'm a non-audiophile audio enthusiast... -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? "-Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...-" (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen) Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54791 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter of SB3
Try this: http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/index.php?topic=45330.0 -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45561 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD Player as DAC recommendation?
haraldo;281868 Wrote: > Stage height may be very popular indeed, ask Mira Craig, a Norwegian > artist She really experienced stage height, when she at a concert > dived unto the audience, and there were no one to catch her, she broke > both her knees > At the risk of heading OT, see also Roisin Murphy, who came off second best to a chair recently (cracked eye socket) during a particularly energetic performance. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42020 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Does transporter or SB3 support chinese and Japanese fonts?
Kardtoon;262602 Wrote: > Will I be able to see the non english files in my music library? > As others have mentioned, Slimserver will display the tags, no problem. There have been problems in the past if your file names contain non-unicode characters - Slimserver doesn't always import them, but I don't know if this is still an issue with the current release version, or in the upcoming version (Squeezecenter) which is the late stages of beta testing. I just renamed my few files with English character filenames. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42723 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Audiophile Music File Protection
netim3;260112 Wrote: > Of course, I wouldn't know how to do this - can anyone clarify based on > the following assumptions: > Both people are using ISPs with Dynamic IP > External drives are NAS at either side > Both have Windows PCs > > How do you set up the secure vpn (and is it necessary)? > How do you get the machines to see one another? > What software drives the incremental backup? > > tks > > Natan There are lots of really good programs which will help set up a VPN (like TightVNC). The difficulty will be in getting backup software located on the local computer to "see" the host for backup as you've already identified, but I understand it can be done. For a quick and easy (but not free) solution - there are lots of programs that will do it for you. 'LogMeIn Pro' (http://logmein.com) has a file manager which will synchronise and replicate folders between host and local computer (like using SyncToy, but between two computers) and it's secure and easy to use. You have to subscribe annually for the service though. I have, because I travel a lot for work and need to access my home computers remotely quite a lot. Not sure it would be worth it as a backup strategy alone. MS are also running a beta program that does the same thing - not sure how good it is though: https://www.foldershare.com/ For that I use Acronis with an automatic weekly backup to an external drive which is mounted on my network (or if I add a lot of new music, as soon as I'm done), and a monthly/6wkly backup which gets taken off site. Both backups are "incremental" so don't take too long. If the drive isn't there, I get messages that a scheduled task has failed every time I start up my laptop, which usually kicks me into doing it. There's plainly redundancy in that strategy, but I don't add so much music over 4-6 weeks that it would be a disaster to lose that much. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42358 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Amp shutdown when power cycling Transporter
The behaviour sounds exactly like the power circuit breaker is kicking in - pretty sure Meridian amps have these inbuilt. Not sure why power cycling the Transporter would do this however. AFAIK, the breaker should only kick in where there is a surge, not a cutout in your system. Meridian may be able to advise, as Sean suggests. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37890 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Here is why no FF/RW
bephillips;213230 Wrote:
> I'm still in 6.5, no clicking in the progress bar yet for me. I'm glad
> to hear that it's coming.
Are you using the Fishbone skin in 6.5.2 or 6.5.0? The click on the
progress bar is certainly working for me with 6.5.2, and I'm sure it's
worked like that in the past for 6.5.1 at least. You do need to use
Fishbone however.
As azinck3 says, it's not precisely accurate, but you can easily move
within the song ("end first quarter", "halfway through", "a few mins
from the end" type of thing)
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] does squeezebox 3 have a 'compilations' option?
Well, at the risk of opening up a can of worms, yes, the SB will support Compilations. I use it very successfully and have rarely had problems with it. Others (with different tagging set ups) have had much bigger issues (search the forums for a few threads and you will see what I mean. The setting you want is in Slimserver / Server Settings / Group Compilation Albums Together. Then do a full clear and rescan. This will create a new entry at the top of the Artist List called Various Artists (though you can change this, mine are under Compilations), and all of your compilations are under that. I add a "Compilation" tag to all my relevant albums, and Slimserver picks this up when it scans. It is important that all of your files for a compilation album are in the same folder (i.e. not under seperate artist folders). I think Slimserver also recognises automatically when an album has more than one artist and makes that a compilation, but I think this is the piece that doesn't work so well for some. The wiki has more info: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?VariousArtistsLogic -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35561 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Software Upgrade problem with Transporter
What version of the Slimserver software are you using. This thread (there have been a few similar ones) describes something similar to what you are experiencing when using 6.5.1 with the latest SN firmware. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34238&highlight=pandora+upgrade If so, try upgrading to the latest 6.5.2. It's very stable and I'm certainly using it with no problems. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34572 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Anyone heard the "SB+"?
Couple of threads that may be relevant, but you really want to speak to Mr Dixon: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29494 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27938 http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?u=90 -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32118 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Problem with Slim Server
lafayette;165135 Wrote: > This is greatly off-topic, but the slow divergence of American and > British English is a real phenomenon. Last year I heard a judge in the House of Lords (equivalent to the Supreme Court in the U.S.) call it "two nations divided by a common language". He wasn't refering to defamation (the umbrella term in England and Wales for libel and slander) but a rather fine and boring distinction between the concept of floating charges / floating liens between the two jurisdictions. Nevertheless, it made me smile and rather stuck in my mind. Edited to say: and a quick google makes me realise he stole it from George Bernard Shaw ! -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30882 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Problem with Slim Server
I think people are trying to help, but we need a bit more to go on than "it worked yesterday". Could you give us a bit more information to go on ? Is the drive a USB / Firewire external drive, or is it a second hard drive within the Mac? If USB / firewire, can you plug something else in and check the port? Can you access the files and can Disc Utility can see the drive? If you do File / Get Info on this disk's icon in Finder, does it have the "ignore ownership" checkbox unchecked? Have you checked the permissions in terminal, just in case something's gone awry following something like a security patch? chmod -R u+X /Volumes/Hard Drive Name/Folder Name -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30882 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Problem with Slim Server
What path are you using for the Music Library ? UNC style or softlink ? It could be a permissions issue - something similar is discussed 'here' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14566&highlight=mac+external+hard+drive) ? Does Slimserver have access to the files ? -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30882 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Moderator, where are you?
Gentlemen, Congratulations. There was a moment when it all could have descended into insults, exclamations marks and hyperbole. I've seen it happen on a number of other forums with less cause. Instead, you've made me laugh out loud. Let me offer a non-audiophile view. I love music, don't have a pure enough system to understand half of what is said, but I've learnt an awful lot from all of the points of view expressed on the audiophile forum, some of which I will use to help me get the best out of what I have now and in future. It would be a shame if the positive stuff was lost in the general mire of whether jitter really exists and whether someone is qualified to express a view on it. P.S. I'm also going to take the face cream crack at face value (no pun intended) and in the way I expect it was meant. If 29 out of 43 women saw a visible difference in their fine lines and wrinkles, that's good enough for me. [TFIC for the avoidance of all doubt]. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29967 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Settings during upgrade
Regret that I am not an audiophile fellow but, if you want to make sure that you do not lose your settings during an upgrade, may I suggest backing up the following files: slimserver.pref and type.conf and reimporting them back in following the upgrade ? Most people don't lose their settings on an upgrade but I know that it happens sometimes, so a backup is always a good idea. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27716 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Dist-ed FLACs. Whatta do?
planetsweet;135748 Wrote: > I spent quite some time following a step-by-step guide which I found > through this forum. (I can't remember where it was.) The EAC setup Guide is' here' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?EACInstall). Another "one click" FLAC ripper to consider is Audiograbber (also freeware). There's a section on it (by me, I hasten to add) in the wiki. All you do is point the "External Encoder" box under MP3 settings to wherever your flac.exe file is and it does the rest. It's not a "perfect" rip like EAC but more than adequate for most users and very easy to use IMHO. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27245 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Transporter missing the boat.
bgrounds Wrote: > In other words, they need to offer a "screen" that connects to the > transporter that you can place on the wall or on your media cabinet. To be fair, "screens" aren't [my perception at least] Slim's area of expertise. Perhaps this is something they could / should look at in future, but I would prefer it's not at the expense of their core competancies. Also, if it helps, there are several screen solutions which work pretty well in the way that you describe. The Nokia770 / SB2-3 pairing is a great one IMHO. Other people use tablet PCs. May be worth considering. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25800 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Slim Devices NAS Device
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 Question: What do you think about the new SD NAS device? - Awesome! Where can I get one? - Nice. I'll put that on my wish list. - Not for me, but it sure is pretty. - Lame idea. Have the SD folks lost their minds? pkfox Wrote: > my collection is only 2000 or so tracks - how long should this take ? > I don't use RN, but used to use a Linkstation as a NAS. One thing I would recommend (from personal experience) if your scan times are very long is to run a full clear and rescan with the debug flag "d_scan" on, and the log window opened up. If you have any old playlists or old file references which don't exist any more in your library, this can cause Slimserver to get into a loop and slow down your scan. Slimilarly, any old recursive links (to other parts of your music lib) may do the same thing. If you have a lot of songs, it can be easy to miss these when you tidy up your library. You will need to watch the log file as the scan starts and for the first few minutes. If you run the scan and the log output shows no errors, the slow scan time is far more likely to be down to your set up. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24534 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Eac -> Flac
"optimal" is a bit subjective - (optimal for speed / size / quality ?) In terms of tutorials, there is a good one on setting up EAC to rip to FLAC 'in the wiki' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?EACInstall). -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24602 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: File Problem
You didn't try to play any of the files did you ? Either before EAC had finished ripping the entire CD or when you first added them to Slimserver but before the scan finished ? I can't find the thread but someone had a similar problem where only the first track would play - it turned out that this behaviour only happened when he started a scan and then tried to play tracks from new music before the scan had completed. -- Siduhe Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24536 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
