[slim] Unicode troubles
I am having issues with Unicode and SlimServer 6.2.1 running on Windows XP. My music library makes extensive use of non-ANSI characters (predominantly Cyrillic). However, almost all Cyrillic text (artists, albums and song titles) is displayed -- and sorted -- incorrectly in the Web GUI. The library is a mix of WAV and MP3 files. WAVs have no tags; MP3s have a mix of IDv1 and IDv2 tags. One interesting case is an album that is mostly OK, but parts of which are displayed in a wrong character encoding. When examining the files on disk, there is no obvious reasons for why this would happen. All files are named consistently and all MP3 tags are identical in terms of format and encoding. I would appreciate any ideas for how best to troubleshoot this. -- aix aix's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2643 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18806 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Headless Linux DIY contra turnkey NAS
dem Wrote: > Yikes, that does suck. > > A couple years ago I built my own NAS box using a Mini-ITX board, a > 3ware RAID card, and 4 Seagate 160 GB PATA drives (which seemed huge at > the time) running Fedora Linux. One of the drives failed after a few > months and I was able to replace it without any downtime, but the > rebuild only took an hour. > Dem, you're good. 3Ware is *the* way to go for a RAID setup on an existing PC. The support in linux is there. No freakin' softRAID. I use softRAID on my present file server but it's only RAID1. If I was going to upgrade it I'd go 3Ware and RAID5. As for the Infrant boxes, why run SlimServer on them? Why not throw together a really cheap linux box with a GBit NIC, NFS mount the NAS, then share it!! That'd be smokin'. That's my thoughts and intentions. -- notanatheist notanatheist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18555 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Disabled volume and headphone.
Ok, thanks. -- bernt bernt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1342 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18688 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Fishbone skin question
Great to hear. It's a great skin! kdf Wrote: > This should be fixed in the most recent nightly. it was a reported > bug. > > On 4-Dec-05, at 3:40 PM, LavaJoe wrote: > > > > > To change the subject slightly... > > > > After a recent nightly revision, search now shows the number of > > results, but the results themselves are not shown. This is under > > Firefox (Mozilla). I have not tried IE. I am running the 6.5b1 > > nightlies. > > > > > > -- > > LavaJoe > > > --- > > > - > > LavaJoe's Profile: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2331 > > View this thread: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18796 > > > > -- LavaJoe LavaJoe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] stange bug: changing volume & add songs to playlist
Okay, made the title descriptive to help anyone searching. I went through the first 10 pages of posts and searched a few strings and haven't found the answer yet. So, what's my problem? My SB2 behaves a little erratic. When changing the volume or adding songs to the library the screen instantly changes back. I don't think it did that last night. The SB3 definitely doesn't do that. When I change the volume the SB3 stays on that screen for at least a second giving me the chance to see where the volume is and adjust it further. I checked my server settings too. I can't seem to find what's missing or if it was something I caused. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- notanatheist notanatheist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18805 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Portland Event - (was Re: Seattle Event)
I wanted to thank you again Patrick for stopping in Oregon. I drove up from Eugene to check things out and it was worth the trip. The MacForce staff was friendly and accomodating. I almost didn't find the store as the area was so industrial. I have both the SB2 & 3 setup and they're great! Got a little bug on the 2 but that'll be another post. These things smoke my crappy little Roku M1001!! They're fast and hella responsive. Any changes you make in the browser to the playlist is instant! The Roku SB lags hardcore when making changes. I'm so glad I'm not the one that paid for the Roku. The only nice thing about the Roku is it's a little metal tube you can use to whack people with. -- notanatheist notanatheist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Fishbone skin question
This should be fixed in the most recent nightly. it was a reported bug. On 4-Dec-05, at 3:40 PM, LavaJoe wrote: To change the subject slightly... After a recent nightly revision, search now shows the number of results, but the results themselves are not shown. This is under Firefox (Mozilla). I have not tried IE. I am running the 6.5b1 nightlies. -- LavaJoe --- - LavaJoe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Seattle Event - Thanks Patrick and Seattle Sunglasses!
Marc: I'd certainly be willing to brave the 401/QEW/Gardiner for that! As Patrick indicated, what venue though? Also Toronto in January, February, March or even April might be a bit of a shock. Perhaps a warm day in May... Marc Sherman wrote: > GoCubs wrote: > >>Free SB2!?!?! When's the Chicago event!?!?! > > > Toronto! Toronto! > > And a pony! > > - Marc > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > > -- ___ Mark Lanctot ___ __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Display corrupted on power up
LavaJoe Wrote: > Thanks for the cross-ship! > > Just to let you know, the old SB2 will be on its way back next week. > After removing it from my car (and replacing it with the new wireless > SB2 you guys shipped me, since wired ones were out of stock), I powered > it up in the house (so, at a warmer temperature), and the display was > again corrupted. It had not happened for quite a while, so I was > wondering if it would ever happen again... > > So feel free to take a look when it arrives and see what might be going > on with it (*if* you can make it happen!). If you find out the issue, > please post - I'm curious! > > Thanks again! I spoke too soon... The new unit has twice exhibited the corrupted display problem as well. I may open the old unit and see if the display connector is not fully seated, as you suggested. -- LavaJoe LavaJoe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18033 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SlimServer Hangs on Internet Radio URL Entry
I have played around with a nearly identical URL from the same server: http://origin.www.cbc.ca/mrl2/livemedia/cbcr1-london.asx First off, can you play this through SqueezeNetwork? I thought it wasn't working for me for a while but after failing to open the stream a couple of times it opens it consistently now. Secondly, to get this to play in SlimServer for me I have to put it in a playlist as the only entry, although I recall radio tune-in worked OK for me as well. Is your Squeezebox resolving the URL to "CBC RadioOne Halifax"? Jhallett wrote: > I am running SlimServer 6.2.1 (modified version from www.infrant.com) on > a ReadyNAS RX6 with a new SB3. All seems to work well, and I am able to > access various embedded external streams (RadioIO etc) as well as the > SqueezeNetwork. However, when I try to tune in a favourite stream ( > http://origin.www.cbc.ca/mrl2/livemedia/cbcr1-halifax.asx ) from the > Internet Radio URL menu on the SlimServer Web interface, the Slimserver > hangs, and the SB3 cannot find the SlimServer until I reboot the NAS > server. I have opened ports 3483/TCP, 3483/UDP and 9000/TCP in my > SonicWall firewall as specified for server installations. > > Any suggestions for what I might be doing wrong here? > > Thanks > > -- ___ Mark Lanctot ___ __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2
> > Khuli Wrote: >> Might be an idea to build them in black/white only, but have coloured >> cases available to purchase? > skins, like the cell phones now have. > > or a skin in a can, :-) http://krylon.com/main/product_template.cfm?levelid=5&sub_levelid=10&content=product_list -- Jack At Monkeynoodle.Org: It's A Scientific Venture... "Believe what you're told; there'd be chaos if everyone thought for themselves." -- Top Dog hotdog stand, Berkeley, CA ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2
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[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively
> I was thinking more of a browse than a search model - > and I was, BTW, allowing for a multi-level selection, > at least in the more advanced of the options I described. > You select, say, "conductor", and get a list of all the > conductors... choose Karajan, > get a list of all albums that match > (this is the potentially long list you are worried about) > BUT with an added set of selectors at the top for each > of the other valid browse tags. So if you want to now > specify a further value for ENSEMBLE, you can. > Properly coded, this would give you the flexibility > you want to specify selectors for any of the valid > tags, in any order. I understand what you propose now. It could give me the sequence of browse steps I want. However, there is a problem with using the album name as the name of the work. Most often, I'd like to browse first on Composer, then the genre (symphony) if there are a lot of works, then on the name of the work, then on performer (artist). At the stage where I want to search for the work, a list of album names for one composer would be too long. For Beethoven, it would still be 100 album names for just Beethoven Symphonies. In my scheme using just the name of the work as the album name and displaying only distinct values, I would have a list of 9 works to select from. Your scheme: Select Browse composer => list of 40-60 names I use 1st letter to jump, select "Beethoven" from effectively 2-10 names. Select Genre for next browse ==> list of 6 names (symphony, concerto, quartet, piano sonata, chamber, other) I select symphony from the list. Select Album for next browse ==> list of 100+ albums (of the form "Beethoven - Symphony 3 - Szell - 1958") I can't type one letter an jump because they all start with Beethoven. I wade through the whole list and pick the extact work and performer I want. I'm done but the last step was a killer! I'd probably give up before finishing. If my wife was selecting music, she would give up and come kick me for my bad choice of the system. My scheme: Select Browse composer => list of 40-60 names I use 1st letter to jump, select "Beethoven" from effectively 2-10 names. Select Genre for next browse ==> list of 6 names (symphony, concerto, quartet, piano sonata, chamber, other) I select symphony from the list. Select Work for next browse ==> list of 9 work names (of the form "Symphony 3") I can get through a list of 9 names. Select Performer for next browse ==> list of 8-12 names (of the form "Karajan") I can get through a list of 12 names. I'm done and it was all feasible for me. My scheme depended on having a NON UNIQUE work name and presenting only distinct values to keep the list short. Some ideas come to mind: - Why not browse for conductor before work? When you get a sizeable library, you don't remember everything in it. The point of a browse interface is to let the computer present choices rather than making you guess. - If SS depends heavily on the album name internally, why not put the short Work name in a different tag? That would let you browse on a long unique album name, keep SS happy and I could browse on a different tag with a short, non-unique work name. This work tag is analogous to the album nme as you proposed but it could probably be wedged into the contributor table with a different role. UGLY but it is a thought. --- > The other function, though, is "Search", which is quite > different (I think). The current standard Search > functionality allows you to search (in albums, artists and songs) by typing (mobile phone fashion) in on the keypad. The new Lazy Search plugin makes this easier, by allowing you to type in just one keypad number for each letter. As I understand it, you can make a single search step using the SB remote and display, then you get a list of album names to scroll through. It doesn't scale well. I'd just add composer and conductor (performer) to the list of tags you can browse and let it go at that. For the web interface, the advanced search function could be extended with fixed fields for composer and conductor (performer). The genre portion should have a a textbox allowing the user to specify a value for an other genre in the dropdown list. > Clearly the standard Search could be extended to look for > Conductor etc, but I think the Lazy Search plugin > would require more work and possibly changes to > the database, from what I recall of how it works. Well, Lazy Search beats the current method. Maybe it should be incorporated in SS so that it works cleanly for any tag. > Searching > Ideally I suppose you'd like to enter partial searches > on each of several different tags. I have a feeling > that might be too difficult to use using the remote > UI, though of course easy to do with a web interface. > Maybe the right answer is to tell everyone that wants > to do this to go out and buy a wireless PDA to use > as their remote!! I looked at buying a
[slim] Re: Purchased iTunes music not visible?
Yup, it's because Apple won't let you play them on anything except their own players. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18803 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Linksys WUSB54GS - Nividia Nforce system - crash
USB-based networking devices are just trouble, trouble, trouble. This extends to DSL/cable modems as well. Go for a PCI card. --- bstark73 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just rearranged my wireless network at home to > improve the wireless > coverage within the house. Specifically, i moved the > AP to the center > of the house and put my main PC (which was wired via > ethernet to the > AP) on a wireless link. I did this with a linksys > wireles usb adapter. > > This definitely improved the wireless signal within > the house. The > clients within the main areas of the house (laptop, > mp3 streaming > device - slimdevices squeezebox) have much better > signal strength and > work better than before. Even the PC that is now > connected wirelessly > to the AP has good enough signal strength and has > good data transfer > rates. > > Problem is that my PC now hangs with alarming > regularity!. My system: > - AMX X2 3800 > - Nvidia Nforce 4 ultra system - epox ultra 9npa+ > - ATI 6800 XL graphics card > - 1 Gig RAM > - 2, 250GB sata drives > > Has anyone had problems with USB wireless adapters > and in particular, > the linksys device? I am running it at 54G, but not > turbo mode. I > assume this is some form of either a bad driver for > the wireless > adapter (i am using the latest) or bad USB 2 drivers > (i think i am > again using the latest). Has anyone been able to fix > this? Or should i > simply buy a PCI based adapter? > > thanks! > > > -- > bstark73 > > bstark73's Profile: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2419 > View this thread: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18802 > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Purchased iTunes music not visible?
Probably an ancient topic, but any reason why purchased music inmy iTunes library won't show up in Slimserver? Bruce -- bec143 bec143's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=283 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18803 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Linksys WUSB54GS - Nividia Nforce system - crash
Hi, I just rearranged my wireless network at home to improve the wireless coverage within the house. Specifically, i moved the AP to the center of the house and put my main PC (which was wired via ethernet to the AP) on a wireless link. I did this with a linksys wireles usb adapter. This definitely improved the wireless signal within the house. The clients within the main areas of the house (laptop, mp3 streaming device - slimdevices squeezebox) have much better signal strength and work better than before. Even the PC that is now connected wirelessly to the AP has good enough signal strength and has good data transfer rates. Problem is that my PC now hangs with alarming regularity!. My system: - AMX X2 3800 - Nvidia Nforce 4 ultra system - epox ultra 9npa+ - ATI 6800 XL graphics card - 1 Gig RAM - 2, 250GB sata drives Has anyone had problems with USB wireless adapters and in particular, the linksys device? I am running it at 54G, but not turbo mode. I assume this is some form of either a bad driver for the wireless adapter (i am using the latest) or bad USB 2 drivers (i think i am again using the latest). Has anyone been able to fix this? Or should i simply buy a PCI based adapter? thanks! -- bstark73 bstark73's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2419 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18802 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 18:01 -0800, Listener wrote: > I read Ceejay's last post and Pat's. I tried to find some information > of the DB design as it exists. I've not seen a lot of documentation, but sqlitebrower and other tools make it pretty easy to figure out. > I could have been looking at the wrong file to see the database design > or not understanding it correctly. So my observations might be > completely wrong. I posted a lot about design way back on the developers list in the pre-6.0 times. Some was accepted, some not. I stepped out to let the hard work get done. > Perhaps the Beginner's Guide for Classical Music and other SS/SB > documentation should contain a strong warning that if the album name > isn't unique, BAD THINGS MAY HAPPEN. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is not likely to be uniquely named in any large classical collection > Altogether, not encourging. Its a work in progress. I don't think it is time to be discouraged. But setting up a proper library for non-pop is a non-trivial effort. It isn't going to be fixed with a new table and five new Sql statements. And there are philosophical questions to answer: what is a band? -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively
I read Ceejay's last post and Pat's. I tried to find some information of the DB design as it exists. I looked around in the SS v6.2.1 source and found a dbcreate.sql file for SQLLite and one for MySQL. Based on what I see in those files and your comments, I made some observations: 1. The album table plays a fairly central role. The album tag value is probably taken from this table with hardwired logic. That makes it harder to treat it as just another tag to make a datadriven UI. 2. I see a role field in the contributor_track and contributor_album tables. Are these fields derived from the tab name? If not, maybe the original information about tab name and value has been lost. And it probably isn't easy to separate composer from artist so that you can browse one and not the other. If you can translate the role back into the original meaning (composer, conductor, artist), perhaps you could search on just one of the roles. And in a later step, search on another role. If not, then step-by-step browsing isn't going to work for me. 3. It looks as though the tag database is not very general and it is intertwined with the general functionality of Slimserver. That makes it any changes harder to implement and less likely to happen. 4. I see that there are genres and genre_track tables. So that is hardwired too. I'd guess that if a tag doesn't have a table defined for it, that tag isn't kept in the database. 5. If I were making decisions, I'd consider separating out the tag info into a new track_tag table with the following fields: a primary key of course, a reference to the corresponding track, a tag name and a value for that tag. Then you could make the browse and search logic data driven and quite general. I'm certainly not making the decision and I'm not likely to be doing the work so it probably won't happen. 6. Stuffing various tag values into the contributor table makes browse lists bigger and means that the UI won't scale well for me. --- I could have been looking at the wrong file to see the database design or not understanding it correctly. So my observations might be completely wrong. --- Now I understand Ceejay's concern for making the album tag unique. However, depending on an album name that is set outside SS by software you don't specify and don't control is a risk. Suppose two sets of tracks have the same album name. As I found, SS/SB will return both sets when I browse by artist and then select an album. They individual tracks will play in some mixed up order. If one set of tracks has a severe replay gain settng, what happens you you play the other set? Perhaps the Beginner's Guide for Classical Music and other SS/SB documentation should contain a strong warning that if the album name isn't unique, BAD THINGS MAY HAPPEN. --- Altogether, not encourging. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18767 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: ANNOUNCE: New Beginners Guide in Wiki
> As promised, I've updated [the Beginner's GuideToClassical] > to cover some of the points you raised. I've read it. I think you can covered good points and plugged a big hole in the SS/SB documentation. A comment about choices for album name and title. I think the choices depend on how much classical music you have. I am not sure that your recommendations will scale well to a library or 1000+ classical CDs. I might have a positive recommendation in a couple of days. Browse Music Folder is a definite option for finding music in a large collection. I build a hierarchy of directories with MP3 files from various sources. I'm just getting starting trying it out with SS/SB. This hierarchy is MyMusic/Composer/(type of music)/work/(performers). The bottom level directory usually contains one music file per movement. I only use the (type of music) level if I need to split the works in smaller sets. The performers directory name has a concatenation of whatever tags is appropriate for the work - conductor_orchestra or soloist_conductor_orchestra or quartet name. I think that Browse Music Folder has promise and folder organization might be discussed at more length and in terms of the reason for it: to split browse lists into more manageable lengths. > I suspect I still haven't gone as far as you want, I think that a good user's guide is needed. I agree that it is reasonable for you to avoid it. I think I said earlier that the choices made in ripping, tagging, storing and naming files were linked to the UI mechanisms available in SS/SB. I think a bit more explanation of why your recommendations are important would be good. Right now, these isn't much documentation about what happens at each step of browsing. Telling beginners why they are tagging things as you recommend and how they will select music using those tags would help a beginner alot. You stress consistency. I found that however much I tried to be consistent, I would make some mistakes. Some words on cleaning up your tags would be useful. I've found that tracking down mistakes isn't trivial. I think that recommending a tag editor program that is viual and capable and saying that there ar elots of other choices would be helpful. Thanks for making the effort. It is worthwhile in itself and I appreciate your taking the further step to talk about modifications to the SS/SB to better handle classical music. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18649 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 15:54 -0800, ceejay wrote:
> First, the database as it is... has many tables!
All useful relational databases have lots of tables.
Having lots of relationships is why the 6.* series
went to the database.
> This means that code along the lines I was thinking of, allowing the
> user to do queries on different roles, can be done without any changes
> to the database (I think).
An admirable goal. Adding queries is fairly safe.
Altho the database schema is a little bit of a moving target
right now.
> I suspect your completely general approach to using any tag in any way
> you like just might be a step too far.
Most likely.
> Ideally I suppose you'd like to enter partial searches on each of
> several different tags.
Right, both predefined as part of the standard release,
and then whatever folks need for the way their library is
implemented.
> BTW, keeping the Album title really short ("Symphony 1") won't work -
> it MUST contain enough information to make it unique vs all other
> albums, otherwise Slimserver (and other music players) will merge the
> tracks of the ambiguous albums.
It should not do this. Using the name is bad design.
Each tune/song should be identified not by its tags, but by
the music itself. Tags are just comments for us humans.
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[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively
Hmmm, this could get tricky!
First, the database as it is... has many tables! But it has the
notion of a "contributor", with several possible "roles". So a track
can have many different contributors associated, and each contributor
can be any one of several different roles (artist, conductor, composer,
band - as far as I can see). This is wired into the current database
design. Adding an extra role doesn't look hard, if needed.
This means that code along the lines I was thinking of, allowing the
user to do queries on different roles, can be done without any changes
to the database (I think). I was trying to keep it relatively simple
(if we don't, it won't happen).
I suspect your completely general approach to using any tag in any way
you like just might be a step too far.
I was thinking more of a browse than a search model - and I was, BTW,
allowing for a multi-level selection, at least in the more advanced of
the options I described. You select, say, "conductor", and get a list
of all the conductors... choose Karajan, get a list of all albums that
match (this is the potentially long list you are worried about) BUT
with an added set of selectors at the top for each of the other valid
browse tags. So if you want to now specify a further value for
ENSEMBLE, you can. Properly coded, this would give you the flexibility
you want to specify selectors for any of the valid tags, in any order.
I don't think this is very different from what you described, except
that I am visualising a limited set of tags for which this will work
(trying to keep the changes simple).
Enough of that. Maybe I'll just have a go at writing it myself.
The other function, though, is "Search", which is quite different (I
think). The current standard Search functionality allows you to search
(in albums, artists and songs) by typing (mobile phone fashion) in on
the keypad. The new Lazy Search plugin makes this easier, by allowing
you to type in just one keypad number for each letter.
Clearly the standard Search could be extended to look for Conductor
etc, but I think the Lazy Search plugin would require more work and
possibly changes to the database, from what I recall of how it works.
Ideally I suppose you'd like to enter partial searches on each of
several different tags. I have a feeling that might be too difficult to
use using the remote UI, though of course easy to do with a web
interface. Maybe the right answer is to tell everyone that wants to do
this to go out and buy a wireless PDA to use as their remote!!
BTW, keeping the Album title really short ("Symphony 1") won't work -
it MUST contain enough information to make it unique vs all other
albums, otherwise Slimserver (and other music players) will merge the
tracks of the ambiguous albums.
Lets give it some more thought and see if anyone else will join in our
mad ramblings
Ceejay.
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[slim] Re: Updated skin for Handheld/PDA use
I think you need to right click on the link and save target as to your hard drive, then you can open it. -- rme rme's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1551 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18770 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Force iTunes scan?
Same here - running 6.2.1 and it won't scan my iTunes folder. -- MarTT MarTT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2640 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18781 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Fishbone skin question
To change the subject slightly... After a recent nightly revision, search now shows the number of results, but the results themselves are not shown. This is under Firefox (Mozilla). I have not tried IE. I am running the 6.5b1 nightlies. -- LavaJoe LavaJoe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively
Another HTML file with file extnsiuon changed to .txt. This one shows a proposal for makes the advanced search more general. The right column shows a not fully worked out idea for providing a list of values for the attribute named on the left. This seems quite useful for the genre tag and possibly useful for other tags. I realize that if you change the tag specified on a line, you have to requery and repopulate the dropdown box on the right. Bill +---+ |Filename: advanced_search_proposal_1.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=531| +---+ -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18767 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Stopping slimserver scanning in a directory
gorstk Wrote: > JJZolx wrote: > > gorstk Wrote: > > > >>Is there a way to stop slimserver from scanning a directory but still > > >>allowing me to access it via 'browse music folder'?? > >> > >>Using mandrake linux, slimserver 6.2.1 > > > > No. Why do you want to do that? > > > > If you were to access it using Browse Music Folder, that would cause > > SlimServer to scan it anyway. > > I have some audiobook cd's which have 250 mp3 files per book! I would > not want this clogging up my artist/album views. Also random mixes > would > have a high chance of inclusing one of the chapters! Unfortunately, there's currently no way to play a track unless it's first added to your library. I think we can expect that capability in SlimServer 6.5, but it will be a while before that version is released. If you were to tag all of the audio books with the same 'ARTIST' name (say, 'Audio Book'), then at least they would be consolidated under the same artist and wouldn't clog up that view. You can't really consolidate them under Browse Albums, though. They'll still show up as individual albums in that view. What I would do is force them all to the end of the album view by adding an ALBUMSORT tag (TSOA ID3 tag in mp3 files) to the tracks. Setting the tag's value to "" plus the album name should force them to the end, but keep them in alphabetical order. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18792 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively
Another HTML file with extension changed to .htm. This dummy web page shows a setup pag for creating a custom browse. When the user chooses this custom browse from the main SB menu, a list of DISTINCT values for the specified tag are displayed on the SB. (One at a time of course.) The user selects a value with the right arrow and SS builds a list of DISTINCT values for the tag specified for the 2nd step for files that have the specified value for the 1st step. This lets the user specify a hierarchy of browses to narrow down the list of files until he gets to what he wants. This is useful for classical music libraries where you might browse on Composer then Album (work), then Artist or Conductor. Bill +---+ |Filename: custom_browse_setup_proposal_1.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=530| +---+ -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18767 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively
I'm uploading an HTML file with the extension changed to .txt. Browsing_setup_tag_selection.txt Change the extension to .htm. This dummy webpage shows a setup process for defining which tags are displayed when the "Browse by Tags" menu item is selected. +---+ |Filename: Browsing_setup_tag_selection.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=529| +---+ -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18767 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 2 nics with two wi-fi need help
> 1. The slim server is installed on my d: drive to save C: but it can't > find itunes libraries. I don't understand this. Do you have multiple copies of your library on multiple drives? If you do, I think that this is problem #1. > 2. And because I connect through a nic to the wi-fi router to the > squeeze box and have a second nic(wireless) to connect to the internet > through a second wireless router when I try to browse the internet the > system appears to go to the squeesbox nic and cannot find the DNS and > web pages and I can't browse. I have disable the squeeze box nic to > wireless router connection and no problem with the browser of course > the squeeezebox looses connections and I can't listen to music any > seggestions would be appreciated. With the second router and second NIC you're solution is like treating the symptom rather than the underlying cause. If your Squeezebox loses connections, you'll need to solve that problem. Your router actually sets up a second network that is, to a certain extent, independent of the first. You'll need to configure your (second) router so that it can see and be seen by the main wireless network. But again, this is like putting a bandaid on a wound without first stopping the bleeding. If I were you, I'd get rid of the second router and try to diagnose the wireless problem. If it's a distance/signal strength issue, you might want to replace the second router with an access point, or try to use the second router as an AP rather than a router. That way, you'll still have a single network. Another approach might be to replace your (single) router with one of the newer pre-N MIMO routers. I'm under the impression that they can handle multiple wireless data streams and that they interoperate with B and G clients. -- Joe Investment Education at its very Best: CompuFest, June 23-25, 2006, Reno, NV (http://www.CompuFest2006.com) The World Money Show, Feb 1-4, 2006, Orlando, FL ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Browse Artists Anomaly?
tomsi42 Wrote: > Strange... Afraid I can't help you then. OK, thanks. The two apes are in one list, the two flacs in the other. Cold there now? -- gjrhine Gary gjrhine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2481 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18798 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Fishbone skin question
On 4-Dec-05, at 2:55 PM, DrNic wrote: Thanks KDF for the fast reply. So there is no way to get back to the "old" look then, I take it? open HTML/Fishbone/slimserver.css look for ".listing, .listing2, .even, .odd" change to whatever you prefer: padding-left: 1px; Do you see a difference between browsers? and platforms, yes. Safari appears to swell the graphics a bit. Opera on windows is fine, but on osx the graphics swell to overlapping, even with lots of added margins. I will try and post a screen shot when able - just to illustrate what I mean, regardless of whether there is a fix or not!! I use analogx capture for screenshots in windows. With more playing with 6.2.2, I have noticed that albums that were created with iTunes (before my FLAC onslaught which is still ongoing!) and were compilations (and hence have iTunes compilation tag set) do not show up in track order. These are taged as 2-1, 2-2 2-3 etc for disc 2 (and 1-1, 1-2 etc for disc 1). It is only disc 2 that has the number order wrong. Any thoughts? This should already be fixed, in that the sort will use the multi-album sort key. You'd have to check the db to confirm. There are a number of settings changes since 5.3.1 to handle compilations and multi-albums. You might need to play with those a bit. As a rule now, you should only have to tag then with a plain tracknum, and disc (part in set for itunes). The server does the rest. I'm not sure exactly what it does with tracknums of 1-1, 102, etc. I no longer have the kind of free time needed to keep track of all the changing back and forth. (Behaviour is correct in 5.3.1) 5.3.1 is almost completely unrelated to 6.2.2 -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively
> OK, so this is in principle do-able - I think it would be a > good idea to try to converge on what we want before asking Dan > or anyone else to code it up. I agree that we should think a bit more before asking anyone to write code. I have made three dummy web pages to illustrate what I've done so far. (A setup page for selecting which tags to add to the Browse by tags menu, a setup page for creating a custom browse and a web interface advanced search page.) I haven't uploaded anything before so I'll try to upload them in separate steps. Some things to think out: 1) how would these changes work in a mixed library of classical and other things. 2)Are there any benefits for genres other than classical? 3) Are there things specific to opera or choral works? 4) How about hymns and religious music? 4) Anything different about jazz, blues, hip-hop or rap? There is a prospect that these changes could make Slimserver capable of using whatever tags are present in the music files. I don't know the table layout of the database but if it uses two tables, it should be doable: music file table (MT): MT primary key, file name, other stuff tag table (TT): TT primary key, foreign key reference to MT primary key, tag name, tag value This sort of structure provides several benefits: a) SS can store all the tags found in music files in the database. No need to cast choices in stone (code). b) The choice of which tags to list in the menus can be done in a setup page. c) SS does a Select query on the database to get a list of Distinct tag names in the database, keeps those the user has chosen in the setup screen and display the resulting list in the menu and in the drop-down lists to build a custom browse. d) Multiple Artist values can be accommodated easily. Some tags may not have a well defined text name and we don't want to display a cryptic mix of letters and numbers. The setup page that lets the user select which tags to put into the menu should contain a column for specifying a display name to be shown in place of the cryptic text. We can build a set of defaults once. i.e. checkbox tag name from filedisplay name ... If the tag info is currently in the same table as the file name in fixed fields, a two table design would require a more complex Select query (and take more time.) However, it is clean and would make SS/SB more flexible than most players. > As I see it, the request for additional functionality in web > search is fairly straightforward - simply add some more fields > in the "advanced search" page so we can enter as many or as > few search restrictions as we like. Some thoughts about search: 1) Browsing in a list is often better than typing criteria for a search. If you can type a single character and jump into the list, it extends the size of a list that you can browse effectively. 2) Search needs to provide a way to find things that you can't find easily by browsing. 3) If we are making the Browse capabilities more flexible, we should try to do the same for search. I have a dummy advanced search screen for the web interface. I made the search field names drop-down boxes rather than text labels. And I added a couple of fields. I also experimented with the idea of adding a column with a drop-down box containing all the values for that tag chosen on that line. I understand that if you change the tag name in that drop-down box, you have to re-populate the drop-down box with available values. It will be clearer when you see the dummy page. Populating a drop-down box from the database rather than from a pre-determined list is especially important for genre. Specifying other for genre doesn't help much. I think that the key ideas for advanced search are 1) let the user to specify any tag to search on from the SB menu, 2) selectively display available values to making searching easier. > I think there are two main topics for debate (if anyone sees > others now would be the time to jump in!). > (1) What tags do we want to search on (in addition to > Artist/Album/Track which are givens)? > ... > ... Anyway, I guess that COMPOSER and CONDUCTOR are > straightforward. > I'd also like to vote for PERFORMER (not SOLOIST). I think we have an opportunity to make SS/SB flexible and able to use the tags in finds in the users music files. We don't have to wire in our choices. One additional capability might be good: Combining tags when they are equivalent. A user may have music files from different sources containing different tags. So his music library would be inconsistent. It would be better if SS can adapt to what it finds rather than requiring the user to have been completely consistent. SS has a setup option to lump Composer, Conductor and Band with Artist. A more general setup page might let the user specify one or more tags to lump with another tag. The user whould pick a tag he wants to browse and one or more tags to be combined. You don't have to lose the ori
[slim] Re: Browse Artists Anomaly?
gjrhine Wrote: > The artist is Fourplay, spelled exactly the same in all cases. Strange... Afraid I can't help you then. -- tomsi42 SqueezeBox2, Rotel RC-1070/RB-1070, dynaBel Exact. tomsi42's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2477 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18798 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Browse Artists Anomaly?
The artist is Fourplay, spelled exactly the same in all cases. -- gjrhine Gary gjrhine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2481 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18798 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: BBC Streams
On 12/4/05, jonolumb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: search around for alienbbcWhich i've just installed for the first time. it had always looked a real faff on XP before but the instructions are now very clearly written and i had it up and running in about 10 minutes without a hitch. It's very impressive scrolling through the a-z list though i can't work out the sort order or what hitting the number buttons on the remote does - it moves to a different place in the list but doesnt seem to bear any relevance to the key pressed. It's probably secured another SB sale for my place as the better half now wants one for the workshop ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Browse Artists Anomaly?
gjrhine Wrote: > I have two ape and two flac files by the same artist all spelled the > same. Are they supposed to show up in two different listings in Browse > Artists? It is something with your tags. I see the same. But only with artists that have accented characters in them. eg. The norwegian artist Magnus Grønneberg. I suspect a mix of UTF-8 and iso8859. Tom -- tomsi42 SqueezeBox2, Rotel RC-1070/RB-1070, dynaBel Exact. tomsi42's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2477 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18798 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Fishbone skin question
kdf Wrote: > The images are the same ones as before, so the resolution should be > just as it was before. The only difference is in the play icon which > was improperly scaled up from 8 to 9 pixels in some older versions. > The spacing has changed due to the increasing information that has been > > added to the title formatting over time. i have also moved this from > cell size control to css-based control, which may be more accurate and > > thus showing the size as smaller than it used to be. > > -kdf Thanks KDF for the fast reply. So there is no way to get back to the "old" look then, I take it? Do you see a difference between browsers? I will try and post a screen shot when able - just to illustrate what I mean, regardless of whether there is a fix or not!! With more playing with 6.2.2, I have noticed that albums that were created with iTunes (before my FLAC onslaught which is still ongoing!) and were compilations (and hence have iTunes compilation tag set) do not show up in track order. These are taged as 2-1, 2-2 2-3 etc for disc 2 (and 1-1, 1-2 etc for disc 1). It is only disc 2 that has the number order wrong. Any thoughts? (Behaviour is correct in 5.3.1) Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: more wood cases
Hello chrisla Please read your MP thanks -- lioelec lioelec's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2454 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16775 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Updated skin for Handheld/PDA use
Hi, I'm having trouble unzipping the file - says "the compressed file is invalid or corrupted" - is it just me? -- netim3 netim3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=219 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18770 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Stopping slimserver scanning in a directory
JJZolx wrote: gorstk Wrote: Is there a way to stop slimserver from scanning a directory but still allowing me to access it via 'browse music folder'?? Using mandrake linux, slimserver 6.2.1 No. Why do you want to do that? If you were to access it using Browse Music Folder, that would cause SlimServer to scan it anyway. I have some audiobook cd's which have 250 mp3 files per book! I would not want this clogging up my artist/album views. Also random mixes would have a high chance of inclusing one of the chapters! ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fishbone skin question
The images are the same ones as before, so the resolution should be just as it was before. The only difference is in the play icon which was improperly scaled up from 8 to 9 pixels in some older versions. The spacing has changed due to the increasing information that has been added to the title formatting over time. i have also moved this from cell size control to css-based control, which may be more accurate and thus showing the size as smaller than it used to be. -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Browse Artists Anomaly?
I have two ape and two flac files by the same artist all spelled the same. Are they supposed to show up in two different listings in Browse Artists? -- gjrhine Gary gjrhine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2481 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18798 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Disabled volume and headphone.
Sorry there haven't been any responses up to now. Yes, you can adjust the headphone volume independently of the digital volume control. I have the digital volume control set to fixed and I'm still able to control the headphone volume, which remembers its last setting too. This is exactly as it should be. bernt wrote: > Hi! > > I have disabled the digital volume control. > > What happens if I plug in my headphones in the built in headphonejack? > Do I need new headphones/ears or can I adjust the volume for the jack? > > Regards > /Bernt > > -- ___ Mark Lanctot ___ __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 Wireless Black - New - Forsale
both units sold and going to seemingly happy homes. -- jackaninny jackaninny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=273 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18759 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Updated skin for Handheld/PDA use
nice skin, thanks! I am having one issue with this and the default handheld skin. I access using a Palm OS treo650 through their blazer web viewer. I have a problem with the volume controls on your skin in that when I select a new volume (say changing from 6 to 7) for the first time, it will transmit and process the change properly. The web browser says "sending" and then "receiving" However, when I select a previously selected volume level (say changing back to 6 or from 8 to 7 when previously selected above), the web browser does not transmit the change. It only says "redrawing". It seems that in the palm browser it does not force a refresh ande resend of the volume level if it is had prevously been selected. Is there a way to program your skin to more specifically force a refresh everytime something gets selected or touched on a screen, even if it was previously selected? One other item, how can I get your skin to default to the home page instead of the browse artists page when I start it up? Thanks again. -- rme rme's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1551 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18770 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Stopping slimserver scanning in a directory
gorstk Wrote: > Is there a way to stop slimserver from scanning a directory but still > allowing me to access it via 'browse music folder'?? > > Using mandrake linux, slimserver 6.2.1 No. Why do you want to do that? If you were to access it using Browse Music Folder, that would cause SlimServer to scan it anyway. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18792 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Portland Event - (was Re: Seattle Event)
No, it gets worse. At random moments in the performance, the guy gets his dogs to "sing" by playing twiddles on the mouth organ and shouting "Sing Bess, sing". For some reason, this draws crowds of tourists, and they're not even lynch mobs. My favourite is his hand lettered sign saying "Live Music", just in case you were in any doubt. But I digress... Max DrNic Wrote: > Can either of the 2 dogs play the mouth organ or guitar - that might > help the guy concentrate on the singing!! ;) > > Nic -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Fishbone skin question
Hi I guess this is really aimed at the author (KDF)!! I love this skin and have used it exclusively in my SB1 setup (believe it or not the 5.3.1 server!). I have the SB3 on order, and have downloaded the latest 6.2.2 (4/12/05)- a breeze to install (ie none of the stated problems others have been unfortunate to experience) and the new functionality is great. I haven't yet put it "live" so the SB1 is still using the server off another machine running the old 5.3.1. The latest fishbone skin seems to have the icons (add, play now, play next etc) closer together than on the old server skin, and they appear to be lower resolution. This is on the latest version of Mozilla Firefox. I can obviously compare these direct as I can navigate to the running 5.3.1 and the new "local" 6.2.2. Interestingly the Internet explorer version looks better but they are still closer together. Is there a reason or solution to this? How can I take screen shots to show you? (short of using a digital cam!). Thanks for any advice. Nic PS the memory footprint of 6.2.2 is significantly larger (64Mb for 340 songs) compared to 5.3.1 (48Mb for 1800 songs). Is there a reason? -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18796 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: RadioIO Seasons channel
Thanks Patrick!! Happy Holidays! -- JimB JimB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=327 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18787 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Two rooms
You could use both the coaxial digital and optical digital outputs simultaneously with 2 receivers. I am assuming that both outputs can operate simultaneously, but I see nothing that indicates they can't. Yes, the SB2's DAC is at least as good or better than those in most AVRs, but the problem isn't that one DAC is better than the other, the problem is that some receivers handle analog much worse than digital. With my Marantz 8400, I find the optical digital SB2 output to be extremely clean but slightly bright. The analog connection is much warmer, but too much so - to the point the vocals sound muffled and the music lacks detail. Yet when I listen to the SB2 using headphones it isn't nearly as muffled, and it's being driven by the SB2 DAC as well. Since both the analog and digital SB2 outputs can operate simultaneously, you can have a very good comparison test since you can change audio inputs with the press of a button. Remember that auditory memory is the shortest, most fleeting and most easily fooled/persuaded. You can also use a pair of splitters on the analog line to split the analog sound between two receivers. Cheaper than a Niles switch, although you would need a second receiver. mrfantasy wrote: > I've decided I have to get my Squeezebox music in both my living room > and family room. > > Right now my SB2 is in a great custom entertainment center > (http://www.customshoppefurniture.com/) with the home theatre receiver > (a Sony STR-DE845--it's not audiophile equipment but among the ones I > tested 4 years ago for under $500 sounded the best with music, and it > sounds great with DVDs) and Klipsch Quartet speakers with a KSW10 > subwoofer (again, not audiophile stuff, but better than any other home > theatre speakers under $800 I tried for music). The receiver has A/B > speaker outputs, but not a line out that could be fed to another amp. > > My family room and living room are back-to-back (the family room is an > extension off the original house, and in fact has the back of the > living room fireplace in it) and I can get between them with a simple > wall penetration, and run about 15 feet of cable between the rooms. I > the Living room I have an old Sony reciever, stereo only, and Polk R15 > speakers (and also a second TV and DVD player for incidental use, but > no home theatre setup.) > > I figure my options are: > > 1) Buy an SB3 and put it in the living room, hooked up to the existing > receiver. Probably the simplest option, but I'm not sure how the audio > quality would be with the old receive, and it's another $300. Also my > primary application would be to have the same thing playing in the > living room and family room (I'll probably probably never have > independent listening) and even if players weren't precisely synched it > would be distracting. > > 2) Use the B speaker outputs from the family room and run speaker wire > to the living room, and get a speaker switch in the living room (Niles > Audio makes an automatic switch for about $90.) to switch between the > family room receiver and living room receiver. Cost $100 plus some > speaker wire. > > 3) Hook my digital out from the SB2 to the family room receiver, and > run the line outs to the living room, into the old receiver. This > would be easy as well, but probably wouldn't sound as good in the > family room, where I'm now using the analog outs assuming the SB2 DAC > is better than whatever's in the Sony (although the Sony is resampling > and processing it anyway, and doesn't have an analog only mode like > I've seen in some home theatre receivers in the same price range > nowadays.) > > 4) Buy a new receiver for the family room with a line out, put the one > currently in there in the living room, and use line out cable to hook > the two together. The new receiver would probably have an analog-only > mode for best audio quality from the SB2, and would provide the same > signal to my current receiver. I'd be looking at stuff in the > $500-$1000 range. > > Thoughts? Anything else I haven't thought of? > > -- ___ Mark Lanctot ___ __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: DAC improvements with SB3 compared to SB2
I was hoping that they had improved on the sb2's excellent one... never mind. -- dukeinlondon dukeinlondon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1145 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18742 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 2 nics with two wi-fi need help
I have 2 problems??? In an effort to resolve my hard disk from filling up I split my audio files onto 2 new (to the system) hard disks drives. And I install Itunes on one of these two drives because when windows xp prof. adds audio files my C: drive was filling up way too quickly. The other problem I was having was the Squeezebox (orginal with Wi-Fi) would loose response and / or reboot and start playing again from the beginning of the audio file. My resolution:So I bought a second wi-fi router just for my squeezebox. But here is the problems 1. The slim server is installed on my d: drive to save C: but it can't find itunes libraries. 2. And because I connect through a nic to the wi-fi router to the squeeze box and have a second nic(wireless) to connect to the internet through a second wireless router when I try to browse the internet the system appears to go to the squeesbox nic and cannot find the DNS and web pages and I can't browse. I have disable the squeeze box nic to wireless router connection and no problem with the browser of course the squeeezebox looses connections and I can't listen to music any seggestions would be appreciated. -- georgeweliver georgeweliver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2635 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18795 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] replaygain for mp3 on squeezebox1
I have just found on the forum that there is a way to decide flac with the replaygain applied to a squeezebox1. (by adding a replaygain flag to slimserver-convert.conf) Can I do a similar thing with MP3 files? I know this will increase bandwidth useage greatly as it will have to send over wav files - but I am not overly bothered by that. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] RadioIO Seasons channel
I just received an email from radiaio with the URL they want us to use. It should be up soon. Cheers, Patrick On 12/4/05 11:20 AM, "Patrick Cosson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to get permission from radioio. I'll work on it immediately. > > Cheers, > > Patrick > > > On 12/4/05 10:45 AM, "JimB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> Anyone know how I can add this channel to the list of RadioIO stations >> that are available? Using SB1 with 5.4.1 slimserver. >> >> thanks!! >> > > --- > Patrick Cosson > V-P, Sales & Marketing > Slim Devices, Inc. > 415-359-7407 cell > 413-638-5248 efax > > "The Squeezebox is made by people who truly love digital music, and powered > by open-source software that plays almost any music or internet radio > format...It looks gorgeous." > > Hot Stuff | STUFF UK online | 25 Oct 2005 > > > > > > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss --- Patrick Cosson V-P, Sales & Marketing Slim Devices, Inc. 415-359-7407 cell 413-638-5248 efax "The Squeezebox is made by people who truly love digital music, and powered by open-source software that plays almost any music or internet radio format...It looks gorgeous." Hot Stuff | STUFF UK online | 25 Oct 2005 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Stopping slimserver scanning in a directory
Is there a way to stop slimserver from scanning a directory but still allowing me to access it via 'browse music folder'?? Using mandrake linux, slimserver 6.2.1 Cheers ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: BBC Streams
search around for alienbbc -- jonolumb jonolumb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18751 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] RadioIO Seasons channel
I need to get permission from radioio. I'll work on it immediately. Cheers, Patrick On 12/4/05 10:45 AM, "JimB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know how I can add this channel to the list of RadioIO stations > that are available? Using SB1 with 5.4.1 slimserver. > > thanks!! > --- Patrick Cosson V-P, Sales & Marketing Slim Devices, Inc. 415-359-7407 cell 413-638-5248 efax "The Squeezebox is made by people who truly love digital music, and powered by open-source software that plays almost any music or internet radio format...It looks gorgeous." Hot Stuff | STUFF UK online | 25 Oct 2005 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What's Up with This Scan Function?
It seems it takes 30-40 minutes to do a Clear Library and Rescan Everything so here is what I do now. With nothing much else running I hit Ctrl, Alt, Delete and reset the priority of Slim to Above Normal. The thing takes off like a bat out of hell and is done in a minute! -- gjrhine Gary gjrhine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2481 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18705 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] RadioIO Seasons channel
Anyone know how I can add this channel to the list of RadioIO stations that are available? Using SB1 with 5.4.1 slimserver. thanks!! -- JimB JimB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=327 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18787 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Beware the christmas decorations!
Jim Wrote: > I bet you did...whilst she yelled "Get outta the way, I can't use the > remote on the squeezebox" :P Well I think it is certainly testament that my once technophobic wife now moans at me when it is not on!! Thats how I got the blessing for the SB3 - horrah! Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18783 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Beware the christmas decorations!
DrNic Wrote: > A few stern words were said - but then she threatened that I wouldn't > get my SB3 for Crimbo so I sneakily re-arranged the tinsel myself... :) I bet you did...whilst she yelled "Get outta the way, I can't use the remote on the squeezebox" :P -- Jim Jim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=213 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18783 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimp3 doesn't work with Netgear WGT624
try putting the old router as a switch in betweeen the slimp3 and your new router. I had unsolvable connection problems when I changed the switch the slimp3 was connected to. 2 of 3 of my 10/100 Mbit switches don't work with the slimp3's 10 Mbit ethernet connection! My situation was somehow diffrent from yours, as I couldn't connect to the network at all. But I remember that the slimp3 once also got silent on the audio output but worked later on again. I didn't understood this mystery... may be it is some voodoo in there ;-) my "no sound" thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16213 my "no connection" thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18723 -- docbee docbee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=26 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18784 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Slimp3 doesn't work with Netgear WGT624
>One thing I'm sure others will suggest is to make sure you're using the 2.3 firmware. Sean just posted a message inferring that one of the >fixes was to make it more compliant with newer routers. You can download the 2.3 firmware and updater tool here: >http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/firmware/2.3/ >Those MAC addresses definitely don't sound right. I doubt SlimDevices was early enough to procure that range of addresses -- it could be that >updating the firmware will allow the router to see the correct MAC address. Thanks for the hint, it's now working perfectly ^^ As strange as it seems, this is the mac adress that my slimp3 displays while in upgrade mode: 01-01-01-01-ff-01 As long as it works, I don't care if it's correct or not! Thanks again! Damien ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: ANNOUNCE: New Beginners Guide in Wiki
Bill As promised, I've updated http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToClassical to cover some of the points you raised. I suspect I still haven't gone as far as you want, which I think was a full step-by-step guide to doing everything. I'm holding back from that because one of my original criteria for the BeginnersGuide (which I still think is right) is to try to stop it becoming a full users manual - this would take too long and would create a maintenance nightmare. Regards Ceejay (and also hope to see you in the other thread about the future use of COMPOSER/etc) -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18649 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Portland Event - (was Re: Seattle Event)
max.spicer Wrote: > a guy that can't play guitar, mouth organ or sing, but nevertheless > does all three at once with amplification and two dogs! > > Max Can either of the 2 dogs play the mouth organ or guitar - that might help the guy concentrate on the singing!! ;) Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Beware the christmas decorations!
Jim Wrote: > War? Wife screwing up SB signal is grounds for divorce :D A few stern words were said - but then she threatened that I wouldn't get my SB3 for Crimbo so I sneakily re-arranged the tinsel myself... :) -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18783 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Two rooms
I've decided I have to get my Squeezebox music in both my living room and family room. Right now my SB2 is in a great custom entertainment center (http://www.customshoppefurniture.com/) with the home theatre receiver (a Sony STR-DE845--it's not audiophile equipment but among the ones I tested 4 years ago for under $500 sounded the best with music, and it sounds great with DVDs) and Klipsch Quartet speakers with a KSW10 subwoofer (again, not audiophile stuff, but better than any other home theatre speakers under $800 I tried for music). The receiver has A/B speaker outputs, but not a line out that could be fed to another amp. My family room and living room are back-to-back (the family room is an extension off the original house, and in fact has the back of the living room fireplace in it) and I can get between them with a simple wall penetration, and run about 15 feet of cable between the rooms. I the Living room I have an old Sony reciever, stereo only, and Polk R15 speakers (and also a second TV and DVD player for incidental use, but no home theatre setup.) I figure my options are: 1) Buy an SB3 and put it in the living room, hooked up to the existing receiver. Probably the simplest option, but I'm not sure how the audio quality would be with the old receive, and it's another $300. Also my primary application would be to have the same thing playing in the living room and family room (I'll probably probably never have independent listening) and even if players weren't precisely synched it would be distracting. 2) Use the B speaker outputs from the family room and run speaker wire to the living room, and get a speaker switch in the living room (Niles Audio makes an automatic switch for about $90.) to switch between the family room receiver and living room receiver. Cost $100 plus some speaker wire. 3) Hook my digital out from the SB2 to the family room receiver, and run the line outs to the living room, into the old receiver. This would be easy as well, but probably wouldn't sound as good in the family room, where I'm now using the analog outs assuming the SB2 DAC is better than whatever's in the Sony (although the Sony is resampling and processing it anyway, and doesn't have an analog only mode like I've seen in some home theatre receivers in the same price range nowadays.) 4) Buy a new receiver for the family room with a line out, put the one currently in there in the living room, and use line out cable to hook the two together. The new receiver would probably have an analog-only mode for best audio quality from the SB2, and would provide the same signal to my current receiver. I'd be looking at stuff in the $500-$1000 range. Thoughts? Anything else I haven't thought of? -- mrfantasy --Mike mrfantasy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1127 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18786 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimp3 doesn't work with Netgear WGT624
On 12/4/05, damston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I having some problems with my faithfull Slimp3. It worked perfectlyuntil I changed my router last month.I had a linksys router and everything worked fine, but it died so Ibought a Netgear WGT 624. Since then, my Slimp3 won't play any music. I can browse the server, manage playlist, do everything but listen to somemusic. When I hit the "play" button, via remote or web interface,nothing happens. Randomly, after 10 minutes or so, I can here a very brief (0.5 seconds) part of the song.One thing I'm sure others will suggest is to make sure you're using the 2.3 firmware. Sean just posted a message inferring that one of the fixes was to make it more compliant with newer routers. You can download the 2.3 firmware and updater tool here:http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/firmware/2.3/Those MAC addresses definitely don't sound right. I doubt SlimDevices was early enough to procure that range of addresses -- it could be that updating the firmware will allow the router to see the correct MAC address. Be ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Portland Event - (was Re: Seattle Event)
York's a great place - I have very fond memories of the Viking center as a child, and the railway museum. It's just a bit of a trek for me now - the New model is just over the river from here :) -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively
OK, so this is in principle do-able - I think it would be a good idea to try to converge on what we want before asking Dan or anyone else to code it up. As I see it, the request for additional functionality in web search is fairly straightforward - simply add some more fields in the "advanced search" page so we can enter as many or as few search restrictions as we like. I think there are two main topics for debate (if anyone sees others now would be the time to jump in!). (1) What tags do we want to search on (in addition to Artist/Album/Track which are givens)? I've been searching for standards and not come up with very much: http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html and http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html both discuss vorbis comments which is fine for FLAC but I'm not sure how this extends to other formats. Anyway, I guess that COMPOSER and CONDUCTOR are straightforward. I'd also like to vote for PERFORMER (not SOLOIST). And should it be ENSEMBLE or BAND or ORCHESTRA? "Ensemble" seems to be recommended by the Vorbis folks... Slimserver currently seems to read only BAND ... and I've read several references to ORCHESTRA. My vote would be for Slimserver to read all three of these but to treat them as equivalent. Note for coder: there could be multiple instances of any of these tags in one file, all should be considered equally valid. (2) The second problem is the desired UI behaviour when using the remote. I sketched one model two posts ago - Listener has decribed another slightly different one. I like mine - obviously! Has anyone else got any suggestions to throw into the pot? The only thing I'd add in either case might be a Settings option to make searching or browsing by these extra tags to be optional, otherwise we'll be cluttering the UI for people who don't want to do this. More comments from anyone? Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18767 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Portland Event - (was Re: Seattle Event)
Pah, would be much better if they came to old York! We have vikings and a guy that can't play guitar, mouth organ or sing, but nevertheless does all three at once with amplification and two dogs! Max radish Wrote: > Ooooh New York :) Looking forward to that one. If you can make it > pre-Christmas all the better, I have 2x SB3s to buy as gifts and > getting them in person would be all the more fun! -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimp3 doesn't work with Netgear WGT624
Hi, I having some problems with my faithfull Slimp3. It worked perfectly until I changed my router last month. I had a linksys router and everything worked fine, but it died so I bought a Netgear WGT 624. Since then, my Slimp3 won't play any music. I can browse the server, manage playlist, do everything but listen to some music. When I hit the "play" button, via remote or web interface, nothing happens. Randomly, after 10 minutes or so, I can here a very brief (0.5 seconds) part of the song. The slimp3 is not Wi-Fi so it is of course wired directly to the network (where everything else works fine). I tried auto setup or manual, no change. I've updated my server, deleted every settings, no change. I use the dhcp server of the netgear WGT 624, but when I tried to assign manually an IP adress to the slimp3 via the webinterface of the router, I got an error message saying "wrong MAC adress". The Mac adress of my slimp3 is 01-01-01-01-ff-01. I'm begining to think that it is indeed wrong (I don't know much about mac adresses) and that the router is blocking it in some way. Any advice? My Slimp3 is one of the first ones and I think I remember there was some way to change the mac adress, but I might be wrong. Regards, Damien -- damston damston's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1650 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18784 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Beware the christmas decorations!
Cleve Wrote: > Your wife sounds like she'd be handy to have around during a time of > war. ;)She could design effective, yet festive, anti-tank traps and > the like. War? Wife screwing up SB signal is grounds for divorce :D -- Jim Jim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=213 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18783 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Beware the christmas decorations!
Your wife sounds like she'd be handy to have around during a time of war. ;)She could design effective, yet festive, anti-tank traps and the like. -- Cleve Two-channel system; McIntosh MC2205 amplifier McIntosh MAC4100 receiver Klipsch CF-4 speakers Denon DR-M3 Cassette Deck Cleve's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2048 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18783 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Beware the christmas decorations!
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > So your wife inadvertently made "Christmas chaff" > which blocked the wireless signal. He he!! Thats a great new name for it - hanging the Christmas Chaff! LOL Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18783 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Beware the christmas decorations!
Interesting - remember that strips of aluminum foil were used in World War II as anti-radar chaff. Tinsel is currently made with aluminum foil laminated in between layers of plastic or with metallized polyester film. Sounds like your wife got the aluminum kind! So your wife inadvertently made "Christmas chaff" which blocked the wireless signal. DrNic wrote: > Hi all > Just thought I'd throw this one into the forums as a warning!! > The wife has just been plastering the house with the usual festive > decorations - mucho chintz tinsel (you didn't hear me say that - > right!). > I use FLAC on a wireless SB1 (I'm hoping Santa will bring a SB3..), and > normally don't ever have a problem with drop-outs. After the seasonal > shananigans were appropriately aranged (took a while!) up popped a few > drop-outs in the music... ARGHH! > My wireless signal had dropped down to 14% (usual ~45%)! > The culprit was tinsel around the Hi-fi stand (and near it!) - removing > this and the signal came back and drop-outs went! > > I'm sure I've read somewhere about this before. > So - try to keep the tinsel down to a minimum - bah humbug :) > > Nic > > -- ___ Mark Lanctot ___ __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Beware the christmas decorations!
Hi all Just thought I'd throw this one into the forums as a warning!! The wife has just been plastering the house with the usual festive decorations - mucho chintz tinsel (you didn't hear me say that - right!). I use FLAC on a wireless SB1 (I'm hoping Santa will bring a SB3..), and normally don't ever have a problem with drop-outs. After the seasonal shananigans were appropriately aranged (took a while!) up popped a few drop-outs in the music... ARGHH! My wireless signal had dropped down to 14% (usual ~45%)! The culprit was tinsel around the Hi-fi stand (and near it!) - removing this and the signal came back and drop-outs went! I'm sure I've read somewhere about this before. So - try to keep the tinsel down to a minimum - bah humbug :) Nic -- DrNic DrNic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=92 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18783 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Review my review
That was the site that did that - I'll bring it to their attention. Thanks. Bruce Hartley wrote: > Maybe it's just me, but I've never seen continued shortened to con't. > > Surely it should be cont'd? > > -- ___ Mark Lanctot ___ __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Portland Event - (was Re: Seattle Event)
Ooooh New York :) Looking forward to that one. If you can make it pre-Christmas all the better, I have 2x SB3s to buy as gifts and getting them in person would be all the more fun! -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18774 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Force iTunes scan?
So I can't seem to force my slimserver to scan my itunes library. I've tried everything I can think of, auto-detect library, manually enter library, change the scan time and ran all of the various force scans. Anyone have any tips? Also, is anyone else having issues with Slimserver 6.2.1 not picking on iTunes at all? For some reason, Slimserver was using a normal folder scan to get my music, not an iTunes scan. thanks skills -- skillsrhodes skillsrhodes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2630 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18781 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: AllofMP3.com
Great post Brian. I buy the occasional second-hand CD, but think now won't ever buy a CD again after this Sony rootkit farce. I bought a few times from allofmp3.com but wasn't happy that they included no EAC logs or cuesheets with their FLAC files so I had no way of telling how they were ripped. Also whilst not supporting the RIAA was good, the idea that some dodgy Russian guy was getting all the money rather than a lot of dodgy American guys made it an easy decision. I stopped. I have a collection back home of about 800 original CD's in my parents house that are never played by them - but officially I broke the law when going overseas with a few hard drives and my entire collection stored as FLAC. The industry would like to make sure I paid again anyhow. Now I just pirate music online in a true private lossless community, there's always taking a chance with eMule but logs/cuesheets/integrity cannot be trusted. I give money to charity when I never really used to and do rarely buy some CD's, but from local up and coming bands I would never have heard of or bought the CD - bands where you buy the CD from the band themselves - where you can be sure the full 100% of your money is funding their habits. I'm not happy being a pirate, but ho ho ho shiver me timbers what else to do? iTunes lossy garbage? No thanks. If any band wants my custom, well I'll wait for the day they start selling lossless DRM free music cause I won't ever trust a CD again. Never used to agree with people CDRing copies of music when it all started a few years ago, and always used to agree that piracy was wrong - but the music industry eventually turned me against them. Just got hold of up and coming James Blunt's album so I might send off some money to him as I haven't seen him on MTV's Cribs yet, or maybe I just donate to an injured soldiers charity - I'm sure he'd appreciate it. -- Jim Jim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=213 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18642 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Problem, Can't open File
I am runing SS 6.2.1 on XP. I am having an assue with recently added disc's in regards to opening/playing some WAV files. I am using Browse Music Folders. Oddly enough, all tracks seem to be recorded correctly (using EAC, with no errors listed)They appear to be listed correctly, but only the 1st track will play? All other trakc give me the following "Problem opening file" This is consistant with 2 SB2's, so it would appear to be a SS or EAC problem? Although, I can play all the tracks correctly via Musicmatch??? Did I twist the wrong nerd knob somewhere in EAC or SS? Any help would be appreciated. P.S. I have tried re-recording the wav's, deleting and recording and stop/start the SS service. Thanks Scott -- sfraser sfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2026 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18779 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia 770
> It does support wep and WPA even. The security level is not a function > of the wireless speed. My double bad; I meant to say -only- supports 'WEP', not -doesn't'- as I (wrongly) believed WEP to be part of the 'b' spec and WPA to be part of the 'g' spec. I now know better ... -- Fifer Fifer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=639 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17837 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Review my review
Maybe it's just me, but I've never seen continued shortened to con't. Surely it should be cont'd? -- Bruce Hartley Bruce Hartley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18769 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Review my review
It is really heating up, with recent reviews in a number of audiophile websites. The SB2 and SB3 may help usher in a new wave of computer audio, much the same way CD's caused a shift from LP to CD. The IPOD deservedly gets its props for causing a revolution in audio, but the IPOD is not a suitable replacement for a CD player in the home. I have links to several of these articles in my blog about setting up an audiophile music server based on the SB3. http://musicserver.blogspot.com -- davehg davehg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2269 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18769 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to choose a default SB to appear in the web interface
On 3/12/05 at 10:53 -0800, sebage wrote Richie Wrote: > I've been wondering how to solve this as well! http://SERVER_IP:9000/index.html?player=MAC_ADDRESS gives you your default skin with your chosen player or http://SERVER_IP:9000/SKIN_NAME/index.html?player=MAC_ADDRESS gives you the skin of your choice with the player of your choice Richard Thanks Richard. So if I understand you correctly, the only way this can be done is to save an individual url in my favorites and browse to there if I want to control an individual SB. That is also my understanding. That is a *very* clunky solution. But I don't regard it as a clunky solution. I used to have the "Welcome to Squeezeboc" page (localhost:9000) bookmarked, but now I have the bookmark set up as above to point to a particular player. I'm surprised there is no easy way of forcing the server to serve a specific box - I was expecting to see it in the player settings to be honest. I'm new here - is it something I can register as an enhancement? Are sleepysurf and I alone in being irritated by this? It's certainly one of the things that should be properly explained in the manual or the wiki, but this method seems fine to me. -- Daniel Cohen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronization Delay? (and more!)
On 3/12/05 at 09:21 -0800, radish wrote > Another thing that bugs me about the web interface, it seems to be a real proc hog. Using a 1.0 G4 iBook with a 1.25GB of RAM the proc usage spikes to 100% every 3 seconds as long as the slim web interface is open. Why? Because it's refreshing the page. Turn it off if you want. Does this happen with all browsers, I wonder, or is it specifically a Safari issue. There seems to be no good reason why refreshing a page should take 100% CPU usage even for a small amount of time. -- Daniel Cohen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
