Re: [slim] Re: Clean up music collection

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 06:58:51PM -0800, jeffluckett wrote:
> Check out www.musicbrainz.org.  It uses "signatures" to match up your
> tracks and apply standardized tagging information and then rename the
> files with the conventions you specify.  While you CAN just let it do
> its thing, I recommend supervising it as it's not 100% perfect.

Is "it" the Picard program?  Or the MusicBrainz database in general?
Doesn't look like Picard is what I'm after, as it's a GUI based tool
and I'm looking more for a way to automate the process.

Debian has "tunepimp" available, but that uses the old RDF Webservice.
I don't really get how the tumepimp utility works.

It seems like I should be able to generate TRM fingerprints for
untagged files using Perl's MusicBrainz::TRM.  Although, it's not
entirely clear how to do that from the docs.  Have to look in the
morning.

If I can figure out how to lookup the song in the database I can
easily re-organize the collection.

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[slim] Re: Universal remote using Nokia tablet + Squeezebox

2007-01-16 Thread SuperQ

TechHome;170996 Wrote: 
> Thanks guys for your help.  I searched as well, but to no avail.   The
> existing Yamaha remote has a toggle on-off button, as most do.  This
> does not mean that my receiver does not accept discrete codes, only
> that they weren't implemented in the remote.  Next time I'm fiddling
> with the setup, I'll swap the Yammie for a newwer Denon that has
> discrete on-off codes.
> 
> TechHome

sometimes devices have undocumented discrete codes that are not the
remote (may be on optional remotes by vendor)  You could try adding
something like the remote codes for the RX-V series that do have
discrete codes and trying it out.


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[slim] Re: Nokia N800

2007-01-16 Thread jpj

NauticusLX, the "Nokia 770" skin for SlimServer has certainly sold more
than a few 770s and N800s. Have you tried it yet? Just punch this URL
into your N800 browser, then bookmark it:

http://:9000/Nokia770/

You get all the extra functionality (and eye candy) of the web
interface, and don't have to worry about line-of-sight. I have two
Squeezeboxes and can control both from wherever I am.

That's really the application that originally put the 770 on my
personal radar. I also have a Palm T5 for PDA functions and MP3
portability, and a RAZR V3m phone that can do some of the same things
in a half-hearted way. Still, the RAZR fits so easily into a pocket (no
belt clip, thanks) that mostly I use its calendar and leave the Palm
home. Verizon's Mobile Web and VCAST whetted my appetite for Internet
on the go, but the low res screen is rather limiting.

Armed with a couple 4GB SD cards, the N800 can carry an extensive music
library and plenty of maps for the Maemo Mapper program (and Bluetooth
GPS receiver). It finally makes coat pocket web browsing a reality, and
with a Bluetooth keyboard will probably move a lot of my email handling
away from the desktop. I expect to migrate from the Palm to open source
alternatives, retiring that device. Essentially, I'll be using the N800
more like a modular laptop in a PDA form factor.

Beyond all that, as a professional software developer I'm really
attracted to the N800 as a target for new applications, based on its
ultra portable aspects and the open source paradigm. It's always fun to
mix business and pleasure.


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread JJZolx

If you can have a "downtime" service available, couldn't you instead
achieve nearly 100% uptime of SqueezeNetwork itself with a second SN
cluster at another datacenter?  One in the US and one in Europe, for
instance.


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread andyg

We have plans to add additional data centers, but there will always be a
need for that kind of downtime message.


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[slim] Re: "Album Artist" tag causes no artist to be displayed

2007-01-16 Thread jvolino

I'm using v6.5.0.


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[slim] Re: Clean up music collection

2007-01-16 Thread jeffluckett

Bill Moseley;170990 Wrote: 
> Over the years I've ripped my CDs to MP3, Ogg, FLAC, and maybe a few
> other formats.  In addition, files are not always organized very well
> and the file names are not consistent.
> 
> Anyone know if there's a script (for Linux-type system) that can go
> through my music directory and try and figure out album and song from
> id3/meta data (or perhaps by consulting a local CDDB copy and the
> file's name) and organize the collection into artist/album
> directories?
> 
> Fetching album art would be nice, too. ;)
> 
> I downloaded the CDDB some months back to start this project, but ran
> out of time.  But before I start again I want to make sure there isn't
> already something available.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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Check out www.musicbrainz.org.  It uses "signatures" to match up your
tracks and apply standardized tagging information and then rename the
files with the conventions you specify.  While you CAN just let it do
its thing, I recommend supervising it as it's not 100% perfect.


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread andyg

NauticusLX;171080 Wrote: 
> 
> AndyG, I was thinking yesterday that the SqueezeBox was like a rose
> bush. Beautiful, but with thorns.  Now, it’s simply beautiful.
> But tell us how we can change the brightness of the downtime message,
> hopefully it can be turned down all the way – that would be a great
> solution.

The downtime message will use the last brightness setting that your
player was set to on SN.  So if you've got it powered off with
brightness of 0, it should stay dark.  I also changed the default to 2,
so if for some reason it can't get your previous brightness setting, it
won't be so bright.


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[slim] Re: Clean up music collection

2007-01-16 Thread Lleo_

I will do it for you, just send me your music collection. Bet that
others will want it to.


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread snarlydwarf

NauticusLX;171080 Wrote: 
> 
> A question that’s occurred to me is, what does the red button actually
> do?  It doesn’t disconnect from the most recently used server,
> according to prevous posts.  Does it simply turn off the light display
> and terminate the flow of sound?

The Off switch actually just turns the sound off and changes
screensavers to whatever you have chosen as the Off screensaver.


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[slim] Re: Playlists - how do you save after updating?

2007-01-16 Thread Ross L

>From the SlimServer web interface on the right hand side at the top
you'll see an option "Save".


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[slim] Re: Playlists: best practices?

2007-01-16 Thread Brian Ritchie

shabbs;169459 Wrote: 
> Have you looked at RealVNC? 
> 
> http://www.realvnc.com/
> 
(Well, I think I'm going senile... I was *sure* I'd replied to this,
but can find no record of it now. Maybe I forgot to hit Submit; or
maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. Maybe (since I was almost
certainly saying rude things about rubbish Microsoftware) it got
filtered out by some NetNanny. Anyway...)

Many thanks for the pointer!  I'd shied away from looking into other
virtual networking solutions, because they seemed to require a PhD in
networking just to follow the README (and I only have a PhD in
computing theory :-))  But this was pretty easy to install and set up,
and seems to do pretty much what I need.

(Well, once I'd worked out that despite my answering YES to some bit of
WinXP asking me "are you sure you want to run this Dangerous piece of
software?", Windows Firewall *still* didn't open up the necessary
ports. This is the point where I probably used Bad Words last time...
"Genuine Advantage" my .)

The free version doesn't support encryption, but then I'm only using it
over my encrypted (albeit WEP) WiFi network. They might deserve a
registration anyway.

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[slim] Re: Adding Internet Radio .PLS/.M3U stations to Favorites

2007-01-16 Thread Fletch

You may also want to check out the My Picks plugin instead of using
Favorites.

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?MyPicks


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread jeffluckett

NauticusLX;171080 Wrote: 
>  
> Regarding the in-line power switch suggestion, which has been made in a
> few postings, do you think it best to hit the red button first, to
> disconnect from the server, and then flick the in-line switch, or would
> it matter? 
> 
Shouldn't make a wit of difference.
> 
> A related question that arises is does the SqueezeBox benefit from
> being completely powered down occassionally – an in-line power switch
> would serve this added benefit.
> 
"They" say that solid state electronics actually "prefer" to stay in a
powered-on state at operating temperature all the time for longest
life.  So, if that is true, then I guess you're doing a little damage
any time you turn it off.  In reality, it probably doesn't hurt in any
measurable amount.  

Now, the display will live a longer life if it's not glowing 24/7 ...
but probably the same benefit is had by setting the brightness to 0.
> 
> A question that’s occurred to me is, what does the red button actually
> do?  It doesn’t disconnect from the most recently used server,
> according to prevous posts.  Does it simply turn off the light display
> and terminate the flow of sound?
> 
Bingo.


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread CatBus

I'm glad your problem was solved so quickly (if only in a development
release).  I'm honestly amazed at the fast turnaround.

Don't let the occasional anarchy in the forums get you down. 
SlimDevices does seem to listen to its customers.  That's why they're
the best.


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread NauticusLX

Nic, when you’re as near sighted as me, a small point of light appears
much bigger.

aubuti, your previous comments did serve as inspiration, so thanks.

Regarding the in-line power switch suggestion, which has been made in a
few postings, do you think it best to hit the red button first, to
disconnect from the server, and then flick the in-line switch, or would
it matter? A related question that arises is does the SqueezeBox
benefit from being completely powered down occassionally – an in-line
power switch would serve this added benefit.

A question that’s occurred to me is, what does the red button actually
do?  It doesn’t disconnect from the most recently used server,
according to prevous posts.  Does it simply turn off the light display
and terminate the flow of sound?


AndyG, I was thinking yesterday that the SqueezeBox was like a rose
bush. Beautiful, but with thorns.  Now, it’s simply beautiful.
But tell us how we can change the brightness of the downtime message,
hopefully it can be turned down all the way – that would be a great
solution.


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Re: [slim] "Album Artist" tag causes no artist to be displayed

2007-01-16 Thread kdf
You didn't mention what version of slimserver you are using, but this 
sounds like a known problem in 6.5.0.  It is already fixed in the 6.5.1 
nightly builds available here:

http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_nightly.html

6.5.1 is expected to be officially released in the next few days, any 
nightly build more recent than Jan 15 is basically an exact duplicate 
of what will be released.

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[slim] Re: First attempt at synchronized playback -> disaster!

2007-01-16 Thread CatBus

Hooray!  Here's the solution for my problem.  Please help me determine
what this means.

The fix?  In SlimServer, under File Format Conversion Setup, UNCHECK
the box next to Ogg Vorbis (built-in).  Suddenly everything is synced
beautifully.

More on the symptoms: JJZolx was correct, the Squeezebox was starting
playback a fraction of a second later than Transporter playback.  The
offset between the two streams remained constant, it's just the the
cacophany was destroying my capacity for rational thought and I
believed it was getting worse.

What I think that means?  I believe a firmware bug in one or both
players, preventing Ogg playback from being able to sync between the
two classes of device.  By disabling native playback, SlimServer
transcodes to a format that syncs without problems (FLAC?).

If you agree with this assessment, let me know.  I'll file the bug!

Thanks!


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[slim] Re: WiFi frustration! (But happy ending... for now)

2007-01-16 Thread Brian Ritchie

Peter;167608 Wrote: 
> I don't lose much sleep over things that occur so rarely. AFAIC the WAP
> 
> just had a moment of weakness after years of reliable service. I find 
> the SB3's wifi pretty good.
I suppose I shouldn't either; but I've now had the connection fail at
least once a day ever since. It happened when we had friends round; I
was in the middle of some intricate cookery and couldn't do anything
about it for a while. They suggested we put a CD on instead - oh the
shame! So this is beginning to get annoying.

(At least, if I don't touch SlimServer, when the SB3 returns it doesn't
lose its place in the playlist.)

Right now, for example, it had just been playing OK for about an hour,
when suddenly it started to stutter. I'm now in the habit of turning on
monitoring whenever I use the web interface, and so I was able to bring
up the Network Health pages pretty quickly - and they gave everything a
clean bill of health.  Even refreshing the player stats page claimed
that the buffer level was still high. Something, somewhere is telling
porkies, methinks...

Then the display went black, and a few seconds later the audio stopped
completely.  Network Health said that the control connection had
failed, but everything else was OK.  During all of this, my laptop was
having no trouble at all, and reporting signal strength as Excellent
(albeit at 36Mbps rather than 54 for some of the time).

All attempts to turn the SB3 back on failed: it would say "Connecting
to the wireless network..." then go off again.  Eventually, I
power-cycled the SB3. After the usual round of "Waking...
Connecting..." iterations (and why DO I need to press the power button
when it gets to Connecting... but doesn't?), it finally came back, and
seems to be OK again.

One change I made a few days ago (after a particularly annoying flurry
of failures) was to switch the wireless router from channel 11 to 13;
for a while I thought that'd cracked it; but no. (I'll have to change
channel again tomorrow, for I need to work from home, but my stupid
work laptop's internal card is triskadecaphobic.)

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[slim] Re: Fast Forwarding not working. Ideas?

2007-01-16 Thread USAudio

Thanks ceejay.  I think I'm confused as to what is really going on there
with those settings ... why is the same format selected multiple times? 
How does the SlimServer then decide which one to use?  Aren't we just
telling SlimServer which format to convert the file TO before it is
streamed to the SqueezeBox?


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread aubuti

seanadams;171042 Wrote: 
> Perhaps we could further improve customer service by adding a I'M GOING
> TO SUE YOU checkbox in bugzilla?
Maybe, but to be credible, it would have to be a US-only service, like
Pandora


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[slim] "Album Artist" tag causes no artist to be displayed

2007-01-16 Thread jvolino

Due to Windows Media Player doing some misdeeds to my tags without my
permission, many of my tracks now have "Album Artist" and "Track
Artist" tags instead of simple "Artist" tags.  When I play these
tracks, the artist name is not displayed at all on the Softsqueeze or
SlimServer web interface view of the current playlist (queue).  Is this
by design?

For example:
I have a 10,000 Maniacs track with "Album Artist" and "Track Artist"
both containing "10,000 Maniacs" but only the song's title and album
title are shown even though I have defined the display to include
"Artist."  Is this because "Artist" in the display format is taken
literally?  Do I need to include all 3 tag types in the format for this
to work?  

Thanks,
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[slim] Adding Internet Radio .PLS/.M3U stations to Favorites

2007-01-16 Thread jvolino

I'm considering purchasing a Squeezebox.  One important thing for me is
internet radio. My goal is to create an easily accessible list of
favorite stations.  I have been trying SlimServer with the SoftSqueeze
player.  I'm only trying to use stations that have MP3 streams -- I'm
not worried about WMA, AAC etc. at this point.

Ideally I should be able to add the URL that stations post which point
to a .PLS or .M3U playlist, which in turn contain a list of the actual
URLs for the MP3 streams. I don't want to put the actual URLs of the
steams into the Squeezebox playlist because those URLs change
frequently.

When I add the .PLS/.M3U addresses to the Favorites list I seem to get
inconsistent results.  Sometimes this allows me to tune to the station,
sometimes not.  Can anyone recommend the best way to accomplish what
I've described?

I'm also interested in how the server/Squeezebox handle connection
errors.  For example, if a steam at a given URL in the station's .PLS
file isn't working, will the player attempt to connect to the next URL
in the .PLS?

Thanks in advance,
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[slim] Re: Has SlimServer 6.5.1 been released?

2007-01-16 Thread andyg

Soon as we're done testing the release builds we'll put it out.  But if
you've got a recent nightly, you might as well have the real deal.


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[slim] Re: Nokia N800

2007-01-16 Thread NauticusLX

jpj, I've owned a SqueezeBox since the week before Christmas, and am
thrilled with it.  When you say the N800 makes for a great SB
controller, do you mean it can be used as a remote control for the
SqueezeBox (2 remotes would be more useful than 1, I admit), or because
it allows you to access the SqueezeNetwork website via Opera on the
N800, such as for rearranging favorite radio stations, or to paste urls
from the N800 radio app into the favorites page?

Also, what's your primary use of the N800, if you don't mind my asking?


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[slim] Has SlimServer 6.5.1 been released?

2007-01-16 Thread JJZolx

If not, what's the point of tagging the software with the "release" tag
and entering a release date of 1/15 in the changelog?  If so, where are
the announcements, the fireworks and the champagne?

The phrase "not with a bang, but a whimper" comes to mind.


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[slim] Re: Another Album Art questions

2007-01-16 Thread hunta

MrP;170882 Wrote: 
> I didn't let it get that far I noticed other problems as well, remote
> streaming not working, text in window pane not wrapping correctly. 
> Whilst the 'scanner.exe' process was running, my PC kept giving me
> warnings about running out of virtual memory which I find hard to
> believe as SlimServer is the only 'real' application that runs on the
> PC, plus it's got 1Gb of memory to play with. I'll stick with 6.3.1 for
> now until I get some confidence in another release. All works great for
> me :-)

I know what you're saying, but 6.5.1 should be pretty stable. If it's
all over the show as you suggest you should probably stick it out for a
bit and report back. Like I say, it should be a happy bunny.


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[slim] Re: First attempt at synchronized playback -> disaster!

2007-01-16 Thread JJZolx

How does the synch get off by a full second only seconds into the
track?

One is starting before the other?

One has dropouts?

One is playing (significantly) slower than the other?  If that's
possible, then what does it say about non-synched playback through the
SB - can playback speed be faster or slower than it should be?


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[slim] Re: Fast Forwarding not working. Ideas?

2007-01-16 Thread ceejay

Probably because in Server settings/file types the server is set to
transcode both of those types to FLAC, which would stop ff/RW working.
Uncheck the boxes for AIFF to FLAC and WAV to FLAC.

HTH
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[slim] Playlists - how do you save after updating?

2007-01-16 Thread slimmin' down

Hi.  I've been using SlimServer for over a year, and it's great.

But everytime I rescan my songs on the hard drive to update them, my
playlists disappear!  How can I prevent that?

Thanks.

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[slim] Re: First attempt at synchronized playback -> disaster!

2007-01-16 Thread ceejay

Well, FLAC sync works for me as well between an SB and a Transporter. 
I'm wondering whether you are unwittingly transcoding, either because
the ogg-ogg entry in server settings/file formats isn't ticked, or
perhaps there is a bug in some table somewhere that tells the server
that the transporter is capable of playing ogg natively?

I think you could test this hypothesis by playing some ogg to each
device and then looking on the player display to see what type of
stream it is getting (arrow right for detailed stream info, then
scroll).

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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread seanadams

Peter;171023 Wrote: 
> 
> Next time I want something done, I'll remember to swear and threaten
> with lawsuits ;)

Perhaps we could further improve customer service by adding a I'M GOING
TO SUE YOU checkbox in bugzilla?


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[slim] Re: First attempt at synchronized playback -> disaster!

2007-01-16 Thread CatBus

No, I'm not transcoding or bandwidth-limiting or anything.

In addition to NetTest, I'm going to try it out with FLAC and see if
this is a Vorbis-only issue.  I'm assuming kdf has a similar-enough
setup to mine that I should be able to get similar results when doing
the exact same thing.


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[slim] Re: Browse oddity...

2007-01-16 Thread erland

MillmoorRon;171034 Wrote: 
> MusicIP is not in my plugin list though - the only ones I have are
> Erland's plugins (Trackstat, SQL playlist etc) and Lazy Search.
> 
> Could it be one of those?
Yes, several of my plugins indicates with the 'm' that you can hold
play down to access their functions in the context of the currently
selected item.


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[slim] Re: Browse oddity...

2007-01-16 Thread MillmoorRon

I thought it was a graphical glitch!

MusicIP is not in my plugin list though - the only ones I have are
Erland's plugins (Trackstat, SQL playlist etc) and Lazy Search.

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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread mattybain

TCM;171002 Wrote: 
> Customer service of the month! Great one! :-D

Agreed, good stuff, how often do you see customer service like that?

Other companies take note.


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[slim] Re: First attempt at synchronized playback -> disaster!

2007-01-16 Thread snarlydwarf

The way it should work:
.  slimserver fills the buffer of both players
.  slimserver sends them both a 'start playing'

The difference between the two starts should be minimal (unless you
have a very icky network and the packets have to be retransmitted I
guess...)

Are you transcoding or anything odd?

WPA2/AES shouldnt be adding any serious load.


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[slim] Re: First attempt at synchronized playback -> disaster!

2007-01-16 Thread CatBus

Haven't had a chance to install NetTest yet, but I wanted to ask two
more questions:

- Could my use of WPA2/AES wireless security be putting a load the
processor that might cause such a delay?

- Could certain receivers (for the Transporter) and active speakers
(for the Squeezebox) introduce such an obvious delay?  (probably only a
half-second now that I reconsider it, but still way too long)

I went home briefly and verified that wireless reception at the
Squeezebox's location is "excellent" (5 bars, whatever that means) in
the Windows' wireless setup screen, with a standard Centrino laptop
with no special external antenna.


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Re: [slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread Peter

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:25:26 -0800, "TCM"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> andyg;170985 Wrote: 
> > I've made the following improvements to the downtime service:
> > 
> > * The brightness setting set for your player on SqueezeNetwork will be
> > remembered and used for the downtime message.
> > * You can change the brightness of the downtime message.
> > * You can hit the power button to toggle brightness between off and 
> > whatever it was previously.
> 
> Customer service of the month! Great one! :-D

Way to go!

Next time I want something done, I'll remember to swear and threaten
with lawsuits ;)

Regards,
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[slim] Re: Itunes / FLAC Strategy anyone?

2007-01-16 Thread dSw

For what its worth, I use Anapod Explorer to convert from FLAC to MP3 on
the fly. It offers a drag and drop interface to iPods (and other
devices) and means that I don't need iTunes installed. It also supports
playlists.

Takes 3-5 minutes to copy a CD over but it means that I don't need to
maintain a parallel library of MP3s.


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[slim] Fast Forwarding not working. Ideas?

2007-01-16 Thread USAudio

I use iTunes and have all my tracks ripped using the Apple Lossless
format and from what I understand I cannot use the Fast Forward or
Rewind functionality of the SB3's remote with that format.

However, even if I rip tracks in AIFF or WAV formats, the Fast Forward
and Rewind functions using the SB3 remote still isn't working for me
with tracks in those formats either...

Any suggestions?

SB3
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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread TCM

andyg;170985 Wrote: 
> I've made the following improvements to the downtime service:
> 
> * The brightness setting set for your player on SqueezeNetwork will be
> remembered and used for the downtime message.
> * You can change the brightness of the downtime message.
> * You can hit the power button to toggle brightness between off and 
> whatever it was previously.

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[slim] Re: Universal remote using Nokia tablet + Squeezebox

2007-01-16 Thread TechHome

Thanks guys for your help.  I searched as well, but to no avail.   The
existing Yamaha remote has a toggle on-off button, as most do.  This
does not mean that my receiver does not accept discrete codes, only
that they weren't implemented in the remote.  Next time I'm fiddling
with the setup, I'll swap the Yammie for a newwer Denon that has
discrete on-off codes.

TechHome


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[slim] Clean up music collection

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Moseley
Over the years I've ripped my CDs to MP3, Ogg, FLAC, and maybe a few
other formats.  In addition, files are not always organized very well
and the file names are not consistent.

Anyone know if there's a script (for Linux-type system) that can go
through my music directory and try and figure out album and song from
id3/meta data (or perhaps by consulting a local CDDB copy and the
file's name) and organize the collection into artist/album
directories?

Fetching album art would be nice, too. ;)

I downloaded the CDDB some months back to start this project, but ran
out of time.  But before I start again I want to make sure there isn't
already something available.


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread andyg

I've made the following improvements to the downtime service:

* The brightness setting set for your player on SqueezeNetwork will be
remembered and used for the downtime message.
* You can change the brightness of the downtime message.
* You can hit the power button to toggle brightness between off and 
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Re: [slim] Browse oddity...

2007-01-16 Thread Michael Herger

When I select browse then choose any of the options, as the info scrolls
across I'm left with the 'm' character from the Slim Devices logo (the
one with a line above and below) in the very top right hand corner!


Isn't this the MusicIP icon? It is there to tell you that you could start  
a MIP mix based on the current selection.


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[slim] Re: Browse oddity...

2007-01-16 Thread Ramage

This may be the MusicIP Mixer marker which indicates that you can select
a MusicIP mix from this track. Presumably you have the MusicIP plugin
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[slim] Re: Itunes / FLAC Strategy anyone?

2007-01-16 Thread Balthazar_B

sdevans;169527 Wrote: 
> I've looked at Mareo in the past, but it doesn't fit my needs exactly in
> that I need the replaygain added. (Plus I could never get it to work)
> 
> Currently if I want an mp3 (or other 'portable' version) of a CD, I'd
> rip to FLAC for the squeezebox, load into FOOBAR to scan for both album
> and track replaygain, fix any tags if I've messed up (I like to merge
> double albums into 1 album for instance), then convert the FLACs to mp3
> with replaygain applied. 
> 
> If I rip using MAREO I don't 'think' I get that flexibility, plus I'd
> definitely have to fix 2 sets of files tags. 
> 
> 

Mareo has a post-processing option which I believe will allow you to
apply both album and track replaygain.  Check out the Mareo
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[slim] Slim.exe crashes

2007-01-16 Thread benwah

Hi All

There was another thread
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28032&;) that seems to
begin to address this issue but then gets lost amongst other issues
that are raised within the same thread. So was going to start a new
thread in the hope that there is a resolution to the issue!

I received my squeezbox 3 shortly before xmass and have been very
pleased with it. However sometime last week Slimserver would just stop.
You would then restart it and 15 minutes later again it would just
stop.

By executing slim.exe at the command prompt the following error message
appears at the time of the crash:
---
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\WINDOWS>"C:\Program Files\SlimServer\server\slim.exe"
2007-01-16 20:13:39.2173 UPnP: Read search result failed: recvfailed:
Unknown error at /PerlApp/Slim/Networking/UPnP/ControlPoint.pm line
106.

2007-01-16 20:13:40.9546 Terminating on signal SIGALRM(14)

C:\WINDOWS>
---

However, if I start slim.exe at the command prompt using "slim.exe
--noupnp" then the problem disappears. 

My system information is:

SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11196 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Server IP address: 192.168.2.3
Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt

The problem began while I had 6.5.0 installed. I’ve tried re-installing
it (fresh) and installing 6.5.1.

I have not made any changes to my PC at all in recent weeks however,
and this may be a coincidence, I changed the file name of some MP3s and
then went and played them on SB3 without re-indexing them in slimserver.
Once I realised what I had done I then re-scanned the folder. That is
the only thing out of the norm I can think of that happened around the
time the problem appeared.

Is there a solution out there? Besides having to manually start slim at
the cmd prompt!


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[slim] Browse oddity...

2007-01-16 Thread MillmoorRon

When I select browse then choose any of the options, as the info scrolls
across I'm left with the 'm' character from the Slim Devices logo (the
one with a line above and below) in the very top right hand corner!

This occurs on both my SB3 and Softsqueeze.

I'm using Slimserver 6.5.1.

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[slim] Re: Faster Access to new MP3s or just play a file not in the archive instantly

2007-01-16 Thread JJZolx

analographi;170848 Wrote: 
> I have this song and I just want to listen to it one time before I
> decide to add it to the library or not.
> 
> I have my laptop, connection to the slimserver and my SB running... Is
> there a way I can simple and fast listen to the song on my SB?

Like others have mentioned, the browse Music Folder method is the
quickest way to get the song added to the library and enable you to
play it.

But SlimServer has no means of listening to a song without first adding
it to your library.  When you're done listening, it will be stuck in the
library.  If you delete the song, you'll need to run a rescan to delete
that track.  There's no 'temporary' or one-time music.


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[slim] Re: Need help with IR-Blaster

2007-01-16 Thread bmccall

You are correct. I realised that the IR-Blaster only worked with SB2 and
I had it in my feeble mind that I had an sb2. I now remember that I
purchased it just 5 wks before the sb2 was released. Back to the
drawing boards.

Thanks!

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[slim] Re: Gaps between songs in 6.5.1

2007-01-16 Thread nickrt

Hi

Since upgrading to 6.5.1 (and maybe before that), nearly all my songs
miss the last 5 seconds or so on playback - with the next song starting
straight away.

I have a large library of MP3 (LAME) and Apple Lossless albums, and use
the iTunes interface.

This playback problem occurs on every playlist or album that I play.  I
have checked server settings, re-booted, re-installed etc., but to no
avail.

Is this a known problem - I thought it was a glitch that would be
fixed, but it makes listening very frustrating.

Thanks for any help!

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[slim] Re: CD Player like display for SB3 / TP ?

2007-01-16 Thread schiegl

magnanimous;170928 Wrote: 
> Is there any way to have a CD player like display on the SB3 with either
> the current playing time or the remaining time in large numbers on the
> display?
> 
> Would like to have it on my TP with the analog VU meters on the right
> and the time displayed on the left.
> 
> Very retro :-)

You can use the MusicInfoSCR Plugin to customize the display to your
own needs. This includes "playing time" or "remaining time" in huge
letters... :-)

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[slim] Re: Faster Access to new MP3s or just play a file not in the archive instantly

2007-01-16 Thread maggior

Note that the option is NOT there if you have SlimServer configured to
look for music only in iTunes and have the music folder field blank.  I
ran into this myself and it is not obvious.  I thought I was going nuts
because I couldn't find the option.

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[slim] Re: ipod, itunes & slimserver - getting them to work together

2007-01-16 Thread maggior

I am in the same situation even though I'm using LAME mp3.  Here is
something else you can do: leave your iPod set up to automatically
sync, but only sync specific playlists (don't sync all).  In your
library, create a playlist called something like "My Synced Music". 
Set the iPod to only sync this playlist.  

Drag whatever tracks you want in your ipod into this playlist.  Sync
your iPod and you are done.  When you want to change around what you
sync to your iPod, just add/remove tracks from the playlist.  You can
easily see if you have more room or maxed out because iTunes shows at
the bottom what the current size of the playlist is.

A big benefit of this is that you can manage using a subset of your
library with you iPod and still have the updates made to
last-listened-to and number-of-times-listened.  When you manually
update your iPod, you lost this functionality.

I also use this feature to manage the music for my wife's iPod from the
same iTunes library.  

Enjoy!
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[slim] CD Player like display for SB3 / TP ?

2007-01-16 Thread magnanimous

Is there any way to have a CD player like display on the SB3 with either
the current playing time or the remaining time in large numbers on the
display?

Would like to have it on my TP with the analog VU meters on the right
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[slim] Re: Unable to stream at lower bitrate

2007-01-16 Thread Eric Seaberg

I just started re-ripping all of my music to FLAC since Apple's lossless
is having problems with SS.

I woke up this morning to begin listening to some of the newly ripped
files and they won't convert to LAME.  I'm having to limit to 320k on
my wireless devices, yet the Transporter is wired and runs NO LIMIT. 
NO LIMIT settings allow the files to play fine, but my 811.b network
can't handle that throughput, so I keep it limited.

LAME IS installed correctly, as I can convert Apple Lossless or AAC
files to the 320k limit, but no FLAC->LAME.

All file types are set correctly.  I even reverted back to SS 6.5 with
no change.  Latest nightly give the same response.  LAME is updated to
the latest version, too.

I've tried everything... any ideas?


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[slim] Re: IR Blaster - Basic Question

2007-01-16 Thread Gildahl

Yes, that is what I meant.

AudioVideo;170745 Wrote: 
> I think Dave means "a 1/8" jack to 1/8" jack cable" like he said.
> They are available at Radio Shack or many other places. 
> 
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[slim] Re: Unable to stream at lower bitrate

2007-01-16 Thread charlesr

I've just switched my slimserver over from my mp3 folder to my freshly
ripped FLAC folder. Previously I could stream the mp3s no problem from
slimserver on my home pc to winamp on my work laptop at the office.

Now when I show winamp the stream and tell slimserver to use lame to
encode the flacs to mp3 before sending the stream (it confirms lame is
properly installed on the server page), nothing happens when I press
play on the server. Winamp says welcome to slimserver and notices the
name of the last item in the playlist but doesn't play the stream.

Just to note, the FLACs stream fine to my squeezeboxes around the house
and sound so much better.

What have I missed? Bet it's really simple.


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread Khuli

mecouc;170861 Wrote: 
> I find the lack of an Off button a bit of a pain. My Squeezeboxes keep
> having the power lead pulled out either by myself or my wife because
> they don't turn off.. and then the lead drops down the back of the
> cupboards and you can't reach it to reconnect it..
Why not just cut the power cable and add a small inline switch?


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread kdf

Press and hold left arrow takes you back to setup screens.  you can dim
it there and the players can do nothing, receive nothing from any
server. they will sit there until you use the remote to select "connect
to squeezenetwork" or connect to local server.
-kdf


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[slim] Re: Web Interface not wrapping in pane..

2007-01-16 Thread Skunk

Should have mentioned if you want to lose the bitrate data alltogether
you can edit SlimServer\server\HTML\Fishbone\status_header.html . The
plus side would be that the artist album links won't get pushed out of
frame as quickly. 

Code:


  [% songtitle %]
 [% IF 
itemobj.duration %]([% itemobj.duration | html %])[% END %] [% IF bitrate %]([% bitrate %])[% END %]
  



Delete from the above: [% IF itemobj.duration %]([%
itemobj.duration | html %])[% END %] [%
IF bitrate %]([% bitrate %])[% END %]

PS it's 6.5.0 too


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[slim] Re: Web Interface not wrapping in pane..

2007-01-16 Thread MrP

Thanks, I'll give that a try the next time I try and upgrade to 6.5.1.


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[slim] Re: First attempt at synchronized playback -> disaster!

2007-01-16 Thread snarlydwarf

Shouldnt be.  The "already-playing" player should restart the song it
was playing so that they are both started at the same spot.


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread snarlydwarf

Peter;170902 Wrote: 
> 
> I use an SB3 with a local playlist (tried internet radio, that's a bad
> 
> idea). That works fairly reliably. And if the server decides to turn
> off 
> at night there's alays the 8 month old as a backup. Not very precise, 
> but extremely reliable... ;)

Yep, local playback is a lot more reliable since you cut out a ton of
intermediaries.  My backup is the kitten, but she is usually ahead of
the alarm clock by about 5 minutes, so I guess the SB is sort of my
snooze-breaker.


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[slim] Re: Web Interface not wrapping in pane..

2007-01-16 Thread Skunk

MrP;170817 Wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> Just upgraded to the latest nightly 6.5.1 (16th Jan) and I've noticed
> that in the web interface (Firefox) when a song is playing the song
> details goes off the page,

Firstly, you're using Fishbone, so you'll need to edit
SlimServer\server\HTML\Fishbone\skin.css . Just delete:

#TopMenu1 .currentSongData
{
white-space: nowrap;
}

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Re: [slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread Peter

snarlydwarf wrote:

If you want a 100% reliable alarm clock, you can get something far
closer for $10 or so as you keep it wound or keep the batteries fresh
-- depending which model you get.
  


I use an SB3 with a local playlist (tried internet radio, that's a bad 
idea). That works fairly reliably. And if the server decides to turn off 
at night there's alays the 8 month old as a backup. Not very precise, 
but extremely reliable... ;)


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Re: [slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread Peter

NauticusLX wrote:

Ceejay, turning off the power itself is what I’ll do.   A practical
solution would be for the red button to be multi-purpose:  press it to
put in stand-by,  press and hold to turn it off.  That seems like an
easy, win-win solution, I wonder if Slim Devices will take this
suggestion.
  


I agree, that would be a sensible feature for people who want OFF to 
mean OFF. It would also be nice for people who want to use a 
master/slave power block to turn their amps or active speakers on and 
off. With a way to turn the display & network hardware off, the power 
usage might just change enough to trigger the device.


Wake-on-lan would be nice so you can turn the SB's back on from the 
server for these urgent nightly server messages ;)


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[slim] Re: First attempt at synchronized playback -> disaster!

2007-01-16 Thread CatBus

I also just considered--I only really ever use the remote-control
interface.  I went to the web interface to set up the sync but did
everything else from the remote control on one device.  Perhaps there's
different behavior when you set the playlist for both devices from the
web interface?


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[slim] Re: Squeezebox 3 and NTL Cable Modem

2007-01-16 Thread Mark Lanctot

chobbney;170883 Wrote: 
> I didn't notice that the Netgear I linked to was a pre-N - I thought it
> was a G.
> 
> *bleaches eyes*
> 
> Cheers all.

Pre-n and MIMO are pretty good though.  You would probably get higher
throughput and longer range than with a standard "g" router.

But you're paying more, and there's no guarantee it will be compatible
with 802.11n when it's released.


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[slim] Re: Squeezebox 3 and NTL Cable Modem

2007-01-16 Thread chobbney

I didn't notice that the Netgear I linked to was a pre-N - I thought it
was a G.

*bleaches eyes*

Cheers all.


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[slim] Re: Another Album Art questions

2007-01-16 Thread MrP

I didn't let it get that far I noticed other problems as well, remote
streaming not working, text in window pane not wrapping correctly. 
Whilst the 'scanner.exe' process was running, my PC kept giving me
warnings about running out of virtual memory which I find hard to
believe as SlimServer is the only 'real' application that runs on the
PC, plus it's got 1Gb of memory to play with. I'll stick with 6.3.1 for
now until I get some confidence in another release. All works great for
me :-)


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[slim] Re: Another Album Art questions

2007-01-16 Thread shabbs

>From your screen shots, it looks like you are still scanning the library
when you see this behaviour. My experience is that the album thumbnails
are the last thing to be built by the scan and only appear at the very
end. Do you still see this behaviour after the scan has finished?

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[slim] Re: IR Blaster - Basic Question

2007-01-16 Thread Mark Lanctot

See http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?IRBlasterDirectLink

It's very new and incomplete - you would greatly assist anyone trying
to do this if you filled out what equipment it was, any caveats you
found and even if it did/did not work.


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread jeffluckett

mecouc;170861 Wrote: 
> I find the lack of an Off button a bit of a pain. My Squeezeboxes keep
> having the power lead pulled out either by myself or my wife because
> they don't turn off.. and then the lead drops down the back of the
> cupboards and you can't reach it to reconnect it..

Simple solution for you ... get an inline cord switch from your local
hardware store or radioshack.

Then you can just switch it off there, and you don't have to unplug and
subsequently drop the wire from the SB.


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[slim] Re: ipod, itunes & slimserver - getting them to work together

2007-01-16 Thread sea-speak

Awesome. I didn't realize I had that 'include all songs' option in the
slimserver. sounds like that should solve the problem!

like I said, I expected it to be embarrassingly easy... :)

thanks much --

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[slim] Re: Nokia N800

2007-01-16 Thread jpj

NauticusLX, some of the URLs work, others don't. I've only tried a few.
The N800 supported streamable formats are listed as AAC, AMR, AWB, M4A,
MP2, MP3, RA and WAV.

I wouldn't call the the internal speakers enjoyable, at least not for
music. Tolerable is more accurate - roughly comparable to a
speakerphone, both in quality (or lack thereof) and absence of controls
other than volume.

Even a small external powered speaker would make a big difference. In
my case, no way would this EVER displace my bedroom Squeezebox. It does
make a great SB controller, though.

Ummm, do you actually own a Squeezebox yet? Just curious.


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[slim] Re: Faster Access to new MP3s or just play a file not in the archive instantly

2007-01-16 Thread analographi

All clear now
thank you very much for your help :-)


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[slim] Re: Faster Access to new MP3s or just play a file not in the archive instantly

2007-01-16 Thread jeffluckett

analographi;170862 Wrote: 
> great! 
> 
> Never saw it, was blind to it, since I'm so much into tagged music and
> the album, artist, title thing :-)
> 
> when does it add them? If I have it in a temp folder and play it...
> it's not then added, is it?

I believe it adds it to the library the moment you browse the folder
and it finds unrecognized files.

So, if you were to play it out of a temp folder, it would add the track
at that location.  If you were to then move the file, and then later
browse to the new location or do a "New Music" scan ... SlimServer
would think you had that track in both locations.

What I usually do when I'm adding new tracks to my library is something
like what you want to do, then schedule a complete rescan to happen
overnight.

That way you can have the convenience of "sampling" new tracks out of
your temp directory, but then your library gets itself squared away
while you sleep.


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[slim] Re: Squeezebox 3 and NTL Cable Modem

2007-01-16 Thread Mark Lanctot

cliveb;170789 Wrote: 
> I'm pretty sure that the RP614 was one of the various Netgear routers
> that were guilty of causing NTP request storms at a US university. I
> would sincerely hope that a firmware update has fixed that, but you
> should do a bit of research first.

I'm pretty sure it was the version I have, RP614v1.  From an end user's
perspective, it was a very good router.  Never had an issue with it,
even if it did DoS Rutgers University ;-) but there was a firmware fix
for that.

The v1 is long gone anyway, it didn't have an SPI firewall.  The new
versions do.

> FWIW, I have an NTL cable modem and use a Linksys BEFSR41, which is a
> simple (wired-only) router that works fine.

I've heard a lot of mentions of that router, it seems to be extremely
common/popular in wired installations.

> If you see no reason why you'd want wireless in the near future, I'd
> hold off getting a wireless router, until whatever supercedes 11g gets
> ratified. You can always add a wireless access point in the future when
> the time comes.
> 
> On the other hand, if you know you'll want wireless fairly soon, then a
> wireless router is *much* cheaper than a wired router + separate access
> point.

Good point - in fact while the very wireless router chobbney asked
about could be fast with very good range, it uses a "pre n" standard
based on the 802.11n wireless networking draft standard.  As with all
"pre n" products, the draft could change sometime between now and next
year when the standard is scheduled to be ratified.  If it does change,
you'd better hope the hardware is capable of the new standard, needing
only a firmware change, or else this pre-n router may not fully work
with true-n equipment.

There are advantages to either approach.  All-wired will definitely be
cheaper and the router won't turn obsolete so quickly.  The wired
router market is rather static at this point.  However chobbney, you
may find some good deals on 802.11g wireless routers, provided you
accept the fact that the wireless section may be obsolete before you
turn it on.  It's safe to say though that it won't be useless - 802.11g
is now very common and you can safely expect new equipment will work
with it for some years, although not as fast as the new 802.11n stuff
coming.  Of course, the true 802.11n equipment will probably be quite
expensive at release time.  And keep in mind the Squeezebox's needs are
easily met by the current 802.11g - all the "n" equipment may do is
increase the range.

chobbney - if this is all Greek to you, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11g which has a nice chart near the
beginning which summarizes speeds and ranges before the article gets
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[slim] Re: Faster Access to new MP3s or just play a file not in the archive instantly

2007-01-16 Thread analographi

great! 

Never saw it, was blind to it, since I'm so much into tagged music and
the album, artist, title thing :-)

when does it add them? If I have it in a temp folder and play it...
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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread mecouc

I find the lack of an Off button a bit of a pain. My Squeezeboxes keep
having the power lead pulled out either by myself or my wife because
they don't turn off.. and then the lead drops down the back of the
cupboards and you can't reach it to reconnect it..


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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread aubuti

NauticusLX;170758 Wrote: 
> Wait, this may be it. I was just experimenting with the remote for the
> SB-3 and discovered that, while listening to music via SqueezeNetwork,
> if I choose the “Connect to SlimServer” option from the main menu, this
> logs me off SqueezeNetwork.   And if I do this while my PC is off (and
> therefore SlimServer isn’t running), the display just goes blank, at
> which point, I’m concluding, it’s logged onto NEITHER SqueezeBox nor
> SlimServer.  While in this state, can I conclude that it’s basically
> “turned off” and won’t display any messages that are transmitted by the
> SqueezeNetwork OR SlimServer?  Then, to turn back on, I just hit the
> left arrow, then select “Connect to SqueezeNetwork".  Notice in either
> the "power down" or "power off" routines I just described that the red
> button isn't involved at all.  
> 
> Might this be a reliable way to “turn off” the device, to avoid
> receiving messages from the SqueezeNetwork during the night, and that
> actually pulling the plug, or putting a granola box over it,  may not
> be necessary?

Yeah, that's basically what I suggested as "option two" in post #32 of
this thread. You can do it that way, or do it while your PC is still
on, and then subsequently turn your PC off, and get the same result. I
didn't quite follow what was "laborious" about it


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[slim] Re: Another Album Art questions

2007-01-16 Thread MrP

Thanks for the tips! I think I'll just go back to 6.3.1 all was working
fine on that release.


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Re: [slim] Re: Faster Access to new MP3s or just play a file not in the archive instantly

2007-01-16 Thread Peter

jeffluckett wrote:

Use the Browse -> Folders functionality.

This method gives you instant access AND adds the tracks to your
library without a rescan.
  


Amazing, isn't it. It's all I ever use to play my tunes, but many people 
seem to have trouble finding it.


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[slim] Re: Apple TV Competition?

2007-01-16 Thread maurice

Zaphilosophile;169383 Wrote: 
> i am curious to know what other members think of the new apple tv media
> streaming box?  what do you think of all the hype around this box?
> how much of a competitor do you reckon it is?
> 
> cheers,

(I'm glad another thread got started on this question. The last one
went nowhere.)

It seems like the AppleTV device could be a strong competitor to the
Squeezebox. From looking at the specs, it will stream music via iTunes
from one computer, which acts like the server. Other computers can be
added to serve as "guest streamers." Not bad when you have kids into
music with their own computers. 

Using the iTunes interface to control the device rather than the
web-based control for the Squeezebox is an advantage and disadvantage.
Of course, with the SB, I have the remote and onboard display. With the
AppleTV, I will need the TV on to act as the display. A disadvantage for
AppleTV. An advantage is that the iTunes interface is so much better
than the SD's server web pages and I would not have the problem of
rescanning the iTunes db on a regular basis. I tend to use the web
interface more often than the remote to set up my playing. And one
database is simpler. Additionally, the small percentage of iTMS tracks
that I own would now work without any work on my part. 

The addition of video support and a "staging" hard disk for the same
price as the Squeezebox makes the AppleTV option seem very promising.
But even if you remove the video option, AppleTV still seems like a
strong competitor. I hope SD recognizes AppleTV as a competitor and
responds with an aggressive positioning of why their products are
"better than AppleTV," and not just dismiss the challenge. Of course,
come February, we can stop speculating and see for ourselves.

BTW, I own three SlimDevices units and I have been running the
SlimDevices system since late 2002.


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[slim] Re: IR Blaster - Basic Question

2007-01-16 Thread abdomen

AudioVideo;170745 Wrote: 
> I think Dave means "a 1/8" jack to 1/8" jack cable" like he said.
> They are available at Radio Shack or many other places. 
> 
> My receiver is a Yamaha RX-V4600 and I have a "remote in" connection...

Agreed; thanks for the clarification. I thought Gildahl referred to an
IR receiver when he wrote "remote in" above.


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[slim] Re: Faster Access to new MP3s or just play a file not in the archive instantly

2007-01-16 Thread jeffluckett

Use the Browse -> Folders functionality.

This method gives you instant access AND adds the tracks to your
library without a rescan.


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[slim] Faster Access to new MP3s or just play a file not in the archive instantly

2007-01-16 Thread analographi

Hi
I love the squeezi, but if I want fast access to a song I just ripped
or downloaded and do want it to play over the SB I alway have to add it
to the library (maybe I just want to listen to it, or it isn't tagged so
far) then it always takes quite a while till the library is rescanned
and so on...

Imagine the Situation... I have the Squeezbox in a room where I'm
sitting with my notebook with wireless. I download a song, want to
listen to it, but my laptop has shitty speakers and I can not connect
it to the stereo because it's to far away and I have no cable.

I have this song and I just want to listen to it one time before I
decide to add it to the library or not.

I have my laptop, connection to the slimserver and my SB running... Is
there a way I can simple and fast listen to the song on my SB?

Thanks


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[slim] Re: Another Album Art questions

2007-01-16 Thread hunta

Try using Tag&Rename to import the album art into the tag itself, and to
create a file in the folder named 'cover.jpg'. I found that I had your
problem while I had images over a certain size and of a certain name
(can't remember what it was now though I'm afraid).

Check out this thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31463


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[slim] Re: Gaps between songs in 6.5.1

2007-01-16 Thread Uwe1966

Hi JJZolx,

thank you for your information.

Uwe


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[slim] Another Album Art questions

2007-01-16 Thread MrP

Hi,

I've searched the forums an answer and as yet not found one, so I
thought I'd raise a new thread.

Just upgraded to the lastest nightly (16/01/2007) and whenever I browse
the 'Albums Gallery' I never get the picture of the album displayed just
the grey '?' but when I click on the '?' I get the album art displayed.
I've attached two files, one 'No_Artwork' showing just the '?' and one
'Artwork' showing the album art. Any ideas?

For info, all my artwork is saved in the album folder either labelled
'folder.jpg' or 'AlbumCover.jpg' with this set up all worked well in
6.3.1 I've also added the file name 'AlbumCover.jpg' Interface -->
ARTWORK & Interface --> ARTWORK THUMBNAIL

Any ideas?


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[slim] Web Interface not wrapping in pane..

2007-01-16 Thread MrP

Hi,

Just upgraded to the latest nightly 6.5.1 (16th Jan) and I've noticed
that in the web interface (Firefox) when a song is playing the song
details goes off the page, you only get all the details if you make the
pane bigger on the screen! Has anybody seen this or how do I fix it?

I've attached two files one called 'correct' after I've manually reized
the pane and the 'incorrect' where you can clearly see the text going
off the pane and not wrapping round like it should



VERSION INFO

SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11207 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Server IP address: 172.10.10.3
Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt


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[slim] Re: Compilation albums - problem

2007-01-16 Thread Siduhe

What is your music directory structure ? In particular, is the structure
set up something like Artist/Album/Songs, so that for a compilation
album, the songs are in 14 different directories ?

If so, move the songs into a single folder (per album) and do a full
rescan.  Does this resolve the problem ?

There's lots of discussion on the boards about whether the way that
Slimserver treats compilations in 6.5 is a good or bad thing (see
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30839&highlight=single+folder+compilation)
as just an example.  If you want more background, check some of them
out.

If moving to a single folder alone doesn't fix the problem, or your
files are structure some other way - there are some other possible
fixes.

Look at your tags - is the COMPILATION tag=0 (i.e. not a compilation) ?
If so, either delete or change to COMPILATION=1.  You may need to look
at the files in MP3tag or similar.

Force the album name - i.e open up the files in a tagging program of
your choice and save the album name again - even if all entries look
the same.

In both cases, you may need to do a full clear and rescan to pick up
the changes.

Finally, do you use playlists ?  If so, does clearing the playlist
entry and rescanning give you the right behaviour ?  In which case you
may be experiencing this problem, which is an open bug.

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31542

HTH, but let us know if none of this works.


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Re: [slim] Compilation albums - problem

2007-01-16 Thread Michael Herger

I have tried rescanning my music. Any other ideas?


There's a setting where you can define whether you want them grouped or  
not. Did you check this as well?


What exact version are you using? "Latest" means tonight's build?

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[slim] Re: Night terrors caused by SqueezeBox

2007-01-16 Thread DrNic

NauticusLX;170758 Wrote: 
> Wait, this may be it. I was just experimenting with the remote for the
> SB-3 and discovered that, while listening to music via SqueezeNetwork,
> if I choose the “Connect to SlimServer” option from the main menu, this
> logs me off SqueezeNetwork.   And if I do this while my PC is off (and
> therefore SlimServer isn’t running), the display just goes blank, at
> which point, I’m concluding, it’s logged onto NEITHER SqueezeBox nor
> SlimServer.  While in this state, can I conclude that it’s basically
> “turned off” and won’t display any messages that are transmitted by the
> SqueezeNetwork OR SlimServer?  Then, to turn back on, I just hit the
> left arrow, then select “Connect to SqueezeNetwork".  Notice in either
> the "power down" or "power off" routines I just described that the red
> button isn't involved at all.  
> 
> Might this be a reliable way to “turn off” the device, to avoid
> receiving messages from the SqueezeNetwork during the night, and that
> actually pulling the plug, or putting a granola box over it,  may not
> be necessary?

Yes, NauticusLX, this is the ideal "work-around" and is indeed exactly
what I do if I want the boxes "off" (for want of a better word to
describe the obvious non-off state!).
However, be warned, if for some unknown reason your router power
cycles, messages will be displayed (normally, "Can't find slimserver",
briefly as your computer is still off).

Whilst I appreciate your panic & frustration at this problem, my only
comment on this whole debacle is that the initial post was perhaps too
aggressive for its purpose. I, like others too, am not woken by small
point sources of light, but can appreciate that there are folk who will
be.

TC

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[slim] SB1 for sale

2007-01-16 Thread Aynsley

Due to recently getting a shiny new All-Black SB3, I've now got a
Wireless SB1 with upgraded display for sale. In good condition, never
had any problems with it. Selling for around £100 or swap for a
wired-only SB2.

It's got a UK Power supply and and UK shipping's included in the price.
Anyone interested? It'll go on Ebay next week if not.

Aynsley


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[slim] Compilation albums - problem

2007-01-16 Thread SW4Peter

Hi all,

Firstly, I'm new to this forum, so hello to all...

I've had a squeezebox and an old SLIMP3 for ages and am running the
latest version of slimserver on XP. I'm not sure when it happened but I
noticed a while ago that there is a problem with compilation albums.
Each track on the album is listed as a different album, so when I
browse album each album name has, say, 14 listings with one track
each?

I have tried rescanning my music. Any other ideas?

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[slim] Re: fast forwardng FLACs unreliable

2007-01-16 Thread rbl

I just created the FLACs with EAC. I am not aware of any seektables,
cuesheets or anything - not even sure what they do. Is this for the
FF/FR buttons, or for Song Scanner? Should I add them?


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