[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
Jack Coates;168371 Wrote: > On 1/8/07, MrSinatra > > wrote: > > > > hi Jim, > > > > as you can see, SD forums are basically two camps, cheerleaders and > > cranks. > > > > I'd actually rename those camps to those who bought what they want and > those who want something else but bought a Squeezebox anyway :) allow me to be more precise... how about 'those who are happy with it doing whatever the hell it wants to do,' and 'those who are unhappy it doesn't do what its advertised to do?' Jack Coates;168371 Wrote: > > i'm a crank. > > > > i guess my problem is that i know exactly what i want, and no one > makes > > it. > > > > i have a SB2, and like most people, i think the web UI stinks. > sorry, > > but thats my opinion cheerleaders, and i'm entitled to it. > > Aaargh!!! To the barricades me hearties, defeat this infidel Oh > wait, I actually don't care at all. Sorry for the confusion. > > I don't think you can say "most people" without something to back it > up. Here's a stab at a poll: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31443 -- I'd say that > every vote for Option 2 or Option 4 is a vote you can count against > the stock interfaces :) thats ridiculous. just because someone uses the stock interface, and doesn't seek out an alternative, does not, in ANY way constitute APPROVAL of it. you have engaged in whats known as a logical fallacy. your poll does not in any way guage if users LIKE what they use. it merely ASKS what they use. it doesn't ask if people like the option they use, or if they like ANY of the options they use. and your population here is skewed towards the SD enthusiats as well. try again. Jack Coates;168371 Wrote: > > > my other > > concerns are that the SS software is very buggy, that the display is > > only on the device, not the remote, (a big problem for me and many > > others i'm sure) and that only SS software powers the device; it > can't > > be used as an external soundcard, (and therefore you can't "winamp > it" > > or itunes or dvd, or whatever...) > > > > Four issues conflated into one sentence... not conflated, listed. am i not to list them for fear you will conflate them? Jack Coates;168371 Wrote: > 1) Slimserver is buggy, yes, and I'd personally like to see either > more rapid releases, or a move to the "perpetual beta" idea of these > Web 2.0 companies. Dump the release idea altogether and just put a > link to the latest nightly up on the download page. how does going from buggy releases to buggy betas solve anything? how about putting out a release that is bug free, and adding features slowly over time so they are also bug free? Jack Coates;168371 Wrote: > 2) Display on the remote is requested from time to time. Does nothing > for me, but you go right ahead. thx jack, i will. and it seems logitech and many others think its a good idea, imagine that! Jack Coates;168371 Wrote: > 3) Having alternate servers would be mildly interesting, except that > it would require switching from SS or SN to whatever, and back. i'm happy to have mildly interested you. i wasn't really suggeting that tho, i was suggesting a mini SS that acted as a dsp plugin for WMP, so winamp could handle all the thing SS does so poorly. Jack Coates;168371 Wrote: > 4) A VLW (very long wire) mode has the same problem, plus a > requirement to disable the buffer (which means that wireless users > will have even more problems than they do now). At the end of the day, > either of these issues end up with a device that does exactly what far > cheaper alternatives do (Airport Express for instance). Not saying > that's a bad thing to add-on, just that I have no need for it. well, i have a need for it, and i think many other people could use it that way to wokaround their SS problems. it also adds the extra ability of acting as the audio interface to your stereo for DVDs, both video and audio. Jack Coates;168371 Wrote: > > > it [ss] also in recent versions has developed a weakness in > streaming > > internet stations b/c now the hardware does it alone. i like that > > paradigm, but the hardware needs to be as robust as software > streaming > > solutions, (like winamp). some ISPs are flaky, SD products must > > recognize that. if winamp can do it, SD hardware better be able to > do > > it too. > > I don't use enough Internet radio to comment, though I do think it's > kind of specious to use Winamp running on a full computer as your > standard to judge the SB by. well, that might be the case, IF SD didn't advertise the product as being capable of such actions on their website. i don't think anyone buying it gets a "warning" from the SD website that this solution is NOT to be as robust as just about ANY other one you have used, (winamp just being an example of one). the working standard is out there and established. if SD says it can do the function, it should meet the standard. Jack Coates;168371 Wrote: > > > > > some of this has been gone over before
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless Mark Lanctot;172681 Wrote: > Oh and HomePlug users: count that as wired. I'm not sure that's appropriate. The point about wired ethernet is that it's carried via a medium that's completely under your control and is therefore immune to interference from third parties. Homeplug uses a shared carrier - the mains wiring. If a neighbour whose home is on the same phase as yours fires up something that injects loads of noise back into the mains (an arc welder, for example), then your Homeplug packets may possibly get trashed. (I don't know what happens if a neighbour on the same phase also has a Homeplug network - do his packets get back out past his meter and compete for the bandwidth you're trying to use?) Therefore, in terms of potential for dropouts I'd say Homeplug, while certainly less vulnerable, is more akin to wireless. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
(1) A faster, slicker UI. This can be made cross platform using Java or any number of porting technologies out there. This is the biggest downside to the product, it is so clunky and unappealing. If there was a decent remote it wouldn't be so bad, which brings us on to... (2) A better remote - Sonos-like if possible, my eyes aren't what they were and squinting at the SB screen just doesn't work anymore! (3) A transporter without all the knobs and whistles. Cut out the displays, knobs and extraneous metalwork and put it in a simple well-built case. Supply it with a good remote with display and that would be a far preferable solution for me. Oh, and then you could bring the price down too. (4) The ability to rip CDs within the software package. There's nothing worse when telling people about SLim than when you have to explain the collection of software and settings that are required to get the library together. The more technical users may enjoy the challenge, many music lovers won't. I think we also need to leave our tech hats at home once in a while too. I have been working on consumer products for some time now and I think the dismissive attitudes that sometimes appear regarding iTunes and other consumer orientated products are very misplaced. I believe over 30 million iPods have shipped and many, many more copies of iTunes. There is something to learn there. It's also tempting to try to keep something you have found to a small community, like when you discover a new band, and the old ways are clung on to and anything remotely commercially orientated is rallied against. Let's not get bent too far out of shape when they want to change to make it big. -- CardinalFang CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
maggior;168351 Wrote: > > > Frist, I'd like to comment on the setup difficulties. The issues > surrounding setup of the SB3 are much simpler than that of setting up a > home network. If somebody is considering purchasing an SB3, they > already have a home network set up, so they've already been through the > worst of it. With things like DHCP, setup of the SB3 is a breeze! I > chose to use a static IP to speed up power up, but that was my choice. > I also had to enter my SSID since I have its broadcast disabled. These > hurdles are no different than configuring a new laptop to communicate > with the network. > > So, a new SB3 owner will either be familiar with what is required to > set up a networked device since they already have a network, or know a > geek to help them out (this geek would have set up the network to begin > with). I know this from experience - I have set up 4 home networks > including my own. (Personally, I found the setup to be a breeze.) > > > Rich Maggio I think you are over-simplifying here. It's not that unlikely that someone starts networking precisely because they have decided on a Squeezebox. I know that's the only rason I have a network (though subsequently I have found other uses for it). So I had to go through the issues of creating a network at the same time as setting up the SB. Fortunately it turned out very easy, except for issues such as microwave interference. -- danco danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] What is considered enough Ram for Slimsever?
Hi, I bought the new slim server, and have put together a Pentium D 2.8 Gig for the server, with just under a 2 Terabyte raid 5 drive. I saw the FAQs and it's pretty vague on how much ram is required. My Question is that I am going to be having a lot of MP3's...A lot. I mean a really large amount. Is one Gig enough ram for this or am I kidding myself. I am new to this so figured someone might have some suggestions for me. Thanks so much in advance for any help you can provide me. -- GenPatton GenPatton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9798 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What is considered enough Ram for Slimsever?
1 gig should be fine - especially if the server is dedicated to this use only - you're unlikely to get a lot of benefit from having much more. In normal use you'll only be playing songs one by one, regardless of how many you have - though music shuffling and to some extent music browsing can be affected by the amount of memory. -- Khuli http://www.last.fm/user/khuli Khuli's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=851 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Transporter wheel is acting strange
Thanks for your suggestions so far Re. Mark The remote is fine, no jerkiness, skip to letter works fine, skip to number works fine, no problems. Re. ModelCitizen Sometimes the wheel is just closer ;) Re. Jacob Its nowhere in particular thats broken, it can be anywhere and nowhere when turning the wheel Re. Robin I use the term wheel for that exact reason, and if Jacobs wife used that term about yours, I should be a wee bit concerned. -- FB67 FB67's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8081 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31921 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cant play WMA files
I think I found the problem. My files were burned tothe hard drive using WMA Pro. SB played WMA and WMA lossless fine but for some reason not WMA Pro. I am in the process of converting them to WMA and will slowly replace them with lossless -- David C David C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9755 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31888 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
Andyb01 wrote: I started my home network with wireless (luckily before I bought a SB) and it drove me round the twist with dropped connections and poor signal. I then discovered homeplugs and sold the whole set of wireless kit on eBay and replaced it with wired and added a SB. Never fails - I would never consider wireless again. Mains networking is so maintenance free in comparison - you plug it in and it just er - works. Funny isn't it. I'm a sceptic by nature. So after my SliMP3 - which had no wireless option - I started out with a wired SB1 (bought it wireless just in case). Eventually I switched to wireless to get rid of the unsightly 10 m. cable running along the living room wall (I have two double cat5 sockets in the living, but they're never where you need them). I had no problems at all. The kitchen SB keeps playing even with the microwave on. Then I upgraded to 4 SB3's. Started out with two of them wired and two wireless. None of them gave any problems. When I added a 2nd WAP to the 2nd floor of the house (to serve a webcam with marginal wifi reception) I switched the other two to wireless as well. Playing Flacs or internet radio gives no problems. Well actually I've had one wireless problem when my downstairs WAP switched to 2Mbit for no apparent reason. Power cycling fixed that. So I started out sceptical but I'm slowly turning into a believer. ;) Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What is considered enough Ram for Slimsever?
I'm using a Pentium III 800MHz with 512MB ram, running Fedora Core 5. I use it as mailserver (including virusscanner, blacklisting and greylisting), webserver, fileserver, databaseserver, dns-server, dhcp server and some more minor stuff. It's running slimserver without a problem. Compared to my server your specs are overkill... So I think it'll be enough... -- servies servies's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9496 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] end of songs chopped off!
Hi Has anyone else experienced the end of songs being chopped off on playback - with the next song starting straight away? I have 6.5.1 and a library of MP3 (LAME) and Apple Lossless albums, and use the iTunes. This playback problem occurs on every playlist or album that I play. Is this a known problem/Bug? Can anyone help?? Thanx! -- nickrt Nick See: www.moyo.me.uk/squeeze nickrt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=177 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31953 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: end of songs chopped off!
hi nick, exactly the same issue here, anything up to 10 seconds can be clipped off the end of tracks and the following track seems to start hot on the heels of the previous one. i too have got a mixed itunes library of mp3, aac and apple lossless files. i'm currently in discussion with slim devices (logitech?) support and i'm waiting for further suggestions after establishing that neither my antivirus nor firewall settings were behind the problem. this has been discussed in other threads and some posters are advocating a return to slimserver 6.31 as the problem seems to have appeared subsequent to that release. this is ok as a workaround but i want the issue sorted so i can work with the latest software release and not have to change the management of my collection using itunes. anyone got any ideas? thanks in advance for any help! -- bodajmac bodajmac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9573 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31953 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: end of songs chopped off!
bodajmac;172869 Wrote: > hi nick, > > exactly the same issue here, anything up to 10 seconds can be clipped > off the end of tracks and the following track seems to start hot on the > heels of the previous one. i too have got a mixed itunes library of > mp3, aac and apple lossless files. i'm currently in discussion with > slim devices (logitech?) support and i'm waiting for further > suggestions after establishing that neither my antivirus nor firewall > settings were behind the problem. > Hi - I have no virus checker or firewall on my music server - I am certain it is not that. bodajmac;172869 Wrote: > > this has been discussed in other threads and some posters are > advocating a return to slimserver 6.31 as the problem seems to have > appeared subsequent to that release. this is ok as a workaround but i > want the issue sorted so i can work with the latest software release > and not have to change the management of my collection using itunes. > > anyone got any ideas? > > thanks in advance for any help! I agree. It is a serious problem - after all the basic requirement is to play music flawlessly - all the other features are extra! I believe it could b something to do with the "cross-fade" feature (volume control) and the gap-less play. At the moment I miss the end of all songs, which is really poor and frustrating! We need HELP on this one!! -- nickrt Nick See: www.moyo.me.uk/squeeze nickrt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=177 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31953 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cant play WMA files
> It can play back FLAC at higher bitrates, and WAV even higher than FLAC. The bit rate for Flac and especially WAV is not equal to the CPU power required to decode and process more compressed formats such as MP3/OGG or WMA. -- oreillymj oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31888 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: end of songs chopped off!
bodajmac;172869 Wrote: > i'm currently in discussion with slim devices (logitech?) support and > i'm waiting for further suggestions after establishing that neither my > antivirus nor firewall settings were behind the problem. Please don't tell me this is the beginning of sh1t support from Logitech. How the hell can they even begin to ascribe something that is repeatable on different songs to antivirus and firewall issues? I hate having to deal with support when their first instinct is to assume you are a nincompoop and then go on to show you just how little they know by forcing you to eliminate what you already know isn't even in contention. -- egd Linux and loving IT! egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31953 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless 2 SB3's on wireless here. -- jeffmeh jeffmeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3986 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver
Hello, I'm still pondering my purchase. I have loaded SlimServer onto my Desktop Computer (upstairs) and loaded SoftSqueeze onto my wireless laptop. I think this gives me a reasonable idea of what I would be buying in to. So far, I really like it, but I do agree that the process of ripping a music CD "into" SlimServer is not an intuitive one. I don't really have any experience of iTunes, but I imagined that the SB3 would include similar software to help me build up / manage my music collection. Would something like this really be so hard to put together? At the moment, I have resorted to using EAC in conjunction with MP3TAG. Thanks, Stephen -- Studio_Two Studio_Two's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9224 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31879 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless Is wired via ethernet bridge from Airport Express wired or wireless? Both at once? That's how my (working) SB2 is set up (and the spare one isn't!). Works well. Mostly. Geraint. -- geraint smith geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver
Studio_Two wrote: I'm still pondering my purchase. I have loaded SlimServer onto my Desktop Computer (upstairs) and loaded SoftSqueeze onto my wireless laptop. I think this gives me a reasonable idea of what I would be buying in to. So far, I really like it, but I do agree that the process of ripping a music CD "into" SlimServer is not an intuitive one. I don't really have any experience of iTunes, but I imagined that the SB3 would include similar software to help me build up / manage my music collection. Would something like this really be so hard to put together? At the moment, I have resorted to using EAC in conjunction with MP3TAG. It's quite logical IMHO. There's no reason these two functions should be in one application. They never used to be. In the days of WinAmp nobody thought so. Now that Apple has pushed (literally as I found out when I wanted to install Quicktime) iTunes on everyone it suddenly becomes 'logical' and natural to combine all this in one app. I don't need Acrobat Writer in order to view documents. I don't need a CD burner to play CD's. A music collection is a bunch of files created to common standards (with id tags). When a bunch of files generated by another application is stored in the slimserver music folder you can play them. What more do you want? Your choice of ripping software may not be the smartest. EAC/Lame/flac may be the gold standard for quality, they're not really user friendly. Get something else instead, I think a lot of people use dbPowerAmp (I haven't used it). Make it write its files to your slimserver music folder and you're all set. Couldn't be much easier without making it restrictive (like iTunes). Slimserver is a server product. iTunes is a client/stand allone app. Huge difference. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Apple TV Competition?
Kevin, Like you, I use wireless for one of my squeezeboxes only - and it's the only one that ever gives me any trouble - and then not very often at all. It's a v1 squeezebox though so the buffer isn't so big. I think you're right about the iso issue in DVD assist. I bought the mac and started ripping afterwards so it wasn't really a problem for me. It may be possible to do a bulk convert, but I don't know how you'd feel about that if you've got a lot of stuff ripped (and/or use if for other things). There's some speculation about what the next version of front row might support, but my view is that Apple are so tight about their existing protection systems that they're not likely to allow you to play ripped content other than via some kind of iTunes import or similar. -- xio xio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31559 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: end of songs chopped off!
egd wrote: bodajmac;172869 Wrote: i'm currently in discussion with slim devices (logitech?) support and i'm waiting for further suggestions after establishing that neither my antivirus nor firewall settings were behind the problem. Please don't tell me this is the beginning of sh1t support from Logitech. How the hell can they even begin to ascribe something that is repeatable on different songs to antivirus and firewall issues? I hate having to deal with support when their first instinct is to assume you are a nincompoop and then go on to show you just how little they know by forcing you to eliminate what you already know isn't even in contention. Well, yes, that's very annoying. I guess life on a support desk would be much easier if us non-nincompoop's didn't have sudden random attacks of nincompoopness now and then during which we suddenly forget that that black display could just caused by a zero brightness setting. I consider myself a fairly advanced user, but everybody makes stupid mistakes sometimes. It's common sense to eliminate the simple (stupid) explanations first. A *huge* percentage of support issues are caused by firewalls and anti-virus software so it seems very sensible to start there first.. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver
meltsheep;172247 Wrote: > > > I rate iTunes very highly as software, its only serious flaw being a > lack of a plugin API (ergo, you can;t play native flac in iTunes). > > Maybe my real issue is that I'd be happy to keep all my music in iTunes > except that right now its flac. The Slim server iTunes itegration works > pretty well. Hmm. I will think about a migration from flac to aiff and > use iTunes ot manage music and slim to serve it. Will you be happy if iTunes could just play back your flac files, or would u want it to edit tags, burn cds, etc, etc? If its the earlier, one option is to run the Firefly (mt-daapd) server side by side with slimserver. You can set firefly to transcode your flacs to wavs in realtime (so no loss and additionally iTunes catches all the tag info). Firefly server shows up as a shared iTunes library, and you should be able to send stuff to your Airport Express. This way your iTunes/Airport Express and Slimserver/Squeezebox setups can happily exist side by side. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31879 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What is considered enough Ram for Slimsever?
servies;172865 Wrote: > I'm using a Pentium III 800MHz with 512MB ram, running Fedora Core 5. I > use it as mailserver (including virusscanner, blacklisting and > greylisting), webserver, fileserver, databaseserver, dns-server, dhcp > server and some more minor stuff. It's running slimserver without a > problem. > Compared to my server your specs are overkill... So I think it'll be > enough... I have a dedicated machine with an 800MHz PIII and 256MB running win2k3. My only complaint is slow load times on the web interface, otherwise, it's flawless. -- jeffluckett jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver shuts down by itself - why?
I have brand new one with updated version and all. Suggestions -- chiefersone chiefersone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9413 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28032 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
My initial point is getting lost: Electricity is an inefficient method of generating heat. Better to turn off devices and use fossil fuels, bio-fuels for heating. The point about Nuclear power and Hydro-electric being completely clean is incorrect when you consider the embodied energy in construction and decommisioing. Both methods may make electricity more efficiently then a power station (35% effieicent) but still better to turn off devices and not consider it a form of heating -- Paul_B Paul ~ Slimserver 6.5.1 on EPIA VIA EN15000 Mini-ITX running Windows 2003 R2. Remote storage QNAP(1.2.1)~(160GB Maxtor) SB3 (x1) RIP - dBpowerAMP R12 (Alpha) to FLAC ID3 Tags - MP3Tag v2.36 ~ Paul_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What is considered enough Ram for Slimsever?
GenPatton wrote: Hi, I bought the new slim server, and have put together a Pentium D 2.8 Gig for the server, with just under a 2 Terabyte raid 5 drive. I saw the FAQ’s and it's pretty vague on how much ram is required. My Question is that I am going to be having a lot of MP3's...A lot. I mean a really large amount. Is one Gig enough ram for this or am I kidding myself. I am new to this so figured someone might have some suggestions for me. Thanks so much in advance for any help you can provide me. You left out a few crucial datapoints. Will you be running the latest Vista or OS/X Lion or a headless (and X-less) Linux setup? That makes a huge difference in memory requirements. For the latter, 1GB is overkill just for serving music. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
If the point was to generate heat, I'd agree with you. But the point was, we keep these devices on for utility. They "waste" a certain amount of power when on standby. The claim was made that this isn't totally wasted, because it generates heat, so the "waste" is at least partially offset by lowered other heat costs. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: end of songs chopped off!
Peter;172891 Wrote: > A *huge* percentage of support issues are caused by firewalls and > anti-virus software so it seems very sensible to start there first.. Ordinarily I'd agree, but given the nature of the product and the problem being experienced it should be pretty obvious that it is highly unlikely to be either - if it was a firewall issue the songs wouldn't play at all. -- egd Linux and loving IT! egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31953 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Touch/Nokia770 skin oddity
I have experienced the same thing... -- phicar2 phicar2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2146 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31890 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Nokia770 issue
I use the fantastic Nokia770 skin on my 770 but I have one issue I can't seem to work out. Any playlist that I have that is more than 1 page, only the first page is accessible on the Nokia770. How do I access beyond the first page? Thanks! -- phicar2 phicar2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2146 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
tyler_durden;172678 Wrote: > If you are looking for a minimal power drain amplifier, get a "Class-D" > amplifier. They are essentially switch-mode power supplies with the > input signal as a reference and the output connected to a speaker. > Efficiencies run as high as 90%. These are relatively new and not many > are available I don't know if they are many available or not for general home use, but they are often used in high power car systems, and the fist comercially available one I saw actually being used was back in 1980 (27 years ago), so they are not all that new. But yes, they are extremely efficient. I always wanted to make one with a digital input directly controlling the PWM, thus elimination the need for a conventional D/A converter, but so far have been too lazy to do so. Tom -- st2lemans st2lemans's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9539 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WiFi frustration! (But happy ending... for now)
Brian Ritchie;172802 Wrote: > How could I tell (in NetStumbler, say) whether another router is "pre-n" > (does this mean "11n capable"?) or whether mine is being swamped? You can't, it's a standard 802.11g signal. BTW this doesn't necessarily mean "802.11n capable", if the spec should change these early implementations will be out in limbo. Some manufacturers have promised compatibility with any adopted standard through firmware updates, even hardware updates. > Also, if someone (like me) isn't broadcasting their SSID, will > NetStumbler show them at all? Yes, NetStumbler will still show them all. Stop the train for a sec, you just mentioned something here. You say you're hiding your SSID. Look at the problems other forum members are having doing this: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31904 Might want to try enabling SSID broadcast, keeping in mind it doesn't increase security, you're broadcasting it through several other means anyway. > Another thing I've yet to try is to reposition the router - it's rather > surrounded by cabinets and bits of computer at the moment! Not quite > sure where else it will fit, though... If any of that is metal, it's blocking the signal. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31330 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What is considered enough Ram for Slimsever?
1 GB should be fine, even for a Windows-based server. -- Pale Blue Ego Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
This is all very humorous. Restrict your driving so that you use SIX gallons less gasoline (maybe, what ... 150 miles?), and you've saved enough energy to run your SqueezeBox full blast for a year. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver
Peter;172884 Wrote: > I don't need Acrobat Writer in order to view documents. I don't need a > CD burner to play CD's. > > Your choice of ripping software may not be the smartest. EAC/Lame/flac. > Get something else instead, I think a lot of people use dbPowerAmp (I > haven't used it). > > Slimserver is a server product. iTunes is a client/stand allone app. > Huge difference. > > Regards, > Peter Hello Peter, Thanks you so much for the information. I understand what you're saying with your "Acrobat" analogy - but SOMEONE has to create the content, don't they? I am at the stage where I need to create some content for the SqueezeBox (SoftSqueeze in my case). Yet, there is no provision for doing this within the "product". I appreciate you telling me about dbPowerAMP. It looks just what I was looking for, so I will give that a try this evening. Maybe bundling something like dbPowerAMP (or similar) would be a nice idea for starters. It looks as though it runs on both Windows and Linux. Stephen -- Studio_Two Studio_Two's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9224 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31879 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver, Shoutcast and Winamp
I have heard nothing. Incidentally, I'm also able to stream reliably using the Hex Radio app on a Roku HD1000. It's a somewhat sparse interface, but works just fine. Not unsurprisingly, Slim Roku, another app for the HD1000 but which uses SlimServer as its head end, suffers from exactly the same issues as discussed, since it is the same software. -- jamullian jamullian's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9452 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31359 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Touch/Nokia770 skin oddity
It's now bug #4695. -- 4mula1 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31890 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless cliveb;172852 Wrote: > I'm not sure that's appropriate. The point about wired ethernet is that > it's carried via a medium that's completely under your control and is > therefore immune to interference from third parties. > > Homeplug uses a shared carrier - the mains wiring. If a neighbour whose > home is on the same phase as yours fires up something that injects loads > of noise back into the mains (an arc welder, for example), then your > Homeplug packets may possibly get trashed. (I don't know what happens > if a neighbour on the same phase also has a Homeplug network - do his > packets get back out past his meter and compete for the bandwidth > you're trying to use?) > > Therefore, in terms of potential for dropouts I'd say Homeplug, while > certainly less vulnerable, is more akin to wireless. OK, but I had to fit it in the poll somehow. ;-) And there is copper between the HomePlugs, so I thought of it as wired. Plus apparently it seems to behave like wired for most people, I've only heard of 1 or 2 problems on this forum. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless geraint smith;172882 Wrote: > Is wired via ethernet bridge from Airport Express wired or wireless? > Both at once? That's how my (working) SB2 is set up (and the spare one > isn't!). Works well. Mostly. > > Geraint. As I stated in the second post, please consider that wireless. The SS -> SB packets are still going through thin air at one point. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia770 issue
6.5.1, just upgraded 3 days ago. I have the problem before and after... -- phicar2 phicar2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2146 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cant play WMA files
David C: it does sound like WMA Pro inserted DRM without your knowledge. Apparently some versions do that by default? oreillymj;172872 Wrote: > The bit rate for Flac and especially WAV is not equal to the CPU power > required to decode and process more compressed formats such as MP3/OGG > or WMA. Good point. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31888 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless I travel with my SB2 and use it wirelessly in one place and wired in another. Does this count as 'I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless' ? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 Question: Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1? - Yes - No - Undecided Hi all, I am happily running 6.3.x after having rolled back from 6.5.1 due to stability issues. Now that the official release of 6.5.1 is out, I'm now considering upgrading again - but am concerned as to what issue may be lurking. So please, cast your vote as to wether you would recommend an upgrade. Cheers Phil -- moby_uk moby_uk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cant play WMA files
thanks for the suggestion. If it did add DRM it in is there a way to remove it -- David C David C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9755 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31888 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless Nikhil;172924 Wrote: > I travel with my SB2 and use it wirelessly in one place and wired in > another. Does this count as 'I have several units, some operate wired, > some wireless' ? Wow, this is getting tough. But I'd say - the poll describes how you use your SB in what you would consider to be your home. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The End Of Each Song Is Cut Off On Playback
I have the same annoying problem here. I'll try the 6.5.0. It is the first time that happen to me. It didn't happen in my 2 last PC that I used as server. Cheers -- fazambuja fazambuja's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6697 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31755 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cant play WMA files
David C;172926 Wrote: > thanks for the suggestion. If it did add DRM it in is there a way to > remove it Don't think so, once it's been added. However I believe there should be an option to disable it on new encodes. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31888 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 Question: Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1? - Yes - No - Undecided Lots of playing over the weekend, and no problems to report. Basil -- basil815 basil815's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4456 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1?
I am happily running 6.3.x after having rolled back from 6.5.1 due to If you're happy with 6.3.x, why would you want to upgrade? I won't tell you to upgrade with no reason at all. All I can say is that my 6.5.1 is rock stable for _me_ (and has been for weeks - not only the official release version). -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver shuts down by itself - why?
phinbob;172304 Wrote: > Similar to previous posts, my SlimServer stops for no apparent reason. > The event log is the same as what others have shown. Others have shown varying logs... what does yours show? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28032 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 Question: Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1? - Yes - No - Undecided Michael, I agree with your point of not upgrading just for the sake of it (been there too many times over my career!). I'm really looking for the performance improvements as I spend a large amount of time scrolling through the browse function on the SB3. Also, on a side note, has an end of life date for 6.3 been announced? -- moby_uk moby_uk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 Question: Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1? - Yes - No - Undecided The change from SQLite to MySQL from 6.3.x to 6.5.x might or might not be worthwhile for you - it's a much better database but it's also a very large change, necessitating a complete uninstall of 6.3.x including deleting the install folder. The end result for me didn't change - I didn't have rescanning problems before, I don't now. However the scanner is now a separate process, this could be good on servers that use OSes and CPUs that can take advantage of separate processes. If you use album art, the gallery view option is very nice indeed. moby_uk;172941 Wrote: > Also, on a side note, has an end of life date for 6.3 been announced? Hmm, I don't believe this is done. Essentially the software is released. New features and bugfixes go into new builds - old ones remain untouched. The only thing that will make the software obsolete is: - a new version of the OS or an OS update which does not support it. For example, 6.0.2 doesn't run on Windows 95/98/98SE/ME. - a new hardware player which requires firmware not in the old release. For example, the SB2/SB3 cannot be used with software older than 6.0.2 and the Transporter cannot be used with software older than 6.5.0. The software is backwards-compatible though, 6.5.1 should support an old SliMP3. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
cparker;172543 Wrote: > Hi Peter > > This is very interesting research. If other people have measuring > devices, could I ask that they measure the usage of their amp and its > make/model? I'm looking to replace my amp in the future and want to > find the least power hungry one! > > I'll measure my amp and put the details in this thread just for > interest :) > > Cheers Class D amplifiers tend to be more efficient by design. I suppose you could bring a "Kill-a-Watt" or "Watts Up" to a store and measure stuff. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless One SB3 and one TP both wireless. TP acting as a wireless bridge for my Tivo. No problems at all. Cheers Richard -- magnanimous magnanimous's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8977 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ideas for Squeezebox 4
>From a quick read-through of the posts so far, I most like the idea of the VGA-out as an eye-candy Option for album covers, lyrics and whatever. I also like the idea of accessing one's own music without having a PC on permanently. I already have an external 160GB HD and a NSLU2. I know uNSLUng is not for everyone (I'm not sure it's for me yet!), but even new, I think you can get this for around £100 or so. As for my own ideas.. Fast Forward/Rewind? Don't know how useful this would really be, though. Multiple Favorites? I am just showing my eight-year old daughter how to use it and Favourites seemed the easiest way of showing her how to find the "CD's" she likes. It would be nice to do something similar for my 'technophobe' wife. Simon's Favs, Alex's Favs, Becca's Favs etc, a bit like creating playlists. I'm a newbie, so forgive me if I've missed something that exists already. Anyway, when is SB4 to be? 2007? 2008? I think I need a second one already... -- simonaf simonaf simonaf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9732 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30399 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Touch/Nokia770 skin oddity
Fix checked into both 6.5 and Trunk branches. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31890 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver
DBPowerAmp, especially version 12, is very good but not perfect. I use it to RIP to Flac but I then use MP3Tag to structure the tags the way I want things. Slimserver to my mind is dedicated to providing content to the Squeezebox (mainly music but also text information). This moves away from bloating software with features that are rarely or never used. In addition ripping a file whilst playing music through a NAS Slimserver device would probably fail. -- Paul_B Paul ~ Slimserver 6.5.1 on EPIA VIA EN15000 Mini-ITX running Windows 2003 R2. Remote storage QNAP(1.2.1)~(160GB Maxtor) SB3 (x1) RIP - dBpowerAMP R12 (Alpha) to FLAC ID3 Tags - MP3Tag v2.36 ~ Paul_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31879 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 Question: Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1? - Yes - No - Undecided I started out using 6.5.1 from the nightly builds before it was officially released this week. I've had no problems, other than with Rhapsody, but that's a separate issue. My reason for using 6.5.1 was for the gapless playback of LAME mp3 files. Since I listen to a lot of electronic music and live music, gapless playback was an essential feature for me. -- maggior maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia770 issue
Not sure how to debug further...I can't reproduce this. I created a multiple page playlist and all page links work correctly. Any further details about your setup you could share? Anyone else seeing this behavior? cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia770 issue
one suggestion that I always give when weird problems like this come up is to do a full uninstall before the new install. Sometimes there are some files from the old version you had installed that doesn't get deleted on upgrade, and this can cause issues. This is especially an issue for Nokia770 and Touch skins for technical reasons I won't get into. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
Hi, I thought I would post this, it might save others some grief. Last year (XMAS 2005) I built a new PC platform which became the new household server (Slimserver as well). Santa Clause brought me a thermaltake Tower case and I purchased 3200+ AMD chip, new motherboard etc. I was seriously considering purchasing a RAID 5 Controller to connect the 4x300G SATA drives I picked up during the boxing day sales, however the Hardware controllers were quite expensive, so I decided to implement it the "cheap way" and purchased a ASUS motherboard with a built in Silicon Image controller with RAID capabilities. Installation went fine, Gigabit LAN between the server and the HTPC (EAC ripping platform) Fast Ethernet and wifi everywhere else throughout the house connecting the families pc's, laptops printers and 4 squeezebox's. 900 Gig RAID5 file volume for WAV files, FLAC files and important family pictures, documents etc. I encourged the family to store important doc's on the RAID5 volume. Everything was fine until early Nov 2006, when a power cable (splitter) which had a faulty ground pin similtanously powered down 2 of the 4 hardrives within the RAID volume. The drives were instantly "orphaned" and the RAID volume was no more. This effectively deleted 5-6 years of family vacation pictures, and 450 Gig of ripped CD's (WAV format). I shuddered at the thought of the time involved to re-rip the 600 CD's. Also the "minister of domestic affairs" stated that I shall recover the familly pic's regardless of the cost. I checked data recovery services, but all started at several thousand dollars, I called ASUS, they were no help, I called Silicon Image, their technical support basically told me to "piss up a rope" (thanks guys, I will remember that when making future purchases). I was reasonably sure the data was still on the disks, but how to access it? Neither ASUS or SI bundled any RAID recovery utilities with the motherboard software. I eventually came across a company called Runtime Software http://www.runtime.org/ who sell utilities to recover files off corrupted drives etc. They also had a utility for retrieving files off of damaged RAID5 volumes. In order to use the software they need to create a duplicate image of the RAID vol. that they would work from. Therefore I needed approx. 850G of disk space. So I purchased a Buffalo Terrabit station (NAS). The SI controller built into the motherboard would not represent the 4 SATA drives independantly, therefore i had to purchase a Promise 4 port SATA controller. Once the duplicate image is created from the original damaged RAID vol., Runtime need enough disk space to copy the recovered data to from the copied Image, therefore I required another 500G drive. Eventually I recovered all my data. I now have the original 4x300g SATA drives configured as JBOD on the promise controller. The JBOD is backed up to the NAS nightly using a filesync application. I have run 300' of direct burial CAT5 cable to my nieghbours house, I will be placing the NAS at his place, and in turn he can connect his squeezebox to my Slimserver over the network. I am also considering a power conditioner for the server. So that is my little story on how a 30 cent power lead cost me $1300 and a month with no Slimserver! Lessons learned, don't go cheap with RAID5, especially if you are putting all your eggs in that one basket. Thumbs up to Runtime software, and there support. Thumbs down to SI and ther elack of support. P.S. for the Network Engineers out there, my neighbour and I are thinking of also connecting our WIFI routers together and Running OSPF ECMP over the wifi and physical ethernet. Nothing like some more diversity, in most cases you are worried about the "random back hoe" taking down your primary linkin our case it's the "random garden hoe" :) Cheers, Scott -- sfraser sfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2026 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Introducing..... me!
)p(;172862 Wrote: > > > 3) A graphical remote. I would like to see a intelligent one that has a > local copy of the database that is automatically synced with the > slimserver database. I think apple tv does do it like that. An > expensive graphical remote that is not very responsive is a big no no > for me. > > peter A very interesting idea. It would likely take only a little bit of flash memory on the controller device (probably a better term than "remote") to cache the SS DB, and would cut down considerably on the over-the-air transactions that would tend to make the control sluggish. The synching could be done on-demand or trickled as DB changes were being made on the backend. But the key element of a successful control device is not so much its processing power per se, but control interfaces that are optimized for media (in this regard, while the iPod is not perfect, it excels in its elegance and simplicity well beyond most of its competition). -- Balthazar_B Balthazar_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7366 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
jonheal;172909 Wrote: > This is all very humorous. > > Restrict your driving so that you use THREE gallons less gasoline > (maybe, what ... 75 miles?), and you've saved enough energy to run your > SqueezeBox full blast for a year. Plus you'll *feel* better if you walk to Starbucks. The humorous thing is people act like the two (walking and turning things off) are mutually exclusive. Turn the freakin' light off before you go! -- Skunk Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What is considered enough Ram for Slimsever?
91,000 songs with 750Meg of RAM -- sfraser sfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2026 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31951 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31960 Question: Would you recommend upgrading to 6.5.1? - Yes - No - Undecided Yes. No issues with playback or upgraded noted here. Running 6.5.1 under OS X 10.3.9 without using iTunes integration. -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
Two comments: 1. RAID is no substitute for backups. In my day job, I support a database we maintain for a large national organisation. Back in 2002, a RAID controller (Adaptec's top of the line model, not a cheapie) went faulty and scribbled over ALL of the disks. So no matter how advanced your RAID setup, you can't rely on it never to lose your precious data. 2. Some friendly advice: try to format your posts so they don't look like a "stream of consciousness". It makes them much easier to read. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia770 issue
I'm seeing the same behavior, but I will admit I did so an upgrade from 6.5.0 to 6.5.1 without a prior uninstall. I found that if you view the current playlist there are multiple pages, but selecting a playlist from the playlist menu will only show the first page without links to other pages. I should have enough time tonight to do a complete uninstall and reinstall and see if that makes any difference. -- 4mula1 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Apple TV Competition?
There's some speculation about what the next version of front row might support, but my view is that Apple are so tight about their existing protection systems that they're not likely to allow you to play ripped content other than via some kind of iTunes import or similar. Agreed. I don't see any large company (e.g., Apple, Microsoft) that has an investment in DRM and relationships with RIAA and their ilk doing that. I expect to end up using 3rd party software, though I haven't decided what yet. MediaCentral looks promising, though. Kevin -- Kevin O. Lepard Happiness is being 100% Microsoft free. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless One SB3 and one TP both wireless. No problems streaming 96/24-flac-material. -- schiegl schiegl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6654 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
1. RAID is no substitute for backups. Your right. IMHO raid is overrated for most private uses. It's sold as if it were backup, but it's only about _availability_, reduced downtime etc. - which is quite unimportant to most home users. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
sfraser wrote: Lessons learned, don't go cheap with RAID5, especially if you are putting all your eggs in that one basket. Thumbs up to Runtime software, and there support. Thumbs down to SI and ther elack of support. Thanks for sharing that, I'm sre it will save someone. I'll bet someone's making a backup to DVD right now ;) But it sounds like your data is still in danger. What happens if you or one of your family make a mistake and delete the five years of family photos and *fail to notice*. Wouldn't the NAS backup faithfully overwrite the previous backup and delete the photos? Or do you have some kind of snapshot/incremental system in place? I decided I was going to suffer something catastrophic sooner or later so I rented a colo location, put a Linux server there and run rsnapshot against it every night. If I screw something up, I'll have 7 weeks to notice it. No RAID at home for me. Up to the minute file integrity is not too important here. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia770 issue
I did do an upgrade, not an uninstall reinstall of slimserver so I will do that tonight. Here is what I see (from what I remember - at work now). I select playlists from the home screen. I then select one of the playlists (which I know is more than 1 page, at least when I use the default slimserver skin on my PC, the list has about 140 songs). The playlist is displayed, but on ly 1 screen worth of songs, and I don't see any navigation devices (arrows, numbers, next page, etc.) to get to the rest of the list. Thanks again for the AWESOME skin! -- phicar2 phicar2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2146 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
I use RAID 5 at home, primarily to avoid problems from failing hard drives. In the 6 years I've had a RAID 5 setup, I've had one drive fail. Just being able to swap in a new drive and have it running again was worth it for me. I agree backups are also needed, preferably incremental backups with versioning. On 1/22/07, Michael Herger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. RAID is no substitute for backups. Your right. IMHO raid is overrated for most private uses. It's sold as if it were backup, but it's only about _availability_, reduced downtime etc. - which is quite unimportant to most home users. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ 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
[slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
cliveb;172973 Wrote: > RAID is no substitute for backups. I agree too. RAID will save you from a drive failure. Backups are needed to protect from user error (rm -rf /) or some other hardware failure (RAM, drive controller, etc) that causes bad data to be written to the arrray. Offsite backups are best as they will also protect from fire or other catastrophic failure. If you have to keep them on site, use a different machine. If you really want to backup to the same machine, use a different drive on a different controller. -- Fletch Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Tagging VA series albums
I have ripped and tagged all my albums and mp3s, but I'm not sure what to do with the VA albums. Single VA albums are ok, I use COMPILATION = 1. But I'm not sure about VA-series. Eg: cd-serie/discnumber/track - songartist - song This Is Music/Number 67/3 - Moby - Play.mp3 My quston is, how do you tag this, like this? ALBUM = Number 67 ARTIST = This Is Music TITLE = Moby - Play TRACK = 3 Are there maybe a TAG i dont know about? I know there are many way to do this, but what is most common? Thanks. -- panter panter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4450 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31966 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless In my new place I had to go wireless and to my surprise I rarely have any issues. I stream MP3 and Flac and at times have various players synced. SB2, SB3, and TP all running via 802.11g. -Greg -- GoCubs GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
Peter;172982 Wrote: > But it sounds like your data is still in danger. What happens if you or > > one of your family make a mistake and delete the five years of family > photos > and *fail to notice*. Wouldn't the NAS backup faithfully overwrite the > > previous backup and delete the photos? My thoughts as well. Automated disk/folder syncs are a kind of poor-man's backup plan and are subject to failures exactly like this. The problem is that this type of backup only guards against hardware failure and fails to guard against file corruption and human error. If you're going to have two backups done via sync, don't have more than one of them done automatically on a daily basis. Do the other manually only after you're certain the data is complete and non-corrupted. That one probably only needs to be done once or twice a month and be a safeguard against something happening to both the original and the backup. It should probably also be kept offsite to guard against fire or theft. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Tagging VA series albums
panter;172993 Wrote: > > My quston is, how do you tag this, like this? > ALBUM = Number 67 > ARTIST = This Is Music > TITLE = Moby - Play > TRACK = 3 > ... ALBUM = This is Music #67 ARTIST = Moby TITLE = Play TRACK = 3 Are you relying on Guesstags? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31966 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Tagging VA series albums
panter;172993 Wrote: > I have ripped and tagged all my albums and mp3s, but I'm not sure what > to do with the VA albums. > Single VA albums are ok, I use COMPILATION = 1. But I'm not sure about > VA-series. > > Eg: > cd-serie/discnumber/track - songartist - song > This Is Music/Number 67/3 - Moby - Play.mp3 > > My quston is, how do you tag this, like this? > ALBUM = Number 67 > ARTIST = This Is Music > TITLE = Moby - Play > TRACK = 3 > > Are there maybe a TAG i dont know about? > I know there are many way to do this, but what is most common? I don't think there's anything in common use that addresses series of albums. I would just put the number in the album name. If you wan't "This Is Music" to be treated as a separate artist, you might try using the BAND tag. ALBUM=This Is Music 67 BAND=This Is Music ARTIST=Moby TITLE=Play TRACK=3 -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31966 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
Our daughter has a curious one-way effect on instant-on televisions. She walks into a room, the TV comes on. The effect is not symettric, though - when she walks out of the room, the TV never goes off again. Drives me absolutely nuts. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The display turns off
schiegl, thanks for your reply, sorry for the late answer. I have no new hardware equipment at my place, but I have some neighbours.. My pc detects about approx 20 Wlans. 1 year ago, maybe just 5. This is why I for some time ago asked for adding hardware support for 802.11a. :-) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21943 Anyway, I guess it had something to do with the wireless channel, my accesspoint for 802.11g was in Channel Mode Auto, but I have tested some different channels and my SB3 is working better now. Thanks again. -- panter panter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4450 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31633 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Tagging VA series albums
snarlydwarf;172997 Wrote: > ... > > ALBUM = This is Music #67 > ARTIST = Moby > TITLE = Play > TRACK = 3 > > Are you relying on Guesstags? No, that is why I want to tag it correctly so I can Browse Artist and the Cd-series will show as an Artist and NOT under Various Artist. Is not this common? JJZolx;172999 Wrote: > I don't think there's anything in common use that addresses series of > albums. I would just put the number in the album name. If you wan't > "This Is Music" to be treated as a separate artist, you might try using > the BAND tag. > > ALBUM=This Is Music 67 > BAND=This Is Music > ARTIST=Moby > TITLE=Play > TRACK=3 Just tried, did not work for me. -- panter panter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4450 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31966 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
You may also want to electrically isolate yourself from your neighbor's power. Ground loops or power spikes could come across that CAT-5 and zap your equipment and visa-versa. Not sure though, how this would be done with wired ethernet, perhaps there are some transformer based solutions. Maybe you could run fiber between houses :) -MrD -- MrD MrD's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6099 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Upgraded to 6.5.1 and NO SOUND
Anybody ?? I think there's problem with decoders, if i try to add one, it doent't work, something's missing. Does 6.5.1 works with ALAC ?? I'm stuck with radios right now -- damned006 damned006's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31941 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
JJZolx;172996 Wrote: > My thoughts as well. Automated disk/folder syncs are a kind of > poor-man's backup plan and are subject to failures exactly like this. > The problem is that this type of backup only guards against hardware > failure and fails to guard against file corruption and human error. > > If you're going to have two backups done via sync, don't have more than > one of them done automatically on a daily basis. Do the other manually > only after you're certain the data is complete and non-corrupted. That > one probably only needs to be done once or twice a month and be a > safeguard against something happening to both the original and the > backup. It should probably also be kept offsite to guard against fire > or theft. The software backup software has the option not to "match" deletions. >From time to time I will run it manually list the delta's and then match deletions. Thanks for the input and suggestions.. Scott -- sfraser sfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2026 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2/3 power usage: 4-6 watts; display on/off is biggest factor
Skunk;172965 Wrote: > Plus you'll *feel* better if you walk to Starbucks. > > The humorous thing is people act like the two (walking and turning > things off) are mutually exclusive. Turn the freakin' light off before > you go! Tell 'em you want your coffee cold, too. That'll save a few extra watts! :-) -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31789 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Gaps between songs in 6.5.1
Uwe1966;169517 Wrote: > Hi everybody, > is there a special way to tag the files for gapless play? How does the > software recognizes the files that have to be played with or without > gaps? I'm confused. I've been searching the net on the topic, and it looks to me like you have to encode with lame using a special procedure to make this work. For me it looks like you have to encode all tracks in a contiguous set in one go to make this work. Something like LAME --nogap... You cannot get gapless playing when encoding the files individually as I understand when searching on the subject. Yet people seems to claim otherwise in this forum. Is the information I've found on the net out of date? I think there's a second way using a complete diskimage and "cuesheets" when encoding the mp3-files, but I haven't seen anyone claim it can be done with individual encoding of the files... That is, except in this forum?... -- Stig Nygaard /Stig Nygaard www.rockland.dk Stig Nygaard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4236 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31433 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia770 issue
the most I can tell you right now is that I can do the exact same procedure and I can't reproduce the problem. Try the uninstall reinstall thing and let me know if that fixed it. If not, I'll think a bit harder on what might cause this. #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Gaps between songs in 6.5.1
Yeah that info is a bit outdated. LAME writes special info to the header describing the number of audio samples to drop from the front and back of the file. This allows any 2 files to be played together with no gaps. Just use LAME 3.90.3 or later and it's done for you automatically. In SlimServer 6.5.1, make sure you do a complete wipe and rescan because previous versions didn't scan mp3 files at the proper location to detect the gapless info. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31433 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless Two wired and two wifi units . I am surprised at the anti wifi comments? I have never had any real problems with the wifi units, and I have up to 7 wifi devices running off the same AP at any given time. All four work equally well, in fact the one I use in my audio room for serious listening, is wifi equipped. I bought the wired only models because I knew they both would be within 8 feet of a Ethernet Switch. -- sfraser sfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2026 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
Hey Guys Interesting thread... I was in the process of splitting my single Linux box into two linux boxes, so I could at least back up one to another nightly... When the primary disk in it went North. Good News: My Slimserver Library is on the good disk & I just backed up 20 Gigs of digital photos to DVD... Bad News: The other disk had another 60Meg of everything else I had ever wanted to keep on it: Videos, Kids' GCSE course work & other life-limiting-if-you-lose-it data... Anyone know any decent software which might be able to analyse & extract data from the bad disk? It seems mechanically OK, but has lost ALL the Superblock backups & possibly more. I've tried the usual CLI utils to no avail and a free prog called TestDisk which wasn't able to do anything for me. Any ideas anyone? Cheers -- mustbemad mustbemad's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9404 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
mustbemad wrote: Anyone know any decent software which might be able to analyse & extract data from the bad disk? It seems mechanically OK, but has lost ALL the Superblock backups & possibly more. I've tried the usual CLI utils to no avail and a free prog called TestDisk which wasn't able to do anything for me. Any ideas anyone? I can't help with the recovery, but before you mess with a single bit of the content, best to clone the drive to a backup. I've been using an excellent bootable command line bit-level disk copier which works with any OS and drive type: http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ -- Bill Burns Long Island NY USA http://ftldesign.com ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:44:22 -0500, "Bill Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I can't help with the recovery, but before you mess with a single bit of > the content, best to clone the drive to a backup. I've been using an > excellent bootable command line bit-level disk copier which works with > any OS and drive type: > > http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ On Linux (which I assume he's running) that's just: cat /dev/hda | gzip > /tmp/image.gz ;) On the down side I find recovering deleted files under Linux a lot more problematic than under Windows. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Transporter Problem
Just for my own interest... did your original name for your wireless network have a space in it and your new one not? MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter > Naim NAP 250 > PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31931 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
mustbemad;173048 Wrote: > Hey Guys > > Interesting thread... I was in the process of splitting my single > Linux box into two linux boxes, so I could at least back up one to > another nightly... When the primary disk in it went North. > > Good News: My Slimserver Library is on the good disk & I just backed up > 20 Gigs of digital photos to DVD... > Bad News: The other disk had another 60Meg of everything else I had > ever wanted to keep on it: Videos, Kids' GCSE course work & other > life-limiting-if-you-lose-it data... > > Anyone know any decent software which might be able to analyse & > extract data from the bad disk? It seems mechanically OK, but has lost > ALL the Superblock backups & possibly more. I've tried the usual CLI > utils to no avail and a free prog called TestDisk which wasn't able to > do anything for me. > > Any ideas anyone? > > Cheers There are commercial software packages that do this, even with Linux FS's, and I believe they tend to run in the $50-$100 range. I don't know how well they work. If that fails, you might try a professional data recovery service. Two excellent ones are Ontrack (ontrack.com) and Drive Savers (drivesavers.com). Downside is that these are very expensive. I'd expext $500-$2K for data recovery. One other comment-- why would you need to setup two linux boxes for drive backup purposes? I use rsnapshot (basically an elegant wrapper over rsync) to backup one drive to another drive in the same machine daily. It works beautifully. Incidentally, you can use rsnapshot to back up via ssh to remote machines as well. http://rsnapshot.org #!/ben note: I'm surprised people keep thinking RAID is for backup, when pretty much any thread or doc you read on RAID states fervently in the first paragraph "RAID IS NOT A BACKUP SYSTEM". -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver, Shoutcast and Winamp
can u desribe your setup a bit please? i know your SB is wired, but how exactly does your net work? you get DL's off of a sat dish? what speeds do you get on DL? and how do you upload, or send info back? via normal phone dial up? sat? dsl? also, who is your isp? and this is located where? -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.1 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31359 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: lesson Learned with RAID 5 Implementation
http://rsnapshot.org I love it myself :-). And I'm also using the second-disk-mounted-read-only-during-the-day approach. Additionally I started rsyncing the daily.0 to a remote machine... note: I'm surprised people keep thinking RAID is for backup, when pretty much any thread or doc you read on RAID states fervently in the first paragraph "RAID IS NOT A BACKUP SYSTEM". That's not written on that colorful, fancy Asus/Gigabyte/Younameit motherboard box. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless Running wireless and move the squeezebox from living room to garden. Playing mainly FLAC with no issues. -- RalphO RalphO's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nokia770 issue
What do you see now that enables movement between the pages of the playlists? Are there numbers like on the default skin? -- phicar2 phicar2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2146 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31958 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Crossfade help needed
Hi, Can someone clarify whether the crossfade option applies an ingoing and outgoing fade? I would rather that the incoming song be started 5 to 10 seconds before the outgoing song ends *without* adding any fades, so that the incoming song retains it's impact. regards Russ -- luga00 luga00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1938 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31975 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
