[slim] SBC Show Year with Albums
In SqueezeCenter settings, I have the option for "Show Year with Albums" enabled. This works great on the web interface, as the year is now displayed next to the album title. Is there a way to create this same effect on the Duet Controller? It would be nice when browsing by albums to have the album year appear next to the album title. Thanks for the help. Pat -- musictappy musictappy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51394 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC 7.1, MusicIP headless and album art
Shouldn't make any difference. You're using MiP pretty much the same way I do and I get album art. Have a look at the Wiki entry in my signature and see if there's something we've overlooked/ forgotten. -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys can be taught to cut code, and world peace is utterly unrealistic... Integrating MusicIP with SqueezeCenter...'*here's how*' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Integrating_MusicIP_with_SqueezeCenter). egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51328 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Volume drops.
Thanks, I upgraded to 7.2 and volume issues went away! Life is good -- geodezic geodezic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13396 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50808 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC 7.1, MusicIP headless and album art
My cover art, folder.jpg in each album folder, has been in place for some time. I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but I am running headless with its default cache location and do scans solely using the web interface after having archived analysis tags using genpuid. I haven't used the MiP GUI at all. -- haylo75 haylo75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7266 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51328 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slightly OT: Tripath out of business?
Mark Lanctot;331557 Wrote: > and Google can't find any alternatives. > > Are they really gone? That would be a shame. A company making > excellent, well-loved products in financial trouble. Reminds me of > IMAX. :-( Google: tripath cirrus -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51382 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet- WOL Has never worked, pls help
amcluesent;331594 Wrote: > > > No idea about SBC initiated WOL when running in hybrid mode and SBR is > the wi-fi Access Point. A god point i'm initiating wol from my SBC trough a router, maybe WOL truogh SBR does not work ? anyone with such a setup and working WOL, I never tried WOL by pressing SBR's button. -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Buy non DRM FLAC music
Zunior http://www.zunior.com/ Nettwerk http://www.werkshop.com/store/home.action Magnatune http://magnatune.com/ Burningshed http://www.burningshed.com/ http://www.gimell.com/ specialist shop Hi Rez 24bit FLAC with the tallis scholars Itrax http://www.itrax.com/ but it's wav or wma lossles, but DRM free so you can convert to flac any day, this is 24bit 96kHz files Musical choice and recordings far superior to linn (imho) Then of course David Byrnes and Brian Enos latest effort http://www.everythingthathappens.com/ it's only one record but it's a realy god one, from realy good artists normally on big labels that's doing a DRM Free lossles download. I got suggestions cant the staff maintain a sticky with lossles DRM free file shop's the sticky would be in the music forum ? The Qualifier for being on the list would be exactly that DRM Free lossles files ,imho the only files worth paying for (and the only files you should pay for don't encourage DRM and lossy by paying for it, if you want the artist to have money, buy the CD and rip in these cases, If the CD is crippled with "copy protection" ? well consider other artists or download from "other" sources ;-) ) -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51383 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC Hangs Trying to List a Folder
Also, to answer radish's question, it appears that I have 47078 tracks. Code: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /storage/music $ find ./ | egrep -i '(mp3|ogg|flac)$' | wc 47078 334415 4453774 -- thread thread's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51351 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC 7.1, MusicIP headless and album art
I've got the same setup running on my NAS and my album art (folder.jpg in all cases) shows up in SC, whether via web or Controller interface. Just guessing here, but was your album art added prior to or after building the MiP cache? You could also point SC to the library and rescan, just make sure the path from SC's perspective is identical to that in MiP's cache (otherwise your library will double up). The downside is rescans will take 2x as long to run. -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys can be taught to cut code, and world peace is utterly unrealistic... Integrating MusicIP with SqueezeCenter...'*here's how*' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Integrating_MusicIP_with_SqueezeCenter). egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51328 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC 7.1, MusicIP headless and album art
The only lines in my scanner log start out with MPEG::Audio::Frame::broken. I see no mention of anything to do with cover art. -- haylo75 haylo75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7266 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51328 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
Jooseppi;331585 Wrote: > it's not logical to separate 149USD SBR and 10+kUSD Sooloos just like > that. If it wasn't, you'd just have bought this 10k+USD toy instead. Dot. FWIW, I'm running SC7 on top of a NAS whose horsepower wouldn't even compare to a Pentium machine. The web UI is too slow to be really usable/enjoyable for browsing my 10k tracks musical collection, but I just don't care since I'm using Squeezeboxen _official_ human-machine interfaces : IR-based SB remotes and SB Controller. And they are all snappy enough to my taste, thanks. Buy yourself a SB Controller (USD300), a dedicated box for running SC onto (say a USD300 EeePc), and you'll get a <1kUSD system your can fairly compare to a 10k+USD one. -- sebp System : Mac Mini for ripping to FLAC (Max) > SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 running on a ReadyNAS NV+ Living room : Squeezebox 3 > Trends Audio TA10.1 > Celestion F10 Bedroom : Squeezebox 3 > Beresford DAC > NAD C315BEE > KEF iQ3 Kitchen : SB Receiver > Logitech SoundMan X1 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/sebp) sebp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11768 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] how do you see the playlist on controller
>From the 'now playing' screen, press the center button. That should do it. -- Enoch Soames Enoch Soames's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12483 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51384 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Buy non DRM FLAC music
Is there such a thing as FLAC with DRM ? -- bonze TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3 - SqueezeCenter Version: 7.3 - 22783 3 x wireless SB3 + a Duet bonze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51383 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] ZoneAlarm spyware false positive for perl58.dll
I just discovered that ZoneAlarm Pro spyware scanner is tagging the perl58.dll file used by SlimServer 6.5.3 as a Trojan (Win32.Trojan.Dropper.Agent.sjb) and wondered if anyone else has been getting this false positive? I determined that it is a false positive because after ZA deletes the file (in the local settings/temp/PDK folder) the scan is clear. When I restart SlimServer the same file reappears and ZA tags it again. I reported the false positive to ZoneAlarm but have yet to hear back from them. This started about a week ago and a couple of other Slim users on the ZoneAlarm forums have also had the same problem. -- pipspeak pipspeak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51387 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet- WOL Has never worked, pls help
SBR wake-on-LAN certainly works from firmware 42; I can press the front panel button when blue and my Vista machine wakes from S3 and S5 (soft off). No idea about SBC initiated WOL when running in hybrid mode and SBR is the wi-fi Access Point. -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] how do you see the playlist on controller
I usually put a randomised playlist on based on a couple of albums i add in quick succession. Trouble is is that on the controller i am struggling to know where to look for what is coming up next. Anyone know how to do this? -- SoftPhill SoftPhill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13979 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51384 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
Hi, And thank you everyone. As it says in the first post, my goal was to gather information on how to make SC snappier. Many suggestions on how to make things snappier have been raised: - Install Moose (it's a great idea to develop it into touch controlled UI!) - Use a certain OS - Use remote control (however this way playlist managing and music mixing is too tough a task) - Clean up OS from unnecessary services and applications - Not yet verified, but I strongly believe that on a fast SSD things will speed up. Maybe one day I'll buy one. - Switch to other solutions (foobar, winamp, itunes), of which foobar seems the best for it's openness and potential for customization. Pale Blue Ego, it's not logical to separate 149USD SBR and 10+kUSD Sooloos just like that. Because, what can you do with a SBR? Nothing. You have to attach a computer, display device and a storage device. Those cost a lot of dough, especially if you enclose them in those fancy cases like Sooloos'. Only then you have the form and functionality somewhat comparable to the Sooloos. One shouldn't get overwhelmed by a price tag, that should be common sense in the modern era of branding and marketing. You get what you pay for (like social status or expensive ads :). -- Jooseppi Jooseppi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18815 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox Receiver Turns Itself On
Hi, Same behavior here on my reciver. Since it was mentioned that various activity may turn it on... I've considered that the planned scanning of my music libray, every night at 1:00 o'clock, might turn it on. -- 99-dk 99-dk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17351 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51064 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] No audio after firmware update
It's a common happening. YOU WILL MEMORIZE THE RESET COMMANDS, AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!! Other than this 'minor' annoyance, the TP is an AWESOME box! -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg - San Diego A.E.S., S.M.P.T.E., S.P.A.R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Seaberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51365 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Buy non DRM FLAC music
Linn Records, Magnatune spring to mind. -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51383 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
Pale Blue Ego;331520 Wrote: > The OP is unusual in that the WebUI is the ONLY way he can control the > player (SBR). He's using the absolute cheapest Squeezebox solution > possible, the $149 Receiver without a Controller. > > Yeah, it might be a leeetle bit unfair to expect it to perform as > snappily as the $10k+ Sooloos system. > > But still, there are things he can try. Moose and SlimRemote are > Windows programs that may perform better than the WebUI. Firefox or > Opera might be quicker than IE at rendering the web pages. A different > OS on the server, more RAM, etc. might help the performance. > Good post. I also think people (including the OP) have been too quick to rule out some kind of individual specific software interference as well, such as anti-virus, that is causing the OP to have more delay than the rest of us. That said, if I wanted to make a playlist on the fly choosing individual songs, I'm not sure I would choose SC to do it with. I would use the SB or controller directly, but that's not an option here since the OP doesn't have a controller. An alternative suggestion would be to use something else for that purpose. You can use iTunes or winamp or foobar2k or whatever suits your fancy. Heck, you can even use softsqueeze. Make the playlist there and play it in squeezecenter. Not too big a cost given the choice to forgo the normal hardware solution. -- lanierb lanierb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5566 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonic Impact T-Amp - comments?
raven22;331534 Wrote: > I have a Trend audio TA-10.1 which is i guess about the same. I have it > on sensitive speakers and it can produce quite high volume levels > without any problems. I have one too in the bedroom. Unbelievable quality for the money. -- autopilot *Server:* SC7.1b (Windows Vista 64) *Players:* Squeezebox 3 (main room) / Squeezebox Receiver (bedroom) / Softsqueeze (office). *Amps:* Cambridge Audio 640a (main room) / Trends TA10.1 Class-T / Logitech 5.1. *Speakers:* Mission 701's (living room) / Kef Cresta 1's (bedroom) / Logitech 5.1's. *Remotes:* Harmony One (IR) / 1 Beta SB Controller / 1 Official SB Controller. 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/domrevans/) autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51372 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Buy non DRM FLAC music
Where's the best place to buy non DRM FLAC music on the net at a reasonable price? For the most part I still buy CDs but they just take up space since I box them up after I rip them. I used to use allofmp3 then they shut down. mp3sparks has promise but it requires some convoluted steps to fund an account. Any other choices? -- UNCMo96 UNCMo96's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11386 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51383 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Soon to be Squeezeboxer has a question.
If you use softsqueeze, you won't see the delay you see with using foobar2k to stream. For it to work, you have to have Java installed. Remote streaming works great - I'm listening to music that way right now. Mnyb hit all of the points regarding remote streaming. Specifically with your Westell Internet gateway (aka router) you have from Verizon, you will also have to adjust your firewall level in addition to port forwarding. I have experience dealing with this with my father-in-law's setup. Be default, it has the firewall set to "high", which prevents outbound traffic on non-standard ports. Port 9000 for SC falls into this category. So, in addition to port-forwarding, you will have to adjust your router's firewall by either lowering the level or creating an exception for the ports SC uses. As I recall, the Westell does not support DynDNS and you can't install 3rd party software on it. This means that you will have to note your IP address each day before you go to work and hope it doesn't change during the day. You may want to investigate putting the router into bridge mode and getting a Linksys or another brand router. My setup with verizon is that I have a modem from them which I have in bridge mode and connected to a Linksys WRT-54GS. I'm not sure how easy it is to bridge the Westell all-in-one device, but you can find info about it on the Internet. Enjoy your new SB3 when you get it!!! -- maggior Rich - Setup: 2 SB3s, 1 duet. SuSE 10.2 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.1 maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51353 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
tamanaco;331535 Wrote: > After looking at the Sooloos system I can help, but think of Moose with > an "enhanced" Touch-Screen interface. From what I can see in the video, > Moose appears to have "similar" performance. In addition to supporting a > touch screen, some enhancements to the Cover Chooser to accommodate big > fat fingers is all it needs. Maybe SD/Logitech should "consider" > acquiring Moose as an "alternate" UI. The Web UI (The so called > Universal Client) can still use some performance improvements, but I > have always been somewhat skeptical about using it as the main > "Player". When listening to music... Play, Stop, Skip and > "Select-the-track-album-or-playlist-you-want-to-play is all you really > need. Allowing anyone else access to the Web UI and its power to > reconfigure the whole system is a bit daunting. All the settings and > the distinct configurations that you can get are great, but I would not > let my wife near it. She mostly uses the SB3 remote and I think I caught > her a few times using Moose from my laptop. > > Maybe this does not belong here... but before I kill my 13 year old > nephew, I think some of the configuration options that are selectable > via the remote should be pw protected. Whenever I get visitors I have > to remove the Settings Menu from my SB3 via the Web UI for fear that > guests (specially my nephew) will start the "Rescan Music Library" > during family gatherings. He's done that twice already. I forgot to > remove the Settings Menu the last time the little rat got a hold of the > remote. I had to explain "again" to the not-so-technically-inclined > members of my family why digitizing my CDs was a good thing. I still > can hear them asking me so what happened to the music? Why does it > take so long to rescan? (Note: I use MusicIP) I see you have a CD > player, is that working? Why not play a CD? All of them with a stupid > grin on their faces and my little fffker nephew giggling > uncontrollably in a fetal position in the sofa. Get the picture? Maybe a little duct tape is in order. :) For the nephew, not the remote. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slightly OT: Tripath out of business?
I was just googling around for information about Tripath (the company that makes the "Class T" 'digital' amplifiers) when I discovered something disquieting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_T_amplifier > Despite superlative performance at low cost from the Class T approach, > financial difficulties have caused Tripath to file for Chapter 11 > bankruptcy protection on 8 February 2007. > > Tripath used to sell the amplifiers as chips, or as chipsets, to be > integrated into products by other companies in several countries. The term "used to" seems to indicate they're no longer selling these and their website address is no longer valid: http://www.tripath.com/ and Google can't find any alternatives. Are they really gone? That would be a shame. A company making excellent, well-loved products in financial trouble. Reminds me of IMAX. :-( -- Mark Lanctot "Make it so it doesn't suck" is a good design target, but hard to implement - Michael Herger Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51382 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SB Duett controller disconnects from WLAN
After 3 months of proper working my squeezebox controller disconnects from time to time from the WLAN. (I updated the squeezecenter to 7.1) A blue connect - symbol appears on the bottom of the display. When I check the IP-Adress then I always find a fantasy adress like 169.254 My network uses DHCP and adresses in the 192.168.1. - net. Some details about my network and computer: - squeezecenter 7.1 - Windows XP SP3, Firewall on with ports 3483 and 9000 free - router WRT54G3G - player firmware 35 connected via ethernet By the way, I'll find a line in the logfile each I start the squeezebox which makes me wonder: Slim::Networking::Async::DNS::init (102) Warning: No DNS servers responded, falling back to OpenDNS. Does anybody know, how can I force the controller not to change its ip-adress when playing? It's not funny and I'm thinking of going back to the good old squeezebox classic. Thx - Rich -- richohara richohara's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16942 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51377 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
tamanaco;331535 Wrote: > Maybe this does not belong here... but before I kill my 13 year old > nephew, I think some of the configuration options that are selectable > via the remote should be pw protected. Whenever I get visitors I have > to remove the Settings Menu from my SB3 via the Web UI for fear that > guests (specially my nephew) will start the "Rescan Music Library" > during family gatherings. Does the NoSetup plugin protect the Settings in the Controller as well if enabled or only via the web interface? I assume it only disables the web interface, but may be worth looking into. And spot on with the discussion of Moose - I mentioned a few posts back as a suggestion, but the OP hasn't responded yet. -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? "-Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...-" (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen) Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Home > Favorites
Thank you Michael! -- WSLam WSLam Slim Devices Transporter -> TacT RCS2.2XP (Digital Crossover and RCS) + EMM Labs DCC2 SE -> darTZeel NHB-108 Model B + Acoustic Reality eAR1001 -> Wilson Benesch Torus Infrasonic Generator + Magico Mini II 'Photos of Transporter, Inside & Out' (http://photos.lam.ws/gallery/1930618) | 'Photos of my Setup' (http://photos.lam.ws/Hi-Fi) WSLam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=830 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51340 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
After looking at the Sooloos system I can help, but think of Moose with an "enhanced" Touch-Screen interface. From what I can see in the video, Moose appears to have "similar" performance. In addition to supporting a touch screen, some enhancements to the Cover Chooser to accommodate big fat fingers is all it needs. Maybe SD/Logitech should "consider" acquiring Moose as an "alternate" UI. The Web UI (The so called Universal Client) can still use some performance improvements, but I have always been somewhat skeptical about using it as the main "Player". When listening to music... Play, Stop, Skip and "Select-the-track-album-or-playlist-you-want-to-play is all you really need. Allowing anyone else access to the Web UI and its power to reconfigure the whole system is a bit daunting. All the settings and the distinct configurations that you can get are great, but I would not let my wife near it. She mostly uses the SB3 remote and I think I caught her a few times using Moose from my laptop. Maybe this does not belong here... but before I kill my 13 year old nephew, I think some of the configuration options that are selectable via the remote should be pw protected. Whenever I get visitors I have to remove the Settings Menu from my SB3 via the Web UI for fear that guests (specially my nephew) will start the "Rescan Music Library" during family gatherings. He's done that twice already. I forgot to remove the Settings Menu the last time the little rat got a hold of the remote. I had to explain "again" to the not-so-technically-inclined members of my family why digitizing my CDs was a good thing. I still can hear them asking me… so what happened to the music? Why does it take so long to rescan? (Note: I use MusicIP) I see you have a CD player, is that working? Why not play a CD? All of them with a stupid grin on their faces… and my little fffker nephew giggling uncontrollably in a fetal position in the sofa. Get the picture? -- tamanaco tamanaco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4620 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonic Impact T-Amp - comments?
I have a Trend audio TA-10.1 which is i guess about the same. I have it on sensitive speakers and it can produce quite high volume levels without any problems. -- raven22 raven22's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51372 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] endless cycle of firmware updates
peterw;331370 Wrote: > In the years I've been using Squeezeboxes, I have never seen a newer > firmware fail to work with an older version of the server software. > Have you? I've actually rarely tried :) But there would be situations I'd expect to see problems, for example changes to sync logic, or changes to supported formats. Imagine if SC thinks an SB3 can play a specific format native (because that was just added to the fw) but in fact it can't (because it's been held back). You certainly can edit the config to hold back the version as you mention, and it'll work fine for most cases. I think it's a fair compromise to require the minority of people who want to run mismatched versions to do a little extra work so that the majority of us who don't can get automatic up/downgrades and a nice smooth experience. The really unfortunate issue (which is a relatively new problem) arises with SN having it's own version requirements. I would think some work could go into making SN more tolerant of fw versions a few iterations each side of "ideal". -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51310 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonic Impact T-Amp - comments?
I guess it depends on what you mean by "very loud" and "medium to large"! I run a gen 2 T-amp into a pair of regular bookshelf speakers. The room is a fairly standard sized bedroom, something like 12'x14' and I've never tried turning it to max, it'd be too loud. I wouldn't expect the same setup to work well in my living room which is three times the size (and with high ceilings). -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51372 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
Jooseppi;331499 Wrote: > > I can understand this argument only to some degree. Mostly I don't. Why > should we see things so categorically? As if there were no options or > alternatives. Jooseppi, you have been more than kindly received on this forum. Enough is enough. Have you nothing to offer but whinges? Telling us all ad infinitum that we should shoot for the stars might amuse you, but it is bugger all use - unless perhaps as a trolling device. If your contributions were the latter, then I trust you enjoyed yourself. -- kesey kesey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
The OP is unusual in that the WebUI is the ONLY way he can control the player (SBR). He's using the absolute cheapest Squeezebox solution possible, the $149 Receiver without a Controller. Yeah, it might be a leeetle bit unfair to expect it to perform as snappily as the $10k+ Sooloos system. But still, there are things he can try. Moose and SlimRemote are Windows programs that may perform better than the WebUI. Firefox or Opera might be quicker than IE at rendering the web pages. A different OS on the server, more RAM, etc. might help the performance. The performance is much quicker using the Controller or the SB3 + IR remote. The WebUI can be slow, depending on a lot of different factors, but since it isn't the standard way most people control the player, the issue is much less relevant for them. Anyway, good luck! -- 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=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Don't do this if you use Rhapsody.....
You can do something like this, I think, by using multiple accounts, but it costs more. -- FredFredrickson FredFredrickson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16584 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51321 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Sonic Impact T-Amp - comments?
I need a portable amp for my Squeezebox and have an opportunity to purchase this "SonoSonic Sonic Impact T-Amp Amplifier by SonoCable" for a resonable price. is it my best choice? no volume control (on Squeezebox) and only rated at 9 watts into 4 ohms and 6 watts into 8ohms should be enough to power 90db sensitive speakers to very loud levels in medium to large sized rooms?? http://www.sonocable.com/images/product_sonic1.jpg are there better options? also considering Gen 2 T-Amp and an Audiosource Amp100 Thanks -- duke2555 duke2555's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51372 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain
mark95841;331336 Wrote: > If dbpoweramp was free I would not cringe every time you have > recommended dbpoweramp, which you have done in at least 10 different > responses I have seen so far but you really come off like you are > getting commission from these guys for your constant recommendation. > Recommend some free programs once in while since dbpoweramp is not the > only choice out there or necessarily the best for everything...please. > : ) Why would you cringe if someone recommends a program that's not free but works very well (and let's be realistic, the ultimate version is still only $36). I'm all for free programs and have a lot of respect for people who make them. I make scripts and small programs for a totally different area and they're free. But it is perfectly reasonable to ask money for so excellent a program as dbPoweramp. When I started ripping I tried EAC. Although the results were good, I found the program a real PITA to use. I the tried dbPoweramp: it just did what it was supposed to do. Much faster and more intuitive than EAC and with more functionality. So I never looked back, even when the price increased slightly with the release of version 13. Teus -- Teus de Jong Teus de Jong's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15415 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
Is this thread actually going anywhere or is it just flamebait? :s -- cparker www.spicefly.com - Visit for an enhanced Interface for MusicIP and integration tips and tricks, Plugin coding tips and Spicefly SugarCube the MIP AutoDJ plugin! cparker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2083 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet- WOL Has never worked, pls help
can anyone please help me? WOL doesn't work. thanks -- renkwist renkwist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19187 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
Many responses here have followed this structure: "If one wants Sooloos-like operability one goes and buys it. Can't afford? Boohoo, don't complain." I can understand this argument only to some degree. Mostly I don't. Why should we see things so categorically? As if there were no options or alternatives. "Slim Devices know what they're doing, they have provided a finalized product here to our hands and they don't have to follow the competition". What good could follow from that kind of encouragement? The (technical) competition being in a tenfold price category will not restrain from reaching or getting close to it, only one's lack of ambition or dare will. We don't know where the Sooloos' high premium goes to. How much goes to marketing, design or taking back initial funding? Only a small fraction might go to technical R&D. And since SD operates in an open ideology, a whole lot of priceless equity is tied to SD development. Overall I see it as lack of imagination and courage to disregard a product simply for its price tag. And if one is satisfied and happy with one's current SD setup, why not be just that, happy and satisfied, instead of implying there isn't space or right to investigate for something more? -- Jooseppi Jooseppi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18815 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Jamacian guy?
By senior I meant senior members on this forum, I have by mysterious workings reached some kind of senior status but i'm 6 years and 10k post behind most people here, and don't contribute to the product. Otherwise I'm probably just as "senior" as many here I remember life without cellphones and internet, I remember video stores with both beta and vhs tapes :-) -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51322 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] extra squeezeboxes use loads of server CPU even when on standby!?
mplayer taking 80% on a 500MHz processor sounds too high. I had mplayer taking 80% on a 266MHz ARM processor. Are you transcoding into RTSP into Flac or MP£ as well ? Does mplayer have the fixed point patch ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51368 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SC Hangs Trying to List a Folder
Did a full rescan last night. I still have the same problem this morning. Here's the output hickinbottoms requested: therver mysql # df -h . FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 12G 6.0G 4.5G 57% / therver mysql # du -hs squeezecenter/ 224Ksqueezecenter/ therver mysql # ls -lh . total 242M drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 4.0K Sep 17 2007 ampache drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 4.0K Jun 20 2007 aoss_development -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 5.0M Aug 22 08:07 ib_logfile0 -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 5.0M Aug 21 23:29 ib_logfile1 -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 128M Aug 22 08:07 ibdata1 drwx-- 2 mysql root 4.0K Apr 22 2007 mysql -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 2.0K Aug 10 20:05 mysqld-bin.01 -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 104M Aug 21 23:30 mysqld-bin.02 -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 2.3K Aug 12 21:29 mysqld-bin.03 -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 607K Aug 12 21:29 mysqld-bin.04 -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 80 Aug 12 21:29 mysqld-bin.index drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 12K Aug 12 21:41 mythconverg drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 12K Jun 14 2007 rose3 drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 4.0K Aug 21 23:16 squeezecenter drwx-- 2 mysql root 4.0K Aug 12 21:29 test drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 4.0K May 25 14:14 threadbox drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 4.0K May 6 2007 torrentflux therver mysql # ls -lh squeezecenter/ total 220K -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 9.0K Aug 11 19:09 albums.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.5K Aug 11 19:09 comments.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.5K Aug 11 19:09 contributor_album.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.5K Aug 11 19:09 contributor_track.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.7K Aug 11 19:09 contributors.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 61 Aug 11 19:03 db.opt -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 385 Aug 11 19:04 dbix_migration.MYD -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 2.0K Aug 12 21:04 dbix_migration.MYI -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.4K Aug 11 19:04 dbix_migration.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.4K Aug 11 19:09 genre_track.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.6K Aug 11 19:09 genres.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.4K Aug 11 19:04 metainformation.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.5K Aug 11 19:09 playlist_track.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.5K Aug 11 19:09 pluginversion.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.7K Aug 11 19:04 progress.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.6K Aug 11 19:04 rescans.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 14K Aug 11 19:09 tracks.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.7K Aug 11 19:04 tracks_persistent.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.5K Aug 11 19:09 unreadable_tracks.frm -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 8.4K Aug 11 19:09 years.frm therver mysql # -- thread thread's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51351 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain
liffy99;331420 Wrote: > Think I follow that CliveB, but take the following; > 1 track is recorded with peaks at full volume. 0db (there may be > clipping that was introduced in the mastering process which we are > powerless to correct). > 2nd track peaks at -4db. > So whu can't track 2 be amplified (normalised ?) to reach 0db peaks ? In principle it can. If you're using ReplayGain, and if the calculated perceived loudness of track 2 (according to its average loudness) was less than the reference level, then you'd get a positive ReplayGain setting, which would indeed cause a volume boost. Let's take this step by step: 1. ReplayGain analyses the tracks and determines what their perceived loudness will be. 2. It has a "reference" loudness. In principle you can set the reference level to whatever you like. There is a default level[1] that was chosen because it's a reasonable compromise. 3. If the analysed track is louder than the reference level, a negative ReplayGain tag is added. If the track is quieter than the reference level, a positive[2] ReplayGain tag is added. [1] The default is a specific level relative to pink noise at -20dBFS, and is somewhat confusingly referred to as "89dB". (I believe this is because in professional cinema installations this particular level will play at 89dB SPL - at what distance from the speakers I know not). [2] Note that there is currently an outstanding bug concerning the Squeezebox's handling of positive ReplayGain settings. See here for the gory details: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5119 liffy99;331420 Wrote: > Talking of normalising - is this a good thing to do when ripping ? No. Normalisation applies a linear amplitude change, as does ReplayGain. If you use the latter, there's no point in doing the former, and if you *do* apply normalisation when ripping then you're permanently changing the audio data in an irreversible way. ReplayGain operates on playback so it's far more benign. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] extra squeezeboxes use loads of server CPU even when on standby!?
Update: It isn't as simple as that. An extra squeezebox does not always cause excess CPU usage: I just had two sychronised playing the same AlienBBC stream, with reasonable performance, and after unsychronising and putting one on standby the other is still playing fine. I'll do some more investigation to try and work out more specifically what circumstances lead to the problem. Cheers, Ben -- amorphia amorphia's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14363 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51368 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Jamacian guy?
Seems there are already too many flame wars revolving around audio and squeezecenter, let alone sports and politics! -- Skunk http://www.last.fm/user/TheSkunk/ Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51322 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] extra squeezeboxes use loads of server CPU even when on standby!?
Hi all, I'm running Squeezecenter 7.0 on a QNAP TS-109, till recently with just the one Squeezebox. AlienBBC runs OK like this although it is pushing the QNAP's CPU close to the limit, because of the resource-hungry mplayer which AlienBBC uses. I've just got a second squeezebox for another room, and I am rather frustrated to find out that having the extra squeezebox attached seems to cause Squeezecenter itself to use a lot more CPU, even when that Squeezebox is on standby. It's difficult to be precise because the CPU usage oscillates a lot, but (from looking at top, the linux cpu monitor) I would estimate that with just one squeezebox on the network, mplayer uses about 80% CPU, perl (in otherwords slimserver) about 10%, and AlienBBC runs fine. Having an extra squeezebox on, even in standby, causes perl to run at around 40%, pushing mplayer down to 50%, and causing a lot of stutter. Surely a standby squeezebox shouldn't be straining the server like this? The workaround is obviously to unplug the unused squeezeboxes but that interferes with the whole music on demand experience which is otherwise working so nicely. Much appreciation for any ideas about what I can do! Cheers, Ben -- amorphia amorphia's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14363 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51368 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain
schiegl;331322 Wrote:
> This piece of code from ReplayGain.pm is responsible for smartgain (and
> similar applies to smart-crossfade)
>
> >
Code:
> >
> if (defined $album->replay_gain() && ($class->trackAlbumMatch($client, -1)
|| $class->trackAlbumMatch($client, 1))) {
> return $album->replay_gain();
> }
> return $track->replay_gain();
>
> >
>
> 1. Check if album-rg is set, if not use track-gain. Therefore always
> use album-rg if you intend to use smartgain. You should set it to
> +0.0db otherwise trackgain will be used, which is probably wrong.
>
> 2. Check if the previous OR the following title is from the same
> album. If it is, use album-rg otherwise use track-rg. It has nothing
> to do with how many tracks from the same album are in your playlist,
> just what comes next or what was before.
>
> kind regards,
> Markus
So if the next song is from the same album then it uses album gain?
Like I said I wasn't quite sure how it determined to use album gain.
This is good to know. Thanks
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Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain
mark95841;331336 Wrote: > If dbpoweramp was free I would not cringe every time you have > recommended dbpoweramp, which you have done in at least 10 different > responses I have seen so far but you really come off like you are > getting commission from these guys for your constant recommendation. > Recommend some free programs once in while since dbpoweramp is not the > only choice out there or necessarily the best for everything...please. > : )I'm also glad that this is the only thing you got out my post. I was trying to help someone not sell them something, as the foobar reference shows. Critics always know best. I also recommend Mediamonkey. Now that's a tough one. It can be free and works well but you can also pay for it and get added stuff you may or may not need. Can I still do that one? Please... -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iTunes Playlists Aren't Complete
Where is your iTunes XML library file located? Also is your music folder on the same machine as hosting SS/SC? Where was the IP conflict exactly? iTunes is a bit of a pain... if you have it set to 'keep my library organized' it'll blank things out if your music folder is offline, disconnected etc. So, SS/SC rescanned your music folder, but perhaps used a 'stale' iTunes XML file, or couldn't find it at all. HTH! Allan. -- alZmtbr alZmtbr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8773 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51357 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain
liffy99;331420 Wrote: > Think I follow that CliveB, but take the following; > 1 track is recorded with peaks at full volume. 0db (there may be > clipping that was introduced in the mastering process which we are > powerless to correct). > 2nd track peaks at -4db. > So whu can't track 2 be amplified (normalised ?) to reach 0db peaks ? > > Talking of normalising - is this a good thing to do when ripping ? > > Many thanks If I understand you the reason is you want the differences between tracks to remain as intended. Some tracks are soft and some are loud, that it why you want album gain when listening to an album as it maintains the original differences in the tracks. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain
mark95841;331336 Wrote: > If dbpoweramp was free I would not cringe every time you have > recommended dbpoweramp, which you have done in at least 10 different > responses I have seen so far but you really come off like you are > getting commission from these guys for your constant recommendation. > Recommend some free programs once in while since dbpoweramp is not the > only choice out there or necessarily the best for everything...please. > : )Sorry I just really like it and if you read all my posts you will realize that I recommend mp3tag all the time also. If it bugs you so much just skip my posts. And you can use quite a bit of dbpoweramp without buying it I think. I use it, and I like it and recommend it. I don't get a kickback or anything but usually I tell people that have a reason to know about it. I also tell them that EAC is very good if they want a free one. If you want to repost and chew me out for telling everyone about mp3tag then go ahead. But I forget, that's free. So as long as it's free you won't cringe. I'll try to follow your posting guidelines. Thanks. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Jamacian guy?
Not sure if I'm more offended by being described as Senior or as a Geek. Although come to think of it, I probably can't defend myself against either of those accusations. At least I don't look older than Phil Meyer does. Just look at our avatar pictures :) -- Skittler Dave. SB3 --> Cyrus 8vs --> PMC FB1 Duet --> AudioEngine A2 Skittler's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11280 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51322 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
Siduhe;331239 Wrote: > I should start by saying that I think these threads are interesting and > the discussions worth having - there are enough people who have this > immediate reaction that it's clearly an issue for some. However, it's > very different from my own experience. > > I run SC on an old Windows PC (XP SP3) but it's pretty much a dedicated > server (I also use it to rip and store my music and photos/videos, so > there's attendant software for those things too) as well as ESET > Security software. Doesn't have a high end spec, but has 1gb of RAM so > it's not exactly underpowered. > > SC is blistering fast on my setup despite a library of 10,000k+ tracks > - the reaction from the web interface is easily sub one second unless > I'm doing a MusicIP mix which probably takes about two. > > I always put it down to the fact that: > > a)I don't use the box SC is installed on for anything else; > > b)I have stripped out some of the XP bells and whistles (graphics and > animated menus for example); > > c) My Squeezeboxes are wireless, but the SC box is wired to my router > (only one wireless hop); > > d) I have the server priority set to above average in SC so even if I'm > doing something else on the box, SC should take priority. > > None of which necessarily answers the points made in the OP's original > post, but may give him some ideas how to improve your experience given > the current software. Also, if you're running XP, have you looked at > the Moose front end for Windows - lots of people who have problems with > the web interface say it runs a lot faster for them. Search for Dr > Lovegrove and Moose in the search engine of your choice. Nice post Siduhe. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
Jooseppi;331176 Wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> And first of all thank you for the many replies and understanding
> attitude. Many times if you post something with a negative undertone
> ("I'm not satisfied") to a dedicated forum, you most often end up with
> emotional defensive attacks from them so called fanboys.
>
> Anyway. What I've gathered so far, the lack of that last bit of
> snappiness and lightning fast speed is a result of several factors.
> Maybe these are some of them?
> - Software side is an open system that has to work in conjunction with
> who knows how many applications (AV, FW and so forth) and who knows how
> badly maintained OS's
> - SC software may not be finetuned enough. Some reference to this might
> be in the way SC uses memory, which is a lot IMHO. I wouldnt mind the
> memory hogging if it resulted in super snappy operation. I can
> understand that money dominates business and that modern cheap ram is a
> far more economical solution than hiring developers. But isnt there a
> line to be drawn somewhere? To be honest, SC is only a simplified
> server and an audio streamer. Following this cheap ram stick ideology,
> the developers have only some responsibility over software, the rest is
> laid upon users.
> - The software is web browser based. Why was that decision taken in the
> past? I can see it is a globally compatible solution and it helps with
> networking but is browser-based really the best way to do it?
>
> Please bare in mind that I do not have deep knowledge over SC or
> coding. I may well have wrong ideas on some matters.
>
> What I'm still trying to comprehend is how it can take so long (some
> seconds is too much) to display a pre-indexed list of a given number of
> albums? Let's say I have 1000 albums. All the crucial metadata has been
> indexed during the music library scanning process, right? So now, as I
> select to display for example all rock albums, which there are 100 for
> example, how can it take some seconds for them to appear on the
> display? It would be understandable if the information was gathered
> from the actual library directories but no, all the library metadata is
> indexed (right?).
>
> pimd's example of a 300-song album is great. Half a minute to display
> 300 songs! I think that is much too much.
>
> Nonreality, you said "This is on the web interface. The SB3 interface
> is very fast". With the latter, are you referring to softsqueeze
> interface or hardware interface à la remote control?
>
> Did any of you watch the youtube clip of Sooloos? Isn't that UI just
> mind blowing? Aesthetic, ultra snappy, intuitive.. truly a Human
> Interface Device.
The hardware interface with the remote is very fast for me.
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Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
Uluen;331158 Wrote: > What do you mean "network handles the database"? The db queries is done > on the SC host, it doesn't travel the network. > > I have 41K+ tracks and getting all albums from the largest genre (rock) > takes less than 3 seconds on the web UI like I said. > Searching for "a" takes 3-4 seconds, pretty impressive in my opinion. > > Can you put some numbers behind "takes forever"?What I'm saying is how the > web interface receives the info. It can hang 10 to 15 seconds sometimes and at others 2-3 seconds or less. What I'm saying is I believe that it accesses the database fast but how the browser gets the info can be slow. So the info has to travel the network to get to me on the browser. Maybe I'm explaining it right for you so sorry to upset you . -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet- WOL Has never worked, pls help
I have to now this myself if any dev can enlighten us wich meny items on the controller is supposed to wol ? i figured "turn off/on "playername" " But which else, I had to fiddle little today ? in older 7.2 it was sufficient to press "music library" or anything that required server contact to trigger this to pre -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
> Thanks, this explains a lot, although i still not quite understand it. I > now understand why Browse Music Folder is slow on the controller, but it > is also slow when i browse the other items like Albums. That's not normal (thus a different issue). > Is the UI of the controller different from a Web UI? i always thought Of course it does. And it should be faster than the web UI, as SC doesn't have to prepare the bulky web page. > of the Controller as a small linux computer with some sort of > webinterface to the server. It's not a web interface running on the controller. It's using a much more efficient protocol to talk to the server. > My hardware is indeed quite old /slow. It's a Pentium II 733mhx / 256 No race horse. I guess it might be a bit short on memory, too. Mine's not that much faster (Via C3/1GHz, 1GB RAM), but using the controller is very snappy. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] No audio after firmware update
> After an auto firmware update mid-week, my Transporter has no output. Try to reprogram the xilinx (whatever :-)): press and hold "1" while you're rebooting the transporter. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
Thanks, this explains a lot, although i still not quite understand it. I now understand why Browse Music Folder is slow on the controller, but it is also slow when i browse the other items like Albums. Is the UI of the controller different from a Web UI? i always thought of the Controller as a small linux computer with some sort of webinterface to the server. My hardware is indeed quite old /slow. It's a Pentium II 733mhx / 256 MB. -- pimd pimd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19488 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] No audio after firmware update
After an auto firmware update mid-week, my Transporter has no output. Everything appears to be functioning. The display changes tracks, counts elapsed time, etc. but there is no sound from Internet Radio, my ReadyNAS server or any digital inputs. Suggestions, please? Al Jones -- Al Jones Al Jones's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19506 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51365 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Protection agains selecting over x songs
If I select my entire collection to play at random it makes a playlist of some 17,000 songs - takes _a_few_minutes_ to generate, but once done it works fine, so it should be fine for 1,000. -- 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=51363 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
> I have to add that in my case only the Controller is slow. When i use what hardware are you running your SC on? This is a known issue with slower hardware (can literally take minutes on really slow hardware and largish collections): http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9069 > the webinterface this album displays fast enough. Even on my simple > mobile phone it is quite fast so i don't beleive the problem is on the > server-side or with my network. It is: when displaying the web UI or (even faster!) the SB3's player UI only a few (or one on the player) item is analyzed at a time. On Controller it's all the items in your folder at a time. In my case the Controller might be around 400x slower to show the first item than the player UI, because I have around 400 folders at the top level. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun
pimd;331127 Wrote: > I agree that the system can be very slow sometimes. To a point where it > is annoying. > I have an album containing about 300 songs (top40 1966). It takes > almost half a minute to display the songs of that album on my SC. The > same when i browse the files using Folder display. > For normal albums with 10-20 tracks the speed is usually ok. > 300 songs may not be a problem for a database like MySQL so I believe > that the software is not completely finetuned. At the moment i have 97 > albums and about 1500 songs in my collection. I have to add that in my case only the Controller is slow. When i use the webinterface this album displays fast enough. Even on my simple mobile phone it is quite fast so i don't beleive the problem is on the server-side or with my network. The Controller still takes ages. I tested this album again this morning and again it took about 30 seconds. -- pimd pimd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19488 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Squeezebox controller and wifi roaming
Hi, I've recently installed a Duet at a friend's house and, in the main, all is well and he's very pleased except for one small problem. He lives in an old house with thick walls and his wifi reception isn't great so he has more than one wireless access point. They are both setup with the same ssid and WPA key but different channels (fairly wide apart). The problem comes when the Controller is connected to one access point and he moves to another part of the house where the signal strengths change and the Controller switches to the second access point (it shows the strength meter moving from low to high). When this happens, he gets a 'Connecting please wait' message on the Controller screen that never goes away. If he switches it off and on again it connects happily and works fine. So, the question is; should this work? I guess that the problem is the Controller has established a connection to the server which all goes wrong when it disconnects and reconnects to the network. I've not tried using a different SSID etc on the access points - does anyone have this sort of configuration? Any help here would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Install details - Linux server (Ubuntu, 2.6.24-19 kernel), Squeezecenter 7.1 - 22170, Receiver - Firmware 36 (using wired ethernet and not acting as an access point). Can't get access to the Controller version remotely but it updated itself after install so I guess it's the latest. -- bigbill bigbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19505 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51364 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Protection agains selecting over x songs
When a user selects more than 1000 songs or so, usually by mistake, the server will be unresponsive due to 100% cpu for hours even though you have a very fast computer. The funny thing is that if I restart the server the playlist still has to be populated with the thusands of songs which makes it unresponive right from the start. Plese correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what happens for me here right now :-) I'd like a setting where you can set a max amount of songs to add to the playlist or another good idea that prevent the server to be unresponsive. I'm not sure how the threading exactly works in squeeze center but I hope that things like adding 1 songs to a playlist is on a very low prioritized thread and that features that require fast response times lies in a thread with higher priority. Well, I just wanted to start a discussion regarding this pretty important matter. -- joggs joggs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18947 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51363 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain
Think I follow that CliveB, but take the following; 1 track is recorded with peaks at full volume. 0db (there may be clipping that was introduced in the mastering process which we are powerless to correct). 2nd track peaks at -4db. So whu can't track 2 be amplified (normalised ?) to reach 0db peaks ? Talking of normalising - is this a good thing to do when ripping ? Many thanks -- liffy99 liffy99's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7832 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain
liffy99;331234 Wrote: > So still not sure why record levels are being reduced, though I see the > lure of trying to get albums to sound equally loud at their loudest > points - why not raise the quieter ones to the same level as RHCP (any > compression in the mastering will still be unalterable). I suspect that you may be confused over what factors are involved in the perceived loudness of a track. It is important to appreciate that the loudness of a track is not due to its peak level, but to its average level. Suppose you have a track that sounds quiet (because it has a low average level) but which peaks at the maximum possible. You can't increase its playback level without either: (a) clipping off the peaks; or (b) compressing its dynamic range. Both operations will introduce distortion. Therefore it is necessary instead to reduce the loud tracks. This is a simple linear volume adjustment, and causes no distortion. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Duet SC: option music folder has gone
I just did an update of my Squeezebox Controller and since then I can no longer browse the directories of my music library with it. Under the Music Library tab I now only have the options artists, albums, years, genres, but no longer the choice music folder. Is this a bug of the last update? Jan -- Jan24 Jan24's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19504 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51362 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet- WOL Has never worked, pls help
Cant help you with Vista thoose who can would probably like know exactly which hardware you have especially the network card ( NIC ) and motherboard and BIOS. What I do know is that only the latest 7.2 (maybe also 7.3) has a working bugg free wol function, it was disabled in 7.01 , it needed more work. Some 7.1 betas had it not sure about the oficial 7.1 , but oficial 7.22 is soon here so.. -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
