Re: [slim] Squeezebox 1 for sale in Sydney...

[Chris O'Shannassy]

   Mmm I'll be watching this, if you pull more than $500AU for it 
I'll be tempted to sell mine too, but only to part-pay for the price on sb2.
   (I got caught by the customs duty etc as well, I think I'll try and 
get the new one off a local distributor)

   Chris
Tom wrote:
Wireless Squeezebox 1 (w/newer graphic display) for sale !
After paying through the nose for UPS shipment to Oz and the obligatory
bending over for customs charges which came to over $100 AUD, I have
decided to sell my Squeezebox. The problems I'd had with lack of WPA
and skipping when playing PCM are unlikely to ever get fixed now the
new model is out...
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5758640350
Anyone?
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Re: [slim] UK shipping...

[Chris O'Shannassy]

   From looking at the images on the site, I think it's actually 
"greenscale", using a more advanced version (but the same basic physics) 
of display as in current squeezeboxen.

Chris
Nic Wardle wrote:
Hi
Let me be yet another person to congratulate SlimDevices on an excellent 
looking device!!
Its soo tempting!!
Can i just ask what would be the real world price (roughly!) if the unit was 
bought from the USA with the addition of the import duty etc (using a rough 
currency conversion of 1.9 dollars to the pound)? I have done rough maths and 
think it would be around £160. Is this way off the mark? Pre-orders are being 
taken on one of the UK sites for £199...
PS Is the grey scale display as easy to read at distance as the green one?
Thanks
Nic
(Can I get a Shetland Pony with my UK order?! :) )
 

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Re: [slim] New Squeezebox? Wireless -> Wired

[Chris O'Shannassy]

Hi;
   I thought that the wireless squeezebox was wireless only?  I know 
it's got a network plug on the back, but I always assumed it was just a 
"dummy" so that slimdevices only needed to make one case  I'm happy 
with my wireless connection (though it'd be nicer if it was 802.11G) for 
now, but how do you disable the radio and turn it into a wired 
squeezebox?  Does it just switch automatically if plugged in?

Chris
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
Buy a wired one and a wireless g adapter.  Much better and more 
reliable.  I have a wireless squeezebox, yet I still use a separate 
adapter because I like having everything running at full G speeds.

Paul
 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/28/05 7:57 PM >>>
   

Hi, 

I am thinking of purchasing a wireless squeezebox but have found that
they
are quite difficult to get hold of in the UK. When I look at the
slimdevices
website I see there is a 6-8 week wait for the wireless version. This
suggests to be that there a new version to soon be released. A retailer
in
the UK also said he suspected this assumption was also true. Slim
devices
won't tell me either way for sure. 

Does anyone know what the plan is for the new squeezebox? Will it look
massively different? Will it be much MUCH better? I want one now but
don't
know if I should wait for the new version to be released after all it
is a
lot of money that I'll be spending. 

Would be great if someone could shed some light on this matterany
ideas??
Tom 


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Re: [slim] Re: 6.0a1 Installation

[Chris O'Shannassy]

Dan Sully wrote:
* Chris O'Shannassy shaped the electrons to say...
   Okay and if anybody is interested, I also had similar problems 
with the DBI module, (and then the 1.38 version of the DBI module 
which I installed was too old, it needed the 1.46 version)
   Anyway, it's all working now.  (Hopefully, just need to wander 
over the squeezebox and check)

Chris - we try and include binary modules for the popular operating 
systems,
including Windows, OSX 10.2 and 10.3, RedHat, Debian and a more recent 
SuSE.

Unfortunately Gentoo is more of a moving target, moreso because the 
user can
(has to?) compile perl themselves, so although the major number (5.8) 
will be
the same, the architecture specific part: i686-linux, i686-linux-multi,
i686-linux-thread, etc can change with many variations.

-D
   That's alright.  When I realised what the problem was I understood 
the size of the issue You can't provide all the perl modules for 
_every_ version of Perl in the download, that'd be silly.  Maybe listing 
somewhere in the installation.txt file that it needs modules X and XX as 
well as Perl would be nice though?
   Anyways, it's all working fine now, so I'm happy. (grin)

Chris
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Re: [slim] 6.0a1 Installation

[Chris O'Shannassy]

   Okay and if anybody is interested, I also had similar problems with 
the DBI module, (and then the 1.38 version of the DBI module which I 
installed was too old, it needed the 1.46 version)
   Anyway, it's all working now.  (Hopefully, just need to wander over 
the squeezebox and check)

Chris
Chris O'Shannassy wrote:
Hi;
   Your comments are true enough, and I've now installed this extra 
module, and am up and running.  Hey, at least I know a _little_ more 
about perl now  A couple of comments on the installation though:

   I was already running perl 5.8.5, the installation requirements for 
slimserver were only asking for >= 5.6 so I figured I was good.
   Maybe any extra Perl modules which aren't part of a basic perl 
install should be included in the slimserver archive?
   Mmm, okay I just looked and they already are, just not for my 
version of perl.  Okay not sure on the solution to that one.

   And kdf:  I'm running gentoo linux, and no it's never caused 
problems before, but  I only really have one version of Perl 
(5.8.5), it was just some sloppy housekeeping on my part (directories 
for the older versions still there but without full versions of perl 
inside them).

Thanks
Chris
Jason Holtzapple wrote:
Chris O'Shannassy wrote:
Hi;
   Hopefully this can just be chalked up to my extremely limited 
knowledge of perl & slimserver, but the "alpha" version of six isn't 
working for me.   I've currently just extracted the files under my 
home account (don't want to mess with my functioning version) and am 
getting the following message when trying to start the server:

It sounds like you need to install Compress::Zlib from CPAN ...
./slimserver.pl --daemon
Can't locate auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix in @INC

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Re: [slim] Need advice on housing 30K of songs

[Chris O'Shannassy]

You're not copying the whole collection across each week are you? Just 
syncing the two? (rsync or something else...) It should only take a few 
hours the first time, after that it'll depend on how much has changed 
but I'd be surprised if it took more than a few minutes.

Chris
Carl Maskelyne wrote:
I have 40k at MP3 128-320kbs very quick on iTunes (1 hr scan). Slim 
server takes 1 1/2 hrs to scan.

Backup solution – firewire drive that I copy to once a week and take 
into the office to use there.

The copying of this much data will take a good few hours but this 
solution work quite well.

Make sure you have an SATA drive or SCSI on IDE you could multiply the 
iTune times by a factor of 2-4.

Re DVD – guess it depends if he wants the convenience of all the music 
easily accessible in one place or the quality and cost.

If money is no object a big box with loads of scsi drives and lossless 
compression would be the best solution.

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*From:* Dave Strickler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* 25 February 2005 03:36
*To:* discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
*Subject:* Re: [slim] Need advice on housing 30K of songs
I have put over 8k sounds under iTunes and saw sluggishness as the XML 
database that it had to keep up was getting quite large. I imagine 
your 30k of songs will push it to the limit, but I don't know for sure.

Advice: Get a fast hard drive and lots of RAM for use as the O/S tries 
to cache the writes.

Dave Strickler
Mailwise LLC
617 267-0044 x810
www.mailwise.com 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/24/2005 7:47:01 PM >>>
Can anyone give me any tips on dealing with 30k or so worth of songs?
I have a client who has a HUGE CD collection and wants to take the cream
of the crop and put them on a 250gig or 300gig HD for his listening
pleasure.
I'm hoping the 6.0 release will ease up the time it takes to search and
generate large playlists. Is there any danger of filling the disc that
contains the music library, yes we're using iTunes, completely? Does the
slimserver need space to store data?
Will I need to even use the iTunes library with 6.0? It seems like the
slimserver will have its own db of songs, no?
Thanks,
Chris
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Re: [slim] 6.0a1 Installation

[Chris O'Shannassy]

Hi;
   Your comments are true enough, and I've now installed this extra 
module, and am up and running.  Hey, at least I know a _little_ more 
about perl now  A couple of comments on the installation though:

   I was already running perl 5.8.5, the installation requirements for 
slimserver were only asking for >= 5.6 so I figured I was good.
   Maybe any extra Perl modules which aren't part of a basic perl 
install should be included in the slimserver archive?
   Mmm, okay I just looked and they already are, just not for my 
version of perl.  Okay not sure on the solution to that one.

   And kdf:  I'm running gentoo linux, and no it's never caused 
problems before, but  I only really have one version of Perl 
(5.8.5), it was just some sloppy housekeeping on my part (directories 
for the older versions still there but without full versions of perl 
inside them).

Thanks
Chris
Jason Holtzapple wrote:
Chris O'Shannassy wrote:
Hi;
   Hopefully this can just be chalked up to my extremely limited 
knowledge of perl & slimserver, but the "alpha" version of six isn't 
working for me.   I've currently just extracted the files under my 
home account (don't want to mess with my functioning version) and am 
getting the following message when trying to start the server:

It sounds like you need to install Compress::Zlib from CPAN ...
./slimserver.pl --daemon
Can't locate auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix in @INC
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[slim] 6.0a1 Installation

[Chris O'Shannassy]

Hi;
   Hopefully this can just be chalked up to my extremely limited 
knowledge of perl & slimserver, but the "alpha" version of six isn't 
working for me.   I've currently just extracted the files under my home 
account (don't want to mess with my functioning version) and am getting 
the following message when trying to start the server:

./slimserver.pl --daemon
Can't locate auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix in @INC (@INC contains: 
/home/gzisper/SlimServer_v2005-02-23 
/home/gzisper/SlimServer_v2005-02-23/CPAN 
/home/gzisper/SlimServer_v2005-02-23/CPAN/arch/5.8.5/i686-linux 
/home/gzisper/SlimServer_v2005-02-23/CPAN/arch/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto 
/home/gzisper/SlimServer_v2005-02-23/CPAN/arch/5.8/i686-linux 
/home/gzisper/SlimServer_v2005-02-23/CPAN/arch/5.8/i686-linux/auto 
/home/gzisper/SlimServer_v2005-02-23/CPAN/arch/i686-linux /etc/perl 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5 
/usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux .) at 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/AutoLoader.pm line 160.
at /home/gzisper/SlimServer_v2005-02-23/CPAN/Compress/Zlib.pm line 16

Is there something blatant that I'm missing or is this a "bug"?  Or at 
least a requirement for more info in the installation.txt file?

Chris
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