[slim] Re: Transporter - its even made BBC News this morning!
radish Wrote: That article also lets slip another detail which was discussed a while ago - Slim's sales figures. The article states they have almost 50k customers, if we assume an average of 2 players per customer we get 100k players sold. I don't reckon two players per buyer is a reasonable average. I've only got one. Would love five, but can only afford one. I reckon most punters would buy one. So I'm picking the average is more like 1.1 - 1.2. Anyone taking bets on this? -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25787 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Another Wireless Connection Problem
DaveB Wrote: Equipment SB3 with firmware V55 Speedtouch wireless router 716WL Linksys Range expander WRE54G The music server has a wired connection to the router which then communicates (wirelessly) via the range expander to the SB. The problem I am experiencing is that (randomly) the connection will abruptly drop. There is no break up as I would expect for marginal signal strength. Just a a complete stop. The track will restart if the play button is pressed on the remote. The drop outs will be anything from 5mins to a day apart. No problems when used wired. Can anyone offer any advice please. Is your SB a long way from the wireless router? Try putting it close and see if the problem persists. You might be at the limit of your reception area. -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25802 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: server database is case sensitive and that's bad. read why.
I'm a late responder to this thread, but here goes: funkahdafi Wrote: I don't have the time. I want to listen to my music, not do some geek tech stuff. Then listen to it! And don't panic if the songs don't appear exactly as you want. The time required to fix your faulty data would be far less than moaning about it in this forum. My tags are all right enough to contain the right artist/album/title information. Some of them have mixed up capitalizations for which I couldn't care less. Because David Bowie IS DAVID BOWIE, and his album hErOes IS his album Heroes. Period. No matter what tech geeks will tell me about this. Ahh but there's the rub. You don't care about capitalisation. But others probably do. For them, hErOes is hErOes, not Heroes, not heroes and not HEROES. If a piece of software is treating the same artist or the same album as multiple artists/albums, because the caps are different on some tracks, then (and please excuse my language) this software is too stupid to follow human thinking logic.No, it's too stupid to follow your logic. Nothing wrong with that. But don't let your enjoyment of music be spoiled by something as insignificant as this, especially when there is a perfectly good solution (and one that ensures you won't have the problem again should you port your music to another player). See I do not want to adapt to how computers think. I want computers to think my way and work for me. That's what they're here for. It's not the other way around (aka spending months of time fixing tags). No offense. None taken. I've got around 10,000 songs but I can assure you I haven't spent months cleaning them up. Look there is always a certain amount of fixing to do. It all comes back to the person who created the freedb record. Try ripping classical music or music by non-English speaking artists. It's practically a dead cert that you'll have to edit the tags in those cases. For me as a human being with some logic in thinking, David Bowie IS the same as DAVID BOWIE, no matter what anyone tells me. And if Slimserver makes his single album Heroes into two different albums, because one of the tracks has the album tag heRoEs, then Slimserver plain and simple sucks. Slimserver isn't making the album into two different albums - your ripping process is. Fix that! Come on, it's an easy fix - select all the songs in the album in a tagger, and set the Album name to hErOes or Heroes or whatever you want, and it will write the change to all files. If your slimserver is set to automatically re-scan, that's all you have to do. Cheers, Ian -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24093 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] My dream: SB in my car
Hi all What I love about SB is the user interface and that I don't need my CDs to listen to music. So how do I get this in my car? Michaelwagner Wrote: I think they'd be smarter to put a small (80Gb) hard disk and a slug in it and make it self-contained when taken out of wifi range. Good software that allowed you to say let me take all my beach music to the beach and then downloaded from the Terabyte store we all have ( :-) ) 80Gb of beach music and you're good to go. Same guts, different case, could go in my car. Same idea. When parked in the garage, connects via wifi (doesn't everyone have a hot spot in their garage) and downloads the latest - songs, podcasts, etc. Michael, that's exactly what I want. How cool would it be to arrive home, in-car SB automatically synchronises with home server via wireless. Is there anything like this available? Someone posted a similar question recently, but there was no answer. I also remember seeing a post from someone a while back who had custom fitted a SB, presumably some sort of computer and a wireless AP in his car. That's a lot of kit. It must be possible to build a reasonable amplifier, CD player, wireless AP, radio and say 40GB hard disk into a standard size head unit? Although this would be significantly different to the existing SB, I think it would be an excellent product. I'd definitely buy one :-) Any suggestions? Regards, Ian -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22108 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: My dream: SB in my car
bklaas Wrote: google these words: rockford fosgate omnifi slimdevices would do a much better job of it, but this product exists. here's the amazon page for it- http://tinyurl.com/fc9f5 cheers, #!/ben Thanks, that's cool. Reading through the info I agree, I think slimdevices would do a better job. Regards, Ian -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22108 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Will Squeezebox display last almost forever?
NJRonbo Wrote: I have some concerns about my Squeezebox display. I mean, this thing is displaying information all the time -- whether powered ON or with the Screensaver in the OFF mode. Then switch off your screensaver. Go into SlimServer, Player settings, and set the display to 0 (off) when the screensaver is active. Edit: oops, stuffed up the quotes. Corrected now. -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21157 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: New SB3 - Wireless Performance
Philip Meyer Wrote: Hi, However, a minute later the signal strength dropped to 2-16%. This lasted for a minute or so, then returned back to 50%. A few minutes later it dropped back down. This cycle seems to repeat. Phil I can't be sure, but I think I read on the forums once that the SB signal strength is not especially reliable. i.e. fluctuations aren't too bad. Litmus test - play some high rate music like a FLAC file for a while. If the sound drops out, problem. If it doesn't, none. -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21159 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Noise at track change since FW update for 6.2.1 on SB2
You could schedule an automatic re-scan every night in slimserver. Handy way to pick up new albums anyway. Got to SlimServer/Server Settings/Plugins. Regards, Ian -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19398 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox Or Glorified PC?
LavaJoe Wrote: Hi - yep! It's installed in the lower part of my double-DIN opening below my Kenwood head unit. See this thread that I wrote right after installing it: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17638 Ian doffs his cap to LavaJoe That is very cool. I will add that to my rainy day projects list. Just got to get a head unit with an Aux input (or maybe I can hack into the cassette unit, disable the cassette and pinch that as a source? Try that with a bloody Roku! (Or an SB3 for that matter, long live the SB2.) Regards, ian [edit, stupid typo] -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19342 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WRT54G and WPA2
dancarne Wrote: FYI, I was unable to get WPA2 to work with my Linksys WRT54G. The highest you can go is WPA1/TKIP. Just thought I'd post that so others would know. Tech Support said the issue is being worked on. Dan I've got the same router and got it going fine (until I discovered my laptop wouldn't support WPA2). I couldn't get it to connect at first, it seemed that changing the encryption method but not changing the SSID meant the SB2 retained a memory of the previous settings. I found that performing a factory reset fixed it and it then connected using WPA2 with no problems. Since then, whenever I play with my encryption method on the router, I change the SSID as well, which seems to make it easier to change on the SB (also means that if I want to revert to previous settings, just have to change the SSID again, because SB remembers the settings for that SSID. -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19305 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WRT54G and WPA2
dancarne Wrote: Hi Ian, How's the weather down under? Are you saying that a factory reset on the SB3, or on the router, will allow WPA2 to work? Cheers, Dan At the time I factory reset the SB2. Now I change the SSID if I am also changing settings on my router, and make SB2 look at the new wireless LAN. Prior to that it found my router, but didn't get a sensible IP address (should have been 192.168.1..., got something completely different) and couldn't be pinged from another computer. Resetting the SB2 seemed to clear the settings and it connected first time to the router after. Oh by the way I was using WPA2/AES, not WPA2/TKIP. Weather's great thanks, pleasant day today, about 22deg, gentle breeze. -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19305 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Helping Newbies get the most from SB2
Hi all Thanks to mherger: new thread started on this topic As a newbie I have found it quite difficult to find information on enhancements for my SB. e.g. I knew SqueezeNetwork existed but had no idea what it actually was. Beyond the forums I haven't found any documentation on it or how to use it - is any available? (For example: instructions on what buttons to press to turn off the alarm!) To date I have found out by trial error but this is quite time consuming. I appreciate this is in part a consequence of using an open source product. But I think adding a Tips page on SlimServer FAQ would be worthwhile, to help newbies make the most of their SB. I would start by including: * Popular plugins (e.g. AlienBBC) * SqueezeNetwork * Configuring Wake on LAN For each: explain what it is, why it's cool and basic pointers on configuring it with link/s to more detailed info. Most of the information on the forum is technical and presumes prior knowledge of the functionality. e.g. to facilitate Wake on LAN, it took me ages to discover that all I need to do is configure my LAN card (easy if you know...). Regards, Ian -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18899 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox3 - Complete FREAKOUT stereo damage warning
jonheal Wrote: Well, if there is a bug that could potentialy shred your speakers, whether they cost $30 or $3,000, that seems like a problem of general interest to everyone. (Butterfly wings a pretty delicate, you know.) Indeed. But it's a bug with, to date, no concrete analysis and no similar reported behaviour from any other users. It's fair to assume that if SB had a habit of blowing speakers, there'd be more than one person moaning about it. -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18818 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Helping Newbies get the most from SB2
ceejay Wrote: Well, there already is a Tips and Trickspage, which I think is what you are looking for, at http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?TipsAndTricks That's good to know. Mind you I searched high low through the Slim Devices website, SqueezeNetwork website and SlimServer control site to find this sort of information and I never came across the Tips Tricks page. This sounds ideal, but it could do with being more visible. ceejay Wrote: Perhaps a neat idea would be if people felt free to create their own HowToDoSomething page in the wiki, then link to it from the tips and tricks page, and if appropriate from elsewhere in the wiki (including the beginners guide). Sounds like you are all set to start with WakeOnLAN and SqueezeNetwork! :) Ceejay. Point taken. I'm not shying away from adding it myself. But I wouldn't wish to load incorrect information and I believe this woiuld be useful to most new users. I think this warrants inclusion in the formal Slim Devices documentation so I'd feel more comfortable if it were generated (and QA'd) by a SD employee. -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18899 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: record audio to std out
Could you use SHOUTcast? Refer: http://www.shoutcast.com/download/broadcast.phtml It seems to imply that you can broadcast whatever Winamp is playing (maybe you can get Winamp to play line in?). If you're using Linux, it makes the following statement: This archive is for advanced users who wish to source content on their Mac OS X, Linux or FreeBSD servers and feed the audio into a SHOUTcast DNAS instead of using Windows. The Linux version permits input from a soundcard in addition to MP3 files on disk. Please refer to the example .conf file included with the archive for more information on using this beta unsupported method of broadcasting. So to stream your soundcard maybe you need Linux? (see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18886) -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18880 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: record audio to std out
This looks like it might be helpful as well: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?OtherRadio It talks about streaming audio from a conventional tuner but only as an example of loading a source into the computer's line in, so presumably it would work for any line source. -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18880 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How do you add a radio station?
JJZolx Wrote: Where do I add the URL of a radio station feed so that I can easily access it? I rub a 24x7 server, so I'm not looking at using SqueezeNetwork. I just loaded the 'Favorites' plugin. There's no indication in the plugin list what it does, but I suspect it's for something like this. However, I don't see how to add anything - radio station, playlist, track, or album to the list. I think you do it via Slim Server. If you go to the web interface, on the left side there is a link for RADIO - click on Radio Tune In. On the resulting page you can input a URL for the radio station. I've just tried it with the Australian station Triple J http://abc.net.au/streaming/triplej/triplej.m3u It looks like you need to save the resulting playlist and then play the radio station from your playlists. I have just done this it works. I don't know if there is a way to make it show up under the Internet Radio menu on the SB. [edit] Hmm, seems I was too slow. Presumably you make it a favourite by creating a playlist and then adding that to favourites. -- ianjohnson_nz ianjohnson_nz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1870 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18825 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2
stinkingpig Wrote: mattybain wrote: I know (hope?) you were only being humerous but calm down a little bit!! spelling-nazi I think you meant he's being humerus (http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/humerus?view=uk). /spelling-nazi Humerus? Are you joking? (As in funny bone.) Otherwise it's humorous you're after m'dear... refer http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/spelling/?view=uk about half way down... Love the new SB, even if I did just buy a SB2 a week ago. Still I got a good deal so no complaints from me. -- ianjohnson_nz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: I want a Squeezebox boombox
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17185 Question: Who wants a Squeezebox Boombox? - I'm interested. - No, thanks. I've just bought a sb2 after researching it for ages, and I love it. I too wanted a small system in addition to the separates hifi I've already got. So I bought a JVC EX-A1 as well. Small attractive head unit with DVD Audio/Video and CD audio, astonishing sound for the size of the speakers and the price (GBP260) - and RCA input! Perfect. My platinum sb2 looks the part on top of the system, all looks like it is one unit. I think SB2 is fantastic. Love the AlienBBC plugin as well. Thanks to all the developers who contributed. +---+ |Filename: JVC EX-A1 and SB2.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=410| +---+ -- ianjohnson_nz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: I want a Squeezebox boombox
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17185 Question: Who wants a Squeezebox Boombox? - I'm interested. - No, thanks. MeSue Wrote: You all have some interesting ideas, but there is a certain appeal to a self-contained unit, or an attachable speaker accessory that simulates a self-contained unit. I don't understand why the idea of a self-contained unit garners such opposition, but I'm still going to be on the lookout for one whether it's from Slim Devices or not. The Saitek Audio A-250 comes close too bad it's Bluetooth and can't be controlled from a remote. Let me repeat for good measure the desire is for a self-contained unit. It's not that it garners opposition; you asked who else would want one I like some others gave my opinion, which was, on balance, no I wouldn't. I can see the benefits but it's not something I'd choose. I think the point is that there is a certain appeal to a self-contained unit to *you*. So you don't need to repeat for good measure! -- ianjohnson_nz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
