[slim] Re: Chinese music still skipped
What sort of filesystem is your drive F:? Is it a local drive? Is it a mounted share? If a share, what sort of machine is it on? What OS are you running your server on? I have plenty of both latin1 and utf8 directories and file names and they both work fine, but that's as ext3 on linux. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25445 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Access the database directly
Well, you can, but the catch is that you would lose any changes whenever you rescan or when it reads that file and notices that it changed. I don't know MediaMonkey or Foobar, but as I recall Foobar sort of cheats with tags and keeps its own database... it can lie to you, in other words, about what tags are there. A quick look around shows there is a 'rescan' in Foobar to make it reread tags. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25426 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Help - need to revert to 6.22 but where can I download it ?
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/ -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25378 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Dead remote or...?
As I recall, the display and IR receiver are on a daughter board, connected with ribbon cable to the main board. It is possible this was partially dislodged in transit and heating/cooling cycles pushed it out just enough to make it not work. Your best bet is to contact support tomorrow (since today is a holiday in the US), and confirm that. They may (depending on your comfort level) step you through checking and/or fixing that or just tell you to swap it with the retailer. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25220 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Here'a a fix for Firefox memory leak
Dunno, it still leaks for me... :/ Maybe something else is causing it to leak, too... it seems to be leaking slower than before.. but it still leaks. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24982 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Here'a a fix for Firefox memory leak
oooh if that works, I'll be VEERRY happy. restarting firefox now since it's already grumpy this morning so see if it helps :) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24982 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 30-second freeze?
The server (or SN, since that's really just a Slimserver with some extras) gets the IR code, figures out it means "Off", tells the SB "change your display brightness (if that has been set), and here is a new thing to display (your off screensaver, usually the time or blank)" and that's about it. (Well, and "please turn the output off, since I'm not going to send you any more music" and such.) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Rescan crashing PC
I had a PC that would randomly die during "busy" times -- ripping too much, too much analysis with Picard, or whatever. It would do a hard crash: no warning, needed a power cycle to restart. I went into the BIOS, hit "set defaults" and it hasn't crashed since. God knows what the local dealer did to "adjust" the machine to be faster, but I'll take stable over fast any day. (To be fair: it may have not been the local shop: it did take 2 years before it started misbehaving so much, so perhaps cosmic rays messed with the CMOS settings, but I figure the motherboard maker knows more about what timings and such are proper.) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24677 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: You have got to be kidding Me!
Sure, I just bought a Dell for $200 (and yanked out the hard drive and
put my own in, but that's another story :P).
But, then, the real value to the Infrant box is the software and the
robust design. It has a lot more processing power than the usual "home
file server". (256M of RAM, for example. Slimserver would be a lot
comfier with that much RAM than on a box with 32M like the cheaper home
servers.)
I may buy a cheapo Dell for a music server, and it may technically have
the same clock speed of some of the servers I use at work... but I still
pay substantially more for them for a reason. Same as why if I took
music seriously instead of as a spendy toy, the Infrant box would be
very nice.
The Infrant box has some pretty nifty software for growing drives on
the fly ("oh let me plug in this new drive, there, now I have more
storage"), Hot Swapping drives (okay, so not crucial on a music server,
but -very- nice on a business file server when you can't tell the sales
dept "sorry, go away, I need to replace a failed drive"), low power
(probably not as low as some of the low-end NAS boxes, but not as high
as a PC either).
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/2006/03/03/infrant_readynas_nv/ has a
fair review of the NV.
(And, nope, I don't have a vested intereset in Infrant.. I like my
cheapo dell, and proud that I managed to get a system that came with
FreeDOS not even Windows... But it is a box I can lust after. If I
had the money, yeah, it would be a very tempting purchase.)
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[slim] Re: I am sure this issue was raised thousends times ...
sl789 Wrote: > JJZolx I wish it would be possible to have a "shadow screen" for > fraction of the price which will be syncronised with SB3 /and/or > slimserver. I agree it would solve the problem and would be the best > solution. Assuming you have some way to move the video around, you could try one of the handheld-type skins for web pages and use a TV out card. I used to use a Windows machine for gaming with a TV-Out. I called it my XPox, which seemed approriate: it had a TV-Out, no monitor, and a Playstation controller hooked up to the USB. A bit of a pain navigating in Windows, but certainly doable and the handheld skins should work fine at 640x480. Windows though the Playstation controller was a mouse. :P You'd have to convince your remote to be more like a mouse if you wanted more control, but you would at least see what was playing. > > But for business reasons it's higly unlikely that option of additional > remote screen would be on market from slimdevices. > Sure, but not because "we can sell more Squeezeboxes this way!" Really, once you have the ethernet and the display driver (even if it's an NTSC output instead of the existing one) the cost of the hardware is going to be the same or more than a Squeezebox. It wouldn't be cheaper for the consumer, so, it wouldn't sell. > > Using Wi-Fi PDA as remote (sort of Sonos type remote) - I don't know if > there is an application which allow it and it's not as convinient > because each time you want to see what's playing you need to turn it > on, of course no plug-ins etc > Sure it would have plugins: plugins run on the server. As for applications, there are two: one is an Ewe-based (think java stripped to its bare essentials for portability, but less bloat for more speed especially on small devices) and uses the command line interface to the server, the other way is to use either the handheld skin or the nokia770 skin in the web browser on the device. Quite a few people are using the nokia770 skin fine and some are doing so on Playstation Portables. It works so well that lots of people seem to use it on pc's. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24620 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: OS X problem with fresh install
Victor Wrote: > > file error - html/ajax.js: not found > file error - crumblist: not found > Odd those didn't exist in 6.2.2. ajax.js wasn't added until April. > > But what's wacky is that doing a "grep -R ajax.js *" from the server > directory returns nothing. I can't even find where that file is being > asked for. I am really confused now. > > So what causes that? And why is Fishbone broken on a fresh install? Because it isn't a fresh install: you had a prior version of some sort... but that doesn't make sense either since ajax.js didn't exist in 6.1 either. Did you install 6.3 or 6.5 at some point? It looks like something from one of them was left in place. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24630 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: You have got to be kidding Me!
Try this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FG85D8 That looks like the exact same box. You do know that Infrant boxes are going to be spendier than the kind you can pick up from Walmart, right? They have a much beefier system (which means that they can run Slimserver better) for better serving files in a NAS setup. And, yes, CPU does matter even on a NAS box if it has heavy access. So, in case you don't check the Amazon price... They have it for $1549 (Save $150 from msrp!). For $50 less than Amazon you get 2 Squeezeboxes with the purchase. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24622 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Library Scan fails
Well there is a slight relationship: after all the tracks are added to the database, album art is collected. So if it dies during the track-scan, it won't get to the scan for artwork and will only pick up what it gets while playing (which doesn't show up in Browse Artwork). -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24573 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox 2 - WPA personal
WPA is an infinite amount better than WEP. It is possible to break into a WEP network in a matter of minutes. The only known attack on WPA/WPA2 networks is a dictionary attack: choosing a good password gets around that. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24556 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox 2 - WPA personal
Yes, the SB should support WPA/PSK/TKIP just fine: I use that myself. And, yes, PSK is the three-letter-acronym for "password"... Pre-shared means "you have to enter this in each device". Make sure you enter it -exactly- the same and have no trailing spaces at the end on the SB. If you're going from a longer key to a shorter one, delete the characters at the end, not space over them. The "personal" mode is what you want. The other mode requires a server for authentication and really isn't worth the trouble and the SB doesn't support it anyway. :) The differences between WPA and WPA2 basically boil down to two things: WPA = TKIP Encryption, AES was "optional" WPA2 = AES Encryption, TKIP is "optional" There is some minor tweakage to the algorithms due to potential weaknesses in WPA, but those weaknesses don't have a known exploit yet. Either should be secure, and either is far more secure then WEP which isn't secure at all. :) The Squeezebox supports both WPA/TKIP and WPA2/AES. Which you use depends on other devices on your network and which they can handle. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24556 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox 2 - WPA personal
WPA's naming is confusing. There is WPA/PSK/TKIP, WPA/PSK/AES, WPA/whatever-it-is-with-radius, etc. And then a whole different set with WPA2. What you want is WPA with Pre-Shared-Key (PSK) using TKIP encrytion. Or WPA2, PSK with AES encrytption. Other combinations like WPA/PSK/AES are "optional" in the WPA spec and usually don't work (and the SB doesn't support them). -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24556 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: id3 inventory
Presently it is reading id3v2 first, and only doing v1 if it can't find a v2. For a while it was falling through to v1 code, but that was fixed fortunately. :) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24495 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: id3 inventory
Or worse, the bonus disc to The Residents' Animal Lover would be simply "I stood at my window staring" instead of the full 400-some character title it is. http://residents.com/bh/imaginejack.htm (And, yes, the whole thing is the title, and there are 6 tracks but they are not part 1-6... they are just 6 indexes into one long piece for "convenience".) I have id3v1/id3v2 tags and at this point Slimserver is doing the right thing (preferring id3v2 over v1). -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24495 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Play what I tell you to!
Look under Server Settings/Behavior: > > PLAY OTHER SONGS IN ALBUM > When you select a single song and press PLAY on the remote, while > browsing albums or folders, you can choose to play just that song or > all the songs in that album or directory, starting with that song. > Turn that to "Play only selected song" if that's what you want. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24367 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Long Pauses between songs
I see that sometimes, but I'm using 6.5 on an admittedly underpowered machine (but just ordered a cheap celeron-d from Dell.. for $200 I should get a substantial speed increase over my old p2/400 :P). In my case it's extremely long SQL times, though it hasn't hit a minute, it can if I turn the SQL Playlist plugin back on. (Hence the new machine... :P) What are the specs on the machine? Large library on a slow machine? The default SQLite or mysql? iTunes update turned on? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24254 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multiple CD images into one album, how?
Make sure you set a couple of the tags correctly: Album should be identical. No (disc 2) type tags. Add in a DISCNUMBER tag (assuming FLAC, it's TPOS on mp3) that has the disc number... this will keep the display sorted correctly (ie, so you can have two track 1's: the discnumber will distinguish them). In cases where I merge multi-disc sets into one Album, I also make sure I rename the files to 1-01, 1-02.. 2-01, etc. This keeps them sorted in the Browse Music Folder and keeps my sanity when just looking at the files outside of something that reads tags. The other alternative is to cheat completely: set the album name to be identical and number the tracks consecutively across albums. Ie, the 2nd disc may start at track 17. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24249 ___ 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.
It does.. do you mean it should support case-sensitive searching? That would be somewhat of a pain with the remote... -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 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] Re: Cover.jpg only shows when playing Album
Could it be you have one track out of place? (Ie, all tracks should be in the same directory.) I've had that issue myself as well. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24233 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cover.jpg only shows when playing Album
Slimserver is sort of odd and annoying sometimes: If it finds an album with no artwork, then it will, until you do a full wipe/scan, remember that it has no artwork for "Browse by Artwork". I try to get artwork in place before Slimserver finds the new music if it finds it via Browse Music Folder or Rescan-look-for-new, and it is genuinely new, then it will remember the artwork for Browse Artwork. I don't know why it does this, but it is sort of annoying. I just periodically do a full rescan when I want to make sure my artwork is all there. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24233 ___ 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.
The question is really, though, whether "typographic" changes are Artist Intent for the music or just for cover art. I have tons of tracks that "should" be in allcaps if I went by cover art That would be painful to read. In most cases, I don't think the band is changing their name, just their logo. Unless I want to try to guess the font (and figure out how to load it into the SB...) used by each artist, it's best to just stick to plain ascii/latin1/utf as the case may be. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 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] Re: Squeezebox sudden problem help!!!!
crooner Wrote: > > This is the first time in all my computer years that I have a > catastrophic failure on a device. I've never had a total HD failure for > instance.. And I've been using PCs since 1989, almost 20 years! > Lucky. The 7-month old hard drive on my work computer died on Tuesday. And, no, my computer at work is more than 7 months old: that's the second dead drive on that machine. This one at least wasn't a total failure: I was able to rescue the important stuff without too much trouble. (Though I still have 400 some files to wade through in the saved drives "lost+found"... it seems like useless stuff like cookies, temp files and such.) The last one was a total failure. Needless to say, I bought a new USB external drive and immediately backed up my music at home (And to complete the irony: the power went off at home for almost an hour yesterday while I was backing up... Didn't lose anything... this time.) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24190 ___ 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.
erland Wrote: > > There are also a third option for linking which might be possible to > use, but I think it isn't supported by slimserver yet. This third > option is the new PUID defined by musicdns.org. > Careful: PUID's are not unique. They're very very close. Like this one: http://musicbrainz.org/showpuid.html?puid=17bfb9ea-cf24-ff3f-553c-337b672cbf61 But note that the albums don't actually match. It's scary how well they grouped on the same piece, since the whole PUID creation is entireley machine based... but the musicbrainz ID is more unique: these three versions of the same song each have unique MB ID's. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 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] Re: Player does not play tracks in order
If you play from the Browse Music Folder, it does that: it deliberately ignores tags (you did ask to look at the folder structure..) so filenames matter. Your ripper -should- number things with leading 0's so that they sort correctly even when looked at in the plain directory order. What ripper and is there a setting for leading zeros in it? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24186 ___ 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.
JSonnabend Wrote: > > Well, you and Snarlydwarf make a good point about -portable- players. > So strike "portable" and you're left with the proper statement, namely, > that tags were created so that -players-, portable or otherwise, could > display information about the file. > And since a squeezebox itself won't display anything at all, tags were created so that Slimserver could display information about the file... > > Presently, tags are only a real necessity for portables, hence my > earlier, slightly erroneous statement. > They are also necessary for portability, not just "portables" -- you can use your tool of choice: tag&rename, mp3tag, musicbrainz, winamp, xmms, windows media player, itunes... and other programs and players will automatically know what song you are talking about. Slimserver's SQL schema doesn't have anywhere near that portability. (Nor does SQL itself.. if the S stood for Standard, then, sure, you could even make Slimserver directly access your Access database and you could keep "last played" and "number of times played" information right in Access... but SQL has never been that portable despite attempted standardizations.) The defacto standards of id3/vorbis/ape/etc tags beats any other method for portability. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 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] Re: server database is case sensitive and that's bad. read why.
Michaelwagner Wrote: > > You think tags are only for portable players. I disagree. I think > they're for O/S<=>application independence. And for filesystem independence. I organize my music in a 'tree'. Example: /mnt/Music/Artist/Albumname/tracks But that's annoying when you have an artist with one album. So they go in: /mnt/Music/Misc/Artist-Album/tracks or /mnt/Music//Artist-Album/tracks But things are still cluttered for some. Dylan has: /mnt/Music/Dylan/Album/tracks /mnt/Music/Dylan/Bootlegs/Albums/tracks /mnt/Music/Dylan/Tributes/Albums/tracks etc. I can reorganize and move things around by just moving a directory and rescanning. Since the documentation about which track is which belongs in the file, I don't have to coordinate changes in my file structure with another database: Slimserver will figure it out.. at worst, I'll have to do a full rescan. As for the original poster: isn't there a tagger that will read a comma delimited set of tracks-n-tags and tag the files? It shouldn't be that hard to export the spreadsheet to a tagger. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 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] Re: server database is case sensitive and that's bad. read why.
JSonnabend Wrote: > If all player software allowed import/export of db's, then all this > would be irrelevant, and tags could go back to their original purpose > -- to support portable players. Wow, I was tagging mp3's long before portable players existed. id3 tags were created in 1996... what portable player existed then? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 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] Re: automatic ID3 tagging
It can, it's just a lot easier with albums. It is amusing to watch it sometimes: I've ripped/encoded around 1000 tracks the last couple of days, including a dozen or two compilation albums: the misguesses were for the "real" item, not the compilation. The fingerprinting in Picard was donated by MusicIP (formerly MusicMagicMixer) but is -far- faster than what they do in MusicIP. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24074 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronization with Players & PC speakers
Hrrm, well, my gift to myself to celebrate my new-found freedom was the first SB. (And the Ex- visited after that, and wasn't impressed...) So I'd say being single lets me turn up stuff loud. Pyschochicks 23 and 29 do seem to enjoy loud music tho. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24067 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: automatic ID3 tagging
Yep, I use it all the time. Picard is a bit smarter than the old tagger, though the interface is odd (though I'm just used to the old tagger...). Since I have another 200 CD's to rip.. I rely on it. If you're good or if your taste is... odd, get a moderator flag on Musicbrainz and help make the database pretty. There are complicated styleguides (especially for classical), but for most stuff it's easy. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24074 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Synchronization with Players & PC speakers
Click 'help' in the browser interface and run softsqueeze on the PC. It won't sync exactly, though: the various layers of Java and device driver and sound card buffers make that nearly impossible to do. It is usually close enough tho. (I just cheat and turn up the living room sound really loud... but, then, I'm single. :P) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24067 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 30-second freeze?
or a plugin with a problem. I've seen delays when last.fm fails in Just The Wrong Way, or when my router gets whiney about accessing the net for the Weblogger or RSS plugins. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: ID3 editor?
I use Musicbrainz Picard and then tweak things by hand with eyeD3 or id3v2. (MB leaves out things like "Composer" and such, so I usually retag classical by hand, especially on multi-disc items.) Musicbrainz ID's are important to me: I like having the scrobbler submit the musicbrainz ID's for consistency. It's a pain in the neck to start, so do it in pieces and try to stay caught up as you rip new material. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23975 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Lot's of questions before buying
lovemov Wrote: > > 1. It plays Monkey Audio (APE), right? > Not natively: it's decoded on the server, and transcoded (by default) to FLAC. > > 2. Is it bit perfect? I have read older version has inverted phase, how > is the new version 3? I hope it do bit perfect 44.1k as well as DTS > passthrough on SPDIF. > The inverted phase was fixed in firmware. It can pass through DTS, but I don't know if that will survive ape->flac transcoding. Never tried. > > 3. Any local dealers sell these like Sonos does? > Depends on what you mean by local. http://www.slimdevices.com/au_resellers.html -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23954 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Stereophile tries the ReQuest server
Eeek.. long RCA cables? I may not know diddly about hardware: but... um... isn't there a problem running long RCA cables? I thought there was a reason professionals use XLR connectors (ie, balanced) for long low-power runs. Long speaker cables, sure: that's a PA system and not a big deal.. but long RCA cables is bad, isn't it? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23952 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Volume Issue
Depending on what you compare it, yes, it has changed: around firmware 15 someone fixed the volume table to make the values scale evenly. (Until then it was really icky, especially on the low end.) So 0 is still 0, 40 is still 40 But things in the middle have a proper curve. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23875 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 - hangs, screen blank, after awhile continues
Have you ever considered getting a life? I mean, geebus, you got your money back (as promised) yet you spend dozens of hours whining. You must be a real pleasure to deal with in real life if you spend so much energy whining about things you don't like. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23744 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Cleaning your SB3
seanadams Wrote: > Ha! For the same price, we could have put a bag of Skittles in with > every player instead. Those would at least not have gone unnoticed, and > they taste almost as good. But the pony would eat them. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23801 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Perl Problem (OT)
ah, nm, the eol's are being picked up in $J. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23777 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Perl Problem (OT)
you forgot a chomp and \n's. :) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23777 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
Pale Blue Ego Wrote: > > Don't make the player removable, that's too insecure. Just have a > front-panel USB 2.0 connection. You load the thing up before > installing it, then use a thumb drive to add new tracks once the player > is installed. > Wireless :P My router is about 20' from where the car is sitting right now... I could load up tunes and be ready to go. :) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What's next from Slim? Speculate here.
and my lawn is growing... I can't pull my ass outta the couch without tunes outside. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Where Can I Find this Web Site Plugin?
I use this one: http://www.regoroad.com/blog/_archives/2004/9/12/138828.html That may be what's used there... or not. :) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > Interesting - I've got an AMD K6-2 400 MHz. I always wondered how it > would perform running SlimServer. > > How much RAM do you have? I have 192 MB for that mobo. > > It was running Win98SE but given the unpatched security holes I'll be > switching to Linux on that machine when I power it up again, probably > Ubuntu. It works fine from the remote, the web interface can be a bit balky sometimes. I'm running with 256M on that machine. Rescans take a while (which would probably be less if I tossed another HD into it to move the SQL database onto a different drive... one of these days..), but not so painful that I never do them. I do them almost daily. (I muck with tags a lot and it tends to add artists and never replace them.) I enjoyed the Trackstat stuff until I got to around 9000 tracks in place and then it started getting slow, but it seems that may be because of a quirk in the way mysql optimizes (or doesn't...) selects, since it was reading millions of records on my machine instead of using the index. I have an p3/800 or so at work that I need to bring home some year, but... i get mail on it and have a few websites there. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: What is your library size and hardware
1105 albums with 11823 songs by 849 artists. model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) cpu MHz : 400.918 (yeah, yeah, upgrade that... i have to figure out a clean way to move one of my personal machines at work back home...) debian-stable/slimserver6.5/mysql5 -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23701 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Power over Ethernet
Actually, they need to provide power and ethernet wirelessly. cf the works of Tesla. (Though, no doubt, the sound will annoy some audiophiles and the people who think the display is too bright now might be annoyed, but that's the price to pay for truly wireless sound. Oh, yeah, and it would make the SB3 portable.) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21936 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Remote conficting with other devices
It would be neat if they were unique, especially if there was some group that assigned vendor codes (like MAC id's) for a prefix... but there isn't. Look at the manual for any universal remote that tells you to type in one of many codes to program their remote. If it was as simple as unique vendor codes, you wouldn't have as many as 5 or 6 codes for a given vendor's component. Since it's unlikely that you can change the codes for your tv settop box, the best solution is to get a universal remote that can control a JVC DVD player (most should be able to), and change the player settings so that the squeezebox remote is not recognized, then hide the SB remote and use the universal. Of course, if you also have JVC equipment, that won't work either. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23654 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 / 6.3 - Web UI Kills It
rpm -U removes rpm's doesn't it? (Been years since I touched RPM's...) for the tarball, you'd rm -rf wherever-you-put-the-tarball which is exactly why package managers like rpm and apt exist. Where did you extract the tarball? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23622 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Engadget feature on Squeezebox and Pandora
It should only submit when you've "listened" to the song, not skipped it. Audioscrobbler defines this as listening to either 50% of the song, or the first 3 minutes for longer pieces. If either condition is met, then you at least endured the song enough to be logged. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23359 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: no more radios...
Can the Squeezebox itself connect to Squeezenetwork? If not: the SB's networking is not set up correctly. The name server and/or gateway in particular. Is the machine that Slimserver runs on able to connect to other sites? If not, or if it's a NAS box or something, it may have the same problem: bad name server or gateway. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23254 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: DTS problem
WAV's don't support tags at all. FLAC's Genre tag is free-form. Put whatever you want there. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23590 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 new install, new issue
I've only installed 6.5 as either the .deb or run as 'me' from my own shell. (not with a script, just ./slimserver.pl in a screen session so I could play with it.) Did you install from an RPM or the tarball? How are you starting the server? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23485 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.5 new install, new issue
Your database is not writeable for some reason: are you running slimserver as its own user (highly recommended and the default I think)? If so, make sure it can write to places it needs to write... The sqllite file and the preferences file: Assuming the user is 'slimserv': chown slimserv /etc/slimserver.conf I have no idea where your sql file is, though, been a while since I used it. You should make it (and the directory it is in) writeable by the right user. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23485 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Buffer drained, pausing playback
It is possible for a wired connection to show that sort of problem if the wiring is faulty. If it gets too near a 120vac circuit for too long, inductunce can be a problem (not always from the 120vac itself, that's a nice 60hz hum.. but things with motors and such can grind up an electric signal well). Normally this isn't a problem: it's why there are rules about twisted pair: for each side of the ethernet there is a + and a - (ie, TX+/TX- and RX+/RX-) providing a balance.. when the + is driven high, the - is pulled low, which should make the signal very resistant to noise. (A T1 data circuit can run for -miles- like this without a problem, moving 1.5Mbps error free.) But if the circuit is wired 'wrong' by mispairing the wires: it will actually be -more- susceptible to noise induction. My desk at work at one point was wired by a phone guy who wired it like this. It worked fine and dandy.. unless I started moving a lot of data, then the wire would start generating noise with itself. Do you have a long cable to try for a day to see if that fixes the problem? If it does you know where to look: it may be as simple as rewiring the connectors at the wall plate. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20783 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slimserver No Album No Artist
Yes, it can show lyrics on the songinfo screen: it does for me on the very few songs I've added lyrics to. (I need to find a nice tool to take a txt file and cram it into a USLT tag...) Only thing I don't like about it is it would be nice if 's were inserted at line breaks, but other than that it seems to work for me, though I have very few files with lyrics embedded. And it hasnt broken album art handling at all: I'm anal about my album art and do a full wipe rescan reasonably often to make sure album art is correct. The few lyrics I have are in 2.3 tags and latin-1.. are yours 2.4 and/or utf? Though I don't know why that would break artwork... -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23236 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: squeezeboxes flying off the shelves?
I've only convinced one cow-orker to get a pair of SB3's: seems the others I've talked to either listen to music rarely, or they like the iPod... (no, I don't get it either). Of course, since my employer's main business is TV... that may be why. I'm the freak that left the TV off for 10 years. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23505 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku Soundbridge Radio Review
And if you like your network being compromised, sure, use a Roku. WEP is not secure. Nice to see Roku is keeping up with standards. At least they are promising WPA real soon now for their radio product. Of course, their web page still says that it's shipping "Soon".. which it has said for several months. Yep, they're very much on the ball there: no pesky shipping products for you to find flaws in. Everything is as perfect as claimed. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23465 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
krosfyah Wrote: > > I might buy the Roku anyway and hook it up to my entertainment system > which is on another floor. If the boxes are 1/2 second off between > floors, I don't really care since I can't hear the difference anyway. > Anybody forsee any problems doing this? If you plan on using it wireless: it only supports WEP. I wouldn't allow any network of mine to do WEP... As for synchronization, I'm never clear on why you would want it -exactly- synced. You would actually want multiple devices slightly out of sync to deal with sound propogation delays. If they were exactly in phase and you could hear one room from another: they would always sound out of phase. The trick is that the one closest to you should be 'ahead' of all the others... -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: PSP 2.6 with Qnap Slim Server
If my understanding of the QNAP is right, the reason you can use the 'name' of the box from a Windows system is because of Samba (ie, Windows-compatible filesharing stuff). Part of SMB is the name service. (Ie, this is how the old 'Network Neighborhood' thingie worked on Windows: the machines broadcast their name.) The PSP doesn't support SMB names, so you will have to use the IP. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23351 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!
Yes, though I was thinking (a dangerous thing) that the install process may have burped in one of those Special Windows Ways, blocking port 9000 but not blocking 3483. I think 9000 is where firmware comes from on the server. (For some reason I don't see that in the docs, and it's almost time to go home, so I'm not motivated :P) Ie, the client can talk to the server on 3483, can be told there is a new firmware version, but can't get it. Since a new executable was dropped in place, many firewall packages will notice that and deny network access to it. Insufficient information on the problem, though. "It doesn't work" isn't much at all to go on. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23389 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!
Then it sounds like your server is crashing for some reason: do you have a 3rd party plugin, perhaps, that isn't happy with some change? Look at the server logs and see what it says. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23389 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] If you enjoy Internet Radio and are in the US...
Whether it's your local radio station or radio Davidbyrne.com, last.fm or even Pandora... You should read http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004587.php DRM for 'net radio may very well become mandatory. Free money for Microsoft and Real. Big loss for listeners, artists and broadcasters. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23384 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Possible??? - Remote Squeezebox
Except it's very very difficult to do IP spoofing against a modern operating system. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23132 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?
Slimserver also updates the database when it reads files. Mine all have tags, so I don't know what it would do if the file has no tags at all and guesstags is off. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23061 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: How to play SlimServer library on a computer
Have you tried softsqueeze? It has the benefit of buffering (or not buffering as the case may be) correctly since it uses the same protocol as a hardware squeezebox. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23063 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The Worst DB Implementation?
Why are you importing it instead of letting the server build it? It's a relational database and is difficult to get the entries correct in all the tables. If it sees things it doesn't like in a record (it certainly does this when the file location isn't found), it will remove the entry. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23061 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Why does my squeezebox work?
I don't know why you're seeing signal strength 0... But as for why it says that it's a squeezebox2, the differences between an SB2 and and SB3 are minimal other than cosmetic. The firmware is exactly the same. The nightly builds have code to detect which is which, but it's purely cosmetic. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23017 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: A Silly Poll
radish Wrote: > 30 here. Time to start wearing sensible clothes and reading real > newspapers. I'm also making lists of things to shout at kids when they > stray onto my lawn. Nah, just make it up as you go along: the real art is to be able to mumble and yell at the same time, so it doesn't really matter what you say. The attitude matters more than the words. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22941 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: A Silly Poll
42, but I act like I'm 10. 2 if you ask the ex-. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22941 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Multi-Zone Whole-House Audio System
bmarston Wrote: > > > *Computer-Based Players in Basement* > $772.50 computers > $1,210 amps > $605 speakers > _$350_Nokia_770_ > $2,937.50 total > That does include the limits on PC's, right? You're not going to get a dozen sound cards on a typical motherboard... I'd still keep the SB's at the locations themselves, at least for real rooms (living room, bedroom, guest room, etc) where you may actually have volume above ambient levels. Some of these will have electronics anyway (DVD players, TV, etc) so it's not too hard to hide an sb3. It would suck to lose that display ... the battery life of a nokia would drive me nuts (yes, I know about charger stands.. but... I'm lucky if I can find the right remote, let alone remember to put it in a stand and to find a good place for a stand that has electricity...) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22860 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: No sound from Squeezebox after reflash
Although no sound and stuttering can also be caused by other problems: Most obvious being firewalling port 9000, or a broken firewall (:: cough:: nvidia...) mangling packets. These would not necessarily affect softsqueeze, especially not on localhost, since it wouldn't be going through the same firewall rules. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20384 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: The 8 dancing bars
Mike Anderson Wrote: > How disappointing. I thought this thread was going to be about where to > go to see scantily clad young women. Indeed, especially since the local weekly had as front page news that we are not the strip club capital of the world but didn't offer any suggestions on where that is. http://www.springfieldnews.com/articles/2006/02/10/local/news02.txt -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22842 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: WPA Problems still unresolved!!!
fwiw, they seem to have messed up the MIME types. I can't play the mp3 streams from their web page: instead I get the PLS file displayed in Firefox. Content-Type: text/plain That would break things. It should be audio/x-scpls, not text/plain. The live365 link on that page should work. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22663 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Product Announcement: K.R.O.N.O.S
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > BONUS! I'll wear one on each wrist, one on each ankle and one on each > thigh. > > I'll be in shape and I'll know what time it is. I think you should stop at 4, for the K.R.O.N.O.S. Quartet. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22645 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Changing SB3 wireless authentication password
'Add' is 'Delete'. Yes, I know that's not intuitive. That's how I remember it. (Just like I could always tell which light switch was which on 2-switch blocks at my parents' house: they were consistently backwards.) :) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22630 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless authentication
Well, that article says you can do a dictionary attack... so don't chose a lame key like 'password' or 'secret' It's not really that the encryption has been broken, just that brute force works on dumb passwords. :) What the SB calls WPA = WPA/PSK/TKIP WPA2 mandates AES (where it's optional instead of TKIP in WPA), but WPA2 is new enough that a lot of compatibility problems exist. I don't know what your router means by seperating WPA and WPA-PSK... They're different layers of the protocol. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22629 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wireless authentication
WPA-PSK, which (if you look a little deeper, or perhaps it's the only choice on your router) would be TKIP encryption. PSK = Pre-shared Key: ie, you have to put the same key in the server (router or access point) and in any clients (squeezeboxes, laptops, whatever). That's what you want, and at this writing it's considered secure. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22629 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Problem With Checked Songs
I don't know what you mean by checked do you mean indexed? They need to be indexed to play. If for some reason you really don't want to scan the music directory for music files... you could use Browse Music Folder, and it will add files as it comes across them (either a directory at a time in the web browser, or a track at a time from the remote). What are you using for a server? I just passed 1000 albums an P2/400 with 256M and it works just fine: but, then, that's all that system is used for, and it certainly does the 'basic things' well: it's playing music from 7:30am until midnight most of the time. (sigh, 58 more tracks to 10k tracks.. but, then Ben Harper and Marisa Monte have double-albums out now, so will have to try to pick them up tomorrow.) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22627 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What streaming protocol does Squeezebox 3 use?
No, meaning you need to run Slimserver somewhere. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22619 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: What streaming protocol does Squeezebox 3 use?
Neither: it uses SlimProto, which is implemented in Slimserver. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22619 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 stopped working - (long)
And in slimdemage's case, it was "wireless card was broken". Electronics stuff breaks all the time. The only thing that makes it forgivable is that the failure rate diminishes over time for a long period. (ie, some X devices will fail in the first 10 minutes, some smaller number in the first day, and a still smaller number in the next week or month.) The problem in that case was fixed as soon as the wireless card was replaced I'd say: relax -- despite some acidic posts, didn't Slim honor their 30 guarantee? Doesn't that prove that they'll do their best if a component fails? (Compare with a certain other manufacturer that mis-sent a "This is the idiot that wrote a bad review" to someone who asked, after months, why he hadn't received his credit for returned merchandise..) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22341 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox too costly
Skunk Wrote: > For example, reference the success of the sitcom 'Home Improvement'. > It's funny to lampoon those addicted to the screwdriver. Notice > however, the show never once lampooned the wifes inability to fix > anything mechanical. Her job was to fix the family. I would have > preferred equal opportunity lampooning. > Actually, she did better with tools than her husband ever did But then we're going to cross into my view of why Sitcoms are Better Than Reality: in a sitcom, everyone's quirks make them lovable and interesting. It would be a boring show if Tim Taylor could actually fix anything. TV sitcoms often seem sexist to me: the flaws in the males are often more pronounced than the flaws in women who are almost always the bastion of sanity amongst the lunatic men. In reality, we're all nuts. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22564 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox too costly
jonheal Wrote: > Has anyone else been seeing weird messages scrolling across their SB > displays? Hrrm, sounds like you need a faster connection. Those messages are supposed to be displayed for only a 1/60th of a second. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22564 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Squeezebox too costly
Skunk Wrote: > I can beat this addiction, I know it. No, don't do that. Abuse is illegal. Just dump her. Or am I misreading what the bad addiction is? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22564 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Did SD change wireless card suppliers?
http://www.atheros.com/news/TPLINK.html So I'd guess it's still an Atheros chipset. It may have always been a TP-Link card, in fact. The layout seems a bit different, but that may be that TP-Link re-engineered the card. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22554 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: MP3Gain Problem
Mark Lanctot Wrote: > I'm thinking it's the maximum number that can be calculated at a certain > bit depth? Exactly. 16 bit unsigned is 65535. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22511 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Debian Slimserver
well ideally you'd add it to /etc/init.d -- this is where all the real scripts go. Name it 'slimserver' or something. Then something like: update-rc.d slimserver defaults 90 (Where 'slimserver' is the name of the init.d script.) This will put links in /etc/rc2.d to start up slimserver when the networking and put it towards the end of things starting. You can change the 90 if you want, but that ensures it's up after things like Samba or other services it may need. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22518 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Thinking of buying/building linux based music server...
Mine is serving just under 10k tracks (it should hit 10k sometime in the next few days though if the post office cooperates..) with a P2/400 and 256M of RAM. I am using mysql (for no real reason other than I know it and can play with it... I use it to figure out what doesn't have musicbrainz tags, what needs album art...), but don't have X or anything installed on the machine, just a quickie debian net-install. The needs for Slimserver are really pretty low since an aging p2 handles it just fine. The 'learning linux' part would be trickier, depending on how much you wanted to use a gui. X11/KDE/Firefox/etc all start taking a good amount of memory. If you can deal with an ssh session, though, the needs are pretty low. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22506 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 = dead
Voltage hurts, current kills :) (10k volts from a car spark coil won't kill you... but.. ow. 12v from the car battery, though, with a ton of amps behind it, will kill you.) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22463 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3/media servers - way of the future?
I agree, Mark. I think the 'best' solution is a central server with slightly smart clients, which is what Squeezeboxes give me. I don't want multiple copies of my music to keep synched. I don't want the other alternative with a centralized server -and- central amp and such with the client being (if you're lucky) a volume control on the wall, and -maybe- an RF remote if you're rich). Climbing into the attic to wire that would be low on my list of fun things. The Squeezebox/Slimserver method sits nicely in the middle, allowing a central data store, but unique clients. It's hard to say what will win: I'm not sure what Microsoft's plans are with Xbox360/Windows Media Center... it looks like they want very smart and expensive hardware in every room, with a TV, in order to listen to musicSony is planning something with the PS3, but like most PS3 things, exactly what they are planning is unknown... but it will most likely be similar to the Media Center stuff and require a TV for control, certainly for display. Again, I'm biased: I bought 2 squeezeboxes because they fit into my ideals on the way it should be. I think it is the correct way, but I don't know what will win: I fear it will be the Microsoft model, complete with DRM, and that CD's will be made into CDROM's full of WMA files (not even lossless). -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22474 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB2 = dead
MagicK Wrote: > > - have you checked voltage > The box get's some warmth, so I gues there is power. Unfortunatelly I > don't have another block to test with > It's not very high power, so you should be able to safely do my usual electric test: lick the 5v end of the cable. You should get a nice tingly on your tongue. It may hurt slightly so keep it short. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22463 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: RSS Plugin "Failed to retrieve RSS feed"
[narvi:~] 9:32:42am 103 % dog http://slashdot.org/index.rss HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:32:46 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_perl/1.29 Location: http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot ie, try the one listed there in the location line. It works for me. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22433 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Failed to connect to update.slimdevices
tf8252 Wrote: > Anyone know why I'm getting this error? > > Tried to run Slimserver... > > bash-2.05a# ./slimserver.pl > 2006-03-24 22:51:56.2263 There was an error while checking for updates > to SlimServer: > Failed to connect to update.slimdevices.com:80. Perl's error is > 'Invalid argument'. Try: "host update.slimdevices.com" from that Linux box. It should lookup the name and spit out the IP. If it fails, the problem is that the Linux box doesn't have DNS working for some reason. Is it setup via dhcp? Or is it manual? -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22426 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB3 stopped working - (long)
Is the server wired or wireless? Wireless will use twice the bandwidth of wired. Are you running a firewall on the server? Is it one that -works-? NVIDIA's firewall apparently doesn't work, randomly mangling packets which breaks things. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22341 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linksys's new "Slim-killer"
ewww scary. :) (Though I will forgive them for that... I still want a 770... but it's a far cry from a 7-10lb laptop.) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21466 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Linksys's new "Slim-killer"
kewe65 Wrote: > > I said upfront that based on *my* particular use. So what if you want > to use it one particular way or another. Actually, you are criticizing > a use supported by SB3 - through the browser and handhelds. So what if > you don't want to use a laptop or handheld - some SB3 customers do, > hence the support. > Very few use remote desktops to control a server. A web browser is not the same as a remote desktop and you know that. You can not control the Linksys from a web browser. You can't run VNC on a PSP or Nokia770. > > Im exhausted saying the same thing over and over: "the attraction to > SB3 is its opensource software", but apparently discussing where it > could expand is not acceptable on this forum. you and mr. snarly > really are trying to redefine "opensource" by shooing away any > suggestions. > And you're definining "opensource" as "Please make this conform to my needs, even if it's not yours. You owe me." My interest in writing device drivers for Windows is less than zero. My interest in dragging around a laptop in order to control my music is less than zero. That's not what Open Source is. Hint: "Show me the code." The attraction to the Squeezebox is, for me: great sound quality, no need for a PC (including laptops, since for you a laptop isn't a PC) to be in my listening areas, centralized music storage (so I have access to the same library in the living room, bedroom, office and work), and it needs to run on Linux: I will never trust Windows for a server. If you're exhausted, then, please, go to the Linksys forums and tell them about all the stuff in the Linksys you don't like and demand that they shape it the way you want it. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21466 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
