Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
usch;484357 Wrote: 1. Because people complained that the cover art was so small and left so much of the screen unused, so they enlarged it. Unfortunately the landscape orientation of the display is not really suitable to display a square image together with two rows of text above and a status bar below, you will always have either unused space or the edges cut off. It should be configurable to what you like better. That's rubbish :( I'd prefer too small to too big, when you say it should be configurable to what you like better is that a fact, if so, where do I change this or is that a I wish it could be configurable Sorry, I could be reading it too literally. :D -- jamesg1979 jamesg1979's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
u need to first concentrate on getting the right art put together. here is what i suggest: all your music should be in some kind of logical folder order, ie: root\music\artist\album\ and then you need one jpg in the album folder. ie: Folder.jpg i would not use embedded art, meaning art in the file. but if you do, it has to be in each file on the album. how do you get the art? use google image search, or a pgm like bliss, many apps get art one way or the other. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
MrSinatra;484504 Wrote: u need to first concentrate on getting the right art put together. here is what i suggest: all your music should be in some kind of logical folder order, ie: root\music\artist\album\ and then you need one jpg in the album folder. ie: Folder.jpg i would not use embedded art, meaning art in the file. but if you do, it has to be in each file on the album. how do you get the art? use google image search, or a pgm like bliss, many apps get art one way or the other. Thanks Sinatra, So let me get this clear in My Music currently I have loads of folders (and individual songs) but I could have 3 folders for three albums by the same artist in there such as Daft Punk - Homework, Daft Punk - Discovery, Daft Punk - Live in Berlin. Instead, I should have one folder called Daft Punk and in there the three album folders? Is that right? Will that make a lot of difference as it's quite a lot of work? Should any individual songs also be in those folders as that would be horrible!! Then get rid of irrelevant jpg files (back covers/CD covers) which only leaves me with one file. Rename that file to folder.jpg. -- jamesg1979 jamesg1979's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
jamesg1979;484508 Wrote: Thanks Sinatra, So let me get this clear in My Music currently I have loads of folders (and individual songs) but I could have 3 folders for three albums by the same artist in there such as Daft Punk - Homework, Daft Punk - Discovery, Daft Punk - Live in Berlin. Instead, I should have one folder called Daft Punk and in there the three album folders? Is that right? Will that make a lot of difference as it's quite a lot of work? Should any individual songs also be in those folders as that would be horrible!! please understand my advice is what i consider to be best practices but others may disagree. however if you follow it it will work good for just about every app, including SBS. in any case, yes, i would have my folders as: root\music\Daft Punk\Homework\ root\music\Daft Punk\Live\ root\music\Daft Punk\Discovery\ and if i had random DP songs, then you could create root\music\Daft Punk\random\ obviously put the right files (songs) in the right folders, and put Folder.jpg in each folder. also put a copy of each Folder.jpg in there in case anything happens to the original. SBS used to have a place where you could specify the artwork filename SBS should use. it might still have that, its been a long time since i looked. its in the settings somewhere, and should be set if there. while this may be a lot of work, in the long run it'll be worth it for you. jamesg1979;484508 Wrote: Then get rid of irrelevant jpg files (back covers/CD covers) which only leaves me with one file. Rename that file to folder.jpg. u can keep other art in the folder, no problem. you just want to specify to SBS the right filename to use for display, (its a global setting). -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
usch;484513 Wrote: As far as I can see that's about all you have to do. Make sure you have each album in a separate folder, and the cover artwork is called folder.jpg. The exact folder structure doesn't matter and extra artwork will be ignored. its only one half of what he needs to do. he doesn't have all files spilt up into separate album folders obviously b/c thats why he sees the wedding singer for everything. usch;484513 Wrote: I prefer to embed cover images in the audio files (because having thousands of files all called folder.jpg is prone to cause confusion someday), but that doesn't work with each file format and could be a lot of work in your case, depending on the size of your music library. i don't embed images for a number of reasons, like the work involved, wasted space, the hassle of making changes, and the tax on the SBS scanner to get the art from every file. its just easier to have a single standalone jpg in a folder to deal with. but i understand why some folks like embedding art. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
well, u said you see wedding singer for most of your music. so, the simplest and most likely explanation is you have lots of files sharing a folder and thats the art in it. is that not the case? if SBS is showing one art for many differing things, one way or another, there is a reason for it. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm only works when connected to mysqueezebox?
jmpage2;484438 Wrote: I think the bigger issue for me is the fact that the alarm didn't do the volumee ramp up. I would like to see a fixed brightness for alarm playback since it's kind of important to see the screen well enough to make out the time. I don't even recommend that this be user controllable, just make it so that when the alarm is going off the brightness is minimum 25%, etc. For me it's not a big deal to have separate controlled brightness for all the different player states you mention. Yeah, completely agree on a minimum brightness when an alarm goes off. Not only to see the time but also to help navigate the buttons for snooze etc.. My idea for user controlled brightness per screen is because 25% minimum brightness may work for you, but the next person may want 50%. -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70526 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
MrSinatra;484520 Wrote: well, u said you see wedding singer for most of your music. so, the simplest and most likely explanation is you have lots of files sharing a folder and thats the art in it. is that not the case? if SBS is showing one art for many differing things, one way or another, there is a reason for it. Yep the Wedding Singer appears for the majority of albums, but that image only resides in the Wedding Singer album. That's my confusion. All of my albums are in their own folders, songs that don't belong to albums are in the top level My Music folder, but I'm not fussed about them. jamesg1979;484478 Wrote: I haven't got them saved in a separate folder, *all of these files reside within their respective album folders.* -- jamesg1979 jamesg1979's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
jamesg1979;484522 Wrote: Yep the Wedding Singer appears for the majority of albums, but that image only resides in the Wedding Singer album. That's my confusion. All of my albums are in their own folders, songs that don't belong to albums are in the top level My Music folder, but I'm not fussed about them. well first, are you on windows? do you have hidden files shown? which files does the wedding singer show as the art for? the top level files? or the separate album folders? or both? could you have mistakenly embedded the wedding art in files? embedded art takes precendence i think. also make sure after you think you have things correct you do a full clear and rescan. (not new/updated) -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
I'm on Windows, I do have hidden files shown yeah. I've only used MP3Tag on 3 albums and embedded the image on them. These 3 albums work perfectly. So I don't think it's that. I could however (if MP3Tag allows it) clear the album art tag off all of the albums so it only looks at the jpgs..? The wedding singer appears for the songs within the albums folders. This is only on the SB and the softsqueeze. If I look at the folders in Windows Explorer in thumbnail view, they have their own (and correct) album art appearing. -- jamesg1979 jamesg1979's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
jamesg1979;484526 Wrote: I'm on Windows, I do have hidden files shown yeah. I've only used MP3Tag on 3 albums and embedded the image on them. These 3 albums work perfectly. So I don't think it's that. I could however (if MP3Tag allows it) clear the album art tag off all of the albums so it only looks at the jpgs..? well thats up to you. if they are working u don't need to fix them, but like i said i don't like embedded art. jamesg1979;484526 Wrote: The wedding singer appears for the songs within the albums folders. This is only on the SB and the softsqueeze. If I look at the folders in Windows Explorer in thumbnail view, they have their own (and correct) album art appearing. forget doing that, windows explorer works off thumbs.db and can be inconsistent. doubleclick the actual art files in the folders and make sure they are correct. regarding your tags, do you have proper artist and album names specified on the tags? did u do a full clear and rescan? -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
Yeah I have proper tags for Artist, song and album. I'm not at home at the moment, but I'll do a full and clear rescan tonight after I've confirmed the names of the album art. Thanks very much for your help on this. It's very strange to be honest. -- jamesg1979 jamesg1979's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm through speaker although headphone plugged in?
Any news on this issue? I especially asked for this functionality before buying the unit and was being told by logitech that it would work the way i need it (see beginning of this thread). It was a major buying point for me which is even after several weeks not being addressed. The only thing i can see is that the bug states to be resolved in 7.4.x. But all infos on this forum say that there is not going to be another official 7.4.x version. So when is this major issue going to be resolved or do i have to return the Radio because it doesn't fulfill its official specs and so is useless for me? Thanks in advance for any news! TheMule! -- mule mule's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30049 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67916 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] n00b help. Can't press enter after typing in info.
Are attaching to your network via Ethernet or WiFi? If you Power Cycle the unit (pulll ac) and start over does it work or still fail? -- jrichardson James R. QA - breaking things so you don't have to jrichardson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71305 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm only works when connected to mysqueezebox?
toby10;484521 Wrote: Yeah, completely agree on a minimum brightness when an alarm goes off. Not only to see the time but also to help navigate the buttons for snooze etc.. My idea for user controlled brightness per screen is because 25% minimum brightness may work for you, but the next person may want 50%. It becomes a slippery slope to how much user customization you want and how complex it makes the product. For example, I would like three choices when the alarm goes off; 1. Snooze 2. Disable Alarm 3. Disable Alarm - keep playing radio I have not put in an enhancement request for this because it's small potatoes right now when they have much bigger stuff to nail down, and at the end of the day I might be the only user who desires this. -- jmpage2 jmpage2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70526 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm only works when connected to mysqueezebox?
I also bought a Squeezebox Boom to wake up my wife 3 days a week and didn't succeed to have it work (I even returned the first device and got an other one under warranty with the agreement of Logitech Hot Line). 1/ There are 3 ways to set up the alarm: SB server, mysqueezebox, front panel. Most of the time, the alarm setup vanished although no further action is made (no reset, no unplug, no other setups...) whatever way would be used. 2/ My network works perfectly fine (I am a professional software developper and i work at home), when we are lucky, we get get the beep sound (even with a wired ethernet connexion and a fixed IP address), very often we get nothing: no more alarm in the parameters. I think i tried all the combinations of connecting (wifi, wire) to a server (local SB server, mysqueezebox) with an alarm programmed through one of the three interfaces. From time to time, I get it working (especially in test condition: alarm to fire 10 minutes after) but most of the time it just disappears. Just because of remark #1, I am pretty sure there is a bug somewhere in the alarm module and many people seem to encouter difficulties with this function. Does Logitech recognize there is a bug in there ? Is somebody working on it ? JM / Lyon / France -- jmhusson jmhusson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34259 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70526 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
I'm going to have to second the recommendation to embed the album art in every track. It's the best way to ensure that the art shows up no matter what device you are using to access the music. -- gweempose 2 Squeezebox Receivers 1 Squeezebox Classic 1 Squeezebox Boom 1 Squeezebox Radio 3 Squeezebox Controllers 1 iPod touch w/ iPeng gweempose's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Status of radio battery?
Thanks for the link. I'm a little disappointed they decided to use a proprietary package on the AAs. Seems a little wasteful IMO, both in manufacturing and recycling/disposal. It does give Logitech one healthy markup though. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com)* MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70815 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Status of radio battery?
MelonMonkey wrote: Thanks for the link. I'm a little disappointed they decided to use a proprietary package on the AAs. This cynicism is not justified. Rechargable batteries tend to go boom if mishandled. The engineers say that the package includes a micro-controller and sensors to detect heat and charge rate, and make adjustments to optimize battery life. Its not just eight random AA rechargeable battery units. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
OK, now at home and am currently going through all my albums and renaming and front covers to front.jpg. Any that don't have images I've chucked into a folder for me to sort out later. It's definitely only SB that shows the Wedding Singer as the art, tried the same song in Media Monkey, WMP11 and Itunes and album art is fine. One thing though which could be a breakthrough, it only appears to be my songs that are affected not the albums. I.E. Any songs that don't appear to belong to albums and are loose in My Music have adopted the Wedding Singer as it's album cover. Those that reside in album folders appear to have the correct covers. Does this change things at all? If I've gone through the process of adding the Front.jpg to all of my albums, is there a quick way prey tell that will allow me to embed these into the files??? Thanks all -- jamesg1979 jamesg1979's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
well: MrSinatra;484520 Wrote: well, u said you see wedding singer for most of your music. so, the simplest and most likely explanation is you have lots of files sharing a folder and thats the art in it. is that not the case? if SBS is showing one art for many differing things, one way or another, there is a reason for it. ??? -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
jamesg1979;484704 Wrote: OK, now at home and am currently going through all my albums and renaming and front covers to front.jpg. Any that don't have images I've chucked into a folder for me to sort out later. It's definitely only SB that shows the Wedding Singer as the art, tried the same song in Media Monkey, WMP11 and Itunes and album art is fine. One thing though which could be a breakthrough, it only appears to be my songs that are affected not the albums. I.E. Any songs that don't appear to belong to albums and are loose in My Music have adopted the Wedding Singer as it's album cover. Those that reside in album folders appear to have the correct covers. Does this change things at all? If I've gone through the process of adding the Front.jpg to all of my albums, is there a quick way prey tell that will allow me to embed these into the files??? Thanks all windows likes it to be Folder.jpg instead of something else to do the windows explorer folder art, just fyi. and as long as you have it in a folder per album, all will work as intended. you don't need to embed anything. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
How do I find out if a song is sharing a folder image then? -- jamesg1979 jamesg1979's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
jamesg1979;484712 Wrote: How do I find out if a song is sharing a folder image then? i'm not sure if i'm not understanding you or you aren't understanding me, but SBS assumes that ANY art it finds belongs to ALL the files in a folder, regardless of anything else. (the only exception is if a given file happens to have embedded art as well, then that would supercede) -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] n00b help. Can't press enter after typing in info.
Not a fix, but a workaround: Bypass the MySB login section on the Radio, connect the Radio to your SBS running on your computer. This should register the player on MySB.com for you. Assuming you are running SBS and have your MySB login credentials on SBS Settings MySqueezeBox -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71305 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
MrSinatra;484710 Wrote: windows likes it to be Folder.jpg instead of something else to do the windows explorer folder art, just fyi. Buggar. What was I thinking!? Quick way of renaming...? :) -- jamesg1979 jamesg1979's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] n00b help. Can't press enter after typing in info.
What firmware versions are on your 2 radios? Settings Advanced About if you don't see settings, press and hold the (back) button till you see the settings menu item. -- jrichardson James R. QA - breaking things so you don't have to jrichardson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71305 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
MrSinatra;484713 Wrote: i'm not sure if i'm not understanding you or you aren't understanding me, but SBS assumes that ANY art it finds belongs to ALL the files in a folder, regardless of anything else. (the only exception is if a given file happens to have embedded art, then that would supercede) Sorry I think it might be me, I hadn't appreciated that SB will look for any art files in the folder, even if it's the top level My Music folder. So all the thousands of songs in there that do not reside in an album folder could then get whatever jpg is in there. Am I right? Well... There is only one jpg file that resides in there (and it was hidden) and it is... (drum roll)... Sly The Family Stone - Hot Fun In The Summertime So the Wedding singer must be somewhere else, I even checked in the Wedding Singer folder and there is no actual image in there, it looks like it's embedded. -- jamesg1979 jamesg1979's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] Fall back alarm
Hello all. first post so be gentle with me. Is there any way to lower the volume of the fall back alarm on radio. I set alarm on sbs and server/pc failed in night. Nearly hit roof when fall back fired. Tried to simulate this during day (setting alarm and then shutting down pc) and got same result, some really funky tune at full blast. really enjoying radio and boom .(apart from changing bedsheets) -- ronbo ronbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30038 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71328 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Status of radio battery?
pfarrell;484659 Wrote: This cynicism is not justified. It's justified to me. I'm an engineer. Rechargable batteries tend to go boom if mishandled. No, they really don't. Maybe you're thinking of defective Lithium cells that expanded during a charge cycle. You know, the big Sony battery fiasco of a couple of years back. NiMH and NiCd are very stable and I've not heard of any instances of them causing any issue when not in use, while being handled. Maybe dumped into a fire. In charging they're also very robust if your charger is designed and built well. The engineers say that the package includes a micro-controller and sensors to detect heat and charge rate, and make adjustments to optimize battery life. That's not what it said in the other post. And it would be a very bad design to include a micro-controller in the battery pack as opposed to the charger (in the radio). What was said is that the packs contain a thermistor and a fuse. The thermistor, reporting back the temperature of the cells, is one way to tell when the charge cycle has completed. It's not the only way to tell and there are some nice charging ICs out there that can do fine without one. BTW, the packs contain 10 cells. The big danger with an open bay accepting standard AA cells is that someone might put an incompatible chemistry cell into the compartment. Such as dumping in 1 or more alkalines. There exist ICs that can detect alkalines and prevent a charge current - though I'm not sure if there are any available that can deal with 10 cells at one time. Its not just eight random AA rechargeable battery units. No, it's 10 regular NiMH AA cells wired in series with surface mounted thermistor and a few other bits of wire, then wrapped in black plastic, perhaps even heat shrink tubing. Logitech have used standard AA cells in the past for things like mice, while including a warning not to insert regular (or any other) batteries. Anyway, I'm not a fan of proprietary packs where they can be avoided, especially if they're just going to use regular sized cells (ie. the dimensions don't warrant something custom or less common). But as mentioned, what gets me the most is the extra cost and the fact it's bundled with a remote. These are streamlining/logistical measures and I'm sure Logitech will do fine with them. It doesn't mean I have to like it or a agree with it. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com)* MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70815 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art
Could you list some directories where you have files that have incorrect album art ? Could you list the image files available in each of these directories ? Does the problem only affect songs which don't have an ALBUM tag ? -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71290 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
