Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New preference default detection for language music source

2008-10-14 Thread JJZolx
There was a crasher on my Windows system running the Perl code. Can't locate Win32/Locale.pm. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9708 -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New preference default detection for language music source

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Herger
i see problems, many problems, with trying to so aggressively be clever. Hey, we're not trying to be clever. We're only following your desire to have more control right from the beginning. No questions asked - go right to the settings if you like. Or use SC as it's automagically configured.

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New preference default detection for language music source

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Herger
fine, but even a new user might want to set if SC should treat TPE2 as album artist or not for instance, esp if that won't be the default, since it has a huge impact on mp3 users, you know, the masses. No, a new user has no idea about all this: he doesn't know the options, he doesn't know the

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installer EXE naming, port checking, and firewalls

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Herger
No, never thought of that kind of a check. Actually, when I did the reinstall of a nightly that I had already installed (for the pause issue) it hit the firewall check again even though I'm pretty sure that I responded with allow always the first time anyway. I think the installer extracts

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Cleanup script

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Herger
i like the idea of it running from slimtray, is that how its gonna work? will it be able to do everything i laid out? will you be able to pick and choose which pieces to do? The last word on the UI isn't spoken yet. Feel free to chime in on bug 4611. also, is there already a request to

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Cleanup script

2008-10-14 Thread MrSinatra
peterw;349483 Wrote: My PlayLog plugin creates a directory inside the cache dir, as that's the only obvious place that I thought I could expect to have write privileges. Your cleanup tool appears (read the source at http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/7.3/trunk/server/cleanup.pl but

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New preference default detection for language music source

2008-10-14 Thread Phil Meyer
fine, but even a new user might want to set if SC should treat TPE2 as album artist or not for instance, esp if that won't be the default, since it has a huge impact on mp3 users, you know, the masses. No, I think you are missing the point. The sort of users that are being catered for here will

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New preference default detection for language music source

2008-10-14 Thread MrSinatra
Philip Meyer;349546 Wrote: fine, but even a new user might want to set if SC should treat TPE2 as album artist or not for instance, esp if that won't be the default, since it has a huge impact on mp3 users, you know, the masses. No, I think you are missing the point. The sort of users

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New preference default detection for language music source

2008-10-14 Thread MrSinatra
mherger;349530 Wrote: i see problems, many problems, with trying to so aggressively be clever. Hey, we're not trying to be clever. We're only following your desire to have more control right from the beginning. No questions asked - go right to the settings if you like. Or use SC as it's

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] No builds at all?

2008-10-14 Thread mrfantasy
And it looks like the Debian builds have just been updated. Thanks! -- mrfantasy --Mike http://last.fm/user/mrfantasy mrfantasy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1127 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] No builds at all?

2008-10-14 Thread Matt Wise
Should be fixed now ... the web links got changed, but the build system didnt get the same change. Its all restored now, and the files are all there for the last several days of builds. Additionally, the Debian Repo is updated now... -- Matt Wise

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Cleanup script

2008-10-14 Thread MrSinatra
mherger;349539 Wrote: i like the idea of it running from slimtray, is that how its gonna work? will it be able to do everything i laid out? will you be able to pick and choose which pieces to do? The last word on the UI isn't spoken yet. Feel free to chime in on bug 4611.

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Cleanup script

2008-10-14 Thread JJZolx
I wouldn't mind using the script to clear my cache and logs - it would save me from using the Windows GUI. With non-standard log and cache directories, how does the script find them? There's one thing I'd like to keep - the user/cookie based preferences for thumbnails and sorting in the web

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Download nightly compiled builds of 7.3 SqueezePlay for win32 and Mac OSX (Intel)

2008-10-14 Thread autopilot
Just out of interest, when will be start seeing a version for the Controller? I think tat what most Duet owners are waiting for! -- autopilot *Server:* SC7.2 (Windows Vista 64) *Players:* Squeezebox 3 (main room) / Squeezebox Receiver (bedroom) / Softsqueeze (office). *Amps:* Cambridge Audio

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New preference default detection for language music source

2008-10-14 Thread Philip Meyer
MrSinatra;349551 Wrote: clearly i was correct that many mp3 users of SC wanted and needed the Treat TPE2 as Album Artist option. i take it you still think its a small amount, but i think the evidence shows otherwise. Why are you clearly correct - what evidence? I would hazard a guess that

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Cleanup script

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Herger
also, is there already a request to add a restore defaults to the settings pages? ok, i'm very confused, b/c in this thread you say its a reasonable request, file a bug: As I understood it this is a remove all settings and reset to defaults (which is not feasible) vs. a reset this

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] No builds at all?

2008-10-14 Thread Patrick Dixon
It looks like the nightlies are all broken - still/again. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Download nightly compiled builds of 7.3 SqueezePlay for win32 and Mac OSX (Intel)

2008-10-14 Thread Jungle
autopilot;349696 Wrote: Just out of interest, when will be start seeing a version for the Controller? I think tat what most Duet owners are waiting for! Absolutely right! The sound you can hear is the noise made by thousands of lurkers all impatiently tapping their keyboards. -- Jungle

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] No builds at all?

2008-10-14 Thread mrfantasy
It looks like the nightly builds are still being updated at http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/latest, but the Debian repositories haven't been updated since October 8th. -- mrfantasy --Mike http://last.fm/user/mrfantasy

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Cleanup script

2008-10-14 Thread peterw
Fletch;349487 Wrote: Why can't you use the playlist dir? Great idea. That seems to work fine, so, yeah, I'll just move my playLOGs to the playLISTs dir. :-) -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] No builds at all?

2008-10-14 Thread dem
The yum repository is still out of date. -- dem Dave dem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2504 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53523

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New preference default detection for language music source

2008-10-14 Thread dwilliams01
Most installs have a custom and express install modes. I'd suggest that model. Although I have to admit I've never seen even an express mode that didn't ask for directory names of where to install and I'd think that the music library location would fall into that category as well - seems pretty

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New preference default detection for language music source

2008-10-14 Thread MrSinatra
Philip Meyer;349622 Wrote: Why are you clearly correct - what evidence? i should have been clearer... first, all the posts about TPE2 in the forum. theres a lot of them. if you search for it, you'll see a lot of them revolve about how its used by SC, both b4, and after, 8001. second, that