Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] LMS moving forward?

2012-02-01 Thread Phil Leigh
t clunky but video/audio quality is truly excellent for DVD/Blu-Ray content. For the other stuff I use my iPad via an HDMI adapter into the TV/Projector. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] FLAC->AIFF streaming

2011-10-17 Thread Phil Leigh
Phil Leigh;663451 Wrote: > Why has the option to stream FLAC as AIFF been added? Totally > pointless... > Why not add ALAC as well? > What is going on? Anyone? Bueller? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] FLAC->AIFF streaming

2011-10-15 Thread Phil Leigh
Why has the option to stream FLAC as AIFF been added? Totally pointless... Why not add ALAC as well? What is going on? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/W7)+Teddy Pardo PSU - Audiolense 3.3

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] How can I change file locations?

2011-10-10 Thread Phil Leigh
The location of the cache folder can also be specified in server.prefs -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms 7.7 rc4

2011-09-29 Thread Phil Leigh
ar - I'm not 100% certain. I THINK I tried an ealier version of 7.7 so there may have been remnants of that install. What would you suggest? I'd rather not do a full uninstall if possible... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms 7.7 rc4

2011-09-29 Thread Phil Leigh
evious > version > > of 7.7 (hopefully this will get fixed?) > > This might be a side-effect of above scenario. > > -- > > Michael Yes I saw this 2 days ago with an install of RC3 over 7.6.2 - exactly the same behaviour. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms 7.7 rc4

2011-09-29 Thread Phil Leigh
The library has not changed. There is no reason for a scan after an install of 7.7 over a previous version of 7.7 (hopefully this will get fixed?) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Au

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Sound quality on LMS (wav/flac)

2011-09-28 Thread Phil Leigh
ment on Touch side? > > Just curious Sound quality is identical. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x L

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms 7.7 rc3

2011-09-28 Thread Phil Leigh
mbg;660254 Wrote: > Agree. I have no idea why Logitech thinks they can compete with Apple, > Microsoft, or Amazon on this front. Exactly... It's both stupid and sad -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call m

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms 7.7 rc3

2011-09-28 Thread Phil Leigh
bobertuk;660256 Wrote: > I think Phil is referring to a 10ft pole :) > > Bob Sorry... IPad autocorrect! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms 7.7 rc3

2011-09-28 Thread Phil Leigh
content. I'm not going to buy a set > top box if the web browser is crippled. My Freesat PVR already has > iPlayer and ITV Player and my PS3 has both of those and several others. theres no point to it even after that! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms 7.7 rc3

2011-09-28 Thread Phil Leigh
castalla;660249 Wrote: > What´s a 10th pole? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/not_touch_something_with_a_ten_foot_pole -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DR

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms 7.7 rc3

2011-09-28 Thread Phil Leigh
slate;660243 Wrote: > Is that thing actually for sale outside of the USA? I dunno... I have a PopcornHour A210... I wouldn't touch(sic) a Revue with a 10th pole... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call mini

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms 7.7 rc3

2011-09-28 Thread Phil Leigh
t; It's been fun. Thanks to the 2.5 Devs for their supreme efforts; I wish them well. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - fu

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms 7.7 rc2

2011-09-26 Thread Phil Leigh
t;3.5"). +---+ |Filename: CropperCapture[2].jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12533| +---+ -- Phil Leigh You want

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Is 7.6.2 abandoned

2011-09-23 Thread Phil Leigh
inally release a truly stable, polished > product. No you misunderstand - this is to punish people who insist on only running official releases :-) Me, I've always run the latest beta and have pretty much always been very happy. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it g

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Where did the 7.5.6 builds go?

2011-09-21 Thread Phil Leigh
andyg;658901 Wrote: > We are no longer building 7.5. Hurrah! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x L

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Where comes field 'namesort' from

2011-09-18 Thread Phil Leigh
frank1969;658317 Wrote: > lol ... sry, this is what I already knew ;) ... but "load in all of your > files" means loading 250.000 files ... what makes MP3 crash ;) Lol I meant all your compilations... Hopefully that isn't 250k of tracks? I wonder what the mp3tag limit is?

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Default artticle list in SBS/LMS?

2011-09-17 Thread Phil Leigh
;A". Thus there is little reason to ignore the article "A". According to my analysis of my library (3000 albums) less than 1% of albums start with "a" or "the". I have 2 artists that start with "a" and over 300 that start with "the"... -- Phil

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Where comes field 'namesort' from

2011-09-17 Thread Phil Leigh
via > Windows (Win 7) search function? > > Many thanks again :) > > Frank Easy in MP3Tag - simply customise the columns view and add the ALBUMARTISTSORT tag as one that displays on the main screen (not just on the Extended Tag Panel) - then load in all of your files and sort by t

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Default artticle list in SBS/LMS?

2011-09-15 Thread Phil Leigh
Yes - I want "A Love Supreme" to list under "A", not "L" ! Likewise A Night At The Opera... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug or reasonable explanation?

2011-09-13 Thread Phil Leigh
JJZolx;657462 Wrote: > But I thought that it was accounted for in firmware. > > How did all of these remotes end up sending out different codes for the > same buttons?? I think it's only the way that volume works that is different... How the repeat on hold is sent... -- Phi

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug or reasonable explanation?

2011-09-13 Thread Phil Leigh
6.2. It's always been this way... The remotes send different codes for the devices you mention iirc. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC -

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Scanner Suggestions

2011-09-13 Thread Phil Leigh
Ignore Case [FreD = FRED = fred] > > > Just a thought. there certainly could be... But it isn't going to happen, so you might as well start cleaning those tags... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minim

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Squeezeboxes UPnP/DLNA client ?

2011-09-06 Thread Phil Leigh
existing Duet Receiver owner, but felt that it was not > performing at its best > > http://www.harbar.net/articles/About.aspx Are we expected to take this guy seriously?... He ditched an SB for a bunch of very strangely argued reasons and then gets a Sonata that can't do gapless playba

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Squeezeboxes UPnP/DLNA client ?

2011-09-06 Thread Phil Leigh
A device I have is my Popcorn Hour... And that's for movies! I don't want music on my Wii. My house is crammed with gadgets - and yet I have no need / use for DLNA. YMMV. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call mi

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Squeezeboxes UPnP/DLNA client ?

2011-09-02 Thread Phil Leigh
play it instantly without the scan interfering... seems like we Are talking about different products! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Squeezeboxes UPnP/DLNA client ?

2011-09-02 Thread Phil Leigh
x27;s pretty much unbeatable. The only major feature I'm missing is Muso-style navigation through my library. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Squeezeboxes UPnP/DLNA client ?

2011-09-02 Thread Phil Leigh
Lots of people want multiple-room... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KAT

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Logitech Media Server Version: 7.7.0 - r33231 Cue Sheet Problems

2011-08-28 Thread Phil Leigh
these days. I'm not tryin to be inflammatory, just stating a fact. Cue sheets were useful to achieve gapless playback many years ago... But not now. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP)

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Please fix the "missing role"-bug before release

2011-08-22 Thread Phil Leigh
ible... This is just wrong. Amazon tags are often rubbish - as for iTunes Ha Ha! I have no illegal files and do not use composer tags or Album Artist tags (except in very special circumstances). I do not want SBS "optimised" for a 100% population of redundant AA tags thank you. -- Phil

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6.1 Release Candidates

2011-08-19 Thread Phil Leigh
The progressive searching feature is very cool. Please leave it alone (or - even better - promote it to be the default mode on the home page!) Thanks Phil. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touc

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] AIFF coverted to FLAC?

2011-08-04 Thread Phil Leigh
uld make these options obsolete? I'm not a Mac guy, but SBS doesn't need much horsepower. 1Gb of ram should be fine. Hopefully an Apple expert will chip in here... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call mini

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] AIFF coverted to FLAC?

2011-08-04 Thread Phil Leigh
SBT2010;646955 Wrote: > > Phil Leigh;646619 Wrote: > > ... ability to automatically transcode hi-rez such as 192 and 176.4 > > files (and 88.2/96 files for devices other than Touch or Transporter)[ > > - you may not care about this./QUOTE] > > > > Do you m

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] AIFF coverted to FLAC?

2011-08-03 Thread Phil Leigh
hich is far less bytes) is then sent over the network, which means less tax on the network... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] AIFF coverted to FLAC?

2011-08-03 Thread Phil Leigh
705 kb/s FLAC)? I use iTunes as > my ripper. The bitrate reported in the case of this type of transcoding is irrelevant - transcoding from one lossless format (AIFF) to another (FLAC) is...lossless! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain'

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Handheld option disappears with SBS 7.6?

2011-08-01 Thread Phil Leigh
there's a whole load of other stuff that should be dropped from SBS in order to make the whole thing more robust, more performant and easier to maintain. I'll post that in another thread. It won't make me popular... :-) End the code/feature bloat! -- Phil Leigh You want to see t

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Handheld option disappears with SBS 7.6?

2011-08-01 Thread Phil Leigh
literally my only control > when I'm outside in my yard. Maybe the skin just got renamed? Good > thing I haven't upgraded. > > -jg It's not a bug, all alternate skins are dead / no longer supported by Logitech as of 7.6. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal p

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] What's happening with LMS?

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Leigh
ought slimdevices, it was a massive management mistake. I agree that Win7 is a very very good platform for SBS. It is stable and fast. *nix is great for running (non-IE) browsers (I have a small HP wi-fi netbook running Chrome on Ubuntu 10 just to act as a GUI and control surface for SBS). -- Phi

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] What's happening with LMS?

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Leigh
fails. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] What's happening with LMS?

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Leigh
luding SBS) is a good idea. Therefore it should be no surprise that the ratio is 1.6:1 regardless of the Total installed base ratio of Windows:*nix "computers". There is no way you can extrapolate any conclusion about sales volumes from these ratios. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Leigh
ere is no absolute sense in which the tag can be deemed "correct"; "Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris" could just as well be "Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler" - it's an arbitrary choice - and I hate those. Anyway, I can hear Jim grinding his teeth... -- Phil L

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Leigh
um should appear under each ARTIST in album browse (as it already does in artist browse). However, because this would create multiple entries per album in this view it is not going to happen - so instead it should take the FIRST named artist as the sort/location point. I think this makes everybo

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Leigh
he covers appear in? However, back to the physical world for a moment... if you had the CD, where would you file the 1 copy of it? I'm not suggesting we should be bound by the limitations of the physical world... but it is an interesting question, especially for classical music... (oops, c

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Leigh
rowse view... I accept there is a wider userbase than just me - annoying though it may be :-) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 -

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Mapped drive unavailable

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Leigh
hmmm, this still seems like a timing/sequence issue -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESP

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Leigh
- If it was under BOTH H & K that would also be fine. So in summary: 1) The album is visible 2) it appears in a logical place 3) is it perfect - no, but good enough for me 4) Am I going to add AA tags to my albums - NO! 5) Should we move on to other bugs? - probably... that conflated hyperlink

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Mapped drive unavailable

2011-07-28 Thread Phil Leigh
MrC;644538 Wrote: > I don't think so. I'm already logged in, remove SBS, install SBS, and > then the drive is not visible. No reboot / logout / login involved. Which OS are we talking about here? If windows, is SBS installed under and ADMIN user? -- Phil Leigh You want t

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Mapped drive unavailable

2011-07-28 Thread Phil Leigh
I think this only happens the first time after installation. > It is not specific to 7.6, as the same occurred when I updated to > 7.5.5. It's because SBS is starting BEFORE the disk is mounted when the operating system/machine is rebooted. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal pat

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-28 Thread Phil Leigh
ags? OK - under that browse path (which I never use - what does "browse albums" really mean? - I've never - NEVER - used it...) it appears under Knopfler But as I said, I really don't care! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-28 Thread Phil Leigh
ows up under both Knopfler AND Harris (which as far as I am concerned is 100% correct) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-28 Thread Phil Leigh
://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12132| +---+ -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ D

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-28 Thread Phil Leigh
t; > A quick test with an album tagged: > > ALBUM=Some Album > ARTIST=Mark Jones > ARTIST=Tom Ames > COMPILATION=0 > > Gives the following in 7.5 and 7.6 respectively: > > > Some Album by Mark Jones, Tom Ames > > > Some Album by Mark Jones > > &g

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Leigh
s a VA comp. Nor do I believe it should be necessary to invent an AA such as X+Y in my file tags (I could live with SBS doing that internally for its own purposes) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Leigh
in my example, there are two ARTISTs: Mark and Emmylou. Therefore (as 7.5 used to do) there should be 2 synthetic " album artists "; Mark and Emmylou. Simple. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minim

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Transporter fw 87 still fails to play 24/96 properly

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Leigh
Kuro;644114 Wrote: > Of course not. But that's not the point. It is the point. The TP has very limited CPU and it is all used up. The "fix" is to recompress the few hi-res flacs that exhibit this problem. There is no downside to doing this. I can't see a viable altern

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SBS 7.6 Search

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Leigh
", "Songs: None". > > It also seems to show only the first 10 matches - there's no way to see > more matches in the results? Is this in the web UI? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SBS 7.6 - bug 17340 query

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Leigh
all in the song list. That's what bug > 17340 is about.) Oh I see - I was looking at the top of the pane... yes I see the same thing - the song-level links are conflated into a single song info link - that's not good (OR CORRECT!) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SBS 7.6 - bug 17340 query

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Leigh
when I tried > last week). > > Phil No - where artists names appear they always hyperlink as you would expect... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SBS 7.6 - bug 17340 query

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Leigh
rtist, display that, otherwise display all > artists on all tracks". > > Maybe it's okay, and this case was already being suppressed? I'm about > to give the latest 7.6 a whirl. > > Phil No! - stop unfixing all the things I've had fixed! and take your 99% u

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Leigh
| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12125| +---+ -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd ca

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Leigh
mherger;643643 Wrote: > > Take a look at this album... > > Could you please attach that track to the bug report? Thanks! > > -- > > Michael I'm trying but the file (30Mb) may be too big... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a C

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Leigh
g with the tags. +---+ |Filename: CropperCapture[4].jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12119| +-------+ -- Phil Leigh You want to

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Handheld option disappears with SBS 7.6?

2011-07-26 Thread Phil Leigh
ltsv38;626610 Wrote: > I would like to have Logitech confirmation concerning this assertion... > > ... Oh it's true alright. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audi

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-26 Thread Phil Leigh
ome of us DO NOT USE ALBUMARTIST (a 99.9% redundant tag for me) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK1

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-26 Thread Phil Leigh
I have exactly the same results in the web UI as Frank, FLAC files, Flac tags only. Obviously the scanner parses the separator correctly... but the UI just randomly chooses one artist to display... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug NOT fixed (only showing one artist or composer as artist...)

2011-07-26 Thread Phil Leigh
This is still not working in the web UI in 7.6.1 :-( -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140'

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 is being released???

2011-07-26 Thread Phil Leigh
potential economis of scale, potential access to a global marketing, distribution and support network, potential leverage across product lines, access to very good patent lawyers (I could go on...) The bad thing is that the execs and marketeers mostly have NO CLUE what is going on and make crazy deci

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 is being released???

2011-07-26 Thread Phil Leigh
pippin;643168 Wrote: > certainly not I'm not sure whether I should feel very happy or very sad about that! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-22 Thread Phil Leigh
mrsinatra;642320 Wrote: > what do you guys use to make iso files of dvds / blurays? dvdfab -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Transporter fw 87 still fails to play 24/96 properly

2011-07-21 Thread Phil Leigh
to play correctly. Is this still the case with flac compression level = zero? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 Scanner progress

2011-07-20 Thread Phil Leigh
Artists will possibly be the fact that the scanner now discriminates leading/trailing spaces and upper/lower case in strings -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+IN

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 Scanner progress

2011-07-20 Thread Phil Leigh
I installed a 2Tb disk and got rid of my shortcuts a year ago :-) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 Scanner progress

2011-07-20 Thread Phil Leigh
nly about 5 mins quicker than SBS 7.5.5. total number of files? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140&#

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-19 Thread Phil Leigh
useful in debugging/working around scanner crashes. > > It's absolutely non-geeky: point your LMS to your music folder only. > Done. > > You and your use-case should be fine. But at some point I'd want to use > LMS for pictures, but don't want it to show cover art.

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-19 Thread Phil Leigh
ing brains have left the building. The one USP Apple doesn't have is configurability/customisability... :-( -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 D

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Leigh
Will LMS allow the scanning of photos and video to be disabled? I never want it to touch my non-music stuff - and I don't want it to index all my folder.jpg's as "photos"!. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain'

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 scanning issues persist

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Leigh
ases of SBS. Yes but only for a very small number of people, so it must be an edge condition. Let's see what Andy's cunning plan reveals... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Aud

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Leigh
song but I'm usually much more interested in the performer... and then in the spcific performance. Unfortunately SBS has no built-in method for supporting "performance" (and the Composer fucntionality is indeed broken in 7.6 but I'm sure it can/will be fixed if enough peop

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Windows Firewall Inbound Rules

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Leigh
58 for me... I just deleted 57 of them :-) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKA

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Leigh
Ah yes... I knew there was a reason I don't use the Composer (except for Classical music) or albumartist tags! Have you voted for bug 16554? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) -

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Leigh
aves you (and me!) with the "multiple track artists not showing" problem for which there is a bug and hopefully a fix...soon? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Leigh
eems very different to XP... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Leigh
e random disappearing trayicon problem for a while - doesn't seem to affect my Win7 setup as much as it did under XP - again it is mildly annoying but hardly a showstopper - there's nothing you can't do even without that icon visible... Not sure what the albumartist vs artist pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Leigh
Nightly with SQLite? Perhaps we could start another thread - sometimes many eyes can make light work of a problem... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-18 Thread Phil Leigh
x27;t even dream of using the Touch internal server or a NAS of any spec for that size of library. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - f

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Lms?

2011-07-13 Thread Phil Leigh
It really doesn't matter if 7.6 gets shelved. I've been running it (happily) for over a year and will continue to run it. It makes NO difference what its official release status is - it works. If LMS (or 7.x or 8.x) eventually replaces it great...if not, who cares? -- Phil Leigh Y

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6.0 - Filtering by artist is broken for play, add

2011-06-30 Thread Phil Leigh
JJZolx;638590 Wrote: > Bug filed: 'Filtering by artist is broken when playing an album' > (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17298) voted -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... To

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Browsing albums - only showing ONE artist!

2011-06-30 Thread Phil Leigh
garym;638537 Wrote: > thanks. Voted. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Scanner crashing randomly

2011-06-22 Thread Phil Leigh
I can't wait to find out what this is - I have NO scanner problems (xp+win 7, sqlite, 1 hard disk, 40k tracks (1k mp3 full artwork, some large), mip integration) with any version of 7.6 in the last few months... 16 minutes for a full rescan. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.5.5 nightly memory leak?

2011-06-13 Thread Phil Leigh
Unless you have > 100,000 music files, your 400Mb memory usage is just wrong... way too big. I suggest you remove all plugins and restart to see how much memory is in use, then re-add the plugins one by one... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl..

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Where has BBC iPlayer gone?

2011-06-03 Thread Phil Leigh
ough... :-( anything else I can try? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/

[SlimDevices: Beta] Where has BBC iPlayer gone?

2011-06-03 Thread Phil Leigh
iPlayer Extras is still under Internet Radio... but iPlayer itself has vanished from the Web UI?... (no, I haven't changed anything!) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolens

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Library not available until scanning has finished ?

2011-06-01 Thread Phil Leigh
but I don't - it stops immediately for me... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKA

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Library not available until scanning has finished ?

2011-06-01 Thread Phil Leigh
JJZolx;634308 Wrote: > Yes, the scanner keeps its progress updated. What I wouldn't count on is > SBS monitoring it in any meaningful fashion, so that it can recover from > a crash. hmmm... should be easy enough to test... just kill the scanner.exe process in task manager...

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Library not available until scanning has finished ?

2011-06-01 Thread Phil Leigh
ering_directory-38458-0-", ] [11-05-31 07:21:47.2670] Slim::Utils::SQLiteHelper::updateProgress (511) Notify to server OK [11-05-31 07:21:48.8825] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::Async::__ANON__ (79) Async scanner found 40530 files/dirs in 31.80 sec -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal pat

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Library not available until scanning has finished ?

2011-06-01 Thread Phil Leigh
periodic "progress" message to the server during long-running operations such as the initial directory scan, musicip import etc... If the scanner crashes, presuambly the server detects the lack of "progress messages"? I'm intrigued to find out what is causing your scanner

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 scanner still severely broken?

2011-05-31 Thread Phil Leigh
Clear and Rescan writes to scanner.log. Everything else related to scanning writes to server.log. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 scanner still severely broken?

2011-05-31 Thread Phil Leigh
pippin;634042 Wrote: > When did you do the last Clear&Rescan? nearly every day (adding/correcting artwork still requires a C&R! ) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiole

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 scanner still severely broken?

2011-05-29 Thread Phil Leigh
; > and no ALBUMARTIST field. +1 That's how I tag mine and it works fine in 7.6 (as far as I can see) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1

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