[SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-05 Thread Ultrarunner
I have a minor problem I thought I would see if there was a solution for. I use Folder mode to view and control my ripped WAV files. When I use an app like Peng to view them, the folder names that have punctuation in them don't display properly. For example, if the folder name (album or artist

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-05 Thread Michael Herger
How do these characters show in eg. the web UI or on the player's display? On what platform are you running your LMS? -- Michael ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-05 Thread Ultrarunner
mherger wrote: > How do these characters show in eg. the web UI or on the player's > display? On what platform are you running your LMS? > > -- > > Michael In the web LMS the same punctuation characters are left blank. I.E. R.E.M. is R.E.M I am running LMS and the player on a device that

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-05 Thread Michael Herger
In the web LMS the same punctuation characters are left blank. I.E. R.E.M. is R.E.M Could you please provide one such file for investigation? https://www.dropbox.com/request/T3RctyzGgNg0oFDubq6a The fact that Queensrÿche does show correctly would make me think that the system can handle non-

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread DJanGo
Ultrarunner wrote: > In the web LMS the same punctuation characters are left blank. I.E. > R.E.M. is R.E.M Plaese provide the informations from http://your.lms.ip:9000/settings/index.html ->last tab [information]->first chapter (status) If there is another than UTF-8 listed you have to alter

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread pippin
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Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread Ultrarunner
DJanGo wrote: > Plaese provide the informations from > http://your.lms.ip:9000/settings/index.html ->last tab > [information]->first chapter (status) > > If there is another than UTF-8 listed you have to alter your OS to > UTF-8 > > btw. some Os have their own "forbidden/internal use only" char

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread Ultrarunner
mherger wrote: > > In the web LMS the same punctuation characters are left blank. I.E. > > R.E.M. is R.E.M > > Could you please provide one such file for investigation? > > https://www.dropbox.com/request/T3RctyzGgNg0oFDubq6a > > The fact that Queensrÿche does show correctly would make me thi

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread DJanGo
Ultrarunner wrote: > I've uploaded one song with a question mark at the end is that file on the same device or did you use a NAS? How is that drive mounted? sorry Red-Hat is not on my Workbench. Gruss Jan DJanGo's Profil

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread Ultrarunner
DJanGo wrote: > is that file on the same device or did you use a NAS? > How is that drive mounted? > > sorry Red-Hat is not on my Workbench. I don't use a NAS. My music server has internal storage. Sonic Orbiter > Ayre DX-5 DSD > Ayre KX-R > Ayre MX-R Twenty > YG Kipod II Signature Passive

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread DJanGo
Ultrarunner wrote: > I don't use a NAS. My music server has internal storage. ok and in the next reply i get the answer for the 2.nd question? Gruss Jan DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread Ultrarunner
DJanGo wrote: > ok and in the next reply i get the answer for the 2.nd question? Sorry, I'm out of my depth here. The drive is a 1TB card that plugs into a slot on the motherboard of the Sonic Orbiter. On my MPD player (PK90), which I seem to remember had the same issue, it was an external, bu

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread DJanGo
Ultrarunner wrote: > Sorry, I'm out of my depth here. The drive is a 1TB card that plugs > into a slot on the motherboard of the Sonic Orbiter. On my MPD player > (PK90), which I seem to remember had the same issue, it was an external, > bus-powered, USB hard drive. i mean how is it mounted an

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread Ultrarunner
DJanGo wrote: > i mean how is it mounted and which format does it have. > > Redhat should use fstab like debian - so cat /etc/mtab should help go > get that information. > Now we knew its a 1tb Disk we find the matching SD# Sorry. Like I said, I'm out of my depth here. I don't even know what

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread Michael Herger
I've uploaded one song with a question mark at the end. That file doesn't even come with a title. Here's all the tags I'm seeing: ALBUM ARTIST: Eagles APIC: [ image/jpeg, 3, Picture, 564513, 224201117 ] IART: Eagles ICRD: 2013 IGNR: Pop IPRD: On the Border IPRT: 8 TALB: On the Border TCON: Pop

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread Michael Herger
Ok. Done. Ok, this one indeed comes with a question mark at the end: 3-08 Is It True?.wav What would you see? Do you have other examples which would have something else in the filename, but which would show as a question mark? -- Michael ___ be

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-06 Thread Michael Herger
And one more thing: unless you have _very_ good reason to use WAV and BMF, I'd suggest you convert your files to flac and properly tag them. Or at the very least make sure they all have a title tag. You're currently using about the worst combination possible in LMS to access your music (incompl

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-07 Thread reinholdk
> The issue exists for FLAC or WAV. If there is punctuation at the end of > a folder or file title, it won't display. Also, if there is a "/" in > the middle of the title. As mentioned above, this could be solved by using FLAC files and putting names and titles into the tags. > The reason I sw

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-07 Thread pippin
Ultrarunner wrote: > The issue exists for FLAC or WAV. If there is punctuation at the end of > a folder or file title, it won't display. Also, if there is a "/" in > the middle of the title. > > The reason I switched from FLAC to WAV is improved sound quality. There is no improved sound quali

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-07 Thread DJanGo
Ultrarunner wrote: > The reason I switched from FLAC to WAV is improved sound quality. Another Audiophoolish Myth. and you really "detect" improved Sound Quality? I only detect improved Sound Quality from WAV over FLAC when i am listening to José Plácebo Domingo. Gruss Jan ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-07 Thread Ultrarunner
I have a very high end system. The difference is obvious to anyone who actually listens. I guarantee that I could sit you down, do a blind AB and you would hear it. Even my wife hears it, without knowing what's going on. The explanation is the extra processing DACs have to do in uncompressing

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-07 Thread pippin
Bet. When do we do it? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch* -

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-07 Thread pippin
And no, DACs don't uncompress FLAC. And no, the processing on the player side need not be higher, too. All myths. Plus, you could just decode on the server if it were true. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Par

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-08 Thread Julf
Ultrarunner wrote: > I have a very high end system. The difference is obvious to anyone who > actually listens. I guarantee that I could sit you down, do a blind AB > and you would hear it. Even my wife hears it, without knowing what's > going on. The explanation is the extra processing DACs

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-08 Thread Mnyb
Just some of the problems solved by flac files is good error correction and well supported tags . With good tags you can ditch the folder browse mode . The benefit is that file name and tag can be different . So you can use OS friendly file names and tag the files correctly with all the weird ac

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Punctuation Display Problem

2016-01-08 Thread Julf
Mnyb wrote: > Just some of the problems solved by flac files is good error correction > and well supported tags . > > With good tags you can ditch the folder browse mode . > > The benefit is that file name and tag can be different . So you can use > OS friendly file names and tag the files corr