Re: [slim] New Squeezebox? Wireless - Wired

2005-03-02 Thread Sean Adams
Chris, The Ethernet port is fully functional on both wired and wireless models. On the wireless squeezebox there is an additional menu in setup to choose which interface you want. Our main processor has ethernet built-in so there was no reason not to include it in both models. Sean On Mar 1,

Re: [slim] iTunes Downloaded Music Questions (related to Slimp3)

2005-03-02 Thread Johan Hbner
Christian Pernegger wrote: Question...I download a .99 song the other day. It plays fine in Itunes. But slim wont play it. Its the AAC protected format? Yes. I tried to convert to mp3 but it wouldnt let me. Anyway to play downloaded/purchased songs from Itunes store? You can burn via iTunes,

RE: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0a2

2005-03-02 Thread Christian Pernegger
This is the second alpha release of SlimServer 6.0 - Lol... I'd just now upgraded my 6.x nightly on a whim and the directory listing seemed strangely underpopulated... the .tar.gz wer already there though, so I'm good. Keep up the awesome work! C. ___

RE: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-02 Thread Julian Alden-Salter
Hi, This is the stuff I found on audio synthesis' website... Following input selection two PLLs are used to extract and purify the word clock. An electrically and mechanically isolated crystal oscillator forms part of a sophisticated second order PLL, tightly bandpass filtering the recovered

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Marc Sherman
Phil Karn wrote: Perhaps the new Squeezebox model being hypothesized here will support G? That would be good, expecially if it included an extra RJ45 and a small Ethernet switch to allow another host to share it. And a pony. The new squeezebox should definitely include a pony. :) - Marc

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Jonas Nordström
Please don't use this list as a chat client, take all off-subject conversation off-list. The list is flooded already. Thanks! On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:31:51 -0500, Marc Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil Karn wrote: Perhaps the new Squeezebox model being hypothesized here will support G?

RE: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-02 Thread Neil Hastie
Hi All, I have some further information regarding this problem. Late last year I was trying to get a freinds MK1 Audio Synthesis DAX to lock to my Squeezebox. We saw the same problem, A good lock with MP3 streams, no lock at all with FLAC. The Mk1 DAX has a very narrow PLL clock capture window

RE: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Jason
Who died and made you boss? Whoops, I just contributed to the chatty chat chat. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonas Nordström Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 8:03 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] New

RE: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher Jacob
Are you kidding me??? Dude, get a life. ~c -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonas Nordström Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:03 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] New Squeezebox? Please don't use

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2005-03-02 Thread aynsley
Do I spy some flames on the horizon? Christopher Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02.03.2005, 17:02:57: Are you kidding me??? Dude, get a life. ~c -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonas Nordström Sent:

RE: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
I want a pony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2005 16:14 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] New Squeezebox? Do I spy some flames on the horizon? Christopher Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [slim] Itunes running on a server

2005-03-02 Thread Jack Coates
Randall Reed wrote: Need help! I am running all of my itunes music and the xml library from a server - ex. S:\Music (network map). All of the paths in the xml file point to the s:\ drive which is cool. However, slimserver doesn't like mapped drives - it seems. Can a fix be considered? or

Re: [slim] Bit-correct digital output

2005-03-02 Thread Ed Atlee
Steinar Bjaerum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. I investigated the bit-correctness of the digital output of Squeezebox using the DTS encoded as WAV method: I downloaded a DTS sample file encoded as a 44.1kHz WAV file. I made a second version of the file where

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread dean blackketter
On Mar 2, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Dan Goodinson wrote: I want a pony. Please file a feature request on http://bugs.slimdevices.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Jonas Nordström
lol, I guess I was wrong ... On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:45:41 -0800, Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dean blackketter wrote: On Mar 2, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Dan Goodinson wrote: I want a pony. Please file a feature request on http://bugs.slimdevices.com

RE: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Jason
Wouldn't that be an enhancement request? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dean blackketter Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:32 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] New Squeezebox? On Mar 2, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Dan

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Jack Coates
Jason wrote: Wouldn't that be an enhancement request? I did it as an enhancement request -- like all other tracking systems I've used, bugzilla records ERs and bugs in the same database. Call it what you will... I like to think of it as meaning that every enhancement request will eventually

RE: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
Fantastic - you actually raised it as an enhancement request? :D And I was only _half_ serious :D :D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Coates Sent: 02 March 2005 17:00 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

[slim] WikiSlim? SlimWiki? SlimWikiCity?

2005-03-02 Thread Damon Riley
Hi, everyone. I've enjoyed being a part of this mailing list and plan to continue with it. I do find it easier to stay on top of things when the messages land in my 'slim' inbox. BUT... There is a project called WikiCities that the creator of the Wikipedia has begun. How much interest is

[slim] Re: WikiSlim? SlimWiki? SlimWikiCity?

2005-03-02 Thread Dan Sully
* Damon Riley shaped the electrons to say... Yes, there are ups and downs to this, but what is there to lose, really? WikiCities lets us use their software servers to run the wiki and they get to place ads on the site. The content is free to anyone. Damon - we already have a wiki at:

Re: [slim] WikiSlim? SlimWiki? SlimWikiCity?

2005-03-02 Thread Thomas B. Malsbury
For the record it is located at: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/tiki-index.php Craig, James (IT) wrote: There is already a Wiki on SlimDevices web site. Not much on it though... James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damon Riley Sent:

[slim] Re: Announce: SlimServer 6.0a2

2005-03-02 Thread Dan Sully
* Jason shaped the electrons to say... This might be a stupid question, but is there a readme, etc, that explains what all has to be installed to make this work? I'm guessing I will have to load SQL of some flavor and possibly a new Perl version on my Linux machine to have a go at this new

RE: [slim] Re: Announce: SlimServer 6.0a2

2005-03-02 Thread Jason
(ppc-linux 5.6) What OS and perl version are you running? -D -- Fedora Core 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a Linux jaberwock 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# perl -v This is perl, v5.8.3 built for

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Jack Coates wrote: dean blackketter wrote: On Mar 2, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Dan Goodinson wrote: I want a pony. Please file a feature request on http://bugs.slimdevices.com http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918 Just voted for this. :) R. -- http://robinbowes.com

RE: [slim] Re: Announce: SlimServer 6.0a2

2005-03-02 Thread Jason
Also, is it recommended to uninstall the previous version or will this successfully install over the top via RPM? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sully Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:37 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread BenRubinstein
on 2/3/05 1:31 pm, Marc Sherman wrote And a pony. The new squeezebox should definitely include a pony. Doesn't seem unreasonable, given that there are other MP3 playing devices that include a cat: http://www.techjapan.com/Article903.html

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Phil Nelson
About using the list as a chat client? Not necessarily. I have 13534 unread messages here that say you might be right. OTOH, if by wrong you mean making a request guaranteed to provoke snotty answers, then yes. BTW, you are top-posting. Phil Nelson Jonas Nordström wrote: lol, I guess I was

RE: [slim] WikiSlim? SlimWiki? SlimWikiCity?

2005-03-02 Thread Craig, James (IT)
I think the reason no-one adds to the Wiki is it's a bit too um... offputting? at the moment. If the Slim staff were to add some hints as to where contributions are wanted I'm sure people would pitch in. At the moment it just looks like the website content to me. James -Original

[slim] SlimServer 6.0a2 scan problems

2005-03-02 Thread Kirk Ferguson
Hello. I've been trying to get the 6.0 nightlies to work on a Centos (RH Enterprise) server. The software installs fine, but crashes silently part way through scanning my library. The crash occurs about 10 minutes into the scan. 5.4.X works fine on the same system and library. If I remove the

SV: [slim] SlimServer 6.0a2 scan problems

2005-03-02 Thread Tore Johnsson
Since you removed 6.0 and installed 5.4xx, could you please tell me if you had to do something special with the firmware or did you get the firmware back which belong to 5.4x. I believe that the firmware is updated in 6.0 from the firmware version in 5.4x. Is this right? Kind Regards Tore

SV: SV: [slim] SlimServer 6.0a2 scan problems

2005-03-02 Thread Tore Johnsson
Thanks kdf Tore -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För kdf Skickat: den 2 mars 2005 19:29 Till: Slim Devices Discussion Ämne: Re: SV: [slim] SlimServer 6.0a2 scan problems Quoting Tore Johnsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since you removed 6.0 and

RE: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher Jacob
I don't care... I'm not buying another SB until they get the Pony enhancement worked out... 802.11g Larger buffer New processor with native FLAC decoding bit-accurate stream with no phase-inversion And last but not least - a new form factor, possibly a standard component size with a larger

Re: SV: [slim] SlimServer 6.0a2 scan problems

2005-03-02 Thread Kirk Ferguson
Quoting kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Tore Johnsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since you removed 6.0 and installed 5.4xx, could you please tell me if you had to do something special with the firmware or did you get the firmware back which belong to 5.4x. I believe that the firmware is

Re: [slim] Squeezebox installation creates IP address conflict

2005-03-02 Thread Michael Herger
I have two computers on my network, both connected to a router, itself connected to a cable modem (all wired). This morning I turned on the server computer (Windows XP), connected the Squeezebox to the router and installed it. But I omitted to turn on the second computer (Windows 98)

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Phil Karn
Christopher Jacob wrote: and a hard drive and a keyboard and a mouse Then build yourself a mini-ATX PC, or buy a Mac mini and run Softsqueeze. The whole point of a Squeezebox is to have a small, light, low-power, and **fanless** box that just plays music and plays it well. I think the current

Re: [slim] Magnatunes vs. slimserver

2005-03-02 Thread Phil Karn
Chip Hart wrote: ...after hearing a few references to Magnatunes here, I decided to check it out. Cool idea, surprisingly good music. I was about to work on parsing their WWW pages to extra playlists when I realized _they'd already done the hard work_ and

Re: [slim] Magnatunes vs. slimserver

2005-03-02 Thread Chip Hart
Phil Karn wrote: I don't think so. I did notice that his playlist entries are URLs with file names that just give the track #, artist and song, no album, year or comment. Oh, unless I am misunderstanding you, check this out: http://magnatune.com/info/api Look at

Re: [slim] Magnatunes vs. slimserver

2005-03-02 Thread Phil Karn
Chip Hart wrote: Oh, unless I am misunderstanding you, check this out: http://magnatune.com/info/api Look at the XML and csv files - tons of data. I've got it parsed and all, what I really struggle with is a cool way to I guess I wasn't aware of all that stuff.

cRE: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher Jacob
Then build yourself a mini-ATX PC, or buy a Mac mini and run Softsqueeze. The whole point of a Squeezebox is to have a small, light, low-power, and **fanless** box that just plays music and plays it well. I think the current design is just fine, though it took me a while to get used to

Re: [slim] WikiSlim? SlimWiki? SlimWikiCity?

2005-03-02 Thread Damon Riley
It appears that you have to create a login password to add to it. It's not as free-wheeling as the site I had in mind. Craig, James (IT) wrote: There is already a Wiki on SlimDevices web site. Not much on it though... James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Phil Karn wrote: The big flaw with this particular measurement (other than the horizontal sweep has been blown up to greatly exaggerate the problem) What makes you think that? Because I can read a scope legend. The scope has been blown up in the horizontal direction to exaggerate the jitter

Re: [slim] Squeezebox installation creates IP address conflict

2005-03-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Phil Karn wrote: If you have a typical small home router box with DHCP support (e.g., Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, SMC), it will generally let you specify the range of addresses that it will allocate dynamically. Allocate a reasonable number of addresses in your subnet to the dynamic pool for

Re: [slim] Squeezebox installation creates IP address conflict

2005-03-02 Thread Michael Peters
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:00:36 -0800, Phil Karn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best way is to assign a fixed, static IP address to each host on your own local network. There's really no point in allocating IP addresses dynamically to your own hosts given that you have such an abundant supply of

Re: [slim] Squeezebox installation creates IP address conflict

2005-03-02 Thread Jay Sissom
I have a linksys WRT54G. Can you tell me how to do this? I can find no setting to allow this in the WRT54G. Thanks Jay On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:17:23 +, Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, all small home router boxes I've used have the facility to fix DHCP leases, ie. always

Re: [slim] Squeezebox installation creates IP address conflict

2005-03-02 Thread Michael Peters
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:43:34 -0500, Jay Sissom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a linksys WRT54G. Can you tell me how to do this? I can find no setting to allow this in the WRT54G. I also have that router. The default lease time is a day. Go to Setup - Basis Setup Scroll down to DHCP Server

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-02 Thread Phil Karn
Robin Bowes wrote: What information on that image tells you that? It seems to me you're not understanding what you're seeing. The legend says the time trace is 5 ns/div. A pair of measuring lines implies that the jitter on the uncorrected is somewhat less than that, about 3 ns. As I recall (I

[slim] Re: Completely removing and installing from scratch

2005-03-02 Thread Dan Sully
* Mike Marley shaped the electrons to say... I am running 6.0a2 on a mac running 10.3.8 and am having some weird behavior. I am having the composer being included with artist problem and I just want to start from scratch. Does anyone know how to completely remove every single file that Slim

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-02 Thread Phil Karn
Phil Karn wrote: Even if that jitter were directly imposed on the local VCO, which it is not because of loop filtering, it would still be reduced by a factor of 64 as the VCO clock is divided by 64 to produce the DAC sample clock. I'm going to have to revise and correct this. (In my defense,

Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Victor Brilon
On Mar 2, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Jack Coates wrote: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918 +1 on that feature request! I hope you guys don't get around to doing it too soonI need to expand my back yard. ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Squeezebox installation creates IP address conflict

2005-03-02 Thread Jay Sissom
Thanks, but that isn't what I want to do. I want to make the router always assign a specific IP address based on the Mac address in my ethernet card. Robin said all the routers he has seen allow this, so I would like him to explain it for WRT54G. This is one of the most popular ones out there.

Re: [slim] Squeezebox installation creates IP address conflict

2005-03-02 Thread Tom
Jay Sissom wrote: Thanks, but that isn't what I want to do. I want to make the router always assign a specific IP address based on the Mac address in my ethernet card. Robin said all the routers he has seen allow this, so I would like him to explain it for WRT54G. This is one of the most

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.0a2

2005-03-02 Thread kdf
Quoting Michael Bowyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Kevin, I'm a Mac user, I double-click things ;) Double-clicking the installer seems to go through the motions. I install over 5.4.1, and get a new preference pane. I click the pref pane START button, the button changes to a greyed-out STOP, there's

Re: [slim] Modifying squeezebox clock

2005-03-02 Thread Neil Hastie
Absolutely sure - this is definetely a lock/nolock senario. The same stream fed to another DAC works perfectly. From: Phil Karn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com To: Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Modifying

RE: [slim] Now Playing information

2005-03-02 Thread Richard Scales
Thanks for the pointers - I should have thought of that myself! Kind regards Richard -Original Message- From: Michael Herger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2005 07:12 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Now Playing information On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 06:58:18 -,