[slim] 1U faceplate drawings

2005-03-15 Thread d-mode
With the talk of the site (I can't remember the URL right off) that custom makes faceplates and other stuff, does anyone have drawings for a SQZ1 and SQZ2 that they are willing to share?   Andrew   <---Keen on getting a 1U box built to fit in with the look of the rest of the kit!

Re: [slim] Re: Problem with Ogg > MP3 encoding.....

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 02:02:45AM -0500, Mark Bassett wrote: > On a side note, I get the following from the console: > > Could not find "320" That was fixed a few days ago. $QUALITY$ (IIRC) was not getting added to the client config and so lame was getting called without a parameter to -q (and

[slim] Re: Problem with Ogg > MP3 encoding.....

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Bassett
On a side note, I get the following from the console: Could not find "320". Error writing to file: Broken pipe Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /PerlApp/Slim/Player/Source.pm line 711. Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /PerlApp/Slim/Player/Source.pm line 711. Don't

Re: [slim] biography plugin on Slimserver 6b1

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Herger
Chris [..] Please download the latest release (http://www.herger.net/_data/Biography.zip) - I just uploaded it a few minutes ago. I'm using the 3/15 nightly build (SlimServer Version: 6.0b1 - r2461) and could not get this plug-in to show up in the plugins list. I unzipped both the Biogr

[slim] Re: Problem with Ogg > MP3 encoding.....

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Bassett
BTW: I have included the wrong line from convert.conf I am indeed using the default to no avail (please ignore typos from the line I was playing with in my previous example): ogg mp3 * * [oggdec] -Q -o - -R $FILE$ | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ -b $BITRATE$ -r -x -

[slim] Problem with Ogg > MP3 encoding.....

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Bassett
Greetings everyone, I've looked and looked through the mailing list archives and couldn't find the information I need, so here is my question: I have recently installed slimserver from the stable build. Everything has worked great so far, except one thing; ogg files do not play. I have looked and

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread kdf
Quoting Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ok, well, given that I fixed this sort of thing through fixing tags before, > I'm guessing I'll fix via tags still. Thanks. that should do it :) just be aware if you have saved playlists, that some playlists supply track title info. I'm not sure ho

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Haan
Ok, well, given that I fixed this sort of thing through fixing tags before, I'm guessing I'll fix via tags still.  Thanks. >From: kdf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion >To: Slim Devices Discussion >Subject: Re: [slim] Song Display Name >Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:50:59 -0800

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread kdf
Quoting Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Whatever drives the way artist/album/song are listed within the web > interface. I see one "Alice in Chains", and one "Alice In Chains" and I > don't know what's driving the difference. If it's tags, I can fix it. Is > it? If so, and I fix it, how

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Haan
Whatever drives the way artist/album/song are listed within the web interface.  I see one "Alice in Chains", and one "Alice In Chains" and I don't know what's driving the difference.  If it's tags, I can fix it.  Is it?  If so, and I fix it, how do I make the fix reflect itself in the UI? >From: k

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Oh and PS I'm all FLAC via EAC. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Dave wrote: Only problem is with about 1000 CDâs I want to get it right the first time around â But that's another great thing about lossless (provided of course your codec is not fubar): you don't have to get it right the first time. If a better compression scheme or different standard comes alon

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread kdf
Quoting Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ok, but the question is, when I find an inconsistency (Alice in Chains vs > Alice In Chains), where do I go to correct it? > that all depends on the source: id3 tags, playlist, cue sheet, itunes, musicmagic, moodlogic. -kdf ___

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Haan
Ok, but the question is, when I find an inconsistency (Alice in Chains vs Alice In Chains), where do I go to correct it? >From: kdf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion >To: Slim Devices Discussion >Subject: Re: [slim] Song Display Name >Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:16:50 -0800 >

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread kdf
Quoting Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ok, I've upgraded to 6.0. Pre 6.0, I would sometimes come across > inconsistencies in artist names, or album names (and vs &, or In vs in) and I > would fix it by editting the tag and rescanning. My question - now, with 6.0 > being DB based, how do I

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:27:00PM +1000, Dave wrote: > I suppose one thing to also consider is which encoder to use and does > it have CCD or similar titling database support (on that note do > lossless formats support tagging??) flac support Ogg tagging and cuesheets. I would guess that all

Re: [slim] biography plugin on Slimserver 6b1

2005-03-15 Thread Chris Johnson
Michael Herger wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:04:40 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Upgraded to 6b1 today. Most things seem to work OK; I like the new features..and searching for song titles seems more stable than it used to be.. However, one of the greatest plugins of recent times - the biograph

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Haan
Ok, so, if I want to correct Song titles or otherwise, I still go and change the tag names?  Or do I fix a value in a table? >From: "Aaron Zinck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion >To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com >Subject: Re: [slim] Song Display Name >Date: Tue, 15 Mar 200

Re: [slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread Aaron Zinck
Things will (more or less) look and operate the same to the end user except once 6.0 becomes more mature you should see speedier performance, a smaller memory footprint, and more features.  There'll still be a rescan button. ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Song Display Name

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Haan
Ok, I've upgraded to 6.0.  Pre 6.0, I would sometimes come across inconsistencies in artist names, or album names (and vs &, or In vs in) and I would fix it by editting the tag and rescanning.  My question - now, with 6.0 being DB based, how do I go about fixing inconsistencies like this? >From: J

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:27:00 +1000, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suppose one thing to also consider is which encoder to use and does it have > CCD or similar titling database support (on that note do lossless formats > support tagging??) > > Anyways, if anybody has some advice that yo

Re: [slim] Ogg Vorbis Support on SB2?

2005-03-15 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050315 19:07]: > Sorry if I missed something in this thread, but what's the down side > of ogg->pcm on the server? Bandwidth to the SB? I suspect that > might be the issue for higher bitrates. (Yes, I'm not an audio > engineer.) When you use mp3 or ogg, you h

Re: [slim] Ogg Vorbis Support on SB2?

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:17:39PM -0800, Michael Peters wrote: > Oh you can - the ogg files are decoded on the server, and then sent to > the squeezebox either re-encoded as an mp3, flac, or unencoded as a > PCM. Sorry if I missed something in this thread, but what's the down side of ogg->pcm on

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread jan van mourik
Dave, Good forum: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=62 BTW. I just EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to rip my cds and compress to flac in one step. jan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/list

[slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread Dave
Hi All, Iâve just setup my new slimserver box running Mandrake 10.1 with the new Seagate 400Gb Barracuda HDD. Iâm about to re-archive my CD collection and now that Iâve got space to burn Iâm considering using a lossless format of some description so as to repoducce the sweetest possible sound.

[slim] using iTunes playlist in slimserver

2005-03-15 Thread Didier Fiszel
James Craig wrote: playlist building and usually I just dump iTunes playlists into it for any extended listening.> I cannot make SlimServer display iTunes playlists, let alone dump a playlist in SlimServer. SlimServer shows all my albums, artists, genres, shows the lists I saved from SlimSever,

Re: [slim] Ogg Vorbis Support on SB2?

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:13:28 -0600, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is all this talk about the SqueezeBox2 not supporting Ogg Vorbis. > The features page states that it does and that is why I bought one. > Please don't tell me I can't play my Ogg Vorbis music files on the > SqueezeBox2... Oh

[slim] Ogg Vorbis Support on SB2?

2005-03-15 Thread Dan
What is all this talk about the SqueezeBox2 not supporting Ogg Vorbis. The features page states that it does and that is why I bought one. Please don't tell me I can't play my Ogg Vorbis music files on the SqueezeBox2... Dan ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Issues with SoftSqueeze 2.0a11 new info

2005-03-15 Thread David Makoski
I tried playing MP3s vs. my Apple LossLess audio, and MP3 seem to play just fine. Only the Apple LossLess produce nothing but static. As soon as I get my news reader to append I'll do that but for now I have to send seperate emails. Thanks, how this issue gets resolved. __

Re: [slim] Re: Re: 6.0b1 & iTunes problems

2005-03-15 Thread Healy
On Mar 15, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Dan Sully wrote: * Healy shaped the electrons to say... OK, this is just wacky now: With an absolutely clean install and NO music folder and NO itunes folder, I get a wacked track count like this: Your music library contains 1 album with 0 songs by 1 artist. So this h

Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-15 Thread Marc D . Field
In article news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Chris Buckle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >By the way Marc, one useful addition to your excellent script may be to >advise that a copy is taken of the password file before any drastic editing. Excellent idea. Marc -- Marc __

[slim] Re: Re: 6.0b1 & iTunes problems

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Sully
* Healy shaped the electrons to say... OK, this is just wacky now: With an absolutely clean install and NO music folder and NO itunes folder, I get a wacked track count like this: Your music library contains 1 album with 0 songs by 1 artist. So this happens upon inital startup with no pref file a

Re: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Elen
Karel Tromp wrote: till I am curious how the analoge output of the SB2 will sound related to the ones I use now On paper, ie the DAC chip in use, the SB2 DAC should significantly out-perform the one in the SB1. I never liked the analog outs of the SB1 and I'm expecting the one on the SB2 inde

Re: [slim] Re: 6.0b1 & iTunes problems

2005-03-15 Thread Healy
OK, this is just wacky now: With an absolutely clean install and NO music folder and NO itunes folder, I get a wacked track count like this: Your music library contains 1 album with 0 songs by 1 artist. ran the server with the following command line options: --logfile /etc/slim/error.log --pref

Re: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
Now I am using the build-in DAC from Marantz SR5400 OSE AV receiver. It accepts the 24b/96Khz signal from the Behringer and delivers an amazing clear sound. But... the Behringer can do a bit of DAC converting by itself (through assymetric XLR connectors). When I can get a pair of cables for connect

RE: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Chris May
Trying to remember Was at a friends place. I think it was an older model NAD AV reciever, probably comperable to their 763... CM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karel Tromp Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:23 PM To: Slim Devices Discuss

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Hey, I think that is excellent. I sent in a request to SLIMDEVICES to have OGG added to the firmware as I mentioned in a previous post. As a side note, I'm surprised by the negative attitude of a few people regarding the adding of this feature. I don't use FLAC currently, don't have any plans,

Re: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
It looks very nice, what do you use for powering this? Karel On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:22:27 -0500, Chris May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hooked a SB1 to a tube pre-amp, and WOW what a difference! > > I was using a VAC pre-amp, their cheap one - about $2500ish. This was > using theinternal DAC

RE: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Chris May
I hooked a SB1 to a tube pre-amp, and WOW what a difference! I was using a VAC pre-amp, their cheap one - about $2500ish. This was using theinternal DAC and analog out on the SB. I cannot wait to hear what the SB2 will sound like! http://www.vac-amps.com/Auricle_Preamplifier.htm Chris -Or

[slim] Re: "Rescan" issue ...

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Sully
* Mike Reeve shaped the electrons to say... Please email me the log files. Thanks! -D -- ( ( ( [ ] ) ) ) In Stereo Where Available ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] "Rescan" issue ...

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Reeve
kdf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Quoting Mike Reeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Hi > > > > SlimServer_v2005-03-11.dmg + OS X 10.3.8 + approx. 3000 songs: > > > > - "Rescan" takes a couple of minutes > > > > SlimServer_v2005-03-15.dmg (and 03-14 also): > > > > - "Rescan" never

Re: [slim] Re: gapless playback with mp3 - another shot

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
OK, I shall give it a try and encode something. BTW I use EAC for encoding, I think it's covered there. Karel On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:51:23 -0700, Jason Holtzapple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karel Tromp wrote: > > You're right when I want to produce mixed cd's (wav). I use foobar for > > managi

Re: [slim] AlienBBC BBC live problems

2005-03-15 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I have been doing some work on the AlienBBC parser and it is quite hard to traverse the BBC web site. I would like to see an XML page on the web site that detailed all the radio feed items and their addresses. That is probably too much to ask. If you guys have a contact I could rough out a sample x

Re: [slim] Re: gapless playback with mp3 - another shot

2005-03-15 Thread Jason Holtzapple
Karel Tromp wrote: You're right when I want to produce mixed cd's (wav). I use foobar for managing my mp3 files. Can I use it too for burning mp3 cd's (with the cue-sheet you mentioned?) I'm not sure - I've never used foobar for this purpose. However I have used mp3directcut to cut tracks directly

Re: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Elen
Karel Tromp wrote: ...The Apogee Mini-DAC is also named as an excellent DAC for signals from CD, PC (yes) and other digital devices. I used to work for Apogee, so I'm biased (which way?), but their stuff is very good indeed. They often have specials of one sort or another, at: http://www.apogeedig

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
Just so there is some clarity on the subject, here is where I am coming from completely. I am working on an rpm spec file for inclusion of SlimServer in rpm.livna.org rpm.livna.org is a yum repository for packages that can not be included in Fedora Core or Fedora Extras because of patent issues.

Re: [slim] Just noise from Softsqueeze

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Titmuss
Craig wrote: Richard Well today mp3s and wavs play fine before and after playing an aac file but it looks like the SoftSqueeze version has changed to 2.0a13 since yesterday. aac files are still just noise, there's a clip here http://www.the-solicitors-band.co.uk/craig/sqnoise.mp3 don't go selli

Re: [slim] Re: gapless playback with mp3 - another shot

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
You're right when I want to produce mixed cd's (wav). I use foobar for managing my mp3 files. Can I use it too for burning mp3 cd's (with the cue-sheet you mentioned?) On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:23:45 -0700, Jason Holtzapple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karel Tromp wrote: > > I have now app. 7500 mp3

Re: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
As told by several posts in this forum the DAC of the SB2 is a significant better one than the one used in the original SB. It can be most suprising what a seperate DAC (f.e. a behringer or an apogee) can do with the signal from the SB1 even without upsampling it. I bought the Behringer after I hav

Re: [slim] Re: gapless playback with mp3 - another shot

2005-03-15 Thread Jason Holtzapple
Karel Tromp wrote: I have now app. 7500 mp3 files/tracks. Following your procedure I have to re-encode all of my cd's or glue-ing them together with audacity or some other program. Besides that, I just want to choose tracks from a album to make mp3-cd's for use in vacation. Therefore I think rippin

Re: [slim] Just noise from Softsqueeze

2005-03-15 Thread Craig
Richard Titmuss wrote: Craig wrote: Using Softsqueeze from 15/03 nightly's and all the previous versions since V6a all I'm getting output is white noise. I've tried playing wav, aac and mp3 and they're all the same. Changing the Audio mixer and buffer size have no effect either. I'm using XPPro wi

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
Installing SlimServer isn't a problem for me, and as I stated earlier in this discussion - ogg support in the firmware doesn't matter personally to me, I don't use ogg at the moment anyway. But it still would be a good thing for users if it was supported in the squeezebox. You should request featur

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
It's a business decision. Exactly. If they supported ogg decoding in the player, they may get more customers. Maybe. Would there be enough to offset the cost? Maybe Possibly - if for no other reason then there would be slashdot buzz about it, I'd think the fact that the whole server source code is

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:11:02 -0700, Daryle A. Tilroe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And, as was pointed out, you can stream your existing MP3s just fine. > Finally, if you are running Linux and cannot somehow install LAME then > you have other problems. ;-) Those that seem to be against this hav

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:57:01 +0100, Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am stating point blank that the patent issues are in fact a problem for > >SlimServer ever being > >included in Fedora/Red Hat mainline distribution > > Then your feature request should not be 'please include n

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Jason wrote: Why on earth would Slim give a damn if Slim server was included in mainline Linux distributions? Do you really think that the inclusion of Slim Server software is going to sell extra Squeezeboxes? While I may not think that native OGG in the firmware is much of a priority it certainly

RE: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Jason
> More customers though is a good thing, right? > Would there be enough to offset the cost? > Possibly - if for no other reason then there would be > slashdot buzz about it, giving free advertising to > slimdevices (and not just for ogg > users) > I think that there are numerous stability and p

RE: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Jason
Why on earth would Slim give a damn if Slim server was included in mainline Linux distributions? Do you really think that the inclusion of Slim Server software is going to sell extra Squeezeboxes? Actually there is no reason Slim Server cannot be included in a core distribution as it is, they do

Re: [slim] Re: gapless playback with mp3 - another shot

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
I have now app. 7500 mp3 files/tracks. Following your procedure I have to re-encode all of my cd's or glue-ing them together with audacity or some other program. Besides that, I just want to choose tracks from a album to make mp3-cd's for use in vacation. Therefore I think ripping entire albums int

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
I am stating point blank that the patent issues are in fact a problem for SlimServer ever being included in Fedora/Red Hat mainline distribution Then your feature request should not be 'please include native .ogg support in the sb2', it should be 'please try to get slimserver into an official RH

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:47:45 +0100, Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah, so what? What you're saying is that slimdevices should spend time and > mony on adapting tremor to the sb2 just because RedHat doesn't ship > something you want out of the box. It's a business decision. If

Re: [slim] Just noise from Softsqueeze

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Titmuss
Craig wrote: Using Softsqueeze from 15/03 nightly's and all the previous versions since V6a all I'm getting output is white noise. I've tried playing wav, aac and mp3 and they're all the same. Changing the Audio mixer and buffer size have no effect either. I'm using XPPro with an MAudio sound

Re: [slim] Serving DTS CDs

2005-03-15 Thread Jason Snell
Richard Elen wrote: Thanks for this... I gather SB2 corrects the problem. No guesses as to which unit will be connected to the surround system once the SB2 arrives, then! I might sign-invert a file to see what happens but apart from that I'll wait... According to the Slim guys, SB2 should work f

Re: [slim] Issues with SoftSqueeze 2.0a11

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Titmuss
David Makoski wrote: I first report an issue with just getting static when I play a song. All music in Apple Lossless audio format. In the SoftSqueeze console I get: 10125 [AudioMixer-0] WARN javasound - Java Sound Audio buffer underrun bufAvail=3449216 11922 [AudioMixer-0] WARN javasound - Java

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
While true - it would mean the Red Hat/Fedora would be shipping a product for which they do not ship the capability for users to use, the users would have to encode their mp3's elsewhere - and I think you can understand why they would not want to do that. No, I can't, not at all. For the sake of ar

RE: [slim] What do you use behind the SB?

2005-03-15 Thread JMK VTX
Erh, eh... Perhaps I'm missing something (literally) as I go from the SB via the phono plugs into a Krell PAM III pre-amp, Krell KSA-50 combo. As the preamp does not have digital in, should I be thinking of getting a converter and doing a conversion to analog outside the SB? - John -- No virus fou

Re: [slim] "Rescan" issue ...

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Reeve
Mike Reeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SlimServer_v2005-03-11.dmg + OS X 10.3.8 + approx. 3000 songs: > > - "Rescan" takes a couple of minutes > > SlimServer_v2005-03-15.dmg (and 03-14 also): > > - "Rescan" never seems to end (waited approx. 4 hours) ... As further background:

RE: [slim] Bit-correct digital output

2005-03-15 Thread Steinar Bjaerum
Sorry for not replying earlier. I missed your post on this busy list... What I did, was that I downloaded a WAV encoded DTS file from http://www.sr.se/multikanal/english/e_index.stm (I did not rip a CD) When sending the original WAV file through Squeezebox to my Home Theater receiver I only heard

[slim] Memory footprint with 6.0b1

2005-03-15 Thread James Dunn
Hi, I have a RH 7.2 system with 512MB memory in it I have 6.0b1 installed and 5676 tracks in it. I'm using MySQL as the database and It's nicely populated. I've iTunes disabled (and I've even renamed the XML file so that it can't be found). Everything generally works fine (unless I explore outsid

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:31:06 +0100, Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wait a minute, didn't you just bash mp3 halfway around the list because it > was patent encumbered? Yet you consider AAC? I just don't get you... I didn't bash mp3. It is a very good lossy codec. mp3 (and aac)

Re: [slim] Serving DTS CDs

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Elen
Thanks for this... I gather SB2 corrects the problem. No guesses as to which unit will be connected to the surround system once the SB2 arrives, then! I might sign-invert a file to see what happens but apart from that I'll wait... --Richard E Aaron Zinck wrote: This has been discussed. The pro

RE: [slim] AlienBBC BBC live problems

2005-03-15 Thread Patrick Dixon
I also know a guy in Research Department who's managing the Beeb's media player project (he's more video than audio AFAIK). I'm happy to put you in touch if you think it might be of any use. He's an Engineer rather than a Manager/Marketer. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:23:32 +0100, Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This would only be relevant if you were streaming formats other than > mp3 to the sb as mp3, i.e. if you were transcoding to mp3 > on the server. > As long as you just pass through mp3 data to the Squeezebox >

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
Well - I generally "rip once, rip right" I rip to lossless - which means I can transcode to whatever format happens to be the best at the moment. For me, that is mp3 because Linux does not have a good aac encoder, and ogg is not supported on my iPod. tunes on the player. AAC would also do that,

Re: [slim] AlienBBC BBC live problems

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Elen
BenRubinstein wrote: Jules - have you ever tried talking to someone at the BBC about this? I can't see any reason why what AlienBBC does should be frowned upon by the BBC, it seems entirely in tune with their mission, and just another way of making this particular outlet for their broadcasting usa

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
> Again, what has support of a particular format got to do with > putting slimserver in a distribution? Nothing. Everything - Red Hat / Fedora will never ship mp3 support until all of the relevent patents expire. Since slimserver requires mp3 support for lossy streaming, that means it isn't going t

RE: [slim] Re: Re: Re: Problem starting 6.0b1on FC3 (was Problemstarting5.4.0on FC3)

2005-03-15 Thread Patrick Dixon
I've managed to sort the problem I had with "perl w ./slimserver.pl" crashing out on FC3. I'd installed ActivePerl (for some reason I can't recall), and removing it and reverting to the FC3 perl installation has cured the problem. I still have the slimserver daemon crash problem though. The erro

Re: [slim] Serving DTS CDs

2005-03-15 Thread Aaron Zinck
This has been discussed. The problem seems to be that the squeezebox passes a bit-perfect stream...except for the fact that it inverts the sign of the bits. So...folks have gotten dts-encoded tracks to play properly by inverting the sign of the source file then when it's reinverted on the squeeze

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:09:21 -0600, Michael Alletto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If a product states that it supports it it will just confuse people. Why? > I mean really, OGG? Naming is everything and that name sucks. I don't think it sucks. It's no worse than mp3 or aac or flac. > You >

Re: [slim] "Rescan" issue ...

2005-03-15 Thread kdf
Quoting Mike Reeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi > > SlimServer_v2005-03-11.dmg + OS X 10.3.8 + approx. 3000 songs: > > - "Rescan" takes a couple of minutes > > SlimServer_v2005-03-15.dmg (and 03-14 also): > > - "Rescan" never seems to end (waited approx. 4 hours) ... > > What is(are) t

[slim] "Rescan" issue ...

2005-03-15 Thread Mike Reeve
Hi SlimServer_v2005-03-11.dmg + OS X 10.3.8 + approx. 3000 songs: - "Rescan" takes a couple of minutes SlimServer_v2005-03-15.dmg (and 03-14 also): - "Rescan" never seems to end (waited approx. 4 hours) ... What is(are) the best debug option(s) to turn on to provide info t

Re: [slim] AlienBBC BBC live problems

2005-03-15 Thread BenRubinstein
Jules Taplin wrote: > Actually... the pages that 'Listen Live' uses don't exist any more... so > that menu option will probably just disappear altogether. Although we > might have to rename 'Listen Again' to make it all make sense ;) (speaking as someone who hasn't yet managed to get AlienBBC up -

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Peters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:13:26 +0100, Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes - if SlimServer could stream in ogg, there's a good chance it > >would make it into distros like Fedora etc. > > Again, what has support of a particular format got to do with > putting slimserver in a distrib

RE: [slim] iTunes Update and Slimserver 6.0b1

2005-03-15 Thread Allan Hise
I did more digging in log files and found that the " require Mac::AppleScript::Glue line is actually crashing perl. Odd... very odd... Ayone else using this in OS X? Allan On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Craig, James (IT) wrote: > Hi Allan, > Have you downloaded the new version of the plugin for SlimSer

Re: [slim] Random play vs. non-random play

2005-03-15 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15/05 3:42 PM >>> > you can shuffle by song, or by album. current mode is what you get. > > There are already requests for several tweaks to random: > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549 > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40 > http://bugs.slimdevice

[slim] Serving DTS CDs

2005-03-15 Thread Richard Elen
I have a number of DTS CDs and I notice that if I rip content to .WAV (which should basically just suck the data off the disc) they don't decode at the SB end (you get white noise, which is what you get if you try lossy-encoding them). I am using S/PDIF coax out of the box into a surround proce

Re: [slim] Random play vs. non-random play

2005-03-15 Thread kdf
Quoting PAUL WILLIAMSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a way (talking about 6.0, not 5.4.x) to tell Slimserver to > randomize some play modes and playing songs in order. An > example of each: > > Random: Select an artist and hit play. It would be nice to be > able to exclude some genres (like

Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-15 Thread Chris Buckle
Many thanks Nick and Marc. Of course you are quite correct, although I was using Telnet from the command prompt in Windows the effect is exactly the same - Windows was causing the first line to be overwritten. Typically I found a really complicated way of editing the file before I read Nick's re

Re: [slim] How to tag multi-cd flac?

2005-03-15 Thread Avi Schwartz
Jason Voegele wrote: Avi Schwartz said: I didn't get a chance to try Christian's suggestion yet, I will try tonight when I am at home, but as I understand it, FLAC (as well as Ogg Vorbis) are not limited to a given set of tags since they are held as OggV comments so I should be able to create a

[slim] Random play vs. non-random play

2005-03-15 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
Is there a way (talking about 6.0, not 5.4.x) to tell Slimserver to randomize some play modes and playing songs in order. An example of each: Random: Select an artist and hit play. It would be nice to be able to exclude some genres (like Christmas) on the fly, but I'll save that for another

Re: [slim] Re: Problem playing everything

2005-03-15 Thread Craig
Dan Sully wrote: * Craig shaped the electrons to say... If I go to browse albums on the player then hit play to play everything, it takes about 20 seconds to build the playlist (> 9000 songs) which is ok but during that time I get a lost contact with server message. This is the way I often use my p

Re: [slim] Re: Invalid path name used in music file

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:14:43AM -0800, Dan Sully wrote: > >Where do bugs get posted? > > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/ Should they be posted here before posting a related bug or (horrors) due to user error? > > No.. we're very case sensetive. Is that path a network share by any chance? No, i

Re: [slim] Re: gapless playback with mp3 - another shot

2005-03-15 Thread Jason Holtzapple
Is there any particular reason you can't use a CD-length mp3 file + cuesheet? I've been using these since the beginning* to get gapless playback on slimp3 & squeezebox. * 2002 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices

Re: [slim] Re: gapless playback with mp3 - another shot

2005-03-15 Thread Karel Tromp
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:04:57 +0100, Karel Tromp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an proud owner of the SB1: would it be difficult to implement it on > the SB1 or solve it in Slimserver? > > Karel > > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:27:51 -0800, Vidur Apparao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It seem

RE: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware (tangent)

2005-03-15 Thread Dave Owen
> Just because something is better doesn't mean it is better. Isn't it wonderful that this statement is both true and makes perfect sense? Language is fun. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/list

Re: [slim] Re: 6.0b1 & iTunes problems

2005-03-15 Thread Healy
I tried a rescan first, then cleared the cache when that did not work. Slimserver was not picking up a recent addition of a miles davis box set long past the 600 seconds that was set in the itunes rescan time. I've hit a wall, I can't figure out what's going on. I backed up my entire iTunes f

[slim] Re: 6.0b1 & iTunes problems

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Sully
* Healy shaped the electrons to say... Aarrrg. Worked fine until I cleared the cache & rescanned the db for recent changes. Now it's back down to only reporting 5% of my files. Back to the testing board. Why did you clear the cache first? You should only need to rescan. Additio

[slim] Re: Invalid path name used in music file

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Sully
* Bill Moseley shaped the electrons to say... Where do bugs get posted? http://bugs.slimdevices.com/ $ cat server.log File /home/moseley/music/beatles/sgt_peppers_lonely_hearts_club_band/beatles - sgt_peppers_lonely_hearts_club_band - 01 - sgt_peppers_lonely_hearts_club_band.ogg does not exist or

[slim] Re: Problem playing everything

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Sully
* Craig shaped the electrons to say... If I go to browse albums on the player then hit play to play everything, it takes about 20 seconds to build the playlist (> 9000 songs) which is ok but during that time I get a lost contact with server message. This is the way I often use my player and it does

Re: [slim] How to tag multi-cd flac?

2005-03-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
I have tried to get the 'show multi-disc...as single..' to work with flac images for some time without luck. I'm not sure if it works with images - I'm using seperate files. There is no DISC tag here and it seems the album tag is not the same. No, DISC should just be the namber of the disc in the

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