On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 15:19 -0700, JulianL wrote:
> Indeed. One wonders how the SB2 would be received if it was put into a
> fancy minimalist but bulky high end housing, increased in price by an
> order of magnitude, and some key designer from Krell/Naim/Linn/Meridian
> or similar taken onto Slim D
Sorry if this seems like a question that has been answered before but I
have tried all the relevant links/advice I could find when searching.
Anyone able to provide more help or links please?
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Slightly off-topic, but on my iPod,
I just press play from the main menu to playback from all my music in
the current shuffle mode.
James
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It is a very tempting idea. A few more thoughts: Slim Devices get into
bed with a small, respected, audio company (Cambridge Audio spring to
mind; robust, reasonably priced, respected product line, similar to
Slim Devices). Put the SB2 internals into a Cambridge Audio box
(tweaked as above, decent
I reviewed the MKI and MKII for Hi-Fi World.
MKII review here: http://www.slimdevices.com/au_news.html
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This happened to me recently, but just in one folder that I'd recently
downloaded - it turned out the file extensions were in upper case, ie
.MP3 rather than .mp3
Changed them and all is well
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Are there any major problems with running SlimServer on a Mac? A
distant memory says there was something, but I can't remember any
details. I'm getting tempted by the idea of buying a MacMini and using
it as a small, quite server box.
Max
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> * thomsens shaped the electrons to say...
>
>> Is this a known bug? It's actually a pain because I can't use
>> playlists now. The entries are all mixed case in a way that isn't
>> easy to adjust them.
>
> This has been fixed in the 6.2 nightlies.
>
I still have a re
I use a Mac Mini + external LaCie firewire drive as a dedicated music
server and have had no problems that appear to be Mac specific.
Mac aliases aren't yet supported however you can create symbolic links
and I think alias support is planned for the future.
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I have exactly the combination as mike and its fantastic combination,
almost silent running and small stylish form factor. I run it onto a
32" panasonic lcd tv with a gyration wireless keyboard and mouse for
wireless track selection from the sofa. The only thing i did was up the
memory to 1gb and
MrC wrote:
> I gave this some more thought, and it occured to me that the linux-based
> gpartd is unlikely to resolve the XP problem, in that it probably uses
> the same code and/or partition header files used by the rest of the
> system. I'm just guessing here. It would be interesting to hear of
I'm not sure that this issue is specific to the SB.
My in-car MP3 (Sony http://tinyurl.com/77n4y) changer has a problem
with some MP3's
I have a mixture of Franhoffer & Lame encoded MP3's and some of them
always end early during playback. Some of the Franhoffer encoded MP3's
had audible clicks an
oreillymj Wrote:
> All of my MP3's play back fine in Winamp, so I think it's a question of
> bugs in the encoder at the time of encoding coupled with bugs in
> various ecoders in players.
Does this imply that re-ripping the offending tracks might solve the
problem? (Something that I probably sh
Is there a way of getting a remote power turn-on trigger signal from the
SB2 to power up an amplifier?
Maybe there is an internal supply voltage that is in standby when
turned off? Can anyone tell me where to find a suitable voltage?
I will then place a buffer (if needed), connectors and a swit
kdf,
I'm not having problems. I don't want to force anything on anybody,
its just that I thought that having those settings as a default would
make your plugin work a little better.
Being able to see the song name that is playing imediately after
pressing PLAY or FWD is preferable to just displ
Great Plugin!
The only improvement I would like to see is that I am able to restrict
the selection (of the tracks, album or artist) to specific genres.
Usually I want to hear a random selection of my songs but without songs
having the genre "classical", "audio book" or "children's songs". At the
Fifer wrote:
It is a very tempting idea. A few more thoughts: Slim Devices get into
bed with a small, respected, audio company (Cambridge Audio spring to
mind; robust, reasonably priced, respected product line, similar to
Slim Devices). Put the SB2 internals into a Cambridge Audio box
(tweaked as
> IF Firefox becomes the "standard" browser (as IE is now), then I'll
> switch.
It already is the standard-s- browser. It's just not the most commonly
used. The problem is, if you continue to use IE just because some sites
are broken, that doesn't give the lazy maintainers of those sites any
encou
I have exactly the same problem. Slimserver 6.1.1, Squeezebox 1,
Windows XP Pro. The CLI polling program that I have used for a year
unter 5.x breaks now because of random ? responses to valid queries.
The examples you cite:
Command: playlist index ?
Response: playlist index %3Fplaylist
Comm
seconded, that's a great idea.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in
>
> Great Plugin!
> The only improvement I would like to see is that I am able to restrict
> the select
I too agree with everything said before. Great plugin.
Maybe I shoud not re-start a plugin contest, but I really want to
express my admiration (again) for the Biography and the Album Review
plugin.
These are the two that really amazes my visitors!!
I'd also like to see these become part of the
I agree Nick and personally have no problem with the form factor. The
ideas discussed above were designed at widening the appeal of the
product to (a) those who do have a problem with the 'radio alarm' look,
(b) audiophile shops who are uncomfortable with new technology, slim
margins and a new (to
Nick McGrogan wrote:
Does this imply that re-ripping the offending tracks might solve the
problem? (Something that I probably should've tried before but
didn't...)
i'd say it's worth a shot. if successful it would isolate the issue and
give you a workaround. try alternate software to rip a
radish wrote:
IF Firefox becomes the "standard" browser (as IE is now), then I'll
switch.
It already is the standard-s- browser. It's just not the most commonly
used. The problem is, if you continue to use IE just because some sites
are broken, that doesn't give the lazy maintainers of tho
MrC Wrote:
> I've seen this even with FAT32 floppies formatted in Linux, where they
> are unreadable in WinXP. Formatted in XP, they work fine back and
> forth. This leads to the conclusion that there is a slight difference
> in the partition table, but I've not investigate what the exact
> dif
On 18/8/05 at 04:43 -0700, max.spicer wrote
Are there any major problems with running SlimServer on a Mac? A
distant memory says there was something, but I can't remember any
details. I'm getting tempted by the idea of buying a MacMini and using
it as a small, quite server box.
I don't know a
dip wrote:
It would be great if in the settings of the random plugin all genres
would be shown, each having a checkbox for inclusion in the random list
or not.
(apologies if the below describes something much like what is already
implemented, i don't use Shuffle/Random very often and don't ha
abdomen Wrote:
> Windows XP always formats floppies using FAT12. It was my understanding
> that all operating systems do the same because of the physical design
> of floppies, but I am not certain of that.
This is incorrect. Floppies can be formated with most any filesystem
type, such as HFS, N
On 18-Aug-05, at 7:00 AM, dannyg wrote:
kdf,
I'm not having problems. I don't want to force anything on anybody,
its just that I thought that having those settings as a default would
make your plugin work a little better.
ah, I see.
Being able to see the song name that is playing imediat
ron thigpen wrote:
another way to come at this would be to add a "random" option at other
points in the navigation. in other words, rather than have "random"
just appear at the top of the menu system, also include a random play
option as a submenu of nodes like the individual genera, albums o
On 18-Aug-05, at 8:52 AM, ron thigpen wrote:
granted, this arrangement wouldn't directly support random playback of
mixed genres. though you could get there with a smart playlist set up
to filter down to multiple genres, played back in Random Play.
Having this kind of control was never th
MrC Wrote:
> This is incorrect. Floppies can be formated with most any filesystem
> type, such as HFS, NTFS, Fat16, Fat32, UFS, XFS, raw data, etc.
I stand corrected. I will stick by "Windows XP always formats floppies
using FAT12" (until again corrected by someone more knowledgeable).
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radish Wrote:
> It already is the standard-s- browser. It's just not the most commonly
> used. The problem is, if you continue to use IE just because some sites
> are broken, that doesn't give the lazy maintainers of those sites any
> encouragement to fix things, and so everyone gets stuck with c
Robin Bowes wrote:
What's the difference between Random Play and Play with shuffle turned on?
i think it's in how you access it.
shuffle/random are the same concepts, no? it's all in how you make the
function available.
this scheme would give direct access to either standard or random pla
No, the difference is that
'play with shuffle' applies to the whole playlist already created
'random play' creates a playlist chosen randomly from all tracks
available
The key difference being that if you only want to listen to 30 minutes
of truly random music you don't need to create a multi-t
Quoting Robin Bowes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What's the difference between Random Play and Play with shuffle turned on?
>
There were complaints that having shuffle on and playing the entire collection
would overload the server for a long time. The plugin took a different
approach, loading only 10
Craig, James (IT) wrote:
No, the difference is that
'play with shuffle' applies to the whole playlist already created
'random play' creates a playlist chosen randomly from all tracks
available
The key difference being that if you only want to listen to 30 minutes
of truly random music you don
kdf wrote:
In track mode, after playing one track, it is dropped from the playlist and a
new random track is added to the end. In Artist/Album mode, when the last song
is playing, a new random artist/album is added to the end of the playlist.
This way, the load is very short.
ah. so the plu
Thanks for the suggestion deksawyer but all of mine are flac and the
extensions are all lower case.
Any other ideas folk?
TIA
Beau
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* dip shaped the electrons to say...
The only improvement I would like to see is that I am able to restrict
the selection (of the tracks, album or artist) to specific genres.
At this point - you're better off using MusicMagic for this type of feature.
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> I also don't despise Microsoft, as I expect that you do
Lets not get personal. You don't know me, or what I think about
Microsoft, and it's none of your business (and nothing to do with this
forum). I was only trying to be helpful, I've learned my lesson, I'll
refrain from offering advice to yo
Quoting ron thigpen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> what happens when the random play plugin runs out of tracks? does it go
> back to the well w/o being prompted?
I mentioned this in a previous post.
In the current plugin version, it will add new tracks/artist/albums if you have
the pref set to be cont
I was thinking about this yesterday, although not with respect to random
play. I'd just browsed to a particular album that I wanted to hear, so
pressed play. I then had to press Now Playing to see the track
details. In this case it would have made more sense for the sb2 to go
straight to now pl
I think this has been discussed here in the past, with some people
posting details of their solutions to this problem (probably including
wiring diagrams). It would definitely be worth spending some time
searching the forums.
Max
gonk Wrote:
> Is there a way of getting a remote power turn-on t
Quoting ron thigpen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> then maybe there is an argument for reworking the internal operations of
> the standard "shuffle" to get this performance gain. one wrinkle would
> be in avoiding repeats.
correct. the plugin calls a very barebones rand() function. it is not truly
ran
max.spicer Wrote:
> I think this has been discussed here in the past, with some people
> posting details of their solutions to this problem (probably including
> wiring diagrams). It would definitely be worth spending some time
> searching the forums.
I asked pretty much the same a little while
radish Wrote:
> Lets not get personal. You don't know me, or what I think about
> Microsoft, and it's none of your business (and nothing to do with this
> forum). I was only trying to be helpful, I've learned my lesson, I'll
> refrain from offering advice to you in the future.
Although I don't "
Dan Sully Wrote:
> * dip shaped the electrons to say...
>
> >The only improvement I would like to see is that I am able to
> restrict
> >the selection (of the tracks, album or artist) to specific genres.
>
> At this point - you're better off using MusicMagic for this type of
> feature.
>
Do I
Maybe I shoud not re-start a plugin contest, but I really want to
express my admiration (again) for the Biography and the Album Review
plugin.
Thanks!
These are the two that really amazes my visitors!!
And this is most important ;-)
I'd also like to see these become part of the 'standard'
Quoting dip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Dan Sully Wrote:
> > * dip shaped the electrons to say...
> >
> > >The only improvement I would like to see is that I am able to
> > restrict
> > >the selection (of the tracks, album or artist) to specific genres.
> >
> > At this point - you're better off using
Whilst we're talking about incorrect behaviour, is there any chance you
could grab the full version of the biography/review? The "go here for
more" (or however it's phrased) arrives far too soon in the condensed
bit on the first page.
Max
mherger Wrote:
> >We won't see this happen: the plugins
> Daniel Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We're getting closer to making AlienBBC work, as it seems ok now when running
> from the command line. This suggests that mplayer.sh isn't finding mplayer.
> But
> what do I do to check that this is the problem. I remember having that issue
> befor
Great help for me to understand how to use SlimServer in combination
with a Squeezebox.
swedela
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Hi,
I've read the postings regarding FLAC tags and international
characters, but I'm having a slightly different problem
I ripped a CD by the Brazilian artist Djavan, and several of the MP3
files have accented characters in the file names. When SlimServer
rescans the library, it doesn't list the
Whilst we're talking about incorrect behaviour, is there any chance you
could grab the full version of the biography/review?
Little chance. As I don't have access to the db via an API or some other
well organised method, the plugin pretty often already hast to grap and
parse two different pa
I remember seeing instructions on how to modify the MAC address in this
forum. I tried the SEARCH but could not find it.
Could anybody advice the procedure? Somehow the MAC address of my SB2
have been molested and I need to put it back right.
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I like the idea of the Browse year view, but, honestly it is kind of a
waste. i mean, how many times do do you actually think, "wow, I really
want to hear music from 1997"?
I think it would be interesting sort by Decades as headings and the
years under them. This way you can play all the decade
press and hold power to reset. when its starting up scroll to "view
current settings". find the mac address and press right.
-kdf
On 18-Aug-05, at 9:26 PM, kbelinski wrote:
I remember seeing instructions on how to modify the MAC address in this
forum. I tried the SEARCH but could not find i
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