mkozlows, thanks for the link to your review. I really don't know much
about the Roku and it's nice to read about first hand experience.
Paul Runyan Wrote:
I think it may not take so long. Sales of CDs are in decline, due to
music downloading, particulary among the younger demographic that
radish Wrote:
Just an aside - if you have firefox installed, why on earth is IE your
default browser?
I've often seen differences in presentation between FF and IE, and I
prefer to see web pages the way most of the world sees them. IF
Firefox becomes the standard browser (as IE is now), then
On 17-Aug-05, at 10:21 PM, dannyg wrote:
Can I get you to try the above settings on either the ALBUM, ARTIST or
TRACK level of your plugin? It would be great if this was the default
behavior while in the ALBUM/ARTIST/TRACK level.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you having a problem when
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
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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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
D.
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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 related
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
seconded, that's a great idea.
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Subject: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in
Great Plugin!
The only improvement I would like to see is that I am able
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
random,
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