[slim] Re: Parental Control

2005-09-23 Thread Bruce Hartley
I agree smart playlists are the way forward. But I think they have to be based on what is in the tags somehow. I think Genres and the standard tags would be best. I think we can already have multi genres using ; or something? I don't think I would ever feel happy putting loads of work into

Re: [slim] new musicmagic 1.1.6

2005-09-23 Thread Simon Still
On 9/21/05, maxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,has anyone tried the new musicmagic already to see if it's stillcompatible with slimserver? seems to be working fine. One question, not directly connected to the new version. When i create a mix in mmm i select a seed track and hit the new mix

[slim] Re: Delete album covers from SlimServe

2005-09-23 Thread norderney
There are no image files that are contained in the same directory as the music files. All images are done as tags using TagRename. I set up the album covers by attaching the album cover to all tracks from that album. So if you have 2 albums by one artist each with 12 tracks, I attached the

Re: [slim] UK Publicity: Squeezebox2 on The Gadget Show CH5

2005-09-23 Thread Robin Bowes
PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/22/05 11:26 AM I recently submitted a Squeezebox2 for review by Channel 5's The Gadget Show here in the UK. It is on the first episode of the new series, full details below. Is there any chance someone could record this and make it available?

RE: [slim] Re: pops between tracks

2005-09-23 Thread Philip Bouscarle
I tried fiddling with bitrate limiting and it didn't fix the problem. Still a loud pop between each track. SB1 Wireless XP Pro SS 6.1 Latest firmware Does anyone out there a) Have the same experience? b) Have any more ideas about cause and cure? Philip

[slim] BBC Six music on squeezebox?

2005-09-23 Thread sbutton
Hi, Can someone tell me the URL to be able to listen to BBC six music on the squeezebox? Thanks, Steve Button -- sbutton ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Goodinson
I'm interested in learning a bit more about these power line adaptors... They would seem to be a pretty much perfect solution for transferring large files to/from my fileserver. I really don't want to have cables all over the house which is why I opted for wireless. But wireless is painfully

[slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Fifer
I haven't used them but 'this' (http://www.devolo.co.uk/uk_EN/button/dlanfaq.html) might help answer some of your questions. -- Fifer ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Philip Downer
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 03:42 -0700, Fifer wrote: I haven't used them but 'this' (http://www.devolo.co.uk/uk_EN/button/dlanfaq.html) might help answer some of your questions. I can highly recommend the Devolo homeplug products they are very good, and they have now released setup tools for Linux

Re: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Robin Bowes
Philip Downer wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 03:42 -0700, Fifer wrote: I haven't used them but 'this' (http://www.devolo.co.uk/uk_EN/button/dlanfaq.html) might help answer some of your questions. I can highly recommend the Devolo homeplug products they are very good, and they have now

RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Goodinson
I did a bit of googling, and found a range of products... Main concern at the moment is that the maximum transfer rate is around 14mbps so average transfer speed are probably more like 8-10mbps. In fact, that's slower than my wireless right now. Although it would seem that 85mbps adaptors

[slim] Re: SlimTray not really starting slim.exe

2005-09-23 Thread TinkerMan
I had exactly the same problem last night. I have come back to SlimServer for the first time in over a year and I'm trying to get everything set-up again. Check out the following: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?WindowsInstallationGuide summary While you are given the option to run

Re: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Robin Bowes
Dan Goodinson wrote: Although it would seem that 85mbps adaptors are on their way, and should be available in the UK in a few weeks. Which manufacturers are producing these? Do you have any links? R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still

RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit'stime to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Goodinson
I can't find the first one I looked at, but I found a different one - http://www.solwise.co.uk/net-powerline.htm If I read it right, then Solwise are already shipping to UK. Excellent :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Bowes Sent:

RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit'stime to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Goodinson
I found it ;-) http://www.broadbandcarrier.net/shop.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 23 September 2005 13:48 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was:

[slim] Re: Parental Control

2005-09-23 Thread ceejay
Bruce Hartley Wrote: I think Genres and the standard tags would be best. I think we can already have multi genres using ; or something? I don't think I would ever feel happy putting loads of work into updating the database if there was even the slightest risk that I could lose it all

[slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread CavesOfTQLT
Dan Goodinson Wrote: Main concern at the moment is that the maximum transfer rate is around 14mbps so average transfer speed are probably more like 8-10mbps. In fact, that's slower than my wireless right now. But if my SB2 works like a dream using them then I'll be more than happy. £42 for

[slim] Re: BBC Six music on squeezebox?

2005-09-23 Thread stuorguk
Take a look at the AlienBBC plugin: http://www.mrtickle.org/alienbbc.html -- stuorguk ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Snow saver for new graphic display

2005-09-23 Thread ceejay
Excellent, thank you. I especially appreciate the added snow! Ceejay. -- ceejay ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Goodinson
Indeed ;) I hate to say it (as you probably don't want to hear it ;) but my SB1 is working fine via wireless... I was only really thinking about the adaptors for regular network use i.e. not related to SB (hence off-topic). In fact, I just chatted to a guy at Solwise (see previous post, with

[slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit'stime to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Fifer
Check the other thread for a better deal on Amazon. -- Fifer ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...

2005-09-23 Thread neilcoburn
Well, I've got a cheap Belkin wireless router (F5D7230uk4) and it works fine with 2 xSB2s. I have a Belkin Access Point to boost the signal upstairs. I had an initial problem with dropouts when using 128 Bit WEP encryption which was solved when I switched to 64 bit. I'm completely non-techie,

[slim] Music drops out when executing search

2005-09-23 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
I've gotten accustomed to running the latest rpm available and tried to search items while a song was playing and got a dropout for about 2 seconds. I thought with the introduction of SQLite, this issue might have been solved. I have a celeron p4 2.2ghz with fc3 and a bunch of other apps

[slim] Re: Snow saver for new graphic display

2005-09-23 Thread Regnad
I get an invalid/corrupt message when un-zipping. WinXP native unzip... Help! -- Regnad ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

RE: [slim] Re: Snow saver for new graphic display

2005-09-23 Thread Craig, James (IT)
I'm sure this discussion has come up before... Are you downloading from the web forum with ie? It did work fine for me on the email copy I received, using the Windows XP tool. I'll update the copy on my website but can't until next week now. James

[slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread CavesOfTQLT
Robin: Yes, I spotted the delay on the Amazon site. No worries. FWIW to anyone interested I e-mailed Belkin support Wed. and received a reply back today. They've suggested turning on the router's UPnP mode, so wanting to give anything a try I have and I'll see what happens. Annoying I go away

RE: [slim] OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Michael Haan
I've seen quite a few messages on this apologies for not having read them all. I've been using powerline to haul traffic between floors of my three story townhouse for a couple years now. It's very simple and interoperability doesn't seem to be a problem as I have a mix of belkin and

[slim] Re: BBC Six music on squeezebox?

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Sleightholm
BBC6 Music is supported by AlienBBC, you can download it from here: http://www.x2systems.com/AlienBBC Neil -- Neil Sleightholm ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Alien BBC Garbled Sound

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Another update: Tom Playford Wrote: I've had a look at the ethereal output and I agree, it seems to be the BBC servers dropping the odd packet. I hear that the BBC have one the biggest RealServer farms going, so maybe it's not surprising we havn't seen it from other servers. If there's

[slim] Re: Alien BBC Garbled Sound

2005-09-23 Thread Patrick Dixon
Sounds promising! -- Patrick Dixon www.at-view.co.uk ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread jhall_uk
I have STT powerline network adapters running at home. They were probably one my most intelligent techie purchase decisions. My home suffers from being an awkward shape - long, thin, internal brick walls. When I moved into the place I noticed my wireless network could not cope with the distance

Re: [slim] Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Bennett
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:54 +0200, Allan Hise wrote: On 21 Sep 2005, at 17:39 , Marc Sherman wrote: PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: I need songs that have the word Money somewhere within the lyrics. I just got asked this morning to make up a CD filled with them. The only problem is, I

[slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Michaelwagner
This might be a good place to say where you are located geographically (country is enough). The reason I say this is that homes are wired differently in Europe and North America, and for power line network adaptors it may matter. In Europe (at least in Germany where I was), power is 220V, 50Hz,

[slim] Re: SlimTray not really starting slim.exe

2005-09-23 Thread swedela
I have the same problem. It started appearing after I installed lame in the \server\bin folder on my WinXP machine; don't know if this has anything to do with it? When I tried starting slimserver using the tray icon, it kept blinking SlimServer starting for hours without actually fully starting.

Re: [slim] Totally OT - Songs about money

2005-09-23 Thread Mitch Harding
Where the hell's my money? by Mojo Nixon On 9/22/05, Mark Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:54 +0200, Allan Hise wrote: On 21 Sep 2005, at 17:39 , Marc Sherman wrote: PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: I need songs that have the word Money somewhere within the lyrics.I just got

RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Michael Haan
I'm in the U and my bridges are on different circuits, but I have no idea about this other stuff you mention. From:Michaelwagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To:Slim Devices Discussion discuss@lists.slimdevices.comTo:discuss@lists.slimdevices.comSubject:[slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors

Re: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Jess Askey
I am in the U.S. and you are correct, we have 3-wire ~240V with a singel neutral and two hot ~120V taps that are 180 degress out of phase with a seperate ground. Maybe the 600V vs. 440V is due to the canadian/US exchange rate. :-P Michaelwagner wrote: This might be a good place to say

[slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/05 2:50 PM FWIW, Canadian factories are supplied with 600V 3 phase, (which is a nice submultiple of a standard transmission voltage) and american factories (for some reason I can't figure out) are 440V 3 phase. And you thought we shared a common power grid? Well,

[slim] Re: new musicmagic 1.1.6

2005-09-23 Thread radish
hakan Wrote: Aaah, actually this make some limited amount of sense Knowing the shortcomings of the swing filechooser dialog, that is. I hadn't touched any swing applications in a lifetime (no, don't make me remember those I was forced to build...), so I forgot that useless bit of

[slim] Re: new musicmagic 1.1.6

2005-09-23 Thread Yannzola
Dave Wrote: On my machine, both startup of MMM and mixing from slimserver-interface seems to be much faster! Same here. Looks like they fixed a couple of bugs vis. startup delays. Great program! Love it. y. -- Yannzola ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Kudos on 6.2!

2005-09-23 Thread Yannzola
I've been on vacation for the last 3 weeks, and havn't been keeping up to date with SlimServer... Last night, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Replay Gain had been implemented in firmware 22! Hurray! Smart Gain was another loverly suprise. Happy me. Kudos to all involved! The latest rev

[slim] Re: SlimTray not really starting slim.exe

2005-09-23 Thread swedela
I just tried the obvious Windows remedy, uninstalling and reinstalling, and SlimServer seems to run fine now. Of course this means that I have to rescan the library and reset all preferences, but at least it works. I uninstalled SlimServer, moved lame.exe to the C:\Windows folder, deleted the

[slim] Re: SlimTray not really starting slim.exe

2005-09-23 Thread bishopdonmiguel
Windows sure is weird sometimes. For what it's worth, I've noticed this about the SlimServer Windows installer... during the first SlimServer setup, the service installs fine. Any subsequent setups (i.e. upgrade), the service is deleted and the replacement service entry fails to install

[slim] channel missing

2005-09-23 Thread pbouscarle
Ok here is a wierd one. I went to listen to some music on the SB tonight and noticed only one channel was working (right one if that is relevant), so assumed it was a loose connection to the amp. Checked all cables and they seemed ok, played a cd and it worked fine both channels. So I swapped

[slim] Re: channel missing

2005-09-23 Thread seanadams
Never heard of this, but don't go for the head exam just yet. What format were the files that only played on one channel? -- seanadams ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] BBC Six music on squeezebox?

2005-09-23 Thread Robin Bowes
Patrick Cosson said the following on 23/09/2005 13:50: Try this: http://stream.servstream.com/ViewWeb/BBCRadio_music/Event/BBCRadio6.asx I tried adding this as a Favourite on the Squeezenetwork but it didn't work. I see a WMA CONVERT ERROR - CHECK FILE TYPE. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If

[slim] Re: Elpac power supply for the SB2

2005-09-23 Thread sleepysurf
Likewise, just ordered. Can't beat the price, even just to try it. I guess Sean is being tactful (respecting Red Wine Audio and Bolder Cable's mods) in not commenting specifically about this off-the-shelf psu. Guess us early adopters will need to spread the gospel if they prove worthwhile.

[slim] Re: Received the Elpac power supply today

2005-09-23 Thread sleepysurf
ephemere... just curious what your opinion is after having used the Elpac psu a while? -- sleepysurf aerius i, nht sub two, yamaha rx-v1000 (pre/pro), sunfire cinema grand 200 ~five (vertically bi-amped), squeezebox2 (streaming cd-quality audio), 300gb buffalo linkstation (remote flac audio

[slim] Re: Elpac power supply for the SB2

2005-09-23 Thread Music Machine
I think the elpac proves that the power supply is very important to SB2 for sound quality. At least for analog out which I use, but maybe for digital out too. Considering the instantly noticable improvement this non-optimal surplus supply makes, I would guess the good stuff from the modders is

[slim] Limited number of podcasts and RSS feeds?

2005-09-23 Thread swedela
Is there a limit to the number of podcasts and/or RSS feeds that you can have listed on the Home / Server Settings / Plugins page? I have 9 podcasts and 9 RSS feeds listed now, and when I add a new address in the empty box and click Change, nothing happens. Thanks for your help! /swedela --

[slim] Re: Received the Elpac power supply today

2005-09-23 Thread topster
Hi all, Thanks for the recommendation. I should get mine in a few days. In the meanwhile, I found the specs for the power supply. You can see it at: http://www.elpac.com/uploads/documents/datasheets/WM%20REV%20A.pdf It's the WM075-1950-760. Can anyone comment on the specs? Is that good?

[slim] Re: Launching MusicMagic at startup

2005-09-23 Thread abunn
Hey all: SO what is the state o' the art for getting MMM and slim to launch on boot (XP). I'm running SlimServer v.6.1.1 and the latest MMM 1.1.6b. Since this thread is serveral months old I thought I'd see if there was an elegant solution Thanks, A -- abunn

[slim] APE/CUE can't change tracks

2005-09-23 Thread yomoyo
Hello, I have a problem with disk images encoded in Monkey audio APE files with CUE files. I cannot change tracks during the playback. When I press the next track button, the squeezebox displays the title of the next track, but always starts playing the first track. It is the same if CUE file