[slim] Re: Removing tracks once played

2005-10-17 Thread max . spicer
To use it in this way, you'd need to go into the RandomPlay page via the web interface and tell it to only keep a certain number of complted songs (or zero!). By default it keeps all your old songs. You could chose your initial playlist then add a random mix to the end. Max kdf Wrote: On

[slim] Re: Removing tracks once played

2005-10-17 Thread max . spicer
You've got me thinking now. I'd never thought of Random Mix being used as a jukebox i.e. you add songs and it plays them but, if it runs out of songs, it chooses songs at random. It doesn't work this way at present as there is always at least one random item at the end of the playlist. Unless

[slim] Re: 'Tooltip' text in Touch skin Browse by Artwork

2005-10-17 Thread netim3
Should I register this as a minor bug? -- netim3 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Removing tracks once played

2005-10-17 Thread JJZolx
djdrey Wrote: Hey All, We're using SlimServer in our office as a shared jukebox. Our staff add tracks throughout the day and it works great! The only thing we wish it did was to remove the tracks from the playlist as they are played. Is this possible? Has anyone done a mod like this

RE: [slim] Re: Slimscrobbler- why should I have it?

2005-10-17 Thread Craig, James (IT)
Can I ask all having problems with the LastFM plugin to move over to the LastFM plugin thread going on in the third party plugins forum? Otherwise I will get all confused trying to help with 2 threads at the same time... James NOTICE: If

[slim] Re: Favorite and 'Now Playing'

2005-10-17 Thread JulianL
Why don't you set the screensaver when playing to 'Now Playing' (with or without '(Jump back on wake.)' and the delay to something like 5-10 seconds. I was going to post this suggestion but I just did some experiments with SoftSqueeze. It does do what dfk wants but you need to be careful to set

Re: [slim] Suddenly Not Able To Connect

2005-10-17 Thread Neil Cameron
Also, oddly enough - it finds the WLAN SSID easily enough - just won't connect. I have no security on at the moment -- Neil Neil Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I bought a Squeezebox 2 to replace my main Squeezebox 1 on Friday. It went in and connected

Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets

2005-10-17 Thread Geoff B
On 10/15/05, CavesOfTQLT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just had another look at my set-up and NickM is right, the web-ui and the SB2 show CD1 Track1, CD2 Track1, CD1 Track2, etc. even though I've got the disc number tags set as 1 for CD1 and 2 for CD2. It gets even worse when you have 3,4 or

[slim] Re: Wireless or wired? Help me choose!

2005-10-17 Thread dangerous_dom
I take it that if i went wired, striaght to my NIC with a hub etc, i would need a cross-over cable yes? -- dangerous_dom ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: SB2 wont detect new music.

2005-10-17 Thread Mike Meyer
I'm glad I found this thread. I'm also having this problem on WinME with SlimServer 6.0.2 but I haven't done the Wipe Cache option so I will try that tonight. -- Mike Meyer MMeyer ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: SB2 wont detect new music.

2005-10-17 Thread Michaelwagner
So far it was 6.1.1 for everyone, but now we have someone reporting it also in 6.0.1. Please Mike tell us if the wipe cache solves the problem for you. It makes it easier to narrow down where to look for errors. It's possible this error is already fixed in 6.2 which is going to be released soon

Re: [slim] Wireless or wired? Help me choose!

2005-10-17 Thread Geoff B
On 10/16/05, dangerous_dom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure which to go for; a squeezebox wireless and a wireless card for my PC, or a squeezebox wired using this http://www.devolo.co.uk/uk_EN/produkte/dLAN/mldlanhsstarterkit.html What are the pros and cons of each option. Bearing in

Re: [slim] AM radio interference when Squeezebox is on

2005-10-17 Thread Yan Tran
This is a well known problem that, to my knowledge, has usually been addressed by replacing the power adapter. I have found that using the optical input instead of coax or RCA on the SB eliminates the AM interference as well.On 10/16/05, jsutula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:When my wireless Squeezebox

Re: [slim] Performance measurements ?

2005-10-17 Thread andreas
Michael Herger wrote: [0.375] Artists: 433 [0.032] Albums : 544 [0.031] Songs : 6543 [0.031] Genres : 50 [20.891] titles 0 10 [16.235] titles 0 100 [29.329] titles 0 1000 [114.393] titles 0 1 This is on a Via C3/1GHz/512MB running SME Linux. ...and on a VIA Eden/500MHz/512MB running

[slim] Re: Wireless or wired? Help me choose!

2005-10-17 Thread Kevin O. Lepard
I take it that if i went wired, striaght to my NIC with a hub etc, i would need a cross-over cable yes? If you connect the squeezebox to the hub, and the NIC to the hub, then no. If you connect the squeezebox to the NIC, probably. Most Macs will autodetect the kind of connection you have and

Re: [slim] Re: Wireless or wired? Help me choose!

2005-10-17 Thread Joe Craig
If you connect the squeezebox to the hub, and the NIC to the hub, Use SWITCHES, not hubs! -- Joe Join me at CompuFest, June 23-25, 2006, Reno, NV Investment Education at its Best! http://www.CompuFest2006.com ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: Suddenly Not Able To Connect

2005-10-17 Thread Neil Cameron
It's a SpeedTouch Router connected to two Belkin WAPs. The 802.11b is on Channel 1 (for the Squeezebox 1s), and the 802.11g is on Channel 10 (for the Squeezebox 2 laptops). I am in the middle of nowhere - hence not even any security switched on... -- Neil jonolumb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [slim] Re: Rumors of new device?

2005-10-17 Thread Carl W. Irving
I think it depends on whether it is the black or gold plated edition. The gold plated edition comes with a bonus CD of: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2005/10/14/thing-a-week-5-baby-got-back/ Mike Anderson wrote: Huh - I heard the Squeezebox Audiophile was only $1,000.

[slim] Re: Wireless or wired? Help me choose!

2005-10-17 Thread MrC
dangerous_dom Wrote: What i want to do is run a cable directly from my NIC to my Squeezebox2 and need to know if i need a cross over or not. Cross-over. -- MrC ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Rumors of new device?

2005-10-17 Thread audiofi
From a personal perspective, I would love to see an audiophile version in a better case. However, from a business point of view, I think one with a built in digital amp (like the Sonos) would sell better both for me and for slimdevices. Or both, please -- audiofi

Re: [slim] Re: Wireless or wired? Help me choose!

2005-10-17 Thread Robin Bowes
dangerous_dom said the following on 17/10/2005 17:21: Sorry, what went to say was that i plan to NOT buy a switch or whatever because i don't want to spend any more cash than i need to. What i want to do is run a cable directly from my NIC to my Squeezebox2 and need to know if i need a cross

[slim] AACPlus

2005-10-17 Thread jensboe
Hi, Is there a plan to support aacplus (maybe native? :) ) with SB/SlimServer? More and more internet radio stations move to aacplus to save bandwith but the same qualtiy (e.g. Japan-A-Radion, Digitally Imported...). Regards, Jens -- jensboe ___

[slim] cannot get library to match iTunes

2005-10-17 Thread slayaz
I am running a slimserver 6.1.1. on a mac G5 running 10.4.2. No matter what i do, (i.e. setting up the music folders manually or using iTunes) I cannot get my iTunes Library to match my Slimserver library. iTunes tells me it has: 477 albums, 6965 tracks and 298 artists slimserver tells me it

[slim] Re: cannot get library to match iTunes

2005-10-17 Thread slayaz
found this thread... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16940 seems like an ongoing thang and yes it is a proper pain in the arse! -- slayaz -- In a land of sheep, even a toothless wolf is king ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Re: cannot get library to match iTunes

2005-10-17 Thread Dan Sully
* slayaz shaped the electrons to say... found this thread... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16940 Please upgrade to the latest 6.2 nightly. -D -- iNoah my pdp goes to 11. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] Skipjam

2005-10-17 Thread paxtonc
Believe I've settled on adding sb, but was curious about skipjam. Benefit to it is no server needs to run on the network, but I've yet to hear any real user experience. Anyone w/ hands on experience w/ skipjam audio? -- paxtonc ___ Discuss mailing

[slim] Re: cannot get library to match iTunes

2005-10-17 Thread slayaz
See, I knew you'd sort it! I love you guys! 616 albums with 7163 songs by 2147 artists It's wrong but who cares? It's higher! Nice one -- slayaz -- In a land of sheep, even a toothless wolf is king ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Re: Alien BBC Garbled Sound

2005-10-17 Thread jonathanbarber
Hi I did infact try both fixes, changing the file through notepad and then reloading alienbbc (deleted two files covert custom in Slimserver and plugin folder) extracted new Alien BBc within Slimserver 6.2. Both these brought the same result that Radio 2 plays introduction and then cuts to

[slim] Re: Live365 Session ID Invalid

2005-10-17 Thread pannetron
fozzie Wrote: Do you know anyone that might be able to? Am I the only one with this problem or do people not have VIP memberships/store Live365 stations as playlists/favourites? It would be nice to know either way. I have the same issue so I just quit using Slim Favorites and always go

Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?

2005-10-17 Thread Free Lunch
Encouraged by the news that recent 6.2 nightly builds solved performance issues, I tried the 10-12 nightly with my original Slimp3.. Unfortunately, it was much worse than 5.4.1 with my 48K track library. Playback would stop as soon as I tried to access the main web interface. Menu navigation

[slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets

2005-10-17 Thread NickM
Geoff, your work around sounds OK - except, I use JR's MediaCenter to rip tag - and for the moment, I can't figure out how to edit the tags that you suggest. Having a quick look up on ID3 formats, I think (someone please correct me if I understood this) that DISC is a standard tag, whereas

[slim] Re: Slimscrobbler- why should I have it?

2005-10-17 Thread moobaa
Dave Dewey Wrote: 6) It will drive your competitive spirit to listen to more music when you see how many more songs your friends have listened to than you. 7) You'll find yourself becoming frustrated when you listen to music that isn't being 'Scrobbed, because it doesn't 'count.'

[slim] Re: Rumors of new device?

2005-10-17 Thread Michaelwagner
Carl W. Irving Wrote: The gold plated edition comes with a bonus CD of: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2005/10/14/thing-a-week-5-baby-got-back/ If you don't have (and don't want) iTunes, here's a better url http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/BabyGotBack.mp3 -- Michaelwagner

[slim] Re: Performance measurements ?

2005-10-17 Thread Michaelwagner
This is counter-intuitive ... andreas Wrote: Michael Herger wrote:[color=blue] [20.891] titles 0 10 [16.235] titles 0 100 Why would 10 titles take more time than 100? -- Michaelwagner ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Suddenly Not Able To Connect

2005-10-17 Thread silverswingman
jonolumb Wrote: what router are you using? Is it a dlink by any chance? Also, what wireless channel are you on- if you are in a built up area, it may be worth trying a few different channels. Jono I am using a dlink router. I have a slightly different problem. Sometimes when I first hit

Re: [slim] Re: Rumors of new device?

2005-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
Carl W. Irving wrote: I think it depends on whether it is the black or gold plated edition. The gold plated edition comes with a bonus CD of: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2005/10/14/thing-a-week-5-baby-got-back/ ... I thought that was lame, actually -- certainly not as good as this one:

[slim] Re: Performance measurements ?

2005-10-17 Thread MrC
Michaelwagner Wrote: This is counter-intuitive ... Why would 10 titles take more time than 100? I indicated in an earlier post that the testing methodologies being used here are un-controlled, and the margin of error is too high to have any meaning. Without proper controls put into place,

Re: [slim] Re: Suddenly Not Able To Connect

2005-10-17 Thread dean blackketter
On Oct 17, 2005, at 8:18 PM, silverswingman wrote: Sometimes when I first hit the power button on the remote control it can take up to a minute for my Squeezebox2 to respond and come to full brightness (Free Your Music), and it is sluggish for the first few UI operations after that. I tried

Re: [slim] Re: Performance measurements ?

2005-10-17 Thread Niek Jongerius
Why would 10 titles take more time than 100? Your guess is as good as (or possibly better than) mine. But there is no introduced artifact from the test program that I can see (the very simple source is here: http://media.qwertyboy.org/files/sstime.c). I indicated in an earlier post that the