On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 23:16 -0800, bernt wrote:
Got the two units yesterday and the total cost for one was 2900:- so
Jens has a good price.
First impression.
It surprise me how good internet radio sounds and how fast the
Squeezebox respond to the remote. Very nice.
Unfortenly the
On 7/11/05 at 18:30 -0800, seanadams wrote
Please give us a few days on this. We are testing these routers.
I hope you will also test Apple's Airport Extreme.
With the proviso that some people on the Apple discussion boards say
that its implemtation of AES isn't all that good itself.
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I thought Turbo-G modes needed every device on the wlan to be by the
same manufacturer and have the same 3rd party extensions to the
standard. I therefore wouldn't have expected it to work with the
Squeezebox. Is this not the case?
Max
KitKat Wrote:
I received my SB3s today (one wired, one
My SB3 arrived today and everything's cool, very impressed with the new
look! An earlier post asked about the wireless signal strength viz. the
SB3's implementation of fully internal antennae.
Well after setup I have found that with no change in environment,
config, etc, just a straight swap
fathom39 Wrote:
iPods are for sheep. We know this because the ear buds and cord are
white, in order to match the color of the wool.
BAAA!
As much as I hate Apple, I despe DRM and iTunes makes me want to puke I
do love my iPod :D
And how can you criticise it. it looks sort of
I notice that the SB3 designer has worked for Apple...
Max
Jim Wrote:
BAAA!
As much as I hate Apple, I despe DRM and iTunes makes me want to puke I
do love my iPod :D
And how can you criticise it. it looks sort of like the new
Squeezebox :D
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The wild
max.spicer Wrote:
Sadly this is way beyond my budget. The power supply is designed to be
a cheap alternative to a cheap plug in to the wall device i.e. around
£20-£30.
I too was eagerly waiting for the geekport to enable me to toggle power
to my power amps, but gave up waiting. In the end, I
Jim Wrote:
As much as I hate Apple, I despe DRM and iTunes makes me want to puke I
do love my iPod
But surely if you care about music, and you're a Squeezebox lover, the
DAP of choice has to be the Rio Karma? Native support for FLAC Ogg
Vorbis; gapless playback of MP3s (even the Squeezebox
And how can you criticise it. it looks sort of like the new
Squeezebox :D
I see it more as the antithesis of the Squeezebox.
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cliveb Wrote:
In the end, I lashed up a solution using a configurable IR detector.
(Taught it to respond to the SLEEP button on the SB remote - which I
wasn't using and seemed appropriate for the purpose).
I've been half-looking for something like this but off-the-shelf (not
really a DIY
seanadams Wrote:
Not normal - should be 40 to 60M (i.e. 1/10th of that).
Can you try watching the usage from the time you start SlimServer -
does it go up right at the beginning, or is it steadily increasing?
It may be stuck in a loop scanning your music
It sort of crawls up to around
Wake On LAN tends not to work with Wireless NICs because there is no
power sent to the Wireless radio when the PC/laptop is in standy/sleep
mode.
On an IBM Thinkpad, you'll see the Wireless led on the lid go off when
the system is in standby. That means the radio has been shut down to
save
cliveb Wrote:
Native support for FLAC Ogg Vorbis
Apart from filling it up very quickly just what effect does the huge
data reading involved with playing FLAC files have on the battery life?
Lossy is lossy, if I could use Ogg Vorbis over AAC or WMA I of course
would but wouldn't use ropey old
Pity Rio went bust
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000483056128/
another reason to hate Apple.
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I've not researched this _at all_ and I'm sure I could find the answers
on Google within a few mins. But just wanted to get some opinions from
some audiophiles...
I've always used MP3, and on my cheap-ass stereo it sounds fine.
Personally, I actually thought MP3 was fine so long as you went for
I have earlier looked for a remote power off to my hidden amplifier. I
think the simplest solution would be to turn off the digital outputs
when SB is turned off. It is a very simple task to build a circuit that
detects when the digital outputs are disabled.
My recomendation is to vote for this
NigelMSB Wrote:
I've been half-looking for something like this but off-the-shelf (not
really a DIY man). Like an IR version of a 240V mains timer switch.
Ideally it'd take discreet on/off IR codes (rather than toggle) via the
IR blasting support in SB2s. Of course, 5V from the geekport
I had exactly the same problem, but when I try the solution offered I
just get an error message stating...
CreateService failed: The specified service already exists
I have tried different servers... 6.1.1, 6.2.1 and the 6.5b's and
still can't get past the server stating phase. I am on AOL
Conductor and orchestra (band) are already supported. You can find
settings under settings-behavior. I use tage TPE3 and TPE2 for
conductor and orchestra and lump choir in with the title,
although you might choose to put choir in TPE2 and use
the multiple items in tags setting.
id3v2 tag info
Ok, I've just put a new build of Moose up on:
http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove
It's had a bit of a UI overhaul and the 'Now Playing' window is the new
focus of operations, displaying track details, the current playlist and
numerous control and option buttons.
I've updated the web
Sorry keep asking this but never get a reply - I LOVE the album review
and biography plugins and I think that Exbrowse3 could be best of the
skins (for me) but i can't find out where those plugins appear in the
skin - I can see them under plugins but no web pages. Anybody got a
clue or are they
oreillymj Wrote:
The other problem was that WinXP would only stay awake for about 5
minutes before going back to sleep. I contacted Microsoft support, but
they basically fobbed me off. There is a KB article on Microsoft's
support site which describes the issue and it's apparently meant to
It makes me weary when I see all this envy/indignation with a product's
(iPod) or company's (Apple) success. Vote with your own money but don't
criticize my choice. My iPod and my Powerbook have served me well. I
hope your choices are as satisfying to you.
- Joe
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Yes, FLAC is lossless - so no option of different levels. It's also
produces files that are a lot larger than even the highest quality MP3.
So it _would_ make a difference, to the size of your library.
Chris
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A follow-up. From what I can see, there's not much out there for
non-X-10, ready-made, infra-red power switches. The closest I've found
is this:
http://cbav.com/ac-powerswitch.htm
No good (for me) since it's for the USA market.
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Dan Goodinson Wrote:
I've not researched this _at all_ and I'm sure I could find the answers
on Google within a few mins. But just wanted to get some opinions
from
some audiophiles...
I've always used MP3, and on my cheap-ass stereo it sounds fine.
Personally, I actually thought MP3 was
oreillymj Wrote:
Pity Rio went bust
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000483056128/
another reason to hate Apple.
Survival of the fittest. Only in rare circumstances does the inferior
product win (e.g. VHS vs Betamax), and usually in those cases it
involves consumer stupidity/naivety, a
I've not researched this _at all_ and I'm sure I could find the answers
on Google within a few mins. But just wanted to get some opinions from
some audiophiles...
There's even an audiophiles list, if you want to meet the cracks ;-)
So FLAC is lossless? And MP3 is lossy? Can you encode to
OK, the Apple has a few gapless problems :(
I'd query the 'few' as it doesn't do gapless at all.
Survival of the fittest. Only in rare circumstances does the inferior
product win (e.g. VHS vs Betamax), and usually in those cases it
involves consumer stupidity/naivety, a huge marketing
What about a 'Wireless Bridge' (http://tinyurl.com/9t3xp) ?
I know it's a waste of desk space money but having a ethernet card
equiped PC/laptop connecting via a very small wire to a bridge sitting
next to it...and then being transmitted through the air would
work...I'm 99.9% sure.
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Cool. Thanks everyone. It's a bit of a daunting task to re-rip all my
CDs, but certainly the most interesting thing is that once I've ripped
them to FLAC, I shouldn't need to rip them again.
In fact, I kind of thought that was what would happen with MP3s. I've
already ripped around 95% of my
If I read that right, a stream of WOL requests, 1 minute apart, would
keep it awake.
Or other activity - not sure what would qualify, though. You'd think
slim sending network traffic out would qualify.
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A lot of the performance problems would go away if there was a
separate process which did nothing but deliver music to the slimp3/sb
(and handle display features, etc). I think this should be broken out
from the main server.
We all know this. Just do it.
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Quote
It makes me weary when I see all this envy/indignation with a product's
(iPod) or company's (Apple) success. Vote with your own money but don't
criticize my choice. My iPod and my Powerbook have served me well. I
hope your choices are as satisfying to you
/Quote
I have voted with my money
I have earlier looked for a remote power off to my hidden amplifier.
I have an add-on outlet that I found at Home Depot. It plugs in to the wall
and then turns the power on and off using a small RF remote. I don't use it
with my stereo, though I cannot think of a good reason not to do so.
In fact, I kind of thought that was what would happen with MP3s. I've
already ripped around 95% of my CDs, and a large percentage of them are
now in the attic in boxes. Sigh :(
At least you can be sure that, as long as your ripping process is
robust, this will be the last time as you will have
I just receive mine and it looks quite good as a SqueezeBox controller.
I think it is going to need it's own skin though. The Touch and
Handheld are ok but I think they would need to be optimised for the
screen size.
Neil
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Try
C:\program files\SlimServer\Server\Slim
.exe -uninstall
C:\program files\SlimServer\Server\Slim
.exe -install
This will remove the service and then re-install it.On 11/8/05, shifty1725 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:I had exactly the same problem, but when I try the solution offered I
just get an
Neil, I presume that's a production version with the latest firmware you
have? Can you tell us if it is slow browsing Slimserver artwork? Also,
do applications take a while to load? (This was a criticism of
pre-production review machines which has hopefully been resolved in the
latest release).
Hi,
I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but I'd like to remove a
lot of the duplicate tracks in my collection and only have 1 copy of
each file. But I'd also like to have a virtual copy of certain tracks
in my collection.
I know I can achieve kind of what I want with playlists, but not
Strange
I didn't do anything except run a scheduled rescan last night
and the track numbers in my artist list are gone this morning. I still
have the duplicate artist problem, but I have filed a bug report on
that.
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Sue
PS: I want a Squeezebox boombox.
I've tried to do slim.exe -uninstall, but it just says unknown option.
Anymore ideas?
Thanks
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Cheers,
What would it take to make the SB2 keep sending keep alive packets to
the slimserver to prevent it from entering power save mode, when the
SB2 is doing the WMA translation and no longer keeps the server awake
with normal traffic (as in previous firmware versions). It can not be
only I/me
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17891page=2
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Fifer Wrote:
I'll let someone else answer the question about transferring your edited
tags over to the FLAC versions. It's a very good question ...
Ooops. Missed that bit, sorry !!! Good question indeed and not very
easy.
The way I would do it is as follows. (if you needed further help
Ah! Found the proper command
slim.exe -remove
slim.exe -install and slim.exe -install [auto]
Tried them and it still doesn't work.
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Excellent stuff - thanks for the help.
In fact, I'm already part way there if I follow a process like the one
you suggest... I already have a backup of my tag data in CSV format.
And since my library is comparatively small (less than 5000 MP3s) it
only occupies around 30GB: I've got a couple of
First, I'll engage in a little heresy and say if all your MP3s are
192Kbps, and you never plan on transcoding (even to lower bitrate MP3)
then you'll probably not notice moving to FLAC unless you have a decent
stereo and are particularly sensitive to such things. If you have an
SB2/SB3 it's
Jeff Coffler Wrote:
From: trash trash.1y5aqz (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com
I would like to see this as well, except maybe something a bit more
generic (i.e some simple serial communication style like plain
serial
port data (8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit), or I2C, or ???)
Fifer Wrote:
Bear in mind that this processing power matters more at playing time
(which you do often) than ripping/coding time (which you do once).
... which is why FLAC was designed to be expensive (processor-wise)
when compressing data, but cheap when decompressing. The designers
(rightly)
I have one. I love it. My wife has one integrated into her Mini. She
loves it.
For those who don't, you should visit www.smashmyipod.com.
I also love my slim servers.
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kolepard Wrote:
I have earlier looked for a remote power off to my hidden amplifier.
I have an add-on outlet that I found at Home Depot. It plugs in to the
wall and then turns the power on and off using a small RF remote. I
don't use it with my stereo, though I cannot think of a good
Maybe we should startup www.breakaroku.com and send in donations.buy
a secondhand one of ebay of course :D
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kolepard Wrote:
I have earlier looked for a remote power off to my hidden amplifier.
I have an add-on outlet that I found at Home Depot. It plugs in to the
wall and then turns the power on and off using a small RF remote. I
don't use it with my stereo, though I cannot think of a good
FYI: I logged a bug about my particular madness.
==
Bug 2516: Random Mix: Dynamic addition of songs should be optional.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2516
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I have one. I love it. My wife has one integrated into her Mini. She
loves it.
One of the nice things about the iPod (which springs from Apple's
overwhelming market domonance) is the wide range of aftremarket
accessories available for it. My wife has a Mini but fortunately, she's
not that much
On 11/8/05, oreillymj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but I'd like to remove a
lot of the duplicate tracks in my collection and only have 1 copy of
each file. But I'd also like to have a virtual copy of certain tracks
in my collection.
I know I can
On 11/8/05, oreillymj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but I'd like to remove alot of the duplicate tracks in my collection and only have 1 copy ofeach file. But I'd also like to have a virtual copy of certain tracks
in my collection.I know I can achieve kind of
oreillymj Wrote:
What I cannot understand is why so many people are buying into a
product which becomes a 60Gb brick once the internal battery stops
taking a charge.
Why has Apple never changed the design to make this a user replacable
part?
No one is asking you to understand. It's not
Fifer Wrote:
One of the nice things about the iPod (which springs from Apple's
overwhelming market domonance) is the wide range of aftremarket
accessories available for it.
You stole my thunder. I have Bose SoundDock. Many, if not most, of
the major A/V receiver and car stereo
On 11/8/05, Bart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Bernard, Jr Wrote: you might want to check the XP Resource Kit for a tool called fsutil (assuming you have Windows XP and the hard drive is formatted with NTFS)Anyone got a useful duplicate finder?
MusicMagic mixer has a duplicate finder capability
On 11/8/05, gandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry keep asking this but never get a reply - I LOVE the album review
and biography plugins and I think that Exbrowse3 could be best of the
skins (for me) but i can't find out where those plugins appear in the
skin - I can see them under plugins but
kolepard Wrote:
Yep, RF.
The only useful thing I can find on the box is Appliance Control
Device Model Number RC001. The model number on the remote is TR-001.
There isn't even a manufacturer listed on either piece. Sorry I can't
be more specific.
Kevin
Thanks for the helpful
OK, guys, this thread is getting snarley.
There's no need to be offensive.
I posted it as a humourous web page that I happened to come across. The
intention was to foster a light-hearted smile on a few faces, not to
become the focus for acrimony.
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Title: Scalix message content
My fairly new SB2 (6 months I
think) suddenly stopped working? I run SS 6.2 on a RHES 4 box and the SB is
wireless. I also have a SB1 on the same network and it works fine. The behavior
is that although it is up and running, and I can connect to the network and
I totally respect people's right to buy and love their i-pods or
whatever else they might buy.
But I think you've average consumer who hasn't a clue technically
doesn't realise that with every DRM'd track they buy off ITMS, they are
becoming part of an Apple monopoly that they have no way out
If SD codes it, I certainly test the firmware update.
What I don't want is a PC in a Sleep/Wake/Sleep/Wake cycle.
I know that will shorten the life of my HD.
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On 11/8/05, Bart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have done this and it works seamlessly (except for the track number
problem)
It is also good for tracks featuring two artists, you can make the
track appear under both artist's names.
However I subsequently put a bigger disk into the system and
Speaking of cards... My late-beta SB2 has the Mini-PCI connector, and
I've been wondering if it would be possible to upgrade it to wireless.
Might there be any left-over SB2 card/antenna assemblies available?
- Jacob
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Try press and hold power until it resets, then hit 1 on the Slim
Devices splash screen.
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Since the new firmware does the WMA ecoding on the SB, my slimserver is
going into powersave since not enough activity is generated from the SB
to the server (i.e. the server thinks the SB is powered off - SB2 to be
exact ;-). This is particularly anoying when listening to Internet
radio streams
Speed is subjective but I would say it is fast enough, it is what I was
expecting and compares to my PDA. Apps load in a few seconds and the
browse artwork loads in 5 or 6 seconds (handheld skin).
Neil
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The way I see it, if there wasn't people wasting their money buying
iTunes DRM stuff then my iPod would have cost more money or not even
been made in the first place.
I don't like Mictosoft yet still run Windows, so don't assume I like
Apple (maybe you saw the avatar) just because I have an
Quoting getprogs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Since the new firmware does the WMA ecoding on the SB, my slimserver is
going into powersave since not enough activity is generated from the SB
to the server (i.e. the server thinks the SB is powered off - SB2 to be
exact ;-). This is particularly anoying
Dan thinks this is a recursive Windows shortcut causing slimserver to
loop while scanning. Fixed in the nightlies - culd you give it a try?
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.2.1/
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Rik Wrote:
I did find the tags conductor and band/orchestra in SlimServer. I am
a bit confused about both tags and the MP3 standard.
- I use MediaMonkey for tagging. In that application, conductor is
not available and band/orchestra is called albumartist.
- I tried JJ MP3 renamer.
anyone? anyone?
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I do not support any form of restrictive DRM either. I refuse to buy
anything that prevents me from making legal copies for my personal use.
I have even chosen to encode in high quality mp3 only as I do not want
to be restrcted in the future with my choice of portable (or
non-portable) digital
Richard - did you get the files? Any luck reproducing the problem?
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Thanks Neil, I suspect I'll be ordering one this weekend. Just the small
matter of moving house between then and now ...
Any other observations or opinions on the Nokia? Is it as good as you
hoped?
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Fifer's
Quoting Dan Sully [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* kdf shaped the electrons to say...
There is a Keep Unswapped Interval setting (for keeping mysql
connection alive)
in server settings-performance. If you set this to some smaller
number (than
This isn't actually a MySQL setting - but one for computers
* kdf shaped the electrons to say...
I'll stop suggesting it if it really has no chance of working
Well, it should have an effect. Just nothing to do with MySQL.
-D
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In my opinion, it's the depth of support by third party manufacturers
that gives the iPod the edge over the few who have been able to
manufacturer something that comes close to being as good as the iPod.
I can just about agree with that and look forward to seeing how they
gain the edge over
I don't know if this has something to do with my problems and whether
anyone can advise on it.
I tried typing in slim.exe at the command promopt to see if I could get
the server up and running that way. It came up with an error message
stating that there was already a copy of slim.exe
I noticed that when I set Server Settings/Performance/Keep Unswapped
interval to 1 (thinking it would help performance), slim.exe's memory
usage climbed upward radically. Must be a leak? I set Keep Unswapped
interval to zero and now memory is now stabilized back at around 65k
for my 2754
Wow - finally got to the bottom of the problem. Having spent most of the
weekend and yesterday evening tinkering. It turns out it was nothing to
do with the 6.2 update! Apologies for leaping to conclusions and
blaming the new release.
First thing I did was to back-rev to 6.1.1, delete the
* blueranger shaped the electrons to say...
So, there we are. A simple mistake caused hours of fun. My neighbour is
pleased he has access to his full music collection and I can finally get
back to listening to my Squeezebox. Sorry once again for blaming the 6.2
release.
And just FYI - I put
Dan Sully Wrote:
I put in checking for recursive Windows shortcuts in the 6.2.1
nightlies.Beat me to the punch. I was going to ask if we could. It's an easy
enough mistake to make, and in a directory tree full of many twisty
branches, all the same, relatively difficult to find on one's own.
I've placed an order for an SB3 (Wired) and just wondering if anyone in
the UK has received one as yet. If so, who did you order through? And
if not, does anyone know when they're expected?
Thanks,
Tom
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There are applications out there that allow you to download non-DRM
encoded versions of songs directly from the iTunes store, the only
difference is that you are using a front-end developed by a non-Apple
programmer and are probably violating some obscure EULA from Apple by
not using their
I hate Apple's marketing 'spin'. You'd imagine that they'd invented
everything, rather than just being slightly late with slightly
overpriced alternatives.
I like the way some of their kit looks.
I hate the way the media fawns over ipod and anything apple.
I needed a music player
I bought
According to their website, www.advancedmp3players.co.uk are supposed to
be getting stock in tomorrow (9/11/05).
A good company to order from as well, very good customer services
before and after the sale.
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Mike Anderson Wrote:
I'm sure I'm not the first one to say this, but I'd love to see a
version of Slimserver with a more user friendly GUI, something like
what iTunes or WinAmp does.
I love my setup in every other regard, but this would make it even more
fun to use.
Unless I'm mistaken,
A batch of SB3 white (wired and wireless) were shipped to our UK distributor
on Friday. They should be following into the channel. More is coming this
week!
Cheers,
Patrick
On 11/8/05 12:13 PM, twynne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've placed an order for an SB3 (Wired) and just wondering if
Steve Bernard, Jr Wrote:
the Resource Kit also includes a program called hlscan.exe that goes
through and tells you all the hard links on the volume so you can
remove them and add them back later on the new volume
Thanks - that is exactly what I need. And I use Musicmagic too (and it
is
seanadams Wrote:
Dan thinks this is a recursive Windows shortcut causing slimserver to
loop while scanning. Fixed in the nightlies - culd you give it a try?
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.2.1/
I will give it a spin tonight and let you know.
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jmpage2 Wrote:
Unless I'm mistaken, you can set up slimserver to use iTunes as the
front end.
Problem solved.
Does that work with FLAC files?
And how does one control all the other tasks Slimserver does (changing
preferences, menus, etc.)?
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'FREE RADICAL
RADIO!'
Doh! Of course I ordered the black. Any estimate on these?
Thanks,
Tom
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Quoting Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
jmpage2 Wrote:
Unless I'm mistaken, you can set up slimserver to use iTunes as the
front end.
Problem solved.
Does that work with FLAC files?
And how does one control all the other tasks Slimserver does (changing
preferences, menus, etc.)?
ask
Thanks for the update.
Tom
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