Excellent, will be looking forward to listening to it. Thanks for the
quick response.
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An interesting discussion, the only drawback of which is that it covers
so many points that this thread could very quickly fragment! Never
mind, its a very good question, so here's my bit...
At the risk of repeating old RAID / non-RAID discussions, I'm not at
all convinced that RAID is a good
I have a setup where give me maximum capacity for the money is the key
objective. Therefore, I didn't go with a NAS because they are going to
be quite expensive when you realize 2 + 1 TB as I did. However, here
are my experiences with these servers, one having 14x160 GB harddisks
in linux
I've been withholding a reply to avoid thread fragmentation...
Very informative comments to y'all, thanks. Nice backup scripts. LA's
too far away from DC, Pat, otherwise I'd take you up on the offer.
btw I agree about the *BSD v. linux approachable interface issues, but
it should be mentioned
@ceejay: From my experience raid 5 (better raid 6) is vital when you
have a certain number of drives. during the last 4 years I had about 2
drive faliures a year on a total amount of about 15 drives running in
total. This seems to be true regarless what kind of drive generation or
manufacturer
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I'm surprised at how little you guys care for the RAID 5 idea. My
problem is that at the moment I've got a couple of those external
seagates (nice quiet gadgets and they look nice btw) and between the
two of 'em they combine 700gb of room (ok 640gb actually) and they have
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I just decided to get a second Squeezebox only to find that they've
changed shape! Am I right that all Squeezebox 2s in the UK have gone
now? Cooltopia were supposed to have some, but they're not listed.
Multitask computing list them, but say they're unavailable if you try
to order.
Alas, the
Hi,
Well, I did what you requested, and the result with 6.2.2 is still the
sameno play of flac files on SB1`s.
I have managed to get 6.02 back working again by deleting fully
slimserver, including its folder and registry entry.
So back to square one!
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I'm using a Terrastation just for library storage, with SlimServer
running on a Mini-Mac. No stability issues whatsoever. They're both
hidden away in a cupboard. I installed VNC on the Mac so that if I ever
need to get to it (eg to upgrade SlimServer or MusicMagic) I can do so
from my Windows
mecouc Wrote:
I just decided to get a second Squeezebox only to find that they've
changed shape! Am I right that all Squeezebox 2s in the UK have gone
now? Cooltopia were supposed to have some, but they're not listed.
Multitask computing list them, but say they're unavailable if you try
to
Anyone know of a decent device to autoload CDs? We used to have
something at work which looked kind of cool - you'd load it up with
media and then let it go. Though I never saw it in action, I
understand that it could be used to burn multiple discs in a single
sitting, and was used to
Hi all
I found a way to switch an amplifier on and off without needing to
decode the ir signal. :) Check it out here:
www(dot)gwendesign(dot)com/slimserver/dev_hard_and_software.htm#ampswitch
Technical background: The plugin switches between audio and blaster
mode causing the right output of
It's a little unfair to suggest that the distribution channel is
inadequate because you cannot source what is now a superseded product.
It may be more reasonable to question why the SB3 was introduced so
quickly after the SB2, although the obvious answer would be to address
the common criticism
Orb Wrote:
I think the SB3 is ok but not worth an extra £50.
I presume you're talking $ because Slim obviously has no say how much
the box sells for from anyone other than them. The prices of the SB2
went down $50 just before SB3 launch if I remember correctly. That is
the SB3 is the same
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 01:50 -0800, trebejo wrote:
I've been withholding a reply to avoid thread fragmentation...
Dreamer.
wrt what I meant by headless, I meant at the very least that it would
run unattended without a monitor or keyboard. If it can reboot
unattended and so forth that's all
Do a search for a powerfile - don't know how much they are but have used
them on imerge systems to rip audio and kaleidescape to rip DVDs work well
and have 2 drives in them to speed it up
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I'm surprised at how little you guys care for the RAID 5 idea. My
...
Anyway, back to the RAID issue. Doesn't the RAID do something about the
occasional hard drive death? Like, if one dies, I can replace it and not
lose any data? Yeah, sure, the big fire hits and all bets are off, but
I have developed a server which runs 'headless' and is setup to autorip
CD's (only one at a time sadly) without the need for any user input.
I'm selling off some excess stock at the moment at cost price, if you
are interested, just let me know.
I'm guessing you would be ripping onto another PC
I presently have an SB2 and a couple of PC running Softsqueeze set up at
home. All are usually tuned to Radio Paradises 128kbit MP3 stream. To
preserve my broadband connection bandwidth Ive installed Slimserver on
a Linux server in the basements. That way a single MP3 stream flows from
the
Well, I see SB2 going for around £130 and SB3 going for around £180. £50
for a new design. The psu/antenna improvements mean nothing to me and
certainly not £50.
I take your point about the SB2 looking like an alarm clock but my
point is, why introduce a product that is extremely popular and
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:20 -0800, Orb wrote:
My comment about exploitation may have been rather harsh
Just a tad to my ears
Well, I see SB2 going for around £130 and SB3 going for around £180. £50
for a new design. The psu/antenna improvements mean nothing to me and
certainly not £50.
I
audiofi Wrote:
I have developed a server which runs 'headless' and is setup to autorip
CD's (only one at a time sadly, but I might be able to set it up with a
second CD-ROM) without the need for any user input.
I'm selling off some excess stock at the moment at cost price, if you
are
Its fairly similar, but I had to write a few programs to stop it needing
any user input on pop-up windows etc. and also a program to reload any
programs should they crash.
Plus I am selling them at cost price which without the 200Gb storage
disk would be £30 with one CD-ROM (plus postage).
I'm
We currently have a number of black and platinum wireless Squeezebox 2's
left in stock at £199.99 with free delivery.
If anybody would like to purchase one of these (or a couple) they are
more than welcome to call us on 0871 871 9747 to place an order.
The stock we have is available on a first
ultra238a Wrote:
...Squeezebox 2's left in stock at £199.99...
Two hundered quid!? Is this now classed as collectors :D
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On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:12 -0800, Jim wrote:
ultra238a Wrote:
...Squeezebox 2's left in stock at £199.99...
Two hundered quid!? Is this now classed as collectors :D
The definition of price is what a seller under no compunction
to sell will offer it to a buyer with no compunction to buy.
Jim wrote:
Fifer Wrote:
A function button (can't remember what now) has been
added to the remote
control too.
FavoUrites
...which is also on the late-production SB2
remotes because the remotes are identical.
My SB2 purchased a month ago came with a remote
that had the Favorites
:) We didn't pay any less for these than we used to pay pre-SB3 so why
should we sell them for less. People still want them over the SB3 so if
you want one you know the price. We only have about 5 of each now
anyway.
Regards
Paul
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Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will weigh in
here because the subject interests me too.
But note the VFD technology has been used on VCRs
for decades now. Apparently the only wear on
the VFDs is that they get slightly dimmer over time.
Have you ever had a VCR VFD fail? I haven't. And
Thanks Tass...
Nope, don't necessarily lose connection every 30 minutes. Rather, I was
looking through the log and this was something I didn't recall seeing in
the past. After seeing your response, I went through the server settings
and noticed several thangs in there I hadn't seen before blush.
dean Wrote:
We are waiting for our CPU and OS vendor to provide us with a new
working version of the OS to test. It's out of our hands right now,
but we are working with them every day. Sorry for the delay.
In the mean time you probably ought to update your misleading FAQ
entry, that
Nevermind, this question may be moot anyway. Am I correct in my belief
that SB2 does not support AAC+?
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I just did major update of my Fedora 4 Linux box including update of
Squeeze server. My Squeezebox2 works fine but when I stream to PC for
playback in winamp the tracks sound pretty broken up. It sounded like
the lame encoder is not getting enough cpu cycles. I did notice on the
linux update that
It might be just as cheap to pay somebody to rip your CDs for you. I
used a service that ripped to both FLAC MP3, and returned them on
DVDs - so I simply had to copy the files of the DVDs onto my storage
device. I could also have shipped them my storage device if I'd wanted
to. They did a great
Try the autodisplay plugin. This plugin will allow you to turn on and
off the display at set times.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerPlugins
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You would be able to play by getting slimserver to transcode it to
another format the the squeezebox understands natively. Don't know
exactly how this is done, but there should either be more info
somewhere on the website or in these forums :)
either that or someone more knowlegable can help
Slim Devices is growing and we need some help. We have several job
openings for full-time positions and are looking for smart people who
want to work at an exciting, growing, small company to help us and our
community build great products. We offer benefits, flexible hours,
telecommuting, stock
Epp we have two powerfiles at work, they are junk, junk, junk.
-Chris
On 11/27/05, Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do a search for a powerfile - don't know how much they are but have used
them on imerge systems to rip audio and kaleidescape to rip DVDs work well
and have 2 drives in them to
Oh if only telecommuting from Britain were an option!
Max
dean Wrote:
Slim Devices is growing and we need some help. We have several job
openings for full-time positions and are looking for smart people who
want to work at an exciting, growing, small company to help us and our
community
tgoldstone Wrote:
Try the autodisplay plugin.
Well, I can't find the autodisplay plugin from that link, but I have
tried it before and it does not do what I need. I want to be able to
keep the display turned on at night because it is useful to have an
illuminated clock, but I would like to be
stinkingpig Wrote:
More about pain and suffering:
1) rebuilding a RAID 5 array after losing a drive takes a very long
time.
Like days and days. I haven't tried it with a SOHO RAID card and some
el
cheapo IDE drives, but top-of-the-line HPAQ and Dell cards with fast
SCSI
drives sure do
This is exactly how I ripped all of my cds. I obtained a no longer
used Asaca AM-750 (yes I'm a lucky duck) from work, and wrote the
attached perl script. Its by no means portable or distribution ready,
and calls a number of other publicly available scripts and perl
modules that I have modified.
I'm afraid I don't think you can reduce this. $client-brightness is
the correct method call to change brightness, but the dimest value
already corresponds to the lowest value it takes
[see @brightmap in the Slim/Player/Squeezebox2.pm - the value 0 is the
lowest value, 65535 is off].
Hence any
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dean Wrote: We are waiting for our CPU and OS vendor to provide us with a new working version of the OS to test.It's out of our hands right now, but we are working with them every day.Sorry for the delay.
In the mean time you probably ought to update your
Or try 'Audiograbber' - it's free and can run automated if you just sit
and feed it cd's.
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dean Wrote:
Slim Devices is growing and we need some help. We have several job
openings for full-time positions and are looking for smart people who
want to work at an exciting, growing, small company to help us and our
community build great products. We offer benefits, flexible hours,
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 01:50 -0800, trebejo wrote:
I'm surprised at how little you guys care for the RAID 5 idea.
...
Anyway, back to the RAID issue. Doesn't the RAID do something about the
occasional hard drive death? Like, if one dies, I can replace it and not
lose any data? Yeah, sure, the
From eagis - about a grand as I recall, including shipping.
Works very well so far, only minor niggle is a slightly noisy
fan...should take about two minutes to fix.
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Thank you but I'm interested in people who are running slimserver ON the
Terastation.
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Ben Sandee Wrote:
Why? Looking back at the thread all of these are supported. Granted
there
may be isolated problems with some routers but this will inevitably be
an
ongoing process to provide and test interoperability.
Ben
You mischaracterize the problem as isolated. As far as I
guys, did you manage to solve the problem with slimserver not being able
to detect directory names in Chinese which shows up ok under Win XP ?
I have Win XP SP2 English version.
SlimServer Version: 6.2.2 - 5295 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
(27 Nov 2005 build)
SB3 and softsqueeze
I have put
fcm4711 Wrote:
Hi all
I found a way to switch an amplifier on and off without needing to
decode the ir signal. :) Check it out here:
www(dot)gwendesign(dot)com/slimserver/dev_hard_and_software.htm#ampswitch
Technical background: The plugin switches between audio and blaster
mode
I use and have been quite happy with Aqua Data Studio http://
aquadatastudio.com/index.html which has two versions one that is free
for personal use and an older one which is free for all use
commercial or personal.
Pat
On Nov 26, 2005, at 6:50 AM, Jim wrote:
Anyone know of a
I replied earlier about an RF controlled switch
that would turn the power on and off. There
wasn't much on the device itself (including a
manufacturer name). However, I saw another one
at Home Depot the last time I was there. It's
made by a company called Commercial Electric
and had
fcm4711 Wrote:
Hi all
I found a way to switch an amplifier on and off without needing to
decode the ir signal. :) Check it out here:
www(dot)gwendesign(dot)com/slimserver/dev_hard_and_software.htm#ampswitch
Technical background: The plugin switches between audio and blaster
mode
I can't see it in the player settings menu for the autodisplay plugin.
tgoldstone Wrote:
Try the autodisplay plugin. This plugin will allow you to turn on and
off the display at set times.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerPlugins
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http://www.av123.com/squeezebox
Now $2500 sounds like a lot, but if you were to get
some of their electronics or their higher-end speaker
sets it would add up quick...
Some interesting marketing here!
I'm curious to know if it was AV123 or Slim that
started the ball rolling on this. Of course
If you have a large library (i.e. 15k tracks) you might find that the
slimserver's interface on the ReadyNAS is too slow. That's what I
found, anyway. I now use my ReadyNas for video storage. I gave up on
it as a platform for Slimserver. I've yet to try Slimserver 6.2.1 on
it, though. The
I agree with Jim. It is a good sign that you will be hiring these
engineers and a QA manager.
You need to commit to thorough testing before shipping and you need to
do a LOT of work on the user interface.
You also need to work on SlimServer performance so it doesn't bog down
the PC or server.
If you have a large library (i.e. 15k tracks) you might find that the
slimserver's interface on the ReadyNAS is too slow.
Is this if it is the slimserver is running on the ReadyNAS, or if
SlimServer is accessing files stored there (and itself is running on
another machine)?
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Hello everyone,
Not sure if it's kosher to put a listing like this in the forum, but I
have a Squeezebox v1 I'm not using anymore, and thought someone here
might have use for it. I'd like $125. I'm in Minneapolis, and if you
are not, I'd be happy to ship/insure/etc. to you for actual cost.
If
I'd probably buy a second Squeezebox if I could keep one in my office
and connect it to my home music collection. I know there is
softsqueeze, but it's not as good as having as Squeezebox on your desk.
It be too difficult to allow for an ssh tunnel option in the network
setup, would it?
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You should be able to use a Squeezebox to connect, assuming your
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On 27/11/05 at 15:14 -0800, jcyr wrote
You mischaracterize the problem as isolated. As far as I can tell from
this thread and others, WPA2 with AES encryption just plain doesn't
work with www.wi-fi.org WPA certified implementations.
But it is known that some certified wifi units don't
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Nice!!!Thanks! :)
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