[slim] Re: Portable Squeezebox

2005-12-25 Thread funkstar
or get a Nokia 770 and access the MP3 stream from your server, controling it from the web interface. Job done :) -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread:

[slim] And what did santa bring you this morning?

2005-12-25 Thread ceejay
A few people here have mentioned getting new SB3s... hope you are enjoying them! Here we seem to have had a large number of CDs in our stockings - 12 altogther in the house, 7 of them for me! The history of the bonzos (double), Kate Bush's new Aerial (double) and The Remains of tom Lehrer

[slim] Re: Getting Smartserver to see my iTunes playlists

2005-12-25 Thread biomech
I have spent the last 24 hours trying to get Slimserver to see the many play lists that I have created in iTunes and I#8217;m not having any luck. I have reinstalled Slimserver several times, moved my iTunes library, reimported my library into iTunes but nothing seems to work. This is

[slim] Re: And what did santa bring you this morning?

2005-12-25 Thread Kyle
Got my SB3 2 weeks ago. Ripping a new CD right now -- Pearl Legacy Edition by Janis Joplin. First Cd opened so far. -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread:

[slim] skin with forward / rewind - jump to song position

2005-12-25 Thread eurale
Hi folks, I've spent a fair bit of time looking for a skin that shows the song position (as a graphical bar) and will let me jump to a position within that bar. The song scanner plugin works through the player, but what about a skin with that functionality included? Or have I just been dense and

[slim] Feature request: Base Station with Attachable Modules

2005-12-25 Thread sirozha
This message is for the developers of Squeezebox. There are a lot of people who need a device like yours for one reason only - listening to webcasts or on-demand radio programs. This category of people is expats from other countries who want to keep up-to-date with what's happening in their

[slim] Re: Feature request: Base Station with Attachable Modules

2005-12-25 Thread brothers
I walk around the house with SlimServer streaming to a Nokia 770 in my pocket. - Dennis Brothers -- brothers brothers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2735 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Getting Smartserver to see my iTunes playlists

2005-12-25 Thread Heuer
Same here - not able to see my playlists no matter what I try, and my settings are similar to yours! -- Heuer Heuer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2543 View this thread:

[slim] Re: And what did santa bring you this morning?

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
I got mine a few weeks ago (birthday, not xmas). Is the Tom Lehrer old material rereleased or new material? -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Improve SB3 buffering?

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
Other options ... for that location, get a wireless SB2 - they had antennas. Get a bigger wireless antenna for the router or WAP. The other issues you asked about in other postings are all related. Button pushes on the remote (with a very few exceptions that do things like rebooting the

[slim] Re: Can you increase the SB3's antenna strength?

2005-12-25 Thread Bonesteel
Try this - http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/ Improved my wireless reception. -- Bonesteel Bonesteel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1438 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Squeezebox can't connect to WAP

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
fuzzyping Wrote: I've double-checked everything just to be sure; nothing has changed in my network Then something changed outside. Did one of your neighbours get a new wireless router for xmas? Are they using the same channel as you? Or an adjacent one? -- Michaelwagner

[slim] Re: And what did santa bring you this morning?

2005-12-25 Thread ceejay
Michaelwagner Wrote: Is the Tom Lehrer old material rereleased or new material? Nearly all of it the very old stuff. Just a few items recorded in the 90's. I had it on LP, then transcribed to MD, now I have nice clean material I have already put into slimserver... Ceejay -- ceejay

[slim] Re: Can you increase the SB3's antenna strength?

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
Cool! I especially like the fact that I could focus it into my factory area and reduce side-emissions. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread:

[slim] Re: And what did santa bring you this morning?

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
From that great repository of info, the wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer In 2000, a CD box set, The Remains of Tom Lehrer, was released by Rhino Entertainment. It included live and studio versions of his first two albums, That Was The Year That Was, the songs he wrote for The

Re: [slim] skin with forward / rewind - jump to song position

2005-12-25 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/25/05, eurale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using ExBrowse3 at the moment ... ExBrowse3 will be able to jump to a given point in the song in 6.5. It should be easy to put that functionality in 6.2, but I believe the 6.2 development is for bug fixes only now. - Jacob

[slim] Re: Improve SB3 buffering?

2005-12-25 Thread superbad
I was having a lot of problems with interference from neighbors (I went from being the only visible wifi network to 1 of 7 in a year). I was getting dropouts on every song (streaming lossless to an SB1, so the connection has to be good). I got a Belkin pre-N router a couple weeks ago, and haven't

[slim] Re: Squeezebox can't connect to WAP

2005-12-25 Thread fuzzyping
If something changed, it would affect at least 3 other wireless devices on my network: 2 PowerBooks and a HP 6840 wireless printer. Everything else connects fine to the access point. -- fuzzyping fuzzyping's Profile:

[slim] Re: Improve SB3 buffering?

2005-12-25 Thread stoobie-doo
Ugh...should have included the details before... SB2 did not pass WAF test, so no luck switching to that. Already using both an external 7db antenna and a 500db signal amplifier on the router (both Hawking) to try to goose the signal strength. Trying to keep the router close to the desktop so

Re: [slim] And what did santa bring you this morning?

2005-12-25 Thread Steve Bernard, Jr
On 12/25/05, ceejay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here we seem to have had a large number of CDs in our stockings - 12 altogther in the house, 7 of them for me! The history of the bonzos (double), Kate Bush's new Aerial (double) and The Remains of tom Lehrer (treble). So the first thing to do

[slim] Re: Improve SB3 buffering?

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
stoobie-doo Wrote: Already using both an external 7db antenna and a 500db signal amplifier on the router (both Hawking) to try to goose the signal strength. Is the router 802.11b or g? In a house, the SB3 only sees the home router. This doesn't mean there isn't interference. What sort of

[slim] Re: Squeezebox can't connect to WAP

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
In some other threads, I think I saw reports where the squeezebox occasionally forgets it's mac address. Turn it over and read the mac address off the bottom and see if that matches what the software thinks in the sb itself. If they're different, change the software one to match. I admit to

[slim] Re: And what did santa bring you this morning?

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
Well, we already owned these but I'm spending the day ripping Xmas cds so when we start using Slims in my girlfriends spa this week, we'll have Xmas music (seems to stretch to new years). -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's

Re: [slim] Re: skin with forward / rewind - jump to song position

2005-12-25 Thread kdf
Quoting Michaelwagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fishbone does that. Green line across the top. It does not, however, allow any clicking on that line to adjust song position. No plan to change that at the moment. ExBrowse3 should allow that with recent builds. -kdf

[slim] Brand new SB3 faulty?

2005-12-25 Thread gadgetgaz
I am hoping someone can tell me I have done something wrong but my new SB3 will not connect to my wireless network. All is fine when I plug in a LAN cable. I have totally reset my belkin wireless router to factory defaults so there is no security, no encryption, no mac address filtering or

[slim] Re: Brand new SB3 faulty?

2005-12-25 Thread ceejay
Lots of threads both here and in the beginners forum about people having trouble gettign wireless going. Unfortunately it could be any of a dozen different things. Start with a hard reset of the SB3, then have a scan through the forum for the dozen other things to try... like turning off any

[slim] Re: Help! SB3 cannot connect wireless!

2005-12-25 Thread gadgetgaz
I am having exactly the same problem. The SSID is found but I cannot connect to the network. I have disabled all forms of security in my router (Belkin F5D7630) and reset everything - several times! No connection. When I go into view network settings I can see that the wireless signal strength

[slim] Re: skin with forward / rewind - jump to song position

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
Define recent builds, please. I just downloaded 6.2.2 from today (25th at 2AM or so) and I don't observe this behaviour. Or maybe I don't understand what to do. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile:

[slim] Re: And what did santa bring you this morning?

2005-12-25 Thread biomech
Santa brought me a black SB3 and I couldn't be happier. I've been playing all day and I just love it. I'm sure my brother and friends will pick one up once they see mine. -- biomech biomech's Profile:

[slim] Re: volume control confusion with comcast cable sb2 remote

2005-12-25 Thread manmoth
I haven't noticed any other buttons doing this. Aha! So that must be it. It just so happens I have a JVC TV, and have the Comcast remote set up to control my TV, so it must be broadcasting JVC codes. That makes sense. I'll look at disabling the JVC remote recognition when I get home and

Re: [slim] Re: skin with forward / rewind - jump to song position

2005-12-25 Thread kdf
Quoting Michaelwagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Define recent builds, please. I just downloaded 6.2.2 from today (25th at 2AM or so) and I don't observe this behaviour. Or maybe I don't understand what to do. well, I didn't know...so didn't state specifics. however, I have since seen a post from

[slim] Re: volume control confusion with comcast cable sb2 remote

2005-12-25 Thread snarlydwarf
That would do it... I have a JVC TV too, very disconcerting when I put the sb in the living room and watched the TV change volume whenever I changed the SB volume. :) -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile:

[slim] Re: Squeezebox can't connect to WAP

2005-12-25 Thread fuzzyping
The MAC address matches and I'm not doing any MAC filtering on my access point. -- fuzzyping fuzzyping's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1912 View this thread:

[slim] Re: SlimServer on XBOX ?

2005-12-25 Thread NigelMMIII
Merry Christmas all! Nice thread, I have been looking for a low cost NAS solution for a while now, perhpas using an Xbox could be the solution. Having read Toms Xbox to Nas article http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article150.php It seems fairly easy to install linux, on an Xbox. But has

[slim] Re: Squeezebox can't connect to WAP

2005-12-25 Thread gjrhine
Did the wireless switch to some kind of turbo mode? -- gjrhine Gary For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. gjrhine's Profile:

[slim] Remote Reboot?

2005-12-25 Thread tfcarlin
I have a 1st generation SLIMP3. The SLIMP3 is located at a remote location. Does anyone know if there is a way to remotely reboot the player? Thanks, Tim -- tfcarlin tfcarlin's Profile:

[slim] Re: Options for remote power on of non ir amp

2005-12-25 Thread Claus-DK
fcm4711 Wrote: But right now (as of current firmware revision 28) there is no way to turn on the output permanently. A change in firmware is needed to achieve that. Felix Anyone with knowledge on the status of this? Will this be possible in future firmware? Regards Claus -- Claus-DK

[slim] Re: Squeezebox can't connect to WAP

2005-12-25 Thread fuzzyping
I cracked open the Squeezebox and reseated the card. Go figure, it works fine now! Very strange... the box hadn't been moved in over a year, no reason for it to have lost seating. Oh well, all's well that ends well! :) -- fuzzyping

[slim] Re: Buying SB3 in the UK

2005-12-25 Thread dangerous_dom
Thats just what i have to do. The top half does not work, unless it on the lowest brightness setting. After a few days, look at where the metal frontplate meets the display. It should be completely flush. I bet after a few days you will finds its not. All this on top of the Slimserver software,

[slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin

2005-12-25 Thread jz1
I had the same problem trying to download the skin onto XP. As suggested as a workaround elsewhere, I installed Firefox from http://www.mozilla.com/firefox, which took about two minutes, and was able to download Ben's skin. I didn't have anything to unzip it with, but downloaded the free unzip

[slim] Help! Tunes aplenty with no place to go

2005-12-25 Thread Michael Rubino
I just got a wireless SB3 but after a day of fooling around I can't get the device to find the SlimServer. I make it all the way through the setup process but, in the end, the SB3 times out and goes dark after failing to find the SlimServer. Either that or I get an error message suggesting I try

[slim] Squeezebox 3 won't power on

2005-12-25 Thread philn
Hello all, I've had my wireless squeezebox 3 for about 6 weeks. Two nights ago I came home and the display was blank and slimserver was saying that my player was not found. I have tried unplugging the unit and waiting varying lengths of time before plugging it back back in, but it still won't

[slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin

2005-12-25 Thread bklaas
thanks for the feedback so far, all. I just returned from a few days away for the holidays, and want to apologize for all the Windoze problems with the tar.gz archive. I thought most Win users would be using WinZip, and I thought a tar.gz would uncompress fine in that. I guess I figured

[slim] Re: Squeezebox 3 won't power on

2005-12-25 Thread socialxray
I am in the same boat. I have had it for about 3 weeks but waited to set mine up on Christmas Day because it was my Christmas present to myself. After 8 hours BAM! Screen got erratic and after powering it off...nothing. Done. Gone. Goodbye Slim Device. We'll always have those 8 hours.

[slim] Re: Improve SB3 buffering?

2005-12-25 Thread sirozha
stoobie-doo Wrote: Ugh...should have included the details before... SB2 did not pass WAF test, so no luck switching to that. Already using both an external 7db antenna and a 500db signal amplifier on the router (both Hawking) to try to goose the signal strength. Trying to keep the

[slim] Re: Squeezebox can't connect to WAP

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
There is a phenomenon, called thermal creep, which under some circumstances causes chips to walk out of push-in sockets and other connectors to move and disconnect after a period of use. Maybe that's what happened to you. -- Michaelwagner

[slim] Re: Squeezebox 3 won't power on

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
Try to reset the box by holding down the power off button on the remote control for about 20 seconds. If it doesn't reset and reboot, then write to support at slimdevices dot com and describe the problem. Or call them at the number on this page: http://www.slimdevices.com/au_company.html The

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 won't power on

2005-12-25 Thread dean blackketter
Please get in contact with [EMAIL PROTECTED] to troubleshoot your problem and get it resolved immediately. Thanks, dean ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Help! Tunes aplenty with no place to go

2005-12-25 Thread Michaelwagner
call the support number or write to them. http://www.slimdevices.com/au_company.html -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: