oh well. TBH it was the less patient SB users (not too far away from me)
who were getting annoyed by the 2 second wait.
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
You can also walk through each field rapidly without changing it using
the FWD button.
That's not quite true when using a wireless connection - you end
(I know you might not like it but) I use iTunes to manage my music
library. All my compilations (and some albums that are not
compilations but list the songwriter as Artist) are marked as
compilations in iTunes tags..
I have slimserver setup to use the iTunes plugin and set the options to
group
... I believe what you wanted to say was thanks SD for the
quick fix, or did you ignore the recent posts and not bother
to download the latest nightly?
This illustrates exactly the emotional attitude I am talking about.
Those of us who talk about a persistent issue are spoilsports and/or
...SS stops every time I rescan my library.
I don't even need the SS to maintain a database. I am perfectly happy
scanning through the music folders. And playlists are a much higher
priority than database maintenance, in my opinion. But that's just me.
OK, wait for the next nightly, and keep
It wasn't your talk about an issue. It was your use of that issue to
start flinging motivational sinkholes just to make you feel better.
frankly, I agree that there are issues. I disagree with what you feel
are the appropriate ways of pushing for change. me, i tuck in and
write. It certainly
On 2-Apr-06, at 11:57 PM, pablolie wrote:
...SS stops every time I rescan my library.
do you see anything in the event viewer?
OK, wait for the next nightly, and keep my fingers crossed.
please report the event viewer message, so that the chances of a fix
are improved.
Sorry to sound
KevinW Wrote:
Clearly, the very forum we are communicating in is a testament to the
number of problems that users have.
I'm sorry to hear you are having problems: I've been using slimserver
for about a year now and I do recall it taking me a while to get it
working the way I wanted,
JJP Wrote:
As funkstar said, you lose ecological brownie points if you're out all
day.
I'd be intrigued to know how many of us really kill all the power
consumption in our houses when we go out. I suspect that the fraction
of a watt consumed by a quiet SB would be dwarfed by
-
Do you leave your clocks, microwave oven, VCR, TV, cordless phone base
station, mobile phone charger, laptop power supply, automatic light
controller, doorbell transformer, cable/DSL modem, router, cordless
power tool charger, electric razor, or answering machine plugged in
when you're out all
I challenge you to find a single place where my tone was off. I have
stated a problem I have with the product, period. I have not labeled
anyone or anything. Not once, ever, in any of my messages to these
forums.
So I do resent your trying to portray me as the prototype of an
hysterical
On 3-Apr-06, at 12:37 AM, pablolie wrote:
If that makes me a pariah in your eyes
it doesn't.
please report the message in your event viewer for the server stoppage
that you have reported.
you surely must have enough time to spare to help out in that capacity.
others will take care of the
pablolie Wrote:
.
The M3U plalist issue is still not fixed, the SS refuses to see the
following test playlist created with WMP10:
Do yourself a big favour, and post details of this to the beta forum.
you'll have more effective eyes on it at that point. refer to bug 3201
if you feel that
bigjules Wrote:
A possibility.. But I'm sure there must be a way to prevent XP from
going into standby when there is network activity.. I just cant find
it.
I have the complete opposite problem, in that my SlimServer PC -never-
goes into standby...
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Paul
Are you saying FLAC sounds better than Apple Lossless?
I tried FLAC but having to rip every CD twice (second time for my iPod)
seemed like a bit of a waste of time. To my ears there was no difference
in sound quality (through an £80k audio system) although EAC/FLAC has a
wonderful 'geek'
When i'm out during the day all my AV equipment is off at the wall. Same
with all the wall warts that power my PC/laptop peripherals.
When i'm away on business the only things that stay on are two lights
on timers, fridge and main heating everything else is off. It might not
make a lot of
BTW, how did the original poster work out £2 a day for electricity costs for
their P4 server?
How much less is the NAS solution and why?
(thinking of setting up something similar myself, but a cheap PC seems much
more cost-effective and extensible than a NAS solution.)
James
Pablolie,
I see from previous threads that I was the person who initially tried
to help you out with your playlist problem. I'm sorry to hear it is
still continuing.
From reviewing that old thread, I'm also sorry you interpreted my
attempts to help you track down the cause of the problem as
Tried that. Didn't make a difference.
Hmm... I did try, too. And it worked perfectly as expected:
- search
- from the result hit play on some song/artist/album
- when I've had enough of that s/a/a hit left
- select next search result
Very important: do _not_ hit Now Playing. This will leave
BTW, how did the original poster work out £2 a day for electricity costs
for their P4 server?
How much less is the NAS solution and why?
In a recent test I've read they measured something between 40-45 watts for
the ReadyNAS X6 (depending on load).
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I'll agree with you that the slimserver software isn't an out of the box
solution - bear in mind that it isn't really a web based application but
the easiest way to give all users on a network full control is to use a
web front end.
It has taken me about a month to get it working as I want it (I
OK, I'm struggling.
It's been almost twenty years since I've used grep on unix.
1. Are there any primers on how to use the expressions to do some
clever string searching.
2. How do you then use parametric options to perform the editing you
want.
First off a primer would be great. Just to get
rm 'K.T. Tunstall' /dev/null
rm 'James Blunt' /dev/null
:D
but thats just my opinion...
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, funkstar wrote:
rm 'K.T. Tunstall' /dev/null
rm 'James Blunt' /dev/null
:D
but thats just my opinion...
Be sure you log in as root first, or use sudo, or you will have a hard
time with the rm /dev/null bit.
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Khuli Wrote:
I have the complete opposite problem, in that my SlimServer PC -never-
goes into standby...
lol.. Thats what I expected to happen on my machine..
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Hi,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Heuer[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do iPod's support FLAC?
No, but it's trivial to bulk convert FLAC to MP3.
It's been argued that there's little point using a lossless format on an
iPod anyway...
Andy
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Where is the main Index.html file stored?
There's the slimserver/HTML/ folder which contains subfolders for every
skin. If you can't a file in your skin's folder, then it's inherited form
EN.
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Help translate
Where are the inherited form stored?
Reason is because, i want to disable/remove the menu Server
Settings...
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Made som more changes yesterday.
Here is an updated version for anyone that want to try it.
http://peter-pia.smugmug.com/photos/62773471-L.jpg
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|Filename: h3.zip |
|Download:
In which case you may want to check out the NoSetup plugin which does
exactly that:
http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/detail.php?nr=428kategorie=slim-plugins
[In case Michael's too polite to blow his own trumpet by plugging his
own plugin...]
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just what i was looking for!
Thanks!
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JJP Wrote:
That's not quite true when using a wireless connection - you end up with
about 10 FWD presses.
What I meant was it's lots faster than walking through every field one
character at a time.
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[In case Michael's too polite to blow his own trumpet by plugging his
own plugin...]
Oh no, I just was doing my dayjob for a few minutes.
BTW: have you tried SlimRemote? ;-)
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Help translate SlimServer by using the
Should I be embarrassed if someone notices we're playing Raffi from time
to time?
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Jon Heal says:
Have a nice day!
http://www.theheals.org/
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Heuer wrote:
Paul
Are you saying FLAC sounds better than Apple Lossless?
It should sound identical.
I tried FLAC but having to rip every CD twice (second time for my iPod)
seemed like a bit of a waste of time.
http://robinbowes.com/projects/flac2mp3
To my ears there was no difference
Jack Coates wrote:
Robin Bowes wrote:
lnxguru wrote:
If you want to practice your Linux skills you could use telnet/ssh for
command line or consider using a remote X server. Cygwin and
Hummingbird(commercial) have X servers for Windows. The power and RAM
you'll need for this will
timmorris wrote:
K.T. Tunstall - Tunstall, K.T.
James Blunt - Blunt, James
It's not as easy as you might think.
I postulated an algorithm for converting artist names to ArtistSort tags
a while ago on the Ripping format but I've never got round to writing a
tool to implement it.
Hi All
Not satisfied with streaming music flawlessly to my SB3, I have now
configured the Qnap for external file access, which is a really useful
feature for me. Thanks to Paul for guiding me through it.
All you need to do is open some ports on your router and point the open
ports to the Qnap
pablolie wrote:
I challenge you to find a single place where my tone was off. I have
stated a problem I have with the product, period. I have not labeled
anyone or anything. Not once, ever, in any of my messages to these
forums.
I can understand your frustration but if you're using
Siduhe Wrote:
[In case Michael's too polite to blow his own trumpet by plugging his
own plugin...]
I've never witnessed Michael being too plite to point out his own
plugins :)
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Opened a can of worms here haven't I! To me when I last tested them the
FLAC files sounded better but to be honest there wasn't anything in it.
Plus I am getting old and with two little children running around
screaming I think my hearing probably isn't what it was!
If I get chance I'll have
lnxguru wrote:
The performance of X is actually very good from my experience. VNC is
definetly easier. Both will be negatively impacted by busy desktops.
Of course with Linux/Unix you don't have to run full desktops --
WindowMaker of Fluxbox are lightweight. Telnet/ssh are even lighter.
I'm
The performance of X is actually very good from my experience. VNC is
definetly easier. Both will be negatively impacted by busy desktops.
Of course with Linux/Unix you don't have to run full desktops --
WindowMaker of Fluxbox are lightweight. Telnet/ssh are even lighter.
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Agreed, but the OP also wanted to use his SS to learn Linux. I rarely go
graphical on my SS and I use NFS for accessing my music files.
But this thread does seem to be getting away from the OP and he seems
to be elsewhere.
Rich
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With the same source data (ie the same ripped wav fine) any lossless
format will* sound identical to any other. in my mind the only format
you can be sure of being truly lossless is FLAC because it is open
source and because slim device know exactly what is happening at any
point of playing a
mherger Wrote:
[In case Michael's too polite to blow his own trumpet by plugging his
own plugin...]
Oh no, I just was doing my dayjob for a few minutes.
BTW: have you tried SlimRemote? ;-)
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Help
rudholm wrote:
...
meh. Each has its place. VNC's performance is horrible, but it is
easier
than X. It's probably a point of interest that the most popular page on
my website is this one:
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto
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Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a
In the bug report, I posted URLs and some text for the relevant parts of
the microsoft knowledgebase on this topic, how it works, etc.
I don't know enough about perl, and especially not about perl
interfaces to windows messaging, so it'll be up to someone else to take
the ball from here and work
dangerous_dom Wrote:
Want to keep the cost to a minimum, as it's only for slimserver +
increacing my Linux skills. Appart from a large HDD, what would people
recommend as the minimum specs?
Thanks, Dom.
What codec (flac, mp3, ogg, etc.) will you use? Drive size keeps
increasing and is
Robin Bowes wrote:
...
Horrible compared to what?
I run it on a LAN (100Mb/s) and performance is like-I-was-on-the-machine.
I run it over the 'net (256kb/s uplink) and performance is perfectly usable.
In what circumstances do you find that native X performs better than VNC?
R.
MS-RDP
Pat Farrell wrote:
lnxguru wrote:
The performance of X is actually very good from my experience. VNC is
definetly easier. Both will be negatively impacted by busy desktops.
Of course with Linux/Unix you don't have to run full desktops --
WindowMaker of Fluxbox are lightweight. Telnet/ssh
Khuli Wrote:
I have the complete opposite problem, in that my SlimServer PC -never-
goes into standby...
Yep, see _'bug_2068'
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2068)_. I've realised that
my PC -is- making it into Standby after the specified time, but only for
about half a second -
Craig, James (IT) Wrote:
BTW, how did the original poster work out £2 a day for electricity costs
for their P4 server?
I've no idea - that's a completely wacky figure. At 10p/kWH (pulling
from my distant memory of UK power prices) that's something like 800W.
In reality, figure about 100W
Uninstalling and reinstalling worked. Before I uninstalled I looked in
services and noticed that there was no slimserver service. When I
reinstalled I chose the option to always run or run when windows
starts, I can't remember. It's better for me anyway because I don't
have to log in.
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own plugin...]
I've never witnessed Michael being too plite to point out his own
plugins :)
I used to play the trombone - it's bigger, it's better, it's louder!
--
Michael
Paul,
Only a completely different TS-101 subject, where does SS get its clock
tick from ?
I am asking this because the time shown on my SBs drifts out
significantly throughout the day.
I have setup the TS-101 to get a time sync from an NTP server once a
day, but between these it can be upto 10
Hi Andrew,
The Squeezeboxes on the network get the time from the local server, in
this case the TS-101. There is a bug in the TS-101 firmware that Qnap
are working on currently working on. At installation I set the clock to
update from the NTP server once an hour which keeps it pretty much
I finally found out the root cause of a couple of problems:
1. If I have accented characters in a file name, e.g. Mozart,Le nozze
di Figaro-Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio.FLAC, the song does not show
up in Slimserver.
2. If I have accented characters in a tag, the song shows up in
Slimserver
If i put in
*.*
Does that mean every IP can connect to it?
Thanks
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I would raise a bug or search for an existing one.
I already raised a bug that tracks with accented filenames are not read
from iTunes.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3073
I never tried playing the ones tagged with an accent but not in the file
name.
Could be the same problem as you
Ok.
Using Linksys WAG54GV2
Applications Gaming -- Forward Port 9000 To my Computer, but do i
have it as TCP or UDP???
Thanks
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On 7/7/05, evanhood wrote:
Also, if the person who created fishbone happens to read this, the only
other thing that would be nice, would be the ability to increase the
font size, or at least the size of the buttons that add songs to the
playlist since the text size in IE has no effect on this
Ok, If i have ZA up, it doesn't work...
Turn it off... Works :D
Yes I have configed the zones... Made sure its the right IP as
trusted
The Program and itunes have Server access to the internet - along with
everything else!
Just if i have up zonealarm, it just doesn't want to work!
Whats up? How
There have been a number of people complaining about issues with
accented characters, but in many (most?) cases it just seems to work.
I'm lucky in that regard, I have plenty of accents in both filenames
and tags and don't have any issues. In some cases I thnk iTunes
integration may be related,
radish Wrote:
There have been a number of people complaining about issues with
accented characters, but in many (most?) cases it just seems to work.
I'm lucky in that regard, I have plenty of accents in both filenames
and tags and don't have any issues. In some cases I thnk iTunes
What version of Zone Alarm ?
Did a little blue box pop up asking you if you wanted to allow
Slimserver to act as a server ? You need to tick yes always to this
for ZA Pro to work.
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The Lastest Free out...
yes it did pop up - yes i click the box - yes i click YES/ ALLOW *and
check in the settings in zonealarm...*
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To the Slim Devices community, Richard Titmuss really needs no
introduction.
As the developer of the indispensable SoftSqueeze application and a
long time contributor to the forums, you probably know him or his
excellent work already.
Starting this week, though, Richard will be working
dean blackketter wrote:
To the Slim Devices community, Richard Titmuss really needs no
introduction.
As the developer of the indispensable SoftSqueeze application and a long
time contributor to the forums, you probably know him or his excellent
work already.
Starting this week, though,
stinkingpig Wrote:
rudholm wrote:
...
meh. Each has its place. VNC's performance is horrible, but it is
easier
than X. It's probably a point of interest that the most popular page
on
my website is this one:
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto
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rudholm wrote:
...
No, null-event alerting/polling is simply not part of how RFB (the
protocol VNC uses) works, it's not a question of whose implementation
we're considering.
New feature? Not at all. VNC runs independent of any video hardware
on the server, always has. vncserver requires no
some1 wrote:
Ok.
Using Linksys WAG54GV2
Applications Gaming -- Forward Port 9000 To my Computer, but do i
have it as TCP or UDP???
Thanks
tcp, assuming that you want to expose your web interface and stream url
to the internet. tcp 3483 if you want to allow softsqueeze and
squeezeboxes
dean blackketter wrote:
To the Slim Devices community, Richard Titmuss really needs no
introduction.
As the developer of the indispensable SoftSqueeze application and a
long time contributor to the forums, you probably know him or his
excellent work already.
Starting this week, though,
welcome, Richard(at slimdevices)!
let the beatings commence...
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After searching I see there are threads with a similar theme, however I
started a new one to jump start this discussion again.
First off, I don't yet have my Squeezeboxe(s). They are on order and I
now regret not upgrading to faster shipping as I am all fired up. I've
got Slimserver running and
jonheal wrote:
Should I be embarrassed if someone notices we're playing Raffi from time
to time?
just retag it Raffi - this is my wife's fault.
Me: why did you buy that?
Wife: The kids like it.
Me: They also like the Pogues, did we have to introduce Raffi too?
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I don't even have my Squeezebox yet (as I've mentioned in a different
thread) and I'm already making demands! But since the Slim Devices
product devlopment folks monitor these groups (which is very cool) what
the heck...
1) A headless (no display) Squeezebox. Combine that with a Nokia web
pad
So KDF - when do we see your forum title changing? ;)
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It should:
This field accepts a list of specific IP addresses, * style wildcards,
and IP address ranges in a comma separated list.
but what would be the point of blocking IP address in that case?
Just keep it on Allow.
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dean Wrote:
Indeed, he's already dug in and fixed a couple of nasty
wireless compatibility issues and is already making a big difference!
Please re-welcome Richard!
-dean
Was Richard responible for firmware 36? If so... kudos! It's been
working flawlessly for me. Thanks to all!
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tyler_durden wrote:
The problem is inherent with vacuum fluorescent displays. One person
has complained, but the product is new. In a year or two from now,
everyone's display will be fading/burned. Look at any VCR with a
vacuum fluorescent display. In a year or so they fade. In 5 years you
I think your first two have been sugested before. Personaly i can't see
them happening. I would guess that two of the bigest cost componets are
the processor/decoder module and the wirless interface, both of which
you would need for either a headless or head only device.
I may be missing what
in the firewall settings for zone alarm, i enabled access from the
udp/tcp ports (3483 9000, i think) as mentioned in the wiki.
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For anyone who wants to change the text and or button sizes of a skin,
here's what I found worked. (although the quality of the button
scaling isn't so hot, it is functional)
edit the skin.css file in the directory of the skin you want to
change.
To modify the size of the body font, change the
On 4/3/06, timmorris wrote:
OK, I'm struggling.
It's been almost twenty years since I've used grep on unix.
1. Are there any primers on how to use the expressions to do some
clever string searching.
2. How do you then use parametric options to perform the editing you
want.
First off a
funkstar Wrote:
I think your first two have been sugested before. Personaly i can't see
them happening. I would guess that two of the bigest cost componets are
the processor/decoder module and the wirless interface, both of which
you would need for either a headless or head only device.
Now a headless SB3, I wonder what that would look like?
Hmm...
;-)
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Not sure what else to call it... If I'm listening to some music off of
my music folder, and I want to change the tunes, I press the right
navigation button on the remote, and I end up at Now Playing, from
which I need to navigate back to the folder where I was (let's say I
have 2 Beck albums and
Siduhe Wrote:
... I see from previous threads that I was the person who
initially tried to help you out with your playlist problem.
I'm sorry to hear it is still continuing ...
I truly apprciated your help, and learned a lot about M3U playlists due
to it. So I extend my sincere
Hi rockrock Wrote:
I'm guessing that the IR blaster plugin is capable of passing along
commands from what I've read.
Correct.
rock Wrote:
I'm also guessing that Squeezebox can use my Xantech IR flashers as long
as I do the stereo - mono mini jack translation (although in the long
run this
On 4/3/06, rock wrote:
funkstar Wrote:
I think your first two have been sugested before. Personaly i can't see
them happening. I would guess that two of the bigest cost componets are
the processor/decoder module and the wirless interface, both of which
you would need for either a
Geoff B wrote:
Isn't a headless system that can do four different streams to four
different amps just the same as a PC with four good-quality
sound-cards, running four copies of either SoftSqueeze or
SqueezeSlave, running to four remote sets of speakers?
Or one M-Audio Delta 1010, which does
geoffb Wrote:
Isn't a headless system that can do four different streams to four
different amps just the same as a PC with four good-quality
sound-cards, running four copies of either SoftSqueeze or
SqueezeSlave, running to four remote sets of speakers?
Yes, If SqueezeSlave can be run in
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href=http://www.avdv70.dsl.pipex.com/webirremote/webirremote.gif;/a
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Fedora Core 5, Slimserver 6.2.2, Netgear DG834GT
Squeezebox 3, Primare SPA20, Monitor Audio GR20
Squeezebox 2, Denon UD-M30, Monitor Audio PMC703
rock,
In the summer of 02 (this was pre SB) I hooked up my system as
follows.
Upstairs AV closet.
Harmon Kardon (HK) avr 320
HK pa 4000
xantech 291-kit (http://xantech.com/products/p_folder/p_291kit.htm)
Zones downstairs.
HK kp 1 (wall key pad) for each zone
xantech 490 microlink receiver for
Hi M8
Zip File for h3 is corrupt
Kind Regards
CDMasterworks
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On 4/3/06, rock wrote:
geoffb Wrote:
Isn't a headless system that can do four different streams to four
different amps just the same as a PC with four good-quality
sound-cards, running four copies of either SoftSqueeze or
SqueezeSlave, running to four remote sets of speakers?
Yes,
On 4/3/06, CDMasterworks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi M8
Zip File for h3 is corrupt
Kind Regards
CDMasterworks
You'll probably find that it's the old problem with zip files on the
forum. What browser are you using? In IE, if I right-click and use
'save target as', I end up with a perfect
ceejay Wrote:
I suspect that the fraction of a watt consumed by a quiet SB would be
dwarfed by..
Not quite a fraction: 6 watts in standby x ? no. of units.
Anyway, you can prob ignore me as with no mains electric, I get
particularly retentive about this sort of stuff. Wattometers are
Bob,
My 4 zone amp is actually 4 separate receivers. They sit in my
basement and speaker wires run to remote locations. For control at
those remote locations I use the remotes that came with the receivers
over a Xantech 4 zone system.
In the old days I had a CD changer as my common source. I
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