I've just upgraded to 6.5 and now experience the following problem :
while browsing albom/artists in Rhapsody it goes very very slow.
Sign fetchin appear on the screen and frequently it takes few minutes
if at all. Playback goes with no problem
Haven't had this problem with 6.3
Browsing my large
I'm just starting with my Squeezebox (running Slimserver 6.5) and have
obtained the album art from Album Art Aggregator and ripped the CDs
using iTunes. Exactly the same problem as others - the album art is
there in the detail view but not in the thumbnail gallery. Would love
to know a fix but
mkozlows;140894 Wrote:
Out of curiosity, is there any particular trigger for it? Because, I
swear, it really doesn't occur for me.
The bug is well documented. It's real. If you have not noticed it, feel
lucky! It's there in the current release.
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My library is stored as uncompressed wav files.
I would like to do a bulk import of the tag
info directly into mysql. Is there a supported
way to do this?
If not, what would be best way to do that? If
required I am willing to write perl/python/C
code that would be used to populate the db. I
just
Hi,
I've just installed Slimserver and have been messing with it for a
couple of days. I have a largeish collection of music, all in one
place, about 20,000 tracks which I manage with MediaMonkey.
Slimserver seems to be missing almost 4,000 of these tracks... and I
can see little logic it it's
ezkcdude;140866 Wrote:
Anybody try making a MM mix with the new version of SlimServer. It
doesn't seem to work for me, and keeps saying that SlimServer is
scanning my library, even though it really isn't.
Working fine for me, but check that you have the MM reload interval set
to 0 ? Then do
If not, what would be best way to do that? If
What's wrong with running slimserver (or its scanner process)?
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http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview,
Good to know, in case it happens to others. Thanks for posting your
solution. ;)
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Hi Michael,
I did what you suggested and while my new format strings appear in
slim's own list, they don't seem to show up in MusicInfo's list of
available strings...
Russ
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I did what you suggested and while my new format strings appear in
slim's own list, they don't seem to show up in MusicInfo's list of
available strings...
There's a known issue with the plugin's list not being updated
automatically. You'd have to restart the server or switch the language
My mistake, SS doesn't actually shut down when you 'Exit' from the task
bar.
Works great. Thanks for all your work on the plugin.
Russ
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On 9/27/06, hirsp1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Installed 6.5 on my Kubuntu box, after upgrade from 6.3. Slimserver
starts just fine. However, it won't rescan (or if it does, the rescan
does nothing). I can browse the music folders, but rescanning will not
repopulate the database.
Any
I'm running 6.5.1 - 10078 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252. If I go to slim
device picks I get this message.
There was an error loading the remote feed for Slim Devices Picks: (
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 6, byte 6 at
/PerlApp/XML/Parser.pm line 187 )
I get a similar message
A status report as I wont be able to get back to this for a while
1. I think caching interferes with what is happening when changes are
made - so sometimes a change is made but the cached value overrides the
change. I found to get reproducible test results - clear database and
cache between
Kevin.. thanks for the reponse.. I will email with the info over the
weekend and will run the event log too to try help identify the
issue...
However the weird thing is that I encounter the same issue on 2
different PC's (i.e. both work and home PC) .. each are WIN XP SP
running Slim Server
Are you using anything else to manage your music in Slimserver, like
MusicIP or Itunes ?
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i keep getting a scanner exe failure. mysql log says this commit
ineffective with AutoCommit enabled at C:\Program
Files\SlimServer\server\CPAN/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 706.
Commmit ineffective while AutoCommit is on at C:\Program
Files\SlimServer\server\CPAN/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line
Thanks for the update. I'll run some tests as you suggest and let you
know the results.
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P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, Slimserver Version: 6.5.0, Alien 1.06
I'm using the latest slimserver version on an XP system, and I can not
get a complete scan done. For debugging, I ran
scanner.exe --wipe --d_import
and the attached logfile lists a row of errors.
Should I report this as a bug, or does anybody have some clues as to
what causes this?
I'm guessing that, since rambham2 has wav files, that the tags are
stored in a separate database and so would not be picked up by a
Slimserver scan. I seem to remember a thread from a while ago on this
topic, but couldn't find it!
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Yes; i use iTunes - why?
Neil
Siduhe
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news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you using anything else to manage your music in Slimserver, like
MusicIP or Itunes ?
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I have fixed it. I had to do a complete and clean reinstall of 6.5
(deleting my SlimServer folder after uninstallation but saving saving
my plugins folder, cache folder, slimserver.pref, types.conf and
convert.conf, so no arduous reconfiguration required afterwards).
Thanks for the help.
MC
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I have a fairly new system AMD 3000 64bit processor with1.5 gig ram.
Usually, the only programs running are Slimserver,Firefox, and
Thunderbird.
I unchecked, saved, and rechecked, saved the add new items when old
ones finished and changed the song number to 10.
It is now working correctly.
slimpy;140643 Wrote:
You need to replace most (if not all) plugins with 6.5 compatible
versions.
I wouldn't recommend keeping the pref file when upgrading. Uninstall
the current version completely (move or delete the program folder as
well) and start with a clean install. You can do a
I spoke too soon.
Random Mix still does not add any more songs
I will play around with this some more
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Registry entries are not affected, you don't need to remove them.
Just uninstall from the control panel - Add/Remove Programs and rename
the slimserver program folder.
-s.
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Music files
File mp3 128K converted to 64K as displayed on SB3 screen. Lame
launches at start of track at 90% - 99% CPU usage, and stops after
45-60 secs . When lame stops, network traffic reduces to background
level from 500K, indicating that the track has been loaded into SB3
buffer.
Sorry. The problem is exactly as you said. My wav files are not tagged,
but I do have that data in another form, so I would like to transfer
the data from my private db into the slimserver db.
-Ram
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rambham2's
I've noticed the same problems. I recently upgraded to the 6.5 version
and LMA seems to be missing a considerable amount since the upgrade.
Previous over 1400 bands, now just over 300? Hope this can be fixed.
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Try:
http://www.txradica.net/saga.php?c=saga1057fm
This is W. Midlands 105.7 FM - presumably changing the 1057 will find
the other variants.
Regards,
Stuart.
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Hi,
running 6.5 and loving the new features, but as well as creating
entries in my library from the MP3 information, SS6.5 seems to be
creating entries based on the actual directory names as well.
For example, for an album where I have:
Elvis Presley\Legendary\Disc 1
Elvis
Thanks for info
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On 9/29/06, michaelch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:I'm running 6.5.1 - 10078 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252.If I go to slim
device picks I get this message.There was an error loading the remote feed for Slim Devices Picks: (not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 6, byte 6
This is a result of the guesstags feature, which is only used when
tags are not found by slimserver.
This is a known issue, that some tags get missed, and it is fixed in
the 6.5.1 nightly builds and will be for 6.5.1 release.
-kdf
On 29-Sep-06, at 7:17 AM, alextegg wrote:
Hi,
running 6.5
What I would probably do is run the scanner to build the initial DB (the
scanner will guess tag values based on filenames for untagged files).
Then, using (I assume) the filename as a key, merge data in from your
external DB, overwriting the values generated by the scanner.
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2006-09-29 11:19:51.7978 ERROR: Error executing 'INSERT INTO years (id)
VALUES (?)': DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Duplicate entry '65535' for
key 1 at
C:\Programfiler\SlimServer\server\CPAN/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line
771.
I don't know anything specific about the slimserver db
You can import tags manually, the problem is to keep them there.
Slimserver will clear/modify the tags during scanning and also when
using the Browse Music Folder menu browse your music.
There has been some discussions earlier that it would be a good idea to
make it possible to force
Michael Herger;140893 Wrote:
I've tried, actually from a couple of different machines. I'll try a
Mac
Use wget instead of IE :-)
Actually firefox didn't like it either (that's what I usually use). I
guess wget is next, then telnet :)
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Hi all,
Can someone tell me what Slimserver expects in terms of cover art files?
I've currently got a cover.jpg file in my album directories, which is
something like 300x300 or 500x500. This file shows up once I drill down all
the way into an album directory.
However, for some of my albums I
Quoting Andy Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi all,
Can someone tell me what Slimserver expects in terms of cover art files?
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AlbumArtwork
I've currently got a cover.jpg file in my album directories, which is
something like 300x300 or 500x500. This file
Hi,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
kdf[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
many things can happen. If you have tracks from teh same album in
different folders, various artists, etc. you can turn on d_artwork in
server settings-debugging and run a clear library scan to see what
is going
Quoting Andy Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I was after more 'general' advice than anything though. Should it 'work'
with just one cover.jpg for each album, or do I need a 'smaller' one for the
thumbnails on the browse pages?
cover.jpg is all you'll need. the server can resize the image for
It -should- work just fine with a single image - that's what I have -
but I've seen reports of issues with the new 6.5.0 server version.
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SlimServer doesn't recognize the artist, album AND genre tags on a lot
of my MP3 files. I'm using JRiver MediaCenter to import them into my
music collection and I never had an issue with ID tags with any other
software. Only the title tag is there but not the way it's stored in
the ID tag.
It
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4236
the initial problem reported in this bug matches yours. it is fixed
in nightly builds, and will also be included in teh next release.
-kdf
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Hi all
Big problems with internet radio!!
I can run server 6.2.2 with alienbbc 1.03 but I want to upgrade to
obtain other european stations, particularly French.
I have tried unsuccessfully over the last few months to upgrade to
6.3.1 (alien 1.06-6.2). Every time I select internet radio on the
Great to hear! Thanks.
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Siduhe;140188 Wrote:
Apologies, I didn't realise it was on the beta site (I'm in the beta
test group).
Try http://music.predixis.com/beta.html
Thanks; it's now moved from there, but there's a link to
http://music.predixis.com/freetools.html where it can be found (well,
today at least
The full scan was already finished several days ago when I upgraded. It
only gives me that SlimServer scanning... message when I try to
create a MM mix in the web interface. Strange. I'll try it again
tonight.
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System:
radish;141048 Wrote:
I don't know anything specific about the slimserver db schema, but that
looks _very_ suspect. Something's certainly screwy, I'd raise a bug and
attach the log.
Thanks for the input. After I posted the message, it occured to me that
it might be related to 'strange'
Hi,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
radish[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It -should- work just fine with a single image - that's what I have -
but I've seen reports of issues with the new 6.5.0 server version.
Ok, I'll see what happens them.
One thing I hadn't realised was that the cover
More info would help debug problems - most AlienBBC problems are well
characterised and resolvable once the symptoms and system have been
described in detail.
When you say no internet radio with 6.5 - do you mean just AlienBBC or
all internate radio such as RadIO, Lives365, etc. ?
If it is just
Interesting...I'm running slimserver on my Mac, and when I access the
interface via my Mac, the interface looks fine. But when I access it
from my XP computer, it looks ugly (interface is all text; no
graphics/colors)...
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Hi bpa
No radio at all!!!
when I select slim picks the little 'wait' ring goes round and round
and all buttons on the remote don't function with the exception of the
volume. It locks up, and the only button that seems to work is 'search'
which takes the system back to the top menu. All the alien
Maybe... the error seems to be while creating a new entry in the Year
column, so unless your guess tag formats includes the year it seems a
bit unlikely. But I don't really know :)
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One difference in streaming between past versions and 6.5 is that now
(in most cases) the stream is run directly to the squeezebox from the
remote server - bypassing the slimserver entirely. This is the same
approach as Squeezenetwork has always taken. In previous versions, the
slimserver acted
There are two issues but they may be interconnected.
Can you get radio on SoftSqueeze on the same PC as Slimserver ?
You should also put into the exclusion list socketwrapper.exe and
mplayer.exe. After an upgrade some users have found it necessary on
some security s/w/ to delete the old
luga00;140943 Wrote:
I did what you suggested and while my new format strings appear in
slim's own list, they don't seem to show up in MusicInfo's list of
available strings...
That's now history: version 2.99.2 does update the list without
restarting the server and other trickery.
Can someone at Slim please confirm that the gallery view only uses
artwork found in the library folder of an album (ie folder.jpg) if it
doesn't manage to find any cover art embedded in the tags of any of the
album tracks?
This seems to be the case looking at the debug log after a clear and
Quoting luga00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Can someone at Slim please confirm that the gallery view only uses
artwork found in the library folder of an album (ie folder.jpg) if it
doesn't manage to find any cover art embedded in the tags of any of the
album tracks?
That's correct. Anything found in
Not sure if related, but there is a problem parsing XML if running under
Windows that is preventing LIVE365 from working. See the entry:
6.5 and Live365 problem -- cannot connect
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Thanks for the speedy reply. This is probably the answer to some of the
people on this forum experiencing artwork problems with WMA files.
I have no idea why this is the case but I do know that when opening
those albums from within the gallery view, wma.pm is throwing an
exception when trying to
6.5(v2006-29-09)
I've noticed that when browsing by Artist in the Fishbone skin, there
are a couple of anomolies in the alphabetical ordering. There are one
or two stray artists that are not in the correct alphabetical position
in the list.
Russ
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Quoting luga00 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
6.5(v2006-29-09)
I've noticed that when browsing by Artist in the Fishbone skin, there
are a couple of anomolies in the alphabetical ordering. There are one
or two stray artists that are not in the correct alphabetical position
in the list.
it has nothing to
I have had to reload 6.5 once already when I changed skins on the
Browser and it became unusable. The scanner appears to abort part way
through the database build and has missed many of my artist/albums.
This is quite scary because 6.5 is a major release and clearly it has
not been properly
I've had the upgrade ever since it was officially released and have only
one issue. The random mode mix not updating the UI properly.
I have no problems with the wireless connectivity.
I have no problems listening to internet radio.
I have no problems streaming my flac files from pc to sb
My
The only thing I have done is to add the album year to the view.
I am at a loss to understand why the library scan aborts about 50%
through. I have about 18,000 songs in the library and there is a mix of
FLAC and MP3. I am sure you have not had problems but have you made any
changes from the
I only see cover art on drilling down to an album. The gallery pages
show nothing. I use FLAC files with a cover.jpg file in each album
directory.
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I am afraid I have to agree with Les.
I have been using 6.3.0 since it came out and always intended to
watch what happens to 6.5 - it is disappointing to see the number of
issues that have appeared. I am sure someone will jump on here and say
everything is fine with me (mr bflatmajor..!), but
Brian: Your situation sounds something like a problem I had recently.
I had one album that SlimServer was showing with odd info, and it
really had me stumped for a while. I removed and rewrote the tags
multiple times with Media Center, but SS still had it wrong. Then I
downloaded mp3tag and it
I know it has been mentioned already that there is a problem with
Slimserver 6.51 with Live365 but not using Slimserver that much I never
tested other areas such as RadioTime, Shoutcast and Radioio that also do
not work. The reason I upgraded to 6.51 from 6.50 was that I was told
Live365 would
I think if there were some rewards for the betas testers, then Slim
would have more people testing the betas and squelch a lot more of the
problems before the release is made official.
I got pulled into the beta temptation when I first got my Squeezebox
and it took a LOT of time to
I'll be the one to jump in and say 6.50 works great for me on both win2k
and ubuntu AMD64 linux. My library is only about 7000 songs.
Just speculating, but maybe with 18000 songs in the library you need
more ram. Did previous releases work in the same machine with the
large library? Is
Not having upgraded yet (quite happy on 6.2.1 at the moment), I can't
comment from personal experience. But I will say that I've been quite
pleasantly surprised at how few problems I've seen posted here. Of
course, it's difficult for anyone to make an accurate judgment without
knowing just how
to tyler_durden post
I have used every official release since I got my first SB in May (now
have 2) and I have probably added 30 CDs since then maybe 250 - 300 new
songs. I first used the QNAP NAS device and then used a PC but I have
never had library indexing problems until now. As mentioned
I'm running Linux 6.3.1 and my SB2's have firmware 55 installed.
Everything worked fine for months until last night when, after a
clear/rescan of my library and reboot of my music server (which I have
done a few times over the past months with no issues), the SB2 plays
about 30 seconds of a
If you clear your browser cookies and reload the standard Fishbone (not
the alternate styles) it should go back to the smaller text size. I'm
the one that initiated the Fishbone alternate styles (I have a 20 LCD
and the fonts were way too small at native resolution) and KDF had
since taken over
Quoting Les [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
to tyler_durden post
I have used every official release since I got my first SB in May (now
have 2) and I have probably added 30 CDs since then maybe 250 - 300 new
songs. I first used the QNAP NAS device and then used a PC but I have
never had library indexing
The Default2 skin is NOT part of the 6.5 release - if you upgraded from
6.3 without deleting the 6.3 files then Default2 files got left behind
and so caused your problem.
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OK understood default 2 was left behind - shouldn't have used it.
However I reinstalled Slimserver and didn't touch default 2 and still
had issues as described.
How do you flush old stuff prior to upgrade? Is everything stored in
c:\programs\slimserver or is it scattered?
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I concur. The 6.5.0 (and 6.5.1) are very buggy. 6.3.1 was pretty stable
in comparison. It recognized all my music 27k+, and was not a resource
hog like the 6.5.n. With 6.5.n some music is not recognized, over 1/2
albums missing, server crashes when viewing some album art, etc. I
decided to do a
I'm only a recent SlimServer/Squeezebox user but have already
upgraded/downgraded SlimServer a few times looking for the one that
suits me.
v6.2.2 - OK, downloaded to test with SoftQueeze before purchase of
Squeezebox
v6.3.1 - OK, upgraded when I purchased
v6.5b3 - didn't like it, so downgraded
I'm only a recent SlimServer/Squeezebox user but have already
upgraded/downgraded SlimServer a few times looking for the one that
suits me.
v6.2.2 - OK, downloaded to test with SoftQueeze before purchase of
Squeezebox
v6.3.1 - OK, upgraded when I purchased
v6.5b3 - didn't like it, so downgraded
WARNING MYSQL: Can't open and lock time zone table: Table
'mysql.time_zone_leap_second' doesn't exist trying to live without
them
Can't find any other events that are obvious
XP Pro SP2, clean install, full scan.
Plugins - not using them:
Command Line Interface (CLI)
Date and Time
New router and a factory reset on the SB2's fixed it.
NM..I'm rocking again.
-hal
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Well, I tried a complete rescan, and that hasn't helped. I still get the
following message when I try to create a mix:
Note: SlimServer is still scanning your music library, so some items may
not appear in this area yet.
Is there some way I can go back to version 6.3?
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On 29-Sep-06, at 8:21 PM, ezkcdude wrote:
Well, I tried a complete rescan, and that hasn't helped. I still get
the
following message when I try to create a mix:
Note: SlimServer is still scanning your music library, so some items
may
not appear in this area yet.
Is there some way I can
On 29-Sep-06, at 2:03 PM, luga00 wrote:
those albums from within the gallery view, wma.pm is throwing an
exception when trying to get the embedded art. (something to do with
hash prefs).
if you can copy and past the EXACT message, that might be helpful.
thanks,
kdf
Well, I deleted the old template folders (I think), and now most of the
MusicMagic icons are missing. I guess now I've created a different
problem.
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On 29-Sep-06, at 8:47 PM, ezkcdude wrote:
Well, I deleted the old template folders (I think), and now most of the
MusicMagic icons are missing. I guess now I've created a different
problem.
Everything aside from EN. Now, some stuff does need to be there, but
if you just have EN, then
Okay, well I have been looking at this for some time and was wondering
if true zone control ala Sonos works on the Squeezebox or Transporter?
The zone flexiblity of the Sonos box is pretty impressive and would be
the only reason to not get a Squeezbox. The controller while
impressive is a
OK, thanks. I hope you weren't too offended by my remark on the font
size. I'm liking Fishbone, a lot.
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Not at allÂ… with so many screen resolutions, PC text settings, and eye
ages g you certainly can't please everyone. Although, I bet with some
creative CSS coding, Slim Devices could make an option to increase or
decrease text size in all the skinsÂ… now that would be nifty.
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Sue
PS: I
On 29-Sep-06, at 10:01 PM, MeSue wrote:
Not at all
with so many screen resolutions, PC text settings, and eye
ages g you certainly can't please everyone. Although, I bet with some
creative CSS coding, Slim Devices could make an option to increase or
decrease text size in all the skins
now
I'd rather have hot lead enema than make the attempt.
Ouchie!
Glad to hear it's gotten easier. I'm still pretty darn happy with
Fishbone Tan on my PC and Handheld on my PPC.
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Sue
PS: I once wanted a Squeezebox boombox, but I don't anymore. ;-)
tdampier;141240 Wrote:
Okay, well I have been looking at this for some time and was wondering
if true zone control ala Sonos works on the Squeezebox or Transporter?
Can you explain what exactly you mean by true zone control?
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On 29-Sep-06, at 10:35 PM, MeSue wrote:
I'd rather have hot lead enema than make the attempt.
Ouchie!
good effect, eh?
Glad to hear it's gotten easier. I'm still pretty darn happy with
Fishbone Tan on my PC and Handheld on my PPC.
cool!
colours are easy, borders and positions, not
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