Re: [slim] New Remote

Have you got a link to this? Can't find it on the site. Thanks -- Diana -- Diana Diana's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7463 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Playing 24/48

Are you streaming WAV or FLAC (i.e. is Slimserver or the Squeezebox doing the transcoding)? I've got an outstanding bug where 24/48 FLACs play fine when transcoded by my SB2, but white noise when done by the server. I prefer to have decoding done server-side as IMO it sounds marginally better.

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Desires

Audio Hijack is a nice program, but it doesn't really do what you want. the same people have a program called Nicecast that takes sound and broadcasts it, and the Squeezebox can then pick up this sound. Trouble is that the it takes enough time for Nicecast to process the sound that you probably

Re: [slim] New Remote

On the 'Buy now!' tab there is a section for accessories! -- MillmoorRon MillmoorRon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6413 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34780

[slim] SB3 power consumption

I just started using a SqueezeBox 3, and I absolutely love it. One thing I am wondering about it the difference in power consumption in the modes not playing and powered off. Currently I have the SB3 display some RSS streams when not playing and the clock when powered off. As it turns out, I

Re: [slim] SqueezeFox - Slimserver extension for Firefox

Peter;197524 Wrote: Looks great, but I think I gave my GF a scare when I inadvertently started up my Study-SB (while I'm in the living room). How does this work in multi-SB installations? Regards, Peter Ooops, sorry! i'm not sure how it'll handle it, as i only have 1 squeezebox to

Re: [slim] SB3 power consumption

RichieB;197643 Wrote: I just started using a SqueezeBox 3, and I absolutely love it. One thing I am wondering about it the difference in power consumption in the modes not playing and powered off. Maybe someone with a power meter can do some measurements? I don't have an SB3, but I did do

Re: [slim] New Remote

Apart from the obvious, how are the backlit remotes different from the SB3 originals? They look identical to me from the pics. -- mr-b mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this

Re: [slim] Looking at improving multi-player synchronization

Generally it works quite well, and the interface to sync/unsync is good. However, sync has a number of issues which prevent it from being as 1st-class as the rest of the system - so, thanks very much for working to improve it! A few comments about things that could be better: 1) gapless + sync

Re: [slim] Can't play my itunes files :-( ......and it's driving me mad. Please help!!

OK - great. I am having a slight problem in that socketwrapper.exe occasionally closes due to an error on the PC. Nothing seems much to consequentially fail as a result but it happens quite regularly. I am not using a firewall other than the Netgear router hardware firewall. I am using AVG

Re: [slim] SqueezeFox - Slimserver extension for Firefox

MuckleEck;197484 Wrote: Nice Idea...but won't load in my version of Firefox Ver 2.0.0.3.. Didn't work for me on 2.0.0.3 either (tried saving as and tried both windows and linux). -- smc2911 smc2911's Profile:

Re: [slim] Can't play my itunes files :-( ......and it's driving me mad. Please help!!

Socketwrapper will start and stop with each track. What is the error message you get or how do you know there is a problem ? There is another version of socketwrapper but it only has more messages and error handling for debugging. It may be useful to install it and a debugging version of 6.5.2

[slim] Loading custom m3u files

Is there an official way to load custom m3u files in SlimServer? In my setup, I have my mp3s stored in: /mp3/artist/album/artist - # - track.mp3 My playlists are in: /mp3/playlist/albums/Prince - 3121.m3u /mp3/playlist/alphabet/p/pr/pri/Prince - 3121.m3u This is to accommodate my Neo35 car

Re: [slim] New Remote

MillmoorRon;197549 Wrote: Ordered a new (backlit) remote 17:50 BST Monday, arrived in the UK 10:50 BST Wednesday. Very impressed with both the remote and the speed of delivery. This is a quality remote to match the build of the Squeezebox itself. I always thought the original SB3 remote

Re: [slim] Picture of my rig (including a Transporter) on the home page of Stereophile.com.

Very nice. Must be cool to be on the home page of Stereophile! Did you win over any converts? -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread:

[slim] SB3 display blank on 'now playing'

After returning from a holiday when everything was turned off - SB3, router, SlimServer, modem - the 'now playing' goes blank with seconds of use of the menus. I've tried resetting the screensaver option and a power recycle but no joy . Any ideas? Thanks [Logged this as a support call but

Re: [slim] New Remote

killie99;197677 Wrote: Did you get hit with import duty/vat? If so how much was it? It might be a little early to ask that question when I bought my Kurobox from the US, the import duty bill didn't arrive until a month after the Kuro itself! Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky'

Re: [slim] Help! Wireless Nightmare - music trapped on computer!

I use one of these ( I think it is a HWUR54)G and got far better results than with EoP :-) I've used with 1 Netgear wireless router and some other WAP attached to a wired router. It seems to get lousy reviews but luckily I didn't see those before I bought it. It needed a firmware update for

[slim] Go directly to Now Playing?

It seems so simple, yet it's eluding me... When I press play on the remote, I'd like my squeezebox to go directly to now playing without me pressing now playing or waiting for the screensaver to become active. I realise that it doesn't do this by default in case you want to add more music to

Re: [slim] New Remote

mr-b;197649 Wrote: Apart from the obvious, how are the backlit remotes different from the SB3 originals? They look identical to me from the pics. The remote currently shipping with the SB3 *is* the same as the backlit remotes (save for the backlight functionality). But all of us who bought

Re: [slim] Help! Wireless Nightmare - music trapped on computer!

If you leave the DWL-G700AP with its default settings, it's trying to act as a competing access point (ie competing with your original one). Think of it like your neighbour's AP - there's no way for it to know that it's supposed to be boosting the signal of the first AP. Thus, the squeezebox

Re: [slim] New Remote

azinck3;197689 Wrote: The remote currently shipping with the SB3 *is* the same as the backlit remotes (save for the backlight functionality). But all of us who bought squeezeboxes before about November 2006 have a different remote. The new remote is a nice upgrade from the old one. I have

Re: [slim] Looking at improving multi-player synchronization

I have 2 SB3s in different (yet quite close) rooms, both running wirelessly (from 6.5.1 SS on Linux FC5). When synced for music (usual stuff - album tracks 3-5 minutes each), I haven't noticed a problem. I frequently use AlienBBC to Listen Again to (UK) BBC Radio 4 shows though, and I do

Re: [slim] Looking at improving multi-player synchronization

bukharin;197654 Wrote: - fast forwarding/rewinding when players are sync'd is not usable - syncing a player to a player which is already playing something should just join in rather than forcing the other player to start the current track again. This sounds petty but it's not when tracks

Re: [slim] SB3 display blank on 'now playing'

Have you pressed the brightness button? -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34793

Re: [slim] SB3 display blank on 'now playing'

I hadn't thought of doing that as everything else is readable including the RSS feeds when it's off. Is it really a possibility? -- lyteroptes lyteroptes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7344

Re: [slim] Help! Wireless Nightmare - music trapped on computer!

couple things: - yep, i'm in USA so EoP useless. to bukharin: When i setup the DWL-G700AP, i used installation software that had me setup 'which' network it was supposed to extend. It knows its an AP for my primary network (see the boost in signal from ~40% to 98%). I can even get it to

Re: [slim] SB3 display blank on 'now playing'

lyteroptes;197698 Wrote: I hadn't thought of doing that as everything else is readable including the RSS feeds when it's off. Is it really a possibility? Off state, idle state and playing state all have different brightness levels that can be adjusted independently. -- Mark Lanctot

Re: [slim] Can't play my itunes files :-( ......and it's driving me mad. Please help!!

Hey thanks bpa for all your help - it's really appreciated!! Bascially windows throws a Socketwrapper.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close error. The windows firewall is off, yes, and the only firewall is on the router itself at the front of the system. The anti virus is,

Re: [slim] New Remote

Anybody know where you can order the handsets from in the UK? -- chris.mason chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Certain artists not appearing in Slimserver library with itunes...

On a tip from another thread, replaced Sting in composer with Gordon Sumner. Clear, rescan. Still only the one album (of five) shows up when searching on Sting. Guess it is time to try 6.5.2 even tho that doesn't fix (from above). And have a better look at the existing Tags... Could GraceNotes

Re: [slim] SB3 power consumption

RichieB;197643 Wrote: I just started using a SqueezeBox 3, and I absolutely love it. One thing I am wondering about it the difference in power consumption in the modes not playing and powered off. Currently I have the SB3 display some RSS streams when not playing and the clock when powered

Re: [slim] New Remote

chris.mason;197709 Wrote: Anybody know where you can order the handsets from in the UK? Direct from Slim Devices and they ship internationally. I did this for the backlit remote and was as impressed as MillmoorRon is -- nolan

Re: [slim] Squeezebox keeps disconneting

Could still be a network interface problem in either your Squeezebox device or on the machine hosting Slimserver. If you go to Slimnetwork rather than the Slimserver, do you experience dropouts? Alternatively, if you run Softsqueeze on a separate computer against your existing Slimserver, do

Re: [slim] SqueezeFox - Slimserver extension for Firefox

greebowarrior;197646 Wrote: i'm not sure how it'll handle it, as i only have 1 squeezebox to work with. but i could do theoretical development, if you can send me a save page of /xml/status_header.xml from your slimserver (i.e. http://localhost:9000/xml/status_header.xml), and i can work

Re: [slim] Combining Slimserver and PVR?

Peter, I've finally had a chance to try out your plugin and can't quite get the myth frontend to respond.. (after reading through my post i realize maybe i need to kick over the frontend for the new .lircrc to be used..) irw is displaying button presses from the slim remote.. I've tried out

Re: [slim] New Remote

discocarp;197694 Wrote: The only thing I don't like is the backlit remote only lights up the icons not the text. This is only ever a problem when I am trying to type in text with the remote for searches in the dark, which isn't that often. This was my only gripe! Will probably end up being

[slim] Radio Streaming Query

Folks, trying to stream WXRT, but no joy yet. On their web site you need to log in to listen in. Does anyone know how I could set this up on the Squeezebox? The web address is www.wxrt.com Cheers Dave -- Denners_nl

Re: [slim] Radio Streaming Query

Try http://64.235.213.14:80/WXRTFMDIALUPCMP3 -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34800

[slim] Fast forward speed

Hi all The fast forward speed on my SB3 seems to be x2, is there a way to make this a little faster? Thanks - Kidstypike -- kidstypike kidstypike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10436 View

Re: [slim] Fast forward speed

Just hold the FF button down again...2x...again...4x...again...8x... Steve. -- SteveEast SteveEast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4193 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Fast forward speed

Gotcha! Many thanks Steve. Suprised it's not in the instruction book, or maybe it's just me being a little thick!!! Kidstypike -- kidstypike kidstypike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10436

Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?

have you tried changing the screen saver delay time to somthing like 1 -- vain4 vain4's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3502 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795

Re: [slim] Fast forward speed

Dunno if it's been fixed, but a while back at least it would crash the player if you went too fast with it - maybe 256x or so. As I recall I had to power cycle the player and restart the server before everything was happy again. Hmm looks like I never wrote up a bug for that.. greg

[slim] Softsqueezing on a train :)

Some of the newer trains in England have wi-fi in the carriages, with a satellite link to the Internet. Taking a break from work, I tried Softsqueeze, connecting to the slimserver in my house. It worked! But only after setting the streaming rate to limit of 64kbps, so it's not an audiophile

Re: [slim] New Remote

discocarp;197694 Wrote: I have one of each remote (2 sb3's and a transporter). In order from best to worst imo: 1. backlit 2. new sb3 remote 3. old sb3 remote What's new or different about the new remote that makes you like it better than the old remote? -Steve -- wnshall

Re: [slim] New Remote

chris.mason;197709 Wrote: Anybody know where you can order the handsets from in the UK? I got mine from these, GBP 22 all in, at: - http://www.ripcaster.co.uk/ Paul -- BigEars BigEars's Profile:

Re: [slim] Any graphic artists in the house?

Thanks, Skunk. I'll post a link to the modified skin when I finish up. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread:

Re: [slim] New Remote

wnshall;197763 Wrote: What's new or different about the new remote that makes you like it better than the old remote? -Steve Buttons are the same...the old one's just smaller and feels cheaper. Purely a matter of aesthetics. -- azinck3

Re: [slim] Softsqueezing on a train :)

The EVDO mobile broadband networks here in the U.S. should be able to handle streaming FLAC* (~300 up and 800 down!). However, supposedly Verizon started booting people who use Slingbox (to stream video over the net), drawing the line at 10 Gigabytes/mo. Apparently they think only someone sharing

Re: [slim] New Remote

I thought I should order the backlit, agree that light in the text field would have been very nice indeed, but you cant have everything can you ? Anyway, I must have the old remote, I feel its a bit cheap, and it squeeks, makes plastic noises, when you handle it, not very nice -- Anne

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Desires

danco;197622 Wrote: Trouble is that the it takes enough time for Nicecast to process the sound that you probably would have the audio too much out of synch with the video for this approach to be good. Still, you could download Nicecast free and try it out - until you pay it degrades the

Re: [slim] Wireless Bridge and home working

Michael Herger;190252 Wrote: some have even been bridging their slimserver machine through a SB to the rest of the network - which isn't good for your performance, but does work Why is this bad for performance? This should rather be an optimal configuration. The SB has direct connection to

Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?

Yes - it means that 1 second after pressing any button, the display goes dim. This makes browsing the menus very clumsy. I've also tried setting it to 0, which seems to disable it altogether. -- bukharin bukharin's

Re: [slim] Any graphic artists in the house?

JJZolx;197767 Wrote: Thanks, Skunk. I'll post a link to the modified skin when I finish up. No problem. Let me know if you'd like something with a little more bling. Honestly, I think Skip | Play | Pause | Stop in status display needs some help. I do like the numbered volume control though,

Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?

bukharin;197788 Wrote: Yes - it means that 1 second after pressing any button, the display goes dim. This makes browsing the menus very clumsy. Also adjust the brightness so that doesn't happen. -- JJZolx Jim

Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?

JJZolx;197791 Wrote: Also adjust the brightness so that doesn't happen. I considered doing that, but presumably the display would then stay bright the whole time? I like the fact that it dims after 30 seconds - it both looks classy and prolongs the life of the VFD. Swapping one annoyance

[slim] Proxied Streaming don't work for me!

I have been having problems with lastfm at work and pinned it down to Direct Streaming / firewalls. I tried to resolve the problem by setting the player settings (in the audio section) to use the proxied mp3 streaming method but when kicking off lastfm, the server debugger (using d_directstream)

Re: [slim] Wireless Bridge and home working

bogomipz;197787 Wrote: Why is this bad for performance? This should rather be an optimal configuration. The SB has direct connection to the server, and the server can once in a while be accessed through SSH over the bridged wireless network. That's correct, this is wired to the server, so

Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?

I think your only choice is to set the screensaver time to something a lot lower than 30 seconds and live with it. There's nothing magic about 30 seconds... I've always used 5 seconds to get pretty much the same behavior - Now Playing almost immediately. You can't set it too low or the remote

[slim] Tip: Very good price on Audioengine 5

Hi, I thought the following could interest some of you. www.cdon.com (a scandinavian online music/electronics/movies retailer) currently sells a pair of BLACK Audioengine 5's (listed under the name d feldt) at 1269 DKK, ~170 EURO. Below is a direct link to the product listing at the danish

Re: [slim] Certain artists not appearing in Slimserver library with itunes...

Can you do a get info from iTunes on the albums and check if the cases of the pathname to the mp3/m4a files match the actual case of the path to your path? I.e. is the get info paths something like ../sting/.. while the actual path name is ../Sting/..? If this is the case, this is a bug I

Re: [slim] Dennis Miller on KRLA

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Re: [slim] Certain artists not appearing in Slimserver library with itunes...

Laz;197805 Wrote: Can you do a get info from iTunes on the albums and check if the cases of the pathname to the mp3/m4a files match the actual case of the path to your path? I.e. is the get info paths something like ../sting/.. while the actual path name is ../Sting/..? If this is the

Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?

Oh well indeed. For now I'll just live with it (it's no big deal obviously - just a niggle). When I get a chance I'll look into the server code and see how hard it is to modify the behaviour there - surely it wouldn't require too much hacking... (famous last words) Cheers -- bukharin

Re: [slim] Help save Internet radio

keep those cards, letters and phone calls coming to your congressmen and senators. Here is the latest info hot off the presses today: http://www.news.com/ Lawmakers propose reversal of Net radio fee increases By Anne Broache

Re: [slim] Go directly to Now Playing?

On 26-Apr-07, at 7:09 PM, bukharin wrote: Oh well indeed. For now I'll just live with it (it's no big deal obviously - just a niggle). When I get a chance I'll look into the server code and see how hard it is to modify the behaviour there - surely it wouldn't require too much hacking...

Re: [slim] Help save Internet radio

Sounds encouraging! -- smc2911 smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33447

Re: [slim] Annoying Firmware/Software updates

Well, the SB3 was up to it's old firmware update nonsense again. I had been logged, for several days, onto Squeezenetwork. Last evening, I logged back onto Slimserver. Even though I turned off automatic updates in Slimserver 6.5.1, I was prompted (again) for the dreaded software update. This

Re: [slim] Annoying Firmware/Software updates

On 26-Apr-07, at 7:44 PM, Cleve wrote: This is getting old REAL fast. Slim needs to come up with a fix. There are two current choices: edit the Firmware/*.version files or use the 6.5.2 nightly builds. Both have been explained before so I won't bore you any more with a rehash. -kdf

Re: [slim] Annoying Firmware/Software updates

The fix is simple and has been mentioned many times: upgrade to a 6.5.2 nightly build with the latest firmware. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Certain artists not appearing in Slimserver library with itunes...

Well for me anyways... Search on Sting gives the results as it should: Albums with sting in the Album name and also in the artist categaory. In my library there was only '1' album with sting in the Album name - hence only '1' showing. When I clicked on Sting in the artist category, all 5 albums

[slim] Help: Windows - Delayed Write Failed

Hi, I'm running 2 USB external hard drives each containing a Seagate 250G HDD. They are connecting to my PC that is running Slimserver which is running on XP Pro. I have been running a USB 2.0 PCI card for 6 months without issue. In the last 2-3 days - I have started receiving an error message

Re: [slim] Dennis Miller on KRLA

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Re: [slim] Certain artists not appearing in Slimserver library with itunes...

Laz;197805 Wrote: Can you do a get info from iTunes on the albums and check if the cases of the pathname to the mp3/m4a files match the actual case of the path to your path? I.e. is the get info paths something like ../sting/.. while the actual path name is ../Sting/..? If this is the

Re: [slim] Annoying Firmware/Software updates

Well, I tried downloading the latest 'nightly' - 6.5_v2007-4-26. I extracted the contents to a desktop file. However, there doesn't appear to be an installer, or an appropriate .exe file to run Slim Server. Do I simply copy this to my existing 6.5.1 and overwrite where prompted? -- Cleve

Re: [slim] Annoying Firmware/Software updates

Well, I copied the new Slimserver directory into my old Slimserver directory, and selected overwrite where file names were the same I got an error during the process - File library in use or something to that effect. And now Slimserver won't start. The icon comes up in the tray, but it never

Re: [slim] Annoying Firmware/Software updates

Cleve;197841 Wrote: Well, I copied the new Slimserver directory into my old Slimserver directory, and selected overwrite where file names were the same I got an error during the process - File library in use or something to that effect. And now Slimserver won't start. The icon comes

Re: [slim] SB3 power consumption

My biggest regret is that I never took electric shop in high school. I instead took woodshop (I made a towel holder), metal shop (where another kid put a blowtorch on my butt) and print shop (handsetting of metal type one letter at a time - Microsoft Word wasn't invented yet). What I do is

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