Re: [slim] A Bit Of Tongue-In-Cheekiness

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Herger
Hey, but the good thing about the squeeze ecosystem is: It will last no longer than two weeks until someone writes a plugin that pulls the list of tour busses for every artist from Wikipedia, matches it to the manufacturer's capacity database, calculates the number of groupies based on a) the

Re: [slim] A Bit Of Tongue-In-Cheekiness

2008-12-17 Thread pippin
mherger;371884 Wrote: Hey, but the good thing about the squeeze ecosystem is: It will last no longer than two weeks until someone writes a plugin that pulls the list of tour busses for every artist from Wikipedia, matches it to the manufacturer's capacity database, calculates the

[slim] HiBit Radio Streams

2008-12-17 Thread Labarum
I love them. Bartok Radio has a 320Kb/s stream, but Staff Picks links to the 128Kb/s stream. Can I ask the Squeezebox staff why? -- Labarum Brian Beresford DAC - Quad 405-2 refurbished by 405man - Quart 980s German Tower Loudspeakers. FLAC through Foobar, XP and ASIO Squeezebox 3 Classic

[slim] How to save playlists

2008-12-17 Thread only1jpk
Hi team: Newbie here: Very impressed with the kit. However, I can't seem to save any playlists: I used to use a Netgear MP101 streamer - basic but very effective. On that I could save playlists such as party early, party late, guitar heroes, or even all etc, etc. You get the picture: I want to

Re: [slim] Artwork Display

2008-12-17 Thread booguss
I have attempted to get this to work on my Ubunbtu 8.10 system using Firefox 3.0 and have been unsuccessful. When I run try to browse to the url as directed I just get a blank screen. I followed the directions in the document and changed the file from .txt to .html and put it in the

Re: [slim] Positive ReplayGain and Clipping

2008-12-17 Thread cliveb
andyg;371448 Wrote: Yep it was a very simple fix. The gain value sent to the player with each track is just reduced if it would clip. I saw your comment in the bug report that it's fixed in change 24314. Is this fix included in the latest nightlies, or would I have to download some Perl

Re: [slim] Should I create a Partition?

2008-12-17 Thread Mark Lanctot
thurstongarden;371920 Wrote: I think having my music on a clean partition will save a lot of time in the future This is a good idea, but it's probably not contributing to your long start times because music isn't accessed on startup. What does affect startup is all the useless crap that Dell

Re: [slim] Should I create a Partition?

2008-12-17 Thread thurstongarden
Howard Passman;371992 Wrote: I get the feeling you are trying to stay very small relative tot he footprint.. It has nothing to do with being a tight Scotsman, more the fact that the fit-pc only draws 7W and can therefore be always on, and have a totty wee -Carbon- Footprint :-) --

Re: [slim] A Bit Of Tongue-In-Cheekiness

2008-12-17 Thread mrfantasy
I don't think Sean was kidding. We have the same coffee cups in our dining hall. I like the fact that Made from renewable materials means, basically, nothing. Dogberry2;371724 Wrote: Okay, Mr. Adams, you just made me spill my coffee (grown very green in South America, then shipped via

Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store

2008-12-17 Thread markstrom
Aesculus;372124 Wrote: I just want to point out that you are all talking about a $10 application that most feel is well worth it and it works very well. For $10 just don't buy two lattes and you will never miss it. I think Pippin has more important details to work on with the app than make

Re: [slim] nokia phone as a remote

2008-12-17 Thread simonjedrake
ds2021;371508 Wrote: Any Nokia with wi-fi and a web browser could do this via the 'handheld skin' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_Overview#SqueezeCenter). This can also be done through the cellular data network (e.g., edge, 3g, evdo, etc.), but it would not be speedy

[slim] Date Time Display

2008-12-17 Thread Andy Cudlip
Hi Is there a setting/plugin that will allow date and time to be displayed when playing music (e.g. as it does when my squeezebox classic is switched off) Thanks Andy -- Andy Cudlip Andy Cudlip's Profile:

Re: [slim] Problems Streaming radio stations

2008-12-17 Thread cousinjerry
I'm having the same types of problems in Canada. The streaming radio is very hit-or-miss it seems.??? -- cousinjerry 2 x SliMP3 1 x Squeezebox 3 cousinjerry's Profile:

Re: [slim] Date Time Display

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Herger
Is there a setting/plugin that will allow date and time to be displayed when playing music (e.g. as it does when my squeezebox classic is switched off) You can set the DateTime plugin to be used during playback. Or use my MusicInfoSCR for more flexibility. -- Michael

Re: [slim] A Bit Of Tongue-In-Cheekiness

2008-12-17 Thread pippin
Skunk;372052 Wrote: FWIW Indiana goes to 11 on the weight dial. I feel like I remember that. I'd be willing to buy you a drink the next time you're in Indpls. :-) Now that's a offer :-) But it's been seven or eight years now since the last time. I used to work for Delphi Delco then and

Re: [slim] How to save playlists

2008-12-17 Thread Siduhe
Gazjam;371930 Wrote: Can playlists be created from the remote on the fly? Can they only be created from the PC? thanks Yes, or at least you certainly used to be able to do this - haven't tried for a while. Assuming you mean the standard SD remote (not the Controller part of the Duet),

Re: [slim] Suggestion: Volumen control bigger dB span

2008-12-17 Thread Landhoff
Hmm - this is above my knowldge i'm afraid. For instance I don't understand how the SC - i.e. 7.3 - can influence the characteristics of the physical interfaces on the feeder (my SB3) and the power amp?! As said I'm using the SB3 together with a Mission Cyrus XPA power amp with the following

Re: [slim] Does the Duet remote support roaming between Wireless Access Points?

2008-12-17 Thread propup
It appears that this feature did not make it into the 7.3 release. The classic sympton that I used to see remains. If I attach to a WAP in my home and then roam the controller remains latched onto that last authenticated WAP. The brute-force method for me to get good communication to my local

Re: [slim] Suggestion: Volumen control bigger dB span

2008-12-17 Thread Landhoff
I guess I was just en lighted by reading the info-text for the various settings in SC. I run SC 7.2 - 2244 and in Settings/Player/Sound/Sound level for pre-amp (or something like that, my text is in Danish - not sure exactly how it is translated) you can actually specify an attenuation level i

Re: [slim] Which Web Browser do you use

2008-12-17 Thread deserttaxguy
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56180 Question:

Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store

2008-12-17 Thread Aesculus
pippin;371127 Wrote: No it is not. I mean, the idea is good, but how do I do this? You could just quit the app and all limitations are gone. Usually, I never have iPeng active for 5 min, it's usually a minute or so of browsing and than either exit or sleep. I could cut the playback

Re: [slim] A Bit Of Tongue-In-Cheekiness

2008-12-17 Thread 4mula1
pippin;371819 Wrote: Hey, but the good thing about the squeeze ecosystem is: It will last no longer than two weeks until someone writes a plugin that pulls the list of tour busses for every artist from Wikipedia, matches it to the manufacturer's capacity database, calculates the number of

Re: [slim] How to save playlists

2008-12-17 Thread davep
Playlists are saved and edited from within the SqueezeCenter interface on your PC. You need to ensure that you have a playlists directory defined on the 'Basic Settings' tab of the Settings page. You also need to ensure that this directory is writeable (i.e. not set as read only). Once you

Re: [slim] A Bit Of Tongue-In-Cheekiness

2008-12-17 Thread pippin
4mula1;371964 Wrote: Don't forget to allow for groupie inflation. This would be a primarily American thing where as the closer to the present year you get the higher the likelihood is that the groupie will be physically larger due to American dietary and portion standards. Oh yes! Although

Re: [slim] Should I create a Partition?

2008-12-17 Thread Howard Passman
thurstongarden;371920 Wrote: OK - the nice people at Dell are sending me an OS disk. They also emailed me a link on reinstalling and creating a partition, so it's all guns blazing come the holidays! Best startup time I can get down to is 7 mins, a vast improvement on 15, but 2 or 3 mins

Re: [slim] End of the line for Squeezebox Classic?

2008-12-17 Thread mvalera
snarlydwarf;370636 Wrote: hah, i though the same thing until I read the fine print. It's the end (much delayed) of the Slim Devices branded units is all. They must have hid this batch hidden somewhere, since they've been shipping Logitech branded units for ages. Snarly wins the prize...

Re: [slim] Assuring legality of purchased online music

2008-12-17 Thread agentsmith
THe frustrating thing is most download and paid online radio sites are US or Europe only. Fortunately most hires music are independent and thus can be purchased from outside the US. Too bad HDTRACKS is the exception. it does not allow outside US purchases. I heard you can get around it by

Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store

2008-12-17 Thread lanierb
Question for Pippin: is there a way to set the sleep timer for a player in iPeng? (This is low priority but I was just wondering.) -- lanierb lanierb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5566 View

Re: [slim] Assuring legality of purchased online music

2008-12-17 Thread JJZolx
agentsmith;371860 Wrote: I understand that the likelihood of somebody inspecting my hard disk is very remote. I am just curious since I paid real money to buy something from the ether, the same amount of money as the physical media. How am I different than people who pirate all their music

Re: [slim] A Bit Of Tongue-In-Cheekiness

2008-12-17 Thread mvalera
This post is awesome on many many levels of awesomeness. Mike -- mvalera Michael Valera Online Communities Manager Logitech Streaming Media Business Unit slimdevices.com mvalera's Profile:

Re: [slim] Should I create a Partition?

2008-12-17 Thread Howard Passman
thurstongarden;372028 Wrote: It has nothing to do with being a tight Scotsman, more the fact that the fit-pc only draws 7W and can therefore be always on, and have a totty wee -Carbon- Footprint :-) No, that wasn't a comment on being a Scotsman :-) I actually thought you were trying to keep

Re: [slim] Which Web Browser do you use

2008-12-17 Thread twynne
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56180 Question:

Re: [slim] How to save playlists

2008-12-17 Thread Gazjam
Can playlists be created from the remote on the fly? Can they only be created from the PC? thanks -- Gazjam Gazjam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18604 View this thread:

Re: [slim] How to save playlists

2008-12-17 Thread davep
For on the fly adding of individual tracks to existing playlists there is the Playlist Manager plugin which allows you to add the currenlty playing track to any of your defined playlists - or start a new playlist with it. All from the remote control, so may be more of what you are looking for.

Re: [slim] A Bit Of Tongue-In-Cheekiness

2008-12-17 Thread Dogberry2
mrfantasy;372110 Wrote: I don't think Sean was kidding. We have the same coffee cups in our dining hall. I like the fact that Made from renewable materials means, basically, nothing.Yeah, hasn't paper -always- been made from renewable materials? (For that matter, so are vellum and

Re: [slim] Should I create a Partition?

2008-12-17 Thread thurstongarden
Fit-pc plus 160Gb HD would probably run at £300 delivered. Do I/don't I? Can I have Ubuntu on the fit-pc and have it talk to my XP laptop on the network? -- thurstongarden Thurston Garden SB2 - Duet Controller - NAD 3020e - Mission 773's

Re: [slim] Should I create a Partition?

2008-12-17 Thread Howard Passman
thurstongarden;371944 Wrote: Fit-pc plus 160Gb HD would probably run at £300 delivered. Do I/don't I? Can I have Ubuntu on the fit-pc and have it talk to my XP laptop on the network? I would think you could, but I'm not the guy to ask on that. You could use XP on the Fit-PC if it won't

Re: [slim] Updating Squeezebox duet controller firmware

2008-12-17 Thread Loy
wolfzell;355864 Wrote: Had a similar problem. Controller did not want to update, always replied with the failed installation error. I installed the new 7.2.1 from the nightlies yesterday. Automatic updates are enabled, still there has been no jive firmware in the firmware directory even

Re: [slim] A Bit Of Tongue-In-Cheekiness

2008-12-17 Thread Skunk
pippin;372001 Wrote: Oh yes! Although it's not a purely US phenomenon. You could use a groupie inflator per year and state (I hear it's also different in different states?) FWIW Indiana goes to 11 on the weight dial. Where in Indiana are you from? I know Kokomo and Indianapolis. I'd be

Re: [slim] How to save playlists

2008-12-17 Thread only1jpk
Many thanks davep, and others. I'm up and running with a couple of playlists now. However, it is rather cumbersome - open a playlist and then find a track using search within Squeezebox, then add it individually to that playlist, then save. I was rather hoping for a drag--drop capability, so that

Re: [slim] Assuring legality of purchased online music

2008-12-17 Thread pippin
agentsmith;371979 Wrote: Didn't do what? pirate all your music -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Urg! Pandora may be shutting down?!

2008-12-17 Thread claypole
You can use Tor and Privoxy. So far I have found this to be very slow and unreliable, so not an ideal solution, plus it forces all web radio through the proxy too. Ideally you just want a single service using this proxy. And lastly, if the squeezenetwork passes any clear text usernames and

Re: [slim] Does the Duet remote support roaming between Wireless Access Points?

2008-12-17 Thread Millwood
In my experience, to get it to reassociate, you can go to advanced settings wireless network and reselect your network. -- Millwood 2 SB3, 1 Duet Debian Etch server 2 AP (netgear, linksys) wireless network. Millwood's

Re: [slim] Should I create a Partition?

2008-12-17 Thread MeSue
My best advice for clean installing Windows is to have another computer available with internet access. Then if you run in to trouble you can Google for help, drivers, or whatever you need. Second tip would be to image the drive after the deed is done and things are running how you like them, so

Re: [slim] nokia phone as a remote

2008-12-17 Thread simbo
You could take a look at Salling Clicker - there are SC plugins for Mac and PC. They use Bluetooth to communicate with SC. I wrote the PC one but haven't touched it since I bought a Controller, self-centered git that I am. Not even sure if it still works with 7.3. -- simbo *bedroom:*

Re: [slim] Assuring legality of purchased online music

2008-12-17 Thread agentsmith
JJZolx;371932 Wrote: You didn't. Didn't do what? -- agentsmith System 1: Transporter and a mostly Naim system System 2: SB2 connected digitally to a Meridian F80 agentsmith's Profile:

Re: [slim] Should I create a Partition?

2008-12-17 Thread thurstongarden
OK - the nice people at Dell are sending me an OS disk. They also emailed me a link on reinstalling and creating a partition, so it's all guns blazing come the holidays! Best startup time I can get down to is 7 mins, a vast improvement on 15, but 2 or 3 mins is probably the norm. I think having

Re: [slim] Problems Streaming radio stations

2008-12-17 Thread JJZolx
Radiotime doesn't seem to do a great job of keeping current with changing radio station stream URLs. It's a tough job, though. There are a lot of stations out there, and the URLs constantly change for some reason. I try to keep track of just a handful of local stations and it's rare that I

Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store

2008-12-17 Thread prabbit
lanierb;372126 Wrote: Question for Pippin: is there a way to set the sleep timer for a player in iPeng? (This is low priority but I was just wondering.) Not through the native app...not yet. It's a feature I'd like, too. In the meantime, you can use the web plugin version of iPeng to set

Re: [slim] Should I create a Partition?

2008-12-17 Thread Howard Passman
thurstongarden;371935 Wrote: Howard It appears the Vostro 1500 has a single HD bay. http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/139444/dell-vostro-dual-hard-drives-vista-/ I think you are right about having the music on a separate disk altogether - now I am thinking, should I spend a little of my

Re: [slim] Positive ReplayGain and Clipping

2008-12-17 Thread schiegl
It should be included in the current nightlies - although you may wait for a possible regression to be handled first (see 'bug 10355' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10355)) kind regards, Markus -- schiegl

Re: [slim] A Bit Of Tongue-In-Cheekiness

2008-12-17 Thread 4mula1
pippin;372001 Wrote: Where in Indiana are you from? I know Kokomo and Indianapolis. Warsaw (technically Winona Lake). It's about 2-1/2 hours north of Indy. Skunk is spot on about Indiana being an 11 on that scale. The view from my office onto the production floor is pretty scary!!! --

Re: [slim] How to save playlists

2008-12-17 Thread MeSue
You can also create playlists in another music program and save them to your playlist folder for SC to pick up. Most music programs create compatible playlists. Many folks find this preferable to using the remote or the Web interface to SC. -- MeSue Sue http://www.last.fm/user/MeSue

Re: [slim] Should I create a Partition?

2008-12-17 Thread thurstongarden
Howard It appears the Vostro 1500 has a single HD bay. http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/139444/dell-vostro-dual-hard-drives-vista-/ I think you are right about having the music on a separate disk altogether - now I am thinking, should I spend a little of my Xmas bonus on a fit-pc, upgrade the

Re: [slim] How To Use Last Fm?

2008-12-17 Thread robroe
Siduhe;371661 Wrote: No, AFAIK at the moment the Last.fm licence only permits radio type playback (i.e. not on-demand) - but this may change in future. I assumed that was the case, thanks for your reply. -- robroe

[slim] Squeezebox can't see squeezecenter

2008-12-17 Thread Deanorob
I have just updated to 7.3 and now my Squeezebox says No Squeezecenter Found. I can connect to Squeezenetwork. I reinstalled 7.2 but got the same. Please help, this is driving me mad -- Deanorob Deanorob's Profile:

Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store

2008-12-17 Thread GTax
pippin;371209 Wrote: Had that once upon upgrading. Uninstall/Reinstall (using iTunes) will help in this case. Another alternative could be this: 1. Turn off WiFi. iPeng should NOT crash when started now. 2. Go to settings and add some dummy server address (bleh will do, IP-Addresses are a

Re: [slim] Urg! Pandora may be shutting down?!

2008-12-17 Thread agentsmith
Well I have been trying to pay them money but they refuse my money because I am outside the US. same holds true for many online music retailers and most paid online radio. -- agentsmith System 1: Transporter and a mostly Naim system System 2: SB2 connected digitally to a Meridian F80

Re: [slim] Positive ReplayGain and Clipping

2008-12-17 Thread Moonbase
Just in case someone wants to verify or play around with test cases, I have attached the Excel table which I use to see if I’ve programmed stuff correctly. (Uses calculation as of SC 7.3-24330, 2008-12-17.) Zipped, this forum doesn’t allow .xls.

Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store

2008-12-17 Thread pippin
GTax;372329 Wrote: Thanks. I tried reinstalling, and now get a different problem. Instead of crashing right away, now the app crashes randomly. It doesn't seem to matter which screen I'm on, it even crashes on the settings screen. I can't get far enough to play any music. I tried