[slim] Last.fm, worth becoming a paid member?

2009-02-28 Thread TurnipFarmer
Hey Guys I am thinking about becoming a paid member of last.fm however is it worth it? -- TurnipFarmer http://www.last.fm/user/TurnipFarmer TurnipFarmer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17883

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

2009-02-28 Thread pippin
auronthas;401490 Wrote: Hi pippin, further to my earlier question on 'keylock'. Instead of 'keylock', how about a popup window (Play or cancel) will be appeared, when select a song whether intentionally or accidentally. Here's something I'm currently experimenting with for 1.1: I plan to

Re: [slim] Last.fm, worth becoming a paid member?

2009-02-28 Thread marklings
As far as I can tell the only thing you get is the loved tracks availability to listen back to. But let me put it another way: These guys are great IMHO, worth spending a few pennies on ! Mark -- marklings marklings's

Re: [slim] Last.fm, worth becoming a paid member?

2009-02-28 Thread Moonbase
I was just contemplating the same … but for € 2,50/month I’d somehow like to get not only my »loved tracks« but playlists and »my stations« too. So I wait. What I like is that - they use MusicIP to get similar tracks (which I also like at home) - their tags function well - you can skip to

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

2009-02-28 Thread auronthas
pippin;401516 Wrote: Here's something I'm currently experimenting with for 1.1: I plan to add the TrackInfo screen (which has a lot of links, too) as a 4th mode. This would then not play anything but enter that menu. Would that do it? Or is that too complicated? Something simple will do, as

Re: [slim] Recommend a portable USB HDD for backups?

2009-02-28 Thread Kyle
Howard, if it were for me, I'd spend some extra dough and get a DSLR. But for my wife, ps is what she needs. I think the camera I bought will be a big improvement over what we've got now, if the specs I read were correct. Thanks for the tips, though. -- Kyle

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

2009-02-28 Thread Kyle
Pippin, I guess I screwed up. I downloaded iPeng without even thinking about the fact that I am running SS6.3 due to a change in subsequent releases that prevents my home audio system from beginning to play when it powers up (big WAF). Is there any way to use the program with SS versions? --

Re: [slim] Recommend a portable USB HDD for backups?

2009-02-28 Thread Howard Passman
Kyle;401531 Wrote: Howard, if it were for me, I'd spend some extra dough and get a DSLR. But for my wife, ps is what she needs. I think the camera I bought will be a big improvement over what we've got now, if the specs I read were correct. Thanks for the tips, though. Cool. I hope she

Re: [slim] Recommend a portable USB HDD for backups?

2009-02-28 Thread Kyle
I used to shoot sports back in my old newspaper days (late '70's when I was writing sports) with a Nikkormat. With practice, you got pretty good at follow focusing, but it was mostly anticipation with a lot of luck involved. Doing your own darkroom work helped, too. Cheers. -- Kyle

Re: [slim] Recommend a portable USB HDD for backups?

2009-02-28 Thread Howard Passman
Kyle;401541 Wrote: I used to shoot sports back in my old newspaper days (late '70's when I was writing sports) with a Nikkormat. With practice, you got pretty good at follow focusing, but it was mostly anticipation with a lot of luck involved. Doing your own darkroom work helped, too.

Re: [slim] Recommend a portable USB HDD for backups?

2009-02-28 Thread Kyle
Yeah, I enjoyed the darkroom work, but it's been years. I can still smell those chemicals, though. I bought a film Nikon and some nice lenses 6-7 years ago when digital was still young, but I just didn't use it enough and ended up selling it all on ebay when I got into digital. I'm still using

[slim] Setting static IP address for Squeezeserver

2009-02-28 Thread Kyle
I have a Linksys WRT54GL router. Can I assign a static IP address to my Squeezeserver without having static IP's for everything on the network? Is it difficult? -- Kyle Kyle's Profile:

Re: [slim] Recommend a portable USB HDD for backups?

2009-02-28 Thread Howard Passman
Kyle;401546 Wrote: Yeah, I enjoyed the darkroom work, but it's been years. I can still smell those chemicals, though. I bought a film Nikon and some nice lenses 6-7 years ago when digital was still young, but I just didn't use it enough and ended up selling it all on ebay when I got into

Re: [slim] Annouce: New Squeezeslave 0.8 release availabe on sourceforge

2009-02-28 Thread ralphy
Try adding a -static like this, delete bin/squeezeslave and run make again. Code: ${CC} -o bin/squeezeslave $^ -static -L/opt/local/lib -lmad -lFLAC -lvorbisfile -lvorbis -logg /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/CoreAudio

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread bpa
Suddenly my posts now have to be moderated. Assuming this post is not moderated - the last post had text and a link to another forum post -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread Moonbase
I’ll have to watch it – it happens on some, not all of my posts. Maybe it really has to do something with attachments or *odd wording* used. Hm. Sorry, Michael, I tried to behave a little in Bugzilla but I didn’t realize someone would have problems reading posts with odd characters like

Re: [slim] Recommend a portable USB HDD for backups?

2009-02-28 Thread Moonbase
Hee hee, one nice off-topic thread this has become! I started playing with an -Olympus Camedia C-2500L- in 2000 (one of the first halfway usable DSLRs), because I couldn't afford the -AP NC-2000- my company sold at that time ... Now I'm dreaming of a good Nikon DSLR body ... ;-) -- Moonbase

[slim] Loudness/Compression

2009-02-28 Thread Labarum
I have read posts complaining about dynamic compression and the fact radio stations are getting forever louder. I notice when listening to classical radio stations some are very much louder at the same volume setting. Classic FM and Venice Radio come over much louder than Bartok and the East

Re: [slim] Intel Atom: Suitable for transcoding?

2009-02-28 Thread Moonbase
Thanks for the feedback! Good to know, though I#8217;ll be waiting for the MSI D-130 (Dual Atom, will be available mid-year/autumn). -- Moonbase Moonbase: 'The Problem Solver' (http://www.kaufen-ist-toll.de/moonbase)

Re: [slim] Loudness/Compression

2009-02-28 Thread BlueScreenJunky
It's hard to say... maybe the other stations are just quieter. The problem is not really loudness in itself but compression (the fact that everything is evenly loud, instead of some parts being quieter than others). So maybe those stations are just playing a little louder, which is fine. But

Re: [slim] Setting static IP address for Squeezeserver

2009-02-28 Thread aubuti
Kyle;401547 Wrote: I have a Linksys WRT54GL router. Can I assign a static IP address to my Squeezeserver without having static IP's for everything on the network? Is it difficult? I have the same router, but use Tomato instead of the stock firmware. Setting static DHCP is easy with that

Re: [slim] Intel Atom: Suitable for transcoding?

2009-02-28 Thread BlueScreenJunky
I've read somewhere that the dual core Atoms was not really useful compared to the single core ones, because single core Atoms already have HyperThreading (which allows them to run two threads at the same time on one core), and are more limited by their FSB than by the power of the processor

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread bpa
It looks like it happens all the time if I put a link to another forum thread in my posts. This needs to be sorted. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Recommend a portable USB HDD for backups?

2009-02-28 Thread Howard Passman
Moonbase;401574 Wrote: Hee hee, one nice off-topic thread this has become! I started playing with an -Olympus Camedia C-2500L- in 2000 (one of the first halfway usable DSLRs), because I couldn't afford the -AP NC-2000- my company sold at that time ... Now I'm dreaming of a good Nikon

Re: [slim] Announcement: VortexBox 0.4 released

2009-02-28 Thread Moonbase
gharris999;401395 Wrote: What's your sense of how well MusicIP works with classical music? Unfortunately I only have -very- few classical titles. I would expect good results but you might want to ask someone that really uses MIP with classical music. Or give -last.fm- a try — they use

Re: [slim] Annouce: New Squeezeslave 0.8 release availabe on sourceforge

2009-02-28 Thread Luke Redpath
No joy so far, but happy to keep looking at this with your help. Output of 'file squeezeslave': /opt/local/bin/squeezeslave: Mach-O executable i386 /opt/local/lib contains libFLAC.a, libmad.a, libogg.a, libvorbis.a and libvorbisfile.a. I did a make clean and recompiled but it is failing

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread maggior
I just made a post and got the moderated. I included a link to another thread in the forum, so it looks like that is the culprit. The post I made regards crosstalk between a couple of threads (USB drive discussion turns to digital camera talk mid thread). Perhaps there is something screwy

Re: [slim] Annouce: New Squeezeslave 0.8 release availabe on sourceforge

2009-02-28 Thread Luke Redpath
OK, using -static-intel seemed to do the trick; will this be suitable? Source: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/library-not-found-crt0/ Edit, doesn't seem to work. I gave it to a friend to run on his system and it failed: dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libmad.0.dylib

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread radish
Looking at the posts which are being flagged, the vast majority have links (often multiple links). I'm assuming the sensitivity is turned up a little high, but at least there'll be less wow n95 spam :) -- radish radish's

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread epoch1970
maggior;401601 Wrote: I included a link to another thread in the forum, so it looks like that is the culprit. Looks to my like a more random problem. My moderated post had no link; I use no sig. The post was long, I composed it for a good while; it had a CODE struct and a zip attachment.

Re: [slim] Recommend a portable USB HDD for backups?

2009-02-28 Thread radish
maggior;401597 Wrote: So I'm reading along about USB drives and abrupbly the discussion goes to digital cameras! It seems like posts from this thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60696 somehow are being associated with this thread. More screwiness of the forum software?

Re: [slim] OT: Recommend a digital camera?

2009-02-28 Thread Kyle
Howard Passman;401586 Wrote: Maybe we could start a Other Interests forum :-) Probably not Most forums have one. I've posted a lot of OT questions here, primarily involving technology, because there are so many members here who are a lot more savvy than I. I hope the mods don't get

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread jo-wie
I got also the Moderator message with a post including a link. -- jo-wie SB Classic, SC 7.3.2 auf GigaByte STA/C mit VIA C7 1GHz, 1GB RAM, 250 GB 2,5 HD, Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 jo-wie's Profile:

Re: [slim] Setting static IP address for Squeezeserver

2009-02-28 Thread Kyle
aubuti;401580 Wrote: Another, potentially better, approach is to set a true static IP in the network settings of your server itself. How you do that depends on the OS. And yes, it's no problem at all having some devices with fixed IPs and some using DHCP. Just make sure that you set the

Re: [slim] Setting static IP address for Squeezeserver

2009-02-28 Thread aubuti
Kyle;401624 Wrote: My server is on Windows XP. Can you tell me what steps to take? This is what I have on WinXP Pro: 1. Start Control Panel Network Connections 2. Select the appropriate connection (wired/wireless) and right click for Properties 3. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) 4. Select

Re: [slim] Software Player Synchronisation Rallying call!

2009-02-28 Thread netnewt
mherger;397771 Wrote: I really think development should have been continued with SoftSqueeze whilst there is no viable alternative We're rather concentrating on the new software than trying to fix legacy code. SqueezePlay will be much better as a player than SoftSqueeze has ever been.

Re: [slim] [ANN] Squeemote 1.2, now with device sync!

2009-02-28 Thread Luke Redpath
Just a quick note, I've updated the FAQs on the site with some instructions regarding the new device management screen. http://lukeredpath.co.uk/squeemote/faq.html If you've bought Squeemote and like it, I'd really appreciate any reviews you can leave on the iTunes store and if you've

Re: [slim] Software Player Synchronisation Rallying call!

2009-02-28 Thread andyg
Bottom line, it is not possible to get perfect sync with a software player for every possible OS/soundcard combo right out of the box. The latency in the OS, sound card driver, etc is just out of our control. There are several knobs you can tweak in the sync preferences to try to get perfect

Re: [slim] Software Player Synchronisation Rallying call!

2009-02-28 Thread aubuti
netnewt;401633 Wrote: No-one has yet been able to tell me the point of Squeezeplay over the standard Squeezecentre GUI? If it's not going to emulate the hardware players, please tell me what it's for and what advantage it has over the standard GUI and its selection of skins? It's so simple

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread iPhone
radish;401611 Wrote: Looking at the posts which are being flagged, the vast majority have links (often multiple links). I'm assuming the sensitivity is turned up a little high, but at least there'll be less wow n95 spam :) Speaking of sensitivity, is their an adjustment in the software for

Re: [slim] Software Player Synchronisation Rallying call!

2009-02-28 Thread epoch1970
netnewt;401633 Wrote: I remain passionately for Softsqueeze. I assume you have no plans to make Squeezeplay VISIBLY EMULATE the range of hardware players? IMO, Softsqueeze is a great presales tool for the SB3. It looks and works like the real thing. SP works like an SBC, but that's not

[slim] Best Sites to Download Music in FLAC

2009-02-28 Thread timequest
I’m just getting started, so I don’t know the answers to what I’m sure are pretty obvious questions. I want to add to my music library, which is currently all from ripped CDs, by downloading sound/albums in FLAC. What are some good sites to go to? -- timequest

Re: [slim] Best Sites to Download Music in FLAC

2009-02-28 Thread RichardL
HDTracks.com has a good selection of 16/44.1 tracks and also a library of 24/96 tracks in FLAC for purchase -- RichardL RichardL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16586 View this thread:

[slim] No nonsense NAS server

2009-02-28 Thread jadeking
Could someone please recommend a NAS server that can run squeezecenter without any problems, and which works out of the box? It seems many servers have a long list of instructions for how to get it to work with squeezecenter. It needs to be silent to0, so a fanless server is prefered. --

[slim] General Dissatisfaction

2009-02-28 Thread drs
I apologize for this rant in advance, but I am really frustrated. I've had a Squeezebox 3 since early 2006, and had wanted one for a long time previous to that. Conceptually, I think it is about the best idea ever, but in practice, I am thoroughly unhappy with it -- indeed, my wife refers to it

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze for Windows Mobile or iPhone (for my Car)

2009-02-28 Thread mark-e-mark
I tried Satellite radio and found the sound quality sirius-ly lacking (pun intended). I have a new Samsung Omnia from verizon and the coverage is terrific where I am. Carriers are quickly becoming internet gateways anyway, so is anyone developing a light, mobile player that will work with

Re: [slim] General Dissatisfaction

2009-02-28 Thread ds2021
I can't help but feel that there is some outside variable that is causing your problems. My setup is very similar to yours, if not slightly worse: 13,000 tracks; XP 2.8ghz 4GB which also serves as a Media Center which may be serving video or recording TV on up to three tuners while serving

[slim] EveryThing you need To Run your voip/pc2phone/callBack/callShop/Calling card Business

2009-02-28 Thread solution4voip786
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Re: [slim] Softsqueeze for Windows Mobile or iPhone (for my Car)

2009-02-28 Thread Mark Lanctot
SoftSqueeze is no longer in development, so this is not going to happen. I believe it is open source, so anyone can take it up if they want to... SqueezePlay is the new software player. It's much lighter than SS (written in lua as opposed to Java) so it may actually be easier to have it run on

Re: [slim] Setting static IP address for Squeezeserver

2009-02-28 Thread Kyle
Thanks. Perfect instructions! -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60727

Re: [slim] General Dissatisfaction

2009-02-28 Thread iPhone
drs;401730 Wrote: I apologize for this rant in advance, but I am really frustrated. I've had a Squeezebox 3 since early 2006, and had wanted one for a long time previous to that. Conceptually, I think it is about the best idea ever, but in practice, I am thoroughly unhappy with it --

Re: [slim] General Dissatisfaction

2009-02-28 Thread Pat Farrell
drs wrote: I apologize for this rant in advance, but I am really frustrated. I am wondering if Your computer should be more than enough. But my first suggestion is get a cheap, dedicated old PC. Something like this: http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/sys/1048718354.html Just $60, of

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze for Windows Mobile or iPhone (for my Car)

2009-02-28 Thread mark-e-mark
Mark Lanctot;401739 Wrote: SqueezePlay is the new software player. It's much lighter than SS... I'll definitely try out the new player. Thanks for letting me know! -- mark-e-mark mark-e-mark's Profile:

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

2009-02-28 Thread pippin
Kyle;401533 Wrote: Pippin, I guess I screwed up. I downloaded iPeng without even thinking about the fact that I am running SS6.3 due to a change in subsequent releases that prevents my home audio system from beginning to play when it powers up (big WAF). Is there any way to use the program

Re: [slim] General Dissatisfaction

2009-02-28 Thread drs
ds2021;401737 Wrote: I can't help but feel that there is some outside variable that is causing your problems. It seems like this must be right, but I have tried it on other computers, too, with no better results. The one in question, in addition to the speed listed, has gigabit ethernet, sata

Re: [slim] General Dissatisfaction

2009-02-28 Thread snarlydwarf
drs;401785 Wrote: Tagging? whatever EAC does. SC -- most up to date. Music is organized artist/album/track, but really, this shouldn't matter. Search should sort through it. EAC uses Freedb which is basically random users on the 'net typed this in, with no real peer review, consistency

Re: [slim] General Dissatisfaction

2009-02-28 Thread chrol
I have found moose an excellent companion at times - and of course I couldn't live without lazysearch and playlist manager plugins. It would be interesting if they could also add a desktop optimized jive - but it still depends on squeezecenter's database and backend. I don't do it but using

Re: [slim] General Dissatisfaction

2009-02-28 Thread BlueScreenJunky
Maybe the Squeezebox is just not the right solution for you :-/ I still think it's a great product (it has some flaws, but on the whole it works just fine for me and is by far the best in its price range and even above), but if you're constantly adding new tracks, need to browse your music really

Re: [slim] General Dissatisfaction

2009-02-28 Thread Mark Lanctot
It really seems like you have all your bases covered here, and it's really too bad it's not working for you. If you're up for one last push, see http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Diagnosing_Performance_Issues But yeah, it definitely should not work this poorly for you. -- Mark Lanctot

Re: [slim] Setting static IP address for Squeezeserver

2009-02-28 Thread Kyle
EXCEPT: Now my desktop can't get on the internet. I still can through my laptop. Do I have to change a router setting to allow the desktop to access the internet? -- Kyle Kyle's Profile:

Re: [slim] iPeng, Squidgy or Squeezemote?

2009-02-28 Thread nanckekr
I have an iPhone 3G and purchased the squeezemote application. I like it very much, but I am experiencing random wifi dropout where the wifi icon disappears from the iPhone and obviously then I loose connection to the server. Hence I am unable to use this as a remote control due to the

Re: [slim] Best Sites to Download Music in FLAC

2009-02-28 Thread Steve Bernard, Jr
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:06 PM, timequest wrote: I’m just getting started, so I don’t know the answers to what I’m sure are pretty obvious questions.  I want to add to my music library, which is currently all from ripped CDs, by downloading sound/albums in FLAC. What are some good sites to go

Re: [slim] iPeng, Squidgy or Squeezemote?

2009-02-28 Thread pippin
nanckekr;401810 Wrote: Could this be a hardware problem on my iPhone 3G? Typically, it's the AP. iPhone is quite sensitive about power saving routers, my old LinkSys gave me lots of trouble, I'm not seeing his whith my newer AVM one anymore. If it's the WiFi-Icon it's highly unlikely the

[slim] web concert audio AND video?

2009-02-28 Thread Fahzz
Joe Henry has a full length live concert on his website. Is there a way to view the video on my PC and play the audio through a duet at the same time? -- Fahzz Taylor Made R580XD Driver, Orlimar Trimetal(original)#3 5 7 fairway woods,Cleveland Halo #3 hybrid,Cleveland TA4 Irons,Cleveland

Re: [slim] web concert audio AND video?

2009-02-28 Thread agillis
This is a flash video so it's very hard to do anything with it. I would just connect spdif from your computer directly to your stereo. That would work better then using your SB. -- agillis rip, tag, get cover art… All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexbox.org

Re: [slim] Setting static IP address for Squeezeserver

2009-02-28 Thread agillis
Did you set your DNS servers as well? You need to set them to the ones you were getting from DHCP or to a good high speed free DNS service like OpenDNS OpenDNS DNS servers 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 I use openDNS because it is quite a bit faster then the DNS server provided by me internet

Re: [slim] No nonsense NAS server

2009-02-28 Thread agillis
Get a small fanless Atom box and run VortexBox. You should be able to get at 1TB system for less than $400. -- agillis rip, tag, get cover art… All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexbox.org agillis's Profile:

Re: [slim] web concert audio AND video?

2009-02-28 Thread Fahzz
Thanks-That's what i thought, but i Thought i'd throw it out to the group. -- Fahzz Taylor Made R580XD Driver, Orlimar Trimetal(original)#3 5 7 fairway woods,Cleveland Halo #3 hybrid,Cleveland TA4 Irons,Cleveland Tour Action 56 and 60 Wedges, Taylor Made Rossa Modena 8 putter, Handicap 42...

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread Diana
I just got moderated - for the first time ever. I put a URL to a wiki page in the message, so I guess that's what did it. But this needs fixing, as many people reply quickly to requests for help by simply giving a URL, so the member who's stuck can get on with their solution. This new

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread Diana
iPhone;401682 Wrote: ...everybody posting up to and including this reply is a Senior Member. I guess that's because senior members are the most likely people to respond to requests for help by giving a URL to the required info. -- Diana

Re: [slim] Why do posts suddenly require moderator approval?

2009-02-28 Thread erland
Diana;401844 Wrote: I just got moderated - for the first time ever. I put a URL to a wiki page in the message, so I guess that's what did it. I got moderated too, but I had an url to an enhancement request. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My