Re: [slim] Rebuffering is ruining the Squeezebox experience

2009-08-06 Thread dsdreamer
aubuti;445938 Wrote: What, you don't think they already do that? Of course they do. Comments like that, especially your header 'Works for me' is good enough, then? (which is exactly the opposite of what I said, btw) are decidedly unproductive. Sheesh. Aside from the fact that I've managed

[slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread peber
So now I have ripped all my CD:s (around 320) to FLAC, stored them on a mirrored USB drive, backed them up on a second portable drive just to be sure; my squeezebox system is up and running and I am VERY pleased! But... I have a bookshelf full of CD:s that I will probably not touch again for

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread Siduhe
Have a look at 'this' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50527highlight=jewel+case) thread. Loads of ideas in there - more for storage than display, but may help. -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? -Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up.

Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool

2009-08-06 Thread Robin Bowes
On 04/08/09 20:34, daviseh wrote: Thanks Robin. I changed interface from 0 to 1 and I was able to use iPeng to connect to Squeezenetwork. When I log into squeezenetwork the player is there. However, squeezecenter does not find the player and I can not connect to squeezecneter from iPeng.

Re: [slim] Rebuffering is ruining the Squeezebox experience

2009-08-06 Thread maggior
dsdreamer - I gave up and had to finally resort to Google to determine the source of you signature. It was driving me crazy because it sounded so familiar but I could NOT figure out where it was from: Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you... As it turns out, it is from one of my

Re: [slim] Artwork for files with no artwork

2009-08-06 Thread Moonbase
You -could- substitute the skin's default cover.png image by your own. It's in -server/HTML/Default/html/images/cover.png- (use your skin name in place of Default, i.e., Classic, Fishbone, etc.). -- Moonbase Moonbase: 'The Problem Solver' (http://www.kaufen-ist-toll.de/moonbase)

[slim] buying a treadmill is an expensive affair!

2009-08-06 Thread Josephsdf5
Now, some may wonder about the expenses associated with buying a treadmill. Some models are well upwards of $5,000 which places it out of the range of affordability for many folks. So, what can somebody do when they want to purchase an inexpensive treadmill? -- Josephsdf5

Re: [slim] Rebuffering is ruining the Squeezebox experience

2009-08-06 Thread dsdreamer
maggior;446250 Wrote: dsdreamer - I gave up and had to finally resort to Google to determine the source of you signature. It was driving me crazy because it sounded so familiar but I could NOT figure out where it was from: Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you... As it

[slim] Czech Radio upstages BBC

2009-08-06 Thread Labarum
I have just written a letter to the London Times -let's see if it gets printed. Czech Radio upstages BBC Our national humiliation is complete. BBC Radio Three used to lead the world in artistic and technical quality, but has been upstaged by Czech Radio. If you have the means to route a

Re: [slim] Rebuffering is ruining the Squeezebox experience

2009-08-06 Thread ziggyb63
Interesting. I started a thread here http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65801 basically about the same issue. I could have sworn my network was OK - PCs were working, game consoles ran internet games etc. Turned out for me it was one port on my gigabit switch that was failing

[slim] Gnome/XFCE tiny notification tray controller and notify program

2009-08-06 Thread qball
I am currently writing a quick and dirty (esp dirty) notification tray controller for squeezecenter. It can do the following things: * Use the running notification daemon to show the song title (as displayed on the squeezebox) on song change. * Give a small notification-area icon that allows you

Re: [slim] Gnome/XFCE tiny notification tray controller and notify program

2009-08-06 Thread qball
2 screenshots (if you can call them that) http://images.sarine.nl/squeeze-not.png http://images.sarine.nl/squeeze-tray.png -- qball qball's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32031 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Rebuffering is ruining the Squeezebox experience

2009-08-06 Thread maggior
dsdreamer;446270 Wrote: I happen to love that track as well, and for me that particular line describes the experience of taking time to really listen, along with Straight light searching all the meanings of the song. This must be from Jon's phase of putting words together just for how they

Re: [slim] New Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch spotted !!

2009-08-06 Thread lrossouw
OK I've got some (hypothetical) plugin ideas: - hum the song you want to hear... thinking of that iphone app - background music that adjusts to the ambient noise in the room - music ip like playlists based on ambient noise and number of people - an alarm that checks if you are actually moving

Re: [slim] Czech Radio upstages BBC

2009-08-06 Thread Goodsounds
I don't know what the style is in the UK, but if you wrote such a letter to a US paper, likely all the technical stuff would be edited out or translated into simple language. But who knows, maybe you'll get some attention. We call our domestic baseball championship competition the World Series

Re: [slim] Czech Radio upstages BBC

2009-08-06 Thread Labarum
You have to play the local political game, Goodsounds, and the BBC is put under a lot of pressure at the moment. If you want to make a point in a paper like the Times you have to hit the right note - though you might be right about technical content. The point was to find another way to tell

Re: [slim] DSBridge - A simpler way to stream Spotify

2009-08-06 Thread Gary_W
I've managed to get this working using the instructions in this thread, so many thanks for making the plugin and making it understandable! Please forgive this if it's a silly question, but... Can I skip tracks with this? Because when I press the skip button on the remote it stops playback for

Re: [slim] Czech Radio upstages BBC

2009-08-06 Thread Labarum
I just realised I could do an A-B test: This stream is one of my set Squeezebox favourites Title: D-dur Czech OGG 224 URL: http://www.rozhlas.cz/audio/download/ddur_maxogg.m3u And is carrying the same station as the FLAC http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac The FLAC is available on

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread Mike New
I moved all my CDs to the garage 3 years ago, stored in plastic boxes alphabetically. I still access them from time to time (mostly to add newly ripped CDs), but I rarely (if ever) actually play one. They just seem so 90's... -- Mike New

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread Phil Leigh
Mike New;446370 Wrote: I moved all my CDs to the garage 3 years ago, stored in plastic boxes alphabetically. I still access them from time to time (mostly to add newly ripped CDs), but I rarely (if ever) actually play one. They just seem so 90's... +1 - I only go to the garage to add more

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread pski
peber;446234 Wrote: */ I want to bring a CD to a friends house for listening. /Per I just take my laptop (and a mini-to-rca cable) or my Boom and I have ALL my CD's at a friends house for listening... -- pski

[slim] somaFM Error: No items found in playlist

2009-08-06 Thread slimfast
Decided to give this a go (after hearing good things about the Apollo soundtrack mixes) but I'm getting the abovementioned error everytime I try to play any somaFM stations. Happens with both my Boom and SB3 Squeezecenter is: Version: 7.3.3 - 26120 @ Tue Apr 21 03:05:40 PDT 2009 Any ideas?

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread ModelCitizen
Sell them. Streamed media and the Internet make them entirely redundant. As most others have realised this you'll not get much money for them, but you may be able to recoup some of your losses by renting out the saved space. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet.

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread radish
ModelCitizen;446409 Wrote: Sell them. Streamed media and the Internet make them entirely redundant. That's a pretty blatant copyright infringement - may as well just download the tracks illegally if you're going to do that. -- radish http://www.last.fm/user/polymeric

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread ModelCitizen
radish;446417 Wrote: That's a pretty blatant copyright infringement - may as well just download the tracks illegally if you're going to do that. God, you're so squeaky. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. Last.fm/user/ModelCitizen

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread regalma1
Stealing is stealing. You can rationalize it all you want, but in the end it is still stealing. I have no sympathy for the music companies or the the RIAA, but they have legal rights. Besides the artists lose out as well. -- regalma1

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread ModelCitizen
The government steal my money every month and spend it on things I don't want. Stealing is stealing is trite. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. Last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's

Re: [slim] Controlling Squeezecentre with a Nokia phone

2009-08-06 Thread Locuth
dave77;445901 Wrote: Cool, keep us updated :) Private reasons have kept me from returning back home. It'll be sometime friday afternoon, that I can look into Symbian. I'll keep you guys up to date. -- Locuth Use your PDA as SqueezeBox remote -- http://www.sciatec.de/SlimControl

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread radish
ModelCitizen;446424 Wrote: God, you're so squeaky. MC It took me a while to realise what you meant (clean..right?). I'm really not, but I do have a lot of friends in/links to the music world and I've seen the damage it does. Your morals are your own, and I certainly don't want to turn this

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread ModelCitizen
radish;446436 Wrote: It took me a while to realise what you meant (clean..right?).Yes, squeaky clean radish;446436 Wrote: Your morals are your ownProbably. radish;446436 Wrote: and I certainly don't want to turn this into another endless copyright threadMe neither. MC --

Re: [slim] somaFM Error: No items found in playlist

2009-08-06 Thread toby10
slimfast;446396 Wrote: Decided to give this a go (after hearing good things about the Apollo soundtrack mixes) but I'm getting the abovementioned error everytime I try to play any somaFM stations. Happens with both my Boom and SB3 Squeezecenter is: Version: 7.3.3 - 26120 @ Tue Apr 21

Re: [slim] Controlling Squeezecentre with a Nokia phone

2009-08-06 Thread lrossouw
dave77;442346 Wrote: I find handheld quite difficult to use on the N97/5800, There's 'this skin' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63929) but I haven't tried it. Hopefully now Symbian/Nokia have started there own application store (like Apple) a developer will be tempted to

Re: [slim] Now what?

2009-08-06 Thread lrossouw
My CDs are in a different country 10 000km away :) Moved to a different country and left them. Wasn't worth taking them along. I am heading back to them eventually though. -- lrossouw -* 'Recently Played on my Squeezebox 3s'

Re: [slim] Czech Radio upstages BBC

2009-08-06 Thread agbagb
D-Dur is a classical music station featuring the very best recordings from Czech Radio's vast archives, playing a range of music from the renaissance period to the 21st century. There are only brief introductions to each composition with no other spoken word on this station. That's from

Re: [slim] Czech Radio upstages BBC

2009-08-06 Thread dsdreamer
I enjoyed listening to D-dur in FLAC quality while I could get it, but I suspect this is not very sustainable or scalable. There is an issue of cost and scarcity of bandwidth. But more fundamentally, broadcasters (especially those in the West?) may feel they have a responsibility not to let

Re: [slim] Czech Radio upstages BBC

2009-08-06 Thread andyg
I bet almost everyone would not be able to ABX a 224k Vorbis stream against FLAC. And you can play Vorbis natively. :) Still, it's cool they are experimenting with FLAC, but as the previous poster said, I wonder how much that's costing them. -- andyg