Re: [slim] MySqueezebox.com as connection point

2010-02-04 Thread nathan_h
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Re: [slim] WMA format not playing

2010-02-04 Thread pchomecall
thanks again for reply, I'll try that tonight and let you know what I found - cheers- Nick -- pchomecall pchomecall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36236 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3

2010-02-04 Thread Gilles2
Hi Frank, I love the promise of this ACC. I gave it a try and can't get it work. I am running SqeezeCenter on a WHS. I installed the ODBC driver and configured the access on the Server, editing the my.tt file as explained. I mapped a drive to the Music Share on the Server. My Server access

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3

2010-02-04 Thread SilverRS8
Gilles2;513583 Wrote: Hi Frank, I love the promise of this ACC. I gave it a try and can't get it work. I am running SqeezeCenter on a WHS. I installed the ODBC driver and configured the access on the Server, editing the my.tt file as explained. I mapped a drive to the Music Share on the

Re: [slim] Dropping support for previous hardware ?

2010-02-04 Thread indifference_engine
mherger;513523 Wrote: No. As kdf said in his post, 7.5-embedded is _not_ the same thing as TinySC. What we refer to as TinySC/TinySBS is just one configuration of the embedded code. It's the configuration used on SB Touch which disables a few memory intensive features using startup

Re: [slim] Dropping support for previous hardware ?

2010-02-04 Thread Michael Herger
You can make any embedded installation a TinySBS by adding those parameters. The code of the two is the same. Is it possible to turn off those memory intensive features on the regular SBS to save resources if I don't have anything older than an SB3? Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to say

Re: [slim] anti virus software affecting SB3 performance??

2010-02-04 Thread Siduhe
Anti-virus products, particularly those with on access scanning features can definitely affect the performance of the software used to run the SB3 on a local server. The most normal problems are with the anti-virus stopping scans from completing, but your problem sounds a bit different.

Re: [slim] PDA-controller SlimControl 0.95

2010-02-04 Thread Locuth
Hello guys I have targetted all the issues you have brought up or complained about ;-). Besides I added an IRBlaster mode (activated in the 'settings') The latter is yet untested as I have no SB 2/3 -- only a Duet. I would love feedback - particularly for IRBlaster. Cheers Sebastian

Re: [slim] PDA-controller SlimControl 0.95

2010-02-04 Thread Aguida
Locuth;513622 Wrote: Hello guys I have targetted all the issues you have brought up or complained about ;-). Besides I added an IRBlaster mode (activated in the 'settings') The latter is yet untested as I have no SB 2/3 -- only a Duet. I would love feedback - particularly for

Re: [slim] PDA-controller SlimControl 0.95

2010-02-04 Thread Locuth
I had a lengthy conversation in the german forum. And my understanding now is that IRBlaster requires volume commands like volume +5 rather than volume = 45 So if activated, SlimCtrl sends +/- volume commands. The volume slider is then replaced by volume up/down buttons. Most people set the

Re: [slim] Why... oh why...

2010-02-04 Thread toby10
erland;513519 Wrote: ... Isn't the third party Settings Manager plugin supposed to solve this backup problem on individual players ?.. Yes, for basic backup/restore purposes this is a decent solution. But it's not worded in a way that would make sense to the less than tech savvy

Re: [slim] PDA-controller SlimControl 0.95

2010-02-04 Thread Aguida
Locuth;513628 Wrote: I had a lengthy conversation in the german forum. And my understanding now is that IRBlaster requires volume commands like volume +5 rather than volume = 45 So if activated, SlimCtrl sends +/- volume commands. The volume slider is then replaced by volume up/down

Re: [slim] Maximum of slim devices

2010-02-04 Thread Muele
As stated by others there is no fixed limit. I think i remember someone having something like 30 sb3's in guesthouse, hotel or something like that. But I don't remember the details, and certainly they wont all play at the same time. Certainly at least 10-15 players is feasible:

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3

2010-02-04 Thread Rick B .
SilverRS8;511686 Wrote: Hi Rick, I've created a version of ACC with date filter but I would like you to test it. A direct link is in your forum mailbox. Regards, Frank Hi, Frank. It worked fine, but I can't figure out why some albums that I ripped long ago have recent file dates on

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3

2010-02-04 Thread SilverRS8
Rick B.;513650 Wrote: Hi, Frank. It worked fine, but I can't figure out why some albums that I ripped long ago have recent file dates on the songs. The folder dates are corect but the song dates are not. I guess you are using the dates on the songs for your filter? From my perspective, it

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3

2010-02-04 Thread Gilles2
Hi Frank, Thanks for quick answer. Looking at your points : SilverRS8;513588 Wrote: 1. Do you run ACC from the server or from a remote computer? If you run it directly from the server do not configure any remote server settings. In this scenario you don't even have to edit the my.tt file as

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3

2010-02-04 Thread Rick B .
SilverRS8;513658 Wrote: The file dates are probably changed by tagging software which appears to be the default setting for most of the software around. First thing I do is change the configuration to not alter the file date when modifying tags. Frank Right! I recently did a lot of

[slim] Need help receiving KKJZ (KJazz) 88.1

2010-02-04 Thread rhswain
They've changed something, and my Squeezebox no longer receives this station (http://www.jazzandblues.org). They say to use http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/KKGOFM1AAC.pls but I get nothing from that. Has anybody else figured out what URL is required now? -- rhswain

Re: [slim] Maximum of slim devices

2010-02-04 Thread seanadams
Muele;513649 Wrote: I think i remember someone having something like 30 sb3's in guesthouse, hotel or something like that. But I don't remember the details, and certainly they wont all play at the same time. Why not? -- seanadams

Re: [slim] Maximum of slim devices

2010-02-04 Thread Sike
I have 16 attached to my Server. No problems at all. -- Sike Sike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2458 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74835

Re: [slim] Maximum of slim devices

2010-02-04 Thread andyg
The server can handle as many as you want, the limit you will run into is wireless bandwidth (or ethernet bandwidth). Just do the math on what you want to stream and work out how much bandwidth you will need. -- andyg

Re: [slim] Announce: VortexBox 1.1 released

2010-02-04 Thread agillis
bernt;513551 Wrote: Great work. Flac Mirror works excellent now. It even replace the compilation tag with itunescompilation and I don't have to embedd the albumart to the flac files anymore. Or, does xbmc use embedded album art? We don't put cover art in FLAC files. XBMC uses cover.jpg.

Re: [slim] Maximum of slim devices

2010-02-04 Thread Michael Herger
As another datapoint: Remco at some point run a test with 50 synced Booms. That was when the server was running into performance issues (due to the syncing). ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Maximum of slim devices

2010-02-04 Thread Mnyb
I suspect that playing a different 24bit 96kHz flac file for each duet or SB3 would stress the server is has to run SOX transcoding to each player. But a bunch of unsynced players playing mp3 files or web radio? that could be a large buch of players indeed. I can see the motel room radio

Re: [slim] Maximum of slim devices

2010-02-04 Thread indifference_engine
I have had 2 duet receivers, 2 duet controllers, 1 SB3, and 3 SqueezeSlaves (2 on the server and one on my laptop) all playing different mp3's simultaneously without issue. The server is about 6 years old and has a 2.6GHz P4 Northwood (1 core, no hyperthreading) with 1.5Gb Ram and a 500Gb IDE

Re: [slim] Microsoft Security Essentials - any news?

2010-02-04 Thread Phil Leigh
verypsb;513533 Wrote: +1 I think this will be an issue until SqueezeboxServer uses SQLite (7.6?) Indeed - I just installed the 7.5 embedded version (which doesn't use MySql) and it runs fine with MSE :-) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it

Re: [slim] Microsoft Security Essentials - any news?

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Meyer
I'm also running MSE with SBS 7.5 using MySQL with no issues. I use my own MySQL DB instance; perhaps that is the difference? -- Philip Meyer Philip Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=95

Re: [slim] Microsoft Security Essentials - any news?

2010-02-04 Thread pski
Phil Leigh;513522 Wrote: Well, it doesn't work for me (and many others). The scanner blows out at the merge various artists step unless I turn off real-time protection. Excluding .MYi/MYD files has no effect. Also the Albums list won't generate. Very strange: Directory Scan (10080 of

Re: [slim] Dropping support for previous hardware ?

2010-02-04 Thread forestcaver
Just to be really, really clear :-) I think I understand the position now - is this right: 1) There is a rearchitecture of the server to allow a smaller footprint, that supports SB1 and slimp3. 2) This allows an install on the touch, that disables support for SB1 and slimp3 due to memory

Re: [slim] Maximum of slim devices

2010-02-04 Thread Phil Meyer
As another datapoint: Remco at some point run a test with 50 synced Booms. That was when the server was running into performance issues (due to the syncing). Impressive! ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Announce: New Squeezeslave 0.9 Release available on sourceforge

2010-02-04 Thread mweb
I tried using asio and it worked for me from a batch file for 4 players (after I put a delay between launching the exe's). ASIO4ALL popped up, I configured it and all was well. The problem with this is that it doesn't shutdown gracefully. So I tried the srvany method suggested above and in the

Re: [slim] LastFM wish list / how do I do it

2010-02-04 Thread Rick_W
toby10;513412 Wrote: 1. individual artist: no, that's not what Last.fm is about, an artist station won't play just that artist, it will play that artist plus artists of similar genre/nature 2. group radio: don't understand what you mean, a group like The Rolling Stones? Or a group

Re: [slim] LastFM wish list / how do I do it

2010-02-04 Thread snarlydwarf
Rick_W;513856 Wrote: 1. Artist Radio; is Artist Radio when you look at the Web UI for Last FM same as Squeezebox Last FM 'Similar Artist' on the menu on the controller Input with the remotes can be painful, as you no doubt know. What I do: play a song by a given artist, bring up the

Re: [slim] LastFM wish list / how do I do it

2010-02-04 Thread Rick_W
snarlydwarf;513865 Wrote: Input with the remotes can be painful, as you no doubt know. What I do: play a song by a given artist, bring up the 'context menu' on that song (+ on the radio, for example, will do this). Choose 'On Last.fm Radio', and you'll get the artists radio stations.

Re: [slim] Slacker Error Message

2010-02-04 Thread mkanet
I've spent countless hours trying to figure out what triggers this, but whatever it is; its caused by Logitech's backend servers interacting with the clients. This only occurs with mysqueezebox.com related subscription services. Sirius playback = You are not authorized... Slacker plaback = You

Re: [slim] Slacker Error Message

2010-02-04 Thread andyg
Slacker does mind, in fact this restriction and error comes from them. Try logging into Slacker from 2 different computers and see what happens. :) It is possible you can get the error when you haven't actually logged in anywhere else, I am not sure what causes that. -- andyg

Re: [slim] Slacker Error Message

2010-02-04 Thread mkanet
Andy, thats exactly what I'm talking about... It's the opposite of what youre saying... People dont get interupted because they have two sessions open at the same time... its Logitech that does it. I'm listening two different songs at the same time... same slacker account... same machine. I

Re: [slim] Slacker Error Message

2010-02-04 Thread andyg
*2 different computers*. Maybe you missed that part. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42791

Re: [slim] Slacker Error Message

2010-02-04 Thread mkanet
Oh okay... Yeah I tried it on two different PC and got logged out immediately on both sirius and slacker! I'm not sure if this is even an option or not... but what are the chances you could allow mysqueezebox.com to allow multiple usernames per service? For example, my Sirius Radio

Re: [slim] Slacker Error Message

2010-02-04 Thread andyg
Multiple accounts have been supported for both Slacker and Sirius for a while now. Just add a new one where is says Add Another Account. Then you can assign a different account to each player. -- andyg andyg's Profile:

Re: [slim] Slacker Error Message

2010-02-04 Thread mkanet
Doh! So sorry... you guys are wy ahead of me! andyg;513939 Wrote: Multiple accounts have been supported for both Slacker and Sirius for a while now. Just add a new one where is says Add Another Account. Then you can assign a different account to each player. -- mkanet

Re: [slim] Microsoft Security Essentials - any news?

2010-02-04 Thread verypsb
When I used MSE the scanner failed 2 out of 3 times. Sometimes it did complete succesfully. I'm doing daily complete wipes rescans. -- verypsb 2x Duet, 1x Boom, 1x Classic verypsb's Profile:

Re: [slim] Maximum of slim devices

2010-02-04 Thread Muele
seanadams;513674 Wrote: Why not? My remark was only due to my expectations of hotel-room ocupation, not performance of the system. 50 Sync'ed Booms. That's impressive. I think there is no other product available that can do that. -- Muele BR Mogens 1 Radio, 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1