Re: [slim] US Music Services through US Proxy

2010-02-19 Thread andynormancx
bobkoure;518436 Wrote: Once you've got a Pandora account, does SB even check if the IP you're accessing it from is in the US? Yes. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM !

Re: [slim] US Music Services through US Proxy

2010-02-19 Thread toby10
bobkoure;518436 Wrote: Once you've got a Pandora account, does SB even check if the IP you're accessing it from is in the US? Yes. This must be done for such offered music services per their licensing contracts. -- toby10

[slim] Squeezeplay for Mac?

2010-02-19 Thread oivindi
I tried to get some simple answers using search, but had a hard time finding one. So, is Squeezeplay available for Mac and Snow Leopard? I find no Mac version under nightly 7.4 builds. Do I have to compile it myself, or is available as a standalone? -- oivindi

[slim] Can squeezebox detect/remove Hidden Track

2010-02-19 Thread trouty00
Ok, so I'm happily listening to a random mix of songs when squeezebox queues up a track with a hidden track in it which basically gives me 7 minutes of silence which is very annoying? Is there anything I can do about this apart from either deleting said track from the disk or manually splitting

Re: [slim] Can squeezebox detect/remove Hidden Track

2010-02-19 Thread andynormancx
Squeezebox Server/Center can't help you with this, it is best done at the point of ripping/encoding the disc. Some rippers will cut out large chunks of silence for you. I tend to just leave them in, so I can listen to the album as intended. There are only about a dozen tracks in my library that

Re: [slim] Can squeezebox detect/remove Hidden Track

2010-02-19 Thread 4mula1
SqueezeCenter (or SqueezeBoxServer now) can't modify your music. I've used dBPowerAmp's dsp effects to remove the silent gap from a few tracks. I don't mind listening to Guaranteed by Eddie Vedder now. -- 4mula1 SqueezeCenter 7.3.3 + Solaris 10 x86: Because everything else would've been

[slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-19 Thread Letten
Hi, I can't make up my mind, what is best suited for young children, Boom, Radio? At the moment my daughter (age 8) is using a Boom in her room and soon I want to equip my sons room (he's 4). My daughter uses presets for favorit radio and playlists, sometimes she also uses the navigation to

Re: [slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-19 Thread Phil Leigh
Letten;518536 Wrote: Hi, I can't make up my mind, what is best suited for young children, Boom, Radio? At the moment my daughter (age 8) is using a Boom in her room and soon I want to equip my sons room (he's 4). My daughter uses presets for favorit radio and playlists, sometimes

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-02-19 Thread trouty00
you could set it up completely like windows media player with the three panels type environment (library, now playing artwork, playlist) but rather than the traditional media player library options on the left the user would select from a drop down what they want to show up in that frame, ie

Re: [slim] Itunes Genius how can I have it in my sueezebox

2010-02-19 Thread bobkoure
You've exactly described MusicIP. Maybe find someone to set it up for you? Also - based on comments, setup's gotten easier (since 7.2 or so?). So, even though it used to be a really hard - nerds only kind of thing, it may now be loads better. -- bobkoure

Re: [slim] Squeezeplay for Mac?

2010-02-19 Thread bobkoure
There's a build of squeezeslave for OSX. See this 'thread' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63966). -- bobkoure bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread:

Re: [slim] 7.4.2 and SB1 not playing flac

2010-02-19 Thread aubuti
I'm pretty sure the SB1 does not have native Ogg support. Your best option is probably to transcode your FLAC to MP3 for that player. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View

Re: [slim] Acer Aspire Revo: Good Server Bones?

2010-02-19 Thread trouty00
I just bought the 3600, 1GB RAM (£140 from ebuyer), comes with rubbish o/s so got rid of that, whacked ubuntu 9.10 on it, put SBS on it, put XMBC on it and connected to tv via HDMI, handles full 1080 hd video too, not worried about WOL as its pretty much my home server now so stays on 24*7.

Re: [slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-19 Thread johnas
I bought a Radio for my 3 month old son's room - I know he's pretty young but I needed a reason to pick one of these up. The sound is great for such a small box. Personally I like the Boom display better than the Radio. The colour screen is nice, but I can't operate it with a IR remote if I am

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

2010-02-19 Thread bobkoure
1) are you running the service(s) as the user you configured ASIO for (I'd assume yes, but...) 2) if you only run one, does that work? 3) any chance of trying this on actual ASIO hardware? I use ASIO4All as well, get the same balky shutdown. Ralphy mentioned that folks using actual hardware don't

Re: [slim] Can squeezebox detect/remove Hidden Track

2010-02-19 Thread Chunkywizard
You could use the Dynamic Playlist plugin to skip tracks over 7 minutes long, that should do it. Personally I always split the tracks into 2 and cut out the silence. HTH CW -- Chunkywizard *Squeezebox:* Boom x2 (Lounge and Kitchen), Radio *Server:* 7.4.2 for Windows Home Server (HP EX-475

Re: [slim] Ideas for improving the sync-experience

2010-02-19 Thread pablolie
tcutting;518311 Wrote: When you say Duet do you mean the Receiver (which should work just fine) or the Controller, which wouldn't surprise me at all if it has issues as audio playback on the controller is hit-an-miss anyway, isn't officially supported, and I don't think has ever been

Re: [slim] 7.4.2 and SB1 not playing flac

2010-02-19 Thread jth
SB1 does not do native ogg vorbis. Check your player settings-audio to make sure lame is correctly installed. I think you can get some more detail in your log about the conversion by going to advanced-logging and setting player.source to 'debug' -- jth

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

2010-02-19 Thread fphredd
bobkoure;518567 Wrote: 1) Ralphy mentioned that folks using actual hardware don't get this issue. What type of shutdown problems? I run ASIO through an E-mu 1212m with no problem on shutting down. It is not running as a service as it did not play any sound when set up that way(?) --

Re: [slim] 7.4.2 and SB1 not playing flac

2010-02-19 Thread Pat Farrell
jth wrote: SB1 does not do native ogg vorbis. Check your player settings-audio to make sure lame is correctly installed. It also does not have native flac. It requires server side transcoding for a lot of formats. Which sends full PCM data over the link. The SB1 also has a much smaller buffer,

Re: [slim] Squeezeplay for Mac?

2010-02-19 Thread bhaagensen
bobkoure;518550 Wrote: There's a build of squeezeslave for OSX. See this 'thread' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63966). I believe the OP meant the jive-based Squeezeplay which is currently not available AFAIKS. I think there are some build-problems - see the development

Re: [slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-19 Thread youngml2009
We have a Radio in our baby's bedroom and its fills the space very well. Having the hair dryer sound effect as a preset was a godsend in those early months. -- youngml2009 youngml2009's Profile:

Re: [slim] Can squeezebox detect/remove Hidden Track

2010-02-19 Thread nolesrule
I use Dynamic Playlists to do random playlists, and I have an extensive list of filters to eliminate based on Genre, Artist or even specific albums. I also have a few custom tags (using custom scan plugin) for skipping things. A custom tag (or even a genre if you are lazy) to designate long

Re: [slim] Enabling performance monitoring with 7.4.1

2010-02-19 Thread Triode
Some internal changes required this feature to be rewritten. What's available now are the logging messages when a performance threshold is breached, but you need to start the server from the commandline with --perfwarn=threshold to enable it. So ./slimserver.pl --perfwarn=0.5 should start the

[slim] Problem connecting with mp3tunes.com

2010-02-19 Thread raven22
Last few days i have problems connecting to the mp3tunes service. This is the error message I get: 500 Can't connect to ws.mp3tunes.com:80 (connect: timeout) Any clues? I changed the name of the musiclibrary on my SBS server, but i don't know if that has to do with it. -- raven22 Setup: 1

Re: [slim] Boom or Radio for childrens room

2010-02-19 Thread Muele
For preschool operation album art is the killer feature that should make you choose the Radio IMO. If you can get a combo of plugins to allow all albums of genre:Children be shown by the click of a preset-button, the kid can choose his music based on the way the album cover looks like. I know my

[slim] Wrong bitrate reported for Apple lossless (M4a)?

2010-02-19 Thread ITemplate
Hi, Dont quite know where the problem is located, but if I look at an Apple lossless file - either from the Duet controller or the web-application - it is reported with wrong bitrate. For example I see 177kbps but looking at the file from dbpoweramp it is really 900kbps. Why is that? Is that

Re: [slim] Wrong bitrate reported for Apple lossless (M4a)?

2010-02-19 Thread aubuti
It's just a display bug in 7.4.1 that has been fixed in 7.4.2. Search is your friend: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73937 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72643 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72437

Re: [slim] Wrong bitrate reported for Apple lossless (M4a)?

2010-02-19 Thread ITemplate
aubuti;518686 Wrote: It's just a display bug in 7.4.1 that has been fixed in 7.4.2. Search is your friend: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73937 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72643 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72437

Re: [slim] Rebuffering is ruining the Squeezebox experience

2010-02-19 Thread kunlun121
Me too... Having just moved into a new house, rebuffering problems started occurring. Because the new house is much larger than the old one, I couldn't suffice with a single wireless access point. With my laptop in the room where my stereo is I couldn't pick up the signal of the wireless router,

[slim] SlimCtrl 1.3 out now

2010-02-19 Thread Locuth
Hello Everybody SlimCtrl 1.3 is out and available for download on my web site. To those of you who are familiar with SlimCtrl the most prominent new features are: - Wake-On-Lan(*) - Auto Server discover (unless a server is already configured) - Lyrics and snchronized Lyrics ( Karaoke - if you

Re: [slim] PDA-controller SlimControl 0.95

2010-02-19 Thread Locuth
Hello folks SlimCtrl 1.3 is out and I started a new thread to let this one come to rest. 30+ pages ar more than anybody would ever care to read. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75455 As always - if you have comment, critics or positive feedback. Let me know. Take care and have a

Re: [slim] How do I export an iTunes playlist for use with SC?

2010-02-19 Thread Kyle
This program works well; however, my iTunes tracks are in the format 01 Track Name while my SB playlists are 01 - Track Name. The only options for rectifying this that I can think of are to manually change each one or do a search/replace for each number 01 through whatever the highest track