Re: [slim] Biography and Album Review: Problems connecting to All Music

2010-11-10 Thread vagskal
mherger;588380 Wrote: Any chance of getting the full review shown again (as explained in another thread)? Unfortunately this will require quite a bit more work. They used to not split it, now they do. Which means I'll have to add more requests in order to get the full review.

Re: [slim] Tool to search for cover art in my library?

2010-11-10 Thread elstensoftware
Goodness, that's a big jump in size. I'll look into that. Glad you got your space back though! -- elstensoftware 'bliss' (http://www.blisshq.com) - fully automated music library management. 'Read the music library management blog' (http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/)

Re: [slim] Biography and Album Review: Problems connecting to All Music

2010-11-10 Thread Michael Herger
Do you know if the hyperlinks in the AMG text, shown in the SBS web UI, are also sent to iPeng and could be picked up there? All html markup, including links, should be filtered out in iPeng/Controller/etc. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Biography and Album Review: Problems connecting to All Music

2010-11-10 Thread vagskal
I do hope you guys can work it out. Using Michael's plugin to find the artist/album (excellent hit rate) and iPeng internal browsing to browse further on the iPad sounds like something that could make my day, if the iPad is ever released in my country. -- vagskal 2 x SB3 (wired), Receiver

Re: [slim] Biography and Album Review: Problems connecting to All Music

2010-11-10 Thread vagskal
mherger;588384 Wrote: Do you know if the hyperlinks in the AMG text, shown in the SBS web UI, are also sent to iPeng and could be picked up there? All html markup, including links, should be filtered out in iPeng/Controller/etc. -- Michael Thanks for the replay. So no chance

Re: [slim] Album art from iTunes to Squeezebox

2010-11-10 Thread elstensoftware
When you say 'add cover art to an album in iTunes' exactly how did you do it? Ignoring the artwork library feature andy mentioned for a moment, without the feature turned on the artwork must be embedded inside the music file. There's a description of how to do it here:

Re: [slim] Biography and Album Review: Problems connecting to All Music

2010-11-10 Thread Michael Herger
So no chance of invoking the web browser on the iPhone/iPad to follow the links in the AMG text then. I think I had discussed this possibility with pippin a looong time ago. And I'm not sure why we didn't do it. Maybe he didn't want to include a web control in iPeng, or parsing is too

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

2010-11-10 Thread ralphy
I've been using 7.6 for day to day squeezeslave listening/testing since July and have never seen that problem. Just tried playing David's Picks - Radio Paradise and it's streaming fine current running 7.6 r31504. No errors in the server log. A couple things. Squeezeslave is not supported on

Re: [slim] Anyone up for a fun little survey?

2010-11-10 Thread Ikabob
My life has changed with the Squeezes, music services and Ipeng because I have been introduced to so many new classical music selections (some recommended by new-found forum and last.fm friends), which are so conveniently Squeeze-provided with such awesome clean fidelity that I have never enjoyed

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

2010-11-10 Thread ralphy
truehl, If you're planning to release squeezeslave with your squeezeplug images I'd suggest including a newer version than 0.9-173. I'm currently testing version 1.0 and plan to release it soon, a week or two from now. The current google code source tree revision 209 will most likely be the

Re: [slim] TV equivalent to SBS

2010-11-10 Thread Gatineau Ross
aubuti;586782 Wrote: I think it would be helpful if you specified whether you are interested in (a) streaming from the internet, (b) streaming from a local library of video content, or (c) both. The market for devices that do (a) is growing rapidly, including features built-in to Blu-Ray DVD

Re: [slim] Biography and Album Review: Problems connecting to All Music

2010-11-10 Thread pippin
mherger;588391 Wrote: So no chance of invoking the web browser on the iPhone/iPad to follow the links in the AMG text then. I think I had discussed this possibility with pippin a looong time ago. And I'm not sure why we didn't do it. Maybe he didn't want to include a web control in

Re: [slim] Biography and Album Review: Problems connecting to All Music

2010-11-10 Thread Michael Herger
you have to include a weblink tag containing a URL in the item. But this would be a list of items tagged with this parameter, not links in eg. the Biography text itself, right? -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Biography and Album Review: Problems connecting to All Music

2010-11-10 Thread pippin
mherger;588417 Wrote: you have to include a weblink tag containing a URL in the item. But this would be a list of items tagged with this parameter, not links in eg. the Biography text itself, right? -- Michael For now: right. One of the next iPEng versions will parse text for

Re: [slim] TV equivalent to SBS

2010-11-10 Thread alfista
Gatineau Ross;588422 Wrote: Is anyone familiar with PopBox? I understand it is reasonably priced. How does it compare to the other recommendations? That's a frontend device so it's no equivalent to SBS, but have a look at

Re: [slim] Album art from iTunes to Squeezebox

2010-11-10 Thread pski
Here's another script. It's attached as .txt because the forum does not allow .js It is not chatty and only displays a dialog box when it finishes. P +---+ |Filename: SaveItunesArtworkToFile.js.txt |

[slim] Playlists not showing in ui after moving to new server

2010-11-10 Thread Charles Stanton
I have moved squeezebox server to a new machine and moved my m3u playlists. the scan shows they have been scanned (reports x of x) but they don't show up in any interface. has anyone seen this behavior and have a solution?. 7.5.1 on whs. the playlist song paths are the same as the old machine.

Re: [slim] Album art from iTunes to Squeezebox

2010-11-10 Thread cjfreitag
Thanks for the suggestions. I added the artwork for the albums in question directly to the files by selecting all the tracks for the album, using Get Info, and then pasting the album art in to the cover art field. Each time I do this iTunes gives me the processing file message so it appears to be

Re: [slim] Album art from iTunes to Squeezebox

2010-11-10 Thread cjfreitag
I should have checked this earlier. I looked at my scanner log and found a lot of entries like this: [10-11-09 19:29:13.8354] Slim::Plugin::iTunes::Importer::Artwork::OSX::exportSingleArtwork (107) Error: Error from artwork script: Error getting artwork: iTunes got an error: Parameter error. Of

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. SqueezePad

2010-11-10 Thread neilcoburn
I have both, and still haven't made my mind up. One thing, though - is it just me - Squeezepad seems faster (to load lists and artwork etc) than iPeng? Is that inevitable, given iPeng is more feature rich, or could something be done to make it a bit snappier? -- neilcoburn

[slim] Classical Music and ID Tags

2010-11-10 Thread Blazer
What do you guys use for the album or track artist tag when ripping classical music CDs? Composer, Conductor? (if orchestral) Orchestra? Soloist? I see that in the Squeezebox advanced settings, you can add composer, conductor and band/orchestra to the artists list, so you can find music by those

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. SqueezePad

2010-11-10 Thread pippin
neilcoburn;588487 Wrote: I have both, and still haven't made my mind up. One thing, though - is it just me - Squeezepad seems faster (to load lists and artwork etc) than iPeng? Is that inevitable, given iPeng is more feature rich, or could something be done to make it a bit snappier? How

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

2010-11-10 Thread truehl
ralphy;588409 Wrote: I've been using 7.6 for day to day squeezeslave listening/testing since July and have never seen that problem. Just tried playing David's Picks - Radio Paradise and it's streaming fine currently running 7.6 r31504. No errors in the server log. A couple things.

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

2010-11-10 Thread truehl
ralphy;588414 Wrote: truehl, If you're planning to release squeezeslave with your squeezeplug images I'd suggest including a newer version than 0.9-173. I'm currently testing version 1.0 and plan to release it soon, a week or two from now. The current google code source tree revision

Re: [slim] Classical Music and ID Tags

2010-11-10 Thread amcluesent
Been here before! ;) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80373 -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Classical Music and ID Tags

2010-11-10 Thread Blazer
thanks... reading that thread was helpful. -- Blazer Blazer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39545 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83203

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2010-11-10 Thread morthan
Just got my first android phone yesterday (SE xperia mini) and the first thing I did was intsall Squeeze commander. I'm blown away. Its just fantastic. Well done flatterman. Just a questionit looks like you will be regulary updating the software. Do you have to purchase each new version or do

Re: [slim] Control your SqueezeBox or Transporter with Foobar2000

2010-11-10 Thread zlaja5
Thanks ! (hope you win 1 million on loto)... -- zlaja5 zlaja5's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41410 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79575

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2010-11-10 Thread snarlydwarf
morthan;588539 Wrote: Just got my first android phone yesterday (SE xperia mini) and the first thing I did was intsall Squeeze commander. I'm blown away. Its just fantastic. Well done flatterman. Just a questionit looks like you will be regulary updating the software. Do you have to

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

2010-11-10 Thread ralphy
I have no idea why the newer kernel is scratchy, I've never had a report of that before. I seriously doubt it has anything to do with squeezeslave. I'd look at what's different between the two kernel configurations, and search for reports of problems with audio and the new kernel version.

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2010-11-10 Thread flattermann
morthan;588539 Wrote: Just got my first android phone yesterday (SE xperia mini) and the first thing I did was intsall Squeeze commander. I'm blown away. Its just fantastic. Well done flatterman. Just a questionit looks like you will be regulary updating the software. Do you have to

Re: [slim] Logitech simply cancelled my order

2010-11-10 Thread mps
I'll just pipe in that I had an excellent customer support experience with Logitech as well. -- mps mps's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36351 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Logitech simply cancelled my order

2010-11-10 Thread paulster
I've just had a great experience with them too. Moved across the pond and wanted the part number for the US power supply plates to order some and they just sent them out to me instead. -- paulster paulster's Profile:

Re: [slim] Bitrate limit

2010-11-10 Thread Phil Leigh
sle118;588049 Wrote: After further testing, I found out that the slimrio system doesn't support well sampling frequencies above 44khz and that the faulty mp3's had a higher frequency because I extracted them from one of my DVD. I added the following line in custom-convert.conf Code: