RE: [slim] Re: How to i find the IP address for slimserver?

2005-12-20 Thread Dan Goodinson
If on Windows, and you launch a command window (looks like old-style DOS) you can type the command ipconfig (and press enter). You should see something like this: Ethernet adapter Wireless: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Cable Disconnected Ethernet adapter Office:

RE: [slim] Re: How to i find the IP address for slimserver?

2005-12-20 Thread Dan Goodinson
Depends on how your network is set up. I guess you have a router which connects all your PCs/laptops/squeezeboxes to the web. They're all linked via the network, and it's likely that a router will control all this. A commonplace way to set things up is to have each network device given an IP

RE: [slim] Re: Squeezebox3 - Complete FREAKOUT stereo damage warning

2005-12-06 Thread Dan Goodinson
enduser Wrote: There is no nice solution other than building in a quality peak limiter or running a scanner/filter on the digital data stream before it gets sent out the digital port for digital-to-digital situations. Would that not be the same as replay gain? My (admittedly limited)

[slim] Any recommendations for on-line purchase of SB2 (for UK delivery)?

2005-12-06 Thread Dan Goodinson
I like the look of the SB2, and would prefer to buy that rather than an SB3 for the moment. I currently have an SB1 and am looking for an upgrade for the native FLAC decode. I did a quick bit of searching the other week for SB2, but didn't find any on-line (tried eBuyer, dabs, broadbandbuyer too

RE: [slim] Re: Netgear 85 Mbps Wall-Plugged Ethernet Switch

2005-11-17 Thread Dan Goodinson
Thanks bpa. I knew that there were other 85mbps devices, but was very keen on the Netgear one. Though having just spoken to Netgear (UK) they tell me it's not available here yet, and not to expect it before end of January :( Dammit :( By that time I'm kind of hoping that the Netgear MIMO cable

RE: [slim] Re: Netgear 85 Mbps Wall-Plugged Ethernet Switch

2005-11-17 Thread Dan Goodinson
Yes, that's my understanding too. In fact, the various literature I've read on MIMO would seem to suggest that existing b/g devices would even experience an _increase_ in performance with a MIMO router. If I've got it right, it'd seem that the increased signal strength and range of the MIMO

RE: [slim] Netgear 85 Mbps Wall-Plugged Ethernet Switch

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Goodinson
Additionally (and slightly off-topic, for which I apologise), it seems that Netgear are soon to release s MIMO cable broadband router. They already have an ADSL MIMO broadband router on offer, but I'm on cable (NTL) so must wait for a while. Apparently MIMO is far more stable than current wi-fi

RE: [slim] Re: How to reliably/easily backup 100Gb of FLACs?

2005-11-11 Thread Dan Goodinson
Not sure if useful to you, but the RAID setup I have was very cheap indeed. I only use RAID 1 (mirroring) so I only need 1 extra disk for the array, in addition to any disks for actual backup. I used a super-cheap RAID add-in controller from eBuyer: £10 or so. So if you can afford the extra

RE: [slim] Re: How to reliably/easily backup 100Gb of FLACs?

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Goodinson
I've got the makings of something very similar at home. Even though I have a meagre collection of music, I've invested so much effort into getting it just right (specifically all the tags) that I've got the makings of quite a decent backup system. 2 80GB drives in a mirrored RAID array. I

RE: [slim] Re: Lossy vs lossless formats - total newbie question

2005-11-09 Thread Dan Goodinson
street_samurai Wrote: Personally, if I was in your position (having ripped to MP3 my whole collection and re-tagged everything) then I'd seriously considier doing some listening tests to make sure all the work of re-ripping is worth it. Several blind tests have found that Lame MP3s with an

RE: [slim] Re: Lossy vs lossless formats - total newbie question

2005-11-09 Thread Dan Goodinson
radish Wrote: That kind of thing is actually pretty easy with the right tag editor. I use J River and it works great for normalizing names, artists etc. Thanks radish - I'll have a look at J River :) ___ Discuss mailing list

[slim] Lossy vs lossless formats - total newbie question

2005-11-08 Thread Dan Goodinson
I've not researched this _at all_ and I'm sure I could find the answers on Google within a few mins. But just wanted to get some opinions from some audiophiles... I've always used MP3, and on my cheap-ass stereo it sounds fine. Personally, I actually thought MP3 was fine so long as you went for

RE: [slim] Lossy vs lossless formats - total newbie question

2005-11-08 Thread Dan Goodinson
Cool. Thanks everyone. It's a bit of a daunting task to re-rip all my CDs, but certainly the most interesting thing is that once I've ripped them to FLAC, I shouldn't need to rip them again. In fact, I kind of thought that was what would happen with MP3s. I've already ripped around 95% of my

RE: [slim] Re: Lossy vs lossless formats - total newbie question

2005-11-08 Thread Dan Goodinson
Excellent stuff - thanks for the help. In fact, I'm already part way there if I follow a process like the one you suggest... I already have a backup of my tag data in CSV format. And since my library is comparatively small (less than 5000 MP3s) it only occupies around 30GB: I've got a couple of

RE: [slim] Re: UK Computer Shopper round up of Wireless Media Players -Squeezebox 2/5

2005-11-04 Thread Dan Goodinson
bear in mind also that the nature of a forum is that people tend to post with problems you don't often see people posting to say everything was fine I agree that there is pretty much no other way to judge, but still: using the number of posts in the forum is not the best way to gauge how

RE: [slim] SB1 Random Reboots

2005-11-04 Thread Dan Goodinson
Sounds very much like wireless interference. Possibly a neighbour has recently setup a WLAN, or has maybe recently bought a 2.4GHz cordless phone? Try changing your WLAN channel on your router, and see if the problem becomes less frequent. I had a similar problem on my SB1, but after changing

RE: [slim] Re: Slimscrobbler- why should I have it?

2005-10-12 Thread Dan Goodinson
Dave Dewey wrote: 6) It will drive your competitive spirit to listen to more music when you see how many more songs your friends have listened to than you. 7) You'll find yourself becoming frustrated when you listen to music that isn't being 'Scrobbed, because it doesn't 'count.' 8) Your

RE: [slim] Re: Still seeing incorrect tags, even after wipe cache

2005-10-04 Thread Dan Goodinson
I think the problem was the Music Magic Mixer plugin. It was only after I stopped this AND slimserver (and THEN deleted the cache) that it worked out ok. If I stopped slim, but not MMM the phantom data still appeared even after completely deleting the library. -Original Message- From:

[slim] Corrupt library - how to delete it and rebuild from scratch?

2005-10-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
The other day I posted about some phantom tags: tags which had been corrected but the old data stillhung around somewhere. The suggestion was to check through playlists. I did that - in fact I pretty much deletd all my playlists, but the problem is still here. Today I also notice that a few

RE: [slim] Re: Corrupt library - how to delete it and rebuild fromscratch?

2005-10-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Corrupt library - how to delete it and rebuild fromscratch? Dan Goodinson Wrote: So how do I ditch the library and start again? I guess I should think about upgrading to SS 6.2 while I'm at it, so if that makes things easier to delete the library then any info

RE: [slim] Re: Corrupt library - how to delete it and rebuildfromscratch?

2005-10-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
files. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan Goodinson Sent: Sat 01/10/2005 14:23 To: Slim Devices Discussion; discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: RE: [slim] Re: Corrupt library - how to delete it and rebuildfromscratch? Perfect - many thanks. I'll give

RE: [slim] Re: Corrupt library - how to delete it andrebuildfromscratch?

2005-10-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
Many thanks! Although now I'm even more confused :-/ I stopped SS, renamed the .db file to a .db.old file. Then restarted SS and MusicMagicMixer. On restart, SS didn't automatically rescan. So I did used the Wipe Cache option. After SS had completed scanning the library, the phantom

[slim] Still seeing incorrect tags, even after wipe cache

2005-09-30 Thread Dan Goodinson
I've got at least 1 tag that seems to be 'stuck' the SS cache. Slimserver can see a track by Primitives and also a track by Primitives, The. I want to get rid of the one by Primitives. Using the web panel, I've checked the file location for the one that says Primitives. It's on a CD called

RE: [slim] Still seeing incorrect tags, even after wipe cache

2005-09-30 Thread Dan Goodinson
, the track by The Primitives that is causing me all the problems is called Crash :) :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 30 September 2005 10:03 To: Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Still seeing incorrect tags

RE: [slim] Still seeing incorrect tags, even after wipe cache

2005-09-30 Thread Dan Goodinson
Thanks kdf, thanks Robin. Yes, it's almost certain that the phantom track exists in a playlist somewhere. I'll root it out and remove it and let you know. Cheers, Dan. check your old playlists for this file as well. If you have an old reference in one of them, the metadata stored there

RE: [slim] Re: Launching MusicMagic at startup

2005-09-24 Thread Dan Goodinson
I posted about this on the Predixis forums, and one of the guys there says that it _should_ work if you start MMM with a '-slim' parameter on startup. There are lots of details on the site, but sadly I couldn't get it working even with the -slim switch. -slim means that MMM will expect SB as

[slim] OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Goodinson
I'm interested in learning a bit more about these power line adaptors... They would seem to be a pretty much perfect solution for transferring large files to/from my fileserver. I really don't want to have cables all over the house which is why I opted for wireless. But wireless is painfully

RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Goodinson
I did a bit of googling, and found a range of products... Main concern at the moment is that the maximum transfer rate is around 14mbps so average transfer speed are probably more like 8-10mbps. In fact, that's slower than my wireless right now. Although it would seem that 85mbps adaptors

RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit'stime to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Goodinson
: 23 September 2005 13:35 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit'stime to call it a day...) Dan Goodinson wrote: Although it would seem that 85mbps adaptors are on their way, and should be available in the UK in a few weeks

RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit'stime to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Goodinson
I found it ;-) http://www.broadbandcarrier.net/shop.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 23 September 2005 13:48 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay

RE: [slim] Re: OT: Power line network adaptors (was: Okay, maybeit's time to call it a day...)

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Goodinson
Indeed ;) I hate to say it (as you probably don't want to hear it ;) but my SB1 is working fine via wireless... I was only really thinking about the adaptors for regular network use i.e. not related to SB (hence off-topic). In fact, I just chatted to a guy at Solwise (see previous post, with

RE: [slim] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Goodinson
I'm accessing this via the email lists, so haven't been keeping up-to-date with your other posts... But from the problems you're having it certainly does sound like some sort of interference. I suffered what sounds like the same thing when I first got my SB1. For me, SB would play fine for a

RE: [slim] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Goodinson
@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day... Dan Goodinson Wrote: After setting my network to run on channel 13, I find the dropouts have all but ceased. Also Squeezebox2 (nudge nudge) like most 802.11g access points, lets you choose (wink wink) your region

RE: [slim] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Goodinson
My server is more or less dedicated, as is basically just a fileserver. Having said that, there is one other app which is constantly running - Folding At Home. (Kind of similar to Seti At Home or whatever). As a result, my CPU is permanently at 100% usage. Even then though, I can't think of

RE: [slim] Tracks shuffled

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Goodinson
Confirm that shuffle is set to off. It's easiest to see this through the web panel (IMHO). If set to album or song it will either shuffle tracks on the album or by whatever criteria you are playing (e.g. artist, genre etc). In addition, make sure the tags are all correct. I don't know how SB

RE: [slim] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Goodinson
Seconded regards sticking up for Windows My fileserver is a Win2k Pro box. I've had it running 24x7 for a nearly a year now, and it's been pretty much fine. There have been the occasional problem with the OS which has required a reboot, but it has been a very long time since I've actually had

[slim] Something similar to AlienBBC for other digital radio stations?

2005-09-15 Thread Dan Goodinson
Is there a way to pick up other digital radio stations through the squeezebox? (SB1, SS 6.0.x) For example - I was at a friend's place the other day listening to 'Q' digital radio station through a TV set-top box. I got to thinking that if SB can play BBC radio stations, is there anything

RE: [slim] Random Mix

2005-09-15 Thread Dan Goodinson
Is this using the Music Magic Mixer plugin, or the Mood Logic plugin? Or is this a functionality provided by SB/SS? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aynsley Blake Sent: 15 September 2005 12:47 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: [slim]

RE: [slim] Random Mix

2005-09-15 Thread Dan Goodinson
Cool - thanks KDF. I guess it's time I upgraded my version of SS ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kdf Sent: 15 September 2005 16:38 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Random Mix On 15-Sep-05, at 5:01 AM, Dan Goodinson

RE: [slim] Re: (Way Off Topic) Name That Tune (From U.K. TV Series)

2005-09-14 Thread Dan Goodinson
Fantastic find re the bbcamerica link! I've been puzzling over that track since I first saw the mail from jtfields. I also tried Amazon, and googling the lyrics, but without success ;) I've got quite a few of the tracks listed for episode 3, so when I get home I can go through a process of

RE: [slim] Re: (Way Off Topic) Name That Tune (From U.K. TV Series)

2005-09-14 Thread Dan Goodinson
Just found a snippet on the web. The track is called Tricolore by Mover. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 14 September 2005 10:11 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Re: (Way Off Topic) Name That Tune (From

RE: [slim] Re: (Way Off Topic) Name That Tune (From U.K. TV Series)

2005-09-14 Thread Dan Goodinson
Subject: Re: [slim] Re: (Way Off Topic) Name That Tune (From U.K. TV Series) Dan Goodinson wrote: Just found a snippet on the web. The track is called Tricolore by Mover. Ah, well done! I got as far as eliminating all tracks except those by Mover but have been unable to find any samples

RE: [slim] Re: (Way Off Topic) Name That Tune (From U.K. TV Series)

2005-09-14 Thread Dan Goodinson
I've listened to that snippet so many times it's stuck in my head to the point that I may try to get a hold of that track myself. Me too, in fact ;) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

RE: [slim] Re: Alien BBC Garbled Sound

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Goodinson
I can't find any earlier emails in this thread :( Can you describe the sound you get, as I occasionally get something with might be similar. For me, I quite often get something that sounds a bit like SB (or SS) has gone out of sync with the radio. It's almost like I'm getting 2 streams at once,

RE: [slim] Re: Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums?

2005-09-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MeSue Sent: 01 September 2005 19:08 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums? Dan Goodinson Wrote: I guess I could create a new genre tag for each album... Why would you need

[slim] Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums?

2005-09-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
My music is normally ripped to MP3, but the same would apply to any audio format... What is the best way to manage albums that are mixed together? I actually try and avoid them as much as possible, but I picked up a new CD yesterday that I didn't realise was a mix album. So it got me thinking

RE: [slim] Re: Music file question - how do you manage mixed albums?

2005-09-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
True enough - but by contrast, most of my music is not mixed. For me, that is the best part of SB - so long as my music tags are correct, I can tell SB to play me anything from the Chillout genre and it will play whatever I've tagged as Chillout. I've 'found' loads of stuff that I never knew I

[slim] Audioscrobbler question

2005-08-31 Thread Dan Goodinson
I know that someone has written an Audioscrobbler plugin for SS. Up till now, I was always a bit wary of anything that gathers data about what I listen to/watch/browse or whatever. I've always kind of thought of that as spyware... BUT! Someone today introduced me to http://www.last.fm (which

RE: [slim] Audioscrobbler question

2005-08-31 Thread Dan Goodinson
Subject: Re: [slim] Audioscrobbler question Quoting Dan Goodinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I know that someone has written an Audioscrobbler plugin for SS. Up till now, I was always a bit wary of anything that gathers data about what I listen to/watch/browse or whatever. I've always kind

RE: [slim] Audioscrobbler question

2005-08-31 Thread Dan Goodinson
There's even a group for Squeezebox owners if you don't mind *us* knowing as well. LOL!! Yeah, fair enough :) I'll have to set it up when I get home this weekend! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig, James (IT) Sent: 31 August 2005

RE: [slim] Re: SlimDevices losing out in the UK

2005-08-30 Thread Dan Goodinson
audiofi wrote: For someone who has a computer and an iPod but has no idea how to do much else, it is a very daunting task. Audiofi, Maybe I'm over-simplifying but I'd say that if someone can use an iPod, then they would have no problems using a Squeezebox. I don't have an iPod, but I'd guess

RE: [slim] Re: SlimDevices losing out in the UK

2005-08-30 Thread Dan Goodinson
Johan wrote: My friends (all major tech geeks all of them) is reluctant since they do not want to have a pc running all the time (noise, electricity bills etc etc). To the majority of potential customers the threshold is exactly there - having to set up a computer to be always on. This is not an

RE: [slim] No sound (at all)

2005-08-30 Thread Dan Goodinson
I had a similar problem when I first started using AlienBBC. In my case, I'd messed up with the mplayer codecs or the mplayer itself or whatever. Did you download all of the codecs, and which folder did you place them in? I _think_ they should be in the same folder as the mplayer executable.

RE: [slim] Re: SlimDevices losing out in the UK

2005-08-30 Thread Dan Goodinson
It would probably be a fair bit of work for slim devices though. Nah, Michael could do it :) That would ultimately push the cost up and might put off as many people as it persuaded :( There's really not an awful lot of work involved - Michael's slimCD goes a lot of the way. I run my server

RE: [slim] Re: No sound (at all)

2005-08-30 Thread Dan Goodinson
No idea above the flac.exe :( I guess something could be up, but I've not encountered that exe before (it's never caused me any problems) so I don't know what it is or what it does :( Another thing that happened to me, which was indeed related to the bitrate, was that I had no limit to

[slim] Option to stop scan of music library

2005-08-05 Thread Dan Goodinson
Is it actually possible to stop a scan of the music library once it is in progress? Can't find any option to stop scan. The reason is that I keep accidentally scanning when not ready. For example - I transferred a new CD album across to the Incoming folder on my file server today. Then I

RE: [slim] Option to stop scan of music library

2005-08-05 Thread Dan Goodinson
That definitely works, but is a bit messy. It's a Win2k OS with SS installed as a service. If I try to stop the service, it will invariably fail to respond within a timely fashion and will remain at status stopping. If I manually kill the process, then I get problems trying to restart the

RE: [slim] Option to stop scan of music library

2005-08-05 Thread Dan Goodinson
Ok - thanks. Can't remember for definite, but I'm pretty sure that last time I tried killing the process manually, this caused some upset. Either the service status still said Started or the service failed to restart properly (and I ended up rebooting). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [slim] Re: Sean Adams caught red handed!

2005-08-05 Thread Dan Goodinson
I'd be up for a sticker. If/when they are made up I'm guessing it will be cool to post to the UK, right? Are you going to make them available to buy from the website? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of seanadams Sent: 05 August 2005 16:51

RE: [slim] Re: Lots of 'No Artist - No Album' entries appeared

2005-08-04 Thread Dan Goodinson
Yeah, but if the dummy file is a .wav then SS will detect the .wav and will consider it to be a track in its own right. Therefore SS will look at the dummy.wav file but won't be able to read any tags from it... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
Also sounds a bit like the rating function available through both WinAmp and MusicMagic. But having said that, I wonder if gdg was talking about intro-scan (as follows): 1. Select intro-scan functionality on a given album/artist/genre/existing playlist etc - this creates a new playlist 2. A

RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
Perhaps something along the lines of a Favourites list? I'm thinking along the lines of the flag or mark idea: 1. Listening to whatever is on the current playlist, and hear a song that stands out above the rest; 2. Use some functionality on the remote to add the currently playing track to an

RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
I've seen the zap button in the fishbone skin on the web panel - but how do I call up the zapped playlist? I always assumed it simply deleted the zapped tune from the playlist - I don't know it send the tune somewhere else... Plus I always though pressing/holding 'add' button just added a track

RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
Cool - yep, I've just found it through the web panel. Excellent :) Going to have a play with it to see how it works through the remote. Cheers! Dan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig, James (IT) Sent: 01 August 2005 11:24 To: Slim

RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 01 August 2005 11:31 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! Cool - yep, I've just found it through the web panel. Excellent :) Going to have a play with it to see how it works

RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!

2005-08-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
Indeed it does. Damn. The zap thing sounds very cool, too. Any way to access this functionality via the remote? I have a hazy recollection of pressing/holding add button to add a selected track to the end of the current playlist. So if you've sorted out your playlist, and are browsing other

RE: [slim] Re: Player stopping rather than pausing when switched off

2005-08-01 Thread Dan Goodinson
FWIW, I'd second this. While it doesn't happen nearly as often as it used to, my SB still gets hit by a bit of interference now and then. It full-on reboots (splash screen, connecting to network etc) and then start from the beginning of the track again. It occasionally goes through a bad patch

[slim] MusicMagic - bizarre mixes..

2005-07-31 Thread Dan Goodinson
Recently got MusicMagic plugin up and running, and wondering if anyone can share some MM experiences with me? On the whole, I'm finding it pretty cool: it's generating some decent mixes for middle of the road stuff, but it seems to generate some unusual mixes for on the edge sort of stuff. e.g.

RE: [slim] Re: MusicMagic - bizarre mixes..

2005-07-31 Thread Dan Goodinson
Thanks Sue. I think I have the latest version, buy will see if I can download a beta version. I bought a 1-year subscription, does that allow me access to the beta download? Damn - I was kind of hoping that MM would bypass my messed up genres. I've been chipping away at it for ages, but lots of

[slim] MoodLogic couple of questions...

2005-07-29 Thread Dan Goodinson
Right - so I installed ML, and got the plugin working. All seems pretty cool (using the 15-day free trial). Couple of things. I'm using Fishbone skin, and I can see the M icon next to various genres. I click on the M and I get the option to choose a mood. Problem is that it only generates a

RE: [slim] MoodLogic couple of questions...

2005-07-29 Thread Dan Goodinson
Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] MoodLogic couple of questions... On 7/29/05, Dan Goodinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right - so I installed ML, and got the plugin working. All seems pretty cool (using the 15-day free trial). Couple of things. I'm using Fishbone skin, and I can see the M icon

RE: [slim] MoodLogic couple of questions...

2005-07-29 Thread Dan Goodinson
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 29 July 2005 13:15 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] MoodLogic couple of questions... Ah - ok. I'll give that a try instead. Thanks for the tip - I think I prefer some sort of analysis over user supplied data... Good call - cheers

RE: [slim] Re: MoodLogic couple of questions... (now using MusicMagic - not MoodLogic)

2005-07-29 Thread Dan Goodinson
Excellent - thanks for that. It's currently analyzing my MP3s - with your confirmation, I'll not worry about restoring anything from backup and will start playing with it as soon as it's done. It all sounds pretty cool - can't wait to try it out! All I've got to do now is get slimserver to

RE: [slim] Re: New Prices for SB2!

2005-07-19 Thread Dan Goodinson
It will probably take a while for this to happen. Not sure whether the UK retailers get supplied directly from Slim Devices, or whether they buy stock in from US suppliers. If the latter, then they would need to sell off those units they already bought at a higher price before they could

RE: [slim] Re: New Prices for SB2!

2005-07-19 Thread Dan Goodinson
Sorry - my bad. Must have missed the earlier email. Apologies ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kdf Sent: 19 July 2005 17:19 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Re: New Prices for SB2! Quoting Dan Goodinson [EMAIL

RE: [slim] AlienBBC 0.97 and BBC playout problem

2005-04-07 Thread Dan Goodinson
Reduce the bitrate - it worked a treat for me when I had EXACTLY the same symptoms. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Cohen Sent: 07 April 2005 06:57 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] AlienBBC 0.97 and BBC playout

RE: [slim] AlienBBC 0.97 and BBC playout problem

2005-04-06 Thread Dan Goodinson
I had exactly the same problem with mine when I first set it up, on a very similar system to you. Install LAME encoder into the main slimserver directory, and then restart the slimserver service. Then launch slimserver, and go to Player SettingsAudio. Enable bandwidth limiting - mine's at 320

[slim] WPA or WEP encryption - any issues with SB1 (firmware 40)?

2005-04-06 Thread Dan Goodinson
A while ago, a tried setting up some encryption on my wireless network, but I couldn't get SB to connect to a 64-bit or 128-bit encrypted LAN. (I think, at the time, I was still on firmware revision 39). I ended up disabling encryption, so now I'm back to MAC filter. When I tried the encryption,

RE: [slim] WPA or WEP encryption - any issues with SB1 (firmware 40)?

2005-04-06 Thread Dan Goodinson
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 06 April 2005 10:18 To: Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] WPA or WEP encryption - any issues with SB1 (firmware 40)? A while ago, a tried setting up some encryption on my wireless network, but I couldn't get SB to connect to a 64-bit

RE: [slim] WPA or WEP encryption - any issues with SB1 (firmware 40)?

2005-04-06 Thread Dan Goodinson
- any issues with SB1 (firmware 40)? I think it's called 'open key'. Should only be the choice of the two on your router so it will be clear! James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 06 April 2005 10:27 To: Slim Devices

RE: SV: [slim] AlienBBC for Win2K

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Goodinson
Dude. Ok, ok. We get the message :) Relax :) (This is the 4th or 5th time I received the same message ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm Sent: 05 April 2005 11:18 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: SV:

RE: SV: [slim] AlienBBC for Win2K

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Goodinson
Sigh. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm Sent: 05 April 2005 11:26 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: Re: SV: [slim] AlienBBC for Win2K Could you let me know how you got this trace? I would normal expect to see some

RE: [slim] RE: AlienBBC Win2k - Sorry Dan

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Goodinson
No prob :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm Sent: 05 April 2005 12:30 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] RE: AlienBBC Win2k - Sorry Dan Sorry Dan my mailer seems to have gone potty!!! Neil

RE: [slim] New SB2 owner is getting a bit worried

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Goodinson
I've not seen SB2 in the UK yet, although in fairness I've not looked too hard as I'm happy enough with SB1 for the moment. I've seen discussion of various issue/problems with the slimserver v6 release, but don't be overly concerned. From my own experience, I've had it running solidly for most

RE: [slim] AlienBBC for Win2K

2005-04-04 Thread Dan Goodinson
John, This sounds kind of similar to the problem I had the other day. When I first set up AlienBBC, it would either say connecting and then not get anywhere, or it would connect for a couple of seconds, then would stop, then play a couple more seconds, then stop again. It sounds like maybe you

RE: [slim] Re: something funny

2005-04-04 Thread Dan Goodinson
I'm seeing the same thing here, when using 6.0.0 on Win2k. I've never used the nightlies before, although RPM sounds to be a Linux package. Dan: can you tell me whether this is also fix in the Windows nightly? Cheers, Dan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [slim] Re: something funny

2005-04-04 Thread Dan Goodinson
Forget my last mail - looks like it's fixed in that latest nightly. Installed it, wiped cache, and library back to normal again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 04 April 2005 18:14 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject

[slim] Searching AlienBBC stations with the remote control - known issue?

2005-04-03 Thread Dan Goodinson
AlienBBC 0.94 (Windows) SlimServer 6.0.0 SB1 (firmware 40) Win2k Pro sp4 When I search my MP3 collection (e.g. browse music, browse genres etc) I can press the remot to search through names of artists/genres/albums in alphabetic order. So, for example, if I press button '3' on the remote,

RE: [slim] Newby Alert: Can't load music library

2005-04-03 Thread Dan Goodinson
Might sound like a stupid thing to suggest but bear with me... Browse to your music folder on your hard-drive (e.g. c:\audio). When you can see c:\audio in the address bar, copy this and paste it directly into the setting for music folder. I know it's got to be pretty much impossible to get

[slim] AlienBBC working - sort of... Need a bit of help

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
Slimserver running on Win2k sp4 AlienBBC 0.94 (I installed all codecs from the mplayer downloads and installed them into the appropriate codecs folder) Slimserver 6.0.0 Squeezebox (original, not SB2) (firmware 40) I've been playing about with AlienBBC, as I thought it would be cool to get

[slim] AlienBBC nearly working, but need some help

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
Ok - third attempt: Slimserver running on Win2k sp4 AlienBBC 0.94 (I installed all codecs from the mplayer downloads and installed them into the appropriate codecs folder) Slimserver 6.0.0 Squeezebox (original, not SB2) (firmware 40) I've been playing about with AlienBBC, as I thought it

RE: [slim] AlienBBC nearly working, but need some help

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
bandwidth to stream otherwise. Adrian - Original Message - From: Dan Goodinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 6:49 PM Subject: [slim] AlienBBC nearly working, but need some help Ok - third attempt: Slimserver running on Win2k sp4 AlienBBC

RE: [slim] AlienBBC nearly working, but need some help

2005-04-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
What a total result!! I'm currently listening to Ed Reardons Week through SB :-) :-) :-) Well chuffed!! Absolutely top plugin - thanks Adrian :-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan Goodinson Sent: Sat 02/04/2005 19:24 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject

RE: [slim] Squeezeboxes randomly rebooting

2005-03-14 Thread Dan Goodinson
They are also hyper-sensitive to wireless interference. I had this problem some time ago (and still see it occasionally). I think the worst of it (for me) was down to interference. This might explain why you encounter the problem in your new house - maybe your neighbours use a cordless phone,

RE: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
I want a pony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2005 16:14 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] New Squeezebox? Do I spy some flames on the horizon? Christopher Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

RE: [slim] New Squeezebox?

2005-03-02 Thread Dan Goodinson
Fantastic - you actually raised it as an enhancement request? :D And I was only _half_ serious :D :D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Coates Sent: 02 March 2005 17:00 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] New Squeezebox?