Re: [slim] Re: Power Supply RF EMI

2005-10-28 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Well I hooked up the Hosfelt supply; and what a difference. On the AM dial all power supply interference is basically gone. I am getting a bit of noise on some stations generated by the SB2 itself. Could be the wireless circuitry, display, internal switchers, etc

Re: [slim] Re: Power Supply RF EMI

2005-10-27 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Music Machine wrote: I also have a surplus linear supply from Hosfelt. I found out about it from a thread on Audio Circle. This one: http://audiocircle.com/circles/viewtopic.php?t=21353sid=05b43e8be27824d18ca43cdfe058f6ab The last post on the first page tells you

Re: [slim] Re: Power Supply RF EMI

2005-10-27 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
. Between home and work I have over a dozen from defunct electronics. They always come in handy! positive tip/center right? Right. But always take your DMM and check twice with the original and solder once. Then check again before plugging into the SB. -- Daryle A. Tilroe

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Third-generation Squeezebox, SlimServer 6.2

2005-10-25 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
the audiophile forum for more about jitter. How about RF EMI? Was that internal switcher generating/broadcasting anything significant? -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo

Re: [slim] Re: Wireless or wired? Help me choose!

2005-10-16 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
) and it has had no noticeable dropouts. I have yet to torture test it while running the microwave and making a cordless phone call. I think I'll actually go try that right now! PS. That being said, if wired is available reasonably easily I would still go that route. -- Daryle A. Tilroe

Re: [slim] Re: Favorite and 'Now Playing'

2005-10-16 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Playing' (with or without '(Jump back on wake.)' and the delay to something like 5-10 seconds. Does that achieve what you want? -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Power Supply RF EMI

2005-10-10 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
play. Well I just ordered the Hosfelt 56-534 mentioned in that thread as well. It looks like a nice heavy duty linear PS from the pics plus it's not a wall wart. We will see in a few weeks if it does the trick. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing

Re: [slim] Re: Limiting Ethernet speed to 10 Mbps

2005-10-10 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
/vendors/leviton/datacom/TIA568standards.pdf -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Power Supply RF EMI

2005-10-09 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
used on mass market, el cheapo, ones. In any event I'm probably going to order up an Elpac to see if I can get a setup where I don't have to continually unplug the SB2 to listen to the radio. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

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

2005-08-31 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
in the same suspended state as a pause event. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Small footprint receiver?

2005-08-29 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
to locate in the bedroom and then just turn it up a bit for bathroom listening. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Custom Hardware Enclosures

2005-08-09 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
been these guys: http://www.emachineshop.com/ -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: SB2 Remote control clashing

2005-08-03 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
. My feelings exactly. Having a working feature broken, particularly one that I used all the time, is very frustrating. Want to split the costs on kidnapping Sean and forcing him to fix it? ;-) -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [slim] SB2 Remote control clashing

2005-08-02 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1478 -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

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

2005-08-02 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
tending to leave the SB on all the time these days. IMHO having the track stop when the device is turned off (hard or soft) is the most logical behaviour. If you want to pause it, then pause it, and turn the brightness down if you wish. -- Daryle A. Tilroe

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

2005-08-02 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
] now_playing = dead now_playing.single = playdisp_toggle now_playing.hold = datetime and then just hold down 'Now Playing' to get the time? -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists

Re: [slim] 6.1 smooth scrolling - feeback requested

2005-07-02 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Announce: SlimServer 6.1b1 and SqueezeNetwork Beta

2005-06-28 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
. Am I to assume that this broken feature won't be restored any time soon and I should just upgrade my remotes? :-( -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: SB2 JVC Remote Codes Broken?

2005-05-01 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
a bug report: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1478 -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] The pony shat on my sb2 :(

2005-04-22 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Kawartha. Perhaps you should reopen the bug due to toxic pony syndrome: :D http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918 Sorry, I just find it a bit funny that the 'free pony' is incompatible with the squeezebox2. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Just getting started...

2005-04-19 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
it again. WMP at a 192kbs rate. My question is whether this rate is enough quality? Lossy if false economy; particularly if you are already concerned enough about quality to ask. I just don't understand MP3/OGG for anything other than a portable player. -- Daryle A. Tilroe

Re: [slim] Re: Any chance of SlimDevices making a visual media player?

2005-04-13 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
, Panasonic, Sony, etc.). -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Digital out issues.

2005-04-07 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
they are not the defective ones. Otherwise I will just wait till the fixed ones get in. Thanks. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Digital out issues.

2005-04-07 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Sean Adams wrote: Everything that has shipped or will ship to Canadian resellers, including Kawartha, has the fix already. Cool! Thanks a lot for concise, fast, and fortunate response. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [slim] SBG clock screensaver and Digital out issues.

2005-04-07 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
gun. We could handle it. ;-) Of course I realize the day after you post the instructions some twit will start prying things off with a screwdriver or burn up their PCB and then want a 'warranty' repair. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-03-30 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Vidur Apparao wrote: The transcoding does not happen if you don't use cuesheets with FLAC (excuse the double negative). Hah. Another good reason to not to rip your CDs to one FLAC file! I knew we track folk would be vindicated. ;-) Quick followup

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-03-30 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Sean Adams wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 7:36 AM, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Quick followup: Does this also then mean that track based FLACs will support FF/REW within the track whereas the transcoded CUE sheet based ones won't? Vidur? Sean? I'm

Re: [slim] Maintaining a large library of WAV files - artwork, tagging,

2005-03-30 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Kevin Pearsall wrote: tagrename? On Mar 29, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Natan Nicki Tiefenbrun wrote: Regarding using FLAC instead of WAV I can actually hear a substantial difference between the two. Im currently using the original Squeezebox, so I assume Im relying on my PC

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox 2, Slimserver 6 and FLAC question

2005-03-29 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Vidur Apparao wrote: The transcoding does not happen if you don't use cuesheets with FLAC (excuse the double negative). Hah. Another good reason to not to rip your CDs to one FLAC file! I knew we track folk would be vindicated. ;-) -- Daryle A. Tilroe

Re: [slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods

2005-03-26 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Charles Stanton wrote: (We'll try this again). I am using the 3/23 nighly and from time to time on start-up, slim.exe will max out (96 - 99%) the CPU for 30 minutes or more before settling down. No new music has been added. I don't think it should be re-scanning

Re: [slim] Can wireless-SB2 transmitter be powered completely down?

2005-03-25 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
You could also just take the wireless card out and save if for when you might need it; if you don't need it that is. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: 6.0 occassional high CPU usage for extended periods

2005-03-24 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
under WinXPProSP1. Tonight I noticed the service had gone rogue and was using all available cycles. This was after a week of uptime and nowhere near a rescan and nothing was even playing. I just killed the service and upgraded to 3/24. We shall see if it crops up again. -- Daryle A. Tilroe

Re: [slim] How much signal strength do I need?

2005-03-16 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
dropout-free playback of PCM audio to a wireless SB1, myself included (flac-PCM) I refuse to get dragged into this debate again. :-) -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Mark Komarinski wrote: Much of Slim Devices' success to this point can probably be attributed to Linux users. OK now where did you get that statistic from? -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-15 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
or FLAC then there are no patents involved. And, as was pointed out, you can stream your existing MP3s just fine. Finally, if you are running Linux and cannot somehow install LAME then you have other problems. ;-) -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Prefered Archiving Format

2005-03-15 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Oh and PS I'm all FLAC via EAC. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Non-clobbering Play function

2005-03-14 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
guess I'm not even sure if they will ever be implemented but you may want to comment or vote if you think they make sense or if you see a better way. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] First Impressions 6.0B1-1

2005-03-14 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: Since I am just now trying the latest nightly of 6.0b1 - r2461 (XPproSP1 running as a service) I can corroborate much of what Richard wrote: 1) FLAC. I have been running 5.4 since it was releases with never a skip on FLAC files. Every FLAC file I play on 6.0 B1-1

Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware

2005-03-13 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
FLAC becomes the lossless de facto standard. In any event I strongly suspect 'better than MP3' lossy formats will slowly loose all traction in the market. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] First Impressions 6.0B1-1

2005-03-13 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
will probably be rolling back to 5.4.1 tonight so I can listen again. I find the playback issues particularly disappointing. I am surprised that there are such severe problems with such core functionality in a late beta. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss

[slim] RSS Plugin Question/Problem in 6.0b nightly

2005-03-12 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
? It seems to be ~6x and I would like 1x. Actually now that I look it may be a time per channel which does not seem to be adjustable either. Adjustment would be good in either case and setting the number of repeats would be better than a timer. -- Daryle A. Tilroe

Re: [slim] RSS Plugin Question/Problem in 6.0b nightly

2005-03-12 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Plugins in the server web interface and look for the RSS News Ticker preferences. I found that setting but you'll note that's not quite what I am looking for. It is the number/time of repeating cycles per channel rather than the number of items per channel. Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: On to the problem

Re: [slim] Snooze!

2005-03-11 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
button: http://tenant.depart.livedoor.com/t/livedoorshop/item_detail?id=346274 I don't even have an application and I want a switch like that! :D -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists

Re: [slim] Slim Devices SB2 disappointment SB for sale.

2005-03-10 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
is downlink. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Squeezebox2

2005-03-09 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
you are using? I would really like to go with a to get out of the 2.4GHz band. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] FLAC Tags

2005-02-23 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Try this page: http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/EAC/index.html It's for EAC, which I use and can also recommend as a ripper, but it also has all the FLAC flags. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http

Re: [slim] Good wireless experience

2005-02-23 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
over wireless performance and suitability applies only to streaming lossless PCM audio. If you stream (or convert and stream) MP3 the SB has proven to be quite robust. Virtually flawless in my experience. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Why didn't they buy a SqueezeBox?

2005-02-22 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
Robin Bowes wrote: Daryle A. Tilroe wrote: This is simply not true. Streaming PCM audio over 802.11b is tenuous at best. The bandwidth required and the shallow buffer on the SB make it unsuitable for most applications. sign Just do the math... 802.11b bit rate: 11Mb/s PCM bit rate: 44,100 x 16 x

Re: [slim] audiophile cred

2005-02-17 Thread Daryle A. Tilroe
for portable and bedroom use that are playing transcoded to MP3. However, for the proper, main stereos it's uncompressed over a wire. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo