Re: [slim] ID3 editor?

2006-05-17 Thread Dondi Fusco
If you can Tag on a Windows machine, I'd use Tag&Rename by softpointerDOTcom. -- D --- Koenraadr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you all for your help so far, I'm well on my > way encoding my FLAC > and MP3's (sorry, girlfriend needs Ipod > compatibility). > > Question: > I have my music

Re: [slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?

2006-03-16 Thread Dondi Fusco
My $.02... I have my SlimServer on a dedicated WinXP workstaion with an external 640GB FireWire800 RAID-5 array attached to the PC in my back room. In the living room I also have a M$ Media Center edition with a dedicated 500GB LaCie FireWire800 HD for a duplicate music library. In having a very v

Re: [slim] Can someone once and for all clarify how to get multiple CDs to appear as one album?

2005-11-02 Thread Dondi Fusco
> Can someone please clarify > > > 1) Is there a certain directory structure that needs > to be adhered to? > > > 2) What tagging should be used? In the past DISC=n > was all that was > needed. Now it is not working. I tried to set > DISCC together with DISC > and also DISCNUMBER. No l

Re: [slim] Terabyte Storage

2005-10-21 Thread Dondi Fusco
--- Ultramog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been SB2/Slimserving for a couple months, very > happy camper. Local > OSX drive is filling up and I calculate I'll need > about 500GB for the > current collection, which grows steadily. Should I > get: > > 1) A 500GB external drive and then anoth

Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets

2005-10-19 Thread Dondi Fusco
> And sometimes, you want to split up a single CD into > multiple albums. > For example, I did that to the 1999 reissue of Pet > Sounds, which has the > entire album twice, first in the original mono, and > then a new stereo > remaster. > > > That's why my feature request included the menu > op

Re: [slim] Re: Multi Disc Sets

2005-10-18 Thread Dondi Fusco
I'm with Takashi on this... I have tagged an extensive library (>4500+ albums) and when it comes to multidisc sets, I just keep going with the track number. To me, I don't care what disc number it is from. I treat the entire disc set as a single disc and the track numbers are iterative so no matter

Re: [slim] Some enterprising person

2005-08-22 Thread Dondi Fusco
The screenshot of the 'Java Interface' has the SoftSqueeze java app with the name 'SofttSqueeze' still embedded in the app window http://www.mp3beamer.com/ss_java.html -- D --- kdf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting PAUL WILLIAMSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Ironically, I don't think the

Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations? -- no, but I can tell you what *isn't* working for me..

2005-08-05 Thread Dondi Fusco
* radish shaped the electrons to say... > >Could it be file types? I'm mainly vorbis & FLAC, > with only a very few > >mp3s. I know vorbis tags are supposed to be > somewhat better designed > >than ID3, but I don't know if they're more > efficient to read. Also do > >the obvious things like making

Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations? -- no, but I can tell you what *isn't* working for me..

2005-08-05 Thread Dondi Fusco
--- radish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I don't understand is why the scan time is > seemingly exponential. > I can do a full wipe and rescan of about 10,000 > tracks in under 15 > minutes (more like 10), so why does 7x the tracks > take 96x as long to > scan? Radish... diff OS?? Is Linux th

Re: [slim] Best Performance - recommendations? -- no, but I can tell you what *isn't* working for me..

2005-08-04 Thread Dondi Fusco
Just to chime-in I have a dual 500MHz Dell Precision workstaion with 2Gb RAM and a 640Gb MicroNet RAID-5 connected via firewire 800 that stores my >70,000 tunes on WinXP SP2. I have been a SlimDevices customer since around v3 of the slim server software. An initial scan of the library takes o

Re: [slim] Universal Remote - Philips Pronto NG

2005-03-10 Thread Dondi Fusco
My $.02 as to Universal Remotes My Harmony 768 has performed flawlessly for my for more than a year now and controls EVERYTHING I own... even my appliances, downloads TV listings, controls the SB, LCD-TV, VCR, DVD player, Windows Media Cntr Edition, lights, air conditioner, fireplace, thermosta