Re: [slim] Moose scan problem

2010-04-23 Thread Dr Lovegrove
s your 7.5.1 ? Small chance they've tweaked the db schema and it's causing problems, although i usually get a deluge of emails when this happens, and havent yet.. :-) -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove http://groups.google.com/group/moosenews __

Re: [slim] Invisible software player for PC - a simple HOWTO using squeezeslave and hstart

2009-06-18 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ueezeslave, prior to excecuting shutdown. Does Moose always prevent the shutdown, or is it just when its running squeezeslave ? If the latter, does stopping squeezeslave in Moose still cause moose to stop the shutdown ? I'll see if I can sort this.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze!

2008-11-03 Thread Dr Lovegrove
oose solve that? If you grab the latest build of SqueezeSlave and point Moose at it, moose becomes a player.. There are command-line options in moose to fire up SqueezeSlave each time you fire up moose too.. Note: SqueezeSlave isnt SoftSqueeze.. It's native rather than java, so runs much

Re: [slim] Anyone used Songbird?

2008-08-29 Thread Dr Lovegrove
live switches.. Actually there's a fairly lengthy thread over on developers which could prove handy: <http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37460> -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove http://groups.google.com/group/moosenews _

Re: [slim] Anyone used Songbird?

2008-08-28 Thread Dr Lovegrove
As it stands, the latest squeezeslave builds seem to work much more reliably than softsqueeze. A fair bit of work's been done to it recently so it syncs and reconnects properly.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove http://groups.google.com/group/moos

Re: [slim] Just how many Dannii Minogue albums do you own?

2008-07-24 Thread Dr Lovegrove
that doesnt fix it, let me know.. Do you get same in the library view ? -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove http://groups.google.com/group/moosenews ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] If this thing could only manage music...

2008-06-13 Thread Dr Lovegrove
Meanwhile, the more I procrastine, the better the CLI gets, so the more stuff it'll be able to do.. :-) -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove http://groups.google.com/group/moosenews ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevic

Re: [slim] "Party mode" or skin?

2007-09-21 Thread Dr Lovegrove
UI, you can use the command line paramaters to turn party mode and fullscreen mode on. The party mode's not 100% foolproof, but every little helps.. Suggestions/issues/ideas for improvements always welcome. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove http://groups.google

Re: [slim] Any reason slimserver doesn't automagically add albumart when browsing new folders?

2007-07-31 Thread Dr Lovegrove
essed. Doing a full rescan is a royal PITA > (scanning for updates seems to be a potluck process, sometimes it picks > up all new artwork, sometimes it doesn't). Feel free to add a vote - i just did.. Always annoyed me (and quite a few moose users) too.. Trouble is I dont th

Re: [slim] Best Audio Jukebox for Flac

2007-07-02 Thread Dr Lovegrove
probably wont automatically write it back to the server.. In the meantime, check out Pat Farrell's excellent music utils: <http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html> I've also used this guy in the past: <http://album-cover-art-downloader.en.sof

Re: [slim] Album Art?

2007-06-12 Thread Dr Lovegrove
as I use folder.jpg in my libraries too.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove http://groups.google.com/group/moosenews ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Want to use laptop as a fancy remote control

2007-05-22 Thread Dr Lovegrove
usticrhino.com/drlovegrove) It's possible to use most of its functions via tabbing, cursoring and enter keying.. In the preferences there's a setting for the enter key's behaviour. If you set it to 'play' and type a partial match into the library window's filter control

Re: [slim] Album art in the squeezebox

2007-04-13 Thread Dr Lovegrove
s slimserver allow multi-levels of brightness per pixel yet for custom screen stuff ? -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove http://groups.google.com/group/moosenews ___ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Squeezebox vs Sonos

2007-03-26 Thread Dr Lovegrove
down Windows CE, which means it's basically a PDA. UMPCs like the Q1 or OQO run the fuller tablet edition versions of windows, which Moose and most windows apps work fine with.. Im hoping to make Moose's UI a bit more tablet/touch-screen friendly over the next few months too..

Re: [slim] Clearing the DB

2007-02-02 Thread Dr Lovegrove
;s not looking.. You know where you are then.. :-) -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for all at: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Dr Lovegrove
e using the Harmony3 DLLs (if we could get the sources). Yes, Moose could do the coverflow stuff quite easily - it's more a matter of time than anything else.. Im hoping to add some more 'choosers' in the near future, and am currently adding some new modes to the cover-chooser

Re: [slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

2007-01-24 Thread Dr Lovegrove
y. Also, it's tricky for Moose to write back to the slim folder structure (though not out of the question). It can write to its own 'thumbs' folder quite easily though, and a 'save as..' dialog for coverart would be pretty easy.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/

Re: [slim] Touch screen Media Layout

2007-01-12 Thread Dr Lovegrove
o slim server to play and select tracks. Moose hopefully will soon - im working on a pub-jukebox style fullscreen mode which should be ideal with touchscreens.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists

Re: [slim] Introducing..... me!

2007-01-08 Thread Dr Lovegrove
a dedicated forum for frontends.. There are loads of web-skins now, and an increasing number of software-based front-ends, so I guess there'd be traffic, and it might help ease the plugins forum traffic a touch. -- - Dr Lovegrove Grab Moose (windows frontend for Slimserver) at: http://www

Re: [slim] Vista Sideshow

2007-01-01 Thread Dr Lovegrove
imserver to display album artwork perhaps on a digital picture frame in the same room as my Squeezebox. Wouldn't that be cool! Yes! I actually read through the sideshow docs a month or so back.. Should be really easy to add basic support to Moose (just need to upgrade to Vista.. Hmm..) -

Re: [slim] Re: Removing favorites?

2006-11-30 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 30/11/06, grimholtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thanks! If you've got windows, the next version of Moose (0.50) will be able to do it too.. I've added favourites to the tree and you can move/delete/queue them via popup menus.. Just ironing out some other stuff before I

Re: [slim] Re: Party/Jukebox mode or Skin?

2006-11-17 Thread Dr Lovegrove
kebox-style selection system (and a couple of others) quite easy.. (famous last words).. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Cover art not showing with files on NAS

2006-11-01 Thread Dr Lovegrove
o iron out with the new scanner still.. -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for all at: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: When can we order just the new remote?

2006-10-19 Thread Dr Lovegrove
shipping experiences have been rather painful thanks to 'the farce'.. :-( -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for all at: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: FWD on Random Mix hiccups

2006-10-18 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 18/10/06, Dr Lovegrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 18/10/06, sicoffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, interesting to know that MP3 might not solve the problem. No, it wont. The problem is with the SQL query which randommix uses. Essentially: SELECT * FROM tr

Re: [slim] Re: FWD on Random Mix hiccups

2006-10-18 Thread Dr Lovegrove
bit of discussion on the subject of speeding this up down: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for all at: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.co

Re: [slim] Re: How would you like to browse your music ?

2006-09-26 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ly playing artist's artist/composer/band/etc and offers them as a list. You could maybe have a dictionary of common words to ignore too.. And sort the list by number of matching words.. -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for all at: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove

Re: [slim] MySQL with 6.5

2006-09-22 Thread Dr Lovegrove
dress from the my.tt file (server/MySQL folder) and restart mysqld.. -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for all at: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Question for the Experts

2006-09-14 Thread Dr Lovegrove
artwork echo Slimserver Crashed again >> E:\SlimServer\server\crash.txt DATE /T >> E:\SlimServer\server\crash.txt TIME /T >> E:\SlimServer\server\crash.txt pause -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for all at: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Question for the Experts

2006-09-08 Thread Dr Lovegrove
. Also, turn off indexing, firewalls, screensavers, updates and all that fancy XP stuff that just eats up memory and CPU.. If you're not using 6.5 yet, it's worth doing that.. I'd look into more RAM possibly too as it's so cheap these days.. -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for

[slim] Interesting flash-based front end..

2006-08-01 Thread Dr Lovegrove
http://www.markfennell.com/flash/psp/ Might be an easy port to slimserver ? -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Transporter!

2006-07-27 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 27/07/06, el payo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you port Moose to OSX... Does it work under VirtualPC ? Not got access to a mac, so never tried it.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list d

Re: [slim] Re: Transporter!

2006-07-26 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 25/07/06, el payo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In that case I'll order off the web, take the complimentary SB3 and 1. List it on eBay 2. ?? 3. Profit! Donated SB's always welcome this way - might be able to get the Zones feature working properly in Moose.. :-) -- - D

Re: [slim] Re: Monitoring SB3 Playback on SlimServer Computer

2006-05-19 Thread Dr Lovegrove
for simple display / playlist management stuff.. ;-) -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!

2006-04-28 Thread Dr Lovegrove
twork and you've only got 1 copy of slimserver running too.. Also, when turning stuff off, leave it turned off for a good 5 seconds before turning it back on.. Also delete any Phil Collins mp3s you've got on your server - that can cause untold damage.. ;-) -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.r

Re: [slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!

2006-04-28 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ccess point occasionally gets put in state in which everything works normally apart from the slim stuff.. When it's in it's little state, 'press the brightness' is exactly what you see, and it fails as it's failing with yours.. Worth a go.. -- - Dr Lovegrove ht

Re: [slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!

2006-04-28 Thread Dr Lovegrove
tting junk in or something ? Not sure.. It's easier to toast the whole folder.. If that doesnt work I manually drop my DB tables.. - Dr Lovegrove ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] What the Squeezebox needs IMHO

2006-03-27 Thread Dr Lovegrove
et) and admittedly is tied to windows, but for player status and music management I think it's doing ok.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-12 Thread Dr Lovegrove
down at the bottom left of the > screen and then go way up to the top right to add it to the play list. > Minor things, but would be nice. Indeed, it does need popup menus.. If you double-click items it plays them without the need for clicking the buttons.. I think if you

Re: [slim] Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-10 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ave to go up to the > menu every time. Also is it going to be possible to allow multiple selections. Yup, both of these should be in the next version.. Multi-selection deletion is currently working quite well.. Multi-selection drag needs a little more work I think.. -- - Dr

Re: [slim] Re: Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-10 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ver random mix plugin. I see where you can > add one random track at a time, but new tracks are not added > automatically. There's a bit on the website about assigning the blank 'popcorn' button to launch random-mix.. Sadly random-mix and other plugins arent directly acc

Re: [slim] Re: Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-10 Thread Dr Lovegrove
t; up. 10-15 seconds. No big deal, but I thought there was a problem > when I first started it. 10-15 seconds seems pretty slow.. Which server version are you running ? With 6.5 nightlies and MySQL it takes roughly 2 seconds for Moose to appear and show the playlist and album-art on my machine

Re: [slim] Re: Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-08 Thread Dr Lovegrove
wn menu for this option being disabled? Well, the moving backgrounds were consuming too much CPU time, so I optimised the code for a flat background. I'll put the grad fill background back in at some point.. I could put the animated ones back in too if people liked th

[slim] Re: Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-07 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 02/03/06, Dr Lovegrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just uploaded a new version of my windows front-end Moose to the usual > place: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove Ok, just put up a new build.. 0.26.. One big new feature and bunch of little fixes: * F5 refreshes playlist.

Re: [slim] Could I make this work...

2006-03-06 Thread Dr Lovegrove
-click.. Moose is down: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-06 Thread Dr Lovegrove
up or have you just been too busy? Ah, oops, yup, meant to add that in.. Got a bit sidetracked with the other stuff.. > If I may also make a suggestion re. 'now playing'it would be nice if F5 > did a refresh so it's the same as other Windows programs. Good plan.. I'll

Re: [slim] Re: Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-03 Thread Dr Lovegrove
oo.. It's now there as both Moose.zip and Moose025.zip -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-02 Thread Dr Lovegrove
w. I hit the shuffle mode button a couple of > times, and that must have done something. That sounds strange. Is it a recurring problem ? If so, does the Playlists->Refresh menu item sort it ? Which version of SS are you running ? -- - Dr Lovegrov

Re: [slim] Re: Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-02 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ernet temporary files if using IE ? Maybe if you do a Save As and call it something other than Moose.zip, then extract it ? I could email it if you're still having problems ? > Did you enjoy the cake by the way? any pieces left? Blimey, didnt think people would read that.. ;-)

[slim] Moose 0.25 now up

2006-03-02 Thread Dr Lovegrove
bsite. * Fixed some directory scanning problems and a few other bits and pieces. Enjoy, -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Jukebox frontend

2006-02-17 Thread Dr Lovegrove
Some buttons, some Now playing information and some secret key shortcut to swap back to the normal UI.. I'll keep you posted.. As it is, Moose's library window is pretty simple to use in a party environment, although wouldnt solve your 'people hitting play' problems.. Worth givi

Re: [slim] Re: HELP Moose 0.22

2006-02-12 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ab (or list) of your moose options off-list.. A log-file might also be handy.. My email's on the site.. Thanks, -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-02-10 Thread Dr Lovegrove
it's going to be awkward to do a normal maximize, so maybe if I just rename the feature full-screen ? Actually, I could add a 'resize to maximized size' kind of option.. Maybe this would be the answer.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove _

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-02-09 Thread Dr Lovegrove
maximize option do a kind of full-screen thing.. Give the new version a whirl and see what you think.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-02-03 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ing the problem's with adding the album's path, rather than database ID (but can't repeat the problem myself).. If you add the problem album via 'browse folders' and 'browse albums' on the web ui, does it do different things in each case, or do they both

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-02-03 Thread Dr Lovegrove
itely has some > bugs in that it sometimes disappears, flickers regularly etc, so I'd > look there too. Yup, it seems to be caused by the '.net flicker-free redrawing' fighting with the 'dr lovegrove flicker-free redrawing' on XP.. Im going to change the way it upd

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-30 Thread Dr Lovegrove
eed to add a browse folder kind of selection mode, which is what the scan folders option does I guess.. Maybe if Moose allowed you to use both the scan folders option and the scan db option, then had tabs to switch between the two databases/selection modes.. Hmm.. Something for the future m

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-30 Thread Dr Lovegrove
x27;t been added yet. Not sure I understand. The track listing in the library window has a horizontal scrollbar which appears when the control cant fit all the tracks in. You can drag the bar above it to increase its size as well. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.r

Re: [slim] Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-27 Thread Dr Lovegrove
7;ll be due to slimserver getting a multiple CLI messages in a short space of time, but it would be handy to see.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-26 Thread Dr Lovegrove
tting to 'flat', it doesnt use a cached bitmap for the library window background, and it reduces the number of transparent brushes used in the now playing window.. > BUT - it's great overall and none of the issues are by any stretch show > stoppers!! Yeah, be nice to get the

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-26 Thread Dr Lovegrove
flaw the other night as I've switched back to folder scanning after I upgraded my server to MySQL.. Watch this space i guess.. ;-) -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: When should I switch from SQLLite to MySQL?

2006-01-25 Thread Dr Lovegrove
s to use the database, grant the new user > > permissions, etc.. This was all with 4.1.. Maybe it's better with 5 ? > > Install phpMyAdmin. It's so much easier to do these administrative tasks. I gave up with the command-line and installed "MySQL Administrator 1.1" in

Re: [slim] Re: When should I switch from SQLLite to MySQL?

2006-01-25 Thread Dr Lovegrove
upgrade my version of perl for 6.5 - kept giving a popup about some kind of memory thing not being supported.. Latest activestate build did the trick.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-25 Thread Dr Lovegrove
An alternative is to stop slimserver whilst rescanning. This should all be sorted with MySQL.. > But overall it is working very well - multi selection in the play list > window will be great, good luck with getting that going properly, I > remember well when I used to be a programmer that c

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-24 Thread Dr Lovegrove
to get multiple item editing going first though, but it's proving a bit of a pig.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-24 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ly saved playlists wont appear until the next rescan. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-23 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 23/01/06, Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dr Lovegrove Wrote: > > It might be a good idea to clear your thumbnails > > folder before running this new version, although I've kept support in > > for reading the old filenames. > > How do I clear the th

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-23 Thread Dr Lovegrove
and red for pause/stop to mode button. * Buttons have a flat background again. * Partially addressed some of the redraw/flicker problems. * Flat redraw mode now slightly more efficient -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___

Re: [slim] HELP Moose 0.22

2006-01-20 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ough it.. The other way to fix it would be to use the SQLite scanner rather than the folder scanner.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-20 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 20/01/06, Kevin Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr Lovegrove > wrote: > I'm using a Microsoft one on this machine but SWMBO uses a Logitech > keyboard with similar facilities. They both 'just work' on Windows so I >

Re: [slim] Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-20 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 20/01/06, Kevin Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr Lovegrove > wrote: > ..and when I found that I understood why trying to find something in > any application (CTRL-F) was skipping to the next track! How about > adding support for

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-20 Thread Dr Lovegrove
this is partially responsible for the flicker problems with some machines too.. I may be wrong.. The bitmap blitting and button redraw code isnt terribly efficient yet either.. Does setting the 'background' setting to 'flat' help things at all ? Also, does it 'go throug

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-20 Thread Dr Lovegrove
2.0 at some point which should help performance a bit more.. I've not noticed it slowing windows startup down too much, but I tend not to shutdown that often.. You can always uninstall it if it does.. :-) -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove _

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-19 Thread Dr Lovegrove
. * Double-clicking tray icon shows now playing window. * Added new control entries with ticks to tray menu. * Remembers minimised to tray status * Remembers playlist column sizes * Remembers global key shortcut status * Fixed a minor login bug if the server went away and came back.. Enjoy, -- - Dr

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-19 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 18/01/06, Geoff B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/18/06, Dr Lovegrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like this differs from the standard SlimServer behaviour. Yes, but this is all based on Moose's own local thumbnail cache as opposed to the server's stu

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-19 Thread Dr Lovegrove
cy. There's a limit of 64 characters too, so if you've got long song titles, it may chop the artist off.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-19 Thread Dr Lovegrove
Menu->Run dialog, so if it works in there, it should work in Moose. Hope that helps, -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-18 Thread Dr Lovegrove
00.jpg" If it finds an image and it's already 100x100 or less, it saves it as: "\ - " (note the lack of extension - this is so it works with pngs and stuff..) HTH, -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Announce: Moose 0.21

2006-01-17 Thread Dr Lovegrove
w features: * Minimise to Tray support * Minimise to Tray icon tooltip * Player status button background now red when rescanning * Better error handling for library location problems * New About dialog * Optimised redraw code and fixed button resource leaks Enjoy.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusti

Re: [slim] Re: Random Mix Genre Extended Character Bug

2006-01-12 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ongIndex = 0 2006-01-12 19:19:37.9631 RandomPlay: Starting random selection of 3 items for ty pe: track -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Moose Firewall Settings

2006-01-12 Thread Dr Lovegrove
think that's for SS command traffic ? Bit worrying that it toasts the server.. Moose turns listen on, so maybe if the messages cant get back there's a problem.. Hmmm.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ D

Re: [slim] Re: Random Mix Genre Extended Character Bug

2006-01-12 Thread Dr Lovegrove
y of solving the CLI -> plugin problems - dynamic button mapping via the CLI.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Random Mix Genre Extended Character Bug

2006-01-12 Thread Dr Lovegrove
to turn it off via the CLI ? In Moose I queue new music via 'playlistcontrol', but if the player's in RandomMix mode, it'll queue the new music, then carry on adding random songs to the end of the new playlist as it plays.. -- - Dr Lovegrove

Re: [slim] Moose: Queueing an Album

2006-01-10 Thread Dr Lovegrove
Should be in the next release.. > If I modify the width of the columns in /Now Playing/ it forgets my > changes after I've closed and re-opened Moose. It would be nice if it > remembered my changes. I'll pop that on the list.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/dr

Re: [slim] Moose - Awaiting server response

2006-01-09 Thread Dr Lovegrove
s. Is Moose 'blocking' something SS > and > SB need to get at? Not noticed this - I'll check it out.. Moose sends out logon messages every second or so if it's become disconnected.. Maybe if SS gets a logon whilst starting up, something bad happens ? Not sure.. -- - Dr L

Re: [slim] Backing Up the Slimserver Database

2006-01-08 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 08/01/06, Kevin Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Be nice if Slimserver contained an option to backup the database to a > specified directory at a specified time) Be pretty handy for Moose too as pointing it at the 'live' db file causes all sorts of grief.

Re: [slim] Moose - Awaiting server response

2006-01-08 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 08/01/06, Kevin Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr Lovegrove wrote: > Or it could be that the seat to keyboard interface is an idiot! I suspect the > fact that it is now working was somehow facilitated by me, somewhat belatedly, > dis

Re: [slim] Moose - Awaiting server response

2006-01-08 Thread Dr Lovegrove
e form: xxx.xxx.x.xx (no https or port numbers, etc) CLI Port should just be 9090 And Username / Password should both be blank (no spaces, etc).. They're the only settings which would cause this I think. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2006-01-05 Thread Dr Lovegrove
too tricky.. Moose would need to be the selected app though.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: Volume goes up skipping forward in Moose

2006-01-03 Thread Dr Lovegrove
vote has just been added.. ;-) Actually, it would be great if this was fixed for 6.5.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Volume goes up skipping forward in Moose

2005-12-30 Thread Dr Lovegrove
Yeah, I've noticed this too.. It's not new, and seems to be a server bug with setting the song position via the CLI 'time' command. Reproducable via telnetting.. HTH, -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___

Re: [slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-15 Thread Dr Lovegrove
cale now, which seems to fix the problem.. Also new in 0.20 is support for the 'open folder' and 'open tagger' buttons when populating via DB scanning rather than folder scanning.. It wont work for collections with lnk files yet, but I&#

Re: [slim] Re: Can you use Moose on a remote PC to control SB3?

2005-12-14 Thread Dr Lovegrove
flicker.. I have noticed a bit when debugging on XP, but when not debugging it seems fine, so thought it was just a debug quirk.. Obviously not.. Which bits flicker and when ? Is it related to moving the mouse over it or anything like that ? -- - Dr Lovegrove htt

Re: [slim] Re: Can you use Moose on a remote PC to control SB3?

2005-12-13 Thread Dr Lovegrove
ion might sort the flickering.. If not, I'll install remote desktop and sort it.. -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-13 Thread Dr Lovegrove
window. I've defaulted this to inactive, so if you hit enter by mistake after typing a search in, it doesnt wipe the playlist and play the results. Enjoy, -- - Dr Lovegrove http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@

Re: [slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-10 Thread Dr Lovegrove
#x27;.. Hmm.. Actually, might make more sense having an option - play, append, insert, do nothing.. Yeah, I'll do that I think.. > - Are there any plans to have internet radio linked for anywhere, I > could really do with accessing LastFM from somewhere on Moose

Re: [slim] New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-10 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 10/12/05, Philip Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just tried Moose for the first time.  Pretty good start - I like it, but I've found some problems (I think): 1. Main Window - if I click on the album artwork, it disapears for a couple of seconds then gets redisplayed.   Aye, this is actually an

Re: [slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-09 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 09/12/05, Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dr., is there anyplace that explains exactly what this program is andwhat it does?  It is a replacement for Softsqueeze or just a program that you use instead of Softsqueeze for the manipulation of music filesonly?  How does it do a rescan faster than So

Re: [slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-09 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 09/12/05, Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any plans for a Palm PDA program?   WinCE would be the first stop as it's a pretty similar platform, and supports the dotNet runtimes.. (also my PDA runs it).   Other than data-structures, I think a Palm port would be a complete re-write.. Dont really

Re: [slim] Re: New build of Moose (windows front end) now up

2005-12-09 Thread Dr Lovegrove
On 08/12/05, 0xdeadbeef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, I downgraded to 6.2.2. Unfortunately, this doesn't change anyting.Neither do I get thumbnails nor is the play time correct.   Ah, yes, 6.5 was a bit of a red herring - seems to work fine with either 6.2.2 or 6.5 on my setup.   What format ar

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