Re: [slim] The Squeezebox finally made it to Fry's

2007-10-19 Thread Free Lunch
On 10/18/07, crooner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saw the Logitech branded SB3 at my local Fry's today. Price was still $299, despite being assembled totally in China. Any chance of getting an SB3 hand-soldered by the original slimp3 team? Please? ;-) I still have my original open back slimp3...

Re: [slim] Transporter. “Boom” at power on/off .

2007-05-11 Thread Free Lunch
I really think a high end device like the Transporter must control transient behavior on the outputs period. And if it can't be fixed in firmware/software than there should be a free hardware fix offered. If I unplug power to my sb3 while directly connected to my DNA125, I will get a very heavy

Re: [slim] Noise with SB and Naim

2006-12-14 Thread Free Lunch
I have a friend with Naim gear and it has always been funny about grounding and electric shocks if you touch the wrong component (that's one way to keep people from touching your gear!). I don't know if your problem is a floating ground, etc, but I'm pretty sure the issue is with the naim.

Re: [slim] Re: Questions about new 24/96 support

2006-09-28 Thread Free Lunch
On 9/28/06, cliveb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, good point. The pre-filtering is required if the signal contains frequencies above half the target rate (ie. 24kHz in this case). But in practice, typical musical signals contain little or no such frequencies, so simple sample dropping is usually

[slim] Questions about new 24/96 support

2006-09-20 Thread Free Lunch
I just installed the 9/19 nightly which features 24/96 downsampling to 24/48.. THANK YOU!! I found it interesting that the downsampling is being done via the firmware and apparently at the SB. I had always thought we'd see this support appear via transcoding. Does anyone have any info on how

Re: [slim] 6.5 looking good

2006-08-24 Thread Free Lunch
Thought I'd add another 6.5 nightly success story to the pile.. I was fixin' to whine about some 6.3.1 performance issues and instead decided to see how much things have improved with 6.5.. So I tried a 6.5 nightly this week on my gentoo sytem. Initially I had a heck of a time getting the

Re: [slim] Re: What makes the Transporter worth $1700 (or more) more than the SB3

2006-08-20 Thread Free Lunch
After some reflection, Transporter doesn't 'do it' for me. It is an over-priced monolithic design. You shouldn't have to pay $2000 to get 24/96 digital output. At that price point it is a bit like buying a TV with a VCR built in. I just want my multiple sb3s to be able to send digital output

Re: [slim] Re: 24/96 support and Transporter

2006-07-25 Thread Free Lunch
On 7/25/06, radish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you don't need a network connection for them to work. Where did you find that in the docs? Thanks, FL ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Is SB3 robust as a product?

2006-05-01 Thread Free Lunch
I may break things but I also design them, I argue if you haven't broken something you can't tell how strong it is! An expensive approach I know. If you had simply rebooted your router like everyone repeatedly suggested, I'll bet you wouldn't have thrown it into the wall in frustration. My

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

2006-04-28 Thread Free Lunch
On 4/28/06, tonymuffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Unplug the power from your router. [tonymuffin] What does unplugging my router have to do with any of this? There is no issue with the router and all 8 of my other computers. You asked for help, right? Nothing has worked up to this point,

Re: [slim] Re: NEW! ReadyNAS NV

2006-04-12 Thread Free Lunch
Looks cool and small.. but only 4 drives? I have already stuffed 8 in a Linux system that was around $400. Given that I am always running short of space, it would be tough to settle for only 4 drives of capacity for $650. If only it could take 8 drives.. On 2/1/06, Jetlag [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-03-02 Thread Free Lunch
Ah yes, the version. I was running the bug fix nightly from Feb 14: SlimServer_6_2_x_v2006-02-14.tar.gz And it looks like that version installs firmware version 33. On 3/1/06, Ben Sandee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/06, Free Lunch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any progress on understanding

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

2006-03-01 Thread Free Lunch
Had another Squeezebox3 freak out this morning. The power to my house was interrupted for a few seconds and the sb3 lost power. When it came back up, it was sending a buzzing signal to the right channel of my amp at a moderate volume. There was no slimserver running at the time. After I

Re: [slim] Add me to the list of SB3's falling apart...

2005-12-15 Thread Free Lunch
I have two 3 week old SB3's here and just checked them.They both are having some adhesion trouble just inboard of the edges. I pushed one of them back down and it popped out again. So I pushed it a little harder and it stuck for about 3 minutes and then I heard it unstick. I also now have a

Re: [slim] Re: Add me to the list of SB3's falling apart...

2005-12-15 Thread Free Lunch
Thank you! On 12/15/05, dropbear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you read through this thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19101 Sean says to contact support to organise replacements. -- dropbear

[slim] Squeezebox3 - Complete FREAKOUT stereo damage warning

2005-12-05 Thread Free Lunch
So I've had a pair of new sb3's since Friday. The idea is to replace my very early slimp3. The hope is that 6.X will work well with the new hardware (it has never worked well with my slimp3, so I have stayed on 5.4.1). The sb3 has been playing almost constantly since Friday. Today, I was eating

Re: [slim] 6.2 SLIMP3 (original)

2005-10-31 Thread Free Lunch
I also had Big problems with my early slimp3 when I tried going from 5.4.1 to the oct 12 6.2 nightly. Dropouts with many basic functions (after everything was scanned). Try and access the web interface? Music stops. I have tried many 6.X releases and have always had to go back. I have friends

Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?

2005-10-17 Thread Free Lunch
Encouraged by the news that recent 6.2 nightly builds solved performance issues, I tried the 10-12 nightly with my original Slimp3.. Unfortunately, it was much worse than 5.4.1 with my 48K track library. Playback would stop as soon as I tried to access the main web interface. Menu navigation

Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?

2005-10-12 Thread Free Lunch
On 10/12/05, Patrick Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also think it would be useful to be able to cancel tasks that are taking too long: I seem to regularly accidentally ask the server to play 'everything' (I'm pretty stupid, I know), and my server literally goes away for minutes! It's

Re: [slim] Re: Best Performance - recommendations?

2005-10-11 Thread Free Lunch
Still, the easiest way to get performance in the PC world is with new, fast systems. I'd look at a SFF system for music performance. I don't like laptops in that environment because they tend to be more fragile than I like. Not that you can let a roadie throw any computer around like they do

Re: [slim] Slimserver as a reliable headless appliance under Linux??

2005-06-30 Thread Free Lunch
Thanks for the response, Michael. I grabbed a copy of slimCD and will check it out. I think the concept is great. I do Not enjoy putting together the OS portion of these servers. FL On 6/29/05, Michael Herger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] I would like to run All file systems read only

[slim] Slimserver as a reliable headless appliance under Linux??

2005-06-29 Thread Free Lunch
I'm wondering how to run Slimserver on a read-only system under Linux for more reliable headless and appliance-like operation. I have installed two headless Linux based Slimserver systems (with squeezebox), one for my folks and more recently for a friend.. I've been really lucky that there have

Re: [slim] Re: 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-04 Thread Free Lunch
Hi Dan, On Apr 3, 2005 6:02 PM, Dan Sully [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Free Lunch shaped the electrons to say... I note that re-sorting the playlist on the system is pretty quick: % time sort -r __00_04_20_04_0a_b1.m3u /dev/null 0.008u 0.002s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-03 Thread Free Lunch
On Apr 3, 2005 3:13 AM, Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7710 songs. add all songs to a new playlist (35 seconds or so), then hit shuffle by album (maybe 70 seconds before the webui refreshed with the new data). I have high CPU usage, but that's what it's there for... it's hardly

Re: [slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-02 Thread Free Lunch
On Apr 1, 2005 3:45 PM, Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Free Lunch wrote: Hi, ... say, sure does take you a long time to get information out of your disk... hdparm -tT /dev/[your-music-disk] please? I think you're on the wrong track. I am very picky about disk performance ;-) First

[slim] 6.01 eval and performance

2005-04-01 Thread Free Lunch
Hi, I just tried the April 1 nightly of 6.01. Nice to see that there is now the concept of a maintenance branch! This is my third attempt at evaluating 6.X. 1. I just tried to unshuffle a playlist with 5147 tracks. The server went offline for 57 seconds, the music stopped, slimp3 display