Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability

2009-03-14 Thread Jeff Moore
Over the last few years, I've been running various flavors of SlimServer/SqueezeCenter on a couple of Linux releases (currently Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS) and it's been really solid (for the solid SlimServer/Squeezecenter releases -- Squeezecenter has been quite good through most of its life, and

Re: [slim] Re: How much longer for a really slim SlimServer?

2006-05-03 Thread Jeff Moore
2006-05-01-19:35:38 JJZolx: - Cheap. Just something to get Slim Server off of the desktop system. - Low power use. For the penny pinchers, environmentalists, and those people unfortunate enough to live where electricity is very expensive. - Low noise. For folks that insist on the

Re: [slim] Re: Phones that don't interfere with wireless networking

2005-11-10 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-11-10-12:01:49 jth: Just be sure to check the specs of your 5.8 GHz phone before buying. Some either transmit or receive on 2.4 GHz which makes them rather pointless for avoiding 802.11b/g interference. Yep. Last time I checked, I think the Panasonics 5.8s tromped all over everything,

[slim] OT: And a Pony

2005-09-30 Thread Jeff Moore
Everybody wants a pony. http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/images/gywo.andapony.gif ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: SlimRoku - SlimServer based music player for the Roku PhotoBridge HD1000

2005-09-15 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-09-15-17:59:31 Daniel Cohen: I'm not objecting to you, or anyone else, using Windows. I hope there will be a version of SlimServer that works well and easily on Windows. But cross-platform is important to me, and to others. I don't want to be caught in a Windows dictatorship. Well

Re: [slim] Re: SlimServer on ReadyNAS600

2005-07-19 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-07-18-18:19:41 mac: Slimserver is a Perl application (wish is was written in Java). Eww! That's the direst of foul heresy. Wash your mouth out. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Streamingfrom slimserver to shoutcast server for broadcast..

2005-07-05 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-07-05-23:36:19 BugDave: Is it possible to use slimserver on my mac to stream to my shoutcast server that's on a server with a lot more bandwidth.. Well... a Rube Goldberg solution, with so many intermediate steps the complexity of the edifice would almost be fun in its own right (but

Re: [slim] Just Time, NO DATE??????

2005-05-13 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-05-13-21:49:30 scottmd1: I have the squeeze2 and winXP and the version 6 of the software..I thought I saw an option to have the screen saver be JUST the time, or at least have the time HUGE in the screen.is that an option? I only want the time and not the date. If you just keep

Re: [slim] Re: itunes settings suggestion

2005-05-10 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-04-17-12:34:44 Dan Sully: * KiwiGraham shaped the electrons to say... What seems to be needed is something that absolutely guarantees the rescan processing can't interrupt the broadcasting. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153 So, what I've been wondering is -- and no, I

Re: [slim] Re: How much demand for an audio rack sized Squeezebox?

2005-04-25 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-04-25-13:04:52 nickrt: You might want to check my rack based SB at www.moyo.me.uk/squeeze - I found it quite straighforward to build the graphic SB into a rack/hi-fi box and it looks much better - what do you think? Looks very cool to me -- it's the sort of thing I wouldn't want the Slim

[slim] Errors with recent 6.1 nightlies

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Moore
(All on Mac OS 10.3.9) I had the 20-April 6.1 nightly installed, and when I tried to fire up an MP3 stream (http://wnycfm.streamguys.com) from an iTunes playlist, the server fell over with this message: Can't call method songBytes on an undefined value at

[slim] 6.0.0 (Mac) falls over adding to now playing

2005-04-04 Thread Jeff Moore
This is odd, because I could swear this was working for a few days after it was installed... but now, when addding an MP3 stream from an iTunes playlist to Now Playing, via the plus-sign in the web interface, the server (the first 6.0.0 production on Mac OS 10.3.8) falls over with this in

Re: [slim] kinks in the SB2? [a little OT: audiophilia]

2005-03-30 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-03-30-09:48:22 Sean Adams: I've been procrastinating upgrading my home receiver to a RSX1056 so I can fiddle around with driving its RS232 interface through the geekport... I guess this is my excuse. :) My apologies for another post related to the disease of audiophilia rather than

Re: [slim] Help - hummmm

2005-03-30 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-03-30-16:50:31 Robert Boltman: Another thought I had was to use the digital output and then an d-to-a - perhaps a cheap amp with digital in and a tape loop. Would that isolate it? If you use the Toslink (optical) digital output from the SB, that'd definitely isolate it from the next

Re: [slim] New Item Request- Squeezebox with amplifier

2005-03-29 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-03-28-00:12:49 Ken Gilmore: I totally disagree. Powered speakers are actually a great innovation. Matching amps with speakers has always been a black art; better that they do it at the factory - that way they can tailor the amp to the driver(s) and perform any EQ needed to get the

Re: [slim] New Item Request- Squeezebox with amplifier

2005-03-28 Thread Jeff Moore
2005-03-26-19:43:13 Doug Wise: What would make the squeezebox even more cool is to integrate a decent amplifier into the box. That way, you would only need a network connection and speakers to have a stereo system. I completely disagree. I want the Squeezebox to provide me with a useful,

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

2005-03-25 Thread Jeff Moore
Just wondering. Let's assume, just for argument, that someone -- say, me -- is an obsessive freak who tries to optimize whatever can be optimized with respect to the ol' stereo. With the SB1, I encountered occasional hiccups when streaming uncompressed 44.1K PCM which disappeared when I

[slim] SlimServer (multiple versions) seems to scan iTunes music forever, apparently circularly

2005-03-18 Thread Jeff Moore
be looking for? Some sort of timestamp anomaly? (The system time is NTP-synched). A malformed iTunes lib xml file? Any hints? Thanks, Jeff Moore ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo