[slim] Re: SlimDevices losing out in the UK

2005-08-31 Thread John Hall
Of course, you could go the way of Bose or other high end manufacturers and build a hifi module that is all in one - with the hard drive and cd player built in. If you use the Bose units with the hard drive built in (the word 'computer' or 'hard drive' is not even used, therefore you don't scare t

RE: [slim] SB2 cannot connect to Squeezenetwork

2005-08-26 Thread John Hall
it, browse to SqueezeNetwork -> Settings -> Squeezebox PIN and you'll be able to see it again. -dean On Aug 25, 2005, at 10:13 AM, John Hall wrote: > Hi, > > I've upgraded my old Slimp3 and got a nice new SB2. Trying to > connect to > squeezenetwork, just sits

[slim] SB2 cannot connect to Squeezenetwork

2005-08-25 Thread John Hall
Hi, I've upgraded my old Slimp3 and got a nice new SB2. Trying to connect to squeezenetwork, just sits and waits. it never connects. Is there anything I need to do? is it available to all users, i.e., to UK customers as well as US? Is the server down? I want my internet radio access without my PC

RE: SV: SV: [slim] AlienBBC for Win2K

2005-04-05 Thread John Hall
I noticed that the codec directory must be called 'codecs' - plural. Neil refers to a directory called 'codec' - this seems to be wrong. I'm almost there now at least I'm getting some sound! John -Original Message- From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 April 2005 22:50 To: '

[slim] AlienBBC for Win2K - partially working

2005-04-05 Thread John Hall
I've downloaded two windows codecs files in total off the mplayer site. Only the one in Neil's email contained the correct files - which I managed to unzip inside the codecs directory I had already to provide a windows-essential-codecs subdirectory! Moving the files to the correct place now lets m

RE: [slim] AlienBBC for Win2K

2005-04-05 Thread John Hall
In DEBUGPIPE mode I see the following output: 2005-04-05 22:58:55.6623 PlayableAODItem: Trying to get stream for: http://www.b bc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio1/live.shtml 2005-04-05 22:58:55.6628 Going to parse: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks /radio1/live.shtml 2005-04-05 22:58:59.7080

[slim] AlienBBC 2nd attempt to send email...

2005-04-05 Thread John Hall
I've followed Neil's instructions and run Slimserver from the command line and get the following output when running 'Radio 1' from the AlienBBC menu (a new section titled WAVE Format is added to the log each time it attempts to reconnect): === WAVE Format === Format Tag: 28515 (0x6F63) Ch

[slim] AlienBBC on W2K. mplayer test

2005-04-05 Thread John Hall
n the right place, but my email got bounced :-( -Original Message- From: John Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 April 2005 18:30 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] AlienBBC on W2K. mplayer test ok, testing mplayer for a MP3 file was easy... mplayer e:\mp3\smells_like

[slim] AlienBBC on W2K. mplayer test

2005-04-05 Thread John Hall
ok, testing mplayer for a MP3 file was easy... mplayer e:\mp3\smells_like_teen_spirit.mp3 MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE

[slim] AlienBBC for Win2K

2005-04-04 Thread John Hall
I'm using Slimserver 6.0 for Windows 2000 with AlienBBC 0.97 and mplayer 1.0pre6-3.2.3 on my old SliMP3 unit. This is the first time I've tried to use this plug in. I've extracted the mplayer executable and placed it in: \Program Files\SlimServer\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread Both the cod