Re: [slim] Classical tagging - an idea...

to be solved. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55983

Re: [slim] Album Sorting - Confusion, Flaws, and an unclear path forward

Random Lurker, I sent you a private message. Click on the User CP in the menu bar. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http

Re: [slim] Album Artist vs. Band (TPE2) tags

where everyone argues that the way his first player s/w worked is the one true way or you can enhance SqueezeCenter to allow each user to do things his preferred way. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http

Re: [slim] Slimserver is woeful on Windows

it takes for a scan on my system. Opening a file does not automatically read it. You clearly don't understand how file I/O works. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508

Re: [slim] Duet power consumption and user habits

Phil Leigh;284060 Wrote: Of course turn it off... a glacier is in jeopardy! 5w is like...h so much energy. Seriously, you probably burn 5w each time you open the fridge door! So sapnho should leave the SBR on and turn the fridge off? Bill -- Listener

Re: [slim] Audioengine 5

that 4 is an adequate amount of space. Bill Hunt -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40455

Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet

engineering and armchair marketing? The topper was being able to evaluate the performance of a device you've never seen. Clairvoyance, too! And the quick-witted insults. Brilliant. Enough irony. Wait until you've actually heard the receiver to comment on its sound quality. Bill -- Listener

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

of their music libraries and combination of file formats and tags. ... iTunes is one music player program that has a decent user interface. Its design decisions are not inevitable in a program with a good user interface design. Bill -- Listener

Re: [slim] Interface and Operation: A Dog's Breakfast (Rant)

have provided some feedback that SS was still scanning and when the scanning was done, would have updated the screen. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View

Re: [slim] Sonos now available at Best Buy

collection as part of the deal. I think that distribution channel might be more important than traditional Hi-Fi stores. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread

Re: [slim] Interest in developing a low complixity SS

without any Sonos supplied server s/w. I don't think that the Sonos h/w has been updated lately so it might be possible to raise the limits of the Sonos units. So I think this sort of fat client architecture is viable. Bill -- Listener

Re: [slim] Interest in developing a low complixity SS

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Re: [slim] Interest in developing a low complixity SS

or Mac running some music player program works just fine. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279

Re: [slim] Is there a better way to play flac files than Softsqueeze?

implement the driver. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33025

Re: [slim] Is there a better way to play flac files than Softsqueeze?

to control my music PC from three other PCs. That works. I can even have more than one VPC client controlling the music PC at the same time. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

Re: [slim] Forum Cleanup

mvalera;199383 Wrote: Hey everyone, So do you like it? Hate it? Let me know, and give me suggestions for improvements too. I like it. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

Re: [slim] How would you like to select which music to play ?

itself usable for classical music in a year plus and according to the roadmap don't intend to in the next major release. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread

Re: [slim] Squeezebox vs Sonos

The Sonos remote allows for displaying 9 or 10 lines in addition to the menu and status lines at the top and bottom. That gives you a much better view into your files than a single line on the SB remote. I can't imagine preferring a 2 line display to a 11-12 line display. Bill -- Listener

Re: [slim] Is there a better way to play flac files than Softsqueeze?

for Flac. I t has a small footprint and is quite responsive. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33025

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

will expect it to do everything any other audio output device does. That includes playing audio that accompanies video. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

the result. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31879

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

would want to be able to use the hardware freely with any pgm, and not be tied down to SS. I did consider it last spring. At that time, the documentation of the streaming protocol wasn't up to date. Is it accurate now? Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver

you saw from this thread that Slimserver/Squeezebox has lots of fans who like it the way it is and are not sympathetic to suggestions that the system is lacking. It is a different architecture that might fit you or it might not. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: Composer tag?

-in for the J. River player that can feed its audio output to Slimserver. Using the J. River interface to play through a Squeezebox might be a good solution. Good luck finding a solution rather than settling for a kludge. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: Light-hearted: what will the new company name be?

: :-) Since Logitech has Harmony remotes, Melody or Rhythm would be good names for SimDevices products. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Let's here some suggestions for SlimServer 7

ymilner;132519 Wrote: And what about the enhancement request by Ceejay and Listener? has this been dropped? I mean these: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2696 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2698 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2699 http

[slim] Logitech Wireless DJ

might be a weakness. Simplicity might be a strength. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26505

[slim] Re: RoboCopy ... Am I doing it right ?

have cut down to 1 retry with a short interval since I never saw that retries did any good. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Time to Offer Praise to SD - Transporter!!!

hardware product for computer audio. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25924

[slim] Re: news for classical music users

get the tags right before I start ripping a CD. (I compared 6 WAV files made by EAC and Media Center 11 and found them to be identical so quality doesn't seem to be an issue.) It is still a long process to riop and tag a large collection but it seems doable to me. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: What the Squeezebox needs IMHO

response always appears: we love the philosophy of a web interface UI. SS needs a well designed UI not a doctrine. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Pay your way to a better slim server?

of internal Perl objects and is not very flexible. And there seem to be problems about its permanence and the efficiency and reliability of the scanning process. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Pay your way to a better slim server?

understand that these forums are dominated by people in love with the SB/SS system. People who have problems post messages in hopes of getting some improvement. I'm in that category. I expressed my opinion. Maybe my way of describing problems offends you. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: Pay your way to a better slim server?

comment. Things have gotten much better since I started looking at the mailing list digest just after SB1 appeared but there are still people who immediately react to defend their loved one (SB/SS.) Thanks again. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: Announce: Java-based server, SlightServer 0.2

Mitch Harding Wrote: Do you think the space in your music directory is causing the problem? Do you perhaps need to enclose it in quotes? On 1/8/06, Listener Listener.21c8hb (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote: ... # music_dir=${user.home}/music music_dir=c:/My Music/music

[slim] Re: Announce: Java-based server, SlightServer 0.2

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[slim] Re: Announce: Java-based server, SlightServer 0.2

page on my hard disk at file:///c:/Program%20Files/Java/j2re1.4.0/Welcome.html I'd guess the Java runtime is installed in this directory. As far as I can see, the \bin path was generated in your s/w. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: Announce: Java-based server, SlightServer 0.2

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[slim] Re: Announce: Java-based server, SlightServer 0.2

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[slim] Re: Squeezebox Or Glorified PC?

CavesOfTQLT Wrote: And many, many thanks to Listener. I'll take that as encouragement to make a few more observations. If you are serious about sound quality, you want a S/W + H/W solution that is dead reliable in playing without pops, gaps or glitches. You don't pay money to get

[slim] Re: Apple to enter home audio market?

Apple becomes the Gorilla in this market. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19073

[slim] Re: Squeezebox Or Glorified PC?

go with Softsqueeze, you might consider use the web interface on each PC. Or some other play software. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Alpha testers wanted for Java-based server

succeeds. Perhaps I could help in some way. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19213

[slim] Re: Native AAC Support

or more on the NAS box. Slimdevices needs to give clear specs and clear documentation about running Slimserver on a NAS box to avoid confusion and customer disappointment. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Alpha testers wanted for Java-based server

sounds interesting. I hope you will consider supporting the Composer tag and perhaps Conductor and Orchestra/Ensemble tags as well for classical music. What about OGG Vorbis tags in FLAC files? Bill -- Listener Listener's

[slim] Re: Enhancement requests for Classical or complex music collections

. That seems to work. The tags are probably in the iTunes database rather than in the WAV file. Slimserver might pick the tags up if you click on Use iTunes (music library and playlists) on the Slimserver's main Server Settings webpage. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: Enhancement requests for Classical or complex music collections

definitions. The enhancement requests you made ask for changes to function and do not specify anything about implementation. I do not want to lose sight of the possibility of quite general handling of tags in Slimserver though. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: Enhancement requests for Classical or complex music collections

in a poll somewhere? Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18946

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

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[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

in on this and the beginners guide. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18767

[slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

editing doesn't seem to work for a changing a Tag for a selected group of tags. How can I get an extra column such as Composer to show up in the left pane along with Title, Artist, Album, ...? Bill -- Listener Listener's

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

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[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

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[slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

. Thanks though. And thanks for the recommendation of mp3tag. I've used it quite a bit in the last two days and like it a lot. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

be more than one way to skin the cat. Does SS/SB require that files be tagged in a particular way or can it adapt and/or be configured to use a mixed library. Right now, I need to understand one way to skin the whole cat. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

and performers and conductors and bands.) Why not present the same list of browsable tags at each stage? -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

a limit on the number of levels of search you can do, though. Showing the number of Albums, etc. left to browse would help the user get to the end and stop there. It seems as though we are converging on a detailed proposal. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: ANNOUNCE: New Beginners Guide in Wiki

of the %n values you can use for file - tag operations. Godfather - seems to support composer but not conductor or orchestra. I think recommending a tagging program that supports all the tags we want to browse is important. That's why I raised the issue. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

player too. And operas and choral works will have more than one singer. I was referring to a practical need. -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

. I hardly ever use the Search function. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18767

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

be multiple instances of any of these tags in one file, all should be considered equally valid. (2) The second problem is the desired UI behaviour when using the remote. I sketched one model two posts ago - Listener has decribed another slightly different one. I like mine - obviously! Has

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

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[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

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[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

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[slim] Re: ANNOUNCE: New Beginners Guide in Wiki

handle classical music. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18649

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

and other SS/SB documentation should contain a strong warning that if the album name isn't unique, BAD THINGS MAY HAPPEN. --- Altogether, not encourging. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

it is pretty dumb design in the SS software. An F in Database 101. Assume that a field you don't control will be unique. As the market progresses, more users will want to use music files they already have and not be sensitive to what's in the tags. A recipe for problems. Bill -- Listener

[slim] Re: ANNOUNCE: New Beginners Guide in Wiki

on subtleties in desired usage. I agree that one size won't fit all. For example, I have few opera recordings and don't listen to opera much at all. I don't have the natural understanding of what an opera listener would want to do. The way I'd thought of which might address this - its come up

[slim] Re: ANNOUNCE: New Beginners Guide in Wiki

in a directory hierarchy by composer/work/conductor or soloist. I'll see if I can get Slimserver to find that directory and seem what I learn. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

[slim] Re: Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively

Artists method.) --- I have no idea whether this approach fits with the internal structure of Slimserver or the Squeezebox. I can certainly see how it translates to SQL Select statements. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile

[slim] Re: ANNOUNCE: New Beginners Guide in Wiki

convinced that the series of decisions I discussed earlier in the thread are closely connected and need to be documented as a whole. Thanks again for the responses from both of you. Bill -- Listener Listener's Profile: http

[slim] Re: ANNOUNCE: New Beginners Guide in Wiki

In the meantime as promised here is the Beginners Guide to Tagging Classical music... http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cg...ideToClassical I looked and have comments. I think there should be a more thorough discussion of what a classical music listener wants to do with the player before

[slim] Re: Slim Devices is hiring!

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