[slim] new radio -- are these known issues?

2009-12-11 Thread Owen Emry
Just took delivery of three radios, took one out of the box, and noticed the following: - The radio tries hard to make me create a mysqueezebox.com account, which I don't plan to do, since these will get used on a LAN with no internet access anyway. - After switching tracks, I often get very

Re: [slim] new radio -- are these known issues?

2009-12-11 Thread Owen Emry
dblack wrote: How do you plan to get firmware/software updates with no internet access? My other squeezebox devices take their firmware updates from the server on the network (which is updated once in a great while), not over the internet. The device should not, in general, be so buggy as to

[slim] softsqueeze hangs at the end of tracks

2009-12-05 Thread Owen Emry
Hello, and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere. I'm using SoftSqueeze 3.8 (on WinXP) with server 7.4.x (on Ubuntu) and have found that playback often hangs at the end of tracks. I see lots of options in the debug log but don't know what red flags to look for among the reams of data.

Re: [slim] Japanese fonts

2009-12-05 Thread Owen Emry
andyg wrote: Non-ASCII chars are handled by creating a bitmapped version of the character from a font file. So at smaller font sizes these can look a bit weird I guess as less pixels are available to render the character. I have some Japanese tags and they look fine to me. Maybe you can take

Re: [slim] Japanese fonts

2009-11-25 Thread Owen Emry
I can confirm that Japanese fonts aren't displaying correctly on my SB3 (firmware 130). The tags are correct (UTF-8) and they look great in the server (7.4.2 on Ubuntu) but on the SB3 display they show up looking badly aliased. To me, it looks like they were transferred as graphics and

Re: [slim] Japanese fonts

2009-11-25 Thread Owen Emry
andyg wrote: Non-ASCII chars are handled by creating a bitmapped version of the character from a font file. So at smaller font sizes these can look a bit weird I guess as less pixels are available to render the character. No, it's not that. They really are borked. To me it looks like when a

Re: [slim] Japanese fonts

2009-11-25 Thread Owen Emry
andyg wrote: Non-ASCII chars are handled by creating a bitmapped version of the character from a font file. So at smaller font sizes these can look a bit weird I guess as less pixels are available to render the character. I have some Japanese tags and they look fine to me. Maybe you can take