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Nonreality;410414 Wrote:
Of course, of course. I'm sure no one here would think that you would
use any of those other lowly formats. Just think of the humiliation if
that wasn't so. :)
It would be awful! I can't bare to think about it.
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to
distinguish from lossless. So, when making compressed files - I opt for
192K Vorbis.
-Ron
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Where I use AAC and AAC+ is not in my own library, but streaming
internet radio stations to my SB3. My own library is in FLAC of course.
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a high-end system for
less than a thousand dollars.
I strongly recommend the A5s.
-Ron
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knocked off the network or moved, one that is never used for
experiments, ... Not a chance of that happening in my life :)
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Use a free tool such as Audacity to properly resample down to 48 Khz.
The command-line tool, sox, can do this as well. The files will have to
be in one of the supported formats to begin with however, (hopefully
FLAC,) as these tools do not support a lot of formats.
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- I would use attenuators
between the SB3 and the amp to limit the maximum volume.
I simply don't trust firmware in the SB3 to never make a mistake, and
frankly I would never trust any other source either.
-Ron
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I bought a Squeezebox and an A5 set for my sister, and set them up for
her. The whole setup sounds fantastic too me. For the price, this has
got to be about the easiest way to boot yourself into audiophile-level
sound.
-Ron
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Watch for loss of hair as you get older. Maybe it is caused by wifi
radiation. I have had one of the SB3s I purchased beside my bed for a
year now, and I have lost a significant amount of hair on top during
that period.
Wifi.
-Ron
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to your new Dave Mason CD with you, or whatever you
just got in the mail.
Frustration is understandable, but the use of bad language is really
bad form here.
-Ron
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/Damn_Small_Machine
I also have another machine running Ubuntu 7.04 - desktop edition, and
based on my experience I believe running such a system in 256 MBytes of
RAM would ultimately be a problem. The server edition should be fine
however.
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everything, or stream Rhapsody at full CD
speed... I would spend more money, not less. Labels - save me from
myself - don't make it possible to download everything without DRM at
full CD bitrate.
-Ron
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that out - but that is another forum
topic:)
-Ron
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.
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, rather than a frugal
install? Otherwise, you will have to do some work to save these
changes, to make them permanent.
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of
storage, and very fast response time from the little server running
Michael's SlimCD. The system is also extremely quiet - no fan.
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.
-Ron
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to 48Khz, it merely
decimates.
I recommend you down-sample any 96KHz FLAC files you download from Linn
Records to 48KHz using Audacity or dBpowerAMP before streaming them to
the SB3.
-Ron
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it was powered off. Apparently
the WiFi card or the SB3 firmware fell into a weird state.
Is there anyway a future firmware revision could detect this and clear
itself, or restart?
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*Other stuff:* NAD
, the eBox 3850.
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Netgear wireless
No question, heavy cpu usage on the sever machine can cause Slimserver
to be sluggish. This was one of primary reasons I wound up putting
together a dedicated music server - I could not stand it.
-Ron
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Nicketynick,
You can do an HD install of SlimCD - that is what I did.
You need 1 GByte of IDE flash to be comfortable, and 256 MBytes of RAM.
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-in.
After installing SlimCD 1.86, I downloaded the latest
no-cpan-arch.tar.gz file, and installed that over SlimCD.
-Ron
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this
at some point.
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a mindset, that most people in the world do
not have. Apple understands this sort of thing perfectly well.
I love the product, but I am a geek.
-Ron
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Pat Farrell;210882 Wrote:
Ron F. wrote:
I purchased a fanless nano-ITX machine
from the Damn Small Linux store. It is about the size of a Mac Mini.
It
came with a Gigabyte of IDE flash, so it has no moving parts at all.
I
So, if I may be so bold, what was the total cost (not counting
the
nano-ITX board, and install Ubuntu on it.
-Ron
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the future holds, a $200 box (small, silent, fast,
headless, and very cute,) running Ubuntu/Slimserver would certainly
have a market today.
I know it sounds silly - but it would have to be cute.
-Ron
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and more.
Whatever the final solution is - I know it won't be a standalone device
separate from the SB3. The solution will be in one box, the size of what
the SB3 is today.
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HDD.
I think it is running a 200 MHz cpu, definitely weaker than the eBox
3850 I am using. Even when driving three Squeezeboxes with three
independent streams, my server does not rise above about 25% usage.
-Ron
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into my car:)
-Ron
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Netgear wireless
either. Meanwhile - I have
the music server now that I always wanted. until I get tired of it,
and want something else.
I really want to run Ubuntu on the new Pico-ITX board. My girlfriend
tells me that my constant fiddling is driving her crazy.
-Ron
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Ah. I see Pat, that you are interesting.
I wonder what you are doing now, to attempt to change the world today?
You must be working on something. I am probably off topic now:)
-Ron
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and edit configuration files - but in the end the result is EXACTLY
what I want. I cannot imagine another server working out as well for
me.
I hope Logitech does not abandon the present approach.
-Ron
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it to FLAC, and then listen
to it uncompressed via Slimserver!
Then I go back to Radio Paradise and listen / learn some more.
It is a process:)
-Ron
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, it is not the panacea for
cost-cutting the general public imagines it to always be.
-Ron
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Just to be clear - you have tried streaming the original 24-bit WAVE
files to your SB3 - and they play correctly?
-Ron
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? I get the same
hiss whether I stream over SPDIF or the SB3's analog output, so I am
pretty sure I am not getting a straight pass-through.
What did you use to rip the HDAD disk?
Thanks,
Ron
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kHz and stream that
result to the SB3.
-Ron
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room in the SB3 for such an addition?
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Cliston,
I have been using DVD Audio Ripper V.4.0 with pretty good results. I
then convert the resulting WAV files to FLAC using DBpowerAMP.
-Ron
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am easily amused.
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I tried installing Jana, as Michael recommended as a possible solution,
but I could not get that to work.
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connection sharing turned on for the PPP adapter
on the Win2K platform.
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Michael, due to my lingering lack of knowledge of Linux (slowly getting
better with reading,) I will probably get stuck and wind up bothering
you with more questions:)
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with what
looked like garbled html written directly into the browser display.
Still - I am quite thankful for what I got:) because before I could not
stream anything at all.
Now for some internet radio listening...
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into the Tune-in field in the
Slimserver web interface.
By the way, I should say what a cool program Slimserver is. I feel
sorry for people who don't know yet they can play music like this.
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has
temporarily fixed the problem.
I was getting what looked like CSS code loading into the left-hand-side
panel.
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an audiophile, but my SB3 is driving a CI Audio VDA-2
DAC. I guess I am an audiophile wannabe.
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and clearing out old chunks for
client 00:04:2
0:06:82:26
2007-04-30 07:36:32.1257 Resetting song queue
2007-04-30 07:36:32.1264 Song queue is now 0
2007-04-30 07:36:32.1278 00:04:20:06:82:26: Current playmode: stop
Any suggestions?
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As an addendum - Using Winamp, I can listen to internet radio via this
PPP connection. When I paste the URL into Slimserver, it fails.
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the way to starting the stream, which for
some reason does not happen.
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to the
wireless access point on the Ethernet adapter!
So, I probably need to change the IP address of the access point, and
so forth.
I will post again if I get it to work...
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I sneaked out of work for an hour and just got back - the Open House was
a lot of fun, certainly encourage people to head on over.
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from Program Files. I then
installed 6.5.1. I made sure there were no firewall issues. On both
machines that appeared to solve the problem.
I am apologize to those who are indicating the wish for announcements
only here.
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, after the upgrade had been made. This seemed to be
the case, even for localhost which I don't think ever leaves the
confines of the computer!
Pretty frustrating for me, since I am a music-listener, and NOT a
computer debugger.
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Logitech makes speakers? I did not know that. Maybe they will purchase
Magnepan next. Ok - that was a cheap shot.
I hope the high-end 'tude of the Slime Devices product line is not
going to be lost in the hail of boom-boxes at Fry's Electronics.
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audio products? Can't think of many. I seriously doubt
the Transporter has a future against that stage, but we shall see.
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as to why my music
server is no longer reliable.
After reading this thread, I tried an experiment: I loaded 6.5 onto my
machine here at work, and found that the cache grew immediately to
about 40 MB, that is with only 47 songs in iTunes and no artwork.
Is that reasonable?
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