Re: [slim] Recommend a WAN router with good wifi range?

2015-06-07 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Could not be happier with my TP-Link C9: http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Archer-C9-Wireless-1300Mbps/dp/B00PDLRHFW Rock solid, unbelievable range. Very clear and simple UI. Doesn't have a billion features but covers all the basics extremely well. (For things like routers I'm happier knowing the

Re: [slim] Thinking about my Squeezebox/LMS future

2014-01-07 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Hmm. Thought I understood this, but maybe it's just a matter of rephrasing. Let's assume mysb.com goes away. At that point, assuming I'm using a recent 7.8 build, will the Tunein app on my Radio still function as expected? I realize I can always save individual URLs as favorites, but Tunein

Re: [slim] Thinking about my Squeezebox/LMS future

2014-01-07 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Tunein.com is a massive list of online streams. The Squeezebox app shows up for the Radio and iPeng, I'm guessing the Touch, less sure about other/older players. Provides access to Tunein.com through a nice menu-based GUI on the player. Tunein also sends back artwork for the player to display,

Re: [slim] Thinking about my Squeezebox/LMS future

2014-01-07 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Excellent, that's as I thought. And thanks again to Michael for doing this important future proofing for the SB community. SBB On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:16 PM, garym garym.67l...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: Yes, with 7.8, tunein will continue to work without needing mysb.com.

Re: [slim] Can iPeng or Squeezepad integrate/control MOG or Spotify?

2013-12-31 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I believe iPeng 7 is a universal app, so if you're running iOS 7 that's the way to go. It's great as a controller and even better when you add the in-app playback to turn it into a full fledged Squeezebox player. SBB On Dec 31, 2013, at 2:41 PM, RioTubes

Re: [slim] Leak, iOS 7

2013-12-10 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Your link finds it but search in the App Store does not. Weird. I guess it's still updating somewhere in the depths of the App Store. I'm definitely upgrading, it's a great app right now and the new version looks way better and nicer for iOS 7. Just curious, what's the discounted price and

Re: [slim] Leak, iOS 7

2013-12-10 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Thanks, I'll use your link. Weirdly search still only shows me the old version (I'm searching for ipeng -- I also get ipeng ue and ipeng party as matches), and searching for ipeng 7 comes up empty. Maybe they update their search indices in batch overnight or something... SBB On Dec 10,

Re: [slim] Leak, iOS 7

2013-12-10 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Just bought it via your direct link. It works fine, in app purchase transferred as expected, and I deleted the old version. It's really great to have such dedicated development for the Squeezebox system. Thanks again for all your efforts. SBB On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:57 PM, pippin

Re: [slim] 1.FM Adore Jazz not

2013-04-28 Thread Steve Baumgarten
They don't seem to be supported through the Tunein app, though you can find and listen to then via Tunein on your phone or desktop. On the other hand, you can find these stations via the Internet Radio app which lets you search Shoutcast. Just search for 1.FM and you'll see all the stations;

Re: [slim] email gateway down?

2013-04-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Amazing that this forum still exists at all -- how dare I complain that the email gateway is down!? ;-) But glad to hear it's being looked at. It's so much easier to read the forums via threaded email, I'd miss it if it were gone for good. SBB

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-03-10 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Maybe it's hard to compensate the time that the people currently driving the development of this project invest. But what *should* be possible is to compensate their expenses e.g. for hardware they're buying to test. Any thoughts how this can be organized? Should we setup a list where these

Re: [slim] Life after mysqueezebox.com is turned off

2013-03-01 Thread Steve Baumgarten
A former SB guy now is working for TuneIn. He's a good guy :-). I've already sent him a mail about this issue. Hopefully he can give us some good answers. I sure hope this can be worked out. It's a great example of something that's worth a lot, and I do think people would be willing to pay for

Re: [slim] iPeng, your iPhone Squeezebox Remote, gets even better with version 2.0!

2012-12-07 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Yes, that's kind of what I had in mind, too. Would have to be something like wikipedia or a publicly available site, though, a lot of the commercial ones don't allow you to use their data for commercial Apps. I'd settle for an search on Allmusic.com -- even just opening the page in Safari

Re: [slim] iPeng, your iPhone Squeezebox Remote, gets even better with version 2.0!

2012-10-15 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I can't remove it completely (or it would be that way for everybody) but I need another screen there for some other use case so eventually I can do an option to use something else, probably a music information screen, in it's place. A quick links page that lets you go directly to Allmusic.com

Re: [slim] iPeng 2.0 Teaser Thread

2012-10-11 Thread Steve Baumgarten
+1 It also gives a visual indication of volume setting. As well as finer control over volume. I do use the visual slider in the Music app on my iPhone. SBB ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Refurb Squeezebox Classics available

2012-09-28 Thread Steve Baumgarten
The Squeezebox Classic is back on Buy.com for $169.95: http://openrocket.store.buy.com/p/logitech-squeezebox-network-media-player/206671999.html And the Radio is available for $119.95: http://openrocket.store.buy.com/p/logitech-squeezebox-radio/212543844.html Both are reconditioned, and both

Re: [slim] Refurb Squeezebox Classics available

2012-09-22 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Another update: he dropped me email today saying that he's also going to be restocking his buy.com store shortly, so anyone who is interested but unsure of dealing directly with the seller may want to keep buy.com in mind. SBB

[slim] Refurb Squeezebox Classics available

2012-09-21 Thread Steve Baumgarten
This is the Logitech branded and renamed Squeezebox 3. I recently picked up a spare from buy.com via a third-party seller on their site: http://openrocket.store.buy.com/ It may just be a used model, not a refurb. However, it looks new, came with all accessories including remote and tested

Re: [slim] Refurb Squeezebox Classics available

2012-09-21 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Are you saying he has some more to sell despite the sold out note on his site? According to him, if you contact him directly. Like I said, I am simply passing along this info. (I assume that buy.com takes a big cut of his sale and this way he'd get to keep more, but I don't know that for sure.)

Re: [slim] SB Alternatives

2012-09-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I've heard/read that HDMI may not be ideal in some ways, therefore this dock which has a DAC but can be bypassed via 2 digital non-HDMI outputs, may be a great Touch sub when combined with an iPod and iPeng playback: PURE i-20 Digital Dock for iPod/iPhone with Hi-Fi Quality Audio and Video

Re: [slim] Calling Sean Adams?

2012-09-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I agree entirely - the last thing we want in our living rooms is some hideous-looking geekbox. But the point about using a Pi is that it would be a purely digital transport and can be hidden away out of sight. Precisely. Like the Duet receiver, you don't have to look at it, it can be stuffed

[slim] Forum - Email gateway working?

2012-01-05 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I've gotten no email from any of my forum/mailing list subscriptions for the past couple of days. I know in the past it's occasionally had problems; is it working for others? SBB -- Steve Baumgarten Steve Baumgarten's

Re: [slim] Forum - Email gateway working?

2012-01-05 Thread Steve Baumgarten
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Re: [slim] Accessing WNYC streams Problem - Help Test

2011-07-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I'd appreciate someone trying these streams on their end to see if it is something unique to me or ?. Thanks. Streams below: http://wnycam.streamguys.com/ http://wnycfm.streamguys.com/ Those seem kind of messed up, as you say. The initial welcome message is fine, but it's a mess after

Re: [slim] Accessing WNYC streams Problem - Help Test

2011-07-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Not working now - have you tried WNYC since Saturday afternoon? Both the AM and FM streams loaded via RadioTime have the same problem. In fact I was listening to WNYC 820 this morning on my Squeezebox Radio, around 8AM or so. Very odd. I see that the RadioTime web page has a problem tuning to

Re: [slim] Accessing WNYC streams Problem - Help Test

2011-07-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
WNYC on my Touch via MySB and SBS and TinySBS is just the intro loop. I did get the AM one to play on TinySBS but a second attempt is just the loop. Thanks! Same as me then (absent tinysbs, which I haven't tried) I see my Radio is playing the AAC stream via RadioTime. That might be what's

Re: [slim] Reliable radio alarm clock

2011-04-05 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I'd like to buy a Squeezebox Radio, but it just seems fundamentally broken/flawed for what I want. In order of feature importance: I want a reliable alarm clock first and foremost. My primary concern as well. If your Internet or Wifi connection flakes out, the Squeezebox Radio uses an

Re: [slim] Reliable radio alarm clock

2011-04-05 Thread Steve Baumgarten
My Boom has always provided the backup alarm if there is no internet connection. (I use WiFi and msb.com, not a local server.) I do remember reading that it will only remember the next alarm when it loses connection. Huh. I'll have to check that. Apologies if I've provided misinformation. I

Re: [slim] Microsoft Security Essentials - any news?

2010-02-28 Thread Steve Baumgarten
-3914ac0e45a6 Fortunately I don't need to do a rescan very often and typically initiate it manually -- it's easy enough to turn off realtime protection while the scan is running. Still, it's annoying. -- Steve Baumgarten

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Baumgarten
d'n'd in Default currently is available for playlist (current saved) and favorites reordering. I'm curious about the state of playlist management generally in 7.0. Adding songs to an existing saved playlist is fairly tedious in 6.5, at least with Fishbone. I haven't experimented with 7.0 yet,

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Baumgarten
(right now that's the thing they're least happy about, given that they otherwise love their Squeezebox). C'mon? Which other kid can call a SB his SB?!? They must be happy! Ok? :-) And it's SuperDateTime that sold them. They are lunatic sports fans and love getting the latest scores on the

Re: [slim] Best Universal remote for Squeezebox?

2007-07-24 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Like CeeJay mentioned the issue is lazy search (and regular search as I recall) both rely on the letters in addition to the numbers to use them effectively. Lazy search is just too helpful for me. That's the one thing I don't like about my Harmony -- no letters. Makes search very difficult or

Re: [slim] Best Universal remote for Squeezebox?

2007-07-24 Thread Steve Baumgarten
That's the one thing I don't like about my Harmony -- no letters. Makes search very difficult or impossible. Are there any decent universal remotes that have letters as well as numbers on the keypad? Actually I see that the 880 has letters on the keys, but even discounted it's a pricey remote.

Re: [slim] Re: ETA for 6.5.1?

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Ross from SlimDevices did comment... and he declined to predict when 6.5.1 would be released. I'm sure if he wanted to offer more insight, he would have. This reminds me of that famous Onion article: God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy 'No,' Says God December 9, 1998 | Issue

Re: [slim] Re: Stereophile's visit to Sonos

2006-07-11 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Michaelwagner wrote: I was explaining why I have a knee-jerk reaction to Flash, and why I have a hard time considering it a real development environment. No doubt good work can be implemented in flash. Many Slimdevices users are already familiar with good Flash design: the Pandora music

Re: [slim] Re: Live365 Rant

2006-06-10 Thread Steve Baumgarten
It is a matter of preference... but how many times and how many buttons did you have to press to get to Pink Floyd? Let's see... click the Right button to get to Browse, Click the Down Button to get to Artists, Press the 7 to Quick Jump to P. How many Artist do you have that start with P? I have

Re: [slim] Re: A Silly Poll

2006-04-17 Thread Steve Baumgarten
30 here. Time to start wearing sensible clothes and reading real newspapers. I'm also making lists of things to shout at kids when they stray onto my lawn. Nah, just make it up as you go along: the real art is to be able to mumble and yell at the same time, so it doesn't really matter what you

Re: [slim] Robocopy commands

2006-03-27 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Kyle wrote: Robocopy seems to be a great way to automate backups, and thanks to dangerous dom, I have a script that will either perform the mirror or the backup function. But I want to be sure I understand what these two functions do. The way I understand it, backup will copy every file from

Re: [slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?

2006-03-24 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Mark Lanctot wrote: It's because it's erroring out at the end. It tries, errors, waits 30 seconds, tries again, errors, waits 30 seconds etc. I have to kill the process. I'm pretty sure if it completed successfully I'd get a report. You need to tell it to not retry open files a million

Re: [slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Kyle wrote: Is robocopy part of Windows XP or does it require a separate install? It seems that robocopy and xxcopy are similar. Let's say I've got an updated music folder on drive H and an outdated music folder (some new files not there) on drive I. What command would I use to update the

Re: [slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Kyle wrote: This sounds like what I need. If my music files are in a folder called FLAC Files on both drives, and I only want to mirror that folder, how would I write the command? Would it be: /mir h:FLAC Files\source i:FLAC Files\dest That's correct, assuming you want to mirror that

Re: [slim] Re: How do YOU backup your music?

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Baumgarten
The other nice thing about robocopy is that it does write verification; the robo prefix stands for robust, according to the docs. SBB Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not

Re: [slim] WDS network issues

2006-03-04 Thread Steve Baumgarten
danco wrote: So how can I tell which base station the Squeezebox is connecting to, and can I force it to choose one over the other? I had a similar problem and solved it by turning on MAC filtering and setting things up so that Squeezebox connection attempts are rejected by the undesirable

Re: [slim] Re: Is a Slim boombox really feasible?

2006-02-28 Thread Steve Baumgarten
ModelCitizen wrote: Read this thread and it's simple to understand why SlimDevices will never produce a boombox. Well, to counter that, I suggest you read this thread: http://www.slimdevices.com/au_news.html which goes all the way back to June of 2001 (scroll all the way down to the bottom

Re: [slim] Boooooo.........Sonos

2006-02-24 Thread Steve Baumgarten
This smells more like a retailer game than something put up by Sonos... It's the first match (the I'm Feeling Lucky match) you get back from Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=slimedevicesbtnI=Google+Search In fact that page does contain the word slimedevices. A few other hits as

Re: [slim] What's next from Slim? Speculate here.

2006-02-23 Thread Steve Baumgarten
They're working on the Slim Boombox I'm going to buy from them so I can listen to it out on my deck and when I'm working in my yard this spring. Come on guys, just a couple more months to go... ;-) SBB Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential

Re: [slim] Is a Slim boombox really feasible?

2006-02-23 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Most boomboxes sell for, I'd guess, $150 to $250. A Slim boombox would be starting with a $300 streaming component and then you would have to add speakers, an amplifier and maybe CD and radio, too. Knowing the quality audio that Slim Devices likes to deliver, I doubt this would be entry-level

Re: [slim] Re: Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?

2006-02-19 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Bradley wrote: Actually if you even listen to the actual audio stream directly from the satellite using Sirius hardware, you'll hear a lot of imperfections and digital artifacts. Satellite radio is far from Hi-fidelity. It's more about variety. So you may want to reconsider your point.

Re: [slim] threads are really messed up

2006-02-18 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Philip Meyer wrote: I was just reading through a thread and found 5 out of 6 messages where completely irrelevant to the initial post. I was just going to ignore the thread when I stumbled across a message that I was interested in that had nothing to do with that thread. To recap, the problem

Re: [slim] Re: Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?

2006-02-07 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Thanks for the info. Before exploring AlienBBC I'd like to get the player working on SB2/3's. I'm kind of confused why it is not working on them and so far I'm surprised I haven't gotten much response to my questions for help. Have you tried using mplayer and/or wmadec directly (on the

Re: [slim] Re: Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?

2006-02-07 Thread Steve Baumgarten
But without doing the above test you can't really know if the URL itself is wrong or if there's something about the WMA stream that's confusing the WMA decoding code in the SB2/SB3 firmware. Sorry, I should have read a bit further; it sounds like you've done this already and have a URL that's

Re: [slim] Re: Are you willing to pay for a Sirius Radio plug-in?

2006-02-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
GoCubs wrote: Plugin or not, no Howard. Unfortuantley only the music channels are available online :( Though according to what he's said on his show this week, that's due to change in the near future. They have to build out a lot of server infrastructure first, though, to handle the

Re: [slim] Re: Fishbone Skin: Album link missing?

2006-01-25 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Kevin Deane-Freeman wrote: it will be for tomorrow's build. sorry about that. Cool. This has been a very minor pet peeve of mine, that if you change the formatting to something other than just plain TITLE, you don't get the individual, clickable links anymore. But as it was such a minor

Re: [slim] Re: Fishbone Skin: Album link missing?

2006-01-25 Thread Steve Baumgarten
kdf wrote: that problem still remains. it is not feasible to parse out the titleformats on the fly to create links. If your titleformat contains ALBUM or ARTIST, then they will not be linked. All I've done here is to fix what should have been an album link. I see. Maybe a future

Re: [slim] Re: iTunes and DRM

2006-01-16 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Can't Slimserver just be configured to stream to the Squeezebox whatever is being delivered to the soundcard? That would be pretty cool: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643. I added my vote. There's a discussion of this going on right now in the Beginners list, where pbjbryan

Re: [slim] Re: Nokia 770 Skin

2006-01-05 Thread Steve Baumgarten
bklaas wrote: thanks, that makes sense. Bummer, but reasonable. I got a gonzo cool idea about the publicradiofan.com page while thinking about this last night...I'll spare the details until I see if I can get it working, but I'll give you a hint: rhymes with creasemonkey. Yes indeed. I've

Re: [slim] Re: Updated Slimserver and now does not read tags?

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I had the same problem upon switching to the Jan 2 nightly. I'll download the Jan 3 nightly tonight as I believe it is supposed to fix this problem. (It's kind of a shame that the 6.2.2 branch regressed in this way. I thought the idea was to have it pick up tested bug fixes only, with new

[slim] Re: Updated Slimserver and now does not read tags?

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Steve Baumgarten Wrote: The problem: if you have a genre with all albums in the genre having Various Artists (and assuming you have the Various Artists setting turned on), then when you go to browse genres and choose that genre you don't see anything on the page other than an artist

Re: [slim] Re: Smooth AJAX interface blows away any slimserver skin I've seen

2005-12-14 Thread Steve Baumgarten
My comment about Flash was half-joking. I agree that there is a place for Flash.. but I think that an AJAX solution could be a lot better for a browser environment - if well designed. However, I do agree that new ideas for user interfaces should be encouraged. I'm not generally a Flash

Re: [slim] Anything I should look for, or stay away from, in buying an external hard drive?

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Another vote for Maxtor here. Me as well. Just got the Maxtor OneTouch 300GB Firewire/USB2 model yesterday, plugged it into a spare Firewire jack on my PC last night and was all ready to go in a couple minutes. (This is to augment the 250GB model that I got last year. Man, those FLAC files

Re: [slim] Re: 30-character field limitation?

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I did not find ID3v1 tags at the end, I found APE tags. Just curious: how do you find out if a file has APE tags? SBB Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named

Re: [slim] Re: Pandora.com

2005-11-30 Thread Steve Baumgarten
super nice, super simple, flash-based interface Now that's an unusual combination of words! I agree. I am normally very down on Flash -- this is one of the few times I've ever seen it used in a way that improves on the user experience one would have without it. Compare and contrast with,

Re: [slim] Pandora.com

2005-11-29 Thread Steve Baumgarten
We too share your enthusiasm for Pandora. All I can say is that I've been friends with the founder for years. You are welcome to read between the lines. :-) Wow, I just tried it out. It's got a super nice, super simple, flash-based interface -- just hit the home page, enter an artist you

Re: [slim] Re: ASX stream support

2005-11-26 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Wow, I am speechless. I tried so many different links, but not this one. How did you look at URL's source? I tried to download it with wget. But this gives me a different URL. Just curious about this. People speak highly of this shareware tool:

Re: [slim] Re: Problem with tracks that have no 'album' data

2005-11-22 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I only have a few tracks/albums that really have no titles and that's usually stuff by Aphex Twin or whatever name you're used to calling him. But if you look around any music store rather than list it as nothing they refer to it as (Untitled) which I do too. Sigur Ros is the ultimate tagging

Re: [slim] Re: Sorting Album Art by Artist vs. Album Title

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Have a look at Mp3tag (ignore the name - it works on most audio file formats): http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ You can set up actions in Mp3tag that will build tags from other tags, or from parts of the file name. And vice versa, you can rename files based on tag information or from parts of the

Re: [slim] Sorting Album Art by Artist vs. Album Title

2005-11-14 Thread Steve Baumgarten
The interface for browsing by album art is fine except browsing by album title is a pain when you would like to see all the albums by a specific artist. I believe if you set the ALBUMSORT tag (for FLAC) or TSOA tag (for MP3 files) then the server will use them whenever a sorted list of albums

Re: [slim] Re: Sorting Album Art by Artist vs. Album Title

2005-11-14 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Which Tagging programs do allow editing of AlbumSort on FLAC files? I currently use TagRename, which makes it easy to edit tags on many tracks concurrently by creating masks. Only problem is that it doesn't support the AlbumSort tag at all. I've never used it, but Helium2 seems to support TSOA:

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

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Jeff Moore wrote: Yep. Last time I checked, I think the Panasonics 5.8s tromped all over everything, but the 5.8 Unidens stayed in their own yard. Actually the Panasonics are good, they only use 5.8. Decent phones, too. We have this model: http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2384232C and a

Re: [slim] Re: Wishlist: Less clunky (more iTunes-like) GUI

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Mike Anderson wrote: Do you have a link? Moose isn't specific enough to track it down in Google. Well, if you Google for moose slimdevices you do get some likely looking matches... In any event: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove/ Looks a lot like what many people here are asking

Re: [slim] Re: Organizing Album View by Artwork

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Baumgarten
JJZolx wrote: Add an ALBUMSORT tag to all tracks (TSOA tag in id3 tags). Populate that tag with the artist name, followed by the album name. I prefer to have an artist's albums sorted chronologically, so I also insert the year before the album name. For example: Amos, Tori|2005|Beekeeper

[slim] Re: Problem with SlimServMon Widget for Konfabulator

2005-11-05 Thread Steve Baumgarten
to the left by a few pixels, that'd fix it. 2. The update frequency uses a slider, but there's no indication of whether all the way to the left is 0 or 60. Other than that, it's beautiful, it's functional and it's taken up permanent residence on my desktop. SBB -- Steve Baumgarten

Re: [slim] Re: Strange search function behaviour

2005-11-05 Thread Steve Baumgarten
kdf wrote: in the fishbone skin, I put a form in the header that is just a direct entry into the static results. Live version can't work from there. I actually much prefer this interface and was glad to see it show up in Fishbone. Keeps things simple. I don't see much value in the dynamic

Re: [slim] Re: More wireless problems with new SB2

2005-11-02 Thread Steve Baumgarten
ovonrein wrote: Managed to perform a Factory Reset and reconfigured from scratch - unchanged. SSID has a signal strength of 88% (supposedly) and it simply refuses to connect. To simplify a bit, could you disable WEP and enable SSID broadcast, then try again? (This is just to test whether

Re: [slim] Re: More wireless problems with new SB2

2005-11-02 Thread Steve Baumgarten
ovonrein wrote: o I reconfigure the encryption and ... no problem grabbing carrier, no problem obtaining IP, then comes Connecting to SlimServer..., where it gets stuck. o When I press remote to reconfigure, up pops Now Playing - eureka! Weird, but I have say that I know the WEP key is in

Re: [slim] Tuning In To A Radio Station

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Neil Cameron wrote: I want to access Paste Radio via Slimserver - it's on http://www.accuradio.com/paste/. But the stream URL appears to be very well hidden; does anone know how to get it to work? In the past people here have mentioned URL Snooper:

Re: [slim] Re: Is SS 6.2 ready for prime time?

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Thanks Dan. Guess I'll wait for 6.2.1 because I have a lot of Various Artist albums tagged and stored as Various Artists/Album Name/Artist - Song Title. Well for what it's worth, for someone like me who has an album-per-directory structure, the Various Artists feature works like a charm. My

Re: [slim] Re: Is SS 6.2 ready for prime time?

2005-10-26 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Jeff52 wrote: Steve I have my albums in folders as follows: Various Artists/Album Name/Artist-SongTitle i.e., each compilation is in a Various Artist Folder under the album name with all tracks in the album folder. Are you saying that presents no problems in SS 6.2? If that is the case then

Re: [slim] Re: Track search forward/Backward

2005-09-29 Thread Steve Baumgarten
As an aside, can anyone shed any light on why the stock Slimserver scanning seems so primitive? because it is actually fairly tricky to accomplish a solid fwd/rev san while holding the button. IR is notoriously flakey, and there are loads of audio formats and sources to handle, each with their

Re: [slim] Re: Okay, maybe it's time to call it a day...

2005-09-22 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Jason Voegele wrote: Sure, Apple has a QA department and generally produces fairly high quality software [...] Tell that to the poor souls who installed iTunes 5.0...:-/ SBB Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only

Re: [slim] Re: Parental controls on albums or tracks?

2005-09-22 Thread Steve Baumgarten
bishopdonmiguel wrote: There are times when you have guests around and you don't want to be a rude inconsiderate host. I have a sizable collection explicit songs. Instead of showing off the Squeezebox when guests are over, I usually shut it down and go with the radio or pop in a CD. For

Re: [slim] Re: Play for Sure songs

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Baumgarten
a good first step might be to confirm that their redistribution licensing is indeed unrestricted. it may be that the client user of an application developed with the TR-SDK might need a licensed copy of the TR component. Could be. Though given that the application itself sells for $11.95

[slim] Rags contact

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Baumgarten
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[slim] Re: Rags contact

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Baumgarten
[ Sigh. ] Apologies for that brief, misdirected personal note in this discussion list. I'd like to blame a stupid email program, except it's Thunderbird and is actually pretty decent. So I'll blame my stupid fingers and/or the late hour instead. I'll be more careful in the future. SBB

Re: [slim] Re: sort order and database speed

2005-05-05 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Vidur Apparao wrote: You're right - I believe there is scope for substantial improvement here. Please file an enhancement bug at http://bugs.slimdevices.com, assign it to me and target it for 6.1. Cool. I just changed my recently filed bug 1497 from a bug to an enhancement request, targeted it

Re: [slim] Re: Re: sort order and database speed

2005-05-04 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Dan Sully wrote: Bug 288 is open on this - to handle VA albums better. Cool. I'll go add my name. Artist names are shown in these listings in the 6.1 tree. We listen! :) Nice! I haven't played with 6.1 yet; I'm just enjoying the nice, stable 6.0.2 for a while and staying off the bleeding edge.

Re: [slim] Re: Gaps when browsing music folder

2005-05-04 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Dan Sully wrote: Question - What do you have Sort By File set to? It's in Settings- Behavior It's set to Sort by File Name. I figured this would be the faster of the two options (where the other one is Sort by Song Information), though in my case it wouldn't make a difference as all my tracks

Re: [slim] Re: sort order and database speed

2005-05-04 Thread Steve Baumgarten
JJZolx wrote: IMO, it's just plain silly to use this method of navigation to build the database. Aren't there better options for low-cost methods of cataloging newly added files? I kind of understand what's going on behind the scene. If you think about it, what can SlimServer do when it

[slim] Re: Gaps when browsing music folder

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
worked on -- that there was a lot of unnecessary work going on with the DB in addition to just doing a readdir() -- but if that's not the case I'll file a bug report (or add my comments to an existing report if someone else has already done so). SBB -- Steve Baumgarten

Re: [slim] Gaps when browsing music folder

2005-05-02 Thread Steve Baumgarten
When I browse the music folder via the web interface I see the display on my SB2 freeze up (i.e., the large font that was scrolling the Now Playing info stops dead in its tracks -- pardon the pun) until results are returned to the browser. Music continues to play; I don't know, however, if

Re: [slim] Wireless SB2 clock 'pause'

2005-04-27 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I've seen the same delayed/queued display updates using a recent 6.0.2 nightly (from about one week ago). It's not just the clock; it's a more generalized problem, one that I've most recently seen in scrolling Now Playing info. Unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out how to cause the

Re: [slim] Re: Just getting started...

2005-04-20 Thread Steve Baumgarten
What button is that? Could you provide some more detailed instructions about how you do this in foobar 2000? I'm assuming that you are coverting into mp3 or ogg. Does it also transfer the metadata from the FLAC file to the other format? I'm not sure about a button, but if you select all the

Re: [slim] Sonos Doesn't Have to be a Threat

2005-04-13 Thread Steve Baumgarten
it being an app, i'd expect it to have better general UI responsiveness than the webUI on a PocketPC or PalmOS device. maybe someone who's used it can comment on it. It's interesting, but the Live Search feature now makes Slimserver nearly as responsive (if not quite a smooth) as an app. I've

Re: [slim] Re: Rescan / Wipe Cache, where is the cache?

2005-04-11 Thread Steve Baumgarten
JJZolx wrote: But consolidate the operations on the same page and explain it a little better. Get rid of the Wipe Cache on the Performance page and add a checkbox above the current Rescan button. Label it something like Perform a complete rescan from scratch. Add more informative text

Re: [slim] Re: Rescan / Wipe Cache, where is the cache?

2005-04-11 Thread Steve Baumgarten
JJZolx wrote: I was going to suggest this as well, but since the Rescan every ... is currently a plugin I figured the reaction would be that it's already implemented as a plugin, so there's no need to add it to the server while higher priority jobs need to be taken care of. And then I figured the

Re: [slim] Re: Re: Better forum please!

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Sean Adams wrote: Please just realize the irony in pointing out that the list is overloaded, while simultaneously overloading it further with a verbatim rehash of the forum vs list debate. Instead, please direct your suggestions to the CEO, who cares and will read them: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And

Re: [slim] something funny

2005-04-03 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I'm seeing the same problems as well. (6.0.1 4/2 nightly on Windows). Albums listed under the wrong artist [...] Same here. Problems started this afternoon while playing an album, Beck's Guero (highly recommended, by the way). The first couple of tracks would play, but then it wouldn't proceed

Re: [slim] Debugging missing titles from database

2005-03-22 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Bill Moseley wrote: It would be helpful to have a small tool where I can pass a file name and see how slimserver parses and how it would index. I know I can turn on debugging and rescan, but I'd like to be able to work with single files. I've used the log file in the past. Start the server with

[slim] Problems with rescan using 3/19 nightly

2005-03-22 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I mentioned a few days ago that it seemed like rescan wasn't working for me, but I wanted to do some more testing. Now I'm seeing it again for sure with the 3/19 nightly (running on Windows XP with Fishbone). I just added several folders (each folder is an album containing well tagged MP3 or FLAC

Re: [slim] Re: Error installing SoftSqueeze from 6.0b2 on Windows

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Dan Sully wrote: Thanks - I'll let Richard know. We'll roll a b3 with this updated once it's fixed. I got it as well from the 3/19 nightly. Curiously if I just download the nightly ZIP file and navigate to the Softsqueeze folder, I can run it just fine by doing: javaw -jar Softsqueeze.jar

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