Re: [slim] Legality question... boo... hiss......

2007-07-01 Thread machinehead
brjoon1021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] so if you know something I don't know about how I can get lossless music from my squeezebox without having to buy CD after CD for the few good songs on them, please shed some light. I bought a squeezebox for FLAC not bad

Re: [slim] Legality question... boo... hiss......

2007-07-01 Thread machinehead
brjoon1021 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] As for why would I rip trash, well, it is standard practice and always has been in the recording industry to put a couple of hits on a crappy record to sell the whole thing. So, if there are two great songs that you like

Re: [slim] Re: Serious SB3 problems.

2006-01-14 Thread machinehead
snarlydwarf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a general FYI, with 802.11 devices, 'Strength' is sort of a meaningless number. It's slightly useful in if it's very low that is a problem, but the real number that matters (which most devices won't really record)

Re: [slim] Re: Serious SB3 problems.

2006-01-14 Thread machinehead
fmayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Listen, I don't need to walk through all the basics since I've already done that. Unlike many who may post to boards like this, I'm a software engineer with literally years of experience dealing with networks, including

Re: [slim] Re: SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues

2005-11-25 Thread machinehead
smst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] machinehead Wrote: I did try one of my DTS CD's, ripped to FLAC, but can't get it working on my Squeezebox 1. Not entirely sure why, there shouldn't be any bit-mangling, but I can't find any reference to DTS working

Re: [slim] Re: SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues

2005-11-24 Thread machinehead
kkitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] After setting the volume at full everyting worked perfectly. BTW, the Glad to hear you got it working, BTW. I did try one of my DTS CD's, ripped to FLAC, but can't get it working on my Squeezebox 1. Not entirely sure why,

Re: [slim] SB3/6.1.1 and DTS issues

2005-11-22 Thread machinehead
Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not entirely sure it's possible, and I keep meaning to check with one of my own DTS CDs and I keep forgetting. The problem is that, as far as I know, the Squeezebox cannot handle 96khz/24 bit, which is the format for most

Re: [slim] OT: dumb US dates

2005-10-09 Thread machinehead
Pat Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 08:30 -0700, Patrick Dixon wrote: I think it's actually 'only' 3 months on! Since Slim are American they insist on using arse-about-face dates on their forum ;) It isn't just Slim, it is nearly all

Re: [slim] Re: 48 kHz/1536 kbps wav files

2005-10-09 Thread machinehead
Patrick Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm also surprised that you find wav files to sound so much better than flac and I wonder if you are inadvertently streaming as mp3? Check that Player Settings-Audio-Bit Rate Limiting is set to 'No Limit' for your

Re: [slim] printable pdf catalog for 6.x ?

2005-05-14 Thread machinehead
thnmnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has anyone started work on a (pdf) catalog maker using the new sql backend yet? as virtual as my world has become i'd actually like something for my coffee table that's not a PDA :) Seconded. I did some playing around with the

Re: [slim] Calling all Java developers...

2005-05-10 Thread machinehead
PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The fact that the supported platforms only include one version of one distro and they released an SDK that can't really do any of the Tivo functions (specifically with scheduling or playback), I find it kind of