Does anyone know how to fool the Mac version of MusicIP into doing local
analysis?
Under Options > Server I've unticked the "Connect to server" box but
when I select "Start Analysis" MusicIP comes up with a dialogue box
saying "OK to sync? I need to synchronise with the MusicIP server" with
Yes a
I've been using an iPhone/iPad app called Roomie Remote
(www.roomieremote.com) to control my AV kit and this works with an
adaptor from www.globalcache.com for devices that still use IR. I think
Roomi is great - really easy to set-up and use.
I think the future of dedicated remotes like Harmon
I've been using UDAP to set-up a Receiver and everything seemed to be
working ok, however I've noticed that if I stop and start LMS, LMS
doesn't recognise the Receiver until I switch the Receiver off and on
again.
The LMS interface says "Your player was not found". If I switch the
Receiver off a
You can use Nicecast (http://rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/) to select an
audio source on the Mac then stream this to a Squeezebox.
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UK?
One I have seems to have died.
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long time to clean this up so I'd rather not take the risk
again.
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we see in the US.
>
>
In Korea, Japan and some European countries, a high proportion of
people live in urban apartment blocks so it is economical to run fibre
to the basement. The economics are tougher to serve suburban detached
popu
A couple of questions
- will it be possible to generate MusicIP playlists using the
Squeezebox Controller? (you can do this by holding down the play button
on the current IR remote)
- planned date for UK availability of Squeezebox Controller?
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one (can't remember the model numbers...)
They've been completely problem free and I haven't touched them since I
set them up.
I'm not sure what the max bandwidth is but I've been streaming Apple
Lossless at approx. 1Mbps without a problem. Both adaptors are
in 6.2.2 were still there, importing from MusicIP doesn't
work properly and I couldn't see any other advantages of 6.5.4 so went
back to 6.2.2.
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See 'bugid 4151' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4151) and
there may be some others on this issue as well.
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There have been a couple of bug reports raised because of issues with
Slimserver and iTunes 7 - see 'this thread.'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27503)
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I haved raised 'Bug ID 4151'
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pped from this CD if they don't
include artwork.
I'll raise a bug report later today and include a copy of a track with
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CD!
It is made even worse by the exchange conversions used for GBP and EUR
which are significantly worse than the usual rip-offs we are used to
getting.
There are a lot of complaints about this on the Beatport forum so
hopefu
x27;t displayed and the
tracks wouldn't play.
Tracks without cover art with a cover.jpg file in the same directory
displayed cover art and would play.
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including post and packing from the US to the UK.
Buying the same tracks as WAVs on Beatport would cost GBP 24.97.
Needless to say, I've stopped using Beatport.
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es 7 introduces a new tag for gapless tracks. I set this on a few
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plugged into 4 way extension leads rather than a plug
on the wall and while I haven't measured bandwidth, I've had no problems
streaming FLAC.
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no problems with them and I'm streaming FLAC.
I'm sure having the adapters on extension leads isn't optimal but it
works fine for me.
The adapters are bigger than the typical plug
mit isn't always the most reliable of sources) It says
(which was my understanding) that he was born in Belfast and moved to
Scotland later when his father was appointed to a position at Glasgow
University.
>From my biased perspective, he was an Ulsterman and that takes
precedence over being S
g Island NY USA
> http://ftldesign.com
ah, but Lord Kelvin (real name William Thompson) wasn't Scottish but
was from Belfast in Northern Ireland.
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ne Player in the
room with the computer where I don't listen to music and then have
another Zone Player in the other room to listen to my hifi.
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ox is
£215 so the Squeezebox is £564 or about US$1000 cheaper.
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to go to the files and extract the tags so the problem seems to be with
the interpretation of the tags.
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PC also has GigE and you have a GigE switch, how would the network
transfer times compare with an external USB or Firewire drive? (which
is what I've got at the moment)
Would GigE not be at least comparable? (I'm not an expert on this and
I'm sure there are lots of factors th
Infrant Wrote:
> Mikerob,
>
> The re-scan performance is definitely slower, but if your music
> collection doesn't change a lot then the biggest hit will be the first
> time you set things up. For 10K tracks, we estimate it will take 2-3
> hours (this is assuming pretty
Apple Lossless?
- plans for support of Alien BBC?
- possibility to support Music IP Mixer from predixis.com? (and if the
NAS can't run Music IP, does anyone know if it is possible to query a
different computer that is running Music IP?)
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this to see if there could be good integration between this
trial and Slim.
TV is being streamed in Real, Windows and H264 and radio in Real and
AAC.
Details at www.bbc.co.uk/multicast
This is a trial and I know that a number of ISPs haven't got it working
properly yet...
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eed to configure IP addresses manually - however it makes sense
for the Mac to be connected to a router with internet connectivity as
you will need this when ripping CDs - unless you want to type in all of
the CD track information manually.
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s me want to bang all their heads together!
>
> Philip
>
>
I recently bought this CD (from amazon.co.uk) and didn't have any
problems ripping it (using iTunes on Mac OSX 10.4) + playing on my SB.
Maybe the protection is region and/or OS specific?
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stinkingpig Wrote:
>
> Interesting... using the address, Google Earth/Maps is about three
> houses off when looking at my house too. Makes ya wonder.
>
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They have also shifted the Greenwich meridian...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/06/greenwich_merid
I use ALAC and have had no problems at all. Mac Mini running OSX 10.4.4
with music on external La Cie HD, Netgear WGR614 Router + SB3 and 2 x
SB2. SB3 uses optical digital out into Musical Fidelity DAC. SB2s use
analog out into Arcam and Cambridge Audio amps.
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ew applications available but I
don't think any of them yet have the functionality and usability of
iTunes.
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pple.com/uk/itunes/mobile/faq/) but
Motorola appear to be the only company to date that Apple has done a
licensing deal with.
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Michaelwagner Wrote:
> Mikerob:
>
> If I remember your problem correctly (and I'm thinking of the right
> one), it was a crash during playing (actually probably displaying) the
> song with the odd character in it.
>
> And it was some problem with looking up the righ
ts its info from was different from the
encoding if you enter that character directly using the Mac keyboard.
Rather than replace the accented character with an unaccented one, you
could try to replace accented character with the same character using
whatever the keyboard command is for the accented char
I've raised this bug http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2682
for issues displaying artwork in 6.2.1 however for me it is with Mac
OSX and ALAC/AAC files so may not be the same as the problem you are
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earlier version of iTunes.
However you can set up a new iTunes account (and all the details can be
the same except for the userid), buy music using iTunes 5 or earlier,
then use JHymn.
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SoftSqueeze and a visualiser like G-Force. I see that G-Force already
supports integration with a number of players such as iTunes, Winamp,
Windows Media Player, J River, Foobar and others - I'll post a note on
the
Dan Sully Wrote:
> * mikerob shaped the electrons to say...
> [color=blue]
>
>
> How much memory is SlimServer taking after it starts exhibiting slow
> searches?
>
>
Will email you with after it has been on for a few hours Dan.
Unfortunately I didn't
mikerob Wrote:
> Hmmm... very strange - I restarted the Mac and the search results are
> now virtually immediate. I'll raise a bug with d_sql info if it
> happens again.
The problem seems to be time related (memory leak?). After my Mac had
been left on for a few hours, the se
Hmmm... very strange - I restarted the Mac and the search results are
now virtually immediate. I'll raise a bug with d_sql info if it
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Cheers Dan - I've got some d_sql traces and I'll put them in a bug
report (unless I hear that searches of 30-60 seconds are to be
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a lot faster in previous releases - what times are
other people getting with 6.2.1?
What debug options would be best to collect during a search to see what
is happening?
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SB3s shipped before the black ones.
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> this item??
>
> Yours impatiently!!
>
> Geoggy
Get to the back of the queue! I pre-ordered mine 3 weeks ago...
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means much - their branches don't stock all of the
brands listed and even when they are meant to stock a brand, any time I
have called their London branch, they've never had the items I've asked
about in stock - I always
, but www.stompy.com sells tracks in wav
format. Stompy is "an online boutique specializing in Downloadable
House Music. We bring you the chunkiest front edge deep underground
house SINGLES that yearn to be played"
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Khuli Wrote:
> Ah.. the official distributor is Ingram Micro, but I daresay they will
> refer you to a reseller.
>
> http://www.slimdevices.com/au_resellerinfo.html
The link above has two distributors for the UK - Ingram Micro and
Progressive AV.
ing uses a closed format and proprietary
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that has been imported from the US but I can't say I've ever seen them.
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details then copied the .pls file to Slimserver Playlist
directory to listen to the station.
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after having seen the SB3.
A friend and I both put in an order for a black SB3 at the show!
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lines to read:
>
> $params->{'song_count'} = 0;
> $params->{'artist_count'} = 0;
> $params->{'album_count'} = 0;
>
> By doing this, you lose the statistics on the start page but web access
> is just as fast as before 6.2.
e become one of them...
I totally agree that I only see the justification to check the music
library stats when you do something to change them. With me, that's
only when I do a rescan as I don't use iTunes, composer, various
artists or compilation album features.
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> Patrick will be there. Please do stop by if you can.
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> QUOTE]
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> Will do - I had planned to go on Saturday as the show isn't far from
> where I live.
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I see you will be at MacExpo in London this weekend - will it be
possible to buy a Squeezebox 3 at the show or is still too early for
this?
Will any of the guys from Slimservices be at the show or is it your UK
distributor?
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Howie - that title only has a "pres." and a "feat." - I managed to find
a couple with a "&" a "vs." and a "pres." -"Jay-J & Chris Lum vs. DJ
Chus pres. The Groove Foundation"
I put everything in the ARTIST tag...
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e seen on UK TV for the next year or so.
>From a Slim Devices perspective, I would have thought any publicity
(and the piece certainly wasn't negative) is good publicity.
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For dance music check out www.stompy.com
WAV and mp3 downloads, however downloading WAV files takes forever...
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Have the missing albums been filed under "Various Artists"?
Recent functionality in the 6.2 release means that Slimserver will do
this if the compilation tag is set - I don't know if this is also in
6.1.1.
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comes up with some really, really good combinations that has me
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I use a Mac Mini + external LaCie firewire drive as a dedicated music
server and have had no problems that appear to be Mac specific.
Mac aliases aren't yet supported however you can create symbolic links
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A fix has just gone in for the bug and I'll be trying it out tonight.
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th accents in their title
crash the Slimserver and a very similar issue was reported and fixed
back in April
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I have same problem with 6.1 on OSX 10.4.
After a number of hours when my Mac isn't being used (e.g. overnight or
when I'm at work), Slimserver becomes inaccessible through the web
browser and needs to be stopped and restarted.
What debug information could I collect?
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