Is the SB3 "Classic" no longer offered? Also, anyone noticed that the
online store appears to have no products at all?
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coverage around the house?
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The Squeezebox 2 and Squeezebox 3 natively support FLAC in the players
themselves.
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300Kb would be the
upload speed (i.e. away from his home). He doesn't tell us about his
work Internet connection, but one assumes it's something symmetrical
(and more robust than a home-grade DSL or cable modem link
would be to use SSH to tunnel the slimserver ports
(TCP 3483 and 9000) and see if that makes a difference. If it does,
then I'd definitely think ISP-side traffic shaping is contributing to
the problem during those non-morning hours.
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but then I realized that at 169$ for a new
SB2, I got a great deal and should have bought three of them at that
time. I'd like to have one on my desk at work and a v2 wireless-only
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Just found out from another thread
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=200664) that using
"player=*" will send the CallerID info to all connected squeezeboxes.
Very handy, and simplifies things even further.
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e playerid of each connected player.
This seems like an easy and valuable feature, but I couldn't find
anything like it in the docs.
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bleah. It makes the text harder to read.
It's like blinky web pages or most implementations of Flash --it kinda
looks cool, for the first few seconds until you realize you can't
actually see the info you want...
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d set CSRF protection to "none".
There is a caveat any time you use the System() call. It's highly
unlikely to be an issue, but it's an interesting read anyway:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+System (scroll down to
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eric firmware or re-image them with generic
firmware.
It sounds like the iphone is just another example of Marketing nonsense
that is alienating customers.
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Has anyone experience running S/PDIF over a vacant Cat6 pair? I need to
get S/PDIF about 30 feet and already have the Cat6 in place, so that'd
be easiest. I could pull RG6 but pulling cable is such a pita...
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tens of thousands of tracks.
I agree, buying more SBs would be a no-brainer if not for SS. SS is
clearly the weak link in the whole SB proposition --the UI, the db, the
performance...perhaps it's time for a complete re-do guys...
I know you guys love hard
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
> UPS...or do you have a power plant in your backyard? :-)
I do have a couple of large UPS units at home, but this particular host
is one of a number of systems at work that have been up for over four
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% uptime
6:56pm up 1515 day(s), 9:34, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.04,
0.04
No, this is not forged.
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>
> clock displayed, it's not realy "idle".
>
> -k
The VFD's heaters stay on all the time.
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exist. I really hope Sean et. al. don't have an "exit strategy" that
involves selling out to a transnational that will homogenize,
genericize, or otherwise mainstream-ize the product line...
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away, so I use a laptop to
control the music. But this means Squeezenetwork and Pandora are not
an option, which is disappointing.
I imagine anyone using anything besides the IR remote for SB control
would feel the same way.
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everything, including my LinkSys router (WRT54GS running OpenWRT). All
of my slimserver use is via OpenVPN.
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aluminum faceplate fit better, it will also eliminate the distortion in
the front plastic (which you can see if you hold the face up to the
light) so it becomes more flat.
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I don't see the point of extending the IR receiver of the SB a few feet,
since you want to be able to see the unit's display anyway. If it's a
situation where you want to extend the IR reception across a house or
from room to room then an IR repeater would seem to be the best bet
oo
expensive and the fact that a Mac Mini is only 2x as much money
evidences the fact that it's too expensive" is specious at best.
Compared to a bespoke Armani suit, or dinner at Melisse, a wireless SB3
is downright cheap!
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nnection --that's AOL
(except without all the value-added services and features).
I hope that customers don't stand for this nonsense and vote with their
dollars (US or CDN).
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2.4GHz
Pentium 4 running a 2.4 linux kernel. I've never had occasion to try to
run more than that many players simultaneously.
I think if you avoid transcoding you should be able to support a lot of
players simultaneously.
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you're seeing 50Mb on your backups, you might have some other issue like
bad cable/jacks or I/O limitations on your hosts. If your network is
really bottlenecking you at 50Mb, something ain'
mally see about 10.5 megabytes
per second transfer rates on 100Base-TX links, which is quite close to
100 megabits per second.
So my question to ceejay stands --I'm curious why he expects only 50
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ceejay Wrote:
> Well, at the top end: a 100Mbps LAN should give you about 50Mbps of
> usable throughput, so divide 50,000 by 256 to get 195 theoretical
> streams.
>
50Mbps?
I'm curious why you don't expect 100Mb/second from your 100Mb/second
E
27;s worth a try at least. As others have said, just
be sure to avoid the metal bits.
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moby_uk Wrote:
>
> Life is too short to pick on people trying to be helpful.
I don't think anyone is picking on us at all.
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Surely someone has suggested webmail already?
Is that not an option?
You could probably even get a webmail account that automatically
forwards messages to your work address so you only have to access the
webmail interface for sending email, not receiving it.
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in language.
I'm barely old enough to remember Heathkit. They used to have a store
here in LA over in the Mid-Wilshire area. A fun destination when I was
a kid. I built an alarm clock and lamp controller but never a radio or
television set.
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the last vowel: "wienerbröt". The word traditionally
refers to a somewhat specific sweetened bread rolled multiple times
with butter before baking but usage has of course generalized a bit.
Point well taken, though. I assume "television set" was the proper
term, but wa
geoffb Wrote:
> On 5/23/06, rudholm wrote:
> > I thought to myself "I'll take about fifty
> > billion --that ought to be enough for my danish".
>
> We're obviously talking British billions here, right? :)
> Geof
tom permutt Wrote:
> For your Danish pastry, you mean.
Yep. "danish" is elliptical for "Danish pastry" (it's even in the
dictionary this way).
Dad's from Copenhagen and he refers to such a pastry as a "danish" so I
fi
mong other domestic
appliances, "microwaves". I thought to myself "I'll take about fifty
billion --that ought to be enough for my danish".
In any case, part of speech morphing is pretty usual these days. Noun
to verb e
It seems a number of people have had problems when both the SB and the
slimserver computer are on wireless. I would suggest putting at least
the slimserver computer on a wired link and see if that makes a
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That sounds like a network problem. The music keeps playing because the
buffer has enough capacity to prevent interruption. What kind of
network is there between your SB and your Slimserver?
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onder if they'll offer any good deals at the MacGathering this
weekend...
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and pin them up to the bulletin board in the copier room.
Vibration Rings, Error-reducing felt-tip markers, Surface
Conditioners...
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et one.
There's bajillions of 'em:
http://tinyurl.com/ldv8t
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=external+modem&btnG=Search+Froogle
http://tinyurl.com/ht7op
http://castle.pricewatch.com/s/search.asp?s=external+modem
And they can be had for reasona
nly USB. Most new ones have
either serial or serial and USB.
For dangerous_dom, I think a modem and a SpeedStream 2623 is clearly
the best way to go.
I'd have mailed him both items if I hadn't already given them away.
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it.
They *could* be asking about that shiny SB3 instead!
:)
[this space for sale]
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I rebooted mine 233 days ago so I could add RAM. Hasn't ever needed a
reboot other than that.
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rly. Suggestion to the contrary is neat
balderdash.
I'm happy that Slim Devices credits me with the literacy and
intelligence required to use their products properly without having to
be beaten over the head with the obvious.
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I agree with the Onkyo suggestion. They tend to sound better than
anything in their price range. This one is pretty compact and sounds
great (a friend has one).
http://tinyurl.com/plwos
That Shop Onkyo site is worth a browse.
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All you need to do is set bitrate limiting to "no limit". It's a player
setting. I believe it's the default.
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of that, slimserver just isn't that big of a prize for
anyone to bother. There are far jucier and lower-hanging fruit. If
you or your systems are of *that* much interest to someone, there are
far easier ways to gain access or cause damage, one of which would be
to attack PPTP. As implemented by
Assuming you have at least 384kbps upload speed in your primary house
(where the slimserver is located), you should be fine, but you will
have to configure slimserver to limit the bitrate for the player in the
lake house down to 256 or 128kbps.
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You might also consider installing more capable firmware on your iPod to
make it support FLAC. http://www.rockbox.org/
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I'm 37. However, the other three users of my slimserver are 25, 25, and
26. The two who live on grad student budgets use Softsqueeze to access
the library.
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For me, putting all the amps in one place just wasn't an issue. This
AudioSource seems quite at home on my nightstand.
http://rudholm.com/sb3-ns.jpg
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won't
play on a CD-DA player, and I don't believe the Squeezebox supports
those standards (yet).
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htstand/coffee table/bookshelf/dresser/etc dressing. Even when off
the clock looks nice and with music playing the Analog VU meters really
are quite keen.
It would save you having to run speaker wires to each location, as
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tiffer than Cat5e, making it
slightly more difficult to work with, but it wasn't much more money, so
I figured it was worth it as the primary pain is the labor not the cost
of materials.
At the time, I think the spec wasn't fully ratified, so there were
variations in cable calling itself
ttp://flac.sourceforge.net/ for more of the brochure :)
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I've been pretty happy with my ADCOMs. They seem to me to be excellent
amps without being expensive just for the sake of being expensive.
Good two-channel ADCOM amps can be had for < 1000$ easily.
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it sounds like they may be more suited
to your particular needs.
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isks, or do you have them laying around as
> well?
>
> Clearly try it and see if it runs or walks or is too slow for
> your tastes.
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> http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
http://192.168.0.11:9000/index.html?player=00:04:20:06:30:40
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The problem with the faceplate is a known fabrication problem that has
been corrected. If you contact Slim Devices support they'll mail you a
replacement faceplate that has slightly more clearance around the edges
and thus won't come off.
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There's normally not a lot of traffic to/from a SB when it's not playing
music. How are you determining that there is a lot of SB/slimserver
traffic? Can you be more specific about what you're seeing
dean Wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2006, at 1:45 PM, rudholm wrote:
> > Got an RMA.
> >
> > Yay.
> >
> > Since I'm apparently the only one who ever had this problem, I will
> > probably forever be known as "the burn-in guy" to SD support
> staff..
idn't complain.
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Got an RMA.
Yay.
Since I'm apparently the only one who ever had this problem, I will
probably forever be known as "the burn-in guy" to SD support staff...
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customer if they refuse to RMA it,
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Well, tech support says they can't see the burn-in in the photograph I
took so no RMA.
I'm supposed to get a call from the "Tech Lead" tomorrow.
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stinkingpig Wrote:
> rudholm wrote:
> > ...
> >> meh. Each has its place. VNC's performance is horrible, but it is
> >> easier
> >> than X. It's probably a point of interest that the most popular page
> on
> >>
> >> my website
t all day? Do you own a car? Do you heat your home? Do
you live in the first world?
Then the ecological impact of the electricity used by an "off" SB is
down in the immeasurable noise.
The reason a VCR uses so much power when "off" is because it's "off&quo
ideo hardware that may or may
not be attached to the hosting computer (given enough memory, of
course).
One possible exception would be if a user was using VNC to share screen
0, but that's not a common use and certainly not appropriate for the
scenario you describe in your howto.
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;cause that would just be so insanely complicated nobody
would ever figure out how to use it if it had that!
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stinkingpig Wrote:
> rudholm wrote:
> > That's what people mean when they say "burn-in" --the oft lit areas
> get
> > darkened. The CRTs on any older coin-op video game unit are great
> > examples of the effect.
> >
>
> my SB2 and SB3 ar
That's what people mean when they say "burn-in" --the oft lit areas get
darkened. The CRTs on any older coin-op video game unit are great
examples of the effect.
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I sent them email already. I don't suppose I'll hear from them until
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e lit, as when you adjust the volume or when the
boot-up banner comes on.
It's pretty disappointing. :(
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If you're going to be doing any bit-rate limiting on playback, you'll
need more CPU than if you didn't (since the server has to decode and
simultaneously re-encode your music in real-time). But aside from
that, you really don't need
ad considering what a
great product the SB is.
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Personally, I'm happy Slim doesn't support Real. That company and its
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e SB MAC
address won't change even if its source IP address does. The MAC
address effectively becomes the password and it's already sending that
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sort. For Linux, there is IPTables, which works
quite well. Alternatively, you could set up some kind of access control
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What format are the files in?
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that don't happen when you kill the process.
> - Dave
>
>
> rudholm wrote:
> > Is there any reason you don't want to just kill the process?
> >
> >
> >
pkill should solve the problem of knowing the PID. I've never had any
problems just k
Is there any reason you don't want to just kill the process?
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spam senders. (Yes, spammers do use these blacklists this
way)
Of course, the operators of these lists are now quite invested in them
and aren't really open to the idea that they may be anachronistic and
doing more harm than good.
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server because none of these things would really work well if I tried
to run them from home.
As I mentioned, FLAC files play just fine even with the server being
remote, so there was no real drawback and many advantages
a commercial datacenter and is limited by its 100Mb/sec
local Ethernet connection.
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usly. FLAC files tend
to be about 800-900kbps so this isn't really surprising.
The only tip I have to offer for anyone using OpenVPN is to disable the
default compression. It will profit you nothing and cost CPU and
latency.
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fine too, so I suspect CIFS is just a little bit of a network hog.
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ime of day rather than making the adjustments only at
the beginning and end of the period.
I sleep with a SB3 on my nightstand and find that brightness level 1 is
perfect --not bright enough to be irritating, but bright enough for me
to read the time in the middle of the night if I want to.
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ng the thing around with
you a lot and they're neither small nor light. Also, even though they
are somewhat ruggedized and "splash resistant" I still don't think I'd
want 400$ remote controllers in a home with children.
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-worker, it
sounds like he'll be happier with the Sonos. I wouldn't begrudge anyone
their choice of consumer electronics and being tribal about such things
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're not running a 90MHz Pentium. I know people seem to make a big
deal of the integrated server in the Sonos products, but I just don't
see it as being that big of a deal.
Also, the ZP80 (the one that has S/PDIF out in the stead of an internal
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somesuch. Perhaps a mention of how an internal antenna is less likely
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roduct at home or work). My music library is FLAC with some MPEG
Audio Layer 3 and a handful of MPEG Audio Layer 2.
This should be fun...
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