It's actually an old feature. SC7 has better syncing, though (ie they
will track a lot closer to each other).
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it doesn't. It talks about a walkman transmitting to your
stereo wirelessly... just like the article you cited....
I can read quite well, actually... can you?
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facts"
You didn't.
Yes, I am such an ass. I expect people to say what they mean and mean
what they say: if you really MEANT "here is a product" then why not SAY
that instead of pointing to an article that you the
e you cited stated. You know, the one you now
say to ignore because you really meant something else...
>
> i know, i was just saying that in general. its just that a SB is
> obsolete or will be soon, given the facts.
>
In general everything will be obsolete.
ne
> jack. will it also have a color screen? will it have any onboard
> storage? bluetooth?
yes, yes, no.
(bluetooth is dumb when you have 802.11g... unless you like being
borged with bluetooth phone headsets all day... I can deal with a
headphone cable.)
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rs" vs "how fast can I acquire music"
So far, I am well ahead of the flash and HD manufacturers.
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Did you used to use a router between your modem and the PC?
Did the tech remove it?
Put it back in, though you will probably have to set it to use the same
MAC address on the cable address as the PC the tech used to set things
up or go through their authorization process.
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on any directory "above" your music directory could break things, as
well as running the server under a different userid than before.
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Check to make sure the SB didnt get confused about its own MAC address.
(Ie, it should start with 00:04:20. If it gets confused, it will almost
always lose that part.)
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In SC7, yes.
There is a little "Sort by" with a choice of Album / Year, Album /
Year, Artist, Album / etc at the top of the browse page.
"Year, Album" would probably be what you want.
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ibrary plugin.
(Plugins are a -huge- advantage to SlimServer... and again, Roku only
kind-of-sort-of supports SlimServer with the Soundbridge and even that
is with an ancient version of SlimServer. So, no, plugins may or not
work with the Soundbridge.)
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l.. run Slimserver on both, and hold the
left arrow to choose which server.
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And more little "we cut corners" things:
M1001: 280x16 VFD (4480 pixels)
SB3: 320x32 grayscale pixels (10240 pixels).
No wonder the display looks so icky in the Soundbridge pics.
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them for parking funny or something.
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It does less?
News to me...
It also sounds better, since it doesn't resample everything.
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Permissions on the files?
(ie, does the Slimserver user have permissions to read them...)
I downloaded an album from Amazon and it worked fine.
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Musicbrainz often has that information, the catch is you may not agreee
with their definition of release date.
(ie, re-issues and remasters are supposed to get a new release
date...)
Allmusic.com may also have it, but they want a license signed before
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, HTTP, SMB, whatever. Try to minimize
wireless hops so devices don't have to wait for the network to be
available).
But, again, Signal Strength by itself is a meaningless number.
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handle anything more than
Artist/Track/Album. Genre, Year, Composer, Band are very useful for
some collections and trying to get those all crammed into path/file
would be icky.
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nor any prior purchased files, and refusing to
work even with other products from the same company let alone others.
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stening room?) to start playing songs?
Why would Slim/Logitech make a device that required you to keep a noisy
machine in your living room so that you could control a music player?
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sound card.
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the external GPS for the N800 or even a standalone GPS).
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ets much more complex in a huge
building since you have not only next door neighbors but also above and
below...
Between that mess, all the other junk on 2.4G (phones, microwaves, baby
monitors...) it is amazing it
rtist=Bob Dylan
comment[15]: DATE=1994-00-00
comment[16]: TRACKNUMBER=1
comment[17]: Album=The Genuine Bootleg Series, Volume 1
comment[18]: DISCNUMBER=3
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ic library.
Choose Treat multi-disc sets as a single album.
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etting what you paid for... but at least
keep the blame in the right place.
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sn't really workable: since it doesn't try anything
clever anyway (or you would have horrible things like "King Crimson"
sorting in the C's), it knows what it knows based on your tags. Stop
telling it that "David Bowie" should be sorted as "Bowi
I wouldn't blame the
router or wireless: wired ethernet is pretty well understood and router
makers would have to work hard to screw it up to make things break, and
since it is the same on an SB2 and SB3, I wouldn't expect a
compatability proble
is yours. Just whatever you do,
you have to be consisent, but that is the fun of tagging things
correctly and there is really no way any software is going to be
consistent without your input.
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There are also links to "Buy this as mp3!" from album pages.
Almost bought Liquid Tension Experiment, but alas, they are missing two
tracks from the mp3 download for some reason.
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Sounds like a DNS issue. No clue why you would have problems with
radiotime but not lastfm, since both use DNS. (ie, it can't convert
opml.radiotime.com to an IP: "Couldn't resolve IP address for:
opml.radiotime.com"
hey are a Various Artists release?
I have albums that are Various Artists and span multiple discs: but
these require being filed correctly by directory.
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It's completely offtopic here. Even moreso than the usual stuff.
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t: you will
need to use the proper IP of the machine, or with Windows machines, the
-name- of the machine usually works.
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next day/week/month/year or multiples thereof?"
If so, I buy it.
If the SB does what you want, then go for it. If not, then don't.
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WMA is a variety of things: there are multiple codecs that all fall
under the WMA name. Some of these are not supported. The most common
would be WMA-Lossless and there is a WMA-Speech codec (designed for
compressing speech).
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Ah but you havent seen the real evil... the SB is cheap compared to what
your CD budget will soon be.
It changes how you listen to music enough to make you want to throw
buckets of money at CD vendors...
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Can you convince your AV software to not mess with .MYD files?
Most AV packages allow for "excluded file types"
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n Erland's plugins I can't use ss7
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My TV has no buttons. (Well it has a power switch, but that is
god-knows-where on the back...)
As for Dynamic Playlist, yes, look at Erland's collection of plugins.
Use Trackstat, SQLPlaylist and DynamicPlaylist and you should have what
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imServer\server\CPAN/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 771.
>
>
The error is "Can't create/write to file
'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\#sql_17c4_0.MYD"
The most common reason for failing to write to a Mysql file is ... you
bpa, your first url got truncated. But, yes, this works fine for me,
too: http://icecast1.cbcradio3.com/r3.m3u
I found it by clicking the "mp3" link on the flash player, and having
XMMS tell me what it was playing.
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The PIN is only on Squeezenetwork, it should be under Settings on the SN
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It does not show up on a local slimserver.
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several people running windows2003 server... you could
download the software, install it, and play with it from a laptop or
another machine to see how well it works.
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s it!" and implies "this is a various
artists releases" which may confuse Slimserver on single artist
releases with the same name...
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li Peppers merger...)
Are you using iTunes or MusicIP? Is the iTunes-TCMP tag being set at
all?
The clue may be in the tags for those two albums and why on earth they
get linked together.
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album, but I think I'll just have to
> live with that for now.
That should be easy as well... what format are these, and what sort of
directory structure are you using?
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In Server Settings, File Types, click of the WMA -> WMA (built-in) and
make sure the WMA -> FLAC or WAV is checked.
If that worked, you ripped things using Microsoft's "WMAPro" codec.
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then a Unix box of some sort is really ideal. No need to have a GUI
and associated memory usage; easy to bury the box in a cabinet and not
worry, etc
Which distribution depends pretty much on religion and what your
pizza-and-beer bribable friends run.
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Unplug the squeezebox, count to 3 (because I am superstitious), plug it
back in, and hold the ADD button on the remote.
That will reset it to factory defaults.
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Other than that it just worked. (Well and the ssh command line is
icky.. but whatever.)
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pecially if you are using the max
> compression setting.
So you are saying that flake is... flakey?
(Sorry, long day and I couldn't resist.)
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dly I have a lot more drives scattered around,
but Paranoia is good, especially since backup drives are cheap.)
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Easy to do with Erland's SqlPlayList. (And sooo much more.)
Get TrackStat, SQLPlaylist and DynamicPlaylist from Erland's site:
http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer_Plugins
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Slimfx is buried in
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32422
It's technically a "theme" or skin, not a plugin, since it really runs
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dress.."
So the SB itself needs to be able to get online.
Can you connect to Squeezenetwork? I bet not.
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ifi providers, I should be able
to get online anywhere. ("Default", "Linksys" and "Buffalo" are all
great free wifi ISP's here :P)
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really off) and a longer button press turns it off without the question.
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confused with VA albums where the tracks are scattered by artist...)
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some random drug testing...
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mattybain;218830 Wrote:
> And? what difference does that make??? still trying to screw us. Makes
> it even worse.
Because you make it sound like an 'us and them' sorta thing with "us
europeans&
mattybain;218827 Wrote:
> This is unbelievable, I can't believe they are trying to screw us
> Europeans. Well screw you Logitech, never going to touch one of your
> products again.
>
You do know that Logitech is a European company, right?
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/wireless_music_systems/devices/216&cl=us,en
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laptop),
or turn it off if it gets to be annoying: the security it gives is
pretty minimal.
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cation at some point? It
probably autofilled in "things I see right now" when you turned it on.
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on where to send packets based on its knowlede of those
networks."
In most cases, the gateway -is- a router... what good is passing
packets onto a supposedly more net-knowledgeable machine if it doesn't
know what to do with them...
What mode
routers should take no configuration.
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headphones it's not bad for watching movies (but you will have to drop
the frame rate and resolution).
But it's not a Squeezebox in sound quality, nor is it able to replace
slimserver in handling large libraries.
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You can have a
couple gigs of music on it and pretend it is an ipod... But it isn't a
squeezebox and despite having perl installed you would not want to run
Slimserver on it. It is not exactly fast.
I love mine, but it
ould be "one device only, all in one and of a
different form factor and type"
Again, your wish list is completely satisfied by buying a $449 laptop
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or laptop... with all the
costs associated with that in heat. electricity and dissipation...
TCP/IP is cheap. I've run 9-port firewalls on a 386 with no real CPU
load. Remember TCP/IP is ancient and goes back to some painfully slow
by current
lready -have- a "fat device" ... a multipurpose server. Why
would I want a single purpose box crammed into the same box as my music
player?
That would be wastefulwhy devote another box and more heat and more
electricity when I don't have to, let alone
Let's see: the guy who did the SlimCD now happens to work for
Slim/Logi...
As does the guy who did the nifty Nokia skin...
Buy one, hide it in a cabinet and only feed it when you get new music.
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27;t hard to find $500 laptops at
Walmart...)
Economies of scale, most likely. Acer and HP and Dell spew out a
frightening number of laptops every day which keeps their costs low.
Buying even a 100,000 displays is nothing compared
e higher the price
point, the lower the sales. Your wish list would run to at least $1000
and quite likely more considering smaller volume builds. A cheap
laptop would do just as much and more for less. (Though laptop repair
is troublesome, too...)
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Oh neat, so every time you hit volume up it mocked you and sent an
additional volume down?
That is actually, well... funny.
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it keeps track of it by
itself so something is up with the server end. No clue what
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You didnt happen to install the VolumeGuard plugin did you?
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Or "java -jar SoftSqueeze.jar" if you have downloaded it seperately.
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http://www.issociate.de/board/post/140003/HELP_Fresh_install_of_XP_Pro_but_IIS_5.1_won%5C't_run..html
and notice the post about just that.
Turn off autodetect settings, IE is using that to find an IIS based
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http://www.webservertalk.com/archive120-2004-5-244404.html implies that
you are a) using IE, b) have IE configured to use a proxy server.
Change your IE settings to not proxy local addresses.
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Have you turned up volume to max on the SB?
When the SB is at full volume, it should match most other components.
Your other components typically don't have volume adjustments and will
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Mark Lanctot;217041 Wrote:
> I believe it doesn't matter if bittorrent is running or not, the router
> tries to maintain a table of recently-used connections and starts
> dropping or having trouble maintaining contact with others.
>
> I believe forum member snarlydw
Are the files stored locally or on a NAS share?
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ither...)
The router itself should not be allowing UDP broadcasts through unless
you have set it up specifically to do that.. or miswired it.
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IP security on the web page (under Server Settings /
Security) will fix that. Again, any router should be stopping requests
coming from the Internet anyway, so it won't mean anything unless you
have specifically told your router to forward things to you
d be
willing to provide a similar license to Pandora.)
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s its own made
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message
for our sales team, please make a note here."
You can put a note there just to be sure, but it should be automatic.
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nderstand that it is not a
production release at all? It is a nightly snapshot. It is usually
fine and dandy with only bugfixes going in, but sometimes one fix
breaks something else...
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The slashes go the other way on Windows.
Why? For arcane reasons, DOS used "/" as an option separator. (Like
"dir /w" I think worked.) So the / was taken when DOS3.0 came out so
they use backslashes for directory separator
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