abstraction
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Windows probably doesnt have a decent profiler unless you have Visual
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it... so most beginning-tag-writers use padding to keep some room for
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last 4k of the file to look for a tag" is a lot faster than "please
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My guess is failing authentication. Is the method on the SB and Router
consistent?
Is the key consistent? It is a pain in the butt to enter the key
manually and a typo or trailing space will make a difference.
"Password " and "Password" are not the sam
in the
dictionary, it will still not succeed.
Which brings it back down to "don't choose lame-ass passwords", which
is already known. This attack only makes using lame-ass passwords with
stock SSID's weaker.
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foothold for them there.
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drive... but then, except when scanning, I/O speed on Slimserver is
pretty much irrelevant (well, unless you run low on memory... then it
has to swap which brings I/O back, but that is unlikely on a PC).
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can put the whole
library on a system that is out of the way. You can be anywhere with
network access and have access to your music.
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confusing it. (I dont think it would, but then I don't use iTunes...)
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had to "teach" the server what the
"common album names" were, in 6.5 it should figure it out if they are in
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with the harmony database but I will find
> out what happened.
>
> Maybe someone recognizes that image and can tell us what it is?
Logitech would probably get the brand right, too. Oh, well, at least
my camera fund is safe
dammit, and I was stockpiling my spare money for another camera.
I am curious: looks like it would make a nice bedroom or office system.
(If the DVD part has a video out and can therefore replace my DVD
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harder to mess with them then, and trickier to notice subtle things
like one track having "wrong" art.
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Vie
t fine, so I know the network
> is ok. With the firewall off, no problems at all. Even with port 9000
> whitelisted, it still won't connect. Had no problems with the Win XP
> firewall running the same exact setup.
You need to allow port 9000 and port 3483. 3483 should allow both
rying to play match-the-keys and
type them the same on both ends.
If that doesnt work (or since this is easier), just for grins: check
the MAC address of the SB on the bottom of the box and the MAC address
it has in the network settings. They should match.
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ess" that happens to get out (like a demo
tape for music or a reading for a book, etc), but it makes for some
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But a generic license like the wikipedia one would be useful to keep
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dpkg --purge slimserver' should remove everything in the slimserver
deb.
Why 6.5.0? Not 6.5.1 or .2?
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Playlists should be compatible: the trick is making sure the pathing is
the same. The database doesnt matter: reliance on the database would
mean playlists would get crunched every rescan.
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tivirus software deciding that it
needs to scan the .MYI file.
Convince whatever you are using for AV to not scan .MY* files, or to
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> You have pools in Canada !!!
Yes, when the igloos melt,, they have pools.
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Checked setting of Shuffle?
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should wipe any current list of tracks to play and play just that one
track (or the whole directory depending on the setting above) and a
held-play should add the track to the current playlist.
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s supposedly talking to Emusic and others about releasing
their whole catalog online.
If they stole the "get it encoded at whatever you want" feature of
allofmp3, they could make a killing.
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http://www.emusic.com/album/10775/10775573.html will get you "in" so
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topa;178887 Wrote:
> Except for my "Jeff Buckley" Files. I have about 8000 tracks which
> appear correctly, but these two CDs don't show up under "J" for "Jeff",
> they show up under "B". Why? I don't know.
Bec
said you don't want to anyway...
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curve from the oven is sufficiently flat, though, it
may be messing up all the channels.
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en freedb
> > is filled with tons of inconsistent crap.
> > ("The Beatles", "Beatles, The", "BEATLES", and whatever anyone else
> > felt like adding...) if you trust that stuff into your tags, yes,
> > they will be inconsistent
read the Wiki page on tagging? Use of ALBUMARTIST will let you
put the Billy Joel album under Billy Joel, even if you have
contributors.
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o JPG/GIF/PNG, depending on your preference and it should
work.
(Though probably SlimServer should ignore cover.bmp if it can't rescale
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I hope that is twine. Cotton string tends to lose spaciousness and
muddies the music. 100% hemp keeps the sound natural.
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ck on them... oh, wait, they would never do anything
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well as online. Odd are that people
with SB's are working toward complicated setups and want to reduce some
of the remote-clutter in the process.
Since the Harmony tie should be helpful in getting SB's into retail
stores, it would be nice to cemen
blem loading page" error. What am I
> missing?
Assuming you have a router: have you opened up the ports on the router?
If you are talking about a real public IP, (not 192.168) then you will
have to try from off your network: most routers will not honor the
public IP from the loca
oh man, that's pretty... forget the times, now you are making me lust
after 7.0.
must resist mindless upgrade until 7.0 is a bit more stable.. must
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>
> Having said this, it sounds absolutely awesome.
I think you meant to used past tense there. :)
(Unless you happen to be a fan of John Cage´s work 4'33" or
something...)
t a
different engine here are all the schematics and you can either change
our engine around or figure out how to change the Chevy so it fits."
But then you rant at them that if they charged more for the manuals
instead of giving
e other
"system sounds" windows loves so much...
At least with XP.
With Vista? If Microsoft is keeping their word to content providers --
no, you will not be able to interecept the output of iTunes or WMP or
anything else that plays DRM'd files doing so would be viol
ncial insanity of that?
No, I see that you have difficulties with words having more than one
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nd a Long Ass
Cable to the stereo?
And wtf is the "forcing all of us to use FREE software?"
If you want to replace mysql with Oracle or MS-SQL, go for it...
I really don't see what the copyright has to do wi
That would almost certainly be useless for DVD or TV, though. It would
be virtually impossible to keep the audio and video synced.
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gt; This can be done today with no s/w development and small h/w costs.
Yep, though it would add an extra D/A/D conversion. The VXD method is
just to avoid that and should be doable unless the OS blocked it for
some reason (ie, as a wa
in Vista: I can imagine that is exactly
the sort of thing that Microsoft would have a cow about and that it
could be seen as a violation of the DMCA in the US since it would
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a VXD on Windows.
The only problem there is the mp3 conversion but stream it at something
like 320kbps and it shouldnt be too annoying.
Of course, that assumes that your operating system doesn't insist on
signed drivers in order to protect the output chain.
No idea how whiney Vista is abou
h for radio-type listening.
If you are just listening to music at home, you don't need it, nor do
you want to limit bandwidth. There is no reason to degrade your sound
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hp?t=32010 that he didnt know
if he needed LAME or not...
And he hasn't answered why he thinks he needs it.
If you don't transcode to mp3, you don't need LAME. In fact, if you
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is a good listening place and I don't want to waste bandwidth on
quality I can't hear.
I left quality at 9 because, again, it isnt like this is the greatest
listening environment.
What are you trying to solve with tra
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ss button. How about a nice and bright message showing just
>
> after the SB boots and switches to the black screensaver that says
> "Warning: Screensaver brightness is set to 0" or something in that
> manner?
>
Because the bright light could wake someone 3 miles away
No idea, I don't use iTunes. But the methods SuperQ and I gave would
work fine with or without iTunes.
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row).
You could also make a playlist that had your station in it.
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from their site, it seems that one of the formats is plain old mp3
delivered via HTTP basic authentication.
That should work fine.
(They list xmms as a supported player, so no DRM.)
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irewall on your server.
(When you upgrade software, the firewall will not know that it is the
same program and will block it.)
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Tell your antivirus software to stop messing with *.MYD and *.MYI files.
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panter;172993 Wrote:
>
> My quston is, how do you tag this, like this?
> ALBUM = Number 67
> ARTIST = This Is Music
> TITLE = Moby - Play
> TRACK = 3
>
...
ALBUM = This is Music #67
ARTIST = Moby
TITLE = Play
TRACK = 3
Are you relying on Guessta
phinbob;172304 Wrote:
> Similar to previous posts, my SlimServer stops for no apparent reason.
> The event log is the same as what others have shown.
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"let's make sure that everything is getting execution time" is passed
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It's still using iTunes in exactly the same way.
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daverush;172455 Wrote:
>
>
> Also localhost\9000 fails on DNS
Should be a : not a \ if localhost doesnt resolve, something is odd
with your system. Localhost should always resolve to 127.0.0.1.
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.0 build up and running. Thus I
> say, the Slimserver 6.5.1 build is BROKEN -- because SOMETHING has
> changed between versions.
>
How are you starting the 6.5.0 version? Surely you are not starting it
as root from a shell...
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I'm just tenderizing the meat, ponies are kinda tough.
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from Logitech? I want to fund some expansion so I have an
excuse^h^h^h^h^h^hreason to buy more squeezeboxes.
(Now, back to Amazon to look for more CD's to buy.. only have 2
enroute, so I better order more.)
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sense how it could be changed without him knowing about it, so Andy must
be lying...
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st enough machine
and no slow-initializing-plugins it could be crashing and coming back
quickly so you don't notice the crash.
I would think the SB would black the display at some point when it lost
connection, but, then, my startup time is sorta slow since I have tons
of plugins to in
displays very little after it boots -- it only
displays what the server tells it to do, and "Connecting to
Slimserver/Squeezenetwork" type messages.
Since the server can set the display brightness whenever it feels like
it, in theory it could set the brightness differently depending
Have you tried rebooting your router? My cheapo Belkin does something
like that every month or two, just stops routing things it doesn't feel
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knows better (but since the display comes from the server...
it can't say anything different).
Can you turn off your firewall for a bit and see if that fixes it?
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method to turn it on, therefore, can not require IR or network
activity.
This isn't that odd of a deal: I have several machines that I can't
"really" turn off unless I yank the power from them.
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mswlogo;171298 Wrote:
> Is the firmware open source or just SlimServer.
Just SlimServer.
>
> If firmware is not open source are bugs still filed on the opensource
> BugZilla database?
Yes, they are.
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like or you will further diminish the sound quality, converting that
128k AAC into the equivalent of a 96k or lower but still taking the
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scoding or anything odd?
WPA2/AES shouldnt be adding any serious load.
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Shouldnt be. The "already-playing" player should restart the song it
was playing so that they are both started at the same spot.
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mely reliable... ;)
Yep, local playback is a lot more reliable since you cut out a ton of
intermediaries. My backup is the kitten, but she is usually ahead of
the alarm clock by about 5 minutes, so I guess the SB is sort of my
sn
oss the room anyway, and my eyes are usually closed
when I sleep (though admittedly not always, but that is another story).
Ignoring reasonably loud music, on the other hand, especially since I
deliberately do not use an alarm with a Snooze button, is much m
the server, getting no response. When rebooted it connects
to Squeezenetwork just fine, and when it is logged out of SN, it
connects to the local server.
tbessie, do you know how to use ethereal or tcpdump to create a packet
capture so we can
g, it should
have worked... but again, ARP responses are low-level IP stuff (well at
the border between IP and Ether layers...) and an application program
can't change the responses... only a firewall or broken IP stack should
break them.
Is there a firewall on that machine? What is breaking A
tever that server tells it to display
(usually the time, but you may want it displaying RSS feeds or
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see a notice as to why it was down. If you were awake
listening to music, odds are you would want to know that you'd have to
wait a bit for music again.
As for "this is the stuff of lawsuits", sure: a million stupid lawsuits
are filed every yea
is
compelled to support it.
So it will play on your phone, car stereo, iPod, Zune, whatever. Oh,
yeah, and Squeezeboxes.
The portability is a nice feature which is why it survives when
"better" compression routine
Robin Bowes;169349 Wrote:
>
> Alas, a quality all too conspicuous by its absence on these forums of
> late.
I dunno, I was pleasantly surprised by the traction of the wormcable
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tomjtx;168955 Wrote:
> I don't know if feeding audio current through them would keep them alive
> but it might make their lives more "interesting" until they die.
So even 10 tons of worm cable need a burn in ti
t open that 10-ton can of worms.
Hrrm, I guess worms would conduct and therefore be possible to be used
as cables, but I am unclear on where to get a 10-ton can of them, and
how to keep them alive.
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Toiler;168764 Wrote:
>
> My last hope is to try upgrading the server from v. 6.5.0 to 6.5.1.
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ve tried is "almost" right, not quite really right... so
at some point I will get a Harmony to program it correctly instead of
'choose the maker of your dvd player from this list and guess which
code to use
http://www.thewho.net/linernotes/ByNumbers.htm
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esn't find out that you "like long walks on the
beach, candlelit dinners, and dancing under the stars" or at least the
context of that quote, you're okay.
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booze, so the bar is useless) and Squeezeboxes in the
Living Room and Bedroom. I can choose to play songs without ever
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> SnarlyDwarf, thanks for your response. You did recommend something that
> may be useful to me and others. Specifically, how can I disable a menu
> item in RadioTime? I didn't know this was possible.
You can't any more than you can disable s
? My
brain would hurt if I had to do things like "João Gilberto, Maria
Bethânia, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil - Brasil΅ as a directory
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