Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Converting an old PC to VortexBox

2012-09-09 Thread the nightfly
epoch1970 wrote: (I *think* win xp can't see above 2TB ?) WinXP 32-bit can only see 2TB. I believe the 64-bit version can see drive space larger than that. the nightfly's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Converting an old PC to VortexBox

2012-09-09 Thread epoch1970
Mnyb wrote: The Apple II dad borrowed one when i was a child ,memories (we could not afford such thing back then ) later on friends had the typical Vic C64 etc and transferred software over the phone line from cassettes :) C64, preserved and stuffed: http://www.kingsquare.nl/jsc64 ;) (USB

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Converting an old PC to VortexBox

2012-09-09 Thread garym
Mnyb wrote: The Apple II dad borrowed one when i was a child ,memories (we could not afford such thing back then ) later on friends had the typical Vic C64 etc and transfered software over the phone line from cassettes :) A, I fondly remember using my Apple II with an attached cassette

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Converting an old PC to VortexBox

2012-09-09 Thread CharlieG
It seems I had my dates wrong:-) I placed the order for the computer on January 18, 2004 and the date of manufacture is 1/20/2004. It has a Pentium 4 CPU 2.66 GHz and came with 512 MB of RAM (I later added two GB of RAM). It was in 2009 (when I purchased my first Squeezebox) I added the RAM

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2012-09-09 Thread bernt
Hi! I have Smart RG enabled on the iPeng player but it sounds as it don't have any effect then playing random song mix. Tried both RG enabled and disabled and I can' t hear any difference. Works with my SB. bernt's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2012-09-09 Thread pippin
Replay gain and cross fade are both currently not supported in iPeng. pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Converting an old PC to VortexBox

2012-09-09 Thread epoch1970
CharlieG wrote: It seems I had my dates wrong:-) I placed the order for the computer on January 18, 2004 and the date of manufacture is 1/20/2004. Ok, you need not worry much about the HDD then. If you're looking for a new one, it's going to be crazy expensive anyway (factories only do SATA

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2012-09-09 Thread garym
pippin wrote: Replay gain and cross fade are both currently not supported in iPeng. Ouch! I hope ReplayGain is one of the future possibilities. For complete albums it is irrelevant for me, but I do like the effect when playing dynamic playlists of tracks from many different albums.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Converting an old PC to VortexBox

2012-09-09 Thread garym
epoch1970 wrote: :) Our (I commandeered it switfly) Apple //e has twin floppy readers too. I was holding the guys fiddling with cassette tapes in utmost contempt. We still have the machine, a few years ago it was still in service for playing a few games, before being replaced by a retired

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2012-09-09 Thread norderney
Currently the maximum number of tracks that can be displayed in TrackStat within the iPeng app is 50, yet you can display 100 on the web interface. Is it possible to get iPeng to display the same number of tracks in TrackStat in IPeng as in the LMS web interface? Is this an iPeng issue or a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2012-09-09 Thread pippin
It's a TrackStat issue. pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plug-ins, Large Collections, and Hardware Requirements

2012-09-09 Thread prabbit
sander wrote: Adding more thread drift, albeit in a new direction, what do you gain from the musicbrainz tags? I'm experimenting with the mirror sever for stuff like jaikos, but I've found anything interesting in their tags. To be honest, so far nothing. I tried to use SugarCube (even bought

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plug-ins, Large Collections, and Hardware Requirements

2012-09-09 Thread prabbit
After the power surge I replaced the 80 Gb HDD with a 1 TB HDD. This allowed me to move my music from an external HDD to the internal HDD. I figured this would improve some operations. So, I moved the collection, cleared the LMS database, deleted all caches, rescanned my collection, reestored the

[SlimDevices: Plugins] TrackStat in iPeng

2012-09-09 Thread norderney
I posted the following in the iPeng support thread, but Pippin says he thinks the issue is with TrackStat itself. So I am posting this in a separate thread hoping Erland will pick this up. Currently the maximum number of tracks that can be displayed in TrackStat within the iPeng app is 50, yet

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plug-ins, Large Collections, and Hardware Requirements

2012-09-09 Thread pallfreeman
prabbit wrote: 1. The 1 TB HDD allows for a greater virtual memory for the server, which seems to help with performance. [...] 2. I did increase the cache_size in SQLLiteHelper.pm like pallfreeman suggested. That should help some. Increasing the cache size is (arguably) pointless if you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plug-ins, Large Collections, and Hardware Requirements

2012-09-09 Thread prabbit
pallfreeman wrote: Increasing the cache size is (arguably) pointless if you don't have enough physical memory for it. If you're already using virtual memory, you don't. So I'm not quite sure how greater virtual memory helps with performance. A faster drive, sure, but not a bigger paging

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Erland's Plug-ins, Large Collections, and Hardware Requirements

2012-09-09 Thread pallfreeman
prabbit wrote: My system does have the RAM for it. OK. Ug understand now. pallfreeman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37667 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Plugins] UPnP interface abilities/limitations

2012-09-09 Thread JJZolx
Are there inherent limitations to a UPnP controller and player posed by the API itself? Can a user interface controlling a player that is connected to a UPnP server be just as rich as one connected to a Squeezebox Server? Is it possible to implement much of the same functionality, such as gapless

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] UPnP interface abilities/limitations

2012-09-09 Thread erland
JJZolx wrote: Are there inherent limitations to a UPnP controller and player posed by the API itself? Can a user interface controlling a player that is connected to a UPnP server be just as rich as one connected to a Squeezebox Server? Is it possible to implement much of the same

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] TrackStat in iPeng

2012-09-09 Thread erland
norderney wrote: Currently the maximum number of tracks that can be displayed in TrackStat within the iPeng app is 50, yet you can display 100 on the web interface. Is it possible to get iPeng to display the same number of tracks in TrackStat in IPeng as in the LMS web interface? It can

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] OSX Mountain Lion sleep issues

2012-09-09 Thread Michael Herger
The main problem I have found with WOL in ML is that OSX goes back to sleep after 30 sec unless some application sets a power assertion to prevent it. The attempts to use ReallyPreventStandby I proposed earlier in this thread, and also the new version of PreventStandby in the current 7.8