Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] mounted external drive and suspend problem

2010-07-13 Thread dbinder101
Thank you for your quick help. Unfortunately, this is way above my head. I tried creating a udev rule but it didn't seem to do anything different. Then I found some information about making sure the drive is being unmounted properly before going into suspend mode by using a file under /etc/acpi an

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] mounted external drive and suspend problem

2010-07-13 Thread epoch1970
I would suggest hacking a udev rule to fix the name of the usb device based on some recognizable characteristics, and mount it to some place in the filesystem. Alternatively you could use autofs to do the mounting part, if the drive gets swapped around a lot. To get you started I wrote 'here' (ht

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Problem with Debian repository again?

2010-07-13 Thread adamslim
Thank you both - I am now upgraded :) -- adamslim You can't have too much music, but I do have too much hifi Rock/Excalibur/MC30S, Linn Akurate Skweezy DS, Audion Pre, 6B4G SET, Lowther monsters Duet, Caiman, Audio Innovations Series 500, One Thing Quad ESLs Boom x 2, Radio --

[SlimDevices: Unix] mounted external drive and suspend problem

2010-07-13 Thread dbinder101
I was able to succesfully mount my external drive that contains all my music onto the netbook that I'm using as my SB server. However, I have it set to suspend the system after a certain amoount of inactivity so that I can take advantage of the WOL ability of my SB Touch. Unfortunately, when it go

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Album Art and Linux

2010-07-13 Thread SuperQ
I think the default media player (rythmbox) adds album art these days. There are also musicbrainz taggers that add art. (http://musicbrainz.org) Picard tagger has the advantage that it fixes up all the metadata really well. 1G is probably part of the problem. It's probably worth the $50 to to

[SlimDevices: Unix] Album Art and Linux

2010-07-13 Thread chn68b
I'm building a pc for a mate to run his Squeezebox Duet from and he only wants to browse the net and read email from it other than this, so I'm thinking, for the purposes of speed and viruses (his kids keep installing all sorts of rubbish), Ubuntu may be a good idea. I haven't dabbled with it (Ub