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Living Room / Re: can you listen what this file says?

« Last post by skwire on August 05, 2013, 04:09 PM »

Do you have any idea what it should/might be?

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Living Room / Re: can you listen what this file says?

« Last post by skwire on August 05, 2013, 03:52 PM »

You have reached <something something (company?)> building.
Unfortunately, I can't take your call at the moment but please leave message and I'll contact you as soon as possible.  Thank you.
When you've left your message, just hang up or, for more options, press 1 at anytime.

The only thing I'm unsure of is the name of the building that she mentions.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: M3U8 playlists

« Last post by skwire on August 05, 2013, 03:42 PM »

I have updated to include dropping of folders (including sub-folders) and fixed the crashing bug.

-c.gingerich (August 05, 2013, 03:20 PM)

Fixes/additions confirmed here.   

One thing left on the Tim's list and that was to convert backslashes to forward slashes.  Also, the app doesn't appear to process Unicode paths but I'm uncertain if that's important to Tim or not.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: M3U8 playlists

« Last post by skwire on August 05, 2013, 02:44 PM »

Nice, Chris.     Couple of bugs:

• Selecting multiple items in the list and then moving them (with the buttons) results in some odd behaviour.
• If you select all the items in the list and then try to move them, it exits with a "Run time error 19 at line 244" message box.

The ability to drop a folder might be a nice addition, too.

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Living Room / Re: PLease help superboyac build a server (2013 edition).

« Last post by skwire on August 04, 2013, 04:40 PM »

With all this potential gear, you have considered the electricity bill increase, eh?

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sStockQuote

« Last post by skwire on August 04, 2013, 11:27 AM »

Website | Download
v1.0.3 - 2013-08-04
    + Added simple alerting system.
    + Added minimise on startup option.  (Thanks, P. Alby)
    + Added close to tray option.  (Thanks, P. Alby)
    + Added minimise to tray option.  (Thanks, P. Alby)
    + Added start with Windows option.  (Thanks, P. Alby)

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Living Room / Re: Internet Speed Test

« Last post by skwire on August 03, 2013, 07:22 PM »

As usual, 10 gigs....

-Tinman57 (August 03, 2013, 06:48 PM)

Per month?   

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Living Room / Re: The fun of installing custom router firmware (tomato, dd-wrt) - an introduction

« Last post by skwire on August 03, 2013, 03:25 PM »

Vyatta, IPCop, m0n0wall, Smoothwall Express, or pfSense

-40hz (August 03, 2013, 03:14 PM)

I ran FreeSCO for several years (way back) and then Smoothwall for several years after that.  Good stuff, the both of them.

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Living Room / Re: The fun of installing custom router firmware (tomato, dd-wrt) - an introduction

« Last post by skwire on August 03, 2013, 01:56 PM »

I run Tomato (Shibby) on my main router (ASUS RT-N66U) as well for several reasons:

1. The ability to run multiple networks (VLANs).  I use three separate networks in my house:

• The main network that all my stuff runs on, both wired and wireless.
• A separate, wireless-only network for guests when they visit.  This network has access to the internet only...no access to anything on the first or third networks.  This protects my stuff from any potential harm a guest device might do.
• A third wired/wireless network for my computer workbench.  As with the second network, it has access to the internet but is firewalled from the other two.  I do this in case I'm working on somebody else's computer that might be infested with virii, malware, etc.  This way, said device can reach the internet but not harm my stuff or guest's stuff.

2. The interface.  The stock ASUS firmware, while capable, had the typical pseudo-futuristic eye-candy type of interface.  Not my thing, at all.
3. Unlimited static DHCP leases.  The stock firmware had a limit of thirty.  Hard as it may be to believe, I have over thirty devices in my house that are internet-capable.
4. Full OpenVPN support for both client and server.  I use the client portion for connecting to a paid VPN service so that all devices in the house can easily browse anonymously and I use the server portion to connect back to home while I'm traveling.
5. Bandwidth statistics.
6. As mouser mentioned, IP tracking to see stats per device.  Who is using what, basically.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Music player for FLAC files with multiple columns for albums?

« Last post by skwire on August 03, 2013, 12:07 AM »

If they allow selecting several files at once (with shift or CTRL) that might be enough.

-HankFriedman (August 02, 2013, 11:33 PM)

All the ones I've seen only play one at a time with no queuing ability.

I've been searching for them and couldn't find any yet, so if you could point me to one or two, I'd appreciate it.

-HankFriedman (August 02, 2013, 11:33 PM)

XYplorer is one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Music player for FLAC files with multiple columns for albums?

« Last post by skwire on August 02, 2013, 11:26 PM »

There are several third-party file managers that will play audio files directly within their interfaces.  The problem that you're going to run into is that they do not have any sort of playlist handling.  That is, they will play a single file just fine but don't offer any mechanism by which to queue up multiple files for playback.  In other words, this type of functionality is mainly meant for quickly previewing a file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Music player for FLAC files with multiple columns for albums?

« Last post by skwire on August 02, 2013, 10:53 PM »

What about a music player that had the play-stop-pause buttons on the top of the screen and left the rest of the screen for displaying artists (i.e. in a large space) with scroll bars for overflow.

-HankFriedman (August 02, 2013, 07:41 PM)

Even Windows explorer panes show multiple columns and scroll bars simultaneously in the available space

-HankFriedman (August 02, 2013, 07:43 PM)

Yes, I know.  It's a matter of putting a listview into "small icons" or "list" mode.  However, you don't "play" an artist folder.  You play individual music files so, at some point, you're going to have to browse to that level of a given folder structure.  Designing an interface to do that is sort of like re-inventing the wheel since most any file manager can do what you're describing.  I mean, what's wrong with using, say, Windows Explorer to browse through your file structure and then loading up what you want in whatever player you feel comfortable with?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Music player for FLAC files with multiple columns for albums?

« Last post by skwire on August 02, 2013, 07:38 PM »

I don't think you're going to find what you want because I don't think there is a way to do it properly in an interface.  Think about it.  At what point do your columns stop and start?  Are you saying that the visible height of a column determines the number of entries in a given column?  That is, no vertical scrollbars in any columns?  If so, what if the number of artists exceed the available space in the last column?  Where does the overflow go?  I'd think your only option would be to increase the number of entries per column by reducing the font size but, of course, you can only reduce it so far.

FWIW, I've NEVER seen what you're describing and I've tried scads of players over the years. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Music player for FLAC files with multiple columns for albums?

« Last post by skwire on August 02, 2013, 12:11 PM »

I placed the facets.dll in the root folder of foobar

-HankFriedman (August 02, 2013, 10:47 AM)

Close foobar and put the facets.dll in your foobar/components folder.  Start foobar, and you should now be able to access the Facets interface from the Library > Facets menu.  Furthermore, you can integrate the Facets interface into the main UI as well.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran

« Last post by skwire on July 30, 2013, 02:55 PM »

I noticed that the linebreaks into athe logs are losts when we export the logs to .csv.
Is it a way to fix it ?

-migounanounet (July 30, 2013, 02:47 PM)

No, the CSV library I use doesn't allow for line breaks.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch m3u8 creator - similar to createm3u

« Last post by skwire on July 28, 2013, 04:01 PM »

Website | Download
v1.0.2 - 2013-07-28
    + Added option to add a "#EXTM3U" header line to playlist files.
      (Thanks, M. Quinn)

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on July 27, 2013, 04:14 PM »

Wonderful.  Can't even get a Shoutcast API key if I wanted to.   

http://www.shoutcast...partner_request_form

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on July 27, 2013, 02:46 PM »

Hi, Lowtone, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

I use Trout, almost everyday, since two years, and i really appreciate it. It is one of the best music player around.

-Lowtone (July 27, 2013, 03:42 AM)

Thank you for your kind words.

The "channels" column has only numbers like 1 or 2, but stays often wide because the word channels is longer than 1 or 2.
I also noticed that the width of the columns is not kept when i start the program again.

-Lowtone (July 27, 2013, 03:42 AM)

Hmmm...the column widths should be saved when closing the program.  I can resize the channels column and it saves for me.

Is it possible to have a column that says if the file si 16 or 24 bits ( or else ? )
Is it possible to have an option that allows crossfading between songs ?
Can a streaming option ( à la Shoutcast / Icecast ) be added ?

-Lowtone (July 27, 2013, 03:42 AM)

1) I can look into that.
2) I know the BASS library can do this but I've never researched it enough to figure out how.
3) So, this question is a bit murkier because there actually is a hidden Shoutcast browser in Trout.  However, it no longer works because the Shoutcast folks changed up their API and now require an API key (breaking Trout's Shoutcast browser).  There is even an Icecast browser and a simple media database in there, too.  I've never fully polished them so I've never released that functionality to the Trout minions out there.  

Something i haven't tested yet : do Trout knows how to use replay-gain ?
Side question : is it possible to apply a general replay-gain to all the files?

-Lowtone (July 27, 2013, 03:42 AM)

Trout does not use ReplayGain nor can it add it.  Foobar is your best bet for this.

Thanks a lot for this very useful and conveinient program  

-Lowtone (July 27, 2013, 03:42 AM)

You're very welcome.  I know that I've sort of been neglecting Trout lately and I need to get it up to speed...especially with Unicode path handling.  Adding that will definitely break Windows 2000 and below compatibility but, seeing that it's 2013, I really don't care anymore.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on July 26, 2013, 03:44 PM »

This Windows 8 is going to be the death of me...   

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on July 26, 2013, 10:32 AM »

I can confirm that the new build is looking good on my Win8 64-bit system as well...I've had it running for 3 hours and have gotten 3 updates .

-dshoup (July 26, 2013, 10:22 AM)

Thank you very much for the report.  I suppose this can be read that it wasn't a fluke.  =]

Skywire...you must just be that good at programming that you are able to fix things you don't even understand .

-dshoup (July 26, 2013, 10:22 AM)

Hahaha...I wish; I just randomly mash the keyboard and hope the damn thing compiles at the end.     Honestly, though, writing freeware is a fun hobby for me.  sWeather is fun to work on since it's one of my programs that I, personally, use.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on July 26, 2013, 08:49 AM »

Great program. Can't imagine life without it. Hope Microsoft pays you big time when they buy you out to integrate it into Windows 8.2 or whatever.

-win8shucks (July 25, 2013, 02:20 PM)

Ha, I should be so lucky.   

Yup timer definitely working on Win 8 now too! No idea how you fixed that but thanks!

-win8shucks (July 25, 2013, 11:11 PM)

The only thing I can think of is that latest version of sWeather is compiled with the newest AutoHotkey build so maybe that fixed something internally.  I read through the AutoHotkey changelog but it didn't mention anything timer specific like that.  Who cares, though, right?

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Skwire Empire / Re: Compressing files into multiple .zip archives with each .zip being independent

« Last post by skwire on July 26, 2013, 07:50 AM »

Sweet.  It's always nice when you can find a tool designed specifically for what you're doing.   

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on July 25, 2013, 02:01 PM »

last updated time is still 5 minutes before the hour from Yahoo

-win8shucks (July 25, 2013, 01:44 PM)

Yeah, I wish Yahoo updated their weather RSS feeds more often than once an hour but, for a free API, what can you do?  

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on July 25, 2013, 01:41 PM »

Give this a try, please:

Website | Download
v1.4.5 - 2013-07-25
    + Added ability to set a global hotkey to refresh the weather data.
      (Thanks, win8shucks)

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: ClipTrap

« Last post by skwire on July 25, 2013, 12:43 PM »

Website | Download
v1.1.8 - 2013-07-25
    * Set a minimum size to the form.  (Thanks, BGM)
    ! The setting of the global monitoring toggle hotkey was broken.