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  1. This problem has been mentioned before.  I once suggested that the music files should

    be captured "as is" (here "raw capture" would mean without any effort to tag the files),

    if time stamps are preserved and appended to the filename then there's no risk to get

    name conflicts since only piece is played at a time.  Of course, this was never done...

  2. Hi,

    I shuffled in the 1st NimbleX Linux Live CD that i could find with my Pandora module on it,

    it's dating back to September 29 and yet nothing has changed for me.  I can still find the

    cover in '/root/.mozilla/firefox/ ... /Cache/', there's still a '/tmp/plugtmp/' directory with an

    extension-less 'plugtmp-x' .MP3 sound file in it, besides the 'plugtmp' sub-directory which

    is hosting the 'v14'/'v14-x' files with 'tuner_8_2_0_2_pandora_mini.swf'...  Too bad the

    module never attracted the attention of a Linux Guru, all those lost months of potentially

    problem free "time-shifting"!  That's a shame...  Imagine if someone with the skills had

    cared to fix the "Grab" button six months ago!...

    :roll:

  3. Hi,

    It's been months ago but i configured TOR with many peers in its list,

    web pages are slow to load but Pandora seemed fine since i have

    a speedy DSL access and i don't cancel songs or change stations

    too often.  DownLoading one single .MP3 file felt quick enough but i

    was doing little else...

  4. I tried it under previous Linux versions of FireFox (v2.0) and Flash Player (v9.0.21.55),

    the 128 Kbps .MP3 encoded files were sitting in the /root/.mozilla/firefox/ ... /Cache/

    directory while /tmp/plugtmp/ was holding .PHP files with evocative names such as

    'Create', Track_Info'...  The Title, album, artist, year and duration were clearly visible

    when i checked.  Should i have had a raw capture tool that doesn't care about anything

    but the sound file i'd have put a few songs inside my .MP3 player for sure...  Nice site,

    the idea of sharing our musical experience sounds appealing if that can be brought to

    full completion:  chat about music while everyone listens at it!

  5. Hi,

    I'll look what i can do with my SlackWare based Live CD, although i already see the untagged .MP3 files

    and their suite in the temporary directory.  Well, the purpose of a Linux solution isn't to compete with

    Pandora's Jar but to work natively on a self-supported bootable CD which can also be used in Virtual

    Machine environments under Windows.  I can't compile binaries but i can manipulate them and create

    Slax/NimbleX modules, it will be a pleasure to experiment with a solution that might become universally

    available to anyone with a PC, including the older machines (Pentium-II MMX 200 Mhz 128 MB RAM)...

    So, i'm all ears.  Be assured i won't be far away.

  6. Hi,

    I think that this post is the very 1st i'm aware of where the user actually uses Linux!

    Do you depend on WinE or is it a real Linux setup?  Most unfortunately, you're most

    likely the one guy who can help around here...  I've tried to use Slax, etc. but since

    you've been reading this forum before there's no need to repeat my story again.

    Well, i'll read your post religiously myself even if i don't always get the point so,

    please, keep posting!!!

    :D

  7. Hi everyone,

    Sometimes i get ideas while in the bathroom, under

    the shower or elsewhere...  Obviously, the concept

    of TimeShifting in its present form suffers from a

    major flaw:  Pandora can't approve it because it's

    a fundamental violation of their license;  i mean,

    right now we're simply discussing about collecting

    individually tagged songs which can be groupped as

    albums that we can play at will while Pandora is a

    radio instead of a jukebox for P2P leeches.  Maybe

    TimeShifting would become more acceptable if radio

    sessions were turned into monolithic blocs that we

    don't need to break into author/album/title pieces

    at all.  It shouldn't matter that such a technique

    would be incompatible with using MP3 players which

    can retain some degree of freedom with the help of

    short-range FM retransmission, anyway;  Pandora is

    not trying to be anything else than an INet radio,

    after all.  Isn't the main goal of TimeShifting to

    get rid of clock-related constraints or is it just

    to exploit Pandora as something totally different?

  8. Hi,

    Then perhaps it's about time to examine the Linux Live CDs more closely because i always

    have access to the audio files...  The fact that Slax Linux doesn't rely on their extension to

    iconize them simplifies the identification but it's still manual.  There are plenty of Virtual

    Machines today:  VirtualBox, VMWare Player, Bochs, QEmu, Virtual PC and a few more i

    may have overlooked, euh...  A Live CD would run directly on a PC with as little processing

    juice as a Pentium-II MMX 200 Mhz with 128 MegaBytes memory, it would also run nicely

    on a modern computer running one of the Virtual Machines mentioned above.  The Slax/

    NimbleX Linux Live CDs can be edited easily to update a module and it's even easier when

    it resides on a Flash Drive so the best solution - which is also the least explored so far - may

    be to have one module to fit both the Windows and the Linux worlds.  I produced two

    modules so far in hope a Linux guru would fix Pandora's Jar, the fact that manual copying

    alone is always possible should have retained some attention but, there again, no luck...

    :roll:

    Realizing that the word alone, "Linux", may sound like a deterrent to some people i've

    suggested to go "Portable"...  Still no joy, it's like our readers prefer fixed installations

    while they don't realize that those are the ones which are bound to break down easily.

    :-(

  9. Hi,

    If we all had the same setup one post would fix them all but right now

    there are too many variables and the only way to debug these things

    is to get detailed log files hoping there's some clue inside.  Can anyone

    recall where the log file is?...  Maybe someone here can assist you,

    once you've published your log-file, that is.  If it doesn't help at least

    it might happen to be instructive, good luck!

    ;-)

  10. Hi,

    I understand the desire for feed-back, that's why i put a link to my profile instead of a direct link

    to the Slax module i created so that people who would be ready to try it must ask for a download

    address.  I won't say it was a success but you might be luckier than i was with this approach...

    The last time i checked, the audio files were still available for manual copy;  hence my suggestion

    of a "raw" capture where the file would just be put aside on the Flash drive, ready to be carried

    away for a wireless music session.  There's no interaction with the sound card required at all on

    a Slax/NimbleX Linux Live CD:  you can get exactly what you hear without any conversion loss

    but i'm no Linux expert and Pandora's Jar must be fixed or pure manual copy is all that will work.

    :roll:

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