Re: a few questions

Hi,

I hope this can help you decide.

>can it play from two drives or structures
>If I have 2 drives chuck full of MP3's could it see this as just
>one big chunk of files. I would rather not merge the drives for now
>since if one drive goes out it does not effect the other.

Yes. You can have one directory that you specify for the SliMP3 
server and put soft links or shortcuts to the other directories that 
you want to include.

>Does it handle high VBR rates
>(I am currently encoding with Lame with "--alt-preset extreme"

Yes, however there have been some reports with problems decoding 
320kbps MP3 files.  My library is full of highest bitrate (160kbps 
minimum) VBR files which average about 250kbps.  I've never had a 
problem

>Does it have a way to mark a bad MP3 - bad as in a problem spot with
>the remote
>It could kick it out to a flat file and I could go back and re-
>encode the file

Not yet, but that's a good idea to submit as a feature request to the 
open source server project.

>does it have a way to rank songs as they are being played with the
>remote
>So, if you hear a song and Rank it a 1 for bad or 5 for Great
>could you play just those "Rock" songs with a Rank of 3 or better
>or whatever you want.

Not yet, but the idea has been discussed and will probably get 
implemented in the future.

>If not, could it be programmed to do this
>by saving the Rank in ID3, or does ID3 not allow something like this.

That, I think, depends on which version of ID3 your files have. 
Right now the server doesn't edit or change your ID3 tag information, 
but it may do so in the future.

>can you play the same tunes on all the slimdevices

Multiple SliMP3s using one server can all play the same tunes, but 
they aren't synchronized yet.  This is a planned version for the next 
major release of the software.

>what about also the same time as WinAmp and a Slimdevice

Absolutely.  The SliMP3 server doesn't touch your MP3 files and 
builds an index of them when it starts up.  If you move files 
underneath it while it's running it might not be able to find them 
unless you try to play them specifically.

-dean

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