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In the role of a lifetime...

There is no "Archive and Install," though there is a non-upgrade install clearly in the earlier linked image. It's how I installed. SL is built to install on a blank disk, though does this violate licensing is another question. BTW, anyone else having problems with dock/in finder application icons? A few of mine are blank. Seems a few others are experiencing similar, though I haven't found a solution. Apple - Support - Discussions - No icons? Snow Leopard ***? ...

The greatest radio station in the US has its annual CDs/LP/DVD sale coming up. For those in NY area, sounds like fun. WFMU Record + CD Fair

One other post-15 minute thought - depending on the obscurity of specific test tracks, they may or may not have been fingerprinted by the community, thus rely on tags... or ignore them.

Okay, there are a few variables here (though maybe not between us Andrew) including tag versions, player, Last.FM client, client settings, but I've now used the following album names: Abbey Is Blue [WTH Hopstretch] Abbey Is Blue [err... Andrew?] Abbey Is Blue (purrr-ends test) Abbey Is Blue Really Blue Abbey had sex with Evan @ Big Sur I thought the last two might throw it, but it identified the correct album every time, song played five times, etc. The scrob seems to be overriding the tag. Sounds like through "fingerprinting." At least with this track. Scrobbling set to 50%. Maybe your fingerprinting is failing somehow Andrew? A Google came up with... [url=http://blog.last.fm/2009/01/29/closing-in-on-clean-metadata-artist-and-track-spelling-auto-correction-is-here]Last.fm ? the Blog

Hmmm. A quick test shows "[WTH Hopstretch]" and "[err... Andrew?]" are "meaningful" modifiers also. Correctly identified the same song was played by me twice, correct art, same album available for purchase on Amazon, etc. Even linked with others as listed: 1,186 plays by 424 listeners. Or maybe I'm missing something (always a strong possibility). This was using the default Mac Last.FM client with scrobbling/fingerprinting on. Abbey Lincoln - Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise.

Stretch, I've use modifiers ([K2], [XRCD], etc.) in the album name and from appearances it seems Last.FM auto-corrects for this (or at least keeps correct associations). In default configuration (with most Last.FM clients) it's still "scrobbling"/"fingerprinting" the data, no? Am I missing something?

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Happy Labor Day weekend...

Well, you'd need an OS loader and between that and automating setting up extra partition (and some communication between partitions), that's pretty much what BootCamp is. So you still need that if you want to use both OSs in non-emulation mode. You can use Parallels or VMWare otherwise or use nothing to install W7 or OSX only. New Macs would be 64-bit capable, but Snow Leopard would install 32-bit by default unless you forced it. And the 13" MBP is my favorite at the moment too. Using Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on your Mac: The Complete Walkthrough - Simple Help

Who's throwing a party? House Party > Windows 7 Launch Party Slashdot Technology Story | Steve Ballmer Directing "House Party 7"

Seems a little late for the holiday season. EDIT: Ah blubliss is quick.

I have a couple Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini drives that depending on computer uses a single data/power USB connection or also needs a secondary power only one.

I just became T-Pain! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NkBHMl8zI0 One more thing the iPhone fixes in my life.

Is it just my circle of friends or are there a strange number of people calling this release Snow Lion?

There's a lot of good info from beta testers on this forum.

Still a little cryptic, so I've asked on their forum, but other comments may hint ... EDIT: I've just got a new game plan.

True enough, though they saw an advantage of running internet radio from the player, not Slim Server on the computer, previously. We'll see, but I wonder the rational for having a USB connector for Flash drives on the player when the computer running Slim Server most certainly has one. Sure there are exception situations like the few NAS drives supported, remaining mobile with laptop without drive attached, etc. but I wonder if that justifies the connector at this point and not previously? I'd guess something has changed for them to put it there, though who knows if it's this use? And they've previously had ports for "future use." Guess it all comes down to what "Access your music and photos directly from USB drives and SD cards" and "USB host connector for accessing music and photos via USB drive or USB key" means. As mentioned above certain NAS drives, but in those cases Slim Server is running on the drive, not a conventional computer. The player is still not reading directly off a storage device. Otherwise just internet radio streaming from the player.

Depends on how you roll. Far less necessary than on Windows IMO for speed regains, etc., but I use the opportunity to clean off unused files. Only concern, besides time and hassle, is what apps you had with your original disc (GarageBand, iMovie, etc.), you won't on the Snow Leopard only one.

So as this does 24/96 and reads "directly from USB drives and SD cards" am I wrong that you could take the computer completely out of the equation (possibly after initial setup and, of course, ripping music), and have a nice little high res delivery system with only a ST and 1TB USB drive (add DAC if desired)? I know Squeezeboxes have had some NAS support and internet radio streaming sans computer before, but if the above holds true it certainly could pull me back to Slim Devices... err Logitech. Also interesting that ALAC is a codec no longer listed as "through transcoding." http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/products/squeezebox-touch.html

For those that want to do a clean install...

shellylh, let us know your Mail upgrade experience. If continued Mail slowness, I'll probably finally jump to Fluid and webapps (mostly Gmail), when I upgrade, but would be nice to know Mail is still an option.