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*Microtrack* <BR> Just bought a new mp3 recorder, an m-audio microtrack 24/96. We bought it [[http://www.audiomidi.com/Micro-Track-2496-P6906.aspx?CPID=392&AFID=3][here]]. I've only just got it out of the box, but first impressions are good. Its very small and light. If anything, almost too light to feel durable. Time will tell if it will stand up to the rigours of being pulled in and out of my wife's handbag (and then dropped on the floor). But my feeling is it should be more durable than Sony's minidisc (my wife has gone through 3 in the past 3 years). I bought a Monster cable for the microphone. The microtrack takes three types of input: two 1/4", 1/8" line in, and a S/PDIF. I bought the XLR-1/4" cable, which works great. *Sound* <BR> Recording quality seems excellent - although my wife hasn't tested it in the field yet, which will be the ultimate test. I've found that recording with 1/4" input gives the best results, but you do need _27dB TRS Input Boost_ switched on, this can be done via the menu system. I also tested the same microphone connected with a 1/8" input, but the levels seemed lower than the 1/4" input. I noticed that while connected via the 1/4" jack, the input mode (L/M/H switch) setting seemed to have an effect on the recording's levels. When set to _L_ recordings seemed more sensitive than with the other settings (M & H). Changing this setting during a live recording session doesn't seem to take effect until recording has stopped and a new recording session has begun. I tried the 1/8" stereo microphone that came with the package: the levels seem very sensitive, so would be great for recording a panel discussion, where the device is stationary and you want to record multiple people (voices) sat around a table. Only downside seems that the final recording quality suffers from a touch of echo. --- *Slimserver* <br> I had a problem where slimserver was returning a blank page whenever I tried accessing the browser (port 9000). I narrowed it down to having two versions of the server installed on my machine at the same time (Slimserver and Slimp3). Whenever I accessed the browser I would get the following errors in the slim log: <pre> 2007-08-15 17:56:13.3270 ERROR: _getFileContent: Couldn't open: html/mypage.ico file error - html/errors/404.html: not found file error - include.html: not found file error - index.html: not found </pre> I switched on a lot of logging: =/usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/slimserver.pl --httpport=9000 --d_server --d_client --d_http_verbose --d_files --d_paths --d_protocol --d_scan --d_slimproto_v --d_command --d_startup --d_stdio --d_prefs --d_plugins= And noticed the preference file =/var/lib/slimserver/slimserver.pref= was being re-written from an older version sitting in my home directory. I deleted the old version (=.slimp3.pref=), and the browser page came back to life! . . . I also noticed removing =--user slimserver= from the command line helped. The following: <pre>/usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/slimserver.pl --quiet --pidfile=/var/run/slimserver.pid --logfile=/var/log/slimserver.log --httpport=9000 --cliport=0 --group=nogroup</pre> ...works for me. --- *Phone* <br> BT Synergy 3505 Phone [[http://www.netelectrics.biz/userguides/synergy3505.pdf][user manual]].
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