All my 7.4.x efforts have failed me. There's a bug (filed) with .cue sheets that seems to plague all the versions. I'll be downgrading for the time being. My recollection is Inguz had a hard time with .cue sheets before so I'm not holding my breath that I'll get it back but at least I'll have a server that works.
I sent the following message to 'MickeyG' last week, not sure if he's the right dude or what (sorry for length): "I'm an audiophile guy, have been for 20 years. I was a reviewer for 6moons for a while and have a fair bit of experience with equalizers and DSP, having owned three different TacT units and Inguz for quite a while through 3 Squeezebox Classics. While the Squeezebox is arguably more geared toward the 'consumer' market over hardcore audiophiles (more for price than anything else), it can be featured in a Very Serious setup. My primary rig would retail for over $25k and my (modded) SB to an outboard DAC is my best possible digital link. The Transporter is unabashedly audiophile-oriented. While us sound-dorks will yell all over that our gear is so good we don't need tone controls, the simple truth is we do. For a ton of reasons, primarily room/speaker interactions, speaker/amp pairings, and fundamental speaker issues, in-room response is almost always terrible. Of course, most of us don't know that, but it doesn't mean it's not a problem. We don't know it mostly because our stereos don't permit any fiddling. If we have controls, we'll play. If we play we'll realize there's more there than what we're getting, and if we're serious we'll actually measure the room to see where the problems are. If we have tools to fix them, the end-result can be really, completely unbelievable. For a few years, Inguz has provided a very nice though quirky feature-set to dial in one's system. However, support for SB Server 7.4.x has gone dry and is set to expire in January. At present, the code needs to be tweaked to get it to run at all, and even then it causes problems with .cue files and maybe more. Most of my collection is set up with single music files + .cue sheets. There are quite a few people that are concerned about Inguz expiring and the loss of support. This would seem a great time for Logitech to pick up the EQ torch and integrate it as a core feature of the software. The current options for EQ in a system are not good. I ultimately went away from the *very expensive* TacT units because their digital processing engine drained life from the music. Analog EQs are not flexible enough and add a tremendous amount of analog circuitry to the chain, also a big no-no. There are software packages that can do this work, but they too cost big dollars and also can't pair with SB Server. Having the source itself be the EQ is freaking brilliant, it's manipulating the file in its native habitat (the server) and the results don't impart an artificial character, it's all the good with none of the bad. In my opinion, and some others I've talked to, this feature is the single-most important 'extra' the software includes. I understand all the cool gizmos and people do like those, but this one actually makes your system sound better, a lot lot lot better. >From Logitech's standpoint, the potential sales advantage to the audiophile customer is undeniable. In my mind, it's the last dagger in the CD player's coffin. Even the grouchy old guys will get it, since they remember the days when hi-fi kit included tone controls. But, these are a thousand times better. Sorry for the long message, thanks for staying with me. I understand this may be a significant undertaking, who knows, maybe Hugh is done updating the software and would happily turn over what he has to you. I can't possibly overstate how important this feature is to a good number of your serious sound customers. Thanks a lot, Mike Smith, aka Miklorsmith" We need to get a concerted effort going to try to get Logitech to take this on . . . -- miklorsmith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ miklorsmith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4349 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68618 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
