Re: [slim] SqueezeRemote for nokia phones
if it is like the iphone app then just press the name of the controller at the top of the screen you will then get a list of active players you then 'tick' the one you want to control by pressing the button to the right of the name to fill in the circle Rick_W's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23220 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81848 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezeRemote for nokia phones
Thanks, but although I've not seen the iPhone app, I've seen the android one and I'm guessing it's nothing like this. This is someone's limited functionality project - not official. It's super fast and stripped back. I don't think the option to switch players exists yet (looking at the code issues page), but I was just trying to figure out if there was a way to fool it into deciding to control the other player by default. charlesr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81848 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] M4a (sorry)
One of the previous threads (had) suggested - if I recall correctly - that M4a is served to the player losslessly and that, if PCM was used, a wireless-connected player might struggle. But since the file doesn't play through Squeezeplay, either, on a wired PC, I think I've a more-serious problem. Since you are using an SBR (Reciver not Radio), it cannot play AAC/MP4/M4A natively and so LMS uses faad/flac to transcode m4a (actually AAC as m4a is the file not audio format) into a Flac stream (i.e lossless) and the lossless Flac is sent to SBR . Squeezeplay is similar and so you have the same problem with both players - faad cannot decode the file. If you can replace your faad with the version from 7.7.2 , it might fix the problem but I have a nagging feeling that there is still a group of m4a file which cannot be players because of the m4a file structures (e.g. indexes are at the end of the file) I'm happy to try to transcode it to, say, Mp3/320. I think I'll search for transcoding and see how to do that. You'd better to tranmscode to Flac - trhat way you won't be losing any qualoity - VLC should be able to do this. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95072 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Napster/Rhapsody Sign in Failure UK
Hi - ever since Rhapsody took over Napster - I am unable to log into my account via Squeezebox Boom - I get as far as typing in the Username and the message scrolling states not available in your country - I live in The UK - can anyone offer any suggestions ? Please check your country setting on mysb.com. And while you're there: try to enter your credentials on the web. Does this work? -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] M4a (sorry)
bpa wrote: Since you are using an SBR (Reciver not Radio), it cannot play AAC/MP4/M4A natively and so LMS uses faad/flac to transcode m4a (actually AAC as m4a is the file not audio format) into a Flac stream (i.e lossless) and the lossless Flac is sent to SBR . Squeezeplay is similar and so you have the same problem with both players - faad cannot decode the file. If you can replace your faad with the version from 7.7.2 , it might fix the problem but I have a nagging feeling that there is still a group of m4a file which cannot be players because of the m4a file structures (e.g. indexes are at the end of the file) You'd better to tranmscode to Flac - trhat way you won't be losing any qualoity - VLC should be able to do this. edit: You can get the faad for 7.7.2 from here http://svn.slimdevices.com/slim/7.7/trunk/server/Bin/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/ . You mayalso need to copy the cgwin DLLs as well - at some point between 7.3 and 7.6 the faad build changed and they became required. bpa, this was the info I needed. First, I did an external search for mp4 faad and found these SQ threads - listing them here may help others: http://forums.slimdevices.com/archive/index.php/t-77834.html http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22t=26302 [discussing 7.3 7.4] http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?82324-Playing-m4a-(AAC)-with-Squeezebox-Server [discussing 7.5] and also found the wiki entry: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/AAC [but only refers to transcoding mov files] Thanks for the link to the 7.7.2 faad system. I'm running linux but I'll look through the same tree and see what I can find. In the meantime, I'll try some transcoding on the fly. The strongest advice in those threads seemed to be: I was able to get AAC/M4A/MP4 file playback working perfectly with the latest nightly build of 7.4.1 by adding the following to my /etc/squeezeboxserver/conver.conf file : Code: Select all #- mov pcm * * # F [mp42aac] $FILE$ -stdout | [aac2wav] -stdin -stdout mp4 pcm * * # F [mp42aac] $FILE$ -stdout | [aac2wav] -stdin -stdout #--- And removing (commenting out) this section: Code: Select all mp4 pcm * * # F [faad] -q -w -f 2 -b 1 -s 44100 $FILE$ This will transcode to wav. I'd prefer to transcode to flac on the fly. I wonder if there's an 'aac2flc' command? (I'll search.) bpa, thanks for the post, which really helped me dig out some of the historical background, as well as informing about some of the (possibly) remaining issues. I'll try some of this later during the day. regards, Atlantic Atlantic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95072 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
I see this issue has come up before, but I couldn't figure out if it has been resolved. If I switch one of my Squeezeboxes (or worse all of my Squeezeboxes) to mysb.com as a server, how do I switch back? If I switch Squeezepad back to my local server, it doesn't see any of my Squeezeboxes. john greenwood's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3
dasmueller wrote: Are there any plans to make this work w 7.7.1 ? Or even for 7.7.2 ??? Roger66's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29812 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74452 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
john greenwood wrote: I see this issue has come up before, but I couldn't figure out if it has been resolved. If I switch one of my Squeezeboxes (or worse all of my Squeezeboxes) to mysb.com as a server, how do I switch back? If I switch Squeezepad back to my local server, it doesn't see any of my Squeezeboxes. If you enter your mysqueezebox credentials into the settings page of your server, then SqueezePad should also show the MySB.com players even if you are connected to your local server. SqueezePad will show a message like only players on other servers in the top left corner - and when you open the players list and select a MySB.com player you will get a window that allows you to switch a single player back to your server, all players back to your server ... or SqueezePad to MySqueezebox.com. Here is a description and some screenshot about how it is supposed to work (also with one player on MySB.com): http://www.squeezepad.com/2011/08/squeezepad-1-8-0-is-ready-to-take-off/ bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
bluegaspode wrote: If you enter your mysqueezebox credentials into the settings page of your server, then SqueezePad should also show the MySB.com players even if you are connected to your local server. SqueezePad will show a message like only players on other servers in the top left corner - and when you open the players list and select a MySB.com player you will get a window that allows you to switch a single player back to your server, all players back to your server ... or SqueezePad to MySqueezebox.com. Here is a description and some screenshot about how it is supposed to work (also with one player on MySB.com): http://www.squeezepad.com/2011/08/squeezepad-1-8-0-is-ready-to-take-off/ Hi - my problem is the reverse. I can see the all my players, including the mysb.com players, while Squeezepad is connected to my local server, but I cannot see the local server players while Squeezepad is connected to mysb.com. Not only that, but while Squeezepad is connected to mysb.com, I cannot find an option for transferring the mysb.com players back to the local server. john greenwood's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] M4a (sorry)
Hmm ... . No luck. Retrieved faad (Jul 2011) from here: http://svn.slimdevices.com/slim/7.7/trunk/server/Bin/i386-linux/faad?view=log replaced version that had been located in /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/i386-linux and restarted the machine that SBS runs on. Still the same problem. Not quite sure why that wouldn't have worked. Also tried with aac 'disabled' instead of 'native', but no joy. I'll either have to upgrade, or convert this file externally. But I am a little surprised that this fix did not work. regards, Atlantic Atlantic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95072 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] M4a (sorry)
One possibility, in the updated faad there are new command line options which many not be invoked by the 7.4 LMS. First I suggest to check that the faad can decode your file - use faad from a shell prompt to create WAV file. Assuming there are no error messages, then see can you play the generate Wqav file with VLC. If it the file is decoded properly then faad is OK using file. Next from a shell prompt, try converting the file with faad being fed the file from STDIN. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95072 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] M4a (sorry)
bpa wrote: First I suggest to check that the faad can decode your file - use faad from a shell prompt to create WAV file. Curious. Code: root@SBS741:/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/i386-linux# faad bash: faad: command not found When I had first copied the new faad, Squeezeplay 'couldn't open the file'. I then made the new faad executable (permissions are now 100777, as reported by mc, and rwx by all users). Presumably just typing faad should invoke it? (Even if only for it to complain about no params.) I saw an example command-line usage here: Need some m4a audio guru assistance - Hydrogenaudio Forums Seems just moov box missing. Probably file was not finalized properly, due to premature termination of writing software or hardware. The following worked. If you want rescued file, I can upload it and will let you know. $ dd ibs=1 skip=44 if='your broken file.m4a' of=raw.aac $ faad -a adts.aac raw.aac http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=93865hl=faad Atlantic Atlantic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95072 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] M4a (sorry)
I guess you are not familiar with linux - unless the directory is on the path you need to give directory as well as executable name. In this case if you have cd to the directory use ./faad bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95072 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Squeezeslave: 1.2 released
ralphy wrote: The audio output thread is most likely hanging. I'd suggest working with trunk for starters which is currently at r325. I see no issues with the makefile changes, but you'll need to make them again for trunk. I pulled the source for 325 and built that with minimal makefile changes as described earlier. That played well for a while, but then the audio is lost again after an extended period of idle (still lots of log messages, so it's getting data and doing something, but no audio output). Normal Ctrl-C will kill it. ralphy wrote: Then I'd suggest updating the portaudio library version to r1826. LIBPORTAUDIO=portaudio-r1826 This seemed to make things worse, it hung after the slightest break of a few seconds, and hung hard (no more log messages, needs sigkill to kill it again). If I can do anything to help, let me know, but if there's something wacky about my system you've got your hands so full with other tasks that this comes some way down your list of priorities, I won't be offended :) Cheers -- Tim meercat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93607 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Orange Squeeze 1.0 for Android Released
Orange Squeeze 1.2.6 has been released with bug fixes and diagnostic improvements. As an aside, there are a handful of very angry people out there. Some of you want a refund -- I understand that. But it is always difficult, usually impossible, to link market comments to a specific purchase, so you'll need to contact me directly in order to get a refund of your purchase price beyond the automatic 15-minute window. Enhancements - Added advanced preferences for verbose logging - Added integration with the excellent free app CatLog to allow easier submission of logs. Defects fixed - Fixed an issue that caused a crash when connecting to servers without any connected players. - Fixed several isolated crashes reported on Google Play. db122's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4076 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92330 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] M4a (sorry)
bpa wrote: I guess you are not familiar with linux - unless the directory is on the path you need to give directory as well as executable name. Not enough. Thanks. Curiouser: Code: root@Sbs741:/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/i386-linux# ./faad *** Ahead Software MPEG-4 AAC Decoder V2.7 ** Patched for Squeezebox Server: * ALAC decoder integrated * Seeking support with -j and -e switches * STDIN support * Source at http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/7.5/trunk/vendor/faad2 Build: Apr 14 2010 Copyright 2002-2004: Ahead Software AG http://www.audiocoding.com Floating point version This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. ** Usage: ./faad [options] infile.aac Options: -hShows this help screen. -iShows info about the input file. -a X Write MPEG-4 AAC ADTS output file. -tAssume old ADTS format. -o X Set output filename. -f X Set output format. Valid values for X are: 1: Microsoft WAV format (default). 2: RAW PCM data. -b X Set output sample format. Valid values for X are: 1: 16 bit PCM data (default). 2: 24 bit PCM data. 3: 32 bit PCM data. 4: 32 bit floating point data. 5: 64 bit floating point data. -s X Force the samplerate to X (for RAW files). -l X Set object type. Supported object types: 1: Main object type. 2: LC (Low Complexity) object type. 4: LTP (Long Term Prediction) object type. 23: LD (Low Delay) object type. -dDown matrix 5.1 to 2 channels -wWrite output to stdio instead of a file. -gDisable gapless decoding. -qQuiet - suppresses status messages. -j X Jump - start output X seconds into track (MP4 files only). -e X End - end output X seconds into track (MP4 files only). Example: ./faad infile.aac ./faad infile.mp4 ./faad -o outfile.wav infile.aac ./faad -w infile.aac outfile.wav ./faad -a outfile.aac infile.aac root@sbs741:/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/i386-linux# ./faad -w test.m4a outfile.wav *** Ahead Software MPEG-4 AAC Decoder V2.7 ** Patched for Squeezebox Server: * ALAC decoder integrated * Seeking support with -j and -e switches * STDIN support * Source at http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/7.5/trunk/vendor/faad2 Build: Apr 14 2010 Copyright 2002-2004: Ahead Software AG http://www.audiocoding.com Floating point version This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. ** [.. 40 mins later ..] ^Z [2]+ Stopped ./faad -w test.m4a outfile.wav root@sbs741:/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/Bin/i386-linux# faad hung, for over 40 mins. The test file is 6.6MB. outfile.wav is created, but zero length. No error message from faad. I'd posted the 'intro', above, so that the CLI options would be visible in the post; none looked to me to be relevant. And the faad version is the latest one from svn, as far as I can tell (it looks later than the one in my SBS 741 installation) - a 2010 release (?) from upstream, and a 2011 patch before adding to svn (judging from the log). I also ran faad with -i but nothing more was printed, and it hung in the same way. But I doubt that this file is 'anything special'; my guess is that, since LMS 7.7 works fine with m4a, that what I'm doing here isn't quite compatible with the patches used for Squeezebox. Atlantic Atlantic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95072 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3
What a great little program this is/was. It is too bad that the whole server database method changed to make it inoperable. I still keep an older version of the squeezebox server on an old computer with a library consisting of just a short cut to an external USB drive, just so that I can still plug in the USB drive with my backup collection, run the SBS and then run ACC to get an updated catalog. Swimmer Swimmerbird123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17285 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74452 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Deezer in CANADA? Why not available on Squeezebox?
Deezer is available in Canada as of April 25th, and given that it's one of the few streaming services actually available to Canadians, I'm looking forward to using it on my Squeezeboxes. However, Deezer does not yet show up in the App Gallery? Is this going to happen soon? reneallard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95082 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] M4a (sorry)
The version of faad is up to date. The problem is with your file as LMS 7.7 can play many m4a/mp4/aac files. faad is an official decoder but I think there are some files which it can't handle and I suspect your file is one. What info do you get when you run the file with the -i option ? bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95072 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
john greenwood wrote: Edit - I think I solved the problem. I had recently changed the password on my mysb.com account. I had made the changes on the Squeezeboxes and my iPad, but not on my server. Did that and all seems OK. Thanks for reporting back, that it was resolved so easily. Have fun with SqueezePad! bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How do you want to create/manage playlists ?
Hi Erland, some thoughts as requested. :-) 1. What kind of device would you like to use when creating the playlists ? - A computer - A tablet - A smart phone - A Logitech Controller, Radio or Touch display - A IR remote - Something else 90% of the time a computer, 10% an Ipeng controlled iphone/itouch remote - normally when entertaining/partying. 2. How do you decide what should be part of a playlist ? - By selecting the individual tracks you want to include - By selecting the albums you want to include - By selecting the artists you want to include - By automatically selecting 100 tracks that matches some search criteria (genre, ratings, ...) - Something else If it's for my personal listening I listen 95% of the time to albums - my album playlists are generated by 3 main criteria. 1/Artist 2/Genre 3/ Decades. I generally run these choices through custom browse in random mode and add albums on the fly as i feel the need. If I'm running party play lists of songs when entertaining etc. I let the guests add song selections to pre-manufactured playlists on one of my itouch remotes using Ipeng, works great! 3. How do you decide which order the tracks should have in the playlist ? - Random ordered tracks - Random ordered albums - Drag and drop albums to put them into the right order - Drag and drop tracks to put them into the right order - Something else As above 4. What's the most frustrating limitation with SBS/LMS playlist management today ? - That it doesn't support relative paths in playlist files which are scanned - That it's too hard to reorder tracks in existing playlists - That it's too hard to create completely new playlists - Something else I would definitely think, the too hard option. It is not very intuitive or easy for the average person to create or use the menu/playlists in the Squeezebox universe compared to a lot of the alternatives out there. Simplification would encourage increased use judging by feedback I hear from other people I know using SMS. Casual users of my system definitely don't get there head around it to easily. 5. What kind of device would you like to use when modifying existing playlists ? - A computer - A tablet - A smart phone - A Logitech Controller, Radio or Touch display - A IR remote - Something else 90% of the time a computer, 10% an Ipeng controlled iphone/itouch remote - normally when entertaining/partying. 6. What kind of modifications do you usually do on already existing playlists ? - Reorder tracks in the playlist - Remove tracks, albums or artists from the playlist - Add new tracks, albums or artists to the playlist - Something else I hardly ever re-order tracks. I add new albums to a currently running playlist all the time. I find the ability to introduce an album immediately into the queue after the currently playing track using play next a real winning feature of your Custom Browse plug-in. 7/ Is there anything else than the above you feel is important to take into consideration if anyone would like to improve the playlist management ? For me the biggest deal breaker is the PC web interface. I can't stand the inability to search my WHOLE database in a continuous flow. The way you have to scroll and select alphanumerical blocks of albums/artists and then WAIT for your selection drives me up the wall! At least remote operation with Ipeng allows this. (The first comment I usually get from casual observers when I'm using the SB web interface on my PC is invariably along the lines of what a clunky/ugly program!) Itunes may be chronically limited in it's flexibilty of selection regarding playlists, etc. but it kicks SBS's arse when it comes to seamless ease of use and an intuitive eco-system on the PC. Regarding your plug-ins, there is one feature I feel that would greatly add to the value of play list creation. That is the abilty to create playlists/menus using style id tag info. All my database has been ripped and tagged with extensive style tag info on music types, moods, years, nationalities, sex's, styles etc. Most of my friends databases are the same and as a lot of this info is automatically provided by dbpoweramp, foobar and numerous other tagger/rippers it seems a shame not to be able to use it EASILY with SBS. It would be good to have it as an option for playlist/menu creation in one of plug-in's .. what do you think? Cheers ... Bruce. kiwibrucie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
