Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-26 Thread nicky6 

Awesome info guys!

So, the Touch is the best, sound wise, of all the SB's (excl. the
Transporter)?
There are a lot (5...) of Duets for sale here in Sweden, and not Touch
and neither the SB3/Classics. The Duet has less good sound, am I
correct?

And yes Erland, when I ripped my CD's (about 1000) back in 2002-2003, I
did them as 320Kbps VBR MP3's. I'm not sure I want to go through the
process doing FLAC's instead, and rating all the music again just to
have the music rated 3-5 available for listening and the rest archived.
Any companies out there that can do the ripping and fetching the meta
data (Except the rating of course)?

Sorry that the thread grows and grows. It's been a while I was here and
there are so much info everywhere that it's impossible to find all the
info I need. But you guys are so very helpful, thanks a lot for that!

/Niclas



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Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-26 Thread Julf 

nicky6 wrote: 
 When I ripped my CD's (about 1000) back in 2002-2003, I did them as
 320Kbps VBR MP3's. I'm not sure I want to go through the process doing
 FLAC's instead, and rating all the music again just to have the music
 rated 3-5 available for listening and the rest archived. Any companies
 out there that can do the ripping and fetching the meta data (Except the
 rating of course)?

Most decent ripping programs fetch the metadata automatically.

The problem with having only mp3's is that you ever want to move to
another format, converting one lossy compression format to another tends
to be a very lossy operation, whereas a FLAC collection can always be
converted to whatever other format with minimum loss, as you haven't
actually discarded any data.



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fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt
edge that will fool many people - Paul W Klipsch, 1953

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Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-26 Thread Mnyb 

Julf wrote: 
 Most decent ripping programs fetch the metadata automatically.
 
 The problem with having only mp3's is that you ever want to move to
 another format, converting one lossy compression format to another tends
 to be a very lossy operation, whereas a FLAC collection can always be
 converted to whatever other format with minimum loss, as you haven't
 actually discarded any data.

+1 especialy to another lossles format in the future .

yes i ripped 1000 albums to mp3 which i later reripped to FLAC :)

Oh and backup everything.




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Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-26 Thread erland 

nicky6 wrote: 
 
 So, the Touch is the best, sound wise, of all the SB's (excl. the
 Transporter)?
 
Correct

nicky6 wrote: 
 
 There are a lot (5...) of Duets for sale here in Sweden, and not Touch
 and neither the SB3/Classics. The Duet has less good sound, am I
 correct?
 
I think most people agree that the Touch is a little bit better than
Duet/SB3/Classic but it all depends on what other equipment you connect
them to. If you don't have a high-end amplifier and speakers you might
not notice the difference. I think the difference is generally a bit
bigger if you use the analog outputs than if you use the digital
outputs.


nicky6 wrote: 
 
 And yes Erland, when I ripped my CD's (about 1000) back in 2002-2003, I
 did them as 320Kbps VBR MP3's. I'm not sure I want to go through the
 process doing FLAC's instead, and rating all the music again just to
 have the music rated 3-5 available for listening and the rest archived.
 Any companies out there that can do the ripping and fetching the meta
 data (Except the rating of course)?
 
I can feel your pain, I've been in the same situation myself but my
collection was significantly smaller with around 300 albums when I
decided to re-rip it in FLAC format. You don't have to have the whole
collection the same format, so one way to handle it is to start
re-ripping the stuff you listen to often or music which you want to be
in the best possible quality.

There are several services available that lets you send them your CD's
and they will rip them for you, typically for a one time fee, but I
haven't tried any of them myself so I don't want to recommend a specific
one. Since we are talking about physically sending the CD it might also
be important where the service provider is located so you don't have to
send the CD's to the other side of the world.



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Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-26 Thread audiomuze 

If you've a PC with sufficient RAM and multiple DVD drives it's trivial
to rip a few hundred CDs because you can use dbpoweramp's batch ripper
to rip 4-5 concurrently.  Do 10 or 20 a night and before you know it
you're done.



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[slim] Selling SB Touch's

2013-09-26 Thread audiomuze 

I have 4 or 5 unopened SBT's I'm considering selling (surplus to my
needs).  What's the best place to sell them - eBay?



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Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-26 Thread nicky6 

erland wrote: 
 I think most people agree that the Touch is a little bit better than
 Duet/SB3/Classic but it all depends on what other equipment you connect
 them to. 

Ah, I thought the Duet didn't have as good DAC etc as the SB3/Classic.
But you mean they are pretty much the same, and with the same sound
quality? 
If that's the case, I could just pick up the Duets then... It's just at
my main HiFi that I would be able to spot any difference in sound
anyway.

/Niclas



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Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-26 Thread erland 

nicky6 wrote: 
 Ah, I thought the Duet didn't have as good DAC etc as the SB3/Classic.
 But you mean they are pretty much the same, and with the same sound
 quality? 
 
I haven't compared Duet towards Classic from an audiophile perspective,
so I can't say for sure.

However, if you search a bit in the forum, you will find other who have
compared them, here are some samples
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?96806-Sound-quality-comparison-between-classic-SB3-Duet-Touch-etc
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?76952-SB3-vs-Duet
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?76553-Duet-or-Classic
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?73141-classic-or-duet
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?61108-Classic-or-Duet
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?92805-Duet-sound-quality-compared-to-Touch-DAC-etc

Personally, I would choose the Classic because it has a screen, but its
usefulness probably depends on where you will place it and how much you
love the Logitech Squeezebox Controller remote control that's part of
the Duet package.



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Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-26 Thread garym 

I have a transporter, touches, sb3, and have had duet. In my opinion,
unless one has a very discriminating system, the likelihood of hearing
any differences is very, very low. The duet can be a pain because it has
no screen for setup, etc.



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Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-26 Thread froth 

My rule of thumb is Rip everything to FLAC first.  That way if needed
these flac files can be converted to MP3 using a batch process.  I do
this on a regular basis so I can then take my compressed tunes on my
iThings and the likes.



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Re: [slim] Logitech Media Server 7.7.3 released

2013-09-26 Thread Schlunze 

Hello,

first of all, thank you for the update! 

I've seen it today and updatet without any problems with Archlinux.
Is it possible to finally use newer versions of perl?

The Squeezebox is alive ...  Great



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Re: [slim] Android TV Sticks/Boxes as Squeezebox Replacement

2013-09-26 Thread bluegaspode 

marlo wrote: 
 Could you please check if playback of hires-files is possible via hdmi
 and/or spdif?

hi Marlo, 

Sorry for the late answer.
Right now SqueezePlayer uses an AudioAPI that is compatible with pretty
old Android versions (AudioTrack /
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioTrack.html#AudioTrack(int,
int, int, int, int, int)
This supports only samplerate of 48kHz and 16Bit material.

I also checked about the multichannel possibilities now. Unfortunately
there is a parameter channelConfig which allows only the parameter
Mono + Stereo.

So unless I rewrite the whole audio engine of SqueezePlayer (which is
not planned right now I'm afraid) both request right now cannot be
fulfilled.
On newer Android version (starting 4.0) audio support was improved in
Android.



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Re: [slim] Selling SB Touch's

2013-09-26 Thread jimbobvfr400 

I'd suggest an auction on eBay. The ones I've been watching have tended
to end up going for more than I'd have thought they would. It might be
worth being patient and selling one or two at a time rather than all at
once.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4





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Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2013-09-26 Thread yxz11 

I have two android boxes and I cannot turn on both of them. I notice
that their MAC addresses are the same from Logitech Media Server's
information tab. Both of them have:

Player MAC Address: 01:01:01:01:01:01

How do I change the MAC address?

Thanks,



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Re: [slim] SiriusXM now works on Squeezebox radio with lifetime subscriptions

2013-09-26 Thread dwkdnvr 

garym wrote: 
 Aha. I see now. Uninstalling and reinstalling the app at
 mysqueezebox.com should only take 2 minutes, including re entering your
 userID and password. W

Gotcha - I automatically ran off to 'reinstall LMS'.

I uninstalled on mysqueezebox.com, logged out, logged back in and
re-added the app. I'm not sure how much it did since it picked up the
old settings automatically.

However, The Loft is currently playing, so you might well have solved
the problem. Guess we'll see whether this is just a random success or
not.

Thanks greatly for the help.



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Re: [slim] Logitech Media Server 7.7.3 released

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Herger 

I've seen it today and updatet without any problems with Archlinux.
Is it possible to finally use newer versions of perl?


There are several discussions on this topic. 7.7.4: 5.16/32-bit, 7.8.x  
5.18/64-bit are the latest and greatest available.


--

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