Re: [slim] Receiver LED too bright
Whatever you do, don't go into the light. -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46184 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] No Sound Effects from Controller
Well it looks like no one else here had this issue. I notified Amazon and a new one is on it's way overnight and UPS will be picking up the defective unit as well. Great service from Amazon, highly recommended. The silver lining is I get to experience the blissful joy of opening a Duet for a second time. -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45851 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
Is there really no way to jump to an alphabet letter while scrolling artists? I can't imagine anyone expected users to scroll through so many listings. -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
aubuti;288661 Wrote: There is no way to jump, other than jumping back to Z by scrolling backwards. But have you scrolled it fast enough to get the acceleration to kick in? Once the acceleration takes effect and you see the large letters on screen, you can get through a list pretty quickly. I still usually overshoot and have to scroll back. Yes, I've used the acceleration, but still not nearly as efficient as jumping to a letter. I think it's odd that this was not made a part of the browse. I guess the beta testers didn't mind spinning their wheels a lot ;-) -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing the Squeezebox Duet
aubuti;288694 Wrote: It was definitely debated -- check out the threads from Oct-Dec 2007 (and possibly earlier) in the Beta and/or SqueezeOS Software Platform forums. It's not as obvious to others as it may be to you, especially if you take the current SBC buttons as the starting point. In that case I'm very surprised that the more thoughtful ones lost that debate. Even when I use the crappy SB3 remote to browse I will almost always jump to a place in the alphabet first since it just makes sense. -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] No Sound Effects from Controller
Testing out a brand new Duet, all works fine except no sound effects from the built-in speaker, but works using a headset. I am assuming that I got a defective unit, or is there something I am overlooking? -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45851 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Love the controller , but always room for improvement..
Slightly unrelated but since I got the Duet and a Harmony One remote at the same time, I just want to comment that the Duet Controller blows the Harmony away in terms of it's feel and aesthetics. Holding one in each hand makes the Harmony feel cheap by comparison. -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45776 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playing music with no computer turned on
Basicly you have two options: 1-Run Slimserver on a NAS, no computer required, and be prepared to accept the limitations of relying on the NAS and whatever processing power it has to run the SS, which is not it's primary function. 2-Admit to yourself that you are a power-user, and as such, running SS on the NAS won't do. Then accept the idea of running it on a pc. For whatever it's worth, everyone I know runs their pcs 24/7, even if it's just to check e-mail whenever they want. Good Luck -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34060 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playing music with no computer turned on
donglobal;192556 Wrote: Aubuti what i mean by it does more is you can directly connect a pair of speakers to the Sonos unit and it can connect a NAs storage device or Netstorage device to the unit without it being a NAS and still access the files. You can also connect ohher media devices to it ie; an IPOD. My point here is not to argue the merit of one or the other it is to try to find out as much as possible from a point of useage and everyday maintenace the advantages and disadvantages of the Sqeezebox. You can directly connect speakers to Sonos because you are buying the unit with the built-in amp, if you are happy with that amp and don't want to use any existing equipment I say go for it. Whatever source you connect that holds your music has to be powered on. I never heard of any NAs storage or Netstorage that is not a NAS, these seem like interchangeable terms - what do you mean by this? What do they say on the Sonus forum? Whatever it is, I'm sure it must be powered on to work. Why do you want to connect an ipod? Won't the music on your ipod already be in your music library? Isn't it easier to play the music from your library without hooking up the ipod? -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34060 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Bitrate Display
This is old, but since I'm a new SB user I'd like to throw this out there again. It seems that if you have multiple bitrate versions of music it is almost necessary to display it, but it is unnecessary and a waste of space to display all of the digits. Perhaps a shortened Bitrate field is possible? Alternatively, if I am missing some better way to distinguish between different bitrate versions of songs when searching, browsing or playing, it would be great to have that pointed out. -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=6009 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] search on NAS-based slimserver
I'm a bit unclear on this issue: where exactly is the speed bottleneck? You can connect the squeezebox to either the slimserver running on the NAS or to a slimserver running on a pc (still your music is on the NAS). By connecting to the server on the pc, do you overcome the speed issue because the slowness is due to the server itself being run on the NAS, or not, because the slowness is due to slow access to the files on the NAS? -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] search on NAS-based slimserver
ceejay;191579 Wrote: I think the main issue is that some (most?) NAS devices have only enough computing grunt to be able to pick a file off the disc and serve it to the network, which is after all what they were designed for. Running a relational database and PERL is a bit tougher, especially on memory but also pure CPU. Ceejay Then avoiding using SS on a NAS and instead running it on a pc with the NAS strictly serving files overcomes the speed issue (this is what I have been doing anyway, never tried ss on NAS). So if the spead issue is so easily overcome, I do not understand why many complain about the slowness of using a NAS. Am I missing something? -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] search on NAS-based slimserver
Michael Herger;191583 Wrote: Then avoiding using SS on a NAS and instead running it on a pc with the NAS strictly serving files overcomes the speed issue (this is what I have been doing anyway, never tried ss on NAS). and introducing a new one: network traffic. Accessing a NAS over the network is easily 5-10x slower than local disk access. This is mainly an issue during the scan. Hello again Michael. Which is the lesser of the two evils than? Is using the pc SS with NAS file serving faster than using the NAS for both? -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] search on NAS-based slimserver
Michael Herger;191592 Wrote: I'd imagine the PC+NAS solution as it's only slow during scanning, not during interaction. But then you could simply use external disks as well (would be faster!). -- Michael Thanks Michael, that all makes sense and it seems there are solutions for someone not happy with speed using SS on a NAS. I have no speed issues using a pc based SS. The OP complains of slow scanning speed using the browser interface, which means he is sitting at his pc, so maybe he ought to just point the SB to his pc SS (he didn't mention if he tried that). -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] search on NAS-based slimserver
jeffmeh;191605 Wrote: In my opinion, SD should either address the problem, or they should put some serious disclaimers on the ReadyNAS bundle (or stop selling it). I can see your point. I think that a big part of a SB/NAS owner's satisfaction has to do with his expectations. In your case you may have seen the marketing of the two together and/or that the NAS came ready to use with SS and assumed they would function well together. I bought my NAS for all-around file serving and later got a SB as an unrelated purchase (I had already had an audiotron and roku), so I had no expectation of even having an option of running SS on the NAS. They should indeed show a prominent warning that running SS on the NAS may not yield the scan/search performance of running it on a pc. -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Crossfade help needed
I put in this bug report for another crossfade related enhancement that I am suggesting. You may like it also, if so please vote. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4870 Robert -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31975 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Crossfade: Can we have longer than 10 seconds
This sounds like a good request, if not 20 seconds perhaps 15. Since it's an option, users would set it higher than 10 at their own risk. More choices are good. Also, check out my recent fade suggestion, and please vote there if you like it. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4870 -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29145 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox vs Sonos
Mark Lanctot;190207 Wrote: Interesting - first I thought it was a Tablet PC (those have been discussed here - generally, they're as expensive as a laptop) but it appears like it's a specialized device that runs .NET applications from ROM. It would depend what the cost is. On the low cost end, you have the Nokia 800, but its screen isn't nearly that big. On the high cost end, you have the tablets and laptops. Somewhere in between, almost as much as a laptop, is a device called a Pepper Pad 3. It would be interesting to see where this fits. There is a .NET SlimServer viewer, highly developed and quite advanced, called Moose: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove/ Hopefully it'd be able to run it. Thanks for the Moose link. I played with it a bit and so far am pleased with it. It seems perfect for a tablet such as this one or the pepper. I believe the price of this unit falls closer to that of a laptop (I've seen used models selling near $1k). I believe there is value in having a flat device with touchscreen vs. a more cumbersome and possibly bigger/heavier laptop. I'm not sure I'd want to use a very small pda type screen, since that might be almost as tedious as using the remote. Between the Viewsonic and the Pepper, I guess the cost vs. screensize and other utility that you would want are the determining factors. I think my dream solution right now would be something like the N800 with a few more inches of screen, and perhaps a usb port as a nice bonus (to plug a modem into) to give it the cost-effective second utility of a remote 'go-anywhere' internet access device. -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33224 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox vs Sonos
bklaas;190298 Wrote: Couple of notes on what you said, Hamlet. The PepperPad3 is linux-based, so Moose is a no-go there. The slimserver web UI with the Nokia770 skin would likely work well. Also give SlimFX, the flash-based skin a shot (you'll need to search the forums to find links for that). Second, the Nokia N800 can go online by connecting to a cell phone via bluetooth, so there is no need for the USB port you mentioned. Also, search the forum for Tyler Durden's solution of using a Fujitsu Stylistic tablet as a touchscreen UI. Pretty cool stuff, and seems to fit exactly what you're hoping for. cheers, #!/ben Thanks for the helpful comments. I see you have been around these forums on this same subject looking for similar solutions. What do you think of this one - For about $300 you get a refurb airpanel portable monitor http://cgi.ebay.com/ViewSonic-airpanel-V110p-Portable-10-Monitor-REF_W0QQitemZ300093350545QQcategoryZ74934QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem which you would use to remote connect to desktop of an older pc that you are using (or will use) as a server. You could run any windows client you want on the pc but effectively be controlling from the airpanel. Since it's just an airpanel there is no noise issue. -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33224 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox vs Sonos
4mula1;190312 Wrote: That's making the assumption that the DUN profile on their phone isn't crippled. Aside from that, you couldnt use the new modems which work on Rev B broadband, or even worse, depending on the phone and the service, you might be on dial-up like speeds. -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33224 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox vs Sonos
What do you guys think about using something like this with the webclient for times when you want a Sonos-Style remote? http://viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/wirelessmonitors/airsyncv210wirelessdisplay/ Of course it's bigger and heavier than the Sonos remote, but some may find that appealing, plus it will function as a whole lot more than just a remote (i.e. checking your e-mail from bed or on the john ;) ) It even has a speaker/headphone jack! -- Hamlet Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33224 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
