Re: [slim] Itunes Genius how can I have it in my sueezebox
Thanks guys. Music IP seems complicated. I am not techie enough for this.As for saving my Genius in itunes and than later (depending on my refresh setting) having it appear in my squeezebox, this is a step in the right direction, but it is not on the fly But what I ultimately want to do from my duet remote: when I listen to a song, invoke the Genius functionality and within seconds have a playlist created in squeezebox and available for play. This feature is simply magic when you have a large music base that is properly tagged. I love my duet, but I am now using my itouch with itunes just to get this functionality that I want badly in duet -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75367 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Itunes Genius how can I have it in my sueezebox
I have been using Itunes quit a lot in the last month and I must admit I love the Genius function. It is simple and it does what I want when I just want to listen to certain type of music . Now how can I have this feature available with my home Squeezebox setup? has anyone ever thought of developing a plugin that would allow this? -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75367 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst
Update: After 5 days of extensive using I can pretty much relate my 3 issues to a faulty Linksys Router/switch/AP (Logitceh Quality Control not to be blamed.this time :)). My new Gateway is a Linksys WAG54G2. Even the intermittent Album artwork not being updated is now fineStrange? but I am not complaining!! So a dying router at the same time I performed a Logitech update that fixed network issues. On the network side I did not go static IP with my devices and remotes, still DHCP. I Will wait an see if it is stable the way it is now, if not will change A quick note on the performance. It is now fast!! darn fast. By this I mean the controller. I am now browsing through my 1000 FLAC albums and the artwork will follow when I am scrolling rapidly. Only sometimes I gat a fraction of a second delay for the artwork to appear. This was never achieved before. So I am not sure what caused this increase. I saw a small difference when I went from Windows to Ubunto, but now is it my new switch or 7.3.3? -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst
OK, An update, this morning my Linksys (DSL/wireless/router) died on me. It would no longer connect DSL, DHCP went dead and I could no longer access it via web browser. The switching still seemed to work, so it seems that the Linksys was close to the end. So..maybe..hopefully this could be the cause of my intermittent connectivity issues (23). Now, why did this happen at the same time I did an upgrade that addressed connectivity issues?? Anyways, I bought a new Linksys and everything is up and working. So I will have a better idea in the next days :) -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst
In my struggle to get a stable setup with my duet (2 players) and boombox I went a long way and made improvements. I now have a dedicated Linux (Ubunto) music server. every device is connecting to 1 access point (vs 2AP in the past). Music is 15 000 FLAC songs on 1000 albums tagging has all been reviewed. But since my upgrade to 7.3.3 things are going downhill, the problems are frustrating and intermittent: 1. after a while my controller no longer shows the artwork of albums. Everything is still working, I can choose, play, stop music. It will show some of the album artwork, but it just seems to stop updating as I scroll. The only way to fix is to shutdown and restart the controller, and one day later problem comes back. 2. It has been 2 days that my boombox will stop playing in the middle of a song and say it has a network problem...never had that with 7.2 and 7.3.2 3. I am getting some skip in music and the controller reconnects much more often. This happened only twice in a week, but I don not recall this happening in the past. There are 4 of us who decided to go digital with our music. We are living in Dubai UAE so we ordered online since the audio dealers here does not carry the duet, but some general electronic store will sell the Boom?? figure that one out! I am the one who is tagged the tech gech. So for 3 of us I got the Logitech duet, and for the one who knows nothing of computers (but made a hell allot more money in Real Estate!) I ordered him the Sonos Now here is my dilemma. I am starting to wonder if I will ever see a stable version of Logitech. I am really sorry to say this, but after 1.5 years of a product I should not be having the problems above. Now not to get me wrong. The 3 of us who got the Logitech love it, but.if the reliability does not improve, soon, as much as I hate to say it, I am starting to consider to move to either a Sonos or Itune with Itouch as my main system (that would mean converting my FLACS). For the new players such as the new Sony they will need to prove to be reliable before. Now How do I downgrade to 7.3.2 ? -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability
Thanks, I will be switching from Vista to Ubuntu and dedicate the machine for squeezecenter. I have seen it on a friends laptop and I must admit it is impressive. Furthermore I will be able to remote access from my Mac with the built in VNC in Leopard. I hope it will resolve my issue #1 which is stability. Oktup, Since you switched have you noticed if accessing squeezcenter through a browser is faster. Or should I be expecting the same response time as on Vista/XP which is OK. I never understood why it is not faster: dedicated lan, 100Mbps speeds, performing machines. should give fast response when using a browser?? and I have tried various browsers from MAC and PC and all give similar response, so I can only blame my squeezecenter on my Vista PC -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61347 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Which OS for rock solid stability
OK, Thanks for the comments There seems to be mixed opinions about the having 2 AP with same SSID. I often see my duet remote reconnecting to the AP as I often travel with the remote where it probably connects looses signal from one of the AP and connects to the other one. Hmmm I think I will try to rename one of them and manually connect my remote when needed to change AP. for the rest of my network it is very simple. the server is cabled to my router and the players are wireless with strong signal. For the server I am tempted to go Linux. I am no Linux gouru, but I know it is more stable. I just want to have my music server and forget about it. Again looking for an easy istall and setup. However I am really puzzled as to why when everything slows down in Vista: occasionaly the CPU utilization % goes up and it is the squeezecenter that is indicating the high cpu. I seem to notice a pattern that this slowdown occurs when I do a search (artisist or song name) and try to play music from my search. In other words when I browse from albums things seem to run fine. Maybe that explains why it crashes more when I have friends over as they will tend to do some searches Thanks Someone asked how my music is structured. My FLACs are all album with sub folders artist - album. for compilations they are under various artist folder -album. I spent quit a bit of time on tags as we are 4 friends who ripped the music and all we keep are artists,album, title,genre -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61347 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Which OS for rock solid stability
Hi, I have now had my duet for a while now but I am to the point of giving up as I cannot get it to be stable to the point I would want it to be. I have dedicated a PC (Pentium 4 at 3 Ghz running Vista) . The only other program running is windows MS Mediacenter which is connected to a TV used for DVDs. I have over 1000 albums (21000 titles) in FLAC on a USB 1 TByte WD drive By being stable I mean 90 % of the time it is fine, but every once in a while for no obvious reason the response gets very slow when browsing for music. In other instances the music can take up to 10 seconds to start. Sometimes it will be fine after 15 minutes or so, or in other cases the only way to get everything back right is to restart everything, from the PC to resetting the remote. I have now started to look at CPU utilization, and have noticed that when it slows down it is the squeezcenter program that is running at over 50% CPU. I am also running my WIFI with 2 Access points with the same name, since I have a large area to cover. Who can recommend the simplest setup where there would be no (very very low) risk of the this anoying hickup to occasionaly happen. Is squeezecenter more stable on LINUX? or maybe on MAC. It would be a pity and $$ to dedicate a MAC. Can it be Vista? I have rebuilt the PC and the only 3rd party application is squeexebox. My WIFI network has been running fine for 2 years and I do not want change it, but could it be the 2 Access Points (with same SSID name) that cause this? I had thought of setting it independentaly usng the players WIFI, but this makes me loose access from my boombox, and I loose the range I need. If anyone has every had such issue and managed to resolve some help would really really really be appreciated!! ..Especially the last 2 times in a week that it crashed was when I had over 30 guests in the house, and the last thing I wanted to be doing is resetting everything to get the music back Jac -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61347 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
Hi Pippin, Thanks for the great application. I love it and I am using more and more. ButIn my day to day usage it has one small feature that I have got used to on the duet remote that I do not see in Ipeng. On my duet controller when I tap on Albums I have the Albums sorted by Artist name and than Album name. This is an option I can select on the duet. On Ipeng it is by default sorted by album name and than by artist. I know that I could go in Artists and find my albums there, or do a search. But my library is large and I have many songs as standalone mixed with my albums. For someone who has been for years used to have his cd s sorted this way, or even when I go to buy CDs they are sorted by artist, it makes my searching different from the duet to Ipeng. Soplease, in order to make this planet a better place to live and listen to music with Ipeng it would be a great to have an initial option setting of sorting Albums either by Artist name or Album name :) -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
pippin;365215 Wrote: It is there! Artists-All Albums will give you exactly what you want. Aahhh. I had missed out on that... Ah but wait a minutenow that I tried it I am noticing that it is not sorting my compilations the same way as it is on my duet controller. On the Duet if I have multiple artists on an album it will display as various artist. In Ipeng it takes one of the artist name. But on a few case I notice that Ipeng will display various artist for some compilations. This smells like a long evening fixing my tags. I suspect that I need to but an album artist as various Artist if I want to display various artist for all my compilations?? That being said I would still like to see an Album sort method as a setting feature when I tap Album:) - Album - Artist, year,Album - Artist,Album The reason I would want to is to keep it consistent with the Duet Controller. But I am sure that this is where we can get different opinions, depending on different preferences. In my case it is clear that the more it is in line with the duet controller the happier I am -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] music folders slow
I am using Squeezecenter with a duet setup. In general browsing the library through artist and album runs fine. But when going with the music library it is very slow. Basically I have created 2 directories in my library directory. One of the has all my FLAC albums with one sub directory per album and the other directory contains all of my 6000 MP3 (no subdirectory). When I acces my FLAC directory no problem (probably because it has all the subdirectories??). But when I accsss my MP3 it is very slow in squeezecenter, and on my duet controller it is worse as it will eventually timeout and restart the controller after one minute of waiting. I cleaned my tags to the simplest it can be (only the title and artist. no art, album, etc...). I called support and they made me try a few things which did not really help. I am not sure if it is a bug or my music files as these filled had no problems with other players WMP, itune,winamp.. anyone have a suestion -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] music folders slow
mherger;315573 Wrote: in my library directory. One of the has all my FLAC albums with one Correct. In the case of the MP3 files it has to analyze 6000 tracks before displaying the list. I thought that this was done only once, which is when I scanned the library. there must be a more efficient way to list the 6000 files without it taking 30 seconds. Furthermore it only displays 50 at a time on squeezecenter mherger;315573 Wrote: in my library directory. One of the has all my FLAC albums with one You better get your collection organized. Having thousands of files in one folder is asking for trouble. Actually my FLACS are well structured. But for my 6000 MP3 I even removed album picture so I can quickly see if it is FLAC or MP3. Then how would one organize 6000 various titles. I figured that having them in one flat folder and list by filename (artist-title.mp3) was a way to to it, but seems that by design Squeezebox will not do it efficiently -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] music folders slow
Thanks for the comments. I guess I need to do some changes. But the thing is I do not want to mix my 6000 MP3 with My ripped FLAC. I also dont want to do a cleanup of my MP3, it took me long enough to clean the 500 FLAC albums with the artwork and all. So it seems that I will need to break my MP3 in sub folders. I wonder if 500 files is OK, that would make it to 6 sub folders. I also noticed with this setup that with my duet controler when I browse in albums it has created a No Album icon with Various Artists, and in there are my 6000 MP3 (because I removed all album tags). If I dare click on that icon I also get very slow response and freezing up to the point where the music will start cutting off. There is something happening that slimbox does not like, I m not sure that creating my sub folders will really help. Anyone else getting the same response?? Cheers -- Jac Jac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49305 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
