Re: [slim] Recently Played
Excellent! Thank you. Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113915 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Recently Played
Thanks to this thread, I recently installed the -What Was That Tune?- plugin. Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but do old entries drop off the list at some point? If not, is there some way to clear it manually? Thanks! Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113915 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't download 7.9.4
I've had the same problem with AVG and Windows 10. Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112840 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Bluesound Node 2 vs SBT
Thanks for that. I've heard a lot about ROON, but I've never seen it in action. You may have just motivated me to actually download the software and give it a try. Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106981 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Bluesound Node 2 vs SBT
Just in case anyone is interested, I thought I'd post an update to my
ongoing Bluesound support saga. For the opening chapter, see 'my post'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?106981-Bluesound-Node-2-vs-SBT=876540=1#post876540)
on the first page of this thread.
Last October, I attended the Toronto Audiofest, where I found myself
speaking to a representative for a Toronto-area store that sells
Bluesound. When he attempted to give me the Bluesound sales pitch, I
recounted a condensed version of the problems I'd experienced with my
Pulse 2. He expressed surprise that I'd gotten such poor service from
Bluesound customer support, but admitted that the software wasn't very
good a couple of years ago, when I bought the player. He said that it
had improved a lot since then and suggested that I try using my Pulse 2
for streaming again, to see if my connectivity issues still existed.
Figuring I had nothing to lose, I did just that. To start, I temporarily
moved the Pulse from my living room to my office, where my desktop
computer is located. By doing this, I was able to connect the player
directly to my router, rather than going through a powerline network
adapter. As a result, I discovered that the player was able to scan my
library much faster. While not as fast as LMS, a full scan of my music
files ran two or three times faster than it did with the powerline
network adapter. After completing the scan, the player worked as
advertised. Whenever I selected something to listen to, the Pulse played
it without problems. When I returned it to the living room and plugged
it back into the powerline network adapter, it continued to work with no
connectivity issues. Clearly, something had changed. I have no idea
whether it was a firmware update to the player, a Windows update, an
automatic update to my router, or some combination of all three. The
important thing is that it finally worked correctly.
But then I realized that something else was wrong. The total number of
songs in my Bluesound library was about two-thirds of the number LMS
indexes when it scans exactly the same files. Further investigation
revealed that many albums were missing, and that many others were
incomplete, with some tracks missing but others included. Even more
puzzling - each time I did a Rebuild Index (the BluOS equivalent of a
'Clear library and rescan everything'), I got a slightly different
number of tracks. On top of that, I discovered that if I followed a
Rebuild Index with Reindex Music Collection ('Look for new and changed
media files'), it would add some of the tracks missed by Rebuild Index.
If I kept doing the Reindex process multiple times, it would eventually
index everything.
So I opened a support request with Bluesound, assuming that they'd
actually be able to help me this time. Four frustrating weeks and many
red herrings later, the support rep I was dealing with finally admitted
that she had no idea what the problem was. She'd eventually realized
that the player logs she'd been examining contained multiple error
messages about failed file mounts, but she didn't know what was causing
the errors. Her solution was to close the support request, and to tell
me to contact them again if the problem recurs.
A couple of days later, I got an e-mail from Bluesound asking me to
evaluate my customer support experience. I selected the 'not
satisfactory' option and explained why. That was a couple of weeks ago,
and no one from Bluesound has gotten back to me.
In the meantime, I've gone back to using the Pulse 2 as a
DAC/amp/speaker for a Raspberry Pi running pCP. Whenever there's an
update to the Pulse 2 firmware, I'll try again to see if it's able to
index my music files properly, but I'm not going to waste any more time
and effort with their customer support.
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Re: [slim] What are your long-term SqueezeBox solutions?
Here's another vote for the Raspberry Pi solution. I've put together a couple, both using piCorePlayer. One has a HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro and the other has an Allo DigiOne. Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108823 ___ 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 just upgraded to IOS 11. Squeezepad is working fine for me. Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 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] Transporter issue
JJZolx wrote: > Replacing the PSU in the Transporter is a cheap and "easy" fix? How so? See this thread: 'Need Help For A Broken Transporter' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?100509-Need-help-for-broken-Transporter) Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107221 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Bluesound Node 2 vs SBT
Apesbrain wrote: > Thanks Jim for sharing your experience... After I posted my comment and read it over, I began to wonder if perhaps I'd shared a little too much... I assume that if I could connect my Pulse 2 - as well as potential future Bluesound purchases - directly to my router, then my problems would be solved. But that would either require running Cat-5 or Cat-6 cables from my basement to various locations on the first and second floors, or moving to a new house with Ethernet already installed. Neither option appeals to me, especially when powerline networking adapters can accomplish the same result much more easily. Finding out that the router and the adapters that worked just fine with LMS and various Squeezeboxes didn't work consistently with the Pulse 2 was -enormously- frustrating. But perhaps it's for the best. If everything had worked perfectly, I'd probably have gone ahead with my plans to buy more Bluesound players - a couple of Node 2's, perhaps a Powernode 2 - and then I'd be stuck with flaky software I didn't like, and rescans that take far too long. Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106981 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Bluesound Node 2 vs SBT
I don't have any experience with the Node 2, but I purchased a Pulse 2 recently and am disappointed with the results. I've been using LMS and Squeezeboxes for a number of years now. My current setup consists of a Transporter, a Squeezebox Touch and a pair of Raspberry Pis running PiCorePlayer. I live in a townhouse with a lot of neighbours close by. This means a lot of wireless interference, so three of my Squeezeboxes are connected to my network using powerline network adapters. (The Touch is in the basement near the router, so interference is not an issue.) I was happy with the fact that everything works the way it's supposed to, but because Logitech no longer manufactures Squeezebox hardware, I reluctantly decided that I should explore other options. Bluesound seemed like a good choice, and I liked the fact that the company is Canadian. (As am I). The Pulse 2 was intended as the first of what would eventually be a number of purchases of Bluesound devices, replacing all of my Squeezeboxes. I got the Pulse set up and working without too much effort, but right away, I was disappointed with a few things. The iPad app to control it seemed poorly designed: not very user friendly, and not very intuitive. It was definitely a big step down from Squeezepad, which I've used daily for years now, and like a great deal. The Bluesound app's display of cover artwork was problematic - sometimes it would be correct, sometimes it would display the artwork for a different album entirely, sometimes it wouldn't display anything, and sometimes it would display a message telling me that the artwork was bigger than the upper limit of 600 KB (even if the folder.jpg was well under 600 KB). Running a complete rescan would restore most of the artwork, but then the images would start disappearing again over the next few days. The Bluesound equivalent of a "new and changed" rescan would take 20 minutes vs. three or four minutes for LMS. (My library currently has 117,000 tracks). A "clear and rescan everything" would take four or five hours, so I'd run that overnight. On LMS, the complete rescan I ran yesterday took one hour and 14 minutes. My biggest problem, however, was connectivity. I plugged the Pulse 2 into one of the same powerline adapters I've been using for a couple of years with my Squeezeboxes, and it worked...some of the time. Other times, when I navigated the menus and selected an album to listen to, nothing would happen for a few seconds, then the screen on my iPad would go blank, and I'd get a message telling me to make sure that my device (iPad) was connected to the same network as my player. To fix this, I had to reboot the Pulse 2 (pull the plug, wait a few seconds, plug it in again). Or I could just wait, and after 15 or 20 minutes, the problem would correct itself, and the album I'd selected would begin playing. Those overnight rescans I mentioned? Sometimes they'd work, sometimes they wouldn't. I can only assume that the connection got lost somehow in mid-scan, so I'd have to try running it again the next night. At first, I thought that the problem was with my aging iPad. The browser was regularly freezing or crashing on a growing number of websites, so I thought that maybe something similar was happening with the Bluesound app. I'd been planning to upgrade for some time, so I went ahead and got a new iPad Pro. I'm glad I did so - it's a big improvement over what I had - but it made absolutely no difference as far as the Pulse 2 was concerned. In the meantime, Bluesound issued a number of new versions of both the software for the player itself, and the controlling app. I installed them and tried them out, hoping that each one might solve my problem. But nothing changed: the player would work fine for a day or two, then it wouldn't, then it would again. I checked the Bluesound forums, where a lot of people were reporting similar issues. The response from Bluesound was always the same: open a support request and let us look into it. Eventually, I did just that. They checked the log files from my player, and told me it seemed to be a timimg problem. The player was fine, but there was something wrong with either my router or powerline network adapters, so I was on my own. Needless to say, that didn't impress me much. My router and powerline network adapters work just fine with my Squeezeboxes, so I'm not sure why they won't also work with Bluesound. I did find one post of the forums from someone saying that TP-Link adapters worked well with his Bluesound player. I'm using D-Link adapters, so I thought that maybe there was some incompatibility between them and Bluesound's software. Maybe a switch in brands would solve everything. I purchased a pair of TP-Link adapters (after first confirming the store's return policy) and tried them out. The results were no different. The Pulse 2 would work for awhile, then it wouldn't, then it would again. I returned the TP-Link adapters for a refund, and went back to
Re: [slim] New version of LMSDocumenter
d6jg wrote: > If you don't know what that means then you haven't. You have to do it > deliberately. It would be needed if you wanted to access your LMS > remotely. > > > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk That's what I suspected. No, I haven't made any changes like that. Thanks for your response. Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New version of LMSDocumenter
d6jg wrote: > Do you by any chance have ports forwarded on your router to LMS? > > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I'm sorry - I have no idea what that means. How do I tell if that's the case? Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New version of LMSDocumenter
I'm having a similar issue with the server. There are 2 values listed in the drop-down: 192.168.2.1 and 192.168.2.15 22118 My server is 192.168.2.15. It's running on the PC that I'm running Documenter on. 22119 But if I select that value from the drop-down, the URL beside it (http://192.168.2.1:9000) doesn't change, and when I click the "Scan Music Library" button, if get a "Server Not Found" error. +---+ |Filename: Clipboard04.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=22119| +---+ Jim Pattison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64464 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106963 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
