[slim] Off topic question on Android Auto Qobuz streaming
As the title suggests - a slightly off topic question on Qobuz streaming. It's working fine with LMS and all my SB clients, and it's working fine on my Android phone. It's suddenly stopped working on Android Auto in the car. Other apps like Apple Music and Spotify and Radio Streaming Apps are working fine on Android Auto, so it appears to be something specifically connected to Qobuz on Android Auto. Was working fine until about a week or two ago. Has anyone seen this behavior? Any suggestions / solutions? I have written to Qobuz Help, but am still to hear back from them TIA, N Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116897 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Another yesr
+1 Couldn't agree more. Have been happily using the SB ecosystem since 2005. I recently hooked up one of my SB Touches to a pair of KEF LS50W wireless speakers and I'm super thrilled. Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109939 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] advice on music file storage
jfbusch wrote: > i've been storing my music files in apple lossless format on a mac mini > which is nearly maxed out in hard disk capacity and other hardware > aspects such it is hardly able to boot up and play music. time to change > things around. my thought is to upgrade my MacBook pro to one with a > larger hard disk and have just one computer instead of 2 to deal with > and store everything and run LMS from there. but then i thought maybe > there is a better solution that folks here could point me towards. There's quite a lot of options available that don't involve replacing your entire computer! It's not clear from your post whether you want to upgrade your Mac Mini or your MacBook Pro - clearly a desktop would be better for LMS, but it really depends on your use case scenario. You can easily plugin external storage to your Mac, and store all your music on it. If your HDD is maxed out, freeing up some place on it will certainly improve performance. I have a 2009 vintage MacMini where I have upped the RAM, replaced the original HDD with an SSD, and replaced the non-working optical drive with a larger 1.5TB HDD for my lossless music; and it absolutely flies. If you share details of your computer, it might be possible to make clearer suggestions. Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106349 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Pre-Announcement: ickStream Music Platform
RonM wrote: no matter how hard I try I just can't get past the name. You may not want to talk about it, but a name that instantly evokes an image of the consequences of infection by -Vibrio cholerae- is not one that you want to market to English-language locations. R. Haha ..but I do agree. How about SlickStream instead? Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] No competition for Sonos! :-(
I have been using both products for over 7 years now, and neither is inferior - they are just two very different things. I find myself using the SqueezeBoxen far more often than Sonos, but for most people Sonos is easier to deal with, and simply just works out of the box. Sure there are library size limitations, inability to stream higher res files, and no ability to tweak as with Music IP integration, room correction, etc, but that probably makes it more robust and indeed for most playback scenarios it works superbly. Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97440 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX
SqueezePlay was the only thing holding me back from installing my free ML upgrade on my mid 2012 MacBookPro. Thanks for this. Works great. Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96328 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can I stream my music over the internet?
SoftSqueeze should work for you if you can already remotely connect via SSH. All you need to do is tunnel two TCP ports 3483 and 9000, which SoftSqueeze handles. Make sure you have the latest version of SoftSqueeze. Under preferences, put your server hostname as localhost. Under networking, hostname should again be localhost. HTTP port 9000 and SlimiProto Port 3483. Under SSH, click on the use SSH tunnel checkbox, enter your SSH server IP address or dynds name if you have one, SSH port 22, your SSH login name and password from your remote machine. Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96006 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Best Hard Drive Format...Switched From PC To Mac
There's quite a lot of options for Mac users: 1) The default HFS+(J) is probably the simplest. If you are working in an all Mac environment, this should be fine. If you need cross platform support, most linux distros allow you to access this as read only and you can download a 'free read/write linux HFS+ driver from Paragon' (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-linux-per/). For Windows access to HFS+ drives you can use the 'MacDrive commercial drivers from MediaFour' (http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive) or 'Paragon' (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/). 2) Plain old FAT32 is aging but will work out of the box with almost any OS including directly with a SqueezeBox Touch. The main limitation is the 4GB individual file size, which might be a problem if you intend to store video files on the same drive as well, but for audio files only, it should not be a problem. 3) You can stick with NTFS and use either a 'free open source Mac read write driver like NTFS-3G' (http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/) or commercial versions from 'Tuxera' (http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/) or 'Paragon' (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/). NTFS has relatively robust cross platform support either out of the box or through open source drivers, including native access by the SqueezeBox touch. 4) As stated above exFAT from Microsoft is another option. It is similar to FAT32 but removes the 4GB file size restriction. It supported by most recent releases of Windows (I think Win 7 and above, but can be added to XP and Vista as a free download) and MacOS (I think OS 10.6 and above). There is also a FUSE read/write driver for linux, and because this format is the official format for SDXC flash cards, we are likely to see a lot more support in the future. 5) Finally if you would like to protect your data well, you might want to consider ZFS. A commercial mac version from 'Ten's Complement' (http://tenscomplement.com/) called 'Zevo Silver Edition' (http://tenscomplement.com/our-products/zevo-silver-edition) recently became available and there's also an 'open source version' (http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/). -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93678 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Continuous autoscanning on 7.6.1 on Mac OS 10.6.8
[11-08-24 20:10:27.6647] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::rescan (166) Discovering files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music [11-08-24 20:10:49.6529] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::__ANON__ (246) Removing deleted files (0) [11-08-24 20:10:49.6532] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::__ANON__ (321) Scanning new files (12) [11-08-24 20:10:49.6539] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::__ANON__ (396) Rescanning changed files (0) [11-08-24 20:10:51.8962] Slim::Music::Artwork::precacheAllArtwork (442) Starting precacheArtwork for 21 albums [11-08-24 20:11:11.4745] Slim::Music::Artwork::__ANON__ (535) precacheArtwork finished in 19.5778789520264 [11-08-24 20:11:23.0881] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Elvis Costello/The Delivery Man/01 - Button My Lip.flac [11-08-24 20:15:46.4588] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Diana Ross The Supremes/The No. 1's/Diana Ross The Supremes - The No. 1's - (12) - Love Child.flac [11-08-24 20:17:23.5515] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Sam Phillips/Don't Do Anything/09 - Shake It Down.flac [11-08-24 20:21:07.0455] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Michael Franti Spearhead/All Rebel Rockers/01 Rude Boys Back In Town.flac [11-08-24 20:24:40.5171] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Suzanne Vega/The Best of Suzanne Vega - Tried And True/Suzanne Vega - The Best of Suzanne Vega - Tried And True - (12) - No Cheap Thrill.flac [11-08-24 20:28:43.2967] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Morcheeba/Blood Like Lemonade/06 Recipe For Disaster.flac [11-08-24 20:34:28.2316] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Esthero/Breath From Another/Esthero - Breath From Another - (10) - Indigo Boy.flac [11-08-24 21:12:27.7242] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::rescan (166) Discovering files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music [11-08-24 21:12:52.6168] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::__ANON__ (246) Removing deleted files (0) [11-08-24 21:12:52.6171] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::__ANON__ (321) Scanning new files (12) [11-08-24 21:12:52.6178] Slim::Utils::Scanner::Local::__ANON__ (396) Rescanning changed files (0) [11-08-24 21:12:54.8102] Slim::Music::Artwork::precacheAllArtwork (442) Starting precacheArtwork for 18 albums [11-08-24 21:12:55.2477] Slim::Music::Artwork::__ANON__ (535) precacheArtwork finished in 0.43598484992981 [11-08-24 21:18:30.2381] Slim::Networking::SqueezeNetwork::Players::_players_error (317) Unable to get players from SN: Couldn't resolve IP address for: www.mysqueezebox.com, retrying in 300 seconds [11-08-24 21:37:30.1090] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Gorillaz/Plastic Beach/07 Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon).flac [11-08-24 21:41:13.2564] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Alicia Keys/The Element Of Freedom (Deluxe)/11. This Bed - Alicia Keys.flac [11-08-24 21:44:46.7029] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Massive Attack/Mezzanine/Inertia Creeps.flac [11-08-24 21:48:49.4797] Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (318) Found 1 files in /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Music/MusicArchive/Lossless/Rock, Pop, Alt, Folk, etc/Paul Simon/The Paul Simon Collection - On My Way, Don't Know Where I'm Goin'/Paul Simon - The Paul Simon Collection - On My Way, Don't Know Where I'm Goin' - (19) - Hurricane Eye.flac Details of SBS: Code: Version: 7.6.1 - r33110 @ Wed Aug 17 18:49:27 PDT 2011 Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6.8 - EN - utf8 Platform Architecture: x86_64 Perl Version: 5.10.0 - darwin-thread-multi-2level Database Version: DBD::SQLite 1.34_01 (sqlite 3.7.7.1) -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89860 ___ discuss mailing list
Re: [slim] 7.6 and MusicIP not working
I was setting up MusicIP and SBS 7.6 for a friend on Win XP and couldn't get it to import MusicIP with the 'only read mixable status' option. It seemed to start when I switched to the 'import all song data' but I got fed up after about an hour of MusicIP import and no discernible progress. Spicefly Sugarcube worked fine though. Switched to 7.5 and everything worked as expected, though it's slow as molasses. FWIW, 7.6 and MusicIP are working fine on my own Ubuntu and MacOS 10.6 setups. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89462 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] So, what exactly is the future of streaming audio going to be?
erland;646795 Wrote: Has anyone seen a good feature comparison between Squeezebox and Sonos ? I think you've covered most of the points. You could do a search on the slimdevices and sonos forums for a comparison I did about 5 years ago; there have obviously been some changes, but the basics remain the same. I've been using both platforms ever since, but I find that I use my SqueezeBoxen a lot more. Some major advantages of each platform as I see them: Sonos advantages: 1) Easier to setup and operate for newbies and non-techy types. It really does just work. 2) More robust networking because of their peer to peer mesh networking. 3) Rock solid multi-player synchronization. 4) Music access is over SMB, so it works well with most OSs and NASs. It does use UPnP for it's own communication, and a Zone Player can be used as a UPnP renderer too, but that's not how it accesses external media. 5) Everyone makes a big deal about the cost. But if you think about it, each ZP90 zone player is only $50 more than an SBTouch if you have an Android or iOS Device to control it with. Of course you will need to add the $50 bridge if your first Zone Player is away from a wired connection. Squeezebox advantages: 1) Ability to handle higher than 44.1 KHz and 16 bit files with many of the models. I increasingly have more of this material, so it works well for me. 2) Display on player for most models. 3) The responsiveness of an IR remote for most models 4) Ability to configure menus easily, and sort music by multiple criteria. Sort by newly added music is something I use very frequently. 5) Plugins! MusicIP and the Spicefly SugarCube plugins are in themselves worth the price of entry. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89332 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] So, what exactly is the future of streaming audio going to be?
erland;646813 Wrote: How does the browsing on Sonos work, does it only allow you to browse by music folder or does it have same possibilities as Squeezebox to browse by artists, by genre, by year ? Is it only the sorting possibilities that differs compared to Squeezebox ? The menus are not configurable and options available are Search, Artists, Contributing Artists, Albums, Composers, Genres, Tracks, Playlists and Folders. Have you compared the audio quality between Squeezebox and Sonos ? Using the analogue outputs I think the SB2 sounded a little bit better than my ZP80, but not hugely better. I haven't recently done a comparison with the Touch in analogue output mode. I use the digital outs to feed to a Cyrus DAC-X and a TacT S2150XDM Amplifier. In a digital out usage scenario, I seriously doubt that there is a reproducible difference between Sonos and SqueezeBox that will hold up to blind testing, though in my early listening I felt that the SB2 was very marginally better, it was probably not real. One of these days I will do a side by side with my SB2, Touch and ZP80 from both analogue and digital outputs. One thing I missed in my previous post is that SqueezeBox handles ReplayGain tags much better and gives users much more control over how the tags are utilized. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89332 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thinking about switching to Sonos (for a Restaurant)
I have been using both Squeezebox and Sonos for about 5 years now, and even though I'm much more of a SqueezeBox fan myself for use in the home, for the usage scenario you describe, I think Sonos is the way to go. Setup is dead easy, it can be maintained by folks with little tech savvy, the networking is robust, and multi zone syncing is extremely robust. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89313 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] So, what exactly is the future of streaming audio going to be?
erland;646882 Wrote: Don't they do some kind of scanning when you add a SMB folder to the library ? Sounds kind of similar to how SBS works. Yes they do, but since the only requirement for the server is to have an SMB share, it is a lot more flexible than SBS. Also the scanning has always been a gazillion times faster. They are obviously not storing as much metadata as SBS, but I've always wondered since the days of SS6 how Sonos could scan the same library in a fraction of the time it took SS/SC/SBS. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89332 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] So, what exactly is the future of streaming audio going to be?
maggior;646951 Wrote: When the scan occurs, where is the data being stored - on the controller? Since there is no server, I'm thinking it has to be stored there. What if you have multiple controllers in the form of Andriod, iOS, or Sonos devices? The metadata are stored on the zone players; not on the controllers (the only downside is that there is currently approximately a 65K track limit). You can scan your library on any one of the players through any of the controllers and it auto-magically mirrors on every other zone player associated with the system. Even if you remove the first zone player with which you scanned the library, it doesn't matter. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89332 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wireless SB2 as bridge, wired to, a Touch ?
I've used a Slingbox and Sonos player simultaneously wired to an SB2 as a bridge, and that worked fine, so I don't see why a Touch wouldn't work. Other than for testing side by side, or if you are going to run your ethernet between rooms or across a wall, I find it hard to imagine a scenario where this would be useful though. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87217 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Anyone using WD TV HD media player?
It plays flac files fine, but you can only browse by folder structure, not by tags. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87035 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Problem with Scroll Once Then Stop
Broken in 7.5 and remains broken in 7.6 as well on my SB2. I increased the time between scrolls so it doesn't drive me crazy, but I can still see the full details. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85074 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Problem with Scroll Once Then Stop
Thanks. Voted. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85074 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 Loops in reset
You're not the only one. I've had the same problem intermittently over the past year or so after several years of faultless service from my SB2. Seems like it is a not so rare problem with older SB2/SB3s. See this thread, and this post specifically for links to other threads. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69553 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=529491postcount=31 -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86651 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] MusicIP mix consisting of only 2-3 songs
Try changing the 'Mix Genre' stting to No and that should get you sorted I think. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86629 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Support for Moodagent
MusicIP still works very well with Squeezebox Server, and you can add the Spicefly Sugarcube Plugin to enhance it even further. Moodagent still does not have a Desktop app (they have a profiler, but that's no use on it's own). They would need a proper desktop app (which they said was coming a while back) or better yet, a headless app or license their technology to SD/Logitech, and also support additional formats like flac, for this to work like MIP does now. You probably need to make a request to the Moodagent folks first. See this thread for an earlier discussion: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79819highlight=moodagent -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85983 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng roadmap poll
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85135 Question: Which of these iPeng enhancements would be most important for you? - Non-Swipe Now-Playing UI for iPhone - SqueezePlay-like menu operation - Main Player controls permanently available instead of shortcut bar - Smaller and lower resolution artwork - New Main Screen UI for iPad - Advanced Synchronization - Additional Functionality (please elaborate) Additional functionality: Would it be possible for the app to have built in SSH tunneling / VPN capability (sort of like the original softsqueeze). I do use the VPN functionality of iOS for this sometime, but I wonder if it would be possible just for this app. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85135 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock
It's really just using the iPod like a wireless hard drive via Sonos' wifi mesh network, and allowing access of the contents through the normal Sonos controllers. I can see it being quite useful at parties when people come over with iPods and want to play it through your system. It does not use Apple's Airplay to stream. And the quality will be the same as the music on the iPod. If it is lossless, then it will remain lossless. What seems a lot more interesting is Arcam's rDAC KW and rWand products that appear to allow similar functionality without physically docking the iPod. http://www.arcam.co.uk/products,Devices,Accessories,rWand.htm http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36521/arcam-rdac-kw-music-streamer -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock
It does not need a jailbroken iDevice. Should work out of the box on any iPod / iPhone that has a dock connector. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock
iPhone;586222 Wrote: Who wants to listen to lo-res music? Think about where the files for an iPod or iPhone came from. That's right, from a PC, your iTunes account (PC again), or something that was ripped to MP3. So if you already have them, why not just stream them with SBS, Doh. This Sonos thing is for people with more money then brains! Like most of the users who frequent this forum, I find the Squeezeboxes more suited to my requirements than the Sonos setup. That said, both are excellent products and each has areas where it shines over the competition. I personally own multiple Squeezebox devices (SB2, Duet and Touch) and Sonos devices (2 ZP80s and 1 CR100). It's fine to have a preference for one product over the other, but I see no need to ridicule a competitor's product or insult the people who use them. To your specific issues - There are a lot of people who are absolutely fine listening to lo-res music. But that is beside the point. I don't see how this product is automatically linked to poor quality or mp3. The files come from wherever you get them from, including lossless rips from your own CDs. I have friends with iPod classics full of lossless files ripped from their CDs. I can easily envisage a scenario where it would be quite convenient to plug such an iPod into a Sonos dock and listen to it through my Sonos connected through a Cyrus DAC-X or or TACT Digital Amplifier. These files would not be on my SBS and I might not want to copy them over and index every time said friend visits. I see this as quite a convenience and I see nothing lo-res about this approach. Finally to your point about money over brains - you should know that a Sonos ZP90 + Free iPhone/iPod/iPad control app at $ 350 is only about $40 more expensive than SB Touch + iPeng, so it's not that big a deal. my 2c -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SqueezePlay speed change 44.1/48 KHz FLACs MusicIP/SpiceFly Mix
I have a few 48 KHz FLAC files (mostly 16 bit and a few 24 bit) ripped from DVDs interspersed with my largely 44.1 KHz/16bit CD ripped FLAC library. Listening with SqueezePlay (7.4r7538M on Mac OS 10.6.2) to a MusicIP/Spicefly Mix the speed sometimes goes haywire when it switches between a 48 KHz and 44.1 KHz track or vice versa. Metadata shows the correct bit depth and sample rate for the files. Server details are: Version: 7.4.2 - r30215 @ Fri Feb 19 15:21:27 PST 2010 Operating system: Debian - EN - utf8 Platform Architecture: i686-linux Perl Version: 5.10.0 - i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi MySQL Version: 5.0.83-0ubuntu3 Haven't noticed this behavior behavior before on SqueezePlay with normal random mixes or on my trusty old SB2. Is it something to do with the plugins? Is this a known bug? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SqueezePlay speed change 44.1/48 KHz FLACs MusicIP/SpiceFly Mix
I have a few 48 KHz FLAC files (mostly 16 bit and a few 24 bit) ripped from DVDs interspersed with my largely 44.1 KHz/16bit CD ripped FLAC library. Listening with SqueezePlay (7.4r7538M on Mac OS 10.6.2) to a MusicIP/Spicefly Mix the speed sometimes goes haywire when it switches between a 48 KHz and 44.1 KHz track or vice versa. Metadata shows the correct bit depth and sample rate for the files. Server details are: Version: 7.4.2 - r30215 @ Fri Feb 19 15:21:27 PST 2010 Operating system: Debian - EN - utf8 Platform Architecture: i686-linux Perl Version: 5.10.0 - i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi MySQL Version: 5.0.83-0ubuntu3 Haven't noticed this behavior behavior before on SqueezePlay with normal random mixes or on my trusty old SB2. Is it something to do with the plugins? Is this a known bug? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezePlay speed change 44.1/48 KHz FLACs MusicIP/SpiceFly Mix
Thanks, good to know that I'm not the only one. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezePlay speed change 44.1/48 KHz FLACs MusicIP/SpiceFly Mix
Thanks, good to know that I'm not the only one. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76865 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 bricked? (perpetual reboot)
I think we need to make a sticky of this problem of dead/continuously rebooting SB2s/SB3s/Classics. There are at least 4 other threads that discuss this or a similar problem. If we have everyone clearly list their problems in a single thread, we might be able to find a solution, and make it easier for future sufferers as well. Here are the threads: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73567 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71334 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73207 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74844 -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB 3 dead
Would this 'N' card work too? Will it give better performance on on an 'N' network? http://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-TL-WN861N-802-11n-Wireless-Ethernet/dp/B0017YHYFM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1262830747sr=1-3 -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73567 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox v3 - keeps rebooting, please help
Have you tried going to an earlier firmware? I was thinking of 7 or 7.2 or even one of the 6.x, but since it is running at the moment, I am scared to try anything. I ran SS 6.11 for years on my LinkStation without any problems - the new SBS seems unnecessarily bloated as compared to that release. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71334 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is my SB2 dying?
Thanks for all your suggestions. Since it is working at the moment, I am too scared to try anything. However the next time it happens, I will try all the suggestions one by one. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73207 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox v3 - keeps rebooting, please help
I've had the exact same problem with my SB2, and I called support. They said that they had never heard of the problem before and were unable to help me. However, it looks like I am not the only one. I've posted about this before: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73207 -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71334 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is my SB2 dying?
Has no one seen the same thing? I called support - they were polite but not very helpful. They said that they didn't have a clue, and since it was so old, they couldn't do anything about it either. :( -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73207 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Is my SB2 dying?
I've had my SB2 for about 4.5 years now, and its worked beautifully until recently. When it's on it seems to be working fine. But if I toggle the mains or disconnect and reconnect the power supply (either end), restarting seems to be an ordeal for the device. It goes to the Logitech screen for less than a second and then goes blank, and keeps repeating this in a loop for several minutes. If I am lucky it comes on after several such loops. Often it proceeds a few more steps and blanks out before starting, and sometimes I just give up and return in a few hours and try again until it comes on. Fortunately it is on now. I've tried a factory reset (obviously this is not a total reset because it shows the Logitech welcome rather than the SlimDevices welcome), but that hasn't made a difference. Is my SB2 dying of old age? Could it be just the power supply? Has anyone seen this behavior? Is there a solution (other than getting an SB Classic or Touch)? Thanks -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73207 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Sonos marketing? What does this mean?
From this article: http://www.courant.com/business/custom/consumer/hc-kevin-hunt-sonos-column-1227-2009,0,602447.column We never bring it into the analog domain like Squeezebox and Bose, Kallai says, which move sound from digital to analog to digital to analog. That creates a lot of artifacts. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73069 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezeslave OSX PowerPC binary - Testers Needed!
I tested it really briefly on a PPC Mac Mini running 10.4.11 with SqueezeCenter 7.33. Seems to work fine. Is there anything specific you would like tested? Nikhil -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65634 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming to internet?
You could also try Sockso in your web browser http://sockso.pu-gh.com/ or SimplifyMedia along with a DAAP (e.g. iTunes) or UPnP media player http://www.simplifymedia.com/ -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65240 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] replay gain question
There are two replay gain tags added when you use Foobar2K to analyze by album - track gain and album gain. Track gain is useful when you are playing a random mix of tracks, while Album Gain is keeps the volumes of all the tracks in an album at the same relative gain to each other as was with the original source material. Squeezecenter allows you to choose track gain or album gain or 'smart' gain which tries to figure out whether you are playing a random mix or an album. Hope that helps. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65033 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] UPnP AV SqueezeBox Classic
slb;434576 Wrote: If anybody has an idea about a device that either directly support UpnP or plain filesharing, just let me know ... Sonos will work with plain filesharing (and with some flavours of UPnP). And as a long time happy user of both SlimDevices and Sonos products, I can say without any bias that it is an excellent option. You can buy an amplified ZonePlayer - the ZP120 tp connect to speakers or an un-amplified one with Analogue and Digital outputs. For controlling, you can use the Windows or Mac based Desktop Controller, or the free iPhone / iPod Touch Sonos controller App, or you could buy the excellent, but now clunky and outdated, CR100 handheld controller (rumour has it that a new slimmer CR200 controller will be available soon). -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64811 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Relaunching the public website as www.logitechsqueezebox.com
Dingostrategy;433341 Wrote: When I bought my first one, I got tea at the wholesaler's house, and it ws delivered later that day on a bicycle. I am familiar with tea being delivered by bicycle, but a SqueezeBox? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64421 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stream *TO* Airport Express?
You could use Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ (Mac or PC), to send audio to your Airport Express from SqueezePlay or SoftSqueeze or SqueezeSlave. Its not straight from SqueezeCenter to Airport Express, but it achieves the same goal, and it works reasonably well. There's also this for Windows PCs, but I've never tested it: http://www.ovesens.net/default.asp?PageId=8 I've been trying to do the same thing on Linux using 1) Raop-play: http://raop-play.sourceforge.net/ http://www.jroller.com/nwinkler/entry/raop_play_code_updates 2) GSTransmit: http://www.el-tunes.com/ 3) PulseAudio: http://pulseaudio.org/ Finally, a completely different way to acheive what you want would be to use the Firefly DAAP Server. All the served files will show up as shared iTunes libraries on your subnet, and then you can use iTunes' native streaming to AirportExpress / AirTunes. If you have non-iTunes compatible files, then Firefly can be configured to transcode them on the fly e.g. FLAC to wav, without losing metadata. P.S... Getting a Duet Receiver or SB3 is still the best option, because none of the above will allow that kind of control or multiroom syncing because of the delay involved with transmitting to AirTunes. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64602 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Controller on horizon?
Based on this post, it looks like Logitech are preparing more than one new product for release. It mentions a new version of the Duet, and a device with a touch screen. http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=13043highlight=squeezebox Discussed a bit here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63727 -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64022 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Updated Squeezebox products?
Was surprised to see this on the Sonos site, but a search here didn't turn up anything. Does anyone know what this is all about? http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=13043highlight=squeezebox -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63727 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I am leaving Logitech!
Sean, As for many other posters above, my SB2 has been one of the most rewarding purchases I have ever made. I'm sorry to see you leave, but having made a very similar move myself, I can totally relate to it. Wish you all the best for the future, and hope you have a great break. Cheers, Nikhil -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63759 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Mac related question
You have quite a few options. You could: 1) As suggested by several users above, use XLD. Here is a guide for XLD: http://jungle.sk/XLD_Tutorial/ 2) Continue to use EAC in Windows with BootCamp (I am not too sure if a virtualized solution like Parallels, VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox will allow you to carry out AccurateRips). If you want to go with the 2nd option, you could: a) Install WinXP in BootCamp on a FAT32 Partition. MacOS will be able to access that directly (read/write). b) You could use NTFS for your BootCamp Partition and MacOS will be able to natively read from it, but not write to it. c) Use NTFS for your BootCamp Partition, and install the open source NTFS-3G drivers http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/ that use MacFuse to read and write to the NTFS partition, or use the proprietary solution from Paragon http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ . d) Use NTFS for windows, and install MacDrive http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/ on the Windows side, which will allow you to access the Mac HFS+ partition from windows, and hence transfer the EAC ripped files. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61167 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last.fm playlists?
Thanks for the tip. It works for me too. I'd asked for it earlier, but I assumed my request had got lost in the noise. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60054 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Linn - SkweezyDS
andyg;381108 Wrote: I'm thinking about writing a plugin that will add UPnP MediaRenderer and MediaServer support. When I get some free time, we'll see. :) If you would like this capability, please consider voting for this feature request: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5091 -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Linn - SkweezyDS
andyg;381108 Wrote: I'm thinking about writing a plugin that will add UPnP MediaRenderer and MediaServer support. When I get some free time, we'll see. :) This is good news. Two thumbs up for Andy :) -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57813 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Adding a Popcorn Hour to my Squeeze system
Jetlag;383551 Wrote: In the meantime I need to figure out the best way to rip my nearly 400 DVDs (yes, 400) in true DVD quality to my ReadyNAS Pro. Any recommendations for this massive project? Since your Netgear device appears to support it, I think full size images (.iso) of your DVDs are the best option. I use this with my Popcorn Hour and it works well. I should point out that if you go the .iso route, then you won't be able to use a FAT32 file system on the storage medium, because most images are likely to be 4GB / file. Depending on the OS you use most frequently, you will need to use file systems like NTFS, HFS+, EXT2/3, etc. The other option is to rip to Video_TS folders. With regards to software for DVD ripping - I think it is a violation of the DMCA to even discuss methods for ripping DVDs. I don't want to get this forum into trouble, but I can tell you that Google is your friend :) -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57710 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple TV or Popcorn Hour
I too was trying to select from a bunch of devices including SlingMedia's SlingCatcher, the TViX devices, AppleTV and the Network Media Tank Devices (Popcorn Hour). The SlingCatcher was interesting because it would allow me to watch my remote SlingBox on TV in addition to watching local video files. However, the reviews were terrible, and video format support was not as extensive as the other deices. The TViX systems seemed to have quite a following, but were quite expensive. So I narrowed it down to the other two. The GUI on the AppleTV (as with most things Apple) is far superior to that on the Popcornhour, and if you don't mind living within the Apple ecosystem - it should be the best choice. While its native format support is a bit limited, if you are up for a bit of hacking, you can enhance its functionality and format support using Boxee.tv or XBMC. Also as you mention, the supplied internal HDD is nice. I personally went with the Popcorn hour because in many ways it is similar to the SqueezeBox. Out of the box it supports almost every format under the sun. It is constantly under development, and even though its GUI is a little crude as compared with AppleTV - it is perfectly usable. The option to add a 2.5 or 3.5 SATA HDD (on the Popcorn Hour A-110), the 2 external USB ports (2 host and 1 client), the plethora of connectivity options and the stunning quality of images pushed me towards the Popcorn hour. The SMB, NFS, FTP (ability to act as a NAS), and BitTorrent capabilities are very useful, and the UPnP support should allow control from an external renderer like a Nokia Internet Tablet, or N series phone, and also from an iPhone once you install some UPnP control software. Hope that helps. P.S...As a side note, if you don't need network support and all the other bells and whistles, you can get the WD HD media player for under $100 - it supports nearly all of the formats that the NMT devices do, but you have to plug in your USB drives directly to the player. jmanings;382909 Wrote: Excuse the off topic thread, but recent posts on these here have got me interested Im considering buying one of these 2...anyone care to give me some pro's/cons on wach and how they compare? Let me say that I am leaning towards the Apple TV initially because I want it for video only (SB3 is far better for music), I already use itunes for video, movies, I have a Ipod touch (ipeng rules!) and converting to MGEG 4 dosent bother me. The built in hard drive makes it nice, when you dont want to turn on your pc. Also video quality does not need to be perfect, as a;ot of what I use is home video that we shoot and encode ourselves. The quality is not ultra high quality in this Thanks in advance for the suggestions. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58065 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] OSX - How to Install LAME
Try these two locations: I found a lame binary here (along with flac), but I am not sure if this is the one being used, perhaps it is from a legacy SS 6.1 or SS 6.5 install. ~/Library/SlimDevices/bin If your SC install is for all users, then I think the lame binary should go here: /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Bin/darwin I also have lame binaries from Fink MacPorts, but I don't think they are being used by SC -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54478 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] OSX - How to Install LAME
Nikhil;355561 Wrote: If your SC install is for all users, then I think the lame binary should go here: /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Bin/darwin Glad you got it working. The location you mentioned in point #5 of your last post is the same as the one I mentioned earlier. I think actually it can be in any one of the 3 folders that I mentioned. If usr/local/bin doesn't exist, you can always create it. Sorry I didn't mention the 'Show package contents tip ... I personally use the unix prompt (terminal app). The simplest way to navigate to the location is to open up terminal and type: cd /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Bin/darwin and then if you wish to see it in a Finder window, you can type open . -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54478 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] FLAC format for videos?
Its a good question, and something that I have not been able to find a simple solution to for a couple of years. However, in the interim I have been ripping my DVDs to full size ISO images. This ripping process gets rid of the encryption and removes macrovision and region restrictions and other such annoyances, without further compressing the MPEG2 stream or transcoding to a different format. I say further compress, because the DVD source material is already compressed using a lossy algorithm. The full sized ISOs are the closest thing to FLAC+CUE for CD ripping because you can recreate the original DVD without additional loss from these, or convert them to different future formats as they become available. You can directly watch these on Win/Mac/Lin using VLC or some similar program or by mounting the ISO and using the default DVD player. An increasing amount of hardware devices support direct playback of DVD ISOs from local/attached drives or over the network. Unfortunately support for direct ISOs is not nearly as ubiquitous as support for xvid/divx/avi files or h.264/mp4/mkv files which are the more common formats for video files. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53287 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Before I Switch to Mac...What Should I Know?
ezkcdude;335666 Wrote: 2) Is there an equivalent to EAC now for the Mac? Have you tried XLD? http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html It seems to be the closest thing to EAC for the Mac (including having a zillion parameters that can be adjusted such as offset correction, etc), and is the only Mac ripper that can use the AccurateRip DB. I have used it a couple of times and it seems pretty nice. It seems to be the preferred Mac ripping tool among the online communities. This picture shows a comparison of XLD with Max and xACT http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/2863092204_7e8baa6424_o.jpg -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51892 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't Browse by Music Folder after 7.1 update
Michael, I couldn't browse anything when I tried the browse by Music Folder option. It would just say loading music folder, and then time out. However the problem has not repeated in the last 24 hours since I restarted the entire system. It would have been the first troubleshooting step to try on Windows, but it just didn't occur to me on the Mac. Anyways, perhaps the problem has sorted itself. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50839 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't Browse by Music Folder after 7.1 update
Its a Mac mini G4 PPC 1.42 GHz with 1GB RAM running OS 10.4.11 with all the security patches (including the latest one from about week ago; perhaps that is a clue, because I applied that security update around the same time as I upgraded to SC 7.1) -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50839 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Can't Browse by Music Folder after 7.1 update
I can't browse by Music Folder after the 7.1 update. Running OS X (10.4.11) PPC, updated from SS 7.0. All other browsing methods like Artist, Album, New Music, etc are working fine. On the SB2 menu, it says 'Loading Music Folder ...' and then times out. On the web interface, nothing happens when I click on music folder. Everything else appears to be working fine. Here are the last few lines from the log: Code: [08-08-08 05:12:56.5001] Slim::Buttons::Common::pushMode (1765) Error: Couldn't push into new mode: [browsetree] !: spec is not a valid file specification at /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 416. [08-08-08 05:13:15.3594] Slim::Buttons::Common::pushMode (1765) Error: Couldn't push into new mode: [browsetree] !: spec is not a valid file specification at /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 416. [08-08-08 05:13:16.2847] Slim::Hardware::IR::executeButton (999) Error: Subroutine for irCode: [left] does not exist! [08-08-08 05:13:25.1521] Slim::Hardware::IR::executeButton (999) Error: Subroutine for irCode: [left] does not exist! [08-08-08 05:16:04.2351] Slim::Buttons::Common::pushMode (1765) Error: Couldn't push into new mode: [browsetree] !: spec is not a valid file specification at /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 416. [08-08-08 05:16:05.3788] Slim::Hardware::IR::executeButton (999) Error: Subroutine for irCode: [left] does not exist! [08-08-08 05:16:05.8755] Slim::Hardware::IR::executeButton (999) Error: Subroutine for irCode: [left] does not exist! [08-08-08 06:33:13.9895] Slim::Networking::IO::Select::select (250) Error: Select task failed: spec is not a valid file specification at /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 416. [08-08-08 06:39:20.8130] Slim::Buttons::Common::pushMode (1765) Error: Couldn't push into new mode: [browsetree] !: spec is not a valid file specification at /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 416. [08-08-08 06:39:22.0926] Slim::Hardware::IR::executeButton (999) Error: Subroutine for irCode: [right] does not exist! [08-08-08 06:39:23.5256] Slim::Hardware::IR::executeButton (999) Error: Subroutine for irCode: [left] does not exist! [08-08-08 06:57:29.7244] Slim::Buttons::Common::pushMode (1765) Error: Couldn't push into new mode: [browsetree] !: spec is not a valid file specification at /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 416. [08-08-08 07:01:09.2423] Slim::Networking::IO::Select::select (250) Error: Select task failed: spec is not a valid file specification at /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 416. [08-08-08 07:02:24.0291] Slim::Networking::IO::Select::select (250) Error: Select task failed: spec is not a valid file specification at /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 416. [08-08-08 07:03:39.0365] Slim::Networking::IO::Select::select (250) Error: Select task failed: spec is not a valid file specification at /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 416. [08-08-08 07:04:54.0357] Slim::Networking::IO::Select::select (250) Error: Select task failed: spec is not a valid file specification at /Library/PreferencePanes/SqueezeCenter.prefPane/Contents/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 416. P.S A restart of SS solves the problem for a while, and then it seems to return -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50839 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Few artists sort with last name
I've noticed this only recently after updating to SC 7 - a few artists have suddenly started sorting with their last name rather than first name. I have looked at the tags and can't seem to find anything unusual. Does MusicBrainz Picard put in some 'normally not visible' tags that SC can read? Two examples are Tori Amos who now hangs out under 'A', rather than 'T' where she used to live before, and Damien Rice who has suddenly moved into the 'R' block from the 'D' block. Any ideas? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45350 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Few artists sort with last name
You're right. There were additional ARTISTSORT and ALBUMARTISTSORT tags in there. And my hunch that it had something to do with MUSICBRAINZ also turned out correct. So I guess I have 2 options there. I can either (i) go into the tags and remove all that info wherever its present (I recall coming across a thread earlier today where someone was trying to remove an iTunes Volume Normalization tag - I guess this should be procedurally similar) or, if possible, and I would prefer this, (ii) have slimserver ignore these specific tags. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45350 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Preorder? Duel and/or Controller stuff
No promo code for pre bookers / long time users? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42706 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Remote squeezebox over internet to SS using dynamic DNS?
I asked the same question a few weeks back. I will take a look to see if a bug has been filed for this. If not, I will file one, and you can vote for it. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42812 -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42972 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Two questions on remote streaming: Dynamic DNS Variable bitrate
I have two unrelated questions about remote streaming. 1) If you want to access a remote SlimServer that has a changing IP address with a Physical SqueezeBox (not with softsqueeze - I know how to do that), is it possible to enter a Dynamic DNS host name (as against an IP address) onto the device? Or alternatively can one of the plugins on slimserver (such as Michael Herger's ServerSwitcher be configured to do a DNS lookup and then allow switching to that remote server via the remote (or the controller) interface? 2) I currently have my flacs transcoding to 192 kbps mp3s for remote streaming, which is fine. But I was wondering if there is a way to dynamically adjust the encoding bitrate in real time in response to the available bandwidth? i.e. something like the Slingbox does - I have seen it scale from 8mbps down to 96 kbps depending on what was available. Which codecs support this feature? wma? hd-aac? open source? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42812 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slim Server and Firefly Server
I've been using Firefly server side by side with SlimServer (sharing the same library) for nearly a year now without any performance problems. I use Firefly server to transcode my FLACs to WAVs so they appear in iTunes and can be played through Airport Express or FrontRow. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41735 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slim Server and Firefly Server
Can't remember exactly why I went in that direction to start with; but there are several reasons I have stuck with FLAC and EAC .. mostly because this combination has met most of the criteria that are of important to me. 1) Quality - FLAC is lossless, no bits thrown away. 2) Compression - Yields about 55-60% compression on average. That means more music per storage $ spent as compared with WAVs and AIFFs. 3) Tagging metadata - well documented and standardized. Ability to store info about tracks, album art, metadata like replay gain, MusicBrainzIDs, MusicIP PUIDs, LastFM fingerprints, etc. This becomes really important with large collections, and I am unclear about the status of AIFFs and WAVs in this respect. 4) Device support - Natively supported by the SqueezeBox2 (that is you don't need server side transcoding and you can seek within tracks) and the Sonos ZP80, both of which I own. 5) Platform support - works on all the platforms I use routinely - Mac, Win Linux. 6) Its open source - I like that! and completely free - even better! 7) EAC followed naturally once I decided on FLAC. While I am sure that iTunes provides perfect rips 99.9% of the time - I feel better ripping with EAC and AccurateRip. I usually rip in the fast mode, and only if AccurateRip gives a mismatch do I use the secure mode. 8) Finally I hate the way iTunes messes with my files (playing with the tags, volume settings, and even locations) even though I like its UI. Firefly allows the tracks to be accessed in a read only manner. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41735 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slim Server and Firefly Server
jmourik;254156 Wrote: So could one use Firefly to stream FLAC (transcoded to mp3) to a Roku soundbridge, using the same directories as SC7 uses for streaming to a Squeezebox/Transporter? I have never needed to transcode flac to mp3 with firefly - lossless was what I was after. But I don't see why it shouldn't be possible with some minimal amount of tweaking. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41735 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonos getting smarter?
john_ops;239115 Wrote: Yep. I bought both. Stuck with Sonos. My SB3 sits atop my sonos in my bedroom, haven't turned it on in months J Different strokes for different folks. Its exactly the opposite for me. More often than not, it is the Sonos that stays idle, while the SB2 is constantly running. As I've said in a different thread, I love the display on my SB2 and I prefer its single handed remote operation over the two handed Sonos controller and its touch wheel (I am not a big fan of the wheel even on the iPod where it is implemented slightly better than on the Sonos controller). I also am very happy with the ability to do LastFM, Pandora (with LastFm scrobbling), AlienBBC and other fun stuff on the SB3. That said however, the Sonos is certainly a beautiful piece of kit; the less geeky members of my family seem to prefer it over the SB and I would recommend it without reservations to anyone. Not only is it easier to setup and use in a multi-room scenario, but when you are in a larger room using the Sonos controller become preferable to using the Slim IR and squinting at the SB display. Hopefully the Jive remote will bridge this last difference for me. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39623 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Old mac or old pc as slimserver
What about an old mac mini? Something like a 1.25GHz 0r 1.42 GHz PPC machine? They are small and super quiet, and should be fairly inexpensive. You can easily add multiple USB2.0 and/or Firewire external drives for expansion without worrying about drive size limits. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39312 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] OT: Some Folders invisible on MacOS 10.4.10 on external NTFS drive
I have an external NTFS drive which I share between a PC and Mac. It is NTFS and not FAT32 because I have DVD iso rips on it, which are individually larger than 4GB. The mac appears to mount the drive correctly when I connect using Firewire or USB 2.0. However some Folders that I know are there don't show up either in finder, or even from the Unix prompt when I do an ls -la. Strangely if I cd to the folder (because I know the name) on the unix prompt, or use the finder's go to folder function, I can get to the folder, and then browse its contents. What's happening here? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39232 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Bootable SlimServer External HDD ... wishful thinking?
I really like the idea behind Michael Herger's SlimCD... so to take that a step further ... how hard is it to: 1) Create a similar CD for the PowerPC platform? (Mac Mini G4 for in my case) 2) Create some sort of master bootable (linux?) external USB2/Firewire drive with SlimServer (and perhaps Firefly server and a UPnP server) that has a couple of partitions. e.g. (i) a partition that will allow booting on usb boot enabled generic x86 machines (windows+dell types) (ii) if needed a partition for booting intel macs (via firewire / usb2) (iii) if needed a partition for booting PPC macs (via firewire), and (iv) a FAT32 partition to store all the media (e.g FLAC and mp3 files) - so this can be accessed even if you don't booth from the drive. Does this make sense? Will this be useful to anyone? Can it be done? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37808 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver Startup problem on mac
Thanks .. That did it! As much as I love my SqueezeBox and SlimServer, I think my parents could never have been able to troubleshoot something like this by themselves. There really needs to be some sort of self contained, self updating server box, which doesn't need any configuration, and which either contains its own hard drive or can directly be attached to a USB/firewire/eSATA external drive that serves all the SqueezeBoxen/Transporters. (Not as a replacement for the current form of Slimserver, but simply as an option - so geeks such as myself can continue to have all the flexibility we desire). Yeah yeah I know you can configue your NAS to run slimserver - I had my Buffalo PPC Linkstation running slimserver 6.1 for several months extremely well, but that's really not for my parents. They just want to listen to music .. not play around with computer settings. Nice remotes that make use of all this Jive work will be icing on the cake. This would put the Squeezebox+Slimserver combo way ahead of the Sonos System IMHO - Sonos still requires a NAS with SMB shares, or a running computer with shares open. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37697 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slimserver Startup problem on mac
I've restarted my ppc mac mini (updated to os 10.4.10) after several months, and updated SS to 6.5.4 (from 6.5.0 I think). Now SS won't start properly at all. I can click on the Start Server button and after about 30 seconds it seems to go off again. Everything else on the computer seems to be working fine. I have tried to completely delete the preference pane, and reinstall slimserver, but no difference. Here is what the log says: 2007-08-18 00:51:09.0681 SlimServer OSDetect init... 2007-08-18 00:51:09.0684 SlimServer OS Specific init... 2007-08-18 00:51:09.0686 SlimServer daemonizing... 2007-08-18 00:51:09.0811 SlimServer settings effective user and group if requested... 2007-08-18 00:51:09.0824 SlimServer settings init... 2007-08-18 00:51:09.1760 SlimServer saving pid file. 2007-08-18 00:51:09.1784 Got to the END. 2007-08-18 00:51:09.3204 SlimServer changing process priority to -6 2007-08-18 00:51:09.3211 SlimServer strings init... 2007-08-18 00:51:10.0432 SlimServer Setup init... 2007-08-18 00:51:10.1779 SlimServer setting language... 2007-08-18 00:51:10.1783 SlimServer MySQL init... 2007-08-18 00:51:10.3479 Firmware init... 2007-08-18 00:51:10.3499 SlimServer Info init... Database error: Duplicate column name 'contributor' at /Library/PreferencePanes/SlimServer.prefPane/Contents/server/CPAN/DBIx/Migration.pm line 115. 2007-08-18 00:51:10.5351 Got to the END. BTW is there a problem with the search function on the forums? Every search just returns a blank page for me. TIA, Nikhil -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37697 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Softsqueeze for Palm OS?
tyler_durden;220624 Wrote: Is there a way to have slimserver stream mp3 to the PDA and flac to the SB3? There most certainly is. My slimserver is set to stream FLACs to my SB2 and to softsqueeze on my local Macs PCs, while it streams high bitrate mp3s to my Nokia770 and lower bitrate mp3s to my computers at work across the internet. What is the URL for the mp3 audio stream coming out of slimserver (I should know, but I haven't tried to intercept the audio with anything before and the documentation is a little less than optimal)? on mine it is http://SlimServerIP:9000/stream.mp3 if you have a password, I think it can be done with http://login:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:9000/stream.mp3 not sure if this still works, and also the password probably gets sent as plain text .. perhaps OK over your home network. Once you connect, you can go to the player settings page in the web interface and set the required transcoding and bit rate limits. What sort of bit rate limit can the PDA handle? No idea on this one. The Nokia 770 does 320 kbps without any problem. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37526 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] PPC Mac Mini Linux Advice for Media Server
Thanks .. I will take a look at mythtv.org -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37211 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Sudden Nokia770 Now playing problem
I have suddenly noticed (over the past 2 days) that the now playing screen on the Nokia 770 Opera browser (using both the Nokia770 Touch skins) no longer shows the Album Art, the progress bar or the track info. Everything else seems to be in order. The skins are working fine on all the browsers on my Macs and PCs, so I guess something suddenly went wrong with the Nokia770 browser. I tried clearing the cache, but to no avail. Any ideas? Thx, Nikhil -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37242 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sudden Nokia770 Now playing problem
yeah that was it ... thanks. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37242 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] PPC Mac Mini Linux Advice for Media Server
I would like to use my old PPC Mac Mini as a media server. Ideally I would like to boot it with some sort of barebones Linux distro from an external firewire (or USB2) drive. That way the Mac OS X install on the main disk will remain untouched. I would like to run Slimserver, Firefly DAAP Server, a UPnP server, and some sort of video server for my DVD ISOs. My questions: 1) Can you boot linux from an external firewire drive without messing with OSX on a PPC Mac Mini? 2) If yes, could anyone recommend a good light distro? 3) Could anyone recommend some sort of server that will work for DVD ISOs? TIA, Nikhil -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37211 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] N800 remote like Sonos?
jkadragich;199688 Wrote: Thanks very much for the replies so far. Still would like to hear from someone who has compared the two (or at least 770 to sonos controller). I have been reading incessantly about the differences between sonos and SB, but it seems like the biggest advantage for sonos is it's controller. However, their controller costs $399, just like the N800 (which may even be less after discounts), but as you said, the N800 can do SOOO much more, it's almost (no it is) a no-brainer if the 800 can do what the sonos controller can do with respect to hand-held visual song search, selection,cover art, etc (and of course speed). It just strikes me as such a marketing miss for SB not to just offer a package with a preconfigured N800 or N800-lite version and blow the doors off this comparison. Am I missing something here? Please enlighten this newbie. Thanks again. Jeff Jeff, I have both, and I actually end up using the SqueezeBox with its original remote the most often. When I am sitting at my Mac or PC, I tend to use the Nokia skin or slimfx and sometimes Moose on the PC. The Nokia tablets are great, and Ben has done a brilliant job with the Nokia skin. However I still see the Nokia tablets as geek toys, and as a practical matter, to have the Nokia tablet always on, charged, connected to the WiFi network, with opera open at the right page is a bit of a pain. If you are just looking to play or change your music - this can be a bit awkward. In that case the Sonos would be a better bet, even though I find the controller far more sluggish than the SqueezeBox IR remotes. This topic has been covered a few times before on these forums. Please try searching for nokia 770 or nokia 800, sonos remote, etc. This post and the links within should help you get started http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33380page=2highlight=sonos+remote -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35011 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Error Correction for iTunes
EAC + FLAC remains my top choice on Windows, and is the top choice of many people on these forums. Max + FLAC on the Mac is pretty good too - I've never had any problems with it. FLAC is a good choice for format. It will play natively on the Squeezebox and Sonos (seeing that you are contemplating taking the plunge on both). I also continue to use iTunes - my FLAC library is served by Firefly server in addition to Slimserver. The FLACs show up as a DAAP/Bonjour share in iTunes (Win Mac), and are transcoded in real time to wav - so no loss of information. Tags are also preserved. Files can be played locally, or through Airport Express (and I guess through AppleTV as well). You can't burn CDs or create playlists from shared music though. For burning you can use Roxio Toast, and playlists can be created in Firefly. I see this as a stop gap solution. Rumours are that OS 10.5 Leopard will natively support FLAC, and I'm also hoping the XiphQT project will suport native FLAC decoding soon. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34897 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Error Correction for iTunes
Shredder;198713 Wrote: I think I just found the definitive answer: the newly released Parallels Desktop fo Mac allows EAC to operate on a Mac. Yeah. I thought you said you had an old G4 mac that looked like a half golf ball? Parallels WILL NOT work on that. It only works on recent Intel Macs. If you have one of those, or plan to get one of those, then you can run EAC - though its probably going to be a lot quicker using Windows in a BootCamp partition rather than virtualized in Parallels, which according to reports slows EAC down to a crawl. I still think MAX is your best bet. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34897 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accessing my music from work
You guys need to get new jobs :) that are less restrictive with their IT use policies. What you guys need is a digital audio player that support lossless formats like FLAC AND ALSO can access external HDDs using USB otg and/or firewire. Is there anything like that? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34371 ___ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accessing my music from work
Adam .. I was thinking a bit more about your problem. Taking the FLAC HDD to work is the only way you can have lossless music there. I doubt you will be able to stream FLAC from home to work, unless you have really high bandwidth at both ends. So if you were going to do real time transcoding to mp3 via slimserver, why not simply transcode all your music and put it on your 40GB iPod? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34371 ___ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accessing my music from work
Maybe somebody could modify an earlier generation iPod (the ones that still supported firewire which is peer to peer unlike USB) with RockBox, iPod Linux, or something similar and then you might be able to access external FLAC HDDs and play them through the iPod. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34371 ___ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accessing my music from work
adamslim;194161 Wrote: Can't run an exe file! Not sure if codecs need to be installed via an exe or in Windows Media player can be made to download it automatically... (WinXP machine) Adam wow .. that is extremely restrictive. if you can't run any .exe file, how do you get any work done? what about booting something like slimcd? they probably won't allow that either, right? you might simply want to take another laptop along with your flac hdd to work :) or perhaps buy one of those new hdd media enclosures that supports flac and stick your flac drive into it. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34371 ___ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accessing my music from work
If you are always on the internet, your external IP shouldn't change unless you need to release it from your DHCP server after an extended off period. So why don't you simply determine your IP address and use that directly instead of DynDNS? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34371 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] OT: DVD ISO rips and Media Library
Sorry for the OT question, but I am quite sure that several members would have faced a similar query before: While my main focus has always been audio, over the past few years I have started building up a small collection of DVDs too. Not being sure of what the best format to rip them would be, I used DVD Shrink to create ISO images without additional compression. So now I have a bunch of ISOs which range from 3GB - 8GB. I know how to mount them and watch with any standard software DVD player, and also that they play directly with VLC (fine on the PC, variable on the mac), but is there a more elegant solution like Slimserver, that can directly create a library of ISOs and stream/transcode the, over a local network? If ISOs are not the best format, what are some other formats that can be used that won't further compress the vide files? TIA, Nikhil -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34120 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Strange remote control behavior
Currenthill;187075 Wrote: suddenly I get some strange behavior. When using the remote control, every button works okay - but only for a total of 5-8 clicks. It doesn't care which button I pushes, I can skip songs by pressing forward 5-8 times, then it doesn't respond any more. Or I could press play/pause 5-8 times - then nothing. Very strange indeed. If I then wait like 2-3 minutes then I can push another 5-8 times before it locks up. During the 'lock-up' it does not affect the music I'm playing. So the device works perfectly using only the HTTP-GUI. But I Now that you mention it, I seem to have similar issues. I had assumed it was my remote batteries getting old, but I am quite sure its not that now. I never ever saw anything similar with version 6.1 running even on a puny 1st Gen Linkstation, nor with v 6.5 on my g4 mac mini but now i'm on 6.5.1 on windows and that might have something to do with it this seems particularly pronounced when i have really long playlists running for several hours. All of a sudden, the remote become unresponsive, including volume, but the music continues unaffected. I noticed that the Nokia770 skin also suffers some performance lags at this time, though not as pronounced as the remote. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33512 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Amazon's S3
andyg;186689 Wrote: S3 is great as an offsite backup, but if you are thinking of doing something like streaming music from it, you'll pay a fortune in bandwidth costs. There are other services designed for this such as mp3tunes. Perhaps Slimdevices/Logitech should consider offering something like this for music files as a optional paid service for their customers. SD customers could backup their files to SD servers, with the added advantage of being able to link it throught their SqueezeNetwork accounts for streaming that could scale according to available bandwidth. e.g. like mp3tunes but with a focus on backup for audiophiles. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33458 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Accessing Slimserver through corporate firewall?
what about port 3483? you need that open as well on TCP as well as UDP. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33402 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can u help?
I'm not really familiar with OTSDJ at all. From a cursory inspection of the website, it appears to be a software for automated DJing. While SlimServer / Squeezebox can be used to listen to your music collection over the internet - and most effectively at that, I very much doubt it is what you are looking for or need in this particular case. Perhaps you are mistaking this for Shoutcast? Shoutcast can interface with your DJ software and be configured to stream your output over the internet. HTH -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=3 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can u help?
Please see my edited link above -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=3 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can u help?
Hmmm ... OK, so u can have OTSDJ+Shoutcast at one end, and then setup a Squeezebox at the other end to receive the stream from this. You could probably use Squeezenetwork to set up your Shoutcast station as a favourite - so you won't need a computer running once the initial setup is done. There will also shortly be a solution using the SlingBox. Slingmedia are releasing a hardware device called SlingCatcher which will directly connect to your TV stereo so you can remotely watch without using a PC - but that is a few months away. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=3 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SlimDevices Squeezebox 2/3 and Sonos ZP80
notanatheist;185323 Wrote: Interesting that you state the Sonos is better at multi-room sync. In what way is it better than the SB2/3? I have 3 SB units at home and regularly sync/unsync them. The only thing I can think of that could be considered a 'hiccup' is the current track restarts. Not enough to bother me though. Does the Sonos give you web control as well? Is the remote RF or WiFi? I find it convienant to be sitting at a computer and just pop up the web interface to make changes to the volume and playlist on the fly without searching for the remote. I certainly agree on the display issue though. It is nice to see what is actually playing on the screen and/or have other information at your fingertips like the date/time/weather, visualizations, track info, or custom text welcoming people. Not exactly something the Sonos can do. Squeezebox obviously gives you far more freedom to setup your device however you please and is not tied to any particular platform. I wrote the original post nearly a year ago, so some things have changed on both platforms since then. I do continue to use both platforms side by side in my home (because each has its set of benefits). I still have a personal preference for the SlimServer + Squeezebox platform though members of my family have the opposite preference. WRT multiroom syncing, people's experience with the SBs and TPs have been variable - for some people (like you) it seems to just work perfectly, while others seem to have no end of trouble - at least that was the impression I got at the time of the review. On the other hand with the Sonos I don't recall anyone ever having a problem - it always just works out of the box with minimal fuss or configuration. The controller, as most people have acknowledged, is probably the strongest selling point. The controller is WiFi. In addition to the WiFi controller, there is a Desktop controller for Mac and Win and an AJAX based Web COntrol that has been and continues to be developed by the user community. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23490 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] FLAC to CD and MP3 Software
Burrrn will do what you need. It is free, simple, quick, and lightweight. http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4 -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33320 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox vs Sonos
Sparky;184842 Wrote: I would appreciate any feedback from anyone who has tried both. Thanks, Sparky They are both awesome, and they happily coexist side by side in my home. Here's something I wrote about a year ago. Most of it still holds true, but I would be happy to elaborate on any particular aspects if you'd like http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23490 -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 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] UNC paths and NOT drive mappings ?
jezbo;184886 Wrote: Am I right in saying that when your songs are on a network drive and not on the same PC, SlimServer can ONLY deal with UNC paths (//qnap/Public/music) and NOT drive mappings (H:/music). Certainly it wont accept the H:/ form for the Music Folder in Server Settings (reports Oops - H:/music doesn't seem to be a valid directory. Try again.), I'm not sure about the mapped drive thing but one possible reason might be that you are using a '/' instead of a '\' ... so for Windows systems you should try 'H:\Music' or 'H:\\Music' (For some reason I can't remember which one is correct at the moment - though I'm leaning towards the first one) Edit: If you navigate to the folder containing the music in windows explorer, and if you have your path set to display in the address bar, you can simply copy and paste the path -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33228 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Getting rid of slimserver
meltsheep;172247 Wrote: I rate iTunes very highly as software, its only serious flaw being a lack of a plugin API (ergo, you can;t play native flac in iTunes). Maybe my real issue is that I'd be happy to keep all my music in iTunes except that right now its flac. The Slim server iTunes itegration works pretty well. Hmm. I will think about a migration from flac to aiff and use iTunes ot manage music and slim to serve it. Will you be happy if iTunes could just play back your flac files, or would u want it to edit tags, burn cds, etc, etc? If its the earlier, one option is to run the Firefly (mt-daapd) server side by side with slimserver. You can set firefly to transcode your flacs to wavs in realtime (so no loss and additionally iTunes catches all the tag info). Firefly server shows up as a shared iTunes library, and you should be able to send stuff to your Airport Express. This way your iTunes/Airport Express and Slimserver/Squeezebox setups can happily exist side by side. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31879 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Poll: Wired or wireless?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 Question: Do you use your Slim Devices equipment wired or wirelessly? - All wired - All wirelessly - I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless I travel with my SB2 and use it wirelessly in one place and wired in another. Does this count as 'I have several units, some operate wired, some wireless' ? -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31930 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
