Re: [slim] bye squeeze, hello ipod
Yeah it's clear to me that you use the Touch as a remote and not a player. Sometimes I use my HTC Touch as a remote to control the Mac or the PC with Salling Clicker and sometimes I use it to stream audio from my Mac or PC to the phone and listen to it with headphones. I can't stream flac though. Not enough bandwidth on the HTC touch wifi. And the HTC Touch on wifi gives me like 1 hour of battery lol. Anyway I wake up today to see my SO listening to music on the balcony from the squeezebox to a pair of HD600. Since I like to sleep in she tries to spare me from a musical barrage. The squeezebox was connected to the slimserver on the Mac and she was listening through her iTunes collection while basking in the sun (what little sun we get here in Sweden). So I go to the Mac, start Softsqueeze and Airfoil and let it connect to the Airport Express which is connected to the hometheater system and hand her the Duet remote. Here ya go. Connect to a player. Now you can choose Listening Corner or iMac or PC. If you connect to iMac then you can stay on the balcony with the remote and listen to music through the speakers since the remote is controlling softsqueeze now. She pauses for a second and then goes Oh damn that's cool!. So I say yup, now you don't have to try pointing to your iMac with your remote from across the living room and you don't have to cry about not being able to install Salling on your Prada phone. I was thinking of buying just any crappy phone for that purpose but now it's solved with the duet remote. Also you can tell slimserver to scan iTunes AND a folder. Now I just have to see if Softsqueeze on OS X can playback FLAC. Or we just stick to ALAC on the iMac. The squeezebox I use is connected to a headphone amp (X-CANV8) in a listening corner in the living room with a pair of HD600 and AKG701. There are some cool features in Salling though, like pausing playback when somebody phones me, shutting down the computer, etc... The only thing separating us men from boys is the price of our toys. =) As for my SO... she's been a Mac fan since day one. iTunes, iPod, iMac, iBook (lol), you name it. I don't see myself convincing her to stop using iTunes lol. But I did show her what ALAC is the other day. And FLAC, and Cog.app. I prefer PC and Foobar but I work with Macs 90% of the time. Ah, the irony. -- Random Access Random Access's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18743 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49790 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] bye squeeze, hello ipod
morberg;319456 Wrote: When playing your own local music library the iTunes + AirTunes + Apple Remote (on iPod Touch or iPhone) is very similar to the SqueezeCenter + Squeezebox Duet Receiver + Controller setup. What are the main differences in your opinion? For those of you with a little patience, Pippin might soon have something for us without an Airport to play with: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=319433postcount=125 Both methods achieve the same result which is streaming music to a receiver. The iTunes + Airtunes + Receiver + Apple Remote combo occupies iTunes and prevents anyone else from using iTunes on the computer. This can be solved by using another program to play back audio while iTunes is busy streaming audio via Airtunes. This is cumbersome if the iTunes library is automagically sorted by iTunes. The Squeezecenter + Squeezebox Duet + Receiver + Controller setup does not occupy the computer in any way other than streaming audio files from it (simply requiring that it be on). This is not a problem if you live alone since there will most likely ever be only one person listening to music at a given time. Then you don't have to worry about your SO going over to the Mac, slapping on some headphones and start flipping through iTunes and then going Ooops! Sorry I didn't know you were listening to music on Airtunes. Oh honey that's okay... do you mind turning on another audio app and airfoil so I can stream audio from that instead?. Right now she's on the balcony listening to music with slimserver + softsqueeze + airfoil + receiver + speakers + duet controller. I'm sitting in front of the Mac typing this and the only way for me to interrupt her by accident is by turning off slimserver of the computer. And if I want to slap on my SE530 and listen to music through iTunes I won't screw her over (though I will shut her out :P). If she was sitting in front of the Mac she would be using Airtunes though (or headphones). But then I wouldn't be able to listen to music from iTunes unless I use my squeezebox. Or my PC. Airtunes means in most cases you will have 1 audio source for music playback unless you also use a folder based structure which is easy to navigate. Squeezebox means you gain an audio source. -- Random Access Random Access's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18743 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49790 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Browse Music Folder Disappeared from My Controller
I use Leopard OS X with iTunes and wanted a way to browse music folders without adding media to iTunes. So I figured I would set Slimserver to use iTunes AND scan a folder as well which I could then browse. The folder is on an external FW drive. The media was added but I could not use the browse folder option on the controller nor on the web gui (I could however see the media when browsing by album, artist, etc). At first the browse folder option did not appear on my remote so I had to turn it off and on. Then it appeared but when I chose it it just hung there until I turned if off again. You can verify that you have browse folder functionality with this link. http://127.0.0.1:9000/browsetree.html So I removed the path /Volumes/Spock/new music and instead made a folder in mys users music folder called new music and added that instead. Voilá. It worked. Next I will try with a symlink to the external drive and report back to you guys. -- Random Access Random Access's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18743 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Browse Music Folder Disappeared from My Controller
Symlinks don't work. Music gets added but it's not browseable. http://127.0.0.1:9000/browsetree.html That just hangs and eventually times out. -- Random Access Random Access's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18743 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] bye squeeze, hello ipod
I'm sorry to hear that it has taken some of you so many years to realize that you can remote control iTunes with your phone. There is a program called Salling Clicker. With it you can control iTunes, Windows Media Player and more. It works with OS X and with Windows. It works on just about any phone with a few exceptions. Many smartphones have wifi, otherwise you can use bluetooth. iTunes can stream to an Airport Express. Or... you can use Airfoil and stream from any application to your Airport Express (or to another computer). I can get bit perfect from any app on OS X but I have had trouble getting bit perfect on Windows except with iTunes. iTunes users don't really need FLAC since they have ALAC. Just about every ipod out there can handle ALAC. You can also convert FLAC to ALAC. IPOD classic has up to 160GB storage. It also has line out. It's a good way to have a backup of all your music. The quality of the DAC on the airport express isn't the best out there but all you audiophiles can use the optical out into your own DACs. Squeezebox allows you to stream music without interacting with the computer. It's a totally different concept than remote controlling your computer to playback audio onto a remote audio device. Both methods have their uses and purposes. -- Random Access Random Access's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18743 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49790 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
