Re: [slim] Native support for classical music tags
dolodobendan wrote: > Yes, you do. That's how you keep your several recordings of Karajan's > Beethoven's Fifth apart. > > > > That's why I propose basic tags (that are used in iTunes, for example.) > it's nothing funky. To find a classical recording, you need the composer > (already supported), the work (not supported) and the artist (kind of > supported, because one can have more then recording of an artist). > That's why something else, a tag for the recording, is needed. > > > Sorry for being persistent, but I think this would be a great > opportunity. I have no particular beef with recording. I could take it or leave it and find it tends to be inconsistently applied by metadata providers. Then again it may be popular. CanÂt you manage with ÂyearÂ? I would welcome any improvements however piecemeal, and suspect that work would be the number 1 request of most folk. Iif Michael is too busy then so be it, but if he should have a moment... adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110708 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Native support for classical music tags
mherger wrote: > > I would love "work" tag support. I'm not 100% sure I need "recording". > > Any chance @mherger ? > > You give a good reason why it's unlikely this is going to happen any > time soon: too many opinions as to what and how things should be > implemented... > > The other major reason is time available vs. the effort required. This > would be a rather big change (schema changes, scanner changes, new > browse modes...). And I just don't have enough time and energy to spend > on a feature I myself neither use nor even fully understand. It wouldn't > > be a straight forward implementation of a nicely laid out plan. But lots > > of trial and error involved, trying to sort out all opinions etc. I > think they call it a can of worms. Sorry. > > -- > > Michael I feared that might be the case. Thanks for your suppoort anyway: I can't quite believe my luck that LMS is still being maintained. FWIW I think work would probably not be controversial (as other tags might) butI understand the that it involves a lot of effort "under the hood". Maybe I could try another route. I've never really got to grips with Erland's old plugins adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110708 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Native support for classical music tags
dolodobendan wrote: > To browse classical music, you need COMPOSER (that's supported, yes), > WORK (I don't think that's supported) and a third tag (and a third level > in the menu for this third tag) like RECORDING (as ARTIST or ALBUM is > insufficient if there's more than one recording from the same artist in > the library and you don't know from when the recording is, is it live, > who's the soloist etc. That's why a third tag is fundamental.) If that's > doable with Additional Browse Modes: Great! But I don't think we're > there just yet. (I would be more than happy to be proved wrong!) > > That's what I took away from that article: The metadata (in LMS' case, > the support of it) is insufficient to adequately browse classical music. > That's why I propose the native support of WORK, RECORDING and some > custom tag(s) for whatever (maybe people want to browse by opus number). > LMS has the perfect prerequisites for it. I would love "work" tag support. I'm not 100% sure I need "recording". Any chance @mherger ? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110708 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] TIDAL/MQA is 2016
totoroBounced wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I use a Mytek Brooklyn with built-in MQA decoding. I was hoping that the > Tidal plugin would pass-through but it won't. > > MQA data is typically 48/24, but the DAC says it's still getting 44/16 > streaming MQA from Tidal. > > I'm wondering if there is a simple fix? The plugin does not need to > decode MQA, just pass it along like any other PCM stream. > > Ideas? > > Best, > > > E I wonder whether it might be possible to use waveinput plugin if you had the tidal desktop application running on the same device as LMS? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104878 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Headphones and Raspberry Pi
Guut_Boy wrote: > I have an old RPi lying around on which I was thinking of installing > piCorePlayer and use as a small inexpensive headphone listening station. > However, I heard that the jack on the RPi is not very good to use with > headphones (in this case I would probably be using a pair of > Beyerdynamic Dt990). The sound is low quality and not very loud. > > I looked into the HifiBerry but the jack on the DAC+ is explicitly > stated as not suitable for headphones. The HifiBerry AMP does not seem > to have a headphone jack either. > > So now I am wondering what it would take make the setup reasonable? Is > there some alternative to the HifiBerry that does work with headphones? > Or would it be better to get the HifiBerry DAC and a small external > headphone amp? In the that case, is there some amp you can recommend > (not too big, and not too expensive). the cirrus (formerly wolfson) audiocard has headphone out and plays nicely with maxp2lay adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106327 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I wish to change my 'server pc' to a new one and need assistance....
I had an old vista pc which was running really badly. I put debian on it and it now runs fine as an lms server and rdp client for the main pc. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105778 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] poll: how many have AirPlay devices ?
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Re: [slim] Preparing for my players demise
pkfox wrote: > Interesting , my current setup is a Pi version 2 as the server and an > external drive as storage - works very well ( much better and quieter > than my old setup with a ReadyNas ) - so are you saying the HifiBerry > DAC is as good as the Transporter ? > > Edit > > Can you give me a link to the Linux article ? Thanks. You can also set up a pi using max2play from a ready-made image. If you wanted you could use the same pi2 as you use as server. You could probably also set of squeezelite yourself using localplayer from your existing LMS depending on version. The big picture point is that you don't need to have a fancy streamer; you can use any old streamer and the dac of your choice. There are a few compatiblity issues with usb out from a pi to some dacs, but this can be worked around. If you like using lms I would stick with it as server and then iether go for a pi with a dac board (there are several sorts) or pi plus an ordinary outboard dac of your choice. One thing I would not do it buy into some manufacturers inferior software which you are stuck with if you get their streamer That said alot of people seem to like auralic. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104608 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] High-end, low-cost hardware player
SlimChances wrote: I understand that MS has just made a version of Windows 10 compatible with RPI ver 2.0 http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support I'm a bit confused about what they mean by the maker community. Can anyone get win 10 for RPi for free, or does it only apply if you are developing apps yourself? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103042 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] spotify
Mnyb wrote: The oficial has some bugs but it does work and it works without LMS ? But it only supports new players like Touch or Radio none of the older players would work . Due to technical limitations of the old players the necessary software would never fit inside an SB3 or Boom or receiver or transporter .And spotify can't fix that unless they abandon their encryption scheme. And I don't think logitech will do any kind of fw work for ip3k players anymore , even if spotify did some dramatic changes and this becomes feasible . Yes. It does work without lms. I used to use it a lot that way when I had lms set up on a pc which I did not switch on all the time. It's pretty basic but it does work. it might be helpful for it to work without needing mysqueezebox.com. One use I could see for it would be for people who wanted to use devices running squeezelite (eg a pi) without LMS. As a matter of interest is there any progress in establishing a post mysqueezebox.com source for running without lms? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102107 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] spotify
I would support any move which enhanced the support of features on LMS. The only thing is- I'm slightly puzzled by the implicit assumption of your post that the app doesn't work. It seems to work for me. I'm running LMS 7.90 on a QNAP NAS. Is it not supposed to work? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102107 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New PC - windows 7.0 or windows 8.1?
norderney wrote: I'm thinking of buying a new PC which amongst other things will run LMS. I just wanted to check is Windows 8.1 ok fir running LMS version 7.90? Or would I be better with Windows 7.0? Thanks As many people have said, 8.1 works fine. Just another thought- It is worth considering though that you might want to turn your old machine into a dedicated LMS server (and maybe player). ( assuming that you have an old machine you are replacing ) Even if it struggles with windows above XP it will probably run like a spring lamb in Linux. I'm currently playing with an old Vista machine this way as a complete Linux newb. It wasn't all that hard (with some help from the good folks around these parts- thanks) . I'm guessing it could be done relatively painlessly using vortexbox. I'm coming round to the view that it might be best to keep server duties away from my general purpose PC. That leaves you free to decide how to configure that PC independently. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102060 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Control your SqueezeBox or Transporter with Foobar2000
mll wrote: Thank you. If this disappears from archive.org too, here are the steps : Has anyone tried this recently. Will it work with LMS 7.8? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79575 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is there a plugin to adjust stereo balance or play just one channel as mono?
hoffsta wrote: So I have a Squeezelite instance installed on a Raspberry Pi hooked to a featureless amp board for my patio stereo. Sometimes I'd like to just listen to one of the speakers and not blast music out across the entire yard but my amp has no tone or balance controls. It would be great if I could just mute one channel, or even better, join both stereo channels into one mono channel. Is there a LMS plugin that can achieve this? Ideally the controls would be accessible from iPeng somewhere. Thanks! Yes the inguz plugin will do that, as well as a while lot more (eg equalisation, time delay between channels, drc). Bit tricky to get it working though. Assuming it will work under Squeezelite. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99794 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?
I've been following this thread with interest. has the activity moved somewhere else or is the project having a pause? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?
Stoker wrote: Most of the recent activity has been in this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98544-Community-Squeeze-OS-R3 thanks adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?
JohnSwenson wrote: A windowed sinc is a simple filter. A complex filter is made by running the data through one filter, then running through a different filter, then running it through yet another. Most of the ones I see in chips have at least three separate filters cascaded together. This cascading of different filter functions SEEMS to be what is causing the audible issues. It MAY be something else like not having enough bit depth to handle those different filter type or something ngelse all together. This cascading of simple filters is not anything new, I've been reading up on some discussions about the very first digital filters used in CD players and they did exactly the same thing. It's a time honored tradition! John S. Thanks John. I've been doing a bit of reading about filters, and got out of my depth quite quickly. I can see that some chips clearly do use a sequence of filters in up sampling As far as I can tell from the literature Sox applies a kaiser windowed sinc function in its resembling filter, so hopefully this would be simple. I am working on the hope that this will leave the filter in my dac with nothing to do. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?
JohnSwenson wrote: First let me say that I don't have a fully defined set of rules such as if xyz is greater than abc it sounds bad . Also it's difficult to find out exact implementation details of particular filters without the designers telling you what they did in the chip. (some do, most don't) What I have done is looked at the graphs in the spec sheets and listened to many different chips and come to some conclusions, then came up with a number of hypothesis and run a bunch of tests to see how these pan out, and have come up with some theories based on that. Note these are just observations, I have no idea WHY it is this way. Number one theory is the shape of the passband. If it looks complicated, different frequency bands looking very different, or looking like two different simple functions superimposed on each other, then the sonics are compromised. All such filters are combinations of more than one type of filter. This seems to be the number one issue, every test I have done shows that a single simple filter sounds better. Exactly WHAT filter is not nearly as important as it being a simple filter. The problem is that in order to get very high stop band attenuation in reasonable amount of silicon takes such complex filters. And for some reason the stop band attenuation has become THE metric companies are trying to optimize in their spec sheets. The result is that all embedded digital filters are complex types, and hence are sonically compromised. My opinion is that this is why there is so much talk about all the chips sound alike, they are all being similarly compromised by these complex filters. One interesting aspect of this is that many chips have a complex filter for 44.1 and 48, a less complex filter for 88.2 and 96 and a basic simple filter or no filter at all for 176.4 and 192. I think this is why a lot of people go for upsampling. Unfortunately if you do it in hardware, the upsampling is done with a complex filter, so you haven't gained much, BUT by doing it in software you can use a high quality simple filter. This difference in filter complexness is probably part of why there is such interest in the higher sampling rates. Theory two, ultimate stop band attenuation is not all that critical. With no filter you can definitely hear the aliasing, I like to characterize this as the sound is dirty. BUT you don't have the issues of the complex digital filters. I think this is why NOS (No Over Sampling) has a significant following. To get good sound you DO need to get rid of the aliasing, but how much? I have found that 60db of stop band attenuation is perfectly acceptible to clean up the sound, and you can easily achieve that with a simple filter. I have yet to hear a difference with any simple filter just by changing the stop band from 60db to 120db. But huge differences when switching to a complex filter to get that 120db. That's it for the theories. I have a bunch more observations but haven't had enough testing to get into theories. I have done some listening to things like zero phase, minimum phase, pre ringing, post ringing, long time, short time etc. They do make differences, but I have not come to any conclusions about what sounds best. The differences these things make are small in comparison to the difference between a complex and a simple filter. There has been a lot of talk about the steepness of the filter, my experience is that in and of iteslf this is not very important, the big issue is that again in order to get a very steep filter most implementations use a complex filter. The gentle slope filters are usually much simpler and THAT it the real difference. Again no hard data on this, it's just me listening to a whole bunch of stuff and trying to come up with some correlations. Also no clue WHY human hearing seems to be so sensitive to complex filters. John S. John could you help me with what a complex and simple filter means. By a simple filter do you mean something like a [rectangular?] windowed sinc function? I have been trying to read up to see what the standard way of designing filters was and have been pointed in the direction of the Parks-McClellan filter design algorithm. Is that what you had in mind as a complex filter? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?
JohnSwenson wrote: I have done extensive testing of different DAC chips and digital filters and have come to the conclusion that one of the biggest problem with almost all DAC chips these days is the digital filter. Every one of them (including the ESS) use a complex digital filter rather than something like a true SINC, attempting to get better numbers in the spec sheet without spending the required silicon resourses normally required to get those numbers with a simple filter. My testing has shown that these complex filters are quite audible and one of the biggest detriments to really good sound out there. Using a DAC chip without a digital filter and implementing one in an FPGA using a straight forward basic filter design sounds much better than using the filters in the chips themselves. The chip I'm using (PCM5142) has programmable DSP system inside that lets me turn off the builtin complex filter and use my own simple filter. My experiance has shown that a simple filter with with not quite as good specs sounds much better than a complex filter with better specs. John S. As a matter of interest, John, which specs are you referring to? Do you mean the stopband rejection or something more subtle. I'm interested in the effects of filters in would be interested if you could share some more details. Also I would be interested in what approach you take to the the tradeoff between stopband attenuation and signal bandwidth with 44Khz material. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?
JohnSwenson wrote: First let me say that I don't have a fully defined set of rules such as if xyz is greater than abc it sounds bad . Also it's difficult to find out exact implementation details of particular filters without the designers telling you what they did in the chip. (some do, most don't) What I have done is looked at the graphs in the spec sheets and listened to many different chips and come to some conclusions, then came up with a number of hypothesis and run a bunch of tests to see how these pan out, and have come up with some theories based on that. Note these are just observations, I have no idea WHY it is this way. Number one theory is the shape of the passband. If it looks complicated, different frequency bands looking very different, or looking like two different simple functions superimposed on each other, then the sonics are compromised. All such filters are combinations of more than one type of filter. This seems to be the number one issue, every test I have done shows that a single simple filter sounds better. Exactly WHAT filter is not nearly as important as it being a simple filter. The problem is that in order to get very high stop band attenuation in reasonable amount of silicon takes such complex filters. And for some reason the stop band attenuation has become THE metric companies are trying to optimize in their spec sheets. The result is that all embedded digital filters are complex types, and hence are sonically compromised. My opinion is that this is why there is so much talk about all the chips sound alike, they are all being similarly compromised by these complex filters. One interesting aspect of this is that many chips have a complex filter for 44.1 and 48, a less complex filter for 88.2 and 96 and a basic simple filter or no filter at all for 176.4 and 192. I think this is why a lot of people go for upsampling. Unfortunately if you do it in hardware, the upsampling is done with a complex filter, so you haven't gained much, BUT by doing it in software you can use a high quality simple filter. This difference in filter complexness is probably part of why there is such interest in the higher sampling rates. Theory two, ultimate stop band attenuation is not all that critical. With no filter you can definitely hear the aliasing, I like to characterize this as the sound is dirty. BUT you don't have the issues of the complex digital filters. I think this is why NOS (No Over Sampling) has a significant following. To get good sound you DO need to get rid of the aliasing, but how much? I have found that 60db of stop band attenuation is perfectly acceptible to clean up the sound, and you can easily achieve that with a simple filter. I have yet to hear a difference with any simple filter just by changing the stop band from 60db to 120db. But huge differences when switching to a complex filter to get that 120db. That's it for the theories. I have a bunch more observations but haven't had enough testing to get into theories. I have done some listening to things like zero phase, minimum phase, pre ringing, post ringing, long time, short time etc. They do make differences, but I have not come to any conclusions about what sounds best. The differences these things make are small in comparison to the difference between a complex and a simple filter. There has been a lot of talk about the steepness of the filter, my experience is that in and of iteslf this is not very important, the big issue is that again in order to get a very steep filter most implementations use a complex filter. The gentle slope filters are usually much simpler and THAT it the real difference. Again no hard data on this, it's just me listening to a whole bunch of stuff and trying to come up with some correlations. Also no clue WHY human hearing seems to be so sensitive to complex filters. John S. Thanks John I'm intrigued to try this out, but am not sure how to be sure that i am getting a simple rather than complex filter. When upsampling in sox what filter would you recommend - would I be safe specifying a Ilinear phase filter cutting in at say 18 kHz? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Ultimate Data Storage Device
Mnyb wrote: I'm the only one getting the steam punk vibe here , be one with the music literally :) some gizmos and tubes counted to your spine like the pilot chair in alien/prometheus Isn't that cyberpunk? Wouldn't steampunk be more like storing your mp3s on wax cylinders? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Would you pay for LMS - Subscription or One-Time?
I would pay $12 pa adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96266 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What features will no longer work if mysqueezebox.com is shut down?
toby10 wrote: By the time MySB.com is actually gone there will be no Touch or SB Radio players to buy to even need setting up. ;) But should this be needed - Touch can be updated via USB/SD absent any server. - I believe both Touch Radio can be setup via a local LMS server by getting them to their Home menu then selecting My Music, connect to LMS, firmware is updated does this apply to the initial setup as well as the upgrading firmware? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96207 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Perfectwave DAC with bridge and LMS
ismarketing wrote: Their tech support is amazing. Thanks Ii may try that.I have tried to get info from the website forum and have found it friendly but incredibly uninformative. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Perfectwave DAC with bridge and LMS
Well I am greatly encouraged by your optimism, although I can't quite follow it. I will attempt to contact ps audio technical support, probably by email since telephone calls from London may prove expensive. I hope that the impression I have formed from the psaudio website forum proves to be mistaken. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Perfectwave DAC with bridge and LMS
tonyptony wrote: Doesn't LMS have to be a UPnP control point for something like this to work? Thanks Tony I think you need UpNp controller- but I am not sure it has to be lms- anyone else have an idea? Will whitebear work with any uPNP controller? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Perfectwave DAC with bridge and LMS
SBGK wrote: seems like a big mismatch in capability hooking up a £4000 dac to a £200 squeezebox touch, wonder if you'll find the dac is too good for the touch. funny that you want to ensure inguz and spotify work with it, talk about messed up priorities. of course, the touch can always be tweaked to improve the sound, come over to the dark side Please get back in your box adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?
sherington wrote: Muso - http://klarita.net/muso.html - it certainly allows you to read a number of graphics files, but I have not done this. Might be worth a look - I have a strong feeling that not nearly enough people know about this system. I have not bought it yet but have been hugely impressed by the support I have received (My system was to blame for my issues, not Muso) and by the simplicity with which you can manage a large set of music files and by the currrent level of integration with LMS. Andrew I tried muso in the past and did not particularly like it; maybe I should try again. I have to say incidentally that I find searching on ipeng adequate ( even for classical music ) and am puzzled at why someone would need to use iTunes . Also are there plugins already which impreove on searching? . Is it possible to run or controll it from am iPad.? If not I can't see the point from the perspective of reading notes because this would be easy on a laptop or pc anyway. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94987 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?
I have posted this elsewhere but, in case anyone is listening, the thing missing from my squeezebox experience is the ability to read booklet / lyrics information which comes with the cd and could be scanned, or which can be downloaded with the flac files. For opera and lieder the ability to read along can be very important. At the moment I have to keep the box set out. I understand this may be tricky, but for me it is necessary to complete the experience you get from the physical medium. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94987 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Perfectwave DAC with bridge and LMS
adamdea wrote: Is there any way I can retain the functionality of LMS while using a PS audio dac with bridge. Should this work with LMS as it is , or via some other program eg whitebear. Does anyone have any idea which will work best? I am concerned if possible to retain gapless playback, Inguz and control through iPad/Iphone. What really: nothing. Is this a dumb question? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Perfectwave DAC with bridge and LMS
Thanks Andrew I have already purchased this device, although it hasn't yet arrived. I didn't primarily buy it for the bridge functionality but just as a dac. I was concerned to note that ps audio seem to concentrate on their elyric music manager software, and that the bridge will apparently not play gapless- the workaround being for Emm to create a single giant wav. I currently use a SBT with inguz spotify etc and would hate to have to use inferior software. Ideally I would like to see if I can get this functionality via the bridge if it can interface with the SBT. If not, I will probably use the SBT USB out to use the perfect wave as a dac. I think other people may be interested in this because ps audio look like they have botched the bridge and are trying to tie in their clientele into an all in one solution - ie a proprietary server running their software. What specs did you have in mind? adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Perfectwave DAC with bridge and LMS
Is there any way I can retain the functionality of LMS while using a PS audio dac with bridge. Should this work with LMS as it is , or via some other program eg whitebear. Does anyone have any idea which will work best? I am concerned if possible to retain gapless playback, Inguz and control through iPad/Iphone. adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95535 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Desert Island Discs Programme Archive
Just installed it and now listening to William Gibson's desert island disks. Thanks very much- fantasic job -- adamdea adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86694 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 24-bit audio (new article)
Cape11;614876 Wrote: I agree with TerryS on this (noting PL's point about dither). I don't think the evidence for the roughness of 16 bit CD sound is a subtle audio point. Listen to any recording of a string quartet when they play a quiet passage and the roughness of the sound is perfectly obvious. On some recordings, where they have recorded at a rather lower level than usual, the sound can be quite dreadful. A 'good' example of this is the Caliope recordings of the Beethoven Quartets played by the Talisch. The LPs sound fine - good, warm string tone; the CDs are so bad that you might have difficulty identifying the source as a string quartet. So I'm all for 24 bit delivered to the end user. I have the Calliope Integrale des Quatuors by the Talich Qt but have not listened to it recently. I have not in the past noticed any issue with the sound quality (other than noting that it is not a great recording to start off with). Can you point me to where you find the sound so rough (3rd movement of the 135?). I note that the Gramophone reviewer commented on the first CD issue of this set (March 1987)http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/March%201987/69/815793/BEETHOVEN.+STRING+QUARTETS.+Talich++Quartet+(Petr+Messiereur,+Jan+Kvapil,+vns+Jan#header-logo The recordings which, like those of the Vêgh, seemed a bit bottom heavy, are much less aggressive than the DG for Melos and want the bloom and richness of the EMI set. All the same, the sound is more firmly defined and better-focused than on LP and eminently natural. The sound does not call attention to itself, the instruments are well placed and the timbre truthful: in fact, one quickly forgets about it and loses one's self in the music. -- adamdea adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85879 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 24-bit audio (new article)
see also http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=2550 The Talich traversal of the Beethovens originally came out in the dying days of analogue. I loved them then and I love them even more in their CD incarnation, which adds transparency and bite to sound that always was clear and impactful. -- adamdea adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85879 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 24-bit audio (new article)
Phil Leigh;614936 Wrote: Courtesy of Wombat: http://hlloyge.hl.funpic.de/wp-conte...p-inserted.pdf wasn't the cd supposed to be long enough to hold a particular Beethoven symphony? (this might be a myth) Yes the ninth. I have no idea whether it's true, but I have heard various versions. The most entertaining (and improbable) has it that the stipulation was made by Mr Sony's wife. -- adamdea adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85879 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 24-bit audio (new article)
Even CDs are 16-bit, and the sonic quality of a CD is an accepted definition of consumer-worthy HD quality. That sentence is basically the entire argument -- adamdea adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85879 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Orlando Internet Bootcamp Course for Sale
harve;577997 Wrote: Orlando Internet Bootcamp Course for Sale I am unable to attend and need to sell my seat for Ultimate Internet Bootcamp organized by Harv Eker. It is very hot seminar and you can see some clips of it here: Also check seminar agenda here: I paid $4,300, selling it for $3,500 Information about the event: When: From: Monday Dec 13, 2010 - 9:00 am To: Friday Dec 17, 2010 - 7:00 pm Registration on Mon. Dec 13 2010, 7:00 am - 8:30 am Where: Orlando, FL Hilton Walt Disney World Resort 1751 Hotel Plaza Boulevard I must say it's an extraordinary coincidence that the organiser of the course has a first name and surname-initial which would generate exactly your user name. I say you must keep the ticket and go to meet Harv Eker, Harve- it's clearly fate. -- adamdea adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82134 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What is the best app to sync squeeze with apple products?
Have you tried mediamonkey. I think it's very good, assuming that you are only interested in audio- it doesn't do video. It also allows yopu the prvilege of synching your iphone with any computer running mediamonkey- it doesn;t confine you to just one. I find this useful to take downloads/rips from my homer pc and copying them to my work computer. -- adamdea adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78499 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
