Re: [slim] Will I regret buying an SB1?
Kyle;194437 Wrote: I want to hook up another Squeezebox to a boombox or powered speakers to use on my deck. I've got an SB2 that currently works flawlessly on my network for streaming flac files. I'd love another SB2, but there are none on ebay. On either my front or back deck, I won't be much further from my router than the SB2 I'm using now. The display is not a problem. Will I be able to sync with an SB1, and will I be inviting network problems with its lower cache, non native support for flac and b rather than g capabilities? FWIW I have an SB3 and SB1, both running wireless, both used with FLAC (with SS set to transcode to WAV to the SB1). The SB1 runs fine alone but when I try to synchronize the two they drift badly after a few minutes. Sometimes both of them stop playing entirely. I have pretty good signal quality to both boxes (80%) so I suspect an 802.1B-related bandwidth problem. I haven't wanted to sync them often enough to bother debugging it. -- joatca SB3, BW DM602 S3s, bi-amped from Cyrus III and Cyrus Power joatca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34401 ___ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is there a lawyer in the house?
Harry G;194109 Wrote: Does anyone know for sure what the legal status is for giving some of your music files to a friend? Assuming you are in the US, I think other posts have it correct. However here in Canada, if I understand the law correctly, it is legal to make a copy of music (and only music, not movies, not books) for personal use. The law does not specify that you must own the media you are copying from. Thus, for example, it would be legal for me to visit a friend's house, and using his equipment (but my own blank media), make myself a copy of one of his CDs, and take it home. However, it would be illegal for him to copy his own CD then give me the copy. The essence is in who performs the copying. Thus I believe (but I'm not a lawyer) that it would be perfectly legal for me to borrow a CD from the local library and make a copy for myself. As soon as I give it away to someone else, it becomes illegal. Any Canadian lawyers in the house? :-) -- joatca SB3, BW DM602 S3s, bi-amped from Cyrus III and Cyrus Power joatca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34366 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 Shows wrong time
Try restarting SlimServer. Maybe it's caching something to do with time lookups. -- joatca SB3, NAD 3020, Mission 762i's joatca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33551 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slim, Logitech, and the future of network music
Like many people here, my reaction to the purchase of Slim by Logitech was... let's say mixed. Lots of concerns over whether it is a good or bad thing, whether I'll lose Linux support, whether new devices will have the same sound quality. I personally doubt that Logitech will kill the quality of our favourite device, and even if they do develop a low-fi version, there is still a market for higher-fi, perhaps the model range will expand. However I have come to the conclusion that when you look at the big picture, even if Logitech were to do the absolute worst... close-source new versions of SlimServer, de-support everything except Windows, de-support older Slim boxes, drop hifi devices and other evils, it doesn't really matter. Consider: 1. Existing Squeezeboxes and Transporters will still be good. SlimServer itself can be forked by the community and kept current for a long while, even without firmware updates to the devices. Even as the copyright holder, you can't close-source previous versions of something under the GPL, only future versions. So, your current device will be useable for years to come. 2. Other devices that perform the same core functionality already exist. By that I mean stream music from hard-drives or network at high-fidelity. That is the guts of it... the SB's nice display and RSS plugins and such are just gravy. If a hole is left in the market by changes in the Slim direction, someone else will fill it, and do it better. Sonos, Hifidelio, and others already fill slightly difference niches. If you don't like the other alternatives available now, there will be better ones around long before your SB becomes useless. We all owe Slim Devices a debt of gratitude for showing that not only can you make a network music player, you can make a very good one at low cost with an open development model. They have changed hifi forever. Anyone who has enjoyed a device like this can't go back to putting dumb CDs into players again. To Slim Devices: I've very happy with my Squeezeboxes and if the quality and openness continues under Logitech I'll most likely buy more in the future. If it doesn't, I'll be sorry to see you go, but it'll be okay. Accept my thanks for opening up a new market, but I'll buy from those that fill your shoes. -- joatca joatca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33464 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
