Re: [slim] m3u file format
It's the character encoding. LMS writes playlists in Unicode (UTF-8 with BOM), while most (all?) other players expect them to be in the current Windows codepage. You can open a playlist in Wordpad (not in Notepad) and save it as a new text file, that should fix it. Strange enough, however, if you create an M3U file from an external application (without the #EXTURL lines), LMS itself expects it to be in Windows encoding, too, and will choke on any UTF-8 characters. I would call that a bug, but once you know it, it is easy to work around it. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92614 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 connects to server, but doesn't play the stream
That might in fact be a result of the power failure. Try a factory and Xilinx reset: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Special_IR_Keys_on_Reboot_for_Factory_Reset_and_Last_FW -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92530 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] auto populate year tag info
Mnyb;669126 Wrote: There is an origyear tag ? How well suported is that one ? ID3v2.3 only has the TYER tag which is meant to hold the year of the recording, not the year of the release. ID3v2.4 has TDRC (recording date), TDOR (original release date), and TDRL (date of this particular release). While Mp3tag can handle both variants, MusicBrainz unfortunately stores only release dates, so you can't get the recording dates from there. I'm not sure which tags SBS/LMS reads. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] auto populate year tag info
dbinder101;668841 Wrote: Populate it with the year of the release of the album. Uhm ... yes, sorry, probably that was a stupid question. What I meant was, where do you get that information from? Some people put the release year in the directory or file name. In this case it should be a fairly easy task for Mp3tag to pick it up and write the appropriate tag. Otherwise you would need some kind of online lookup. MusicBrainz Picard can do that (dragdrop the files onto the left pane, click lookup), but of course only if the album is already in the MusicBrainz database. If you want to set -only- the year it would probably require some Picard scripting so that it doesn't overwrite your existing tags. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] auto populate year tag info
Populate it with what? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91414 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How do I get plugin to show in menu?
You can also go to Internet Radio Tune in URL and enter wavin:0 there (or wavin:1 or whatever may be appropriate on your system). Everything else is done using the mixer panel of your soundcard. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86009 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] squeeze box V3 not fully turning on
Mnyb;595993 Wrote: What could exist as documents is a circuit diagram has anyone leaked one of those ? In th good old days of hifi you could get one if you asked from many companies In the good old days you didn't have to ask for one, they always came with the instruction manual. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62359 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Title Format
Go to Server Settings Interface, add the title format you want, such as TITLE - ALBUM - ARTIST, click Apply. Go to Server Settings Player, select the title format from the dropdown list, check the radio button next to the format string, click Apply. Repeat for all players. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84066 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Squeezebox is dead... long live the Squeezebox
If all else fails and money doesn't matter, it should be possible to get a custom made display compatible with the SB2, SB3, Classic, and Transporter, but you might have to order a whole shipload. The page I linked to only mentions 500 pcs per year, no grand total. It would be interesting what the minimum quantity for a custom VFD is. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83786 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Squeezebox is dead... long live the Squeezebox
Skinny;594687 Wrote: This has been discussed numerous times before, although some may have missed it. Discontinuing the Classic was not entirely a Logitech decision, as the VF display used is no longer being manufactured. I have also replied to this numerous times. ;) The VFDs weren't a catalog item, but custom made by Noritake especially for SlimDevices / Logitech. If they are no longer being manufactured then probably because Logitech doesn't order them anymore, so this argument doesn't count. I think Noritake would be happy to make another batch. They still do produce VFDs, it's their main business after all. http://www.noritake-itron.com/pages/vfdglassgraphic.htm -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83786 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Squeezebox is dead... long live the Squeezebox
erland;593871 Wrote: What are you missing ? Good question. My biggest gripe was the Now Playing screen, but I think that has already been resolved by your Custom Clock screensaver now. What I am still missing is a more customizable Home menu. On my IP3K players I have Favorites at the very top, right next to Now Playing. On the SqueezePlay devices it is all the way down and off the screen. There should be a way to rearrange the order of the menu items, like on the old players. I also miss the RSS News Ticker screensaver. The feeds can still be accessed through Extras Information Browser, but it would be nice to have the text scrolling by. I just noticed there is an rsstext item type in the Custom Clock settings. If I can figure out how to use it, it might do what I want. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83786 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Resume on power on
The Squeezebox by itself -is- always on. The off state is controlled by and remembered on the server. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83783 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Squeezebox is dead... long live the Squeezebox
ehjones;593796 Wrote: Am I crazy for buying another Classic instead of a Touch?! No. I would even rather buy another SB2 than a Classic. :) -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83786 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Don't want single tracks in Albums
tcutting;593374 Wrote: Could you tag with Album=Singles, and treat them all as one huge compilation album? If you just leave the album tag blank, SBS automatically creates a huge compilation titled No Album. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83725 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play later
erland;593573 Wrote: If you are using a Squeezebox at work, you should be able to either use favorites or the Playlist Manager plugin by Philip Meyer. The Playlist Manager plugin makes it possible to add current song to a user selectable playlist. That would have been my suggestion, too. Unfortunately Playlist Manager doesn't seem to have any UI other than the menus on the player itself, so it will not work with Moose or the Web UI. However, the latest version of SqueezeSlave can emulate the SliMP3/SB1 UI when started with the --display command line switch, so that should work with Playlist Manager. +---+ |Filename: pm.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10956| +---+ -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83755 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Squeezebox is dead... long live the Squeezebox
ehjones;593834 Wrote: Afterall, it happened with the SB3 when it came out (many people had their fair share of problems initially), but with a solid hardware platform, upgradable firmware, open source software development and a small responsible company looking after it all meant that, for me, the SB3 is perfect :) (just no warranty). Fortunately most of the new code is still open source. I hope that in a few years time there will be as many great plugins/applets for the Touch as there are now for the Classic, so that it eventually becomes usable. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83786 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?
Mnyb;547627 Wrote: Transporter uses 2 of the same size as SB2/3 . It's only speculation but maybe that exact model that fists inside SB3 and tranporter is EOL. According to this posting ... http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=1966 ... the SB2/3 displays were custom made by Noritake especially for Slim Devices. If they are EOL, then probably for the sole reason that Logitech doesn't order them anymore. Maybe someone can write to the Noritake sales dept. and ask if they would be willing to make another batch, and what the minimum quantity would be? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78767 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?
FredFredrickson;547728 Wrote: I plan on gathering official information and placing it in one place. Isn't that what the Wiki is for? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78767 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Searching forums with google
lrossouw;548077 Wrote: Also others are less likely to find them. [...] If it was intentional I wonder why? 'Rumour has it' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=548053#post548053) that they are going to shut down the forum. It makes kind of sense to get rid of all incoming links first. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78744 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Searching forums with google
lrossouw;546988 Wrote: For interest: Used to searching the forums using google with the site operator as follows: http://www.google.com/search?q=squeezebox+site:forums.slimdevices.comhl=enrlz=1C1_enIN367HK353prmdo=1prmd=sfilter=0 These days the results seem very poor quality. I.e. no detail etc. Not surprising since the forum explicitly disallows indexing by search engines: http://forums.slimdevices.com/robots.txt Last-Modified date of robots.txt is Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:34:38 GMT, so that's probably when they imposed the ban. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78744 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?
snarlydwarf;547253 Wrote: Add in that even if they tossed a million hours into development time, they are really against the bar on features they can add in the limited resources of the Boom and other ip3k devices. Just not enough memory/flash/cpu to do much more. Besides that, since IP3K players do hardly anything on their own without a server there aren't many things that would have to go into the player firmware. Things that won't get implemented now: - change the WOL behaviour so that you don't have to press the Power button twice (first to wake up the server, then wait until the server is up, and then again to actually turn on the player) - allow entering of a stream URL even when not connected to any server (probably WONTFIX anyway because they want you to use mysqueezebox.com) - allow entering of the actual WPA key (64 hex digits) instead of a passphrase and that's about it. I just thought of another one, but it slipped my mind before I could write it down, so probably it wasn't that important. ;) -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78767 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] where to modify language mapping of squeeze server
Look for files called strings.txt (there are several of them) in the server directory and subdirectories. The format is pretty straightforward, but you need a text editor that can handle UTF-8 encoding and Unix line endings to edit them. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78376 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] embedded stream for favorites
toby10;544090 Wrote: From your player or SBS or MySB.com Internet Radio Search radioeins That brings up the live stream, but not the archive. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezeplay full screen
Find the line Code: jiveMain:registerSkin(self:string(DESKTOP_SKIN), 'FullscreenSkin', 'skin') in the file -FullscreenSkinMeta.lua- and uncomment it. Be warned though that it is disabled for a reason. For example, the Now Playing screen doesn't work, which makes the skin mostly useless. But you are welcome to roll up your sleeves and fix it. ;) -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76548 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB2 needs direct internet connection?
Yes, that's the normal method - the server just passes the stream URL to the player, and the player then retrieves the stream on its own. You should be able to change that under Server Settings Player Audio Streaming Method from direct to proxied. I never needed to change this setting though, so I can't say for sure if it actually works. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78047 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Selecting Music by Artist
AWOL;538215 Wrote: Is there any way to ensure that various artists albums don't appear when I am viewing a list by artist. Server Settings My Music Compilations uncheck List compilation albums under each artist Not sure if changing this setting requires a library rescan. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77668 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playlist Limited to 500?
I know that the forum search is broken, but searching for playlist 500 does come up with some results for me. :/ -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77602 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] WOL with an other remote possible ?
Does the Power button as such work with the other remote, i.e. turn the SB on or off when the server is already running? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Basic question re:choosing stream?
I still have no idea what the reliability of a stream is supposed to mean. All streams of my favorite station show 10% reliable, but I don't think that means that they are likely to fail for 90% of the time. In fact, I never had any connection issues when listening. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77316 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I preferred the devices slim!
erland;533577 Wrote: - Custom Clock applet and it's helper plugin Custom Clock Helper -- Can show any title format, including custom tags scanned by the Custom Scan plugin Wow, that looks really great. I must admit that I never bothered to take a closer look because of the name, I already have too many clocks in my home and don't really need yet another one. But if you can omit the clock and use it just to display track information, this is exactly what I've been looking for. Now I can go and buy a Touch, without being concerned that I'll be stuck with the standard NP screen. :) -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77147 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Itunes Duplicates/triplicates being created - help
Is the iTunes XML file on the network drive at all? For all I know, iTunes always creates it in your user profile, no matter where the actual music library is. But generally I would recommend to use either iTunes integration or the SB library scanner, but not both at the same time (i.e. leave the Music Folder field in the server settings blank if you use iTunes integration). Otherwise it is quite likely that tracks are imported twice. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77167 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Show wireless signal strength on display?
I guess the OP meant show permanently, for example on the the MusicInfoSCR screensaver. I don't think this is possible, or is there a format string for WiFi strength? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77159 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to save a radio station to favorites w/ 7.5?
toby10;533228 Wrote: ..all sequences should offer Save to Favorites Yes, but that works only if you haven't done anything else since you started the station. If you access any other menu or even press only the Home button, there is no way back. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to save a radio station to favorites w/ 7.5?
Ah, ok. We need the whole menu back, not only Save to favorites. :) There used to be technical information, too, like the station's URL and bitrate. What they should have done is to -add- the radiotime menu to the original NP menu, instead of -replacing- it. I wonder when they sneaked that change in. I've been using 7.5 beta for quite some time, but I only noticed the changed menu after the code freeze. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play all songs in library or all songs in favorites?
It should be under My Music, unless you disabled the Random Mix plugin. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77189 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to save a radio station to favorites w/ 7.5?
No, the tip was probably for the Radio where the + button brings up the context menu. That doesn't work on the Boom. IIRC there used to be a favorites option when you pressed the right arrow button on the Now Playing screen, but that got lost in SBS 7.5 since they are now displaying the useless Radiotime menu instead of the SBS menu. :( -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77143 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is 'Search' broken for the forums?
ddewey;532360 Wrote: site:slimdevices.com Touch that tells Google to provide results ONLY from slimdevices.com (including the forums) for the keyword 'Touch.' Except that does -not- search the forums since they are blocking all search engines via 'robots.txt' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/robots.txt). :( -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77038 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] playlist full???
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76925 -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77088 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is the Touch being released today?
Sike;531516 Wrote: How long will it take this time to get the touch to Europe and how overpriced will it be? According to what I've read in other threads they seem to have more stock in Europe than in the US. A search for Logitech Squeezebox Touch on amazon.de yields no result. Strangely, however, on the bottom of the page there is a recommendations box saying People who searched for similar items also bought ... Logitech Squeezebox Touch. You can click through to the product page from the recommendation, but there is no price and order button. logitech.de lists the Touch for #8364;299, given the current exchange rate that is 30% more expensive than the US price. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76905 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is there any way to turn off the update nag?
Or you can simply close the tray applet (right click on the tray icon, exit or quit or whatever the menu item is called) and remove it from your autostart. It is not needed in order to run the server. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76995 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How Do You Control Your Squeezebox(es)?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77022 Question: How Do You Control Your Music/Squeezebox? - SBC (Squeezebox Controller) - IR Remote Control - Web UI - Touch - Other - Explain Very mixed ... it happens that I use the web interface, the IR remote, and Desktop SqueezePlay all at the same time. But as long as I am at my PC anyway it's mostly the web interface. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77022 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is the Touch being released today?
I wouldn't hold my breath. :) It would be wise to wait for a couple of days more to see if the new software version is really stable, especially on MySB. I wonder what will happen when they open the flood gates and zillions of Touch units are requesting their initial firmware update all at the same time. Hopefully they are prepared for that, unlike last Christmas when all the Radios went online. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76905 ___ 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
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70950 Seems like this is still not fixed. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 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] User Control Panel Settings
I had the same problem first when I signed up, but it cleared itself after a while. I assume that is a restriction for new members, just try again once your status changes from Junior Member to Member. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76821 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2 as Squeezebox Receiver replacement - questions
snarlydwarf;530576 Wrote: The SB2 looks like a $10 alarm clock, while the SB3 is much more classy looking. To me the SB2 looks slim and elegant, while the SB3 looks bulky with a lot of wasted space on the front panel. I still can't see why they had to make it vertical, but I guess that's a matter of personal taste. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76852 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] configure sleep mode fade-out time
tawulf;530074 Wrote: Because of Slimserver's built-in last minute fade-out code This has always bothered me, too. I can understand that it fades out when I set it to sleep in x minutes because that will probably be somehwere in the middle of a song. But when I set it to sleep at the end of the song, why does it fade one minute early at all? I'm sure there must be a reason for this, but I can't think of one. As a workaround I usually add some more tracks to the playlist and then set it to sleep in 15 minutes, but obviously that does not help here. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] configure sleep mode fade-out time
tawulf;530074 Wrote: Because of Slimserver's built-in last minute fade-out code This has always bothered me, too. I can understand that it fades out when I set it to sleep in x minutes because that will probably be somehwere in the middle of a song. But when I set it to sleep at the end of the song, why does it fade one minute early at all? I'm sure there must be a reason for this, but I can't think of one. As a workaround I usually add some more tracks to the playlist and then set it to sleep in 15 minutes, but obviously that does not help here. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76760 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Think I've been ripped off - Squeezebox Classic Store Demo Unit.. Help!
The answer to all your questions is probably yes, it is, but you are still overlooking two important points. First, the update itself has to be done by the existing player firmware. If the update commands are simply not implemented in the demo version, there is no way to get a different firmware into the unit except with a hardware programmer. And second, most likely the *.bin files contain only patches, not the complete firmware, so for the missing parts you would need a ROM image from a working retail unit to start with. I don't think that Sean exaggerated much. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72358 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Synchronized playback on PC - will it ever happen?
awy;527233 Wrote: 'Bug 14893' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14893) was fixed earlier today. Finally. Will the fix be in the next SqueezePlay 7.5 nightly? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76450 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Upgrade Firmware on SB2 without Remote
aubuti;527317 Wrote: Btw, are you sure it's an SB2? I'm not certain about this, but fw 11 sounds a lot more like the earlier SB (aka SB1). 11 would be a -very- old version, even for an SB1. The current firmware is 40 for the SB1, and 130 for the SB2. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76452 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Adding All Stations To Home Screen?
PeteCress;525822 Wrote: The idea seems tb to support the short wave radio image: somebody sits down with the thing and just tunes different stations, sort of exploring the air waves. There's a dial: just twiddle it and see different stations. Just seeing the names wouldn't help much. To mimic the traditional radio experience you would need to play every stream immediately as soon as it is highlighted on the display, without having to press the Play button first, and then the Back button to get back to the menu. Maybe this could be done with an app, but even then you would still get a delay due to the initial buffering. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76283 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Adding All Stations To Home Screen?
toby10;526033 Wrote: ShoutCast alone lists over 33,000 streams, and ShoutCast does not include every stream out there. Let's see. Assuming you can dial through 4 stations per second (if you still want to read the station names, not just skip over them), that would take 8250 seconds, or in other words more than 2:15 hours. Just to dial through the list, without even playing a single stream. I think the user simply doesn't realize how many stations there are and that you need to organize them somehow, or otherwise you would get lost quickly. Reminds me of the old joke Can you give me a print-out of the internet, please?. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76283 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sorting Artist album by year
Apparently this applies only to My Music Albums, not to My Music Artists. Also, it sorts ascending by year, i.e. the oldest albums first. I'm afraid there is no way around this at the moment. :( -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76339 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Adding All Stations To Home Screen?
How would you dial through a flat list of 10.000 stations? (Just guessing the number, probably there are even more.) -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76283 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezeplay and Squeezeslave
Does it show up in the SBS web interface? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76144 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox Command structure??
What do you mean with command structure? The menus? I don't think there is a fixed listing, because you can enable, disable, and rearrange items in the home menu, and plugins can add their own menu entries anywhere in the tree. So you will have to figure out what fits your particular setup. But if you mean something else, feel free to ask again. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75937 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Synchronize Play without Power
Spencers;522009 Wrote: hope i was clear, and resolved your issue! Sorry, but I didn't understand a word. fragfutter;521997 Wrote: What happens if i listen to an internet station and simply turn off the radio? The duett keeps on streaming. I won't notice because the amp is powered off. Not very nice to the internet station. That shouldn't be an issue. In sync mode the stream is always proxied by the SB server, so it will only be fetched once from the original station. As for the original question, are you sure you are actually switching off the Receiver, not the Controller? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75849 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Synchronize Play without Power
fragfutter;53 Wrote: There is a menu point to turn off the receiver, but i normaly don't do that. I guess that explains why the Receiver stays on. ;) fragfutter;53 Wrote: I start an internet stream on radio and receiver (synced, yes i know they are proxied), then i turn off the radio by pressing the power button on the radio. The receiver will continue to receive the stream. I will never notice because the amp of the receiver is turned off. So it will happily stream the whole night. Yes, but that's how it is supposed to work when you don't sync the power switch. I think what you want is Sync power off, but not power on - I don't believe that is currently possible, but maybe someone can write a plugin for that? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75849 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Changing the music folders to be scanned
Do you have any saved playlists (*.m3u, *.pls etc.) that still contain references to the old file locations? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75626 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How do I export an iTunes playlist for use with SC?
What's the actual file name on your disk? What is the file location and name shown in the SBS web UI? What is the file location and name shown by iTunes at the bottom of the first tab when you right-click the track and bring up the information dialog? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73280 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 1 last question
Where is your music library located? If it is on a hard disk in your computer, then obviously the computer has to be on to access it. If it is on a NAS, then it depends on the particular model. Some NASes are able to run a SB server, in that case your computer can be off. Otherwise you would still need a computer to run the server. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75496 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where are my favourites stored.
They should be in the file favorites.opml. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75428 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 Display Brightness
I have a used SB1 which has the text Problem! ... burnt in by its previous owner. It must have been sitting with an error message for days, and the bad thing is that this screen is static and always displayed at full brightness. Now when it comes to display something that starts with a P, the first letter is barely visible. :( As is the right arrow symbol in the bottom right corner. toby10;516732 Wrote: Well, when people asked this question two years ago the typical answer was: the SB3's VFD display has a half life of 100,000 hours, so if you used the SB3 screen at full brightness, 24/7, for 11 years straight, your SB3 screen would be half as bright as the day you bought it. This would be true if you had the entire display lit all the time. Unfortunately this is not the case, the pixels wear out differently according to their use. So you have some pixels that are still like new, while others have already significantly faded, which is much more irritating than a screen that has become less bright as a whole. A clock screensaver, for example, is actually an oxymoron. It is all but a screen -saver-, it is more of a screen -destroyer- since it stresses a small number of pixels all the time. A scrolling display or one that switches between different screens should cause less damage. The most efficient way to save a screen, however, is still to set its brightness to zero. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75219 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Moderating the forums
I think locking all but one would be sufficient. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43454 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB Classic - where do I turn off SHUFFLE
thewebgal;515185 Wrote: Does 30,000+ songs push its limits? The Squeezebox itself does not know anything about your library, except for the one song that it is currently playing. That's entirely handled by the server. Does it actually reboot (including the Squeezebox logo screen), or just reconnect? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75043 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB Classic - where do I turn off SHUFFLE
thewebgal;515222 Wrote: Looks like a reboot! Display goes pitch black, then comes back with a logo and a welome and all of that ... Yeah ... that looks like a hardware fault. Is that the one from the dented box offer? Maybe it wasn't only the box ... :( -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75043 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] mysqueezebox on twitter - how should I use it
snarlydwarf;514203 Wrote: and it's not all that useful to get a Hey, MYSB is down for emergency maint or something when MySB.com is, well, down. I take it that they will not only update the feed when MySB is down, but also post general news there. It's not too useful either when you have to turn your PC on to read news about a system that is supposed to be most useful when your PC is off. :) -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74925 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] mysqueezebox on twitter - how should I use it
Just for the records, I've made a filter on Yahoo Pipes that converts a twitter feed into a more Squeezebox-friendly format. You can subscribe to it with either the RSS Newsticker screensaver or the Information Browser plugin (but since configuring feeds on MySB is borked this will currently work with your local SBS only): http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=707bf9a452c2ee510e9d68f61cab8fe7_render=rssname=mysqueezebox The pipe also removes the @ messages and all messages that contain URLs, since these aren't useful on your SB anyway. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74925 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] forum thread categories
Also, the topics often are not primarily about the Squeezebox itself (since the player alone doesn't really do much on its own), but about its interaction with the Squeezebox server, mysqueezebox.com, the plugins, or about the tags in your audio files. There are dedicated forums for all of these, and most of the topics there are equally relevant to the Squeezebox Classic as to any other player. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74830 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Will old Slim Devices work with new Duet system...
I have a Boom and two SB1, and while synchronizing them is possible and works fine most of the time, there are massive problems that keep popping up, such as playback stopping with no apparent reason, or players going mute until I power cycle them to recover. This is probably a server problem that could be fixed, but I don't really expect that anybody still wants to spend time on these old players. Another limitation: SB1 and SliMP3 won't connect to mysqueezebox.com, and are not officially supported by the TinySBS in the upcoming Touch. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74772 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] backspace/delete on classic remote?
Try the + button. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74774 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] No Album problem
No, this is normal. I just try not to leave the album field blank. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74773 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet Controller artwork quality - no dithering done?
Since the Controller uses the same display as the Radio, shouldn't that effect be visible there, too? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=2 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.4.2 nearing release, need your help!
I don't have a Radio, but since this is a synchronization issue the Radio might be affected, too, when it is in a sync group: My MP3 collection consists of files of all possible sample rates. Mainly 44.1 kHz, but also 32 kHz, 48 kHz, and even the odd 22.05 kHz. My normal playback setup is a sync group of 2×SB1 and 1×Boom. As long as I am streaming to a single player, everything is fine. But when synchronization is in effect, I experience all kinds of playback problems whenever a file is encountered that is not 44.1 kHz, such as: - Both SB1s keep playing, but the Boom is mute while the play time on the display still counts up. - Playback stalls altogether (stills says Now Playing, but is stuck at 0:00 on all players). - Title display on the players and in the web interface immediately skips to the next track in the playlist and stays one track ahead of the audio that is actually being played until I stop and restart playback. Let me know if this is a known issue, or if I should file a bug. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74608 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The competition is catching up and some surpassing Squeezebox...fast!
iPhone;511001 Wrote: WHY would it cost to much? Video capability might not make the players more expensive, but the price for it would be even less development resources for the core components audio, SBS, and MySB. I'd rather have the known bugs fixed before they start implementing yet another feature. iPhone;511001 Wrote: And are you telling us that you use every available feature on your current Squeezeboxes? I understand you use the main one, Audio. Would you not use Video if it were available? I know that I must be a rare species, but I don't watch video at all. My music library has nearly 20,000 tracks (and still counting while I am ripping my CDs), but I don't own a single movie on DVD. For your amusement: I only noticed that all analog TV transmitters had been turned off when I read it in the newspaper. I was like really?, turned on my TV set, saw that I saw nothing, and turned it off again. That was in 2005 if I recall right, and I haven't bothered to get a digital receiver up to now. So yes, for me video would be nothing more than a useless gimmick. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74510 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The competition is catching up and some surpassing Squeezebox...fast!
Argh. The day when Squeezebox goes video will probably be the day when I start looking for a different system. Or at least freeze the current state of my hard- and software and stop updating. Video is a completely different concept. For example, you don't have the typical artist / album / track relationship. Or would anybody want a random mix of their favorite movie scenes? The biggest drawback of all video-capable players I have come across is that you -have to- hook them up to a TV, otherwise you don't even get a menu to operate them because they have no display of their own. And I surely don't want TV screens all over my flat. IMHO the step away from the large text display to tiny graphics displays was already a step in the wrong direction. Instead of enjoying the cover art on the screen, people are asking Why can't the Radio play YouTube videos? - the customer is never satisfied. :rolleyes: -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74510 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I'd Like to Listen to Television Audio on my Boom
Honestly, I've never seen a TV Band Radio here in Germany. I do know people, however, who have their TV running all the time with the audio turned -off-. *g* As for your question - is the TV program you want to listen to available as a video stream on the internet? In that case it should be fairly easy to grab the audio of that stream from the video player with the Wave Input plugin and redirect it to your Squeezebox. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The competition is catching up and some surpassing Squeezebox...fast!
audiomuze;510456 Wrote: Attached Images Those all look like ordinary NASes to me, maybe with audio outputs and some pre-installed media server software on board. But where are the dedicated players? Small, unobtrusive devices that I can put on my bedside table or on a shelf in the kitchen and synchronize with each other, with a Now Playing display that is easily readable from across the room? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74510 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last.fm not available in Poland?
As far as I can see, the payed subscription only entitles you to play last.fm through their own player, not through third party applications. Some users report that you get the option to download the last.fm app if you set your country to UK/US/Germany on MySB, but I don't know if it then actually works after you've installed it. Might be worth a try though. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74439 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Show title AND album artist when browsing the SB3?
Settings - Interface - Show Artist with Albums? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74242 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transporter - Sharing Digital Inputs on Squeezeboxes
cliveb;507656 Wrote: Never done it myself, but I've seen reports that you can transmit SPDIF over wireless video senders. Yes, I did that and it works ... sort of. Just connect the SPDIF coax output to the video input on the transmitter, and vice versa on the receiver. The problem was that the audio dropped out whenever I walked through the room and crossed the transmission path. That's why I finally ditched the video transmitter and bought a wireless squeezebox. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74162 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Reset Password Broken in Bugzilla
There seems to be a general problem with mails from bugzilla. I tried to create an account twice, but never received the confirmation mail. And yes, I did look into my Junk folder, and even into the Exim logs on my mail server. :) -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74184 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Years with no tracks in the GUI, yet music does exist in those years
jimwillsher;499886 Wrote: It seems really silly to only show albums, given that the year attribute is only held against the track. Unfortunately the year attribute is not well defined and is used inconsistently. Some people put the release year of the album here (this is also what happens when you tag your files with MusicBrainz Picard), while others use it for the year when the particular track has originally been released (which is what I prefer). Normally both will be the same, but it makes a difference for compilations, for example. I don't even know where the album year is taken from. I guess it's either from the first track the scanner happens to encounter, or the from the year attrbute of track 1. Btw., there's a similar problem with album artwork. While it is possible to attach different images to each track (I actually did that for some whitesleeve vinyl singles, where I tagged the tracks with a scan of the center label from side A or side B, respectively), SBS will just pick one of the images and apply that to the whole album. jimwillsher;499886 Wrote: It seem seen more silly to then show am empty year placeholder. The funny thing is that if there is at least one album displayed, there is also an All Tracks button which in fact shows all the tracks from that year, including those not from one of the listed albums. So the actual bug is that the All tracks button is omitted when there are no albums shown. wowo;499924 Wrote: If you want to set everything as you want: take a look at the 3rd party plugins: Custom Browseand Custom Scan Yes, having a closer look at the Custom Scan plugin is already on my to do list. I'm just a bit scared that I might have to re-tag all of my 18000 tracks for optimal results. :) -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73144 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonos marketing? What does this mean?
andynormancx;499498 Wrote: I guess maybe Sonos are switching their D Class amps directly from the digital signal. You can do that, but at the expense of giving up the inverse feedback loop that is normally part of an amplifier to compensate varying load, component drift, and supply voltage issues, because you obviously cannot feed the analog output back into the digital input. Without the feedback, however, you have to do some forward compensation in the DSP stage, which means you need to know the speaker characteristics in advance. I don't know the current Sonos product line, but as far as I can see, such a design is only feasible for units with built-in speakers. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 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] Years with no tracks in the GUI, yet music does exist in those years
Apparently it shows only entire albums that were released in that year, not individual tracks. If you click on the album title it will show you the year where to find that album. Even worse, non-album tracks don't seem to appear anywhere at all when browsing by year. And yes, I'd call that a bug. If you click on a year, it should show all albums that contain tracks from that year, just like you can click an artist and it will show all albums, including Various Artists-compilations, that contain at least one matching track. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73144 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] classic or duet?
Given the current pricing, I can't see why anybody would want to buy a Receiver (no display, fiddly setup, no IR remote) when you can get a Classic for about the same money. I think I even recall someone saying that the Classic has better DACs. I'd go for a Classic, or for a Classic plus a Controller if you need to control the player from a different room. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73141 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonos marketing? What does this mean?
peterw;499501 Wrote: They're sending digital signals from the amplifiers to the speakers??? Basically that's how it works, yes. The amplifier outputs an oversampled, pulse width modulated, digital signal, which is then fed directly to the speakers through a low pass filter that eliminates the clock frequency. It's the same principle that is also used in switching power supplies, except that a power supply is designed to deliver a constant voltage, while a D-amp is designed to deliver audio signals. The advantages are that such an amplifier has a very high power efficiency factor, and that you don't have a traditional DAC that might theoretically cause nonlinearities. The disadvantages are that you need an extremely stable power source because every hum, ripple, noise, or voltage drop is immediately superimposed on the output signal, and that a switching amplifier creates HF noise similar to a switching power supply. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 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] No Squeezebox Server Found
What are the IP addresses of the server and the SB? Can you ping the SB from the server? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73009 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] IR sensor problem with SqueezeBox v2
Did you try a fresh battery for the remote? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66144 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to enable SB3 bridge function ?
seanadams;499163 Wrote: You're using a crossover cable which is correct, Interesting. I'm successfully using a regular, uncrossed cable between my Boom and an SB1, under the (apparently correct) assumption that Rx and Tx are swapped internally when in bridge mode. Is the Boom's network interface different from the SB3? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72970 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Delete file from controller
No, the Squeezebox server never writes to your music library. But you can zap a song while listening (press and hold + on the IR remote, no idea which key does that on the Controller) which creates a file called zapped.m3u in your playlist directory. You can then inspect that file on your desktop later and delete the unwanted files manually. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72999 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to enable SB3 bridge function ?
powaq;498566 Wrote: I see that the bridge is disabled but I don't have the option to enable it. What am I doing wrong ? You enable it in the Set up networking menu. The next step after you select the wireless network is the bridge mode setting. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72970 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] M3u Playlist previous/next not updating song title/author?
dlask;498303 Wrote: http://freedownloads.last.fm/download/80867459/Forest%2BRay%2BColson.mp3 Interesting ... I did not expect that free downloads from last.fm work without logging in, or without having an account at all. I wonder if this intentional or just a loophole. :) But I'm not sure if remote MP3s in playlists really are a good idea. Keep in mind that every time you play that playlist, every song has to be downloaded in real time, over and over again. That's quite a waste of internet bandwidth, and the owner of the server you are downloading from might even have to pay for it. (I had that case once when someone's Winamp downloaded one of my radio shows again and again until I finally kicked him out with an HTTP 403 status, assuming that he must have accidentally had his office PC on repeat when he left for the weekend. A few minutes later I received an email from a guy who apologized a lot and no, it was not by mistake, he actually liked it so much that he had played it on repeat the whole day. :D But he had not been aware that he was repeatedly pulling it from my server.) Can't you just download the files and play them locally? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72619 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezePlay and Controller
Wiredcharlie;497398 Wrote: (I wouldn't want to connect a monitor or keyboard). In that case you might want to use SqueezeSlave rather than SqueezePlay. It has less overhead, less bugs, and synchronizes better with other players. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72862 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] EPG whats on for all streaming stations
The SB will support anything you tell it to, since it is basically just a display and a DAC. Your problem would be to collect all the metadata from the cloud by polling the different APIs, which is not even possible for all services. As snarlydwarf said, on last.fm for example possible streams include User X's favorites, Artists similar to artist Y, or Songs tagged with Z, where you can substitute -any- user name, artist name, or keyword for X, Y, and Z. You can figure out that a complete list of every possible stream would contain thousands, if not millions of entries and would not get you anywhere. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72869 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Put the sample rate in the Transporter display window
aubuti;458878 Wrote: The bit rate (kbps) is one of the available fields in MusicInfo Screen, but bit depth and sample rate are not in the list at present. I'm using SAMPLERATE with the Title Switcher plugin, so this should work with the MusicInfo Screen alone, too. Don't know about bit depth tough, since all my music is in MP3 format where bit depth is not applicable. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67976 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] About the current lineup of Squeezeboxes
aubuti;495405 Wrote: Standard fonts on the SB3: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Me (34 characters incl spaces) Large fonts on the SBT: Stuck Inside of Mobile w (24 characters incl spaces) Cool, thanks again. According to a quick statistic of my music library 16% of the track titles are longer than 24 characters, and 5% are longer than 34 characters. So the Touch would have to scroll (or truncate, if that is possible) about three times as often as the Classic. But there seems to be some wasted vertical space - maybe it would be possible to drop the Now playing/Paused indicator and wrap the track title across two lines instead? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72534 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] About the current lineup of Squeezeboxes
pfarrell;495043 Wrote: I have not tried mine at a typical living room distance. For example, my Transporter is about 15 feet from my favorite listening chair. But other beta testers claim that it is easily read at 10 feet or so. I don't have 10 feet long 3 meters to our euro-zone friends), so I've never worried about that part. I guess as a pure replacement for the Classic, it could raise some concerns. I am not so much worried about the readability (the font seems sufficiently big), just about the amount of text that can be displayed without scrolling. I have set all my SBs to Scroll once and stop because I find the constant movement in the corner of my eye somewhat annyoing. Hm. Now that I think of it I'm not sure if that setting is even available on the Touch, I can't seem to find it in the SqueezePlay menus. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72534 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] About the current lineup of Squeezeboxes
bruce;495103 Wrote: So as long as you have one Touch on your network, most any player (Touch, Receiver, Transporter, Boom, Radio, or SB3/2) on your network can play music from any hard drive(s) on your network, without any server running? Not from -any- drive on the network, only from USB drives that are directly connected to the Touch. But it works the other way around, the Touch can act as a NAS and other computers can access that drive over the network. pfarrell;495076 Wrote: The Touch is much more than a Classic with a touch screen. Its a computer. That's exactly the point. The SB3 is discontinued, and there is no direct replacement. Of course you can ignore the built-in server and the touch screen and just use the Touch as a player, but that's like buying a house and then living in a single room only. I would really like to use it as a standalone server, but its capabilities seem way too limited, given that plugins are not fully supported and you already need a plugin to do such simple things as automatic playlists based on track ratings. In combination it feels overpriced as a player, and underpowered as a server. pfarrell;495076 Wrote: What folks tend to forget is that the Classic is just a new name on a SB3, and the SB3 is just a new plastic package on the SB2. To be honest, of all types of SBs that have ever been made I like the SB2 best. I would immediately buy one, but they seem really hard to get, even harder than the SB1. I don't like the upright form factor of the Classic and the Touch - my stereo rack is more than 10 deep, but there is only so much vertical space left. My SB1 fits there neatly, as would an SB2, the Classic would already look crammed in, and the Touch might not fit at all. If one of the reasons to discontinue the Classic was that the displays are no longer made, couldn't they build a similar player around a current one like this: '24064-CCFL' (http://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf-datasheets/Datasheets-27/DSA-534851.pdf)? These would be totally sufficient to display now playing information, they are almost as wide as the Classic display, and not much taller. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72534 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] About the current lineup of Squeezeboxes
aubuti;495176 Wrote: You may already be aware of this, but just in case you're not, the Touch's LCD is higher resolution than the SB2/SB3/Classic's. Correct, but the pixel resolution is totally irrelevant when viewed from the distance. I already cannot distinguish individual pixels on the current VFD when I am more than five feet away, it's just the physical size that counts here. aubuti;495176 Wrote: NB: For comparison I'm referring to the Touch's Now Playing screen that is text only, with no album art. Presumably that's what someone who wants maximum text real estate would use. Interesting, that doesn't seem to exist in the desktop SqueezePlay skin. Could you post some screenshots of the various Now Playing screens? Maybe that could change my mind. :) -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72534 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
