I am curious when would slimdevices release SB4? Which kind of features?
Are they developing a high-end model for audiophiles?
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Hi there,
Based on so many positive posts here, I plan to be a owner of SB3.
A friend of mine in Taiwan told me that there is a good deal of buying
SB3 from 'this website'
(http://www.my3c.net/product/detail.asp?gid=8ky=pid=2830).
It costs only NT$8800 (around US$275) including shipping to
Yes I am using the default file type settings which I believe is to
stream AIFF as FLAC anyway. If you think this could be improved, I'd
like to know how because presumably the default is the more effient
system?
My switch is 11g (turbo disabled - doesn't work with turbo mode).
R
alex
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Lossless or uncompressed practically always works just fine on SB2/3. On
SB1 it is a bit borderline due to its much smaller buffer and the
throughput limits of 802.11b.
If you are having problems I would suggest viewing the signal strenth
and moving the access point or the Squeezebox if possible
Alrighty - I'll worry not! When it gets really hot up there I can't
turn on the projector or it instantly overheats.
Glad I don't have to worry about my precious! :)
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When my computer is asleep, naturally my Squeezebox 2 shows nothing.
But, at times, after I wake the computer (and SlimServer is running)
the SB is still dark. This isn't a brightness issue, as pressing the
Power key gives the Waking SlimServer message - which should of
course not be happening -
Just got my SB3 today and had a few difficulties connecting to my
draytek 2600g. However
Upgraded firmware on it, and now works on WPA2 like a charm.
The above issues might have been solved, but thought I'dd add the post
in case (like me) you were trying to work out if it was compatible!
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RouterStatus
Ceejay
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KristVB Wrote:
I used to run slimserver on a Linux box, with the music stored on a NAS
device. That Linux box just died on me so I moved to server to my new
Intel iMac.
KristVB, bar the NAS device this is almost identical to my current
situation. My Linux box has finally died and I am about
I've followed your advice and ditched my MIP fingerprint and data tags
from all MP3s. I stopped both MIP and ML and then rescanned everything
to hopefully clear the corruption. Then I've restarted MIP and ML, and
slim is in the middle of a rescan again.
I think you're right on both counts -
Dear All,
The Freecom FSG-3 Storage Gateway
http://www.freecom.com/productsubs.asp?CatID=8070sCatID=80703 has a
linux kernel on it, does anyone can tell for sure whether I could
install the slimserver linux RPM on it? Would be great to know, thanks
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Thanks for the advice guys, although I can't find anywhere that has them
both in stock and I doubt I'll be able to remember from one to the next.
Sounds like either will be ok for me though.
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charlesr's
I've now got good behaviour with (i) only ID3v2.3 (ISO-8859-1) tags on
all of my files and (ii) no MusicIP fingerprints (although not sure
whether the latter is necessary or not).
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The blank squares problem is a failure by MusicIP to handle Unicode
characters properly. The bug was introduced in the current release
candidate 1.6 and fixed from beta version 1.6 beta 3 (see the thread on
this topic on the MIP forums).
The current beta candidate is 1.6rc2 - and the email I
Slim Devices has a policy of not commenting on products under
development (or not under development). Little leaks get out from time
to time, but even then it's not until the product is almost released.
Unlike some competitors (e.g., Roku), they don't hype vaporware.
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aubuti
OK no-one is gonna tell about product development but heres what I would
like to see:
1. Graphic (d-sub/dvi/hdmi) output with some nice options to play
visuals on a plasma TV or monitor
2. Form-factor Options of tall (as now) or slimline versions (similar
to SB2)
3. Even higher resolution
charlesr, what kind of amp are you planning to use to drive these? I've
had similar thoughts in mind, but it's tough finding an amp that fits
the 'small' bill. I've been looking at powered speakers as an
alternative. Eventually I bought one of these on a satisfaction or
return basis, and liked it
I know that there are many threads re. NAS devices for slimserver. I
tried the NSLU2 and whilst it worked okay(ish), it was frustrating
slow, even for menus. The Kurobox seems to rate highly. Has anyone had
any success and using AlienBBC with any NAS? Having access to live BBC
radio is an
jtuggey Wrote:
I know that there are many threads re. NAS devices for slimserver. I
tried the NSLU2 and whilst it worked okay(ish), it was frustrating
slow, even for menus. The Kurobox seems to rate highly. Has anyone had
any success and using AlienBBC with any NAS? Having access to live BBC
I have successfully purchased the 770 and gotten the device to control
my squeezebox, yet I have some questions after two days of playing. I
am sure that I could pour more hours into discovery, but I am pretty
sure that my wife would like to talk to me this weekend.
1)Since I installed 6.5, the
on the harmony website you should select trouble
shoot and adjust the repeat rate for the IR - lowering the repeat rate will stop
your stepping issue.
Perhaps I should try relearning the NAD's remote codes. I have
noticed that it steps volume up and down two "steps" at a time, so
On 6/1/06, smc2911 wrote:
OK, it looks as though my problem is more complicated that I thought.
Even after regenerating the MusicIP cache with no archiving, I still
ended up with the strange squares in my tags when viewed from
Slimserver. If I disabled the MusicIP server and did a rescan, all
At the moment we are waiting to move house in about 2 weeks time so i
think i will hold off on any experimenting until i have it all set up
in the new house and see if the problem is apparent there.
Thanks for your help.
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See the problem is, you can never satisfy everybody as their needs and
wants are different. For example, and no offence here:
ajmitchell Wrote:
1. Graphic (d-sub/dvi/hdmi) output with some nice options to play
visuals on a plasma TV or monitor
I see this mentioned often but it's of no
gorgenyi Wrote:
Dear All,
The Freecom FSG-3 Storage Gateway
http://www.freecom.com/productsubs.asp?CatID=8070sCatID=80703 has a
linux kernel on it, does anyone can tell for sure whether I could
install the slimserver linux RPM on it? Would be great to know, thanks
OK let me ask another
hi Peter-
let me see what I can answer for you...some questions will be easier
than others.
1) I run 6.5 and have never had a problem with the remote--did you
install the latest nightly? I've been holding on updating my slimserver
while they work out the kinks of some changes to the back-end
See my post (and those following) in this thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24334
You may also want to check out the wiki which deals with this at a high
level:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToServers
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Somebody else is already trying to load slimserver
http://www.openfsg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1155
but it seems that it is not just install an RPM.
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How specifically did you determine this? Not that I doubt you, I'm just
wondering.
I'm wondering what purpose it would serve the ISP. Did they do this to
try to block P2P? If it's a conscious decision meant to block access in
certain ways, sounds like corporate censorship.
It could
Very nice! I'll be interested in hearing any of the nuts-and-bolts of it
as you progress. You mentioned DHTML, but are you doing AJAX as well?
The epiphany I had with putting together the Nokia770 skin is that a
synchronous model (i.e., user clicks on something and browser is locked
while
I can confirm that AlienBBC works very well with the Qnap TS-101.
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Take a look here:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?NetworkProblemsSecondGuide
Please post results of the Network Test as well as Server and Network
Health.
Sounds like bandwidth issues.
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Mark
IIRC
A Linkststation HG (PPC) user said AlienBBC worked very well -
increased CPU usage only by 10-20%.
However a Linkstation HD (MIPSel) user said AlienBCC was unusable.
I'm not sure what the critical factor is - CPu or memeory. Mplayer is
getting very big using the default configure - it
Siduhe Wrote:
See my post (and those following) in this thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24334
You may also want to check out the wiki which deals with this at a high
level:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToServers
Fantastic, thanks for
bpa Wrote:
Somebody else is already trying to load slimserver
http://www.openfsg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1155
but it seems that it is not just install an RPM.
I was considering buying the freecom if that could run it, but it seems
my linkstation can as well.
I'd advise the person to
I installed 6.5 on 5-31 I will see if it works this evening.
I will incorporate all of your advice this evening as I have not been
able to log onto the wireless network here.
I am not sure I understand the Album art issue, so I will tinker around
and maybe post another question.
Another bug
No clue on the XM thing...don't use it.
I expect you will get a lot better behavior of plugins and extensions
like XM if you back off to Slimserver 6.2. 6.5 works well for me but is
still pre-release, so the t's aren't quite crossed and the i's aren't
quite dotted. Of course, there is no
If it's slow browsing the music folder but OK when browsing the db (e.e.
browse artists etc) then it sounds like the NAS or the interface to it.
I wouldn't worry about the mac itself, that's a plenty fast machine.
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The QNAP is a bit expensive for my budget! Anything cheaper that
definitely works with AlienBBC?
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I use my old school technique of loading variables in a 1x1 IFRAME and
accessing them with window.frame.
I wanna nail down the layout and display first. I'll switch to JSON
after the basics are done. All my accesses to variables are done
through a function so i'll be able to switch to another
Since my camera snapshot is not the best quality you can get, here's the
layout I made in Photoshop before coding the skin.
I tried to find a PC font that looks like the PSP one.
It's close but not as nice, as you can see.
Also, concerning JSON (ajax), I'm waiting to get a working 6.5 build...
As far as JSON goes, my personal opinion is that you don't need it--you
can do AJAX calls in a much more lightweight fashion with plain text.
Obviously, it's your choice what technology you want to leverage, but
you may get some nuggets from my AJAX thread from a while back on the
dev forum...
bklaas Wrote:
As far as JSON goes, my personal opinion is that you don't need it--you
can do AJAX calls in a much more lightweight fashion with plain text.
5 years ago, I ditched my web developper job to do video games so i'm a
bit lost with all the new web technologies. But, from what I
I found this guide [ https://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node/18 ] the other
day. Have not tried it yet though, but it seems to be a detailed guide.
I'm interested to here from others that have gone this way. And it's
quite cheap :-D (if you have an old computer at home)
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Take a look at that dev thread, I go into some detail about it all
there.
In brief, JSON is a data exchange format. AJAX is a catch-all name to
describe using asynchronous javascript calls, usually through
xmlhttprequest(), to dynamically update webpages (usually through
manipulating DOM
'This' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AlbumArtwork) page from
the wiki may help you out on the Album Artwork issue.
And if you do back off to 6.2 or 6.3.0 (which is pre-release but a lot
more stable than 6.5), you may find the handheld skin is good enough
for use on the 770.
It's not as
Mark Lanctot wrote:
The so-called independent ISPs around here just buy bandwidth from
the big two so that wouldn't help either.
That's true, but it's not the whole story. At least for DSL service in
Ontario, Bell (the phone company) implements their various limitations
(such as bandwidth
hello,
I'm intrigued to know how many Slimp3/SB1/SB2/SB3 have been sold.
Is it possible to find this out somehow?
If only SD know, could they tell us?
I ask 'cos I'm nosey.
MC
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Squeezebox2 Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian
Arcs.
Music catalog:
Hi,
It was just a process of elimination really as I at first thought it
may be the router so bought another, result just the same and then
googling for clues before I spend an hour on the telephone to the help
line, when I got through the chap on the line wasnt able to give me a
satisfactory
Marc Sherman Wrote:
Mark Lanctot wrote:
The so-called independent ISPs around here just buy bandwidth from
the big two so that wouldn't help either.
That's true, but it's not the whole story. At least for DSL service in
Ontario, Bell (the phone company) implements their various
It is an interesting question, but they have not released information in
the past about it.
Since the field is growing rapidly, releasing sales figures would show
the competition just how much the market is worth and how fast it's
growing. So for a privately held company (I assume this is the
On device controls, and an Audiotron-style knob
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It can't possibly have anything to do with power line conditions since
the power input to the Squeezebox is DC, not AC. Power line
conditions impacting time sync is -- and I do know a little bit about
this, since one thing I used to do for a living was design digital
carrier circuits for a telco
I've often wondered if you could extrapolate sales from the traffic on
these forums (i.e. the number of posts about setup issues in a given
period).
There seemed (to me anyway) a clear increase in posts after both the
points that Mark mentions...
[TFIC for the avoidance of any doubt]
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Kyle wrote:
LEDs look like they're just encased in solid acrylic or something. Can
you cut the dome top off as long as you don't get into the wiring part?
I want to embed some LEDs for a backlighting project, and I need them
to be a little smaller.
I would not expect it to work after you do
Yes, you can cut, shape, sand or file an LED. I've done this several
times in model railroading projects.
I believe the plastic material is actually epoxy.
As you note, don't cut into the element or the very fine wires leading
to it and it will work fine.
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tls Wrote:
It can't possibly have anything to do with power line conditions since
the power input to the Squeezebox is DC, not AC. Power line
conditions impacting time sync is -- and I do know a little bit about
this, since one thing I used to do for a living was design digital
carrier
Dougal, do you know if Tiscali do anything similar to AlienBBC streams?
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I read on a blog recently that Tiscali had implemented some kind of
TCP/IP technology to disuade / prevent Torrent P2P users, and it was
that technology which seemed to be affecting legitimate audio streaming
apps. Can't remember for the life of me where (I aggregate a lot of
music, technology
That skin would be an excellent contribution to upgrade the interface
flaw in this, an otherwise wonderful masterpice of technical
hardware/software... IMHO
Best of luck and thanx for teh efforts, skinny fellow! ;)
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bklaas wrote:
I'll leave that choice up to you, but be prepared for some
wait on having 6.5 do everything you want it to do.
Please be aware that the 6.5b branch has just landed some massive
changes and is currently in an unstable state. IIRC, the latest build
that will be usable for most
If you're looking to change ISP in the UK I would strongly recommend you
take a look at http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ - they have a very good area
for comparing ISPs.
I've heard in the past of ISPs downgrading your link if they detect
filesharing traffic, but this is the first time I've heard of
Siduhe Wrote:
I've often wondered if you could extrapolate sales from the traffic on
these forums (i.e. the number of posts about setup issues in a given
period).
There seemed (to me anyway) a clear increase in posts after both the
points that Mark mentions...
[TFIC for the avoidance
GoCubs Wrote:
I have quite elaborate server logs for downloads of my SuperDateTime
plugin. But I'm not sure what percentage of new SB purchasers download
my particular plugin. It also doesn't take into account people with
multiple players.
SuperDateTime is the screen-saver running on my
I have quite elaborate server logs for
downloads of my SuperDateTime plugin.
C'mon! Give us the numbers ;-). I'm just too lazy to do this for my
plugins. But sometimes it would be interesting to know. The only numbers I
have is for SlimCD: as they produce the most traffic, they're always in
Just got my SB3. Lovely bit of kit, but I'm getting the same problem
with it clipping the first second of each track. This is happening
with AAC and MP3 tracks, not just FLAC. Sure hope they get this fixed,
although I don't know that it's necessarily related to bug 1434.
Cheers
Ian
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I just wanted to thank the entire Slim Devices crew - my SB3 worked
right out of the box; as plug-and-play as plug-and-play can get.
Well done, kudos, etc.
Thanks
Gary Cooper
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ajmitchell Wrote:
1. Graphic (d-sub/dvi/hdmi) output with some nice options to play
visuals on a plasma TV or monitor
This wouldn't be an upgrade, more a completely new product, and one
that would be significantly more expensive than the current system
ajmitchell Wrote:
2. Form-factor
Hi,
I presume that it is a port 3483 issue as all other media players on
the PC don't seem to be affected and can stream all day without
problems.
Doug.
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Why 3483? That's only used for internal communications between
slimserver and the squeezebox.
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radish Wrote:
Just FYI - there is a workaround which I have used for the past year
since I first reported this :) If you disable native FLAC and stream
as WAV it seems to all be good. Of course you lose ff/rew and gain
bandwidth usage, but at least the music sounds right. Please also vote
cepheid Wrote:
On another thread, there seems to be disagreement
about this at least as it relates to ALAC decoding. It would appear
that the FLAC bug and the ALAC bug are separate (though they may be
related).
Fuseball, this is the first I've heard of it happening with AAC and
MP3...
I'm a new Squeezebox 3 owner, having just purchased 2! So you can add
that to your list. :D
I ordered yesterday, received today, had one running in 15 minutes. It
would have taken less if I had been able to figure out where the
punctuation characters were when punching in my WPA key!
I had been
According to bugzilla 1434 is now fixed, so as soon as I can get my
hands on firmware 52 we'll see if these are the same bugs or not :)
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Plugin download count doesn't take into account how many people just use
Slimserver without a Squeezebox, maybe just with Softsqueeze or other
player. Not a bad metric, but I think there's too much variance.
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verbatone
I'll throw out a number for you: 11,500 units sold to date.
There are currently 5778 forum members.
Figure most, but not all people registered here own a Squeezebox.
Probably quite a few pre-sales types and many people who thought about
but never ended up buying one. But then we also have a
Siduhe Wrote:
The current beta candidate is 1.6rc2 - and the email I got last week
suggests that it is going to be released very shortly.
Do you know whether there will be a Linux headless server release too?
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radish Wrote:
According to bugzilla 1434 is now fixed, so as soon as I can get my
hands on firmware 52 we'll see if these are the same bugs or not :)
Fingers crossed. I'm not relishing the thought of re-ripping
everything. Took me almost a year last time. :)
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Fuseball
Assuming everything were perfect in the data transport mechanism on the
device, there could be variance from Squeezebox to Squeezebox due to
the clock generation. Depending on the clock scheme, the audio decoder
chip (the DAC) could have a PLL inside that might have some variance
from chip to
On 6/2/06, JJZolx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...Take a WAG and estimate that only about 1/2 of all Squeezebox ownersknow about or care enough about the forums to have registered.
So 2 x 5778 is approximately 11,500 units soldmy WAG would be more like 1/3 or even as low as 1/8.-- I spent all me
An article dated 08/2004
(http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26806414) says that
SD had sold some 10,000 MP3 players. That was almost 2 years ago - 3
years after the launch of the slimp3 and long before the SB2 or 3 came
out. Given all the recent publicity, the new models etc I'd
Though you can probably get away with truncating the envelope, bear in
mind that the envelope material is part of the LED's thermal management
and if you remove some of it, you'll increase the operating temperature
of the junction, which will either do nothing, burn it out, or simply
shorten its
verbatone Wrote:
Depending on the clock scheme, the audio decoder chip (the DAC) could
have a PLL inside that might have some variance from chip to chip, so
over the course of time, there could be drift. How much drift? I
don't know, just a though. If the DAC doesn't have a PLL, then the
I just purchased a new squeeze box and love it; but I'm having a strange
issue. I set it up to use Ethernet initially for the first few days and
it worked fine. I then set up the wireless to test it on my WPA
equipped Netgear G WAP. I switched it to wireless and entered my WPA
key and it
This really isn't a surprise. There's been a lot of talk lately about
ISPs using traffic/packet shaping. There are now commercial routers
manufactured to do this automatically.
The question was asked, I'm wondering what purpose it would serve the
ISP. Did they do this to try to block P2P? If
avaloncourt Wrote:
It's a matter of controlling bandwidth, plain and simple. P2P and media
eat up massive amounts of providers' bandwith so they are actively
targeting packets being used for that purpose along with VoIP. This
goes hand in hand with the new attempts by Verizon to create a
Are you sure it's not using wired? Just unpluggin the cable won't stop
playback because of the buffer. Try unplugging it and then doing
something with the remote (like navigating the menus).
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Where would you find that version (5/23). I need to down grade.
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radish Wrote:
Are you sure it's not using wired? Just unpluggin the cable won't stop
playback because of the buffer. Try unplugging it and then doing
something with the remote (like navigating the menus).
Positive; I am able to switch stations with the ethernet disconnected.
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qhplar
I had to remove the power cable from the back of the Squeezebox for the
switch from wireless to Ethernet to take affect. Mearly changing the
settings in the setup menu wasn't enough. It must be a bug in the unit
functionality.
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Branded quiet server appliance and Boombox are hardware ideas that get my attention. I don't need buttons, I like both form factors and I don't use digital out.Software side, a more robust web interface and more powerful database tools (some good stuff is being done in plugins, but should be more
I wouldn't mind seeing a dynamic web 2.0 html interface. This is one
area that is lacking - the web interface is slow and clunky.
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I'm just getting started trying to build playlists. It will be easier
to do this by viewing albums directories and sampling songs on my PC
rather than sitting downstairs and fighting with the remote. How can I
make Slim Server play thru my PC speakers instead via the Squeezebox -
stereo?
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You could try installing 'SoftSqueeze' which is the software player included
in the SlimServer package.
Use your browser to navigate to your slimserver homepage at
http://127.0.0.1:9000
(or use the IP address of your slimserver)
And follow the links at the bottom of the screen for softsqueeze.
Plugin download count doesn't take into account how many people just use
Slimserver without a Squeezebox, maybe just with Softsqueeze or other
player. Not a bad metric, but I think there's too much variance.
Some more random data for the month of may '06:
SlimCD: 535
MusicInfoSCR: 167
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