I really want better sound quality than that. Oh well, i'm going to move
the SB to the kitchen for a bit back and forth, see how much I use it
and maybe i'll just find some cash somewhere.
although just bought some new Aego m's off ebay for a bargain price.
only just been emailed by ebay to tell
mvalera;240363 Wrote:
We have Audioengine 5's and Swans here. Love em both.
Mike
Bit out of my price range. I'd like a good set of 2.0 speakers in the
same price range as the Aego M's - around £90.
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I really want better sound quality than that. Oh well, i'm going to move
the SB to the kitchen for a bit back and forth, see how much I use it
and maybe i'll just find some cash somewhere.
although just bought some new Aego m's off ebay for a bargain price.
only just
Have you seen this?
http://www.brendandawes.com/news/browsebox-chumby-meets-squeezebox
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I just placed an order for the Aego m's.
If they were for a larger space that could tolerate a larger footprint,
I think I would hve chosen the AE5's, but given the price and the
cluttered desk...
Maybe I'll pop for the AE5's for my workshop in the garage instead!
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SB2 -- Axiom
SB3 US: $299
SB3 Europe (from Logitech): 299
Exchange rate = 1.45 makes $299 = 206.
That's just not right!
Or put another way, UK Logitech price is £219.
Exchange rate = 2.08 makes $299 = £144
It's just not right!!! Especially when you can't buy them from the US
anymore.
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Its weird, it only seems to be the black ones.
The seller claimed 1-2 days delivery, i'm not sure if its best to
cancel the paypal now or wait and see if they honour the sale? I've
emailed the seller too, if I don't get a reply by the end of the day
maybe i'll just cancel it.
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Hello,
I'm trying to get power management working on the Suse 10.1 box that I
use to run slimserver. Since I can't get Wake-on-LAN to work on the
box in both Win XP and Limux, I've chosen instead to allow the box fall
back to standby state when not in use. However, it is immediately
brought out
Oh and think I might give the wireless music system a go, they are on
amazon for £30. cheers.
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btw, koss headphones have a lifetime guarantee.
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hmmm...
on the one hand, its just another electronic consumer device, what do
you expect? on the other hand, its only for technically competent
people who are burr brown audiophiles...
on the one hand, NO company gives more than one year warranty, on the
other hand, as it turns out, slim gives
Try the ebay help forum...
http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?messageID=1101689203forumID=2000#1101689203
Better to act fast and apologise later! I would be interested to hear
how you get on (and of course how you find the Logi transmitter)
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That's just not right!
You forgot VAT and handling. In the summer I got a SB from US and had
to pay euro 75 extra.
There is still a difference but large orgs buy currencies ahead of time
so spot exchange rate aren't alid.
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The person I bought off used a company email, well a company that has a
web site under construction, phoned the company and spoke to a bloke
(the seller is female), he was furious that ebay had done that and said
that once he had spoken to her and she had checked her paypal they would
ship the
Please... anyone..
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Best regards
Peder Schmedling, Norway
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Whilst I have not yet completely solved my problem, I have determined
the cause - the Windows Firewall.
If I turn off the firewall the problem disappears.
If I turn it on, it re-appears.
However, I need to do some more work on this as ports 3483 and 9000
appear to be included in my exclusions
Hi All,
There's a favourable review/article posted on Lifehacker today...
http://lifehacker.com/software/technophilia/stream-digital-music-to-your-stereo-with-squeezebox-318049.php
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Remember you don't have to buy from logitech - most of their existing
business comes from resellers. £180 here, which is £153 without VAT,
much closer to the US price of £144:
So? The Canadian dollar is now worth $1.07 US. But prices haven't
changed here, we still pay a $5 - $15 premium for books, cards and
magazines, a ~40% premium for audio equipment, and a car costs about
$10 000 more here.
It turns out that the exchange rate has very little to do with pricing.
Mark Lanctot;240591 Wrote:
It turns out that the exchange rate has very little to do with pricing.
Things are priced at what the manufacturer feels the market will bear.
That's how free market economics work. :)
Mark Wrote:
That doesn't make it right, but that's how it is. Europe is more
mudlark;240410 Wrote:
Mark I am trying to use a wireless bridge to connect my second SB3 into
my system. The idea is the wireless bridge can be placed in a better
position than the SB3. I've got the bridge to work with a desktop pc,
but when i try the SB3 it doesn't seem to want to connect
The reviewer seems a tad confused when talking about an NAS running
Slimserver as an alternative to the SB, rather than as an alternative
to a PC.
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Mark Lanctot;240591 Wrote:
So? The Canadian dollar is now worth $1.07 US. But prices haven't
changed here, we still pay a $5 - $15 premium for books, cards and
magazines, a ~40% premium for audio equipment, and a car costs about
$10 000 more here.
It turns out that the exchange rate has
FWIW, I'm told that goods shipped to the UK by USMail are unlikely to be
assessed for import duty.
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Ah-ha. That's something I -didn't- realise and it's good to know. Many
thanks for this info, dude. I'll ditch that download once I get back
home.
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Windows 2000 Professional
Thanks for those replies - I will go the IR route.
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MrSinatra;240566 Wrote:
why is it ANY criticism gets all the fanboys out is such a chorus?
No, the real question is: why on earth is this thread revived after 6
months? Geesh, so much interesting stuff in the world, who cares about
hardware that failed and may or may not have been
I have opened the Squeezecenter ports on my router and have got
Softsqueeze working from my work pc. A lot of people seem to be using
SSH for security, but none of the posts mention how essential this is -
can anyone tell what risk am I exposing myself to by opening the ports?
(A general web
SSH for security, but none of the posts mention how essential this is -
can anyone tell what risk am I exposing myself to by opening the ports?
Not only you'll be able to access your SqueezeCenter, but anyone accessing the
internet. Don't be surprised when the music is turned on at night.
Well, with those ports opened, if I was able to find your IP address I
could go and turn your Squeezebox on at 4 AM just for kicks. ;-)
The SlimServer title page used to read Welcome to SlimServer, so a
Google search for the title Welcome to SlimServer can locate all such
pages. Now it just
I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on my music server, I can't stream to Winamp
on a Windows XP machine on the same network. I start Winamp then go
to the SS web interface, where I can see my player. I then select an
album click play. My playlist shows up in the right-hand pane, just
as it should, but
Cool! Well, I'm not going to guess why it worked for you and not me but
it's also not worth bashing my head against the proverbial brick wall
over. Could even be a hardware difference between the SB2/SB3, who
knows.
I've ordered some poweline networking stuff to get the cabled
connection and
Because the SB is never off
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majones;240613 Wrote:
FWIW, I'm told that goods shipped to the UK by USMail are unlikely to be
assessed for import duty.
That used to be the case but things are much more stringent now. US
Mail packages (as opposed to letters) are handled by ParcelForce who
charge a standard £8.50 customs
Excise have tightened up things because of the increase in volume of
personal imports driven by internet shopping and favourable exchange
rates.
The thief Brown will let no-one escape the tax'n'bungle policies of
NuLabour!
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The only way to avoid import duties is to ensure that the invoice is NOT
in the same parcel as the item (get it mailed or e-mailed seperately) as
the VAT etc is charged to the value of the invoice - no invoice no
charge!
BT
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my windows firewall has always been off. So for me this has no influence
on the specific problem.
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Michael Herger;240644 Wrote:
SSH for security, but none of the posts mention how essential this is
-
can anyone tell what risk am I exposing myself to by opening the
ports?
Not only you'll be able to access your SqueezeCenter, but anyone
accessing the internet. Don't be surprised when
I know this has been mentioned here before - I just wanted to know, will
Slimserver 7 be able to handle multiple libraries?
This is such an important feature. For example, I have my complete
music collection on an external hard drive, and only a selection on my
notebook. I want to be able to
I have tried both ways, with native WAV as well as WAV-FLAC
transcoding. did not seem to make any difference. My PC is quite robust
with plenty of performance all around, so it never gets clogged by the
software application demands. CPU with transcoding never exceeds 10%
utilization.
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What kind of file format are you trying to stream? Do you have lame
installed? If you are not streaming mp3, then I'm guessing that lame
must be installed in order for the server to transcode to mp3.
Bjørn
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amcluesent;240674 Wrote:
The thief Brown will let no-one escape the tax'n'bungle policies of
NuLabour!
I wasn't aware that VAT and duty had changed significantly since TBW's
tenure at Downing Street.
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gutted;240714 Wrote:
I recently bought some bits and pieces from US which cost me something
like $200 (which included a FedEx cost of something like $90). On
arrival to UK, I was charged an extra £40(ish) for clearing and
import duty. For goods which cost around $110, I ended up paying an
I hear that the Euro is now going for about $1.42 us. On its way to
$1.50 per Euro. That is gonna make a lot of US products look really
inexpensive, and push European products out of my budget.
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I thought you had to write the value of imported goods on a label which
is stuck on the outside of the package? If -not- then that's a very
cool trick which I'll employ next time I buy something from the US.
I recently bought some bits and pieces from US which cost me something
like $200 (which
I just thought I would post a summary of the issues (and the solution) I
have been having recently. My apologies if this has been covered in any
other threads on this forum.
Firstly, the symptoms. AAC (ripped with iTunes) stuttering badly during
playback, MP3s were fine. Previously all had been
The time that's displayed on the SB3 is picked up from the machine
running slimserver. That, I guess, might be a reason that SB3
constantly wants to talk to the server.
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Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler
0.37.5
Beyond just mischief, there's also the possibility that someone could
use the web interface of SlimServer to hack into the computer and
possibly gain access to your whole home network. SlimServer wasn't
designed to be run on a public server, so security may or may not be
able to keep someone
How would this set up handle slimserver?
What are the considerations between XP and Vista with respect to
slimserver and SB?
Is this a fast enough hard drive?
If I leave it on all the time, I won't face any WOL issues will I?
Intel®Pentium® dual-core processor E2140 (1MB L2,1.60GHz,800 FSB)
Ah well, I am on wireles (the server is wired to the switch) but once
it's streaming (flac) it's generally perfect - never any stutters just
the occasional full stop.
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The usual way to approach this sort of problem is
First determine is it wireless related. The usual test is to wire your
SB and see if the problem occurs.
If the problem occurs when wired then check for server related issues
such as
- Anti virus - some AV lock out access to files. Turn off
You should try mplayer again.
If you are using 6.5.x did you follow the steps in post 16 of this
thread
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34181
Ignore the socketwrapper comments as they were sorted in 6.5.4.
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roll - gybe wrote:
How would this set up handle slimserver?
Massive overkill, IMHO
What are the considerations between XP and Vista with respect to
slimserver and SB?
Use XP. or Ubuntu
Is this a fast enough hard drive?
If I leave it on all the time, I won't face any WOL issues will I?
Slimserver itself is fairly lightweight so that spec should be more than
sufficient. The hard drive speed is pretty irrelevant, the SB has a
large buffer so you won't notice any blips in the transfer.
For comparison, I was using slimserver and InguzDSP on a 1.8Ghz core
duo laptop which is only
I came home today to find that my SB2 display was blank. After investigating
my server for a few minutes, I worked out that it was the unit itself.
Fortunately, it appears to just be the power supply unit. I took the SB2
upstairs and plugged it into the SB3 PSU, and it came to life. Phew!
I know this has been mentioned here before - I just wanted to know, will
Slimserver 7 be able to handle multiple libraries?
No, SqueezeCenter 7 will not handle multiple libraries as standard. It doesn't
even support multiple configured music paths yet either (only via
links/shortcuts). But
i'd consider a mac mini.
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sugarmonster;240741 Wrote:
Slimserver itself is fairly lightweight so that spec should be more than
sufficient. The hard drive speed is pretty irrelevant, the SB has a
large buffer so you won't notice any blips in the transfer.
For comparison, I was using slimserver and InguzDSP on a
That'll work fine. I'd go with XP rather than Vista. Vista seems to be
a real pain in the ass, particularly with all the things they've thrown
in for the sake of security (read: protecting you from yourself).
If you go with XP Pro instead of XP Home then also you'll have a
built-in remote
I'm running SlimServer 6.5.4 to SB3 (firmware version 81). I'm
connected wirelessly from a vista machine via Linksys WRT54GL, using
DHCP.
I've had this setup for several months and in general, I love this
thing. However, occasionally and seemingly more frequently I get an
error message Can't
I also use an old throw-away PC with an upgraded IDE disk for a
dedicated slimserver. I found an old compaq 350MHz P3, 256MB ram. It
also does double-duty as a ripping machine (flac, so don't really need
much CPU time). It runs Ubuntu with no GUI. Works great.
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roll - gybe;240736 Wrote:
How would this set up handle slimserver?
What are the considerations between XP and Vista with respect to
slimserver and SB?
Is this a fast enough hard drive?
If I leave it on all the time, I won't face any WOL issues will I?
Intel®Pentium® dual-core
The output current looks way too low - though I'm surprised the
requirement for SB1 is so different from SB3. I think you'd be likely
to melt the PSU if you hooked it up to the SB3!
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Got a weird problem:
i'm using SS 6.5.1 with iTunes 7.4.2.4. I have SS rescan my music
every night. Most of the time everything is cool, but sometimes (like
today) it lists all of my iTunes playlists but it says they are empty.
Here's the really weird part: this morning the playlists had
Fifer;240727 Wrote:
Or is it the removal of evasion opportunities that's bemoaned?
It's that, and from what I read it's not even their fault. They used to
essentially give a free ride to personal packages but there was some
case in the european courts where that was deemed illegal and now they
Full page video backgrounduggghhh...*shudder*
I feel I need to go shower...
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Often the bottom right pane of the main fishbone interface doesn't
display or refresh. This is the area of the interface that shows the
songs that have just played or are about to play.
Using SS 6.5.1.
Firefox says it is transferring data or waiting on the IP address
of my SS (which is on this
thanks for the feedback. the 2gb thing keeps coming back.
I'm running my collection (flac) off of a fast 4gb laptop right now.
Unfortunately, my XP laptop was stolen and I'm on vista now. That was
a kick in the nuts! I really don't like vista, but I'm aware that I
may need to just do it for
Hey forum friends,
For whatever reason my squeezebox insists on having its firmware
updated every time I change source computers. This is rather
bothersome, as I'm sure that after 1500 updates in the past few days
that the firmware is thoroughly up to date.
What gives?
Thanks in advance
I'm running Slimserver on a Celeron 600 with 512KB of RAM.
The main problem is that the drives churn if I run the web application
which, along with slim tray, java, etc. use up too much ram. Since I
rarely use the web ap, this isn't a big problem. In other words, if my
motherboard could take
roll - gybe wrote:
I had heard vista takes 2gb. I didnt know if I could go with a 1 gb XP
set up. I don't want to make a silly compromise - after all I have some
serious gear at this point and I want good source material.
Even XP likes memory, and its fairly cheap these days.
Ubuntu is
On 6-Nov-07, at 6:27 PM, LikeButtah wrote:
Hey forum friends,
For whatever reason my squeezebox insists on having its firmware
updated every time I change source computers.
I assume that you are running different server versions on the source
computers.
If you do that, you will get
LikeButtah;240798 Wrote:
For whatever reason my squeezebox insists on having its firmware updated
every time I change source computers. This is rather bothersome, as I'm
sure that after 1500 updates in the past few days that the firmware is
thoroughly up to date.
You've changed source
So I have a tendency to exaggerate, big whoop, wanna fight about it?
:D
But seriously folks, thanks for replying so quick. I'll check the
version thing out posthaste!
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LikeButtah wrote:
So I have a tendency to exaggerate, big whoop, wanna fight about it?
My sainted father said:
I told you a million times, never exaggerate.
He said it so often, it wasn't clear if he was still exaggerating.
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Pat Farrell;240807 Wrote:
My sainted father said... never exaggerate.
Mine as well although he would make an exception when it came time to
find a switch.
Usually not exaggerated enough.
[-)
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SB3
Congratulations. Welcome to the SB world. The SB world isn't simple, it is
fraught with dangers, you are well advised to go out and buy a multi-CD
player, and leave the box to the techies.
Russ
- Original Message -
From: kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Slim Devices Discussion
On 6-Nov-07, at 6:19 PM, eschurr wrote:
Using SS 6.5.1.
that's nearing a year old. first suggestion is of course to upgrade.
if you are using Firefox, you can look into firebug to help you see
what is causing the holdup.
If there is a js error or a missing graphic, that can stick things.
Solvason-Pastuch;240811 Wrote:
Congratulations. Welcome to the SB world. The SB world isn't simple,
it is
fraught with dangers, you are well advised to go out and buy a multi-CD
player, and leave the box to the techies.
Russ
Surely only a techie would be running _multiple_ home
seanadams;240815 Wrote:
Surely only a techie would be running _multiple_ home music servers?
Considering how many people have requested the ability to have multiple
libraries, I don't think this is at all true. I'm pretty certain that
many non-techies are running multiple servers.
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Solvason-Pastuch;240811 Wrote:
Congratulations. Welcome to the SB world. The SB world isn't simple,
it is
fraught with dangers, you are well advised to go out and buy a multi-CD
player, and leave the box to the techies.
Russ
There are a multitude of users that find the SB/TP an
JJZolx wrote:
seanadams;240815 Wrote:
Surely only a techie would be running _multiple_ home music servers?
Considering how many people have requested the ability to have multiple
libraries, I don't think this is at all true. I'm pretty certain that
many non-techies are running
Once in a blue moon my sb3 will loose a second or two from the beginning
of a track if I jump tracks with the remote. It's so infrequent that I
don't worry about it.
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thing about most Macs is that when they sleep, almost everything turns
off, no fans for power supplies or processor chips.
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Phil Meyer;240755 Wrote:
But do not dispair - there is a third party plugin that adds
multi-library functionality, that I find works really well. There is a
6.5 version and 7.0 version.
Phil
You're probably referring to Erlands Plugin, am I right? I haven't
tried his 'Multi Library
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