The Slimdevices.com store is has been limited to the Americas and a few
select Asian countries since the end of the Summer. It was not a recent
change.
That we continue to operate the .com at all has actually been a bit of
a minor miracle. You may have noticed that Logitech operates its own
I have seen the same discussion on the bookeen ereader site and they
were polite enough to explain that the european prices included vat and
that differnet warranties and restocking fees were factored in. That was
an intelligent explanation. Telling people that this is the way big
business
mvalera;266067 Wrote:
...but kids that's the way things are. Something tells me you're barely
capable of single-loop learning...
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All music also sounded completly different , and extremly musical.
egd's
mvalera;266058 Wrote:
Do we have that all out of our systems now?
Al the whining doesn't change the fact that each region sets their own
prices. The prices set are reflective of the local markets. They are
not in any way based on exchange rates.
You may not agree with it, but that's not
mvalera;266067 Wrote:
You may feel I was being blunt, and you may not agree with different
prices in different countries, but kids that's the way things are. It's
the way they've been for several months, and it's the way it's going to
be from now on.
Ouch. Well there it is.
If any of you
mvalera;266067 Wrote:
The Slimdevices.com store is has been limited to the Americas and a few
select Asian countries since the end of the Summer. It was not a recent
change.
That we continue to operate the .com at all has actually been a bit of
a minor miracle. You may have noticed that
bernt;266063 Wrote:
With current rate
Logitech Sweden, Squeezebox Duet 629$
Logitech Sweden, Squeezebox 3 (Classic) 472$
Other company Sweden, Squeezebox 3 (Classic) 354$
So I waite before I buy until the duet show up at decent price on other
company.
Price from logitech web site:
mvalera;266039 Wrote:
Prices are set to market rates.I assume that by market rates here you mean
rates made up by your
marketing department?
A quick glance here http://www.shopbot.com.au/p-57551-NSW.html shows
that resellers here in NSW sell the SB3 for A$314 to A$316 rather than
the
I updated to SC, which looks great - and so far works great!
However, I still have just the one preset on Live365 so that's no
better. I assume these are supposed to be the presets that are set up
on the Live365 website, and not related to favourites set up on SN?
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Hang on... the original poster asked a straightforward question, and
received a straightforward answer. I don't see how that is in any way
offensive - don't shoot the messenger.
In fact, the only confrontational part of the whole discussion (as far
as I can see) is the very first bit:
I still order from the US. Get a friend in the states and get it shipped
to him and shipped over. It just makes things more difficult.
The nice thing about living in Europe is that the dollar is extremly
weak at the moment and is not going to recover soon.
On a differnt note, on other forums
mflint;266098 Wrote:
Hang on... the original poster asked a straightforward question, and
received a straightforward answer. I don't see how that is in any way
offensive - don't shoot the messenger.
In fact, the only confrontational part of the whole discussion (as far
as I can see) is
Hi,
I'm from germany and very interested in the Duet. I wonder if this
pre-order option is available for customers outside the reach of the
slimdevices store?
Emissary
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mflint;266120 Wrote:
The two major driving forces of a competitive business are, in no
particular order, shareholders and the balance sheet.I'd argue cashflow comes
before both, but I'm just being picky :P
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All music also sounded completly different , and extremly musical.
mflint;266098 Wrote:
Hang on... the original poster asked a straightforward question, and
received a straightforward answer. I don't see how that is in any way
offensive - don't shoot the messenger.
How much does a Sonos system cost? Price that and get back to us.
Al the whining doesn't
We're talking about a business here, not a charity. As such, it has a
business model which works on market forces, regional sales strategies
and suchlike. The two major driving forces of a competitive business
are, in no particular order, shareholders and the balance sheet. That's
it.
We'd all
mvalera;266067 Wrote:
Support for our own website is not universally held inside Logi.Now, wait a
minute. By our own website are you meaning the e-commerce
side of it or the whole Slimdevices.com, wiki, forums, etc?
In the first case I might understand, in the latter... I'd be downright
Having lived in Australia I can understand the frustration.
Crazy as it might sound though it does happen globally. I recently
purchased a Leveno notebook from the US and had it posted back to China
to save USD$1000.
I suggest you source them through a OS retailer and have them shipped.
Interestingly the new server installation streams perfectly to another
PC (still wireless) running Softsqueeze. Something peculiar to the SB3
which it doesn't like?
There have been some firmware versions which didn't like updates. I've needed
to do factory reset on some of my SB2/3s in the
new app the previous version (6.5) will be deleted automatically or do
I have to do it manually beforehand.
If you're on Windows SS6 will be uninstalled before installing SC7, migrating
the settings.
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I've just upgraded from Slimserver 6.3 to 7.0 unstable. The server
hardware hasn't changed (apart from a bigger hard drive), the network
(wireless) hasn't changed, the location of the SB3 hasn't changed, but
now music is unlistenable - there's constant dropout.
My music library is all Flac, and
Thanks for the reply guys,
Unfortunately for now, I'm stuck with V6.5 as I'm running off a NAS but
I guess I could take a peek at the V7 code to see how it's done. I've
been digging deeper in the squeezebox slimp3 comm protocols and I've
found commands to feed a stream directly into the SB
That's just living in Australia. Just look at the Benchmark DAC - $1,799
when the exchange rate was .50 and now that it is .92 how much does the
DAC1 cost? $1,799.
Importers/Distributors are the first to scream when the exchange rate
goes down Oh, the dollar - prices are going up, but when it
Can someone please explain how this works? In the database the year
seems to be stored independently for each track on the album so its
possible for different tracks to have different years. I'm not really
sure what this would mean but if that's the way the database is
designed then presumably
I imagined that maybe some ripping tools automatically wrote a tag that
meant date ripped and then wondered if that could be accessed by
slimerver or any of its plug ins. FWiW mine are pretty much all ripped
by Jriver Media Centre which does have date imported as a library tag
but i dont know if
My sentiments exactly.
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mflint;266120 Wrote:
We're talking about a business here, not a charity. As such, it has a
business model which works on market forces, regional sales strategies
and suchlike.
Well yawn, thanks for the obvious statement.
The primary issue is whether or not Australia is being gouged on the
If you end up coding this plugin, I think you should also consider a
'roaring fire in background' option :)
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Talking about the difference between the slimdevices.com purchasing site
and the logitech.com one, why is it that I can only buy the black
transporter from Logitech in the UK but buy black or silver from
slimdevices in America?
and BTW the prices in the UK on the logitech website are higher than
'Ur[s Wrote:
uS;264122']another vote for the tivolis - i have model one in the
kitchen - two words: perfect fit
Don't know what's going on with Tivoli's distribution, but one local
independent shop has stopped selling them, and John Lewis don't list
them on their website anymore. However,
...or a tropical rainforest or waves crashing on a beach, etc.
The nice thing about a clock is that you _expect_ the sounds to be
repetitive... a 5 second snippet of a roaring fire in a loop will
probably get on everybody's nerves real quick! ;)
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Looking for a little advice.
Currently I'm running the latest SS 6.5.x on Ubuntu 7.04. I want to
upgrade to SC7. My thought is to do the following:
1) Completely uninstall SS 6.5 and remove the SS directories.
2) Upgrade Ubuntu to 7.10 in place.
3) Install the SC7 bits and any new plug-ins.
dborn;266158 Wrote:
The nice thing about a clock is that you _expect_ the sounds to be
repetitive...
I was hoping for a full set of Westminster chimes - bongs every 15 mins
...
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Has anyone seen or heard the BW Zeppelin active speaker. It's designed
for the iPod but also has analog and optical digital inputs.
http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/display.aspx?infid=2466#pagterid2467
It costs around £400
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The My Presets list under Live365 is only your presets from the Live365
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Mike-B wrote:
The primary issue is whether or not Australia is being gouged on the
price. The answer is obviously yes. Furthermore, with the Transporter
not being available on the Logitech site for AUS customers one can only
assume that Australian customers are not a high priority. A shame,
Thanks for the suggestion, venus light. In fact, I had just done a
complete re-scan.
I'll report back after I do what you suggest.
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I'm having an intermittent problem with my new SB3 - every once
in a while (sometimes once a week, sometimes twice a day) I get
the message Rebuffering 1% (or 2%) ... and the SB3 hangs at this
point. All my music is high bitrate VBR mp3.
Is there anything I can do to diagnose this problem? The
Let's face it, as people have been saying for quite some time the
practise of retail prices varying from one country to another is hardly
new or uncommon. I'm a brit living in the US so I've seen it from both
sides - yes it's nice that a lot of the gear I buy is cheaper over
here, but it still
Mike-B;266140 Wrote:
Well yawn, thanks for the obvious statement.
*sigh*
I'm not trying to inflame the situation, just wanted to point out that
it's unrealistic to expect prices in different regions to be broadly
similar, however much you (and me too) want it.
I can't explain why, not even
Cool, thanks! One more (stupid) clarification question: is the
best/easiest thing to do to copy all my music to c:\music folder on
my WHS (or d:\music? I do have 2 hard drives, is one option better
than the other?)
Thanks!
Then I assume in the future as I rip more CDs I would do that on a
Marc Sherman;266173 Wrote:
This forum is an organ of the RD group that builds the SB line...
- Marc
I couldn't disagree more. This forum has many different areas and I
believe we are in the General Discussion (Kitchen Sink even) forum.
It seems to me that it would be far more likely - and
Hi,
As I have no patience at all, I just took at shot at Robins script to
convert all folder.jpg files into cover.bmp files at 162x162
resolution(max size the tiny Sansa display can handle I think). It is
probably not very elegant coding, as I have never programmed perl
before. There is also a
Mike-B wrote:
I couldn't disagree more. This forum has many different areas and I
believe we are in the General Discussion (Kitchen Sink even) forum.
It seems to me that it would be far more likely - and satisfactory in
terms of finding others that do or don't share your view - for a group
Duet pre-order now available. No pre-order, however, for controller (or
receiver) separately. I will pre-order a controller if made available,
but do not need a full duet.
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Shredder;266199 Wrote:
Duet pre-order now available. No pre-order, however, for controller (or
receiver) separately. I will pre-order a controller if made available,
but do not need a full duet.
I'm sure you could Ebay the receiver for enough ($100) to make it no
more costly to just get the
jth;266175 Wrote:
I tried a network test at 320 kbps and was able
to get 98%.
Wait a sec, you only get 98% at 320 kbps?!?
That indicates a very severe wireless bandwidth problem. It's amazing
it works at all.
You should be getting 100% at 1000 kbps at least (and that won't allow
you to
radish;266185 Wrote:
In my experience going directly to the manufacturer is almost never the
cheapest way to buy something - SD has historically been unusual and
it's largely been because they were the main distribution point.
Indeed. The manufacturer won't sell for less than the recommended
mvalera;266058 Wrote:
Do we have that all out of our systems now?
Al the whining doesn't change the fact that each region sets their own
prices. The prices set are reflective of the local markets. They are
not in any way based on exchange rates.
You may not agree with it, but that's not
MuckleEck;266153 Wrote:
Talking about the difference between the slimdevices.com purchasing site
and the logitech.com one, why is it that I can only buy the black
transporter from Logitech in the UK but buy black or silver from
slimdevices in America?
and BTW the prices in the UK on the
mvalera;266067 Wrote:
The Slimdevices.com store is has been limited to the Americas and a few
select Asian countries since the end of the Summer. It was not a recent
change.
That we continue to operate the .com at all has actually been a bit of
a minor miracle. You may have noticed that
mattybain;266103 Wrote:
What being called kids and being told to put up or shut up is
non-confrontational?
Sadly it does seem like SlimDevices are being swallowed by the
corporate bemoth and this attitude of screw you just confirms it.
Yes Logitech are taking the piss with European /
gborland;266128 Wrote:
I've just upgraded from Slimserver 6.3 to 7.0 unstable. The server
hardware hasn't changed (apart from a bigger hard drive), the network
(wireless) hasn't changed, the location of the SB3 hasn't changed, but
now music is unlistenable - there's constant dropout.
My
Good morning. As some of you may have read, we had tornados/bad weather
here in Arkansas last night (we're OK). We had a huge lightning strike
in my back yard that apparently generated a substantial enough
electromagnetic pulse to blow all of my computers (and almost every
microprocessor
Hi there, I have a Slimserver running from my shed office in the garden
to my house via a ssh over the internet.
Is there a way to have user rights and restrictions...ie I do not want
my kids to change any of the settings or fiddling on the left hand
pane, though would like them to make their
Going back to SS 6.54 fixed it so it is a SC 7.0 thing.
You didn't by chance read my previous answer?
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phicar2;266190 Wrote:
Cool, thanks! One more (stupid) clarification question: is the
best/easiest thing to do to copy all my music to c:\music folder on
my WHS (or d:\music? I do have 2 hard drives, is one option better
than the other?)
Thanks!
Then I assume in the future as I rip
Andy, my Live365 web site favorites or presets are reflected in
Squeezecenter in real time (I recall the same was the case in
Slimserver), assuming of course that I am logged in via the SC/SB
interface.
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Have you tried the NoSetup plugin to see if that meets your needs? Its
in the PluginServerUtilities section of the wiki page on Plugins.
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aha, that looks promisingmany thanks, i did not see that one.
Will try now
A
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mvalera;266058 Wrote:
Do we have that all out of our systems now?
Al the whining doesn't change the fact that each region sets their own
prices. The prices set are reflective of the local markets. They are
not in any way based on exchange rates.
You may not agree with it, but that's not
byKnight;266248 Wrote:
You should copy all of your music to \\SERVER\Music.
You should also set SqueezeCenter (or SlimServer) to find the music at
\\SERVER\Music (not D:\Music). That way, if you have folder duplication
turned on for the Music folder and you lose a hard drive, you can keep
Any word when the Squeezebox Duet will be available yet?
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We are a registered and authorise mobile phones distributors. We deal on
brand new Unlocked mobile phones with original boxes.
We ship worldwide through FedEx, UPS or DHL. Our prices are wholesale
prices and we can send to you on request. we have phones ranging from
** Samsung,
Before the end of February.
On Feb 6, 2008 10:46 AM, Bay City
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Any word when the Squeezebox Duet will be available yet?
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I was not going to get involved in this before reading mvaleras original
note since I doubt Ill buy a duet anytime soon. But I am a very loyal
customer, read the forums, own multiple machines and have some
emotional committment to what happens to the company.
The reason I have an emotional
Bay City;266262 Wrote:
Any word when the Squeezebox Duet will be available yet?
judging from the pre-order page on this website, I'd guess within 3
weeks (+\- a day or two)...
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I have about 700 CDs but I havent put the time into ripping them
because I dont have time in my life with the kids and all that. I
looked into a ripping service but then I discovered Rhapsody on my PC
and $120/ year for unlimited music was cheaper than ripping and the
kids love it because we
Hi,
Quick calculation:
$399 = £203.41 + EU duty @ 5% 213.58 + 17.5% VAT = £250.95 without
shipping costs.
I pre-ordered DUET for £270 (with £9 discount code) Free Next Day
Delivery.
Price seems to be fair, from the above.
Regards,
PeteJ
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When I ask my friends in the know they all say Sonos if you have the
money and if not, Squeezebox. Im trying to understand the differences
in a 4 room setup. It seems like Duets and powered speakers are quite a
bit cheaper than a Sonos 4 room setup with speakers.
I would amend that a bit and
#1: Call Logitech support
#2: Lightning to ground strikes do not cause EMPs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning
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zigzag;266275 Wrote:
Can my kids play their music in the playroom while my wife and I listen
to something different in the family room?
Yes, each receiver can play a different Pandora channel.
zigzag;266275 Wrote:
When we have a party can we make a Rhapsody playlist and play it in all
I got the very nice preorder campaign mail :)
with the duet combo for 399$
But when i press the link for preorder i Get the usual buy now now page
?? from wich you can't buy the duet ??
the link in the mail is
Michael Herger;266137 Wrote:
new app the previous version (6.5) will be deleted automatically or
do
I have to do it manually beforehand.
If you're on Windows SS6 will be uninstalled before installing SC7,
migrating the settings.
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I am on MAC OS X 10.4. So will it be
mvalera;266287 Wrote:
I just checked with the SqueeeNetwork guru, Andy G, and he said you can
sync up to three Squeezeboxes at a time to Rhapsody. So not four, but
nearly there.
BTW this is a policy imposed by Rhapsody, not an architectural
limitation.
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Does the SB3 get an address from DHCP? If not, then either the SB3's
ethernet port is fried, or some other equipment between it and the DHCP
server is damaged.
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Hi - just curious when did the SB3 become the Squeezebox Classic ??
Missed that one..
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The link works for me. Duet Pre-order is there as well as Receiver and
Controller. Browser caching perhaps?
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Just to clarify, I don't have any SBs (yet). As I understand the
system, the Squeezenetwork is the internet based server so I don't have
to run a server in my house. That is what I want as we have enough
trouble keeping our PCs working.
As I understand mvalera's response, if I'm using the
The 3-player limitation is Rhapsody's, it doesn't apply to any other
audio source. Syncing internet radio is hit or miss on SN because each
player receives a different audio stream and it's not possible to sync
those. If you want good sync your best bet is to run SqueezeCenter.
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With the Duet and new Controller, I don't think there is any reason to
go w/Sonos. $400 for first room v. $1k; $150 for subsequent rooms
v.$400. Comparable sound (I think SB is better, but it is debatable)
and vastly more functionality for SB. I don't even really think the
Sonos is that much
You may be misreading the order page - it's a little confusing.
Duet can be preordered, but not the controller and receiver
separately.
Are you not seeing the Duet item at all?
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As you're in Sweden you are not allowed to order from the Slim Devices
website - you have to use Logitech's site instead. Is that what you
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Just curious - if I have a single Rhapsody subscription can I listen to
different tracks on different players at the same time?
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Hi everyone,
I'm using SlimServer 6.5.4, and try to use the Tune in URL function
to stream this radio url:
mms://wstream01.workzone.no/Aller_NRJ_KlemFM_High
... but it won't play. It plays completely fine on the same computer if
I hit Ctrl+U and paste it into Windows Media Player 11...
How
The server doesn't support HTTP streaming. See
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3383
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Not that ?
It's realy nice offer, as the web shop was closed to us Europeans
before.
So I'm intrested in getting to the campaign page :)
/Mikael
PS
There is no disclaimer in the mail or other info in said mail that
suggest's that this offer is limited in any way, to for example US
citizens
Sorry, I misunderstood and thought you already had one SB.
re 'fiddling' I think it's quite possible that you could get the duet,
take it out of the box and have it working in a few minutes. You'll
find some testimonials elsewhere here to that effect. It's not that
there is some necessary
Sorry to be dumb but I really need to understand this before I go
through the effort to sell the family on it and then buy it, and get it
working.
Is it correct that if I want to synchronize Pandora or Rhapsody to play
the same song in more than 3 rooms for Rhapsody or more than one room
for
radish;266329 Wrote:
Just curious - if I have a single Rhapsody subscription can I listen to
different tracks on different players at the same time?
Yes, up to 3 different players at the same time.
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zigzag;266344 Wrote:
Sorry to be dumb but I really need to understand this before I go
through the effort to sell the family on it and then buy it, and get it
working.
Is it correct that if I want to synchronize Pandora or Rhapsody to play
the same song in more than 3 rooms for Rhapsody
#2: Lightning to ground strikes do not cause EMPs.
Sorry, I meant to type EMF. Very helpful comment. Appreciate it.
No, Sean, it doesn't seem to be able to pull an address from DHCP.
Will try switching around my Squeezeboxes when I get home from work.
Any fix for a fried ethernet port this
Check out jriver media center. It does a very nice job for me keeping
my 4th gen and 6th gen ipod in sync with my FLAC collection.
I use to do the perl script method of keeping FLAC and MP3 copies in
sync, but found that to be a major pain in the butt. Mostly due to
issues using iTunes. So
Which works better and what are the pros and cons of each one.
Accessing my music files off my computer or uploading my music to the
online music locker?
thanks
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I just checked with the SqueeeNetwork guru, Andy G, and he said you can
sync up to three Squeezeboxes at a time to Rhapsody. So not four, but
nearly there.
BTW this is a policy imposed by Rhapsody, not an architectural
limitation
This is very interesting because, as I understand it, Sonos
There are commercial forwarding services which can ship a US order
overseas, e.g. http://www.maillinkplus.com
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I don't claim to know anything about the Sonos architecture but I would
guess they only have one connection to the Rhapsody audio and then
transport the decrypted audio within their closed network to each
player. We can't do that, so each player needs a separate connection
to the Rhapsody
Graham, well said.
Mvalera, you should consider yourself less as the disciplinarian for
the Slim Devices community, and more as the PR face of the company.
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andyg;266370 Wrote:
I don't claim to know anything about the Sonos architecture but I would
guess they only have one connection to the Rhapsody audio and then
transport the decrypted audio within their closed network to each
player. We can't do that, so each player needs a separate
Right, players don't talk to each other, only the server. In order to
share a single Rhapsody connection, the server would need to talk
directly to Rhapsody, and this is not possible because our server is
open source.
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