a) No not trolls - god knows i've seen plenty of them in the Audiophile
forum - ANNOYED PEOPLE - not being BEING ANNOYING
b) The market forces shall not be disobeyed argument which is a
version of the if you dont like the way we do things dont buy our
stuff retort - not the point. It used to be
Ben Sandee;266441 Wrote:
When you point one finger, four more point back at you. Think about
it.
I'm not sure what you mean. There is a known issue with Ubuntu 7.10
whereby it is lacking the fundamental capability to enable DMA on many
common PATA drive/motherboard combinations.
On 7-Feb-08, at 12:24 AM, gandt wrote:
a) No not trolls - god knows i've seen plenty of them in the
Audiophile
forum - ANNOYED PEOPLE - not being BEING ANNOYING
yeah...keep better track of the other forums.
b) The market forces shall not be disobeyed argument which is a
version of the
kdf;266511 Wrote:
Prices are market driven, and you are the market. Drive away folks.
-kdf
egd;266387 Wrote:
Fact is, whether we like it or not, SD is not SD anymore and
distribution via Logitech's distribution channels was inevitable. Use
the Internet, order from wherever you find
When will we be able to preorder outside the US. I've got the preorder
mail but it redirects to the slimdevices site from which i'm prohibited
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On 7-Feb-08, at 12:51 AM, djonez wrote:
When will we be able to preorder outside the US. I've got the preorder
mail but it redirects to the slimdevices site from which i'm
prohibited
to order.
Unfortunately, the regional ordering appears to be subject to regional
sales control, so to
On 7-Feb-08, at 1:12 AM, gandt wrote:
What is this some kind of Postmodern trolling in which you
simultaneously do it and refer to the fact that you are doing it? Its
still a pointlessly rude response to a post which was obviously not
just about winding people up.
read the thread. that's
Cut mvalera some slack - they're about to launch a major new product and
likely they're all a bit tired and on edge.
Sure he could have phrased it better but ultimately he's right and you
all know it. Pricing will *always* be set by what the market can bear
and if you think otherwise you just
I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 with Squeezecenter 7.0 - 17225 on a
Fujitsu-Siemens laptop 1.7GHz Centrino 500Mb memory.
It runs two SB3's (Firmware 86) perfectly at the same time while
playing FLAC files. I'm running the default skin with Firefox with no
extra plug-ins.
The SB3's are connected wired
kdf;266529 Wrote:
On 7-Feb-08, at 12:24 AM, gandt wrote:
b) The market forces shall not be disobeyed argument which is a
version of the if you dont like the way we do things dont buy our
stuff retort - not the point.
missing the point. it's about contracts to regional divisions. When
bossanova808;266536 Wrote:
As an Aussie, it's worth pointing out I paid $248 Aus dollars (delivered
and inclusive of GST) for my last SB3. That's a reasonable price in any
market and even at the standard price here (around $310) the device in
incredible value.If you check the Logitech
If by the console you mean the web interface, you should be able to go
to Settings - Players - (select the player) - (select the Audio
menu). The top few settings all relate to sync.
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Well I agree that this thread is now more heat than light so I agree
that more comment would be stupid. Now about those cryogenically frozen
cables that yield staggering new highs and are as if a veil was lifted
from the music...
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So, I'm making progress towards recycling a very old laptop into a
no-display hidden Squeeze 'slave'. It is now running DSL (Damn Small
Linux) and seems quite happy, but now it's time to choose either
SoftSqueeze of SqueezeSlave. DSL doesn't have Java by default and I
think installing it will
byKnight;266248 Wrote:
You should copy all of your music to \\SERVER\Music.
You should also set SqueezeCenter (or SlimServer) to find the music at
\\SERVER\Music (not D:\Music). That way, if you have folder duplication
turned on for the Music folder and you lose a hard drive, you can keep
No need to go to Settings.
Select Synchronise from the choose Player drop down at Top RHS.
You will get a popup window.
If you want to sync players - check the players to be synced.
If you want to unsync players - uncheck the players to be taken out of
sync.
Then click Synchronize.
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aluminium (Aussie spelling) colour (Aussie spelling)
I think you mean British spelling ;)
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Mnyb;266338 Wrote:
There is no disclaimer in the mail or other info in said mail that
suggest's that this offer is limited in any way, to for example US
citizens only. so Logitech has offered me a duet combo for 399$
Likewise - I would be tempted to get one for that!
(Given that signing up
Mine's arrived too - and is currently sitting under my desk at work. Her
Ladyship has kindly agreed to do all of the setup from a non-techie
perspective - I will take notes of the whole process.
I have one suggestion for Slim/UPS: having new toys arrive at 9am to a
work address is just cruel.
Received SBR SBC today. Set up was flawless, both units performed
firmware update without a hitch. I was listening to music within 15
minutes of opening the box. Fantastic.
One thing I have noticed is using the 'status' query via CLI does not
report the Wireless Signal Strength. Sending
SuperQ;266410 Wrote:
Where did you see that? I don't see anything here about Classic
http://slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html
Its on the European/UK Logitech website along with a highly attractive
price drop to £180 / 280 Euros.
James_B;266576 Wrote:
Incidentally I find the word cart really odd, being British, and find
basket far more natural. Maybe I am alone?
No, I'm pretty sure no one in the UK would refer to a 'cart', it would
be either a 'basket' or a 'trolley'.
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Okay, final post for me on this topic:
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=squeezebox
Why not use the best internet price trawler in Aus.
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snarlydwarf;266490 Wrote:
My guess: DRM.
Sending an stream of decrypted audio over a wire or 802.11 interface is
probably a no-no. Sending it over a proprietary encrypted 2.4G
microwave connection is probably okay.
There's no DRM on internet radio dude...
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jaffacake;266587 Wrote:
There's no DRM on internet radio dude...
Rhapsody is a proprietory music service though.
And plenty of people want DRM even on internet radio, especially the US
Senate - google the Perform Act and DRM. The concern is (IIRC) partly
driven by stuff like 'this'
The display was bad and they put a new one in.
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dolce24;266451 Wrote:
I also have a squeezebox and the harmony 1000 remote. The first time i
did the setup, the volume buttons were controlled through the
squeezebox instead of my receiver, though i had chosen the receiver to
control the volume. I then did a edit of the setup, and the
I had this with mine, i thought was just early models. You will find its
heat related (after its been on for a while).
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hi all,
I did search on this topic and found some answers on shipping from US
and specifying UK plug etc.. but I'm thinking that things have changed
as regards global shipping, with the Logitech involvement.
Anyway, my brother-in-law is off to the states next month and I'd
really like him to
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I think if you were to search and replace on the above summary and
replace 'multi-room' with 'synchronous multi-room' it seems about
right. I happen to have 4 SBs so have a fully functioning 'multi-room'
system. I hardly ever want to have all of these 'synched' so for me
the SBs 'multi-room'
So to summarise for the OP:
Sonos has always been better at the multi-room and controller thing,
but Slim Devices are hoping to close this gap with the new Duet
product.
Although newer than Sonos, it doesn't actually offer feature
equivalence. For example, going multi-room has considerable
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Hello,
I have installed SqueezeCenter 7 on my Windows XP system and it has a
graphical web interface.
When I installed it on my WHS system, it reverts to what I think is the
classic interface.
How can that interface be changed?
In a similar problem, my softsqueeze player changed from the
It will be possible and the cost is $300 for the controller alone, IIRC.
On Feb 7, 2008 2:49 PM, mxmerc
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So I've seen posts which seem to indicate the controller for the Duet
will work with SBv3. My question is, will it be possible to order just
the remote? And if so
sfraser;266742 Wrote:
If it is a commercial NAS product, my bet would be it was purpose built
with little headroom for 3rd party add on applications.
Not just that, the Infrant/Netgear devices are based on a custom
'storage processor' designed specifically for RAID operations, running
general
sfraser wrote:
I have FreeNAS/SlimNAS running on a fanless ITX MB, with 4 SB's hanging
off it. It's has real snappy performance.
If it is a commercial NAS product, my bet would be it was purpose built
with little headroom for 3rd party add on applications.
Wouldn't a small ITX based PC
TCM wrote:
the SB1 can only handle MP3 and wav
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I might get my hands on a SB1 and
I want to get this right:
When you say: the SB1 can only handle MP3 and wav you mean the
*hardware* can only handle mp3 and wav? I would still be able to flacs
which
So I've seen posts which seem to indicate the controller for the Duet
will work with SBv3. My question is, will it be possible to order just
the remote? And if so how much will it be?
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MuckleEck;266691 Wrote:
Is it too far to run an ethernet cable from shed office to house (which
is what I have done, got clobbered by BT's fair usage policy by using
the internet)
Depends how big your garden is...the limit is typically 100m.
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zigzag;266758 Wrote:
If I don't want to run a server (and I definitely don't) then I can play
Pandora songs in as many room simultaneously as I want, Rhapsody songs
in up to 3 rooms and internet radio in just 1.
I don't see why you can't play internet radio in as many rooms as you
like,
Thanks for all the information in such a short time.
I learned a lot though it was not as straight forward as I hoped. If I
don't want to run a server (and I definitely don't) then I can play
Pandora songs in as many room simultaneously as I want, Rhapsody songs
in up to 3 rooms and internet
I feel sorry for Mike. I didn't think the kids quote was out of order
- it's just a turn of phrase.
And regional pricing has been and will always be a fact of life - get
over it or get round it. Anyone remember BEFORE we had the Internet?
Nobody even knew what the price differentials were...
I have FreeNAS/SlimNAS running on a fanless ITX MB, with 4 SB's hanging
off it. It's has real snappy performance.
If it is a commercial NAS product, my bet would be it was purpose built
with little headroom for 3rd party add on applications.
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2 Chan. System
SB3-Benchmark DAC-1-
I suspect this is actually a manifestation of the bizarre MAC cloning
bug, whereby the SB somehow overwrites its own MAC address with that of
something else on the same LAN...it's happened to me twice now (in 3
years of constant fiddling). I've never raised a bug against this
because its
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Hey guys just chiming in here as I couldn't help not posting after
reading some of this stuff.
A little background on me:
I hold a marketing/management position for a large multinational in a
very different industry. After reading mvalera's I am first and
foremost appalled by his responses, his
I'm concerned when you said that the two units had the same MAC address.
Was the same number printed on two labels? Did the labels match what
the software said the MAC addresses were? What were they?
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Omeriah;266689 Wrote:
How exactly would one run SC on this device? Does it take a lot of
finagling by a Linux guru? Or is this an easy thing to install by a
novice who just wants a big NAS drive and high quality tunes?
It requires someone from Infrant to install it and test it and then
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dborn;266608 Wrote:
If I get this project in a decent state, I might enlist someone with an
actual GF clock to send me some sound clips so as not to get on
anyone's bad side by lifting some clips off the internet...
On first reading I thought What's a girlfiend clock?.. :/
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jaffacake;266643 Wrote:
Slim doesn't offer gapless playback? What about Pink Floyd?
Dont panic, all SB's do gapless just fine ;)
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shawkie;266598 Wrote:
I also think that a system where audio is pushed from the server (like
the Sonos) would be much better for whole house synching than the
approach used by SlimServer/SqueezeCenter. We could have proper
gapless, synched playback and we could have an audio input on the
guinness wrote:
Although the plug is obviously the wrong shape, is the input voltage
actually 110-240v, or is it 110v only on the US version?
My US version's power brick has 100-240v 50/60~
and a removable plug clearly designed to accept UK, German, etc. plugs
output 6.6c 0.5a
It has a
How will this new name be applied to SB2 and SB1 in support literature
etc? Such as: New feature X Can be used with Squeezebox Classic and
Squeezebox 2 but is not supported on Squeezebox 1 or SliMP3 due to the
limits of the display...
Will SB2 and SB1 become Classic v2 and Classic v1?
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Thanks - right, so it's 9v input at the point of entry then? No idea
where I got 5v from!? Sounds like I might just get away with an
adaptor plug then. I can build a regulated PS no problem if required.
thanks for your help
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It's convoluted but I suppose Rhapsody PC client running UPNP can talk
to a slimserver which in turn streams to multiple clients ?
I know that's how Roku support Rhapsody
Squeezenetwork is obviously much better
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You should all buy a plain ticket to Israel where even at the current
weak US$ exchange rate the Squeezebox3 is priced at just $200 from
their national Telecom company Bezeq. The price reflects a 50%
discount which has been in effect since October 2007. At that time
their Sheqel wasn't so
I think with SB2/3 you can listen to internet radio without having
your server up and running. With SB1 I don't think that's possible.
For me it doesn't matter since my server runs 24x7 anyway.
On Feb 7, 2008 3:13 PM, TCM
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One last question: could you give an example of
Indeed... :) with interchangeable chimes (Westminster, Whittington or
St. Michael's, whatever, cuckoo clock!) and selectable period (off, 15,
30, 60 minutes) and probably a turn off the chimes at night option
too.
If I get this project in a decent state, I might enlist someone with an
actual GF
JJZolx;266479 Wrote:
Why not? That would seem to be the ovious way of doing it, particularly
if synching and whole house audio are a priority.
I also think that a system where audio is pushed from the server
(like the Sonos) would be much better for whole house synching than the
approach
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funkstar;225539 Wrote:
What Michael said, but also software-based MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA
(except WMA Lossless), AIFF, WAV.
the SB1 can only handle MP3 and wav
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I might get my hands on a SB1 and
I want to get this right:
When you say: the SB1 can
Peter wrote:
Wouldn't a small ITX based PC that boots from a flash disk and mounts a
disk off a standard NAS be an interesting solution for this problem. A
flash based device could be really small, simple and reliable if all it
has to do is get an IP over DHCP, run slimserver and mount a
do you get the same thing when you double-click on the systray icon?
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It seems very
much like you may get what you pay for but if you're on a limited
budget, SD will offer a feature-reduced equivalent that may suit
smaller households.
There are many SB functions that aren't matched by Sonos, just check the
plugin list.
Regards,
Peter
Hi
I've just installed SC7 on my Windows XP pro (sp2) machine and when I
try to connect to 127.0.0.1:9000 I get:
The connection was reset - The connection to the server was reset
while the page was loading. message from Firefox
or:
The page cannot be displayed message from Internet Explorer.
Ceejay, I apologise. I did indeed miss your point. See I was right about
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Hi Guys
Thanks for the responces
Phil: Yes, I've re-booted, many times.
Zaragon: My Windows firewall is disabled and there is no other firewall
installed on my PC, there is a firewall in my router but I don't think
this should effect local access.
I don't know whether this is relevant or not
SB2 and later handle replaygain tags. SB1 doesn't.
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Peter;266730 Wrote:
There are many SB functions that aren't matched by Sonos, just check the
plugin list.
Regards,
Peter
Sorry, I was targetting the response at the OPs and his specific
requirements for Rhapsody and multi-room sync.
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Phil Leigh;266754 Wrote:
For me the most worrying thing in all of this was the comment about
Logi not approving of SD having its own web site...I can feel the
corporate monster stirring. Yeuch.
I said some people didn't get it. We obviously won the battle.
Don't worry, we're not going
Great. I will play around with this and maybe I can come back with a
dreambox plugin :-)
Frank
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addyman;266233 Wrote:
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
Peter;251521 Wrote:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3943657768.html
Should be able to run Squeezecenter...
Regards,
Peter
How exactly would one run SC on this device? Does it take a lot of
finagling by a Linux guru? Or is this an easy thing to install by a
novice who just wants a
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Well, I know this is a rather old thread. But I am also looking at the
ability to filter SB clients based on the MAC address. Is it
implemented now?
The point is that renting a dedicated server is now cheap. Then I am
currently setting-up one that will act as a backup for my data and as a
Zaragon;266821 Wrote:
I though Sean did answer the question, the SBR doesn't have a headphone
output only the RCA connectors so if John has his wireless headphones
plugged into the headphone socket then all he will need is a suitable
adaptor. He would then have replicated the SB3 with
I don't know about SC7 but the softsqueeze has different skins to look
like other slim devices in different sizes.
At the top left of the display you have 4 'buttons' left most displays
or hides the remote, the next is the settings. From settings chose skin
and then chose a different display
Bay City;266366 Wrote:
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
I wouldn't classify one as better than the other.
With SqueezeNetwork, we do the IT work for you. You
george_k;266721 Wrote:
Note mvalera: These kids pay your salary and pension, you need them,
they don't need you.You're right. Note to Sean Co at Slimdevices: The
kid comment would be enough
basis for me to terminate this person's employment.Wow... I'm amazed by the
ease with which you're
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I though Sean did answer the question, the SBR doesn't have a headphone
output only the RCA connectors so if John has his wireless headphones
plugged into the headphone socket then all he will need is a suitable
adaptor. He would then have replicated the SB3 with wireless
headphones.
How the
Here's what the screen looks like.
If you can't tell, I'm a newbie at this, so my terminology may be
messed up.
+---+
|Filename: shot1.pdf|
|Download:
hmmm...and you've rebooted?
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