On the SC 7 Main Web page, on the left pane, choose the *Extras* option,
then on the options that come up, choose *Softsqueeze* and then *Click
to install and run SoftSqueeze.*
The 3.5 version from sourceforge needs updating I think, I could not
get it to work either with SC 7 some weeks ago.
The library scan time is way longer than 6.5.0. My server is a lowly
1GHz VIA Epia but a full rescan took roughly 45 minutes. My first scan
on 7 completed last night, took 48 minutes for the music and 1:05 for
the cover art
All I've done is uninstall 6.5.0 and install 7, no other
I've just installed SC7 on an iMac running OS 10.4.11.
There are a couple of minor issues.
1. I seem to remember that there were lots of options to configure the
menus in 6.5. In 7 I can only see top-level options. For instance,
currently the only thing I want to do in Music Library is go to
On 6-Mar-08, at 12:22 AM, Rangdo wrote:
All I've done is uninstall 6.5.0 and install 7, no other system-wide
setting changes - wassup with that 2 hour scan time?
artwork precaching, so that your browse experience is faster.
-kdf
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I've just installed SC7 on an iMac running OS 10.4.11.
There are a couple of minor issues.
1. I seem to remember that there were lots of options to configure the
menus in 6.5. In 7 I can only see top-level options. For instance,
currently the only
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That's fair enough I guess ;)
I do a full rescan at 4am every day so it won't impact me too much.
And in case you ask, I do a full vs a changed scan as I've had the odd
problem in the past where I've changed a tag and it hasn't picked up
correctly or given me slightly erratic results when just
Yes, Lazy Search should be pretty stable as I've not had to change it
for a long time. I'm planning on pushing out a non-beta version now that
the server is stabilised, but it won't be significantly different to
that latest beta you have.
Stuart
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The library scan time is way
His suggestion of a Bose SoundDock as a better alternative to the Duet
if you can't afford a Sonos says it all: they're chalk and cheese.
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control has only ever been top level. If you had any other type of
control, it must have been a plugin.
Then my memory must have been wrong.
The new Default UI has been heavily tested with Safari, IE6/7, Firefox
and Opera.
If you manage to find out what item is
I'm having serious issues getting my Squeezebox (firmware 86) to connect
to SqueezeCenter (V7.01).
Both my PC and the SB are on my wireless network. The problem isn't
with my wireles connection - I can stream internet radio all day
without a problem.
I don't think it's a fundamental network
Fraser - am I right in assuming that you have a wireless SB talking to a
router and a wireless PC (with SC on it) talking to the router?
IS it possible for you to temporarily try wiring either the PC or the
SB (or preferably both) to the router?
That would tie the problem down to a wi-fi issue.
Any ETA for the UK yet?
The UK logitech site still just has options for Notify Me - not even
pre-order.
Ripcaster are quoting 13th March but not sure whether I'd be better to
wait and order directly from Logitech.
Any views on which would get me a unit faster!!
Thanks.
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Hi ho Radish.
Item 1, I don't use the browser bit of Slimse... sorry, Squeezecentre
much.
2. What does that mean?
3. How do you mean 'integration'?
4. What's SBC?
1. The web UI is nicer: e.g. drag and drop to rearrange tracks in the
current playlist.
2. If you have
i can't seem to order of the main slim page...and logitech.co.uk doesn't
seem to list them...
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Gosh you must be a paranoid bunch...
Why do you think anyone would sniff your traffic? - there are much more
interesting things out there...
Some people find it interesting to spy on their neighbours. That's the
main risk I guess. Plus, these days all my financial and
They will be selling the set first, putting full production in to the
set. Once they have some stock, they will start selling the dices
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http://www.letsautomate.com/10063.cfm?
Something here may suit your needs.
Caveat:- I've never used the blaster via the SB3, but I do have their
(Xantech) other stuff controlling gear hidden away and have not had any
issues.
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Quick delivery, not very expensive.
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He's got to be a Sonos stooge. It's his one and only post to cnet. What
is annoying is that you cannot leave a comment on the biased and
factually incorrect review.
It does show that Sonos are quite worried though... which indeed they
should be.
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Somewhere, something
http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-media-receivers/logitech-squeezebox-duet/4505-6739_7-32815168.html?tag=sub
Very positive in the main and followed with some good feedback from
potential customers.
Of course the first respondent who gives a lower review of 6/10
neglects to mention he's a
radish;275526 Wrote:
Really? Here's a few off the top of my head:
Much improved web UI
Much improved player sync
SqueezeNetwork integration including Slacker, Pandora, Phapsody etc
Support for the SBC :)
Hi ho Radish.
Item 1, I don't use the browser bit of Slimse... sorry, Squeezecentre
Any idee when the Controller comes for sale? Will Europe get it on the
same time as Us?
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I recall from the announcement of the Duet that the Controller was to be
available to be sold seperately.
Is it true? As of this morning there is no option in the online store
to buy the Controller by itself.
What gives? I already have two SB2s and do not really need to buy
another player.
Phil, yes they are both on wireless. I can try the SB on wired, but not
the PC. I can get a crossover cable and try the SB directly into the PC
though. Files are lossy.
I mentioned that streaming was OK because that would give an indication
that the fundamental wireless stuff is working OK.
It is available from Amazon in the UK - as well as other retailers.
Shipping listed 2-5 weeks.
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Europe should have started shipping last Monday. The Duets should be in the
stores by now - unless pre-orders exceeded the first delivery batch :-)
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ModelCitizen wrote:
He's got to be a Sonos stooge. It's his one and only post to cnet. What
is annoying is that you cannot leave a comment on the biased and
factually incorrect review.
It does show that Sonos are quite worried though... which indeed they
should be.
I've joined the Sonos
Hi All
I'm not sure to whom this should be addressed bu any feedback would be
appreciated...
I'm using SC7 with IRBlaster and almost everything is working
flawlessly. I have noticed though that when the alarm function is used,
my SB3 starts playing but the POWER-ON IR command is not sent so the
They liked it...here's the link
http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-media-receivers/logitech-squeezebox-duet/4505-6739_7-32815168.html?tag=sub
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Is this an updated version of squeezefox?
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34769highlight=squeezefox
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2. My Web browser is Safari. On all the Squeezecenter pages I look at,
there seems to be something that does not load, though it can't be
important. For instance, a page will show loading ...; completed 2 of
3 or loading ...; completed 47 of 48. The pages never load
completely, there is
Could one of the Moderators please remove this?
I will add my question to the existing thread in the 3rd party plugins
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Sonos are definitely concerned as they just lowered the price of Sonos
package that's corresponds to the Duet by $200 for a limited time.
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Robin, noticed he's reading your post right now. Will be interested to
see the response...
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I've been able to enable it, but I haven't figured out how to disable
it.
Does the cable connection/state matter? What does the config need to be
for it to allow me to turn it back off?
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So it's not something strange with my setup. Others find the same
issue.
The one awkward point related to this (at least I think it is related)
is that I can't use the space bar or the page down key to move down, I
can only do it via the scroll bar.
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Correction: they lowered the price in Germany, I'm not sure about other
areas
http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=9162
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Peter wrote:
Some people find it interesting to spy on their neighbours. That's the
main risk I guess. Plus, these days all my financial and personal
information is on my network server. I like that protected. From my
local network it's a lot easier to gain access to business servers I
My trial period for Pandora was nearing its end so I joined for 1 year.
However, when I now try to go in through SqueezeCenter or via my
Transporter or SB3, it tells me my subscription has expired. When I go
directly to the Pandora website, it works fine.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
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Yes, you need an active ethernet device (a hub or a server connected via
a crossover cable) in order to change the bridging setting.
But, why does this matter? Are you finding that having bridging
enabled without an active ethernet connection somehow impairs the SB3's
operation?
If bridging is
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at all that bubble wrap!
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I remember the last times I ordered the Squeezeboxes to be shipped to
Hong Kong, the shipping cost was suprisingly low at under $10.
However, when trying to order to duet, I am suprised to find that
shipping now costs $43-49.
Any idea why there is such a large increase in shipping costs? Foes
Hadn't seen it posted, so here goes:
http://www.ripfactory.com/ripserver.html
Nice form factor, good combination of functions, costs too much, says it
runs 'Slim', but how does it perform?
Anyway, interesting featureset that some have been suggesting.
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That 'loading x of y' where y is always x+1 seems to be due to an Ajax
request that's going on in the background.
Here's the tail end of the Activity log when the main front page of
Squeezecenter is showing on a Safari tab:
Code:
(...)
There is no one answer as there are a number of different formats which
require special applications and they work differently. Some of these
can be circumvented whereas others cannot.
Give some specific examples and people may be able to help.
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ModelCitizen;275883 Wrote:
He's got to be a Sonos stooge. It's his one and only post to cnet. What
is annoying is that you cannot leave a comment on the biased and
factually incorrect review.
He's a moderator on one of the Sonos forums, but forgot to mention that
in the review. Careless of
Hi,
I used to be able to listen to Sound Effects on my Squeezebox, such as
Babbling Brook and such. I even had Babbling Brook as a favorite.
Now I can't figure out how to get to the Sound Effects. I have looked
through all the options on my Squeezebox display, and also SlimServer.
And also,
will that stuff on letsautomate work???
i don't need the slim devices branded kit?
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Using the local drive path may work as long as you're not modifying
files but could cause issues with the Drive Extender filter since the
MS supported method of access to shared folders is only through the UNC
paths on WHS. Since we're not really supposed to be actively
$10 must have been a glitch. We can barely ship one in the US for that
much. Our shipping costs are the same as they've always been, modulo
the usual periodic increases and fuel surcharges by UPS.
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I think you have to be connected to SqueezeNetwork to get the sound
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That 'loading x of y' where y is always x+1 seems to be due to an Ajax
request that's going on in the background.
It shouldn't: those requests usually take a fraction of a second and are done
every now and then. Thus in between those requests it should be fully loaded.
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gharris999;275928 Wrote:
Yes, you need an active ethernet device (a hub or a server connected via
a crossover cable) in order to change the bridging setting.
But, why does this matter? Are you finding that having bridging
enabled without an active ethernet connection somehow impairs the
so these changes are already made? is it in the DL beta available now
or should i wait for tonights?
kdf, did you make these changes based on my post, or were you doing it
anyway? i'm just curious. either way, thx.
and, while the browser may be silly, it is still by far the #1 browser
in the
I've tried with other browsers, and it seems ok with them.
However iCab, which is always the strictest of browsers, reports a lot
of coding errors. I have no idea if these are significant or relevant.
By the way, I use 9020 as the port because of something else using
9000.
Specifically, it says
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However iCab, which is always the strictest of browsers, reports a lot
of coding errors. I have no idea if these are significant or relevant.
In order to create bross-crowser layouts you'll have to break standards,
because one of the most popular browsers out there doesn't care about them at
Being a small device, I would guess it has a range similar to a PDA. I
didn't have too many issues with my pre-production unit.
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Hi Lori,
Babbling Brook is generally running all night at our place. With the
recent firmware update and my change to SC 7.0 some things like my
favorite link to Babbling Brook quit working. However it seems to
now be even easier to find. When connected to SqueezeNetwork go to
Extras -
danco;275961 Wrote:
I think you have to be connected to SqueezeNetwork to get the sound
effects.
True, although in SC7 this connection is pretty seamless, in that you
no longer have to explicitly logoff the local server and logon to SN. I
forget where the sound effects are, but I think they're
SqueezeCenter only needs to know where the music is. It doesn't modify
the files at all so I don't see how this would be unsafe.
Well, okay, it could modify playlists, but I create my playlists
outside of SC and just read them.
Would be curious to know how other WHS users are doing it, so I
Check that, LazySearch works fine as well :)
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tfieldho;275956 Wrote:
Have others noticed the flip-flop behavior with the (back)slashes in
the SqueezeCenter installation?
FYI: I just went in to settings and changed the two paths from
D:\shares\Music to \\SERVER\Music clicked apply, and it was
accepted. I didn't take it further than
Squeezebox Home/Extras/Sounds Effects
Steve.
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CardinalFang;275950 Wrote:
He's a moderator on one of the Sonos forums, but forgot to mention that
in the review. Careless of him really. Still, that kind of behaviour
tends to come back and bite you sometime.
He also has a signature of Ask me for help with Sonos, routers,
Windows and
I received my Duet today and started to set it up at lunch. I'll be
able to actually use it tonight.
Thanks for the free overnight shipping! :)
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listening to dabbar, thank you again:)
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Oh what fun. I became pretty certain a couple of weeks back that there
were Sonos people (well, one anyway) writing to these forums.. drawing
attention to negatives with the Jive (all cured now... it was beta!).
:-)
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Can't see anyone in the UK listing it as in stock yet.
Has anyone managed to find one?
Peter.
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Michael Herger;275904 Wrote:
Europe should have started shipping last Monday. The Duets should be in
the stores by now - unless pre-orders exceeded the first delivery batch
:-)
Sorry, there was some confusion there. European distribution actually
started shipping yesterday. Some of those
MeSue;275996 Wrote:
FYI: I just went in to settings and changed the two paths from
D:\shares\Music to \\SERVER\Music clicked apply, and it was
accepted. I didn't take it further than that.ok, I'll assume it's just a
foible in the setup wizard. Thanks for
checking :)
MeSue;275996 Wrote:
Albums, Genres and tracks added as Favorites (or Favourites as we call
them here) can be played from the Home page, but a AlienBBC stream
added cannot. Am I doing something wrong?
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ModelCitizen;276007 Wrote:
Oh what fun. I became pretty certain a couple of weeks back that there
were Sonos people (well, one anyway) writing to these forums.. drawing
attention to negatives with the Jive (all cured now... it was beta!).
:-)
MC
Never was quite clear with that. Do
Just got mine, too! Strange, as I was never emailed a tracking # or a
notice that it had shipped. I'm not complaining though - if I got it
today that means they must have just sent it out yesterday or the day
before.
Thanks Slim Devices..err - Logitech! ;-P
It's a smooth piece of kit,
Looks Like I jumped the gun thinking mine was on its way. I noticed that
the email I got yesterday was just a copy of the same one I got when I
preorderd, with no tracking info or anything, and UPS already passed
through the neighborhood today.. Oh well, I'll just keep waiting. I
havent gotten
Hi
The DUET has landed!! I'm a VERY happy camper. Hours and hours of music
joy lie before me...
Thanks for the huge effort everyone!
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I downloaded Squeezecenter yesterday to be used with my Squeezebox2 and
it's working well. The only problem I have is that the album art is
not showing in the alphabetical list for albums on the main page. If I
click on individual albums, then the album art will appear in the
alphabetical list
Same here, from Internet Radio it works fine but not from Favourites.
Not a biggie for me TBH.
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Is there a way to reorganize the left side menues in SqueezeCenter?
I'd prefer to have Favorites first, but can't seem to have anything but
Music Library as the first menu item.
I've looked thru all the setup screens but can't seem to find a way to
reorganize them? Any ideas? Thanks!
eric777
improvisato;275710 Wrote:
Hooray! Can't wait.
I'm not waiting.:-) It just showed up, took five minutes to set up.
Beautiful.
One question. What's the pin for it for Squeezenetwork?
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Now it works great. Uses the Squeezebox as a bridge. Thanks again for
the help!
Is it possible to put the radio stations I want into the Internet Radio
menu? And I want to remove the other items in this menu, like Radio
Time, Live365 and so on...
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Never was quite clear with that. Do companies actually 'endorse' that
kind of behavior, or that's just working of overzealous fan boys?
I doubt whether the companies do endorse it... it's marketing that's
out of their control and could cause all sorts of repercussions.
Having just watched my Squeezebox controller's battery cover fly off in
two pieces after dropping some 2 feet onto a wooden floor, I wonder how
the new controller would have fared. Sticky tape is now holding the
cover in place and on a cheap remote that's OK.
When the controller is nearly as
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parkmad;276028 Wrote:
I downloaded Squeezecenter yesterday to be used with my Squeezebox2 and
it's working well. The only problem I have is that the album art is
not showing in the alphabetical list for albums on the main page. If I
click on individual albums, then the album art will
Is there a way to reorganize the left side menues in SqueezeCenter?
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Have you tried a simple ping or tracert from the PC to the SB?
In situations where two wireless devices won't talk to each other but
otherwise talk to the internet successfully I tend to first think that
the wireless AP has an isolation feature turned on. Various
manufacturers call it different
I just realized that there are at least two buttons on my Squeezebox
Classic remote that I never press: Favorites and Brightness. This
basically means that I have two buttons I could map to something more
useful (for me, that is, I'm not denying the potential usefulness of
these buttons for other
I just received the new Duet.
I haven't tried it yet. But all I can say is . . . great packaging! The
black box is beautiful. The display of materials inside is beautiful. I
hate to disturb the contents.
The receiver and teh remote are tiny and . . . very pretty.
I just bought the stuff for
I currently have a large inventory of IR blasters available for
purchase. You can buy anywhere from 1 to a few hundred if you want. I
ship worldwide with pretty much better rates than any other vendor.
Excuse the lack of detailed description for the blasters, but I haven't
officially launched
Lesu;276050 Wrote:
Having just watched my Squeezebox controller's battery cover fly off in
two pieces after dropping some 2 feet onto a wooden floor
Arggh, and let me guess... the batteries rolled underneath something.
Lots of remotes seem to suffer from this, and even my cell phone does
it.
olc;276047 Wrote:
I'm not waiting.:-) It just showed up, took five minutes to set up.
Beautiful.
One question. What's the pin for it for Squeezenetwork?
If you're using SqueezeCenter, and gave SC your SN login information,
you don't need to do anything -- SC will automatically register
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