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It'd be useful to have confirmation of availability of both the
individual products (Receiver and Controller) and also the batteries
(i.e. parts).
I am concerned by the fact that it is not possible to buy a new battery
in Europe or the States for the Receiver or the much longer-established
I see a Dutch dealer selling SB3's for 186 EUR (222 incl VAT), which is
only 8 EUR more than the SD direct price of 179 EUR (279 USD). Another
place is selling controllers for 200 EUR and receivers for 100 EUR (all
excl. VAT).
Are European prices finally starting to approach American prices?
autodiskmount does exist on my Mac but the manual for it says that it is
deprecated and only present for backward compatibility. There are mount
and umount commands. Issuing the mount command lists the mounted
volumes and the line relevant to the CD is
/dev/disk1 on /Volumes/The Visit (cddafs,
The autodiskmount command may be deprecated but the process may still be
in use and running (i.e. control is through another application).
Can you check if the process is running ?
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As I said, Activity Monitor (which lists all processes) did not show
it.
Anyway, after a fair bit of Google search, I have found a syntax to
unmount the CD )I am not sure if /dev/disk1 would be correct if the CD
is in an external drive, but we can try that later).
diskutil umount /dev/disk1
I recently installed Squeezecenter 7.0 (to go with my new duet).
Previously I had been running slimserver 6.5.4 with my Squeezebox and
the whole system worked perfectly w/ no issues and minimal fuss.
Immediately after installation, I noticed that the response time for
Squeezecenter was
Try the latest 7.01 instead of 7.0
It's a little contradictory that Logitech claims that 7.0 is the safe
and stable and supported option.
The 7.0.1 wil in most cases be better, and i think they are very close
to a final release of 7.01 .
If this wont work send it back and try again when things
As an relatively early adopter i bought mine from ripcaster, which was
cheaper than from a Swedish retailer, with postage and packaging it
costed about the same in the end DHL made a buck out of it.
But I wanted to vote with my wallet so i choosed ripcaster out of
principle.
I'm a little
Hi
Old versions are archived here http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/
but I really wouldn't go that far back if I were you... much better, if
you can, to figure out what it is that is stopping SC7 from starting
up.
If you want to try a different version then actually going to a later
one
Hi,
while the motion sensor in the Duet controller is nice in certain
scenarios, it doesn't make much sense if you tend to carry the
controller around with you in the house. I tend to have it in one of my
pockets to always be able to control my system, no matter where I am.
So what happens? The
Not a comment on PeterDB's experience just a general on on antenna
length. Small doesn't necessarily mean bad, increasing the length could
actually make the signal worse.
Antenna length is determined by wavelength and the circuitry it is
connected to. Changing its length changes the balance
Mnyb wrote:
I'm a little suspicious as the Receiver or Controller's are not aviable
as separate items yet ? (maybe in US )
They were pre-orders.
Regards,
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Newbuyer,
I can't think of a reason why cdda2wav won't work on your system but it
may need some tests to find the correct settings.
First - you need to be able to reproduce the fault at will. Then it can
be determined what settings work.
I found that if I started cdda2wav ripping a track
At the moment I leave my server on all night, so that the SB3 in the bedroom
can wake me up in the morning. I'd love to help save the environment by
putting my server to sleep overnight.
I don't like using SN as an alarm clock - I prefer to wake up to music in my
local lbrary.
It would be
Help!
My Web GUI has gone...
SqueezeCenter 7.0 is running - remote works fine, music plays etc.
When I load 127.0.0.1:9000 I get nothing! The password alert box pops
up...I click OK as usual ...and nothing. No web page. Just a blank
Internet Explorer panel. Same thing with FireFox...
Anyone seen
Does anyone know what the power usage is in power off state for each SB
model? I tend to leave my SB3 and Transporter permanently plugged in.
What is the best plugin to install to enable a command to be sent to put the
local server to sleep/hibernate? I'd like to do it as a manual action
Anyway, after a fair bit of Google search, I have found a syntax to
unmount the CD )I am not sure if /dev/disk1 would be correct if the CD
is in an external drive, but we can try that later).
diskutil umount /dev/disk1
did it.
Does this mean you can do consecutive cdda2wav commands
Is there a way to accomplish the following:
for my Transporter: stream FLAC as WAV, ALAC as AIFF, and WAV as WAV.
for my Duet: stream FLAC as FLAC, ALAC as FLAC, and WAV as FLAC.
?
WHY would I want to do this? My Transporter uses wired ethernet in a
very high resolution stereo system and I
So - this isn't SB related, but wondering if anyone can give me some
advice on how to efficiently backup my music drive?
My music is on a Windows (2k) file server, but I recently bought a
cheap NAS with a Linux OS. I'd like to use rsync to check for changes
on the Windows file system, and then
Yes, that's what I meant. I've only done a quick check.
But trying
cdda2wav dev=IODVDServices -verbose-level=toc -N -g -J
followed by the same command again produced sensible output the first
time and a complaint the second (plus I could see the CD on my desktop
after the first command)
I've done something similar in the past to back up the Music directory
on my Linux based server (which I use to run SqueezeCenter) to the
external USB drive connected to my Windows desktop.
1. Share the folder from your Windows machine.
2. Mount this to your Linux box
mount.cifs
My via mother board offers some crude scheduling in bios, so that i can
booth my server for example every morning ?
(I think its even possible to schedule shutdown )
Would it matter of the server is on half an hour before wakeup time ?
You could set the server to wake at the same time every day,
nolan;296013 Wrote:
I've done something similar in the past to back up the Music directory
on my Linux based server (which I use to run SqueezeCenter) to the
external USB drive connected to my Windows desktop.
1. Share the folder from your Windows machine.
2. Mount this to your Linux box
Did you ever find a solution?
I just discovered the same feature... wish I would have known before
upgrading to 7.0.
lugz
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Swedish prices are also on a slope now the prisjakt site shows the
lowest price for duet at 3485:- SEK which is lower the 3995:- which was
the starting point on this market.
This is god news :-)
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My Winamp-created m3u playlists worked great in 6.5.4 and previous
versions, but now disappeared when I upgrade to 7.0. Dang!
Now I'm wondering if going back to 6.5.4 will work again.
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Phil Leigh;295999 Wrote:
Help!
My Web GUI has gone...
SqueezeCenter 7.0 is running - remote works fine, music plays etc.
When I load 127.0.0.1:9000 I get nothing! The password alert box pops
up...I click OK as usual ...and nothing. No web page. Just a blank
Internet Explorer panel. Same
A few weeks ago I purchased a Dlink DIR-655 router to upgrade my home
network to wireless-N. Around the same time I began to configure a few
machines in my house to use SoftSqueeze and had upgraded SqueezeCenter
to version 7. I also began using WPA2 for security.
Performance was terrible.
bonze;296023 Wrote:
Is this an existing install or a nightly update?
7.0.1 - 19177...
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No, I hadn't downgraded back to 6.5.3. Since the time that my problems
started coincided so nicely with the upgrade to SC7 I just assumed that
upgrade had to be the related to my problems. Of course we all know
what assuming does.
I thought that unplugging my 2.4Ghz phone had resolved the
tried going back to 7.0...still no gui!!!
I'm guessing I need to delete something...
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maybe this can help?
http://backupnetclone.sourceforge.net/
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If you are going straight between two Linux machines you can do the
rsync direct and forget about using shares
To begin with I added the netbook into the /etc/hosts file on my
Squeezecenter box
192.168.0.5 netbook
I then added my own squeezebackup directory in the /shares/internal
directory
When downgrading its best to fully uninstall first. Also try clearing
your browser cache.
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*Amps:* Cambridge Audio 640a (main room) / Denon MD30
I ordered 2 full systems and 3 additional players from JR back in
February - well my 2 full systems have arrived but the players are
still shown as not available (anywhere, I have checked all the sales
sites).
Anyone have an idea of when they might be available? I am really
looking forward to
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has worked perfectly from the beginning.
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I can create a shell script so that when playing a track diskutil umount
is always run before playing cdda2wav but that would be a stopgap.
The ideal situation is to find out how to tell OSX to leave the CDROM
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Has anybody found a solution to this problem?
There must be many with this problem out there?
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In Denmark the price for the first batch was as low as DKK 2795,- 370.
Stock is empty and prices has gone up to DKK 3.195,- 423 which I guess
is the recommended pricetag here in Denmark. But I guess that you will
be able to buy it from most internet shop's just below 400 when stock
is filled
Bjorn,
thanks for the instructions and files. I got the directory and its files
(AlbumReviewApplet.lua, AlbumReviewMeta.lua and strings.txt) copied and
they show up when i use putty to navigate to the directory (
/usr/share/jive/applets/AlbumrRview) and list the files using ls. Also both
We have a home network and an XP desktop with the SlimServer software
installed and working with our SqueezeBox.
I just installed SqueezeCenter 7.0 on my Vista laptop and it can't find
my SqueezeBox. Do I need to stop SlimServer on the XP machine before I
can connect to the SqueezeBox from my
Anyone in the UK interested in the Duet should take a look at Logitech's
UK website.
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/wireless_music_systems/cl=gb,en
Once you've added it to the cart, just enter the voucher code
jellybattle2a and they knock 20% off the standard price of £279. I
Another good backup application to use is BackupPC. You simply run this
on your linux machine and it will backup all of your machines via CIFS
or rsync. (Will backup windows, mac, linux)
It does a copule of nice things that a simple rsync won't do:
1: If you have the same file on 2 computers,
Rickoleum -- I would agree with Mnyb on all of his points. 7.01 has a
bunch of changes that should help general wireless connectivity issues
with the Duet and some wireless routers and access points. Please try
installing the latest nightly and see if it helps. Make sure the
firmware on the
This is certainly a good idea, although there may be other ways to make
the wheel more practical.
Personally, I have far more than 100 artists. The current result is
that to get to Z I need to spin my finger-tip like crazy for quite a
while, and if I slip (must be getting old:-) ), I have to
autopilot;296057 Wrote:
When downgrading its best to fully uninstall first. Also try clearing
your browser cache.
Yes - an uninstall sorted the problem out. Deleting the browser cache
sadly didn't work.
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Wow, that's a great fix! I've been struggling with the synch problems
and Rhapsody for a couple months now. Seems to work perfectly. Thanks.
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Thanks again for input!
When I write lock up, I mean that the amp is completely irresponsive
No reaction from the remote nor the front controls. The solution is the
main switch on/off
not good!
The SB3 display cannot see the amp.
Last night, I disconnected the toslink from the SB, and so
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:36:42 -0700, adrianr
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Personally, I have far more than 100 artists. The current result is
that to get to Z I need to spin my finger-tip like crazy for quite a
Any one else have better ideas?
Yeah, scroll the other way around and get to Z
I also have a DIR-655, but I also turned all the QoS, etc. stuff off
immediately (am using it as just an access point rather than a router,
so had to initially do several configuration steps). Have never
dropped any connections, and Duet works great with it, even from one
downstairs corner of
HCNinDK;296115 Wrote:
Is it in any way possible to turn of the digital outputs while the SB
is in standby?
Settings/Players/Audio/Turn Off Audio.
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jimj;296039 Wrote:
Is my Dlink 4300 simply going bad, or is there something inherently more
robust about 802.11b versus 802.11g?
We started having trouble with our Dlink-based wireless network at one
point, and after lots of frustration and swapping boxes around (was
using 3 Dlink 2100/2200
I have a choice to make, and that is whether to use a hybrid setup (my
original intent) or a pure wireless setup. My house is wired with
ethernet jacks available in various places. I also have a D-Link (g)
wireless router. My computer is hard-wired to the router, so music
will be passed via
RonM wrote:
So, the question is, if I can do either, am I better off going
all-wireless, or a hybrid setup? I had thought the latter, but am now
not so sure.
I would recommend doing the easiest one first. Try it, see if you like
it. If it works great, you are done, and can listen to music
jimj;296039 Wrote:
I still don't understand why I started having wireless problems in the
first place and why does changing to 802.11b fix it? Is my Dlink 4300
simply going bad, or is there something inherently more robust about
802.11b versus 802.11g?
Two ideas:
Could a neighbor have
Sounds like hardware to me. By all means try 7.0.1 but I doubt it will
make any difference. Get in touch with support and see what they can
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RonM;296123 Wrote:
So, the question is, if I can do either, am I better off going
all-wireless, or a hybrid setup? I had thought the latter, but am now
not so sure.
Ron
You should have enough bandwidth to work wirelessly, but if I had wire
everywhere, I'd use the hybrid mode.
As the
I tried that, however the toslink output is still emitting red light
indicating that the output is still active.. - Further, the turn off
audio feature is stated as terminating the internal DAC only.
I would like to kill the digital output while the SB is in
standby???
/HC
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Hi,
I just got my Duet from an Ebay US merchant with both AC power supply
blocks having a US-type plug. I am using US-FR adapters for the time
being for the transmitter and receiver. But since the plug itself is a
simple slide-on part on the AC block it should be relatively easy to
find
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I have a choice to make, and that is whether to use a hybrid setup (my
original intent) or a pure wireless setup. My house is wired with
ethernet jacks available in various places. I also have a D-Link (g)
wireless router.
The workaround is to set the favorite with the web interface - which is
itself dodgy at the moment but can be made to work.
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Latest indication is the end of the month.
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So I found a way to connect a Cat-5 cable to the SB. So it's not really
an issue anymore. It was Wild West Radio specifically that was having
trouble with yesterday. But it tended to happen on just about any
stream I was listening to, even low quality talk radio (~20kbps). If
it becomes a
Phil Leigh;296033 Wrote:
7.0.1 - 19177...I had this recently with 7.1 - not quite sure what happened
although I
think it had failed to install.
A couple of times it's had problems deleting the previous update before
installing the new (SqueezeTray.exe) and I haven't been able to figure
out
My music folders have lots of shortcuts, created for manual use. These
have triggered CPU-bound scanning loops when I was using V6 on my SB3,
but I managed to disable the scanning with V6. I can't remember exactly
what I did to achieve that; I may have just renamed the scanner exe.
I recently
Ask anyone who just bought a Duet in the UK ;)
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I'm sure this is a common problem with a quick answer, but I've been
looking and cannot find it.. sorry if this gets posted all the time.
I have openSSH configured on my home machine through Cygwin. I can
access it using it remotely Putty, and UltraVNC connects fine.
I just installed squeeze
bpa;296066 Wrote:
The ideal situation is to find out how to tell OSX to leave the CDROM
drive alone.
I could ask around, but I am not sure exactly what I would need to ask.
I looked in the manual pages for diskutil, but did not see anything
relevant.
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Ok, I got SoftSqueeze up and running. For some reason, when I hovered
over it in my tray, it said it was stopped and the option to start it
was greyed out. I had to restart my computer; didn't know how to fix
it.
Now, I have a new question. In SoftSqueeze, I clicked the 4th button
the top
It looks like autodiskmount has been replaced by diskarbitrationd to
which diskutil talks. diskarbitrationd seems to manage
mounts/dismounts of volumes/disk through diskutil - this prevent users
doing umount on a drive if others areusing it.
diskarbitrationd uses the file /etc/fstab. Can you
or order a spare part ;)
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Richard Boyce;296154 Wrote:
My music folders have lots of shortcuts, created for manual use. These
have triggered CPU-bound scanning loops when I was using V6 on my SB3,
but I managed to disable the scanning with V6. I can't remember exactly
what I did to achieve that; I may have just
Hi, does anyone know if there is any difference between SD version and
LT version? Is that correct that the SD version is made in USA but the
LT version is made in China? thanks.
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GA.DE.;296185 Wrote:
Hi, does anyone know if there is any difference between SD version and
LT version? Is that correct that the SD version is made in USA but the
LT version is made in China? thanks.
The Slim Devices ones have nicer looking logos.
They're all made in China, although I think
Another question that comes to mind... Are you sure the scanner is
stuck in a loop? Scanning a complete library isn't a fast process,
particulary on a slow system. People have reported some systems taking
many hours, even days, to scan a moderately sized library.
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The wife's laptop is running all the same stuff including Adobe CS3
(with Bridge) installed and SC7 runs fine on that, so I dont think it's
the Bridge. I may try uninstalling the Bridge to test it next time I'm
at the PC in a week or so but you only want to spend just so much time
uninstalling
Thanks Jim. I found it is written 'made in china' outside the packing of
LT version here. But according the the data sheet of SB3 on this website
it said 'Designed and assembled in California, USA'. That's why I came
up the question.
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I found it is written 'made in china' outside the packing of
LT version here. But according the the data sheet of SB3 on this website
it said 'Designed and assembled in California, USA'. That's why I came
up the question.
They all are designed in California. By Sean and
Only final assembly was done in California by Slim. The innards are all
the same. The only difference between Logi and Slim ones is that the
Logi ones have a new external power supply.
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will it give me the choice by just putting it in?
i haven't done this way before...
btw, as of now it still isn't offering me an update from 2287.
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MrSinatra;296201 Wrote:
will it give me the choice by just putting it in?
It should, as long as the firmware file is on the SD card.
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Thanks for all the above clarification.
And for Sean, thanks you for all your efforts on such amazing product.
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cool...
so, i DL'd sc7 19177 and still no newer version.
then i did a factory reset, still nothing newer than 2287.
then i did the SD card, and it did give me the choice. i told it to
use it and it seemed to work. its now at 2354 according to the about
screen.
however, upon rebooting, i
Thanks ncarver, I never thought about swapping out the power adapter.
I'll have to see if I can find a friend with one to borrow.
JimC, yes I eliminated other 2.4HHz devices as the source of the
problem with Airmagnet's Laptop Analyzer and Spectrum Analyzer. My
channel one is clean (asides from
Secret Squirrel;293997 Wrote:
You picked a rather old thread to tag onto, and development work has
past even SC 7.0 (it seems like 7.0.1 is about to be officially
released soon), and you really haven't given any detail information to
your exact problem.
I'm certainly not an expert here,
Yes, use the key lock feature, pressing the ADD and PLAY buttons
together. It won't wake up until another button is pressed.
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