Re: [slim] Squeezebox Receiver and Controller now shipping!

SD's pricing on the Duet may be derived as a market position relative to Sonos technology, but $400 for that product seems wrong to this long time electronics consumer. Considering it's only $100 more than a regular SB3, the price seems pretty good for what you're getting.Considering it's

Re: [slim] Where can I buy a Duet on the High Street? TODAY?

darrenwm;301569 Wrote: I've been considering a Duet for a while. If I can literally buy one on the High Street right now I will make the impulse buy. Did you get one in the end? -- Sike Sike's Profile:

Re: [slim] can't connect to squeezecenter over internet using softsqueeze

I have 3483 TCP/UDP open as well as 9000 TCP and all works fine -- Sike Sike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2458 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47591

Re: [slim] A couple of issues with SB3

pablolie;301605 Wrote: personally i find the headphone sound quality very compromised, whereas the line out is quite amazing for a device in this price range. so in one of my SB3s i use a headphone amplifier off the line out, and find the sound *much* superior compared to the headphone

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

Hi, just wanted to let you know that the link shown in the first page of this discussion does not work. here is the one i found out to work: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Main_Page (btw: it makes good sense to have the link http://wiki.slimdevices.com working. So, a redirect on your

Re: [slim] Where can I buy a Duet on the High Street? TODAY?

I stopped at PC World but they only had a Classic. I will call Sevenoaks in a bit and have one ordered in hopefully, as I just remembered that they stock Harmony remotes, thus have an account with Logitech. I think I prefer Sonos overall, but the Duet is cheaper. -- darrenwm

Re: [slim] Wrong default browser

Thanks you for your suggestion. I have now also checked the Regedit entry to which you refer and it IS already set to Firefox. Yet SqueezeCenter still opens in Opera. Any other ideas? -- Mark Howard Mark Howard's

Re: [slim] A couple of issues with SB3

HerrRay;301437 Wrote: - My SB3 came with one of those new power supplies with removable mains connectors. The connector that goes into the SB3 however seems a bit flaky, when I put just a little bit of pressure on it (while being plugged in) it looses its connection and my SB3 reboots. Is

Re: [slim] removing old SC address is Softsqueeze

I can listen to the radio in SS, but I have to start it in SC. When I look through the menu in SS, I don't see the radio choices or even the ability to change to SqueezeNetwork. Compile? Compile! I can't compile!! :-) Bests, Howard -- Howard Passman Sorry slow to respond. I don't

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

The current search is not very good for users who are looking for support of audio formats such as wma or aac. If you search for WMA, wma, AAC or aac - no hits. Yet there are pages. WMA page - http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/WMA AAC page - http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/AAC --

Re: [slim] Where can I buy a Duet on the High Street? TODAY?

FWIW - Ripcaster sent my Duet with next day delivery (about a month ago). Don't know what their stock level is, tho'. -- morris_minor Living Room: SB3/SBC Sonifex RB DAC1 Musical Fidelity X10v3 Sudgen Headmaster Sennheiser HD 595 Kitchen: SBR Sony Minisystem [via Homeplug ethernet]

Re: [slim] Where can I buy a Duet on the High Street? TODAY?

@darrenwm: If you like flexibilty, plugins and a great product pipeline or have a really -BIG- music collection 50'000, then the Duet is for you. -- Sike Sike's Profile:

Re: [slim] Building Playlists

I know there was some criticism of my use of AAC (*.m4a) file types earlier. I only used this because they all originate from iTunes and I couldn't find a sensible way to convert them while maintaining the file structure. anyway, I think I have found a piece of software which will do this for me

[slim] Ordering through slimdevices store

Hi As I am off to the states in a couple of days: If i order the Classic from the online store here, will I still get a Slimdevices branded SB3/Classic? -- Sike Sike's Profile:

Re: [slim] Playing WAV files via squeezecenter

Thanks MuckleEck, will give dbpoweramp a try. I have t say that I can hardly pick the difference between flac and MP3 playback quality even when ripping with EAC. The quality is ok but since the difference between files is not so noticeable I'm not so sure that going to the trouble of ripping

Re: [slim] Where can I buy a Duet on the High Street? TODAY?

Right, Sevenoaks are getting back to me later with costs and timescales for the Sonos ZP80 and SB Duet bundles. I don't have huge collection of music. It's about 13000 tracks, mostly lossless, which comfortably fits on a 500GB external drive. The Sonos and SB ave their own pro's and con's.

Re: [slim] Where can I buy a Duet on the High Street? TODAY?

JJZolx;301646 Wrote: Is it just the impression that I've gotten from the many posts to these forums, or is the Logitech product distribution system a complete joke? It's a complete and utter joke. I've now been told officially we cannot supply you spares despite the fact that we also know

Re: [slim] Playing WAV files via squeezecenter

Can be hard to notice a difference. Depends on enviroment and hardware. I rip to flac, so that I later can easily make a copy in any other format, maybe lossy, whitout using an already lossy source (my CDs are stored in the attic). -- Espen

Re: [slim] Where can I buy a Duet on the High Street? TODAY?

egd;301819 Wrote: We won't even let you order them from an Austrlian card, EVEN IF the delivery address is in the US. Really? Has this changed over the last couple of months? Luckly i have frieds over there that will trust me using their card.. The Distrib system works great over here is

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

JimC;300375 Wrote: Sort of... the fix is just to reinstate the wikiradio portion of the old wiki, at least for now. So everything that was there before will be available.Sounds fair enough. Any ETA on when it will be reinstated? -- smc2911 http://www.last.fm/user/smc2911/

[slim] Problems powering off when sync-ed

Since I acquired by Duet, I have been using the sync feature with my SB3. I have set the two to sync, with Sync player's volume and Power on/off separately set. If I try to power off the SB3 while the music is playing the screen goes blank briefly and then it powers back on with the music still

Re: [slim] Problems powering off when sync-ed

Known issue. Fixed in recent builds of 7.0.1 As a workaround, you can pause first and power off then. -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile:

Re: [slim] Building Playlists

Meanwhile, in the nightly updates folder - http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/trunk/ - I have been downloading the SqueezeCenter_7.0.1~n.bin files for testing. I also noticed in there, the jive_7.0.1_r.bin and u-boot.bin files which, on the face of it, would be usable on

Re: [slim] Building Playlists

larrettp;301832 Wrote: Meanwhile, in the nightly updates folder - http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/trunk/ - I have been downloading the SqueezeCenter_7.0.1~n.bin files for testing. I also noticed in there, the jive_7.0.1_r.bin and u-boot.bin files which, on the

Re: [slim] removing old SC address is Softsqueeze

Howard Passman;301803 Wrote: I can listen to the radio in SS, but I have to start it in SC. When I look through the menu in SS, I don't see the radio choices or even the ability to change to SqueezeNetwork. That's not right. What do you see? Could it be that you're just not familiar with the

[slim] SB3 spontaneously reboots itself

Hello. I have had my SB3 for about half a year and I am extremly happy with it but there is something (small) that bothers me... Sometimes when I´m listening to music the player reboots itself and then start playing the same song over again (this time no reboot). I´ve also noticed that it

Re: [slim] Playing WAV files via squeezecenter

Nash;301816 Wrote: Thanks MuckleEck, will give dbpoweramp a try. I have t say that I can hardly pick the difference between flac and MP3 playback quality even when ripping with EAC. The quality is ok but since the difference between files is not so noticeable I'm not so sure that going

Re: [slim] Ordering through slimdevices store

I ordered one about 6 months ago directly from slimdevices and got a 'slimdevices' branded SB3. I remember seeing the fact posted on the forums by some Slim employee. Maybe they have run out of stock. Does anyone from slim know about this? -- Sike

Re: [slim] SB3 spontaneously reboots itself

As I haven't found the way to link to another thread here is the text of the advice given to me to get logging working. To be honest it didn't help me much but with some luck it will help you. I had a problem with a rebooting SB3 after an upgrade. I traced it to a particular version of the

Re: [slim] SB3 spontaneously reboots itself

A shot in the dark would be: Turn off the JVC remote commands in the players settings on the server. -- Sike Sike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2458 View this thread:

[slim] Two SB3 in the same room... Remote control problem

Does anyone have any advice on how to selectively control one SB3 when two Squeezeboxes are in the same room. I sometimes have two Sqeezeboxes in one room (like when my parents come to stay and they both listen to different radio stations on headphones ;) and any use of a remote control to

Re: [slim] Wrong default browser

Hmmm...that is curious, and I stand corrected :) Take a read of this article: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser - it has some more tips. -- radish radish's Profile:

Re: [slim] Two SB3 in the same room... Remote control problem

msui772 wrote: Does anyone have any advice on how to selectively control one SB3 when two Squeezeboxes are in the same room. I sometimes have two Sqeezeboxes in one room (like when my parents come to stay and they both listen to different radio stations on headphones ;) and any use of a

Re: [slim] Two SB3 in the same room... Remote control problem

Thanks a lot! :-) Michael -- msui772 msui772's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2203 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47630

Re: [slim] Building Playlists

larrettp;301802 Wrote: I know there was some criticism of my use of AAC (*.m4a) file types earlier. I only used this because they all originate from iTunes and I couldn't find a sensible way to convert them while maintaining the file structure. anyway, I think I have found a piece of

Re: [slim] A couple of issues with SB3

morris_minor;301799 Wrote: Yes! My SB3 power connector is flaky, too. I need to set it just right for it to work OK without re-booting etc. But since I rarely touch it I haven't really found it a problem. But it's interesting to know the fault is not just with mine . . . This aside I love

Re: [slim] Suggestion: Fix for Blown-Out Highlights in Album Art

JJZolx, thanks for the link. I knew there was some discussion about dithering but it looks like the max-levels problem is being looked at as well. Attachment 3099 looks like it addresses the issue. I very much hope this makes it into the next release. -- gspence

[slim] Squeezcenter Display with variable screen width tabs

I've been playing about with the general Squeezecenter display until we get the ability within SC to resize windows (left right different widths) in MS IE 7.0, I have come up with a set up that 'works for me'. Sharing here in case of interest to others. 1. Open SC, but not in IE 'full screen

Re: [slim] Ordering through slimdevices store

New Squeezebox Classics now bear a Logitech logo, no matter from where you purchase. It is what it is. For the record, they sound the same :) cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas Logitech Developer: Squeezeplay/SqueezeOS/SqueezeboxController/SqueezeCenter Community Developer: Nokia770Skin

Re: [slim] Ordering through slimdevices store

Cool, I'll buy one more here. Even with the new remote, I'm going to stick to the SB3s for players.. if not only as an atom-clock ;) For the record: Nothing against Logitech ;) -- Sike Sike's Profile:

Re: [slim] Ordering through slimdevices store

Sike;301899 Wrote: Cool, I'll buy one more here. Even with the new remote, I'm going to stick to the SB3s for players.. if not only as an atom-clock ;) For the record: Nothing against Logitech ;) Sure thing...I like the VFD display too-- FYI, you can now buy a Squeezebox Controller from

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 skips and is slow when playing lossless audio

Thanks for the replies. I downloaded and unpacked that faad.exe file into: C:\Program Files\SqueezeCenter\server\Bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread How do I change the convert.conf file? -- king of anglia king of anglia's

Re: [slim] SB3 spontaneously reboots itself

Thanks for the tips... msui772: I can´t seem to find the page called debugging (I use SC7). And you wrote when SlimServer crashes... it´s actually not that that´s happening... it´s my squeezebox that restarts itself. Even though... thanks :) sike: I did what you wrote... let´s see if it

Re: [slim] SC7 sync and rebuffering problems

and where did you get it? Thanks... -- dennyf dennyf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16982 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45220

[slim] (minor) Bug (?) with sleep font size

I have had this for a while. I use the sleep function nearly every day. If the font is set to 'medium' and I press the sleep button, it shows the options (sleep in 15min.. etc) in the small font. If I set the font to large, the options come up in the large font. -- Sike

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 skips and is slow when playing lossless audio

Well I had a go at changing the convert.conf and saving it as custom-convert.conf in the root directory and it all seems to work beautifully now. Did I need to change the convert.conf file or did downloading that faad.exe file sort it? -- king of anglia

Re: [slim] Network problem

I have set up Squeezecentre and had been using the squeezebox without problems for a week or so. I have tried a factory reset and I have also disabled my firewall to see if it would connect but it still wouldn't so I am at a loss as to what is wrong. -- mcclenaghan367

Re: [slim] SB3 spontaneously reboots itself

Could this be a power supply problem ? it may be rebooting because it's powering up again ? try to wiggle the conector on the SB3 and also check that the supply is properly conected. -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile:

Re: [slim] (minor) Bug (?) with sleep font size

Sike;301923 Wrote: I have had this for a while. I use the sleep function nearly every day. If the font is set to 'medium' and I press the sleep button, it shows the options (sleep in 15min.. etc) in the small font. If I set the font to large, the options come up in the large font. Works

Re: [slim] (minor) Bug (?) with sleep font size

kdf;301929 Wrote: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2478 sleep messages could also be something to consider adding to it. See comment #6. :-) Looks like one that slipped through the cracks. Dean gave it the OK for 7.0 but never set the target. -- JJZolx Jim

[slim] Can one use a Duet as a Sound Card?

Maybe a stupid question, but is it possible to configure a Duet to act as a general purpose offboard sound card for a Windows PC? In other words, instead of SqueezeCenter serving the digital sound data to the Duet, I wonder if there is a sound driver that can be installed in the Windows O/S to

[slim] Squeezebox Receiver without controller?

I want to get a squeezebox receiver, but I have no need for the controller. I have a nokia n770 that I will use to control it so the controller would be a waste. Is it possible to set up the receiver without the controller? It doesn't make sense to me to spend more than twice as much just to

Re: [slim] Party Mode?

You -do- know to save your playlist (or a succession of playlists) so at least you can recover easily from someone pressing 'play'...(?) -- bobkoure bobkoure's Profile:

[slim] SC7 - formatting page gone ?

When I tried SC7 was quite relieved to find the old user interface is still there - however when I tried to access the formatting page in server settings it proved to be empty - I have huge collection of WAV files - artist album and title are encoded in folder / file name - it seems any

Re: [slim] SC7 - formatting page gone ?

settings-advanced-formatting: guess tag formats there should be some defaults already in there. K -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAj2aPdQnk

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Receiver without controller?

Theres an beta application without official support Net-Udap. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43722 But you wont have any official support. And SqueezeNetwork wont work for you ( Version: 7.0.1 - 19608 ) http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7993 but that could change.

Re: [slim] Party Mode?

Yes, I do save the playlist that I've created. But people pass around the controller, adding to the playlist what they want to hear, and then one person clears it and starts playing their own music by accident- I can reload the playlist from earlier, but the tracks people added are gone. --

Re: [slim] Squeeze controller losing network connection

pablolie;301065 Wrote: the controller loses connectivity every few minutes You may want to look at this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47190 The controller went from useless to really-good just by turning off Wireless Power Save. It uses a lot of battery power but I

Re: [slim] iPeng, iPhone i/iTouch skin - new version

bump... ;-) -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46296

Re: [slim] Several plugins does not work on SlimNAS

Hi Erland, That would explain why the email-checker plugin does not work either. Okay I have done a bit of digging: There is none of the mentioned environment variables set up as far as I can tell. There is a /tmp directory but that is not on the same partition as SC. Is that nessacary ?

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Receiver without controller?

hobbes487 wrote: I want to get a squeezebox receiver, but I have no need for the controller. I have a nokia n770 that I will use to control it so the controller would be a waste. Is it possible to set up the receiver without the controller? It doesn't make sense to me to spend more than

Re: [slim] Upgrade Slimnas

Hi Michael, Sorry to use this thread for a completely different thing, but I need your help: I have problems with a lot of plugins under SlimNAS (See this thread for more info: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=301974#post301974) As you can read it seems that all plugins that are

Re: [slim] Can one use a Duet as a Sound Card?

Basically no. This functionality is not available. However, there is a plugin for SqueezeCenter that grabs the audio going through your sound card and pipes it through SqueezeCenter and onto any of the hardware players. This only works in Windows and only on sound cards that have digital

[slim] Displaying comment tag from FLAC files in SqueezeCenter

Among the various ID tags I have in my FLAC files is a comment or comments tag containing info. on the various musicians performing on an album. When I view the tags via dbpoweramp, I see the info. The tag, however, is not showing up in SqueezeCenter (neither in the browser interface nor on the

[slim] RadioTime Problems

I am having problem playing any radiotime stations. I am using winamp and jriver for playback. Whenever I click play on a radio station in radiotime, the SC stream stops playing and SC loses the connection to the client. What could be causing this? -- hobbes487

[slim] SC7 won't start - missing dll error?

I deleted a load of temp files manually from C:\Documents and Settings\Colin Wheatley\Local Settings\Temp (Win XP Pro SP2) and ran a registry clean using RegScrubXP and now SqueezeCenter won't start. This error comes up in the Event Viewer Application Log... Event Type: Error Event Source:

Re: [slim] Several plugins does not work on SlimNAS

It's not Erland's plugin that is causing the problem, so you won't really find much to edit there that would give you the filename. What you want to look for is Par.pm, which for squeezecenter, is located in server/CPAN/PAR.pm. This is the one that will be used, unless you have a different copy

Re: [slim] Where can I buy a Duet on the High Street? TODAY?

yep, it's changed. -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys can be taught to cut code, and world peace is utterly unrealistic... egd's Profile:

Re: [slim] SC7 won't start - missing dll error?

[08-05-13 22:29:26.5002] Slim::Schema::forceCommit (1363) Warning: Trying to commit transactions before DB is initialized! [08-05-13 22:29:27.4220] Slim::Schema::Storage::throw_exception (67) Error: DBI Connection failed: DBI

Re: [slim] Squeeze controller losing network connection

zzap;301971 Wrote: You may want to look at this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47190 The controller went from useless to really-good just by turning off Wireless Power Save. It uses a lot of battery power but I don't have connection problems anymore. that is an

Re: [slim] Squeeze controller losing network connection

zzap;301971 Wrote: You may want to look at this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47190 The controller went from useless to really-good just by turning off Wireless Power Save. It uses a lot of battery power but I don't have connection problems anymore. What is a

Re: [slim] Dedicated server solution?

My needs are similar to those of Ron M but a little more specific and for a larger music collection. Currently, I have two wired and one wireless SB3's, streaming a library of 96,000 songs, mostly in flac from my home office XP machine running SlimServer 6.3.1 (I know its ancient but it runs and

Re: [slim] Displaying comment tag from FLAC files in SqueezeCenter

From the now playing screen if you scroll right does it appear when you scroll through the tags for the track playing? If not then it must be a tagging problem. It could be that you are looking at ID3 tag info instead of the FLAC tags (VORBIS tags?). Not sure how you check this with dbpoweramp

Re: [slim] Displaying comment tag from FLAC files in SqueezeCenter

Thanks. No, when I scroll right the info. doesn't appear (though, it used to when I had SqueezeCenter running iTunes). I think you may be correct about ID3 instead of Voorbis. But, that still begs the question as to why some of the tags (genre, artist, etc) still display. I'm assuing that all

[slim] Not quite ready for prime time

I have to agree with some of the posts regarding the suitability of the squeezebox etc for everyday use. I am in no way a techie, but have been using computers since we thought editing config.sys and autoexec.bat was pretty high tech. It just seems there are a lot of issues with this system,

Re: [slim] Not quite ready for prime time

The only problems I ever have is of my own. Fooling around with beta's, mixing a bunch of addons, tweaking and finding limits. When I just use the recommended version and just the addons I really need it runs great. I also have my library on a usb drive and the squeezebox is run on a wireless

Re: [slim] Not quite ready for prime time

Thanks for the reply. I dont have any add ons or anything else. Main problem seems to be internet radio - I ripped all of my CD's using EAC onto an external drive and have had no problems playing them using squeezebox. Cheers -- jbloewheedle

Re: [slim] Not quite ready for prime time

So it works well for your ripped stuff just not for streamed. Not that this is a great idea but I was having trouble with streamed on all of my computers and decided to change wireless routers. It solved all my problems and now it's just like listening to my ripped music. I went with a Netgear

[slim] Announcement: SqueezeCenter 7.01 Now Available

The new SqueezeCenter 7.01 release is now available at: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html Hera are the highlights: *Added* - Support for SIRIUS Internet Radio (U.S. only) - Support for Mac OS X aliases *Improved* - Network connectivity with certain wireless

Re: [slim] SC7 sync and rebuffering problems

It's in: SqueezeCenter_MultiPlayer_PluginPack_0.1 also, try: SqueezeCenter_PluginPack_0.2 They're not bad! -- larrettp larrettp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10191 View this thread:

[slim] Squeezebox Controller problems

I've just received my new SqueezeBox controller and it doesn't find squeeze center. I'm running SqueezeCenter 7.0 on a ReadyNas NV+. The controller finds the wireless and I have connected to the wireless or but on the SetUp Squeezebox page, there are not players or anything to select. The

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller problems

spc337 wrote: I've just received my new SqueezeBox controller and it doesn't find squeeze center. I'm running SqueezeCenter 7.0 on a ReadyNas NV+. The controller finds the wireless and I have connected to the wireless or but on the SetUp Squeezebox page, there are not players or anything to