Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

Ah, so once you upgraded the firware were all your troubles solved? If so, I guess Logitech should consider shipping with a later version of the firmware. MC -- ModelCitizen Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. SB+ Bryston 4BSST PMC OB1s.

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

ModelCitizen;302701 Wrote: How odd. Mine works fine. Interacts with library perfectly and responsively, showing all cover art and music details (inc lyrics, bios, reviews etc). The battery life is superb, the firmware updates over wireless with no problems and I've never seen hide nor

Re: [slim] UK Squeezebox Duet for sale

lozcs;302515 Wrote: huh? Lawrence.. The listing was removed temporarily - now its back - very odd... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

egd, I find it worrying that the first person from down under to review the duet has one with out of date firmware and dead pixels. I can't remember what firmware version I had when mine was delivered but it did do everything wirelessly and I heven't noticed any dead pixels. Battery life is

Re: [slim] Controller Screen Protection

I have one on my harmony 1000 remote and it has openings for the buttons, they are removable and also provide some extra grip. Bit fiddly to put on is my only complaint but once on scratch proof etc, I think a whole cover in parts for the controller would be cool. -- MuckleEck Alasdair 3

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

egd;302704 Wrote: Probably because it shipped with r1425 of the firmware and I'm guessing yours shipped with a newer version. I have it working now (firmware upgrade), but I'm pretty damned sure the average consumer would have sent it back and assumed it was faulty. Battery was charged

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

Mine arrived in NZ last week with the same pretty old r1425 firmware. Cannot find my Wireless network which works for any number of pc's, laptops, squeezeboxen, n800 etc. Had to upgrade firmware via SD - wouldn't recognise one of my two cards, but finally got that done. Still doesn't recognize my

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

Received mine in NZ yesterday. A very frustrating experience, the controller would not update and it would take minutes to connect to my existing Squeezeboxes (I have 2 Squeezebox 3s) if at all (most of the time it wouldn't connect even if it was next to them and the wireless network router).

Re: [slim] FYI be aware of Mac adress when using Wol

Ross L;302662 Wrote: The bug is still open and targeted for 7.1 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7594 Thanks Ross! -- NewBuyer NewBuyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7862 View

Re: [slim] Pixel policy?

Mine has a small line of a few pixels that 'twinkle' occasionally. -- mikeselectricstuff mikeselectricstuff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16264 View this thread:

[slim] Wikiradio

As per the annoucement from JimC - wikiradio is coming back - but its not quite working yet... Logitech have kindly brought back the wiki page so all your old wiki radio station lists can be found at wikiradio.slimdevices.com. At present the plugin parser included with alien can't read this

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

I upgraded the firmware via SqueezeCenter Version: 7.1 - 19758 binaries. With the updated firmware it's functional and I can use it to interact with my library. The overall build quality is pretty poor though - the battery lid has play and squeaks as your palm closes around it when pressing

[slim] Playback of 24bit/96khz FLAC files

I've got 2 high resolution Nine Inch Nails albums. They don't playback nice with my SB3, I get the basic song, but bits of nasty noise thrown in. They play fine on my PC. Any clues? Should I convert to WAV and play them, or does the SB3 not deal with 24bit/96khz files? Cheers BT -- BigTony

Re: [slim] UK Squeezebox Duet for sale

Was it? How long for? Ebay never contacted me! Lawrence.. -- lozcs lozcs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6979 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47693

Re: [slim] can SB do lossless FLAC 5.1?

ntom;302416 Wrote: As a DVD-A it also carries the DVD-V Dolby Digital mix so I guess this would be the next best option to stream to SB3 feed SPDIF to my surround amp, although so far I haven't managed to rip this for some reasonwhere I've had no problem using the documented methods

Re: [slim] UK Squeezebox Duet for sale

lozcs;302741 Wrote: Was it? How long for? Ebay never contacted me! Lawrence.. There was a couple of hours...might just have been a glitch... Seems fine now. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call

Re: [slim] Playback of 24bit/96khz FLAC files

BigTony;302747 Wrote: I've got 2 high resolution Nine Inch Nails albums. They don't playback nice with my SB3, I get the basic song, but bits of nasty noise thrown in. They play fine on my PC. Any clues? Should I convert to WAV and play them, or does the SB3 not deal with 24bit/96khz files?

Re: [slim] Playback of 24bit/96khz FLAC files

The SB3 can sometimes handle 24/96kHz material by throwing away every other sample, effectively giving you a resolution of 24/48kHz. But the SB3 CPU often chokes on the large amount of data in a 24/96 file. The best way to counter this is to downsample the file in a WAV editor and save it as

Re: [slim] UK Squeezebox Duet for sale

I see it is already within £10 of what it would cost to buy with the discount code direct from Logitech. Don't you just love ebayers ;) -- andynormancx andynormancx's Profile:

Re: [slim] UK Squeezebox Duet for sale

I am selling a spare Receiver if any other ebayers in the UK are interested..? -- James_B James_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11309 View this thread:

[slim] Strange artwork behaviour 7.01

When I first scanned my folder (containing one shortcut to a location) , all the artwork appeared correctly. I have set up the folder just to contain shortcuts as I have several locations. I then added another shortcut and rescanned. The new files added do not show the artwork in the album list

[slim] SBC r2448 less stable ?

Is anyone else finding the Controller firmware r2448 less stable than the previous one ? Over the last three days since my Controller updated itself, the following things have happened: - twice the SBC lost its Wifi connection after being left in the cradle for several hours and couldn't

Re: [slim] Controller Will Not Recognize My New Rounter

I ran an ethernet cable from my router to the player and now it works fine. Thanks to everyone for your advice. -- oldschool oldschool's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15892 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

There are many frustrations surrounding the SD products, but all in all, I think they are great. The SC interface leaves a bit to be desired, but I love the players. As to the Controller, I have been pleasantly surprised. I have read so many posts from people with issues that i was a little

[slim] Download Album as MP3

Hi i have all my cd's as flac in sqeezecenter. My question, is there a way to download an entire album as mp3 for uploading it to the mp3 player? any plugins? thanks -- Klaus Klaus's Profile:

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

egd;302696 Wrote: Well, i got mine today and have to conclude it is definitely not ready for the general consumer. In fact I'm sure they'd conclude it is a piece of crap and return it to the retailer, coming away very unhappy! - it didn't do what it was advertised to do i.e. other than

Re: [slim] Download Album as MP3

Klaus wrote: i have all my cd's as flac in sqeezecenter. My question, is there a way to download an entire album as mp3 for uploading it to the mp3 player? any plugins? Not a plug in, but Robin's flac2mp3 does exactly what you need -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/

Re: [slim] Multiple players/servers/SC versions w/ Controller ?

follow-up with some additional information. I was unable to find a way to bail out on the controller upgrading between the different versions of SqueezeCenter. I ended up uninstalling 7.0.1 and installing 7.0 on my Windows server. This puts it on the same version that the Thecus module is

Re: [slim] Strange artwork behaviour 7.01

Daren;302772 Wrote: When I first scanned my folder (containing one shortcut to a location) , all the artwork appeared correctly. I have set up the folder just to contain shortcuts as I have several locations. I then added another shortcut and rescanned. The new files added do not show the

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

Got mine this week and happy to say that it is working very well. i bought the Duet package just for the Controller to access my Transporter and the two are a good match. the Controller seems to have a lot of potential and i await with interest it's ongoing development. i see Ver 7.0.1.has been

[slim] Should I upgrade from 6.5.4?

All, I've been a bit (maybe a lot) out of touch with developments on Slimserver software. Here is what I'm running now- SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12568 - Windows Server 2003 - EN - cp1252 Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt Everything is working

[slim] SQueeze controller update failed for first time

Hi, When I first upgraded to 7.01 the squeeze controller started to signal when updates were available. It did so two times and downloadning worked prefectly. Now today I tried to force an update manually by selectin software update in the menu. To my surprise the display says that there is an

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

i am running the latest 7.01, have owned 3 SB3s for years, but the Duet i got is pretty unusable. i am working with tech support on it. the controller constantly drops out of the network, and there is nothing wrong with the network nor has the linksys wireless router ever had issues with another

Re: [slim] can SB do lossless FLAC 5.1?

ntom;302416 Wrote: Is there anything anyone can suggest that would allow me to encode the 24/96 5.1 WAVs to DTS (at a sensible cost that is as I dont have many DVD-A discs!!) There's an app I use in production of 5.1 Dolby and DTS, but it works with ProTools and does cost $1000 just

Re: [slim] Playback of 24bit/96khz FLAC files

Use a free tool such as Audacity to properly resample down to 48 Khz. The command-line tool, sox, can do this as well. The files will have to be in one of the supported formats to begin with however, (hopefully FLAC,) as these tools do not support a lot of formats. -Ron -- Ron F. *Squeezebox

Re: [slim] Should I upgrade from 6.5.4?

You'll need new versions of your plugins that are compatible with v7. You can take a look at the (long) list of features and improvements here: http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/7.0/trunk/server/Changelog7.html If you see something you like, upgrade. I haven't had any problems with version

Re: [slim] Multiple players/servers/SC versions w/ Controller ?

What are your reasons for having the two SB3s attached to the PC server as opposed to the N5200? I would have thought the N5200 would be able to handle the 5 players plus the controller. -- funkstar funkstar's Profile:

Re: [slim] Announcement: SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 Now Available

Svanur;302176 Wrote: Can I install this update over the 7.0 version? And what about the SBC, does it need to be updated also? I have the automatically install updates (or something like that) activated on SC 7.0 Would somebody in the know answer this question? -- vdorta

Re: [slim] Should I upgrade from 6.5.4?

ok thanks, another thing to add to my to do list :) -- franko180 franko180's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14054 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47773

Re: [slim] Download Album as MP3

What you need to do is re-encode (or transcode as it can be refered to as) them to MP3. Downloading is completely different :) the perl script flac2mp3 works well (google for it) thats whay I use. It isn't the most ueser friendly though as it is a Perl script run from a command line. DBPoweramp

[slim] Software Update Fails

When trying to download update 7.0.1 r2448, the controller reboots, but then goes back to the Software Update screen and tells me that Update software is availabe for the remote ... and lists the same version number. It appears that the update was not applied? Anyone have any ideas how to fix

Re: [slim] Should I upgrade from 6.5.4?

I'd say if you are happy with the way it works now, no need to upgrade. On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:33 AM, franko180 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok thanks, another thing to add to my to do list :) -- franko180

Re: [slim] Should I upgrade from 6.5.4?

SqueezeNetwork integration is probably the best thing about 7.0. I listen to Pandora all the time now since it's not a hassle to switch to SqueezeNetwork. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile:

Re: [slim] Playback of 24bit/96khz FLAC files

I have the files as FLAC, so I need to convert to wav's, then down sample to 24/48, then back to flac. Good job its what weekends were made for! Cheers BT -- BigTony We're Only In It For The Music! www.zappateers.com

Re: [slim] Multiple players/servers/SC versions w/ Controller ?

funkstar;302838 Wrote: What are your reasons for having the two SB3s attached to the PC server as opposed to the N5200? I would have thought the N5200 would be able to handle the 5 players plus the controller. It's more of a library management issue for now. The N5200 will handle all the

Re: [slim] Multiple players/servers/SC versions w/ Controller ?

I had the same experience running two different version of SC on the different servers. Now both windows and ready NAS are on the latest stable 7.01. -- mikel51 mikel51's Profile:

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

I received my Controller on Thursday. In under 5 minutes I had it unpacked, looked over the quick start booklet, it found my network, updated the firmware and I was playing music on my SB3 (battery was at half charge when I unpacked it.). I really enjoy this thing. It is a big advantage to me to

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

Luckily I had a apple airport lying around. Cause I was going nuts with the linksys wireless router I was using. I tried the airport and all the connection problems were gone. Duet seems to be picky. -- djonez djonez's

Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter on Windows Server 2008

Tried installing SqueezeCenter on another, different, Windows Server 2008 machine. Still no luck. Must be something wrong with SqueezeCenter and not my machine. Any suggestions on how I should debug this? The event logs are clean. -- siegeld

Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter on Windows Server 2008

OK, I've run squeezecenter.exe with debugging turned on. Here are the last few messages that are typed on the command console prior to the process hanging: [08-05-17 15:41:38.9639] Slim::Utils::Prefs::Namespace::setChange (153) register ing Slim::Utils::Prefs::__ANON__ for server:fxloopSource

[slim] Problems with update to 7.01 for DUET

I have one Squeezebox and one Duet. Really enjoy those great devices which really free my music. Today I did the update of 7.0.1 and had no problem with the Squeezebox. The Duet found a new version and downloading worked fine but then Duet got stuck. After a while (more than ten minutes I pressed

Re: [slim] Controller: first impressions/ experience

my WAP is a Netgear WG102 and wirless signal throughout the house is fantastic. The firmware upgrade iussue was definitely not a wireless issue - since the upgrade the Controller has worked without hitch. Can someone tell me how to get albums sorted by Artist rather than Album name in the

Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter on Windows Server 2008

Strange !! I'm running SqueezeCenter on Windows Server 2008 without any problems at all. Have you tried to disable the User Account Control ? -- PSSO Ole PSSO's Profile:

[slim] Dropouts with Softsqueeze on cabled network

I'm running SqueezeCenter 7 on a Windows XP SP2 machine (an Athlon 64 3000). The machine isn't running anything else - it's dedicated as a media center PC, with 2Gb RAM. I'm getting frequent drop-outs or gaps in music playback, usually 0-2 seconds in duration. I am using Softsqueeze as a local

Re: [slim] Announcement: SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 Now Available

vdorta;302839 Wrote: Would somebody in the know answer this question? The update will work well for Squeezebox. Just upgrade SqueezeCenter and press the Brightness button on your remote. I faced no problem for Squeezebox - For the Duet the upgrade failed - other users seem to have the same

Re: [slim] Problems with update to 7.01 for DUET

Hi, I got exactly the same problem: Controller was not able to be updated. However, I did catch a solution, which might work for you as well: Try to connect to SqueezeNetwork, and now again try the update process. For me it did do the trick. Regards Kim -- Kim Kruse

Re: [slim] Problems with update to 7.01 for DUET

Thats a good idea i did that once, the other solution is to use an SD card, search this forum for it. Can be a little fuzz to localize the jive.bin file -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile:

Re: [slim] Squeezecenter 7 fails to start on XP

This has been bugging me for quite a while now - in fact since I upgraded from slimserver6.5.4 to squeezecentre 7. I think I finally cracked it tonight, please let me know if this helps anyone else! In the end I discovered that the 2 new services added by the installation were interfering with

[slim] ARTISTSORT issue.

I'm in the process of going through my flac files using mp3tag to add artistsort to all firstname lastname artists with a lastname, firstname structure. So now, Bob Dylan's Dylan, Bob artistsort tag has effectively gotten him out of the B's and into the D's but he still appears as Bob Dylan. I'd

[slim] Composers listed in Artists. Why?

When I look at music for a specific artist, the listing includes anything that may have been composed by that artists. How can I limit the listing for an artists to files on which the person is the performer? -- jstraw

Re: [slim] Problems with update to 7.01 for DUET

Kim Kruse;302900 Wrote: Hi, I got exactly the same problem: Controller was not able to be updated. However, I did catch a solution, which might work for you as well: Try to connect to SqueezeNetwork, and now again try the update process. For me it did do the trick. Regards Kim Hi

Re: [slim] ARTISTSORT issue.

jstraw;302905 Wrote: I'm in the process of going through my flac files using mp3tag to add artistsort to all firstname lastname artists with a lastname, firstname structure. So now, Bob Dylan's Dylan, Bob artistsort tag has effectively gotten him out of the B's and into the D's but he

Re: [slim] Change port

BTW - SoftSqueeze seems to work fine with changed ports - I have it working fine with port 9010. -- damager damager's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15940 View this thread:

Re: [slim] ARTISTSORT issue.

JJZolx;302914 Wrote: Also set ARTIST to Dylan, Bob? I was afraid of this. If I had not bothered to create the artistsort tags and just edited the artist tag to dylan, bob wouldn't I have accomplished what I wanted with just one tagging change? JJZolx;302914 Wrote: For Flac, create two

Re: [slim] ARTISTSORT issue.

jstraw;302933 Wrote: I was afraid of this. If I had not bothered to create the artistsort tags and just edited the artist tag to dylan, bob wouldn't I have accomplished what I wanted with just one tagging change? Yep. Perhaps I can do some sort of batch thing with MP3TAG to force the

Re: [slim] UK Squeezebox Duet for sale

andynormancx;302755 Wrote: I see it is already within £10 of what it would cost to buy with the discount code direct from Logitech. Don't you just love ebayers ;) and what pray tell is that discount code? :) -- Club1820 Rotel RSP-1068, Rotel 1060 DVD, Rotel RCC-1055, Rotel 1095 Amp, Rotel

Re: [slim] Playlists from WMP: Not working properly

After I posted my message, I noted that 7.0.1 was available. Downloaded and installed, including associated firmware (took longer than expected), and now the playlists work properly. There is a play all option, that wasn't there before. R. -- RonM

Re: [slim] Announcement: SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 Now Available

I just did the update. It's seamless. You download the new update file (an exe), and then run the file. It first uninstalls previous versions, then installs the new, retaining all library information. Subsequently, it seems that a firmware upgrade is invoked for the SC, and then for the

Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter on Windows Server 2008

It is running fine here on Windows 2008 Server too. I installed it when I was logged in as the local administrator account on a pretty much out of the box version of the OS. Worked fine, even opened the right ports in the firewall itself. Changing it to run as a service worked perfectly too.

Re: [slim] Announcement: SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 Now Available

Thanks for the information. -- vdorta vdorta's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47663

Re: [slim] Playlists from WMP: Not working properly

RonM;302790 Wrote: Hi all, Been using the SBD for a couple weeks now, haven't had any significant problems with basic functionality. I'm running Squeezecenter from my home PC, with all audio files on a dedicated drive. There is about 120gb of music. Will migrate to a server structure

Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter on Windows Server 2008

Is your Windows 2008 Server part of a domain? Both the machines I have tried it on are part of a domain - one is a PDC, and the other is just a member of the domain. -- siegeld siegeld's Profile:

Re: [slim] Composers listed in Artists. Why?

jstraw;302906 Wrote: When I look at music for a specific artist, the listing includes anything that may have been composed by that artists. How can I limit the listing for an artist to files on which the person is the performer? check settings-music library. Is there a check mark on 'list

[slim] How to smooth RSS/ticker streaming?

Like many here, I've set up my SB to scroll newscasts (e.g. BBC and NYT) while music is playing. While I've found how to speed up the rate at which the banner scrolls, it's annoying how juddery it runs. Does anyone know of any tweaks to improve this? Cheers, Gus -- Gus