ntom;314207 Wrote:
Don't know if this will help anyone else but I've cleared my problem.
I tried evrything I could think of: re-start router, server,
squeezebox, hard re-set of SB, changed IP adress, turned DHCP on,
forced re-load of firmware etc etc and nothing worked -all to no
avail.
egd, bpa,
I have tried the update, but it failedI have also tried the keypad
test, which confirms the full health of the keys (!).
I have not tried the update via SD, will have a look at that. Failing
that, I will return the product. Not very happy, I must confess.
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I met a Sony PSP console
http://www.popvoucher.co.uk/cheap-sony-psp-slim-and-lite-black-console-bundle-_lid-lmcammch.html
on a online shop. It is equipped with a video-out port, allowing users
to view their PSP content on their home TV. But there is some wrong with
the port that the picture on TV
Do try the SB card upgrade, when i got my Controller it was on a very
old firmware, that didn't help things. now it is ok.
The gotcha is that because the old fw don't work you cant get your
upgrade, so SD card comes to rescue here.
What is the color of wifi indicator (the bars at the bottom of
Hi
I am am a longtime SB+ user which is connected fairly directly to my
WHS via the router. Works perfectly streaming flacs or whatever. Now I
have acquired a second box (wired only SB3) which is connected to the
same network via a pair of 200mb Netgear homeplugs. This works fine for
radio
Go to www.logitech.co.uk and use this code on check out: DELLEPPEU3.
eg: Harmony One £80 inc Delivery, Duet Controller £119
With thanks to posters at AVForums.com and HotUKDeals for noticing this
promotion Go on, fill your boots!
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They say that laughter is the best medicine
Under Setting/ Player /Audio you can set Bit rate Limiting which will
transcode everything into MP3 at the selected bit rate but you must
have Lame installed.
Edit:
Some internet streams will not be transcoded into MP3 - bit rate
limiting is really intended for file audio.
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Its telling me i dont have lame installed (though alien bbc works fine)
so i downloaded the dll and put it in windows/system and restarted the
whole box but it still tells me i dont appear to have lame installed.
Is there any way to tellit
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AlienBBC doesn't require lame.
You need to install the lame.exe not the .dll
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You can do all that except the Weather Plugin with Squeezenetwork.
Can SqueezeNetwork work the Alarms thingy too ?
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check the MAC addresses on the sb's are what they should be (ie as the
sticker on the unit).
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Thanks for that Jungle.
Do you happen to know how 'legal' it is ?
It looks like the discount is for Dell employees.
If someone using it was not a Dell employee, would that matter ?
I'm tempted to give it a go but I don't want to get stung when/if they
find out I'm not a Dell employee :-)
Has
It is a bit hit-and-miss at the moment. The replay-gain policy applied
to all capable players in a sync-group is that from the sync-group's
master player. It depends upon which player joins another player's
sync-group as to which is the master. Using the player-UI (the user
interface on SB1/2/3,
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=788510
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/207614/40-off-logitech-co-uk/
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GlenL;317776 Wrote:
It looks like the discount is for Dell employees.
If someone using it was not a Dell employee, would that matter ?
I'm tempted to give it a go but I don't want to get stung when/if they
find out I'm not a Dell employee :-)
Has anybody else tried it ?
Thanks
GlenL;317776 Wrote:
Thanks for that Jungle.
Do you happen to know how 'legal' it is ?
It looks like the discount is for Dell employees.
If someone using it was not a Dell employee, would that matter ?
I'm tempted to give it a go but I don't want to get stung when/if they
find out I'm
I tried to place order, but at initial screen, it refused to take
evoucher number and said invalid. Further in the check out screens,
there was nowhere else to enter the code.
Can you clarify
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wliptrot;317786 Wrote:
I tried to place order, but at initial screen, it refused to take
evoucher number and said invalid. Further in the check out screens,
there was nowhere else to enter the code.
Can you clarify
It works for me. Check you copied it correctly (make sure you didn't
attachment
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£840 on a new TP just to give it a blast, as I could resell at little
or no loss. Oh well.
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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have
others
SB+, EAR V20, Living Voice OBX-R2s plus
wliptrot;317792 Wrote:
attachment: I did paste without full stop, maybe the offer is over.
Some people seem to be having problems with the voucher when trying to
order the squeezebox classic. Looks like you'd have to go for the duet
to get the discount.
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wliptrot;317792 Wrote:
attachment: I did paste without full stop, maybe the offer is over.
As somebody on the HotUKDeals noticed, the code only seems to work on
some products. E.g. it works for the Duet but not for the SB3.
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Works in Switzerland too.. But unfortunatly not for the SB3.
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Hello guys,
Am Ricky, I am very glad to be apart of this forum sites, looking
forward to hear from you.
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simbo;317781 Wrote:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=788510
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/207614/40-off-logitech-co-uk/
Thanks for those Simbo.
Jungle Wrote:
Well, I have used it and the site accepted my order earlier today. No
black helicopters following me yet!
:-)
GlenL;317805 Wrote:
Thanks for those Simbo.
:-)
Has your phone been wiretapped though :-)
Just placed an order for a Duet. Comes to £170-90 with shipping.
Thanks again Jungle, nice find.
Tsk, as any fule no, once you're wearing a tinfoil hat, nothing can get
you...
BTW - Glad
Yeah, I found that out but some of my plugins are 'compatible' yet.
I'll have to wait a bit longer, I guess.
Thanks, Andy.
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I have just realized that even a 20% would make the SB3 a good deal on
the Logitech web site.
Was there not a 20% evoucher around here once? (Jellybelly no longer
works)
Why do you think the SB3 was not included? Was the 'old' Slimdevices
pricing too agressive for Logitech?
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I just placed new order in Slim Devices online store to buy more
Squeezebox Receiver.
Hope this order will be smooth and I can still use the Customer
Appreciation Discount in my last canceled order.
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Hi Ronald,
Let me apologize for the way this order went. We have recently begun
using the same system as our technical support team, we are still
getting used to it and unfortunately your issue fell through the
cracks. I will make sure your order leaves today with a customer
appreciation discount
I couldn't stop myself I also ordered a Duet!
Anyone know how long the standard delivery times are?
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mherger;317165 Wrote:
Matt Parry
Logiotech SMBU
(should get his signature fixed :-))
[color=blue]
Michael
I would love too except our system does not let us store our sigs and
it has a horrible spell check. Which ends up allowing my horrible
typing skills to shine.
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Matt
Thanks a lot for your quick response.
Hope your team can overcome the problem as soon as possible.
I really love my new squeeze box duet and my old replaced SB2.
I will introduce it to my friends in Hong Kong to include duet in their
audio system.
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I've just tried installing some applets and have to re-start
SqueezeCenter. I thought there was an option for restarting on the
SqueezeCenter settings page but I can't find it.
How do I re-start SqueezeCenter without restarting my server?
Regards,
Trevor
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1. I played one of the files in WMP and checked its properties. The
audio codec field is blank.
2. The latest version of Total Recorder Pro has a new option - to
capture internet streams in the background. This only works with wma
streams. In my case I have setup a schedule to do so at the
Yes, SN supports daily alarms.
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tony11;317714 Wrote:
My duet just cycles through red, green, blue, and white, accompanied by
fairly annoying tones. It is unresponsive to a factory reset. I would
be gratefull if anyone has a suggestion as to how to get it out of this
mode, or why it is doing this.
Thanks,
Tony
That's
SlimPronto != SlimProto :)
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elziko;317825 Wrote:
I couldn't stop myself I also ordered a Duet!
Anyone know how long the standard delivery times are?
4-10 working days according to the Logitech FAQ.
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Does it come back if you pull the power and restart? I wasn't clear from
your post whether you'd done the factory reset (Hold Add, connect power,
release Add) or not. This should get you into setup mode, if not it
sounds like a hardware problem of some kind.
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AndyMcG;317453 Wrote:
Lights on the QNAP ethernet socket - orange pretty much steady (burst of
flashes maybe every 15s), green flashing constantly.
That's a little weird. Typically the orange one is indicating link
status and should remain on all the time. The green one indicates data
flow,
pablolie;317256 Wrote:
since i am provenly not in the habit of jumping into those threads
I apologise for conflating your posting behaviour with egd's - you're
right, this thread was already way off topic before you came along :)
not ony is your statement proven a fallacy, but you are
If it happens at the same point in the track that points strongly to
corruption of the file. Have you tried playing them with something
else?
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On Windows? running as a service or process?
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Thanks, after leaving the power disconnected for several hours, it
seemed to sort itself out (a few minutes was not long enough).
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The audio codec field is blank.
If this was properties from within WMP - then it looks like it is not
WMA or it is not a WMA file with all the necessary header fields.
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I recently had to find out how to use bandwidth limiting on a second
squeezebox connected through homeplug to get a non stuttering music
stream.(See the selective Transcode thread)I have fixed that problem by
installing lame in the server/bin folder and setting the appropriate
limit (320) for my
Some internet streams will not be transcoded into MP3 - bit rate
limiting is really intended for file audio.
That's right I sort of pointed it out in the Selective transocde
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Is there any way around this i.e. retain limiting for audio files in
flac but not for alien bbc streams - some pref file i can edit or
something?
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vincoz;317148 Wrote:
Phil, do you mean pressing the 1 key when starting up the SB? I just
did that (but not the extra factory settings or forcing fw download
again as I had tried that earlier) but still have the problem.
Interestingly, when playing just a single file repeatedly, the pop
gandt;317856 Wrote:
I recently had to find out how to use bandwidth limiting on a second
squeezebox connected through homeplug to get a non stuttering music
stream.(See the selective Transcode thread)I have fixed that problem by
installing lame in the server/bin folder and setting the
Nope - a variation of this problem is logged as bug 4266 (
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4266 ). If you were
running Linux then there was a code patch that worked in 6.x but you
cannot patch the code in Windows
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Thanks all
reply to phil
im using the netgear 200hd plugs and despite moving them from socket to
socket (no plugblock) the bandwidth test tells me they are delivering
around 1000 - 1500 which means that whilst flac is ok some of the time
a bit of network activity and it starts to stutter and I
On Windows Home Server. I just bought a new server and it had
SqueezeCenter ready installed. Previously, I had it installed on a Mac
which I was able to restart SqueezeCenter from the system Properties
dialog.
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gandt;317880 Wrote:
Thanks all
reply to phil
im using the netgear 200hd plugs and despite moving them from socket to
socket (no plugblock) the bandwidth test tells me they are delivering
around 1000 - 1500 which means that whilst flac is ok some of the time
a bit of network activity
Radish,
Your message prompted me to look in the Services in control panel. Yes,
squeezeCenter is there and I was able to re-start it from there. Sorry -
could have sworn there was an option to restart in the SqueezeCenter web
interface and spent ages looking for it.
Cheers!
Trev
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yep i use them all over the place and, for example, my daughter can
stream from the home server to softsqueeze in flac quite happily (seems
to provide about 2000 happily) but she is on the same floor. The
homeplug in question is on the floor below and that seems to make the
difference - I have
I have been having similar problems since moving to SC7 with stuttering
on my wireless SB2 SB3. Never a problem on the ethernet linked
device.
Someone suggested turning off the LastFM plugin which has helped a lot.
It gone from being entirely usable to being about 85% reliable. It
does
Does anyone know how I change the audio mixer preferences in the
headless version? I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, and do not know which file
contains the Softsqueeze preferences.
Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64
Squeezecenter 7.02
Softsqueeze 3.6
Thanks!
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Hi,
can the duet run with Slimserver 6 or do i need to upgrade to
Squeezecenter 7?
I am currently running a QNAP TS-109 II which has Slimserver 6 (not
sure the exact version), will this be able to connect to the duet??
Alternatively, if i was just to buy the Duet controller to run with my
You need SqueezeCenter 7.0 or later to use either the SB Receiver or the
SB Controller (Receiver + Controller = Duet).
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You need SqueezeCenter 7.0 or later to use either the SB Receiver or the
SB Controller (Receiver + Controller = Duet).
ok thanks.
can Squeezecenter 7 work on the QNAP?
and i'm assuming the SB3 still works as normal with SC7?
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Duet needs SqueezeCenter 7.x.x
But the controller works perfectly with all players as it's realy
commanding the server (SqueezeCenter) which controls the players.
So slimp3 sb1,2,3 transporter softsqueeze no problem ?
I have an SB3 and a duet (SBC + SBR) this works perfectly.
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So slimp3 sb1,2,3 transporter softsqueeze no problem ?
I don't have a slimp3, but have SB1, 2, and transporter.
Controller works fine.
Needs SqueezeCenter, 7.* or higher
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So...since I last posted, I purchased a Linksys WRT54G loaded with
Tomato firmware. Got the signal strength up to nearly 70%, but that's
with turning the power on the router up to 250 (goes up to 251).
Controller now works better, and system generally runs now without
skipping. BUT...every hour
I think there may have been back in the dim distant past, or I could
be hallucinating too. There certainly used to be a restart option on
the tray icon but that went away.
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Hi, I've a problem with my Squeeze Center Library. When I add new discs
in my music folder (Windows XP) they do not appears in the Squeeze
Center Library. All my music is in Wma lossless format under Xp and
ripped with Windows Media Player. I use Squeeze Center 7.0.1 - 19705.
If somebody has an
First, the dumb question - have you tried a full clear and rescan of the
Squeezecenter library to import the new music?
Second idea, double check that the WMA files haven't been automatically
ripped with copy protection. Open up WMP, select Options, Copy and
uncheck Copy Protect Music if it is
davep;317387 Wrote:
I just click with the centre button on the Controller when it is showing
the Now Playing screen. That should take you to the current playlist.
If you aren't at the Now Playing screen you can click on the Home key
and then scroll to the top of the list and click on Now
Just occasionally one of my SBs seems to 'loose' it's MAC address.
Look under the current settings and check that the player MAC address
is the same as the IP address show on the underside of your SB. If it
is different change it back to the specified address try connecting
again to the
Tim, well done, this looks cool. Don't think it'll replace the
controller for day to day use but browsing with the bigger album covers
is nice.
Couldn't see how to switch players on/off but that maybe me.
Does anyone know how to stream to PSP as well?
Mitch
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raaurora;317629 Wrote:
anything useful in the log files?
Havent thought of that! (actually, havent noticed they are there!)
will look into it
thanx! :)
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I took the plunge and bought some Homeplugs and a Netgear switch today,
mainly because along with the problems with the SB, the wireless
adaptor on my PC was pretty flaky too (for a different reason though -
it would randomly disconnect from the router and require a reboot to
reconnect it).
So
Great find,
i had to buy one
Now wait to see if it arrives!
Still, fun for Monday night!
BT
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miguelk;317908 Wrote:
So...since I last posted, I purchased a Linksys WRT54G loaded with
Tomato firmware. Got the signal strength up to nearly 70%, but that's
with turning the power on the router up to 250 (goes up to 251).
Controller now works better, and system generally runs now without
I had exatly the same stuttering problem.
I ran netstumbler and switched to a different wireless chanel and that
fixed it.
BT
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BigTony;317942 Wrote:
I had exatly the same stuttering problem.
I ran netstumbler and switched to a different wireless chanel and that
fixed it.
BT
I did try a few different channels but none of them worked consistently
for me unfortunately.
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I came across this thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45220
which suggested turning off the LastFM plugin.
This has greatly reduced the stuttering problems for me. I have
noticed stuttering once or twice since but it is way better and only
happens on high bit rate stuff
Thanks for your answer - No protection in WMP - I
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Thanks for your answer - Yes i've done a full clear and rescan of the
Squeezecenter library. No protection in WMP. In fact, for having the
folders in Squeeze Center, I am obliged to create a new folder with
Windows Explorer, and I copy paste of all the sub folders tracks.
It is really too long
I've tried the alternatives, and decided that a connection from SB (at
home) to a remote SS/SC (at work) is my preferred option.
Since a VPN connection (OpenVPN, or Ipsec) can easily overcome the
vagaries of dynamic ip addresses at both ends, it gives a good as
permanent connection from SB to
Ok, so not the obvious stuff.
Can you explain in a little more detail by I am obliged to create a
new forlder with Windows Explorer, and I do a copy paste of all the
sub folders tracks. It is really too long and absolutely not
automatic.
If I understand you correctly, you are creating copies
I guess nobody uses RSS then?
All my Slim RSS feeds are marked as broken since June 26th
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I would suggest:
(1) Call Logitech to rule out a defective SBC. It happens, and it
might just be the problem.
(2) Wireless signal of 70% should be plenty. If the SBC is not
defective, then I'm wondering if you're getting wireless interference.
You should really download netstumbler and see
In fact, for example I've had a folder called The Beatles. I've ripped
one new album this week-end and after this folder has dissapearred from
Squeeze Center. When I Browse Music folder in SC : same thing. So I
rename the folder The Beatles in The Beatles Old, I copy all the
albums from A to B, I
Thanks for the reply and suggestion. No response to the factory reset so
I guess I better start investigating the hardware repair angle. Funny
thing is when I leave it plugged in turned on it stays slightly warm
although completely unresponsive.
Ah well. I'm already missing it. Have swapped to
Just upgraded to squeezecenter from slimserver and it works great, but
softsqueeze no longer works (tried to run it and a box came up to
upgrade- I have 3.4 and the upgrade link was to 2.0 ()) I realize
that softsqueeze may no longer be compatible (is there a new version?),
but it looks as
Excellent. Thanks for the post. That makes logical sense and it is good
to know that it is a fix for 7.2.
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btw that ip address is the host pc address rather than the squeezebox
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Also note that stream.mp3 requires you set bitrate limiting in player
settings - audio and FLAC - MP3 transcoding in advanced settings - file
types
That would explain it. Would have never found out about this...
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I finally found the preference file by doing a search for softsqueeze.
So now I have another question: the file is an XML file that has the
line:
entry key=audio.mixer value=SB[plugw:0,0]
I understand that I need to change that to use the java mixer (which in
turn will feed Pulseaudio on Ubuntu
Looks OK for me. I don't usually use RSS but I just pulled it up in FF
and it looks fine. My guess is that you're seeing a side effect of
this: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49384
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Yes it is, and what you did looks right on the face of it. Did WMP
connect OK? You should initially just get a silent stream. Then you can
use the web interface to switch to the new player and start something
playing.
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