x94blair3;324375 Wrote:
If I was using the DAC in the transporter...why would the receiver
impact much? Isn't it just taking the analog and passing it through?
Especially on something like the rx-v2700 which offers 'pure direct'
mode?
So, if an amplifier - in analog mode, or a simple
LazySearch2 works on 7.1 (although you'll have to download the latest).
The older 7.0.1-compatible version will work if you tweak the
install.xml file.
Similarly, it will work on 7.2 with the install.xml tweak.
Stuart
Apesbrain wrote:
Are these plugins supported on 7.1?
- Alien
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Are these plugins supported on 7.1?
- Alien
You need to install AlienBBC 2.01 (
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49381 ) which is still
beta and the iPlayer Addon V3 (
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49830 ) because BBC
made significant change to Listen
this is my very first post here after reading for a long time and learnt
a lot from others, so I guess it's time for me to contribute.
you may try to power it off for a few second.
I have the same problem before (don't know why till now), after trying
various method but no luck. Finally
maggior;324428 Wrote:
That's surprising. Are your files all tagged properly? I think all
that matters is that the artist and track name be correct.
Here are the stats of my library from the MiP web page:
Total songs 20,377
Mixable songs 14,511
Songs to validate 20,377
I
Pale Blue Ego;321457 Wrote:
HA HA - A guy who digitized his cassettes and 8-Tracks but then doesn't
realize that bits are bits. He correctly frees the music by
digitizing to uncompressed WAV, then locks it up again on a spinning
disc (CD).
Pale Blue Ego;322803 Wrote:
Ha ha, I just got
x94blair3;324048 Wrote:
I'm sure that even asking this question means no..but I have to ask
anyway.
Currently I have my audio running digitally from a PC (XP, kernel
streaming through foobar) to a rx-v2700 which is powering Axiom M60's.
This setup works fine for the most part, but the
stockholmbeijing;324450 Wrote:
First of all thank you for all your help. To answer your questions and
to provide some add
- I removed other accounts on the MacBook so I am the only user
Though many people do this, and it is Apple's default, it isn't a good
idea. It is always safer to
I eventually gave up with my Duet, and swapped it for an SB3 and some
small active speakers. Main system is Transporter - ATC SCM 100
Having had serious problems with streaming to my Transporter, I FINALLY
found a solution which may help others:-
- replaced Netgear Router ( 8 months old, but
itm, apologies for not going back over all your posts on this topic, but
are you running the headless version of MusicIP?
If so, there are a couple of things I can suggest - first, you may need
to do a full clear and rescan in Squeezecenter for files which have
recently been analysed but not
With 7.1 why is my volume level locked at 50% on my SB3 and will not go
louder ?? Also Im interested in getting several plugins working (
MusicIP/Alien BBC ) and they are ticked as being active on Settings
page of SC but have never worked properly . Is there a thread or wiki
page with simple to
I installed 7.1 over 7.0.1 but all has gone a bit crazy.
The web interface is all over the place, misaligned everywhere. In the
initial screen the help and setting links were showing at the top over
the top of other stuff and if I clicked on settings the menus were all
showing misaligned and
I had trouble and have reverted back.
I am on windows XP and running IE 7.0.5730.11 and upgraded from 7.0.1
to 7.1
The web interface was all over the place with menu misalignments.
I also use trackstat and custom menu from Erland but 7.1 seemed to wipe
them out.
Mainly because of the web
Hi,
I would prefer a solution that keeps all the normal functionality of:
add = add to bottom of playlist
add (hold) = add to top of playlist (version 7.1)
play = delete playlist, add to new playlist
The only thing that a party mode needs to do when pressing play is
to display a question for
The web interface is all over the place, misaligned everywhere. In the
Just do a full reload (F5, Ctrl-R) and you'll be fine.
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trotsky10;324499 Wrote:
Also I use Erland's custom menus and trackstat. these seem to have
been wiped out by 7.1. Should have checked I guess if there was a
compatible version for 7.1.
The latest versions should work with 7.1, let me know if they don't
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Erland Isaksson
'My
bug 8001 has fixed this issue.
the confusion above was caused by several factors, notably the fact
that at that time, TPE2 wasn't treated like ALBUMARTIST by SC.
also, while there is no doubt that the universal defacto standard for
tagging is that TPE1 = track artist[s], while TPE2 = cd artist,
Just noticed after an hour or 2 of having SomaFM's chillout station
playing in the background even track is being scrobbled. I'm not a fan
of a lot of the stuff and this will mess up my Last.FM profile - how
can i stop this?
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*Players:*
Letten;324506 Wrote:
The only thing that a party mode needs to do when pressing play is
to display a question for the user Play and delete current playlist
Yes or No. The user would then have to use the scrollwheel to toggle
between yes and no and press centerbutton to select answer.
This sounds like a great option! However, do I need to create a new
account to vote for it? I'm lazy, that's probably not going to happen.
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if there was a party mode plugin, surely it could have all the options
to allow people to map the buttons to whatever functions they wanted.
one thing that might be cool would be for the now playing screen to
also show whats next (think tetris :)
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Using:
Thanks guys. I'll give it a go after work. in about 3.5 hours (Am in
the Netherlands.
Thanks again for your swift responses. I think you guys do a sterling
job!
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simbo;324518 Wrote:
Interesting solution, Letten. The only thing I would say is that if this
approach is considered, the No option should be the default. This
would prevent double-selecting (something I've seen if there's a little
lag on the Controller) wiping out the playlist.
For sure No
I also do not use my DVD/BR player anymore.
Since I purchased a Network Media Tank device I ripped all my DVDs and
BR films and home movies etc onto the xTb hard disk (could stream but
only have wireless G at the moment (but I am sure that will change) and
that is not good enough for the HD
Nonreality;324480 Wrote:
I think you'll find the SB3's dac to be of a bit better quality than
your 2700 but very close. Just my pref but I run my 1800 with the with
the analog outs most of the time. I'm almost certain the 1800 and the
2700 use the same dac. BTW nice musical AVReceivers
I ran into problems after upgrading to 7.1.0 from 7.0.1 on my mac. A
clean install as described in the support Faq's was almost the
solution, it took one extra step not described in the faq which I'll
list here:
After trying the 7.1.0 upgrade that failed I had a 7.1.0 bad install
that needed to
Settings are resetting to variable output digital output, even when I
set to fixed (100%) I save settings but it still reverts, wondered why
music was so low then increasing volume on the music increases it.
Normally it doesn't change it, once set. Worked on earlier versions.
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Hi to everybody here,
I am a new owner of SB Duet and I am just building my new Music Library
on the HD. I have a dilemma: which format to use for storing my CDs ?
The only criteria is quality of music reproduction - HD place of
particular formats doesn't play any role for me ...
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FLAC. Its quality is the same as WAV (it's lossless) but it's 40-50%
smaller so it saves on drive space and is less difficult to transmit
wirelessly. Probably most important of all, it has an excellent
tagging system.
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mvalera;323850 Wrote:
The new SqueezeCenter 7.1.0 release is now available...
The free Pandora and the new Last.FM support are really quite a big
deal. Thanks so much for these enhancements! I'm really looking
forward to showing these to the family!
Lerch
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Hi DejanM, welcome to the forum.
FLAC is a lossless compression format, which means that there is no
quality loss whatsoever when using it to store music. It has the
advantage that it can be properly tagged, which is important when you
are storing your music on a computer.
When a lossless
Same here. Very annoying to have to keep turning the volume back up to
100%
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thing-fish;324552 Wrote:
The free Pandora and the new Last.FM support are really quite a big
deal...
The new Last.FM support What exactly is new with the support of
Last.FM? What differs from todays Audioscrobbler and Squeezescrobbler?
For me Audioscrobbler reports my Local media (to
ScottoG51;324189 Wrote:
Thanks for your replies. I already had already tried manually changing
the screensaver options ... and had ensured that SuperDateTime was
working (on my 2nd player and on Softsqueeze). What finally solved my
problem was resetting the player #1 preferences back to
I would prefer my party mode to have the option to be more strict. If
it's at any party I usually have- the problem is that -some- people
accidentally clear the playlist cause they don't know what they're
doing. And then -some- people think they've got better music in mind
than what's playing,
trotsky10;324501 Wrote:
I had trouble and have reverted back.
I am on windows XP and running IE 7.0.5730.11 and upgraded from 7.0.1
to 7.1
The web interface was all over the place with menu misalignments.
Always clear your browser cache when you see things like this. The web
layout has
I'm running Mac 10.5.4. and now I can't get my sirius plugin or slacker
to run; wont accept my password! This is nuts! I 'll think twice about
the next download.
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Gerry.
When you ain't got nuthin', you've got nuthin' to lose
layout has changed very subtly,
Glad to hear you think so. Because I've basically rewritten all of the JS code
(and there's a lot of it!) to make it better managable and reusable, plus
adding some minor new features. Seems I didn't break too many things :-).
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morberg;324478 Wrote:
So tell me again why you lock up your movie bits on spinning discs but
not your music bits ;) (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Mostly because even if I really like a movie I won't watch it more than
a few times. So, spinning discs are fine for that. Music is different.
There
x94blair3;324342 Wrote:
For example HD streaming movie content rarely (ever?) includes HD
audio sound. In reality, that's one of the most impressive aspects of
my blu-ray entertainment experience. The surround affects are amazing.
Digital delivery effectively eliminates that.
And yes, I
Similar problems here. Works fine for awhile, then I will get the
dreaded blue Icon then it freezes. I have to take the battery out
and restart. It's a pain. Your right, for $299, this should work
seamlessly
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Gerry.
When you ain't got nuthin', you've got nuthin' to lose
mherger;324580 Wrote:
layout has changed very subtly,
Glad to hear you think so. Because I've basically rewritten all of the
JS code (and there's a lot of it!) to make it better managable and
reusable, plus adding some minor new features. Seems I didn't break too
many things :-).
What I
FredFredrickson;324567 Wrote:
I would prefer my party mode to have the option to be more strict. If
it's at any party I usually have- the problem is that -some- people
accidentally clear the playlist cause they don't know what they're
doing.
Well, the warning should be able to take care of
FredFredrickson;324567 Wrote:
Also- is there a way to enforce only adding one song at a time? I don't
want people to accidentally add an entire album to a party list...
Or an entire Artist, or Genre, or Year :)
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FredFredrickson;324567 Wrote:
Someone also mentioned an idea of making (+) add to the end of the
list, and clicking (play) adding as next in the list. This sounds like
a decent default action, more than just party mode...
I think that would be me :o)
In my opinion the only way a playlist
Between WAV and FLAC, FLAC no question.
File sizes are just over half the size of WAVs, plus FLAC supports
tags.
Of course if you are an Apple user (Mac/iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPod Touch
etc), Apple's ALAC format is probably a better option.
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Pale Blue Ego;324584 Wrote:
No, you're right on the money. Blu-Ray is all about high-quality sound
and vodeo. Streaming video is about delivering a quasi-watchable
product in the least number of bits.
Not sure I agree completely with this. I can stream HD 1080p BD rips
fine connected via
Had this for several months now, had no problems at all. Excellent
gadget, just wanted to post something positive after reading these
forums for months on end and reading other people's problems.
just a problem with genre tagging but thats for another thread,
no big deal anyhow.
done the
After having installed SC 7.1, it has now made it alot easier to use
Last.fm through your SB however I have a quick question.
When I click on Last.fm on my SB and it requests to you to enter an
artists name, I do so but then are given choices of play similar
artists and something else, is there
Hi,
Thanks for your answers. I read in a Slimdevices Users Guide for Duet
that when the files are stored in WAV format they will be internally
transferred into FLAC and then converted further to get SPDIF stream on
the digital output. Something completely opposite to what I would expect
... My
I believe if you start w/Free Lossless Audio Compression (FLAC) it will
stay that way through the process. This is speculation, but starting in
WAV w/no compression and compressing it to FLAC on the server then
uncompressing it at the client (if that's what happens) should not
result in any
I second this- I have been very happy with my squeezebox.
The frustrating part is troubleshooting my own home network. Hardly a
problem for logitech, but it's easy for people to get mad and blame you
guys when the application at hand (squeezebox) isn't working properly,
despite the cause.
The
Agree completely, 95% of the time it all works fantastically well!
Zevs
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what ya mean with clean install?
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Yes - aside from the occasional network issue, which is nothing to do
with Logitech, my SB3 and Duet are best bits of hi-fi kit I've bought
for ages - and certainly the best value.
It's transformed the way I listen to music - and opened up internet
radio for me greatly.
Keep up the good work
DejanM;324610 Wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for your answers. I read in a Slimdevices Users Guide for Duet
that when the files are stored in WAV format they will be internally
transferred into FLAC and then converted further to get SPDIF stream on
the digital output. Something completely opposite to
This FAQ tells you how to do a clean install of SqueezeCenter:
http://slimdevices.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/slimdevices.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=8380
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Siduhe;324496 Wrote:
itm, apologies for not going back over all your posts on this topic, but
are you running the headless version of MusicIP?
If so, there are a couple of things I can suggest - first, you may need
to do a full clear and rescan in Squeezecenter for files which have
iwalker wrote:
I will have to live without the fancy Duet remote, but I believe this
product is fundamentally flawed, as it appears to offer very poor
reception compared with TP, probably as it does not have external
aerials.
You got one of the reasons correct, the TP has two giant antennas.
I think that almost all of these suggestions would work. I just don't
want people pressing the play button and wiping out the entire play
list. :)
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Flac - 60% of the size, same audio quality, proper - useful - tags.
That's all there is to say.
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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 Vibrations S/W -
Doesn't do this in 7.2.
When exactly does it revert?
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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 Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC
V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm
raaurora;324439 Wrote:
A little more concerning, I think, is the original poster being told to
do a clean install which wiped out his library and plug-ins...for
naught. I had a problem connecting to Rhapsody about two months ago
and the tech I spoke to wanted me to do a factory reset and
Ditto for me as well. It's been a snap to set up and in general has run
smoothly. Very sporadic network issues but I'm a happy customer. I'm
running mine on a windows home server. I'm about to set up a similar
system on linux for a friend...
kudos to logitech for the device.
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Hi
I just installed 7.1 and I *think* I like the new Fwd/Rew
functionality. ;-)
However I did find that if I press Fwd or Rew (so that the track
progress bar dispays) and then soon afterwards press Vol up/down, then
the Vol bar seems to clash with the progress bar and it results in a
flicker
Steven Moore;323838 Wrote:
is it possible to use an external hard drive or a computers hard drive
to store and play music on the Apple Tv?
There are two ways an AppleTV plays music:
1. From its internal hard drive.
2. Streaming from a computer on the LAN via wifi or ethernet
Although it
mortslim;324695 Wrote:
There are two ways an AppleTV plays music:
1. From its internal hard drive.
2. Streaming from a computer on the LAN via wifi or ethernet
Although it has a USB port, I don't believe that can be used at present
for an external drive.Now don't take this wrong, but
For some reason my SB3 has stopped streaming a radio station that I
listen too frequently. It worked up till about last weekend. The radio
station is Z88.3 from Orlando, Florida. I stream it through RadioTime.
Can someone do me a favour and see if they can stream this station ok?
If you browse
Another strange one this with the new Fwd/Rew scanning behaviour that
only happens intermittently.
I'm playing track #2. After some Fwd and then Rew within the track,
playback pauses for a few seconds. Then it goes back to the Now
Playing screen and it restarts with track #3 - even though Now
These forums are like hospitals, you won't find too many healthy folks.
Those who aren't having any problems don't come around.
I haven't had a problem with my duet at all save for McAfee blocking
access to certain files. And that's wasn't a Duet issue at all.
Four receivers and a
But SqueezeNetwork has no problem finding it. Anybody have any insight?
Would like to get SC running so I can take advantage of iPeng.
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I just changed the setting that treats TPE2 tag as band and it triggered
a scan as I figured it would. I was listening to lastfm and figured it
would not affect it but it shut it down for a couple of minutes before
I was able to get back on. I wouldn't think a scan would affect non
library type
Hi,
I do not care at all for Album art, so can I switch off album art on my
Controller so I get more room for the album name and artist?
Thanks,
Edwin
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Have you tried accessing Squeezecenter from the SB? Using the remote.
I've had that happen before if I was on Squeezenetwork and then started
Squeezecenter and that fixed it.
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No down time since I bought it in Jan. I've had some issues with tags
not working as I thought they should but just a difference of opinion,
and the issue of replaygain not working right if you have both
replaygain tags and Itunes soundcheck tags in the same file. But the
main thing is no down
That did the trick, thanks so much for the insight.
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Just in case anyone else is reading this thread, the reason it wasn't
showing was probably because you needed to restart Squeezecentre.
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pipo1000;324729 Wrote:
Hi,
I do not care at all for Album art, so can I switch off album art on my
Controller so I get more room for the album name and artist?
Thanks,
Edwin
Sorry, not yet. It's very much on the radar for a fix:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5376
dsendecki;324716 Wrote:
These forums are like hospitals, you won't find too many healthy folks.
oh, i like this one :-) to be fair the treatment is definitely high
quality (compared to other forums)...
back on-topic: i really like my SBC, especially because features get
continously added
The issue brought up the by OP and the issue I raise above are resolved.
If you bring up the page with the player settings, you will see forget
player on the basic setting page.
I'm so happy that my player doesn't automatically disappear when the
playlist ends. Though I grew used to it, it was
My next task is to buy a windows home server,just at the moment is not
one good enough. Looked at the hp smart media server, but uses to much
power and the product is to be updated soon so i'm waiting.
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music
I'm building an interface to work with C-Bus HomeGate. It's going
really well - the CLI is very easy to work with.
One requirement is to display the next five songs that are queued up
to play behind the current one - ie, the five songs next in the
playlist. At the moment, I am doing this with:
seanadams;324436 Wrote:
Sorry, my bad. I misinterpreted what you were saying as that you had
deliberately obtained some newer version of the firmware to use with an
older version of SqueezeCenter. You have to manually edit some files to
make that happen, it's not something that happens by
Have you considered a Linux-based server? SC performs better on a Linux
platform than it does on a Windows based platform, so if speed is a
consideration it's definitely worth looking into.
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Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable,
monkeys can be taught
In a similar fashion I am seeing all my Last.fm 'Recommendations'
scrobbled when I listen to Last.fm. I'd like to stop that - other wise
the recommendations will end up as a self fulfilling prophecy!
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Ok. Thanks guys ... you convinced me ... Therefore, FLAC here i come ...
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I have a WHS (HP MediaSmartServer) and SqueezeCentre performs flawlessly
on it. Plus WHS has lots of nice easy to use functions for management
etc. WHS is a good way to go for people who don't want to deal with the
complexity of Linux.
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PC World are selling SB3s (SB Classic) for £129.99 using their reserve
over the internet and collect in store option.
Here in the West Midlands I had to travel a few miles to Wolverhampton
as they had none locally in the Telford store or at Stafford.
Looks like a hard price to beat currently.
A good point about the AC mains, and perhaps my 'fundamentally flawed'
comment was a bit strong! This was born out of frustration that I
couldn't get mine to work.
Good to hear that some people are enjoying the Controller.
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iwalker
Hi all,
I own a SqueezeBox Duet that was working fine for the past few weeks.
Today I fired up my Duet controller and I saw a new firmware update
which I installed. I installed yesterday on my PC the SqueezeCenter
7.1. After installing the latest firmware 2722 for the SqueezeBox Duet
I attempted
these days there is no more complexity in Linux than there is in
Windows, just about everything is point and click.
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Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable,
monkeys can be taught to cut code, and world peace is utterly
unrealistic...
Integrating MusicIP
This is the first time the new firmware caused problems for me on a Mac
running 10.4.11 (Power PC):
1. Every server settings stick -- would not save -- made changes but
when save changes cliced everything jumped to before.
2. Followed the clean install instructions (in another discussions
here)
I have been trying to set up my squeezebox Duet for several days.
I keep losing the connection to my SB (Controller gives all the
messages you can read in this Thread. Sometimes I get a connection but
that lasts for a few minutes. If I try to play songs during that time I
get the blinking for a
I noticed over last weekend that there were none in my local west London
PC World - which is unusual.
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