Re: [slim] Announcement: SqueezeCenter 7.1.0 Now Available

Softsqueeze seems pretty unreliable with Squeezecenter 7.1. It's never wholly stable at the best of times, as described in some other posts from me and others, but now it seems horrible. Running under openSUSE 11.0 on a Dell laptop it constantly loses connection to the server, the softsqueeze

Re: [slim] Slimserver Apple Time Capsule

chopper38;330974 Wrote: Ok this is what I want to do... A. Link up my slimserver to a wireless hard drive via usb or ethernet and access my music without having to turn on a laptop to control everything. B. Use a Macbook to wirelessly access a hard drive and view files. C. Use a

Re: [slim] pretty close to smashing my transporter to bits

ratso wrote: thanx eric! i read the above mentioned forum thread and have a slightly better idea of what to do now. i will try to encode my files as wav's and see if that helps. it might also have to do with what channel my router was set on (someone else suggested this). i will report

Re: [slim] Slimserver Apple Time Capsule

shake-the-disease wrote: It look like you are after 2 things 1) a file server 2) an application server to run squeezecenter. As a file server you could use any NAS, timecapsule being one option As an application server to run squeezecenter, you could either double duty a NAS (such as a

Re: [slim] pretty close to smashing my transporter to bits

ratso;331061 Wrote: thanx eric! i read the above mentioned forum thread and have a slightly better idea of what to do now. i will try to encode my files as wav's and see if that helps. it might also have to do with what channel my router was set on (someone else suggested this). i will

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

damager;331065 Wrote: Just did this same test on mine - I have 39,000 songs and just under 3000 albums. I started my controller, went to Music Library, then Genres, then Rock. 3-4 seconds later I had my list. I consider that to be pretty damn good. Nice speed, its fast sometimes on mine

Re: [slim] endless cycle of firmware updates

You get this behaviour when you have SC 7.01 running and switch to and from the SN. The SC 7.01 pushes older firmware to your receiver than the squeezenetwork. As soon as you install 7.1 this problem goes away, but ofcourse 7.1 has it's own share of problems. I would be carefull with flashing

Re: [slim] Volume drops.

geodezic;331029 Wrote: I too am having volume issues with 7.1 SC. I have noticed recently while listening to last.fm the volume changes from one track to the next. Pretty significant increases. Additionally, the music stops for no apparent reason. Did you experience this as well? All I can

Re: [slim] Internet Radio is all Hiss now

try connecting directly to SqueezeNetwork, this will eliminate the SqueezeCenter variable. Sounds like an odd problem though. -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this

Re: [slim] Anyway to get an SB1 to work with 24bit FLAC?

radish;330944 Wrote: According to the docs it looks as if you should be able to use --bps to set the output sample size. http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_tools_flac.html#format_options That sounds like it would work. I did have a look yesterday, but missed that option :) --

Re: [slim] endless cycle of firmware updates

hasemike;331079 Wrote: You get this behaviour when you have SC 7.01 running and switch to and from the SN. The SC 7.01 pushes older firmware to your receiver than the squeezenetwork. As soon as you install 7.1 this problem goes away, but ofcourse 7.1 has it's own share of problems. I

Re: [slim] LG Dare

Do you have any other web servers on your PC that run on Port 80? If not, there is no reason you can't change the SC7 port to 80, making your mobile provider think you are just accessing a regular site. Even if you do it temporarily, it would be good for trouble shooting. -- funkstar

Re: [slim] Anyway to get an SB1 to work with 24bit FLAC?

funkstar;331083 Wrote: That sounds like it would work. I did have a look yesterday, but missed that option :) Not sure but I think you could use dbpoweramp to convert to a format that would work. Actually any program that can convert. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO

[slim] Simpler Toggling Between SqueezeCentre SqueezeNetwork Please

On the old SqueezeBox firmware you could choose to toggle between SqueezeCentre SqueezeNetwork from the root menu. You now have to go Settings Music Source SqueezeNetwork. I want to feedback my disappointment to the makers. Before I do I would like to know if anyone else finds this annoying.

Re: [slim] SC 7.3 !! Link (BETA)

7.3 has been around for a while. As virtualy all the code is public, you can see all the planned development branches well before they are being actively worked on. I think at the moment 7.3 is pretty much the same as 7.2, I don't think any of the major code changes that are planned for 7.3 have

Re: [slim] UK Power Supply

radish;331040 Wrote: if it's just Input: 110VAC then you'll need either a replacement or a step up transformer (not step down!). No, it will be a step down transfermer. Stepping down from 240v mains to 110v of the power supply. There will also need to be a frequency adjustment there too, UK

Re: [slim] endless cycle of firmware updates

For Rhapsody it's best to install latest 7.2 nightly -- y360 y360's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51310

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

Unless you are using a low-powered PC the help you get here will solve your snappiness problems. It might be useful for you (as a new user) to supply feedback about why you found the interface (UI) unituitive, and exactly what you found intuitive about it. The most remarkable thing about the

Re: [slim] Simpler Toggling Between SqueezeCentre SqueezeNetwork Please

On the old SqueezeBox firmware you could choose to toggle between SqueezeCentre SqueezeNetwork from the root menu. You now have to go Settings Music Source SqueezeNetwork. I want to feedback my Did you reset your players? The menu should not disappear :-/. What exact version are you

[slim] Non default language for duet controller?

I want another language on my duet menu than the default ones (English, Danish, ..). My family are not so good in English, so it have been better to have the text in Norwegian. Have tried to look around for solutions, but have not yet found one. So if any of you could point me in the right

Re: [slim] Anyway to get an SB1 to work with 24bit FLAC?

Nonreality;331089 Wrote: Not sure but I think you could use dbpoweramp to convert to a format that would work. Actually any program that can convert. Yeah, that would work too, but then it would leave you with a 16bit file for all players. Adding the --bps:16 argument to convert.conf means an

Re: [slim] Another can't open Slimserver question . . .

OK - found the problem. No idea why but the IP address of my NAS had changed ! Only noticed when I connected the SB3 again and this time noticed that a 4 had changed to a 5. Changed the path to the web lookup and all is fine. -- liffy99

[slim] Understanding Replay Gain

Ok - now that I've recorded loads of music, I notice even more than before the huge volume differnces between albums. Looking at some tracks on Audacity I can see that some have been maxed to the nines during the production process - all high level with little dynamic range (e.g. Keb Mo's

Re: [slim] Simpler Toggling Between SqueezeCentre SqueezeNetwork Please

It has been on my main menu and if it's not not then it's not hard to change it. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's

Re: [slim] Non default language for duet controller?

I want another language on my duet menu than the default ones (English, Danish, ..). My family are not so good in English, so it have been better to have the text in Norwegian. SC 7.2 (due out in a week or two) will have Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish added. -- Michael

[slim] Don't do this if you use Rhapsody.....

Using my DUET, I synchronized my receiver and SoftSqueeze while playing Rhapsody. At first it just gave me some strange behavior, but after a while the SB quit playing Rhapsody all together. Eventually, I started receiving an error message on my Controller when I tried to play Rhapsody that

Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain

liffy99;331117 Wrote: Ok - now that I've recorded loads of music, I notice even more than before the huge volume differnces between albums. Looking at some tracks on Audacity I can see that some have been maxed to the nines during the production process - all high level with little dynamic

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

I agree that the system can be very slow sometimes. To a point where it is annoying. I have an album containing about 300 songs (top40 1966). It takes almost half a minute to display the songs of that album on my SC. The same when i browse the files using Folder display. For normal albums with

Re: [slim] pretty close to smashing my transporter to bits

Hi, Do you use your Airport Express as a client (new firmware on 11n model) or as an AEBS client? Previously I used the airport express as a bridge (like you're doing) to my squeezebox and my ps3. It didnt last. I found it could handle streaming of AAC 192 without problem, but Apple Lossless

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

pimd;331127 Wrote: I agree that the system can be very slow sometimes. To a point where it is annoying. I have an album containing about 300 songs (top40 1966). It takes almost half a minute to display the songs of that album on my SC. The same when i browse the files using Folder display.

[slim] The Jamacian guy?

Not sure if that is spelled right but what do you think of the Jamacan that won the 100M and the 200? In the 100 he looked around 2/3's of the way and looked liked a stroll in the park. I've never seen anything like it. Every race he looked like he was just jogging at the end. When he won the

[slim] server software

Currently running SC 7.1 on old P3 1ghz 512mb ram - Windows Server 2003. No problem using, but a bit sluggish, viewing the processmanager i find that it is the CPU running at 100% often. Memory seems ok. Does anyone have experience with that hardware for SC? Will I experience faster response if

Re: [slim] Visit Mountainview?

Whoa! I wished I lived nearby; otherwise I'll certainly like to view the production of these slim devices that I love! -- Osten Osten's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19428 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain

Thanks Nonreality - very clear explanation. I've used Foobar 2000 to add replay gain (as single album option) to a Keb Mo recordimg - overall level reduction of 9.04 db (yikes). I'll listen later but assume that the level of this album will now be 9db below many others so I just need to wind the

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

Nonreality;331136 Wrote: It's not the database it's how the network handles the database in my opinion. I have 17k in songs and like I said it is fast at times and other times it takes forever. I think it has to be the network and what ever stage it's in at the time you query. Then again

Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain

liffy99;331154 Wrote: I remember the good old days when the source was the source and we all spent many happy hours tweaking and changing equipment to get the best out of it. Now not only do the manufacturers keep changing the platforms but seems they also mess up the source itself.

Re: [slim] server software

What is SC7 doing when it hit 100%? Only scanning should hit the processor that hard for any prolonged periods of time. Obviously DB accesses and processing of web pages will spike it, but they shouldn't cause too many issues. What format is your music in? is it being transcoded to another

Re: [slim] Visit Mountainview?

Or make a trip to Switzerland. It's the same price as in the US and you can smuggle it easier :) .. oh yes and it's closer. http://www.toppreise.ch/prod_135478.html -- Sike Sike's Profile:

Re: [slim] server software

100% for a second each time I click on the web-browser to view Albums or Artists. No problems but only a bit sluggish. Would prefer a more instant use of SC in web-browser, but maybe I would need hardware upgrade then, but was wondering if maybe Linux would operate faster. Using Flac. --

Re: [slim] endless cycle of firmware updates

OK, I've dowmloaded the 7.2 Nightly build of Squeezecenter and am installing it now. Later today I will try it and see if the constant updating stops. I usually don't use Squeezecenter, so it's not a real problem for me. 99% of the time I'm using Squeezenetwork with the computer off. --

Re: [slim] The Jamacian guy?

Jamaican. He was awesome - don't like that word but I think that this time it's justified :) I wonder what his world record 100m time could have been if he hadn't been looking around during the last 30m? It was a bit strange to have one shoe untied. I suppose he could be in danger of clipping

Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain

I'm not necessarily a fan of Wikipedia, but this is worth a read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war -- Skittler Dave. SB3 -- Cyrus 8vs -- PMC FB1 Duet -- AudioEngine A2 Skittler's Profile:

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

Hello everyone, And first of all thank you for the many replies and understanding attitude. Many times if you post something with a negative undertone (I'm not satisfied) to a dedicated forum, you most often end up with emotional defensive attacks from them so called fanboys. Anyway. What I've

[slim] SC 7.1, MusicIP headless and album art

I'm running the above combination and importing my library exclusively from the MusicIP headless cache. I'm storing album art as folder.jpg. I get no album art on artist or album listings, but of course it appears when viewing a specific album and SC manually checks for art. I *am not* using

Re: [slim] endless cycle of firmware updates

yes 112 is latest -- y360 y360's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10150 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51310 ___

Re: [slim] SC 7.1, MusicIP headless and album art

installation due to its love of crashing. Any ideas on why I'm not seeing art? No, but maybe your scanner log would have some hint? -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Anyway to get an SB1 to work with 24bit FLAC?

Nonreality;331089 Wrote: Not sure but I think you could use dbpoweramp to convert to a format that would work. Actually any program that can convert. That would of course work, but I would rather not have to keep multiple copies of music for different players. I am not sure the --bps flag

Re: [slim] Music folder scan failing

I am English but based in the US. This is really odd. If you read above you will see I had a slightly screwed up installation. I had an old Slimserver directory where my favourites were (unbeknownst to me) and. sqeezecenter directory. Listen Again was working fine until yesterday when I 'cleaned

Re: [slim] Simpler Toggling Between SqueezeCentre SqueezeNetwork Please

If I remember rightly there is already a bug raised for this issue and they do indeed plan to make it easier. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM !

[slim] SBC battery cover creak is beginning to drive me crazy

I guess I should count myself lucky that this is my most serious Squeezebox problem at the moment, but the battery cover of my SBC has begun to creak every time I press a button, and it's really annoying. I think it's a plastic-on-plastic issue: The cover doesn't fit quite as snugly as it

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

Jooseppi;331176 Wrote: - Software side is an open system that has to work in conjunction with who knows how many applications (AV, FW and so forth) and who knows how badly maintained OS's Yes. SC has to work under Windows, Mac and Linux. From what I can see on the forums, in terms of speed

Re: [slim] SBC battery cover creak is beginning to drive me crazy

Mine's been doing it from day one...the overall build quality is pretty poor - the battery lid has play and squeaks as your palm closes around it when pressing buttons etc. I also own a Harmony One and it's fair to say that the build quality by comparison is in a different league altogether.

Re: [slim] SBC battery cover creak is beginning to drive me crazy

Had the same problem, solved by putting some ( unused :-) ) handkerchief tissue paper on top of the battery. Cut and fold to size of the battery just high enough to still be able close the cover whith a little pressure. -- Letten

Re: [slim] The songs are there but not showing...

thanks for the reply.. The files seems correct and are all on the right place (.flac, apple lossless and mp3) so I can't understand why the squeezecenter cant find NIN (i think NIN is the only one not showing) -- toydoll

Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain

liffy99;331154 Wrote: I've used Foobar 2000 to add replay gain (as single album option) to a Keb Mo recordimg - overall level reduction of 9.04 db (yikes). Try a Red Hot Chili Peppers album...-12 dB across the board. I'll listen later but assume that the level of this album will now be 9db

Re: [slim] endless cycle of firmware updates

Nonreality;331085 Wrote: Well it shouldn't act this way should it? You act like this is normal but it's not. It should update and then stop until another update. I really don't think there is any problem with updating but it's not normal to do it all the time. Edit: Call support if it

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

Jooseppi;331176 Wrote: Did any of you watch the youtube clip of Sooloos? Isn't that UI just mind blowing? Aesthetic, ultra snappy, intuitive.. truly a Human Interface Device. Jooseppi, may I suggest that you use Squeezecenter on your computer for a while. For instance on the Home screen

Re: [slim] Urg! Pandora may be shutting down?!

Yeah, everybody's excited about the last.fm radio, and pandora, and what not- and, sure, they're great features! It's always best to have more choices. That being said, there's no reason to use anything but rhapsody. Full library- channels (radio stations). You can even create your own stations

Re: [slim] SBC battery cover creak is beginning to drive me crazy

Thanks! I tried your tissue fix, and the creak is just about gone. I'll add another layer when I have time and see if that doesn't get rid of it completely. I had thought about putting something in there - another foam square, maybe - but it never occurred to me that tissue might work. Much

Re: [slim] The Jamacian guy?

I think he purposely slowed down so that he would get more money by setting better world records in the future. -- Philip Meyer Philip Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=95 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Don't do this if you use Rhapsody.....

Yes, this sucks. Let me utilize this opportunity to show my support, again, for rhapsody in squeezeplay. I know that it's in license negotiations at the moment (or something like that), but again RHAPSODY I PLEAD WITH YOU!! It's a darn good idea, I'll need a second rhapsody account! --

Re: [slim] SBC battery cover creak is beginning to drive me crazy

a small, thin piece of sponge glued to battery lid cover may solve problem as well. -- auronthas Auronthas Tajima Power Conditioner #61614; Squeezebox 3 / Cambridge Audio 540C V2 #61614; VDL The Source / AQ Copperhead (current) #61614; Cambridge Audio 540A #61614; Chord Carnival Silver Plus

Re: [slim] SBC battery cover creak is beginning to drive me crazy

A small dollop of blu-tac worked for me. :-) -- simbo simbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11481 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51330

Re: [slim] Urg! Pandora may be shutting down?!

FredFredrickson;331213 Wrote: That being said, there's no reason to use anything but rhapsody. Well, there is... if you don't live in the US. Others have to make do with last.fm (in UK or Germany) or nothing at all (other countries). Consider yourself lucky to have the choice! ;-)

Re: [slim] SBC battery cover creak is beginning to drive me crazy

Look at this thread : http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45758highlight=squeak A small piece of tape solved the problem. -- Kim.T HP T5700 Thin Client running FreeNAS + SqueezeCenter 7.1 Synology DS-101j / Samsung SpinPoint T133 HD400LD 400 GB - now with 92 mm fan TViX HD

Re: [slim] The songs are there but not showing...

Random suggestion: The missing album is accidentally tagged as a compilation album, and you have group compilation albums together setting engaged? Do you find the album under Various Artists in the Artist List? If this could be your issue, you need to set the compilation tag to COMPILATION=0.

Re: [slim] Anyway to get an SB1 to work with 24bit FLAC?

m1abrams wrote: Nonreality;331089 Wrote: Not sure but I think you could use dbpoweramp to convert to a format that would work. Actually any program that can convert. That would of course work, but I would rather not have to keep multiple copies of music for different players. I

Re: [slim] Urg! Pandora may be shutting down?!

Agreed - I used to think Subscription Services users were crazy as I built my ultimate mp3 collection. Then I signed up for Rhapsody just to give it a try - and I'm hooked. Everything is there, the shared playlists are great, and I don't have to acquire / catalog / tag / store / backup music

Re: [slim] SB3 and Wake On LAN

It sounds like the SC7 system supports WOL and is correctly configured Is your SB3 connected using wired or wireless ethernet? Is you server connected using wired or wireless ethernet? If one is wired and the other is wireless then the wireless bridge could be the cause of the issue. With the

Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain

liffy99;331117 Wrote: Can I do this with files that are now stored in FLAC format ? What software would I need ? Any other tips ? All you need is the metaflac tool that comes with the normal FLAC software. I wrote a simple shell script to go through all my album dirs and add the tags if none

Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain

H - very interesting. One thing that still has me a little baffled is this concept of clipping. If I look at the waveform of a recording (say for that Red Hot Chilli peppers stuff) I assume that the peak levels will still remain at or below 0db. So it can't clip can it ? The only clipping I

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

Hi, I'll answer some unanswered questions. I don't have the Controller at all. I bought only the Receiver and set it up with net-UDAP. I'm on XP SP3 and a well resourced computer (X2 5000+, 2GB 800, 7200rpm). I can later on, when I have more time, take some measurements of the exact times it

Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain

Anyone know for sure how to turn RG-adjustment off for -sure- when listening album-by-album? I listen to MusicIP mixes a lot - and RG's a godsend for mixes. But, when I'm listening to an entire album, I'm oft-times listening critically and want any volume adjustment -off-. It seems like this is

Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain

liffy99;331234 Wrote: One thing that still has me a little baffled is this concept of clipping. If I look at the waveform of a recording (say for that Red Hot Chilli peppers stuff) I assume that the peak levels will still remain at or below 0db. So it can't clip can it ? Well it can go

[slim] SoftSqueexe - suddenly unable to play MP3s?

This took me a couple of minutes to figure out, so I thought I'd share and potentially save someone else the confusion. If you find you can't play MP3s in softsqueeze, check to see if there's been a java update. Yep, mp3plugin.jar needs to be copied/moved from one ext to the current one. No idea

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

I should start by saying that I think these threads are interesting and the discussions worth having - there are enough people who have this immediate reaction that it's clearly an issue for some. However, it's very different from my own experience. I run SC on an old Windows PC (XP SP3) but

Re: [slim] Urg! Pandora may be shutting down?!

simbo;331223 Wrote: Well, there is... if you don't live in the US. Others have to make do with last.fm (in UK or Germany) or nothing at all (other countries). Consider yourself lucky to have the choice! ;-) What he said. Other countries outside the US are available (if you're listening

Re: [slim] The Jamacian guy?

Philip Meyer;331217 Wrote: I think he purposely slowed down so that he would get more money by setting better world records in the future. No, lol. He's good, but not that good. 100m was not his event, i dont think he was thinking of the WR, just that he had won when 200M is his speciality.

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

Jooseppi;331235 Wrote: Have any of you experimented with SSDs? You can DIY a very fast small SSD reletively cheap. Just get an ultra fast CF card (around 45MB/s, UDMA) and put in a PATA adapter and hoot up to computer. Those things are fast. The adapters cost under 10 dollars and 4GB cards

Re: [slim] Understanding Replay Gain

Maybe it's time for the RIAA to get back to its original charter and do for this what they did for vinyl. Not that I'm holding my breath. Meanwhile, it'd be great for places like allmusic to start adding the RG album peak/gain numbers for each album - along with a link to something that explains

Re: [slim] UK Power Supply

funkstar;331096 Wrote: No, it will be a step down transfermer. Stepping down from 240v mains to 110v of the power supply. You're right - brain freeze on my part :) There will also need to be a frequency adjustment there too, UK runs at 50Hz as opposed to 60Hz. I've never found any

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

With a moderate sized collection of 13,000 tracks, in about 1000 albums, I find performance very snappy. Perhaps it is my reference point: Instead of imagining a comparison of placing one cd in a player and pressing play (by which standard I would still say the interface on my hardware with my

Re: [slim] server software

If you're viewing the web page on the same PC that SC is running on it will be slow. It is acting as both client and server which takes more time. The biggest speed improvement I made was putting SC on a dedicated box. Page load times still take a couple of seconds, but it's much better than

Re: [slim] SoftSqueexe - suddenly unable to play MP3s?

I'm having all kinds of trouble with softsqeeze suddenly. What happened? I've been running SC 7.1 with no problems. Now if i try and start SoftSqueeze, SC comes and goes with music, and SoftSqueeze starts, but won't play music. Very frustrating. Does 7.1 have any issues with Softsqueeze?

Re: [slim] SoftSqueexe - suddenly unable to play MP3s?

i'm still trying to figure this out... Now i finally got everything working, with softsqueeze on the monitor, and superdate with some PGA scores running also. Then the music stops and i notice the scores froze also. Long story short, i then determined this has to be a internet problem, not SC

[slim] Auto-sync live streams?

I'm not sure if I've fully thought this through, so I'm posting here for feedback before I file an enhancement request. I'd like to see an ability to auto-sync players for live streams. The idea is that I could enable auto-sync for a group of players. Normally, they would act like unsynced

Re: [slim] server software

If you don't need this box as desktop and only as Squeezecenter box and perhaps as fileserver you might try FreeNAS + SlimNAS, probably the lightest setup possible. Ubuntu might already be much slower. I am using it on a VIA 800MHz box atm and performance is o.k., but I am still testing with a

[slim] Possible enhancement and/or plug-in: EQ?

Is there any chance of SlimDevices -- or a 3rd party -- creating a plug-in for EQ (similar to the one available in Inguz) that is able to be used in conjunction with the FF/REW functions or is this a technical impossibility? I know that, according to Inguz, it can not do so because it uses the

Re: [slim] Possible enhancement and/or plug-in: EQ?

The hardware (except the SB1) doesn't support EQ, so it would have to be done server-side, which involves a real-time convolver like inguz. Not a trivial task. If the player had a DSP it would be possible. -- Mark Lanctot

Re: [slim] The Jamacian guy?

autopilot wrote: Philip Meyer;331217 Wrote: I think he purposely slowed down so that he would get more money by setting better world records in the future. No, lol. He's good, but not that good. 100m was not his event, i dont think he was thinking of the WR, just that he had

Re: [slim] pretty close to smashing my transporter to bits

pfarrell;331063 Wrote: ratso wrote:[color=blue] Would your mom really demand more than MP3? Because MP3 is easy. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ :) anyways, i tried to change my file encoding to wav and... nothing. i mean really nothing. no noise. no music. switched all the

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

Hi I really need to comment here as I'm not always a fan of SC but the comparison to Sooloos is unfair. There are too many unknowns in that demo. A head-to-head comparison via browser interfaces running on the same hardware across the same network would have been more relevant. While the big

[slim] Home Favorites

Can someone explain to me how Favorites are used differently from playlists? Also, where are the Favorites stored? I am moving my SC to another PC. Is there an easy way to migrate all the settings? including Playlists and Favorites over? Thanks. -- WSLam WSLam Slim Devices Transporter - TacT

[slim] Problem with Live365

In the last few days I've been unable to play anything from Live365 - I get a Timed out waiting for data error. It plays fine from their website - anyone noticed anything similar, or have an ideas? I'm using SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0 - 17793 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252 and not changed anything

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

Jooseppi;331235 Wrote: And, if Sooloos can do it, SD should get close to it. Just a couple of comments on this statement. First, if you want EXACTLY what Sooloos is offering, then you should buy it. What? You don't want to spend that much? Then you shouldn't expect other products to have

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

Jooseppi wrote: Hi, I'll answer some unanswered questions. I don't have the Controller at all. I bought only the Receiver and set it up with net-UDAP. I'm on XP SP3 and a well resourced computer (X2 5000+, 2GB 800, 7200rpm). I can later on, when I have more time, take some measurements of

[slim] Volume adjusting with spdif?

I have my Duet connected to my Marantz SR8500 via coax spdif. I am wondering why i can adjust volume with Duet since I am using DAC of Marantz..doesn't Dqueezebox send only digital to Marantz? how can it adjust volume? -- capitano

Re: [slim] Don't do this if you use Rhapsody.....

FredFredrickson;331218 Wrote: Yes, this sucks. Let me utilize this opportunity to show my support, again, for rhapsody in squeezeplay. I know that it's in license negotiations at the moment (or something like that), but again RHAPSODY I PLEAD WITH YOU!! It's a darn good idea, I'll need a

Re: [slim] New user's experience on SC: Slow, unintuitive, generally not fun

I am AMAZED at how magnanimous the postings have been to what were essentially a set of whingey comments that probably didn't deserve any response. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile:

Re: [slim] Volume adjusting with spdif?

By scaling the data being sent down the wire. You can disable the digital volume control in settings if you want. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread:

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