Re: [slim] Apple lossless or FLAC?

Thanks guys for the good advice!! I will stay with iTunesripping and Apple lossless then! :-) Hopefully someday there will be just as simple to rip to FLAC and organise music and pictures of CDcovers as it is using iTunes. I understand that FLAC is superior to anything else, but I am not

Re: [slim] $65 shipped, Logitech Harmony 550 Remote

I have one, and it works fine with my SB2/3's -Chris On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:56 PM, MrSinatra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: go here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16880100771nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL091608cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL091608-_-UniversalRemotes-_-L8C-_-80100771 and at the

Re: [slim] 7.2 Duet/Music Library/Music Folder/

You say you have constantly installed and reinstalled. But you don't say if you've uninstalled. It might be best to entirely uninstall your current SlimCenter/SlimServer program and make sure you do it *entirely* (best to check for and delete the directories Program Files/SlimServer and Program

Re: [slim] 7.2 Scanner Crashing- Error Log

You made my day :) Temporarily deactivating the anti virus software resolved the problem with the same error message as above. Now I have just to find where to set rules for exclusions :) -- taconaut taconaut's Profile:

Re: [slim] Do not buy any Squeezebox products, my advice!

egd wrote: iPhone;340681 Wrote: You have had it over three months and haven't asked for much help. Did you e-mailed or called Tech Support for help? Funny that you didn't use the 30 day no questions asked return policy.I did the same thing - I bought it based on my experience with multiple

Re: [slim] Apple lossless or FLAC?

telecaster wrote: Thanks guys for the good advice!! I will stay with iTunesripping and Apple lossless then! :-) Hopefully someday there will be just as simple to rip to FLAC and organise music and pictures of CDcovers as it is using iTunes. Make sure to complain to Apple about that. I

Re: [slim] Do not buy any Squeezebox products, my advice!

peter;341022 Wrote: Howard Passman wrote:[color=blue] peter;340849 Wrote: SB's aren't really for youngsters. They become interesting when you own a house and want to listen to the same music in many locations. Regards, Peter What youngsters are you talking about? I use mine in

Re: [slim] Apple lossless or FLAC?

telecaster;341259 Wrote: Thanks guys for the good advice!! I will stay with iTunesripping and Apple lossless then! :-) Hopefully someday there will be just as simple to rip to FLAC and organise music and pictures of CDcovers as it is using iTunes. I understand that FLAC is superior to

Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter won't play certain tracks

This sounds exactly like the problems that I have been struggeling with with my SC7.2 Boom. The only difference is, that you say that your files does not contain any special characters. I have filed a bug report about my problems here : http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9488 Regards

Re: [slim] How do you use your Squeezebox Controller?

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Re: [slim] Do not buy any Squeezebox products, my advice!

peter;341274 Wrote: With 64 posts to just this forum in the last month or so, one would think you could've found a spare 15 minutes ;)If 15 minutes was all it took I might have had the inclination. -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys

[slim] Last.FM Streaming

When I am connected to SqueezeCenter and I use Last.FM does the actual music stream go from the Last.FM servers to the SqueezeCenter server then to the SqueezeBox or does it go directly from the Last.FM servers to the SqueezeBox? Thanks -- elziko

Re: [slim] Apple lossless or FLAC?

If you're anal about the ripping the safest way is probably using Exact Audio Copy. iTunes will not give you bit-perfect rips even thou the difference would not be audible. The catch here is that EAC is win-only so if u don't happen to have win accessible (for ex installed on ur mac) ur out of

Re: [slim] SqueezeCenter won't play certain tracks

I have the same problem (with special character) and I have updated bug report with my investigations. -- Garko Garko's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19986 View this thread:

Re: [slim] RadioIO Station Order

I would think that the appropriate place to do the sort would be on SqueezeNetwork or SqueezeCenter side, not from the feed. Sorting the feed names is more a display function than a data function. My guess is that the current routine is outputting the feed names as it reads the XML. If the

Re: [slim] Squeezeboxes are constantly losing wireless connection

Yes, the original post did, however, my log file is not showing any errors since yesterday [I had a few with the WeatherTime plugin but removed it and it resolved; the dropouts were not correlated with the plugin errors] The Squeezeboxes are still all (3 of them) randomly resetting. I have an

Re: [slim] Apple lossless or FLAC?

igroucho;341307 Wrote: thou the difference would not be audible. Have to disagree, I ripped a CD to ALAC when I was just on itunes and the last track sounded horrible, badly distorted and the orchestra sounded as though they were in a wee tin box. Re-ripped to FLAC using dBpoweramp and

[slim] Duet Controller wont wake up !

Usually you'll get a please wait message when you leave the duet controller laying, it then reconnects to the network. This Duet controller has the buttons enlighted, but if I move it, or press the buttons it doesnt wake up. You then have to remove the battery, and restart it. It was doing this

Re: [slim] Last.FM Streaming

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], elziko[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I am connected to SqueezeCenter and I use Last.FM does the actual music stream go from the Last.FM servers to the SqueezeCenter server then to the SqueezeBox or does it go directly from the Last.FM servers to

Re: [slim] RadioIO Station Order

Gregory Walters;341212 Wrote: Greetings, I am Greg Walters from the tech support dept of RadioIO.com. At this time what is displayed on the Squeeze box is a direct read from our XML stream, The streams are listed in the order that they were brought on line. I will mention it to our

Re: [slim] MusicIP implementation - bit odd?

I've made an enhancement request for the seemingly simple change I'd like to have made to creation of a MusicIP mix Simply it's this. When using the Controller... if you hit the play button whilst selecting Make MusicIP mix from a currently playing track it adds the mix as a playlist directly

Re: [slim] FF Rewind using 7.2 ROCKS

+1 for original post, and +1 for the configurable advance suggestion above I can see there may have been some value to the original approach for a few use cases, but it never worked well enough for me to bother and the original functionality was not what unfamiliar users expected to see (in my

[slim] Wts: Brand New Apple Iphone 3G 16gb (Unlocked)

Contact Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Price: $350usd Features Specifications: i - PHONE 3G Size and weight1 Height: 4.5 inches (115.5 mm) Width: 2.4 inches (62.1 mm) Depth: 0.48 inch (12.3 mm) Weight: 4.7 ounces (133 grams) Color 8GB model: Black 16GB model: Black or white Capacity2 8GB or 16GB

Re: [slim] Do not buy any Squeezebox products, my advice!

Nonreality;341286 Wrote: What youngsters are you talking about? I use mine in one location and, yes I'm not a youngster but it would have been perfect when I was one. My son loves it and he is 15. It would be great for anyone that wants to integrate their computer and stereo and not just

Re: [slim] Squeeze controller losing network connection

pablolie;341074 Wrote: the controller, however, will drop from the network after some time. always. keep using it and it will be ok, leave it unused and after a while it will have to be turned off and on again to rejoin the party. QUOTE] Same here. After the controller is unused for

Re: [slim] HELP SB3 SS what happened now?

Fixed. Just reloaded SS 6.5 and all is well. -- mapatton Mark Sony XBR5 / Pioneer Elite VSX-94THX / Panasonic DMP-BD30 / Toshiba HD-35A / Pioneer Elite DV-48AV / SqueezeBox 3 / SA 8300HD / all with a Pronto TSU7000

Re: [slim] Squeezebox: Can't open file: WMA files only

i'm having the same problem with 3 SB2s working against both squeezecenter 7.2 and slimserver 6.4. this just started with this radio station: http://www.kuow.org/multi.asx . prior to a a month or so ago it had been playing fine--i figure they must have changed something on their end. the

Re: [slim] Squeezebox: Can't open file: WMA files only

If you want you can file a bug and attach a short file that doesn't play. WMA is a tricky format in that if you don't have the header, you can't play it. Not sure how WMP does it in that case. Anything capturing WMA streams should be able to properly save the header, since it's sent at the

Re: [slim] Announcement Squeezecenter 7.2

I load 7.2 and it worked great. The one problem I had is the MLB plug-in was not compatible, so I went back to 7.1. Does anyone know when the MLB plug-in will be upgraded to be compatible with 7.2? -- dewinkle

[slim] Duet Controller lock up

Anybody know whether there is an issue with the latest Duet controller software (7.2r2873)? - when I try to access Artists who have multiple album entries the controller freezes and eventually reboots - if not then it looks as if my controller is bust - annoying as all else works OK --

[slim] Some questions about playlists

Hi, i have some problems with my playlists on the duet. bevor i have bought my duet i have a partion F:\ with all my mp3s on it. Now i have a NAS and i copied all my mp3s to my NAS and shared it on a network folder F:/ So it's the same like befor. With Winamp my old Playlists are working fine -

Re: [slim] Some questions about playlists

A playlist is just a list of textual links to the music on your drives. As you have discovered, in order to find the music, SC needs to see the path to the files in the same way that it sees the path to your music files. What I'm not clear on from your email is what the path of your music

Re: [slim] Artwork (sort of) missing in 7.2

brucegrr;341231 Wrote: Daren, Same problem here. A new music scan does not show some of the artwork for the new music. The artwork is there because when I click on the link for the album the album art shows. A complete rescan fixes it. This has only happened for me in 7.2. I am not

Re: [slim] Some questions about playlists

Hi, yes thats what i think, too. on the squeezecenter the path to my music is /volume1/music/album/song.mp3 on the playlists the path is F:\album\song.mp3 I don't think i can change the path in the squeezecenter in F:\ because the NAS don't know the F:\ (this is just the name of the shared

Re: [slim] Apple lossless or FLAC?

maybe I should have written in most cases not audible. Anyway, this is a persistent topic of debate... -- igroucho igroucho's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10207 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Apple lossless or FLAC?

MuckleEck;341321 Wrote: Have to disagree, I ripped a CD to ALAC when I was just on itunes and the last track sounded horrible, badly distorted and the orchestra sounded as though they were in a wee tin box. Re-ripped to FLAC using dBpoweramp and AccurateRip and it was perfect. Interestingly

Re: [slim] Some questions about playlists

I don't think it would be as hard as all that to update the playlist every time. Are you on Windows? I used to have a tiny utility (freeware) which will do the find and replace for you - it doesn't run automatically - you would still need to tell it you've updated the playlist and then run the

Re: [slim] Duet Controller lock up

I filed a bug reporting a similar symptom, but a different cause I think: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9461 You could add comments regarding your situation. If you have an SD card, you could follow the log capture procedure they outline to capture any data that might be helpful

Re: [slim] MusicIp causing a rescan - why?

hmmm well I don't understand at all what is happening with this, I did take away again the MusicMagic folder and replaced it once more with Phil's new improved plugin. After doing that I can't any longer see the option Read Song Data, it has just disappeared from the plugin settings. Strange!

Re: [slim] Controller doesn't reconnect to network after sleep

MrSinatra;341233 Wrote: am i right in thinking there are 3 colors? white, red, and blue? what is the technical explanation behind each color? also, are there ever any other icons displayed? like less bars or something else? White is connected, red is no wireless connection, blue is

Re: [slim] MusicIp causing a rescan - why?

Hi Zevs [EMAIL PROTECTED], Very strange. no idea why, but why else were the tracks that were not mixable this morning mixable now in the evening ... with no intervention by me In the MusicIP settings, there is an option called MusicIP Reload Interval. If this is not 0, SqueezeCenter

Re: [slim] Come BBQ with the Squeezebox and Pandora crew

The problem with the UK is no summer ... and no summer, no BBQ :-( -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Apple lossless or FLAC?

I gave mediamonkey a try. It looks like a serious alternative to iTunes. However, mediamonkey does not seem to manage my movies and video podcasts (not to mention iPhone applications and ringtones). So I'll stick with iTunes for now. Furthermore, mediamonkey only runs on Windows. In other words

Re: [slim] $65 shipped, Logitech Harmony 550 Remote

i bought one, looking forward to seeing what it can do. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.2b - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's

Re: [slim] Some questions about playlists

hi yes i use windows. so if you find the search and replace tool it would be very nice if you can send me the link where i can download it. you are right, this should not be a big problem to modify the playlist in this way that the duet can read the format. Thanks a lot for your help Best regards

Re: [slim] 7.2 Duet/Music Library/Music Folder/

thanks for the reply! i will give it a shot! thanks. ModelCitizen;341269 Wrote: You say you have constantly installed and reinstalled. But you don't say if you've uninstalled. It might be best to entirely uninstall your current SlimCenter/SlimServer program and make sure you do it

Re: [slim] Some questions about playlists

You have private mail. -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? -Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...- (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen)

[slim] Show audiobooks ONLY in Music Folder view

Hi all I have all my audiobooks in a folder called audiobooks, all the rest is is a folder called music. Is there really no way to show the folder audiobooks ONLY in Music Folder view (directory browsing), and NOT in the artist/album view? I already tried the ignoreDirRE setting in

Re: [slim] Come BBQ with the Squeezebox and Pandora crew

I was in UK this Year, we had at least 6 Barbies in 5 Weeks. So no Problem with that. Just be prepared for short showers. But I would still prefer a location on the kontinent! Greetz Audiodude -- surly Emotions are in the music not in the gear...

Re: [slim] Squeezeboxes are constantly losing wireless connection

In case this helps anyone: I've found that disconnecting my 1TB from my AirPort Extreme solved the problem, no clue as to why... -- macattack macattack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3193 View

Re: [slim] Come BBQ with the Squeezebox and Pandora crew

This Free BBQ cost me nearly $600. (my duet was lonely at home so picked up a twin and a lil' brother Boom) And it was worth every penny. Very successful event. Good food...good chat...great opportunity to swap tips with other users and staff. -- Mr. Resistor

Re: [slim] Google Chrome new browser

same here: 1) password prompt 2) blank page after that 3) the source is also chopped off 4) no errors in the log -- lrossouw -* 'Recently Played on my Squeezebox 3s' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw/charts/?charttype=recenttracks) *-

Re: [slim] Google Chrome new browser

deactivated password on my squeezcenter and then something loads on chrome. problem though is that the default skin is garbled other older skins work fine. -- lrossouw -* 'Recently Played on my Squeezebox 3s' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw/charts/?charttype=recenttracks) *-

Re: [slim] Squeeze controller losing network connection

pablolie;341074 Wrote: the controller, however, will drop from the network after some time. always. keep using it and it will be ok, leave it unused and after a while it will have to be turned off and on again to rejoin the party. Good point. When i turn off the duet (both SBC and SBR) and

[slim] SB Duet: Controller stop working. Pls help!

Hardware: - WEP wireless network using Actiontec MI424WR - WPA2 wireless network using D-Link 655 - ReadyNAS with latest firmware and SC 7.2 - SB Duet - SB Boom My situation: - Upgraded SC on ReadyNAS (included in new ReadyNAS 4.1.3 firmware). Rescan music library. After that: - SB Boom has been

Re: [slim] Come BBQ with the Squeezebox and Pandora crew

Mr. Resistor;341538 Wrote: This Free BBQ cost me nearly $600. (my duet was lonely at home so picked up a twin and a lil' brother Boom) And it was worth every penny. Very successful event. Good food...good chat...great opportunity to swap tips with other users and staff. You did better than

Re: [slim] Apple lossless or FLAC?

I used itunes to load my CD's simply because I could set up a couple of machines and just feed them CD's. No other intervention. Just set itunes to load/eject and turn-on Use error correction when reading audio cd's -- pski

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox Power On Issue - Constantly Trying to Connect to Suspended SC

I agree (strongly) that this needs to be fixed. But please don't introduce more controversy by (talking about) doing something involving automatically issuing a WOL packet when the SB powers on. If I want my server to wake up, I'll tell it myself thanks, and using the Power button on the remote

Re: [slim] Choose player not working?

Yep... happens with me too.. from the first time I started softsqueeze that happened. I'm afraid to start it now. My controller exhibits all kinds of weird stuff from day to day causing resets and reboots. Right now I can connect the controller to sqeezenetwork but it won't connect to my pc

Re: [slim] 7.2 Duet/Music Library/Music Folder/

no dice. i have no clue what else to try! it has to be this update! -- mollymoo mollymoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16836 View this thread:

Re: [slim] MusicIp causing a rescan - why?

Philip Meyer;341482 Wrote: Hi Zevs Zevs.3fw7oz1221673501 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com, In the MusicIP settings, there is an option called MusicIP Reload Interval. If this is not 0, SqueezeCenter will look for new changes in MusicIP at that interval. I suggest you set this to 0.

Re: [slim] Choose player not working?

I did not use SoftSqueeze (it is in my Extra folder), yet I could still not choose any player from my SB Duet controller after upgraded to SC 7.2. Meanwhile, my SB Boom has been working perfectly, so far. Any suggestion? Can the controller be RMAed back to Logitech for an exchange? -- d60pdp

Re: [slim] SB Duet: Controller stop working. Pls help!

Bug reported: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9529 -- d60pdp d60pdp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19121 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52755