It dosen't stick, never has - most people only clear and rescan if they
have a problem.
ahm... it now does. I changed this behaviour last week.
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I am running the release build of SqueezeCenter 7.2 on Kubuntu.
Everything has been fine up until now.
I had a playlist playing. When the song changed (i.e. audio changed),
the display on my SB3 still showed the previoulsy playing song. I
turned on my laptop and had a look at the web front
Hello,
I'm using the squeezebox duet, but if find the battery life very short.
After about 5 hours out of the cradle, and only using it a few times for
changing a radio or the volume, it's already showing red icon for
battery life. And after 8 or 9 hours I found the controller was
shutdown and
Philip Meyer;344856 Wrote:
SC music folder path, I have done this.
Where are you reading that from? Some wiki page? I don't know why
that is. I think that is bad information. SC supports more formats
that MusicIP and potentially reads more tag data.
I believe this was suggested to a
Forgive me as a Newbie - I know this topic has been discussed at length
before, but I just need simple clarification...
As with many people I would like to run a squeezebox from NAS, as
having a PC on is too power hungry. I already have such a device - a
300gb Maxtor Shared Storage plus, which
at the Hardware section of this forums, where your questions have been
answered a number of times.
regards,
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You know, anyone that has a car that is so quiet that they can tell the
difference between a 320kbps mp3 and a flac file should have people
that can make sure their system works well for that car. Other than
that, mp3 at that level or even less should work just fine.
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a few threads).
Sorry if I'm being blind ...
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I think the sb3 Classic rules. You would have to throw the whole duet
in to make a trade for me and maybe some cash my friend. The SB3 is
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JonWill wrote:
Forgive me as a Newbie - I know this topic has been discussed at length
before, but I just need simple clarification...
As with many people I would like to run a squeezebox from NAS, as
having a PC on is too power hungry. I already have such a device - a
300gb Maxtor Shared
Emusic is also good for electronic, rock and indie, but not so much
chart stuff.
Re TescoDownloads, you can burn these to CD and then rerip them to
legitimately get around the DRM restrictions on the WMA files. There
are programs which will semi-automate this process for you, however (at
least
JonWill;345094 Wrote:
Sorry - I can't find the hardware section - I have searched the forum,
and can't find a definitive answere on UPnP (and I have trawled through
a few threads).
Sorry if I'm being blind ...
J
Third party hardware:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18
(Hope this is not in violation of the rules -- couldn't find anything
--, if it is, please delete.)
Just replaced one of my Squeezeboxes with a brand-new Boom, and
therefore have one for sale.
It's the SlimDevices-branded v3 model with silver front panel, and it's
in excellent condition. About
Hi, I have a brand new controller + receiver (duet). So far I had and
SB3, and it was displaying properly the Chinese names of the
artists/titles for my Asian music (ripped in FLAC). Squeezecenter also
displays properly (I upgraded to 7.2). But on the controller screen,
the Chinese characters
What do I need to parameter to have the controller work properly ?
We officially don't support Chinese. The font we're using on the Controller
doesn't feature CMJK characters. But if you search the forums, you'll find a
workaround by using a different font from your computer.
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aubuti;344307 Wrote:
Most ripping tools deal with these things automatically, substituting
more-or-less satisfactory valid characters for reserved characters. Did
you create the ...Something to Be directory manually or with a ripper?
Or did you rip on one OS (eg, Windows) and then move it to
http://www.linnrecords.com/index.aspx
Linn's catalogue may or may not be to your taste, but there is quite a
lot of music there available in FLAC.
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Bruce Hartley;344720 Wrote:
Just got myself a squeezebox controller and this question has occurred
to me again.
How easy is it to get Squeezecenter to control my Denon Reciver using
it's telnet interface ?
With the SBC/SBR this would be hard.
The SBR has no way to interface with the
Should put a for sale price.
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After about 7 hours of effort, I finally got it going. I probably spent
6.5 of those hours staring at a blank white screen. What is that
supposed to mean? On the second of the three firmware/controller
updates I got a message about a bad MAC address.
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No idea what that means, although I'm guessing it's not a case of the
MAC address being noughty :)
personaly I would contact support, that is what they are there for.
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I've just done another test, and after 6 hours the controller was
already off and saying battery low, please charge me on startup.
Is this normal ?
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JonWill;345094 Wrote:
Sorry - I can't find the hardware section - I have searched the forum,
and can't find a definitive answere on UPnP (and I have trawled through
a few threads).
Sorry if I'm being blind ...
J
No worries, it is the 3rd party Hardware subforum
Nonreality wrote:
You know, anyone that has a car that is so quiet that they can tell the
difference between a 320kbps mp3 and a flac file should have people
that can make sure their system works well for that car. Other than
that, mp3 at that level or even less should work just fine.
If
I'm just not on the same page as the Slim designers.
I want my now playing screensaver to be the real now playing screen -
as if the screensaver code has pushed the home button enough times to
get to now playing.
So - if it's real easy for someone to point me at the lua code to hack,
including
I'm getting a similar problem although I'm not exactly sure where to
check the SC logs...
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I am also looking for something like this. It sounds like there are
probably too many 'close enough' alternatives to warrant a new device
to be created by Logitech.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52858
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JJZolx;344974 Wrote:
Huh? PDAs have been around for years.Yeah, they've sucked for years too.
I've yet to find one that performs
acceptably and reliably. They're forever needing to be reset,
reconfigured or having synch issues etc.
JJZolx;344974 Wrote:
Yeah, but that doesn't change the
Has anyone had problems streaming music from Pandora/Slacker? I can
play the streams from either fine but at a random point during the
playing of songs, the music will stop and give the following error. I
am runnning the most recent softsqueeze packaged with SC. Any ideas on
how to get to the
I have to disagree that you can't tell the difference between 320vbr and
lossless in Cars. It really depends on the car and the amount of road
noise transferred to the cabin.
My current cars factory head unit play wma lossles native off a USB
key. I did a back to back comparison between
Jeff Flowerday;345208 Wrote:
I have to disagree that you can't tell the difference between 320vbr and
lossless in Cars. It really depends on the car and the amount of road
noise transferred to the cabin.
With all due respect, that's just plain audiophile gibberish.
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Having somewhat reluctantly to update from 6.3.1 (the last working
server software for me) in order to use the latest addition to my SB
collection (this time a Duet), I expected Perl problems with getting SC
7.2 to work, and this seems to be the case and I'm stuck. Any help would
be welcome.
Nonreality;345095 Wrote:
I think the sb3 Classic rules. You would have to throw the whole duet
in to make a trade for me and maybe some cash my friend. The SB3 is
the best. :)
...I'll throw in my kids. The one in Cornell may cost you a bit :-)
I went ahead and just ordered one. I'll
After hangin' out in this forum for a couple of years I don't know
exactly what the definition of audiophile is. I just know that in my
own driving experience on the california freeway system, I can barely
hear myself think much less discern the difference between an mp3 or
lossless audio file.
The receiver will accept command either by Telnet or by HTTP through
it's network port.
I figured either:
a) I get the SBC to send the commands to the receiver.
Initially volume up down, and power on / off would be more than
enough.
b) I get the SBC to send commands to the Squeezecenter server
I think this might be:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6143
I produce the package for Gentoo and as a workaround I have to install
my distribution's GD package and then run build-perl-modules.pl.
Stuart
ioncube wrote:
Hi
Having somewhat reluctantly to update from 6.3.1 (the last
Is this Linux? If so, what distro and arch? Sometimes the easiest way
to get GD is to install it from a repo for your distro instead of
compiling it...
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North America
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exile;345216 Wrote:
After hangin' out in this forum for a couple of years I don't know
exactly what the definition of audiophile is. I just know that in my
own driving experience on the california freeway system, I can barely
hear myself think much less discern the difference between an mp3
Howard Passman;345214 Wrote:
...There are more important things than having these little boxes
spring up all over the house.
Howard
Blasphemy!
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exile;345210 Wrote:
With all due respect, that's just plain audiophile gibberish.
Define audiophile for me, please?
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Thanks for the quick replies. It's derived from SuSE 10.0 on x86-64, but
I've made various source updates since then preferring to do that than
stick rigidly to RPMs, particularly when Novel sometimes push out bogus
builds (e.g. their PHP 5.1.2 build).
I did just install GD and got past the
Thanks Michael,
I don't want to be too hard on you, because you apparently truly are of
great help to this forum, and first I thank you for your answer.
I did the search (now with more success than before posting since you
gave me the way to look) and I will try the fixes, even if I understand
gbruzzo wrote:
Hope this gives you a couple of pointers. As far as UPNP is concerned -
it does not really apply, inasmuch as you must always have some machine
on the network running Squeezecenter - in this respect SlimDevices are
different from, say SONOS.
SD have announced UPNP support
Precompiled versions of these required perl binaries are included with
SC in CPAN/arch/... You might want to first try starting SC with
--d_startup to figure out why your installation can't seem to find
them.
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Chinanico,
I saw that on February 25th you commented on this subject with We plan
on adding a better font to support Asian characters in the future., on
March 17th you replied to the question When will the controller
support Chinese by This I don't know, and yesterday you stated We
Turns out the wireless was dying on my router. Replaced the router and
problems are solved. :)
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Check eBay for an idea of what they are selling for. Looks like right
around $200 USD.
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This has been an ongoing glitch since I first purchased my SB3. None of
the SlimServer / SqueezeCenter upgrades have fixed it, nor has reading
the manual.
What would cause only the first song to play when choosing All Songs
from the album list within any artist? I can scroll through the list
Bruce Hartley;345217 Wrote:
I figured either:
a) I get the SBC to send the commands to the receiver.
Initially volume up down, and power on / off would be more than
enough.
I believe someone has worked on getting LIRC ported to the SBC, but it
didn't seem to get too far.
There is an
It should last a bit longer than that. I've left mine out of the cradle
for a day or two. I generally leave it in the cradle when I'm not using
it to make sure it is charged.
Does it wake up often? If you have the screensaver set to a long
timeout, and move it around a bit it will wake up.
Fletch;345237 Wrote:
Precompiled versions of these required perl binaries are included with
SC in CPAN/arch/... You might want to first try starting SC with
--d_startup to figure out why your installation can't seem to find
them.
--d_startup doesn't help that much, but looking in CPAN/arch
Jeff Flowerday;345208 Wrote:
I did a back to back comparison between lossless and 320kbps vbr and was
actually surprised that I could hear a difference. Then you made the good
choice. Everybody should test for oneself. ;) Jeff Flowerday;345208 Wrote:
My last car had DVD-A support and it
ioncube;345257 Wrote:
--d_startup doesn't help that much, but looking in CPAN/arch gives some
clues. CPAN/arch has directories 5.10 and 5.8 for
x86_64-linux-thread-multi. After downloading most of the modules,
5.10.0/x86_64-linux was created. So I'm suspecting that the Perl build
isn't
luga00;341672 Wrote:
A couple of weeks ago some tracks started to jump song position,
skipping to around a minute or two further on into the track - again
completely randomly.
This morning I noticed that one of these skips was accompanied by a
loud burst of static (sort of white
That's not at all proper behavior. Sounds like faulty hardware to me,
I'd look to getting that replaced.
cheers,
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bpa;32 Wrote:
To get CPU and memeory usage top is the usual tools but I don't know
if it is available for your NAS.
If items are greyed out in Settings/Filetypes then it is either
a. There is no rule in convert.conf or custom-convert.conf
b. The applications specified in the rules in
SuperQ;345248 Wrote:
Does it wake up often?
Everytime i've tried to left the controller out of the cradle.
The screensaver delay is set to 10 seconds. Do i have to change
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Still confused about this, I can listen to live commentary on my PC over
the internet, but not via my SqueezeBox over the same internet
connection. How come?
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Internet Radio Fans,
If you haven't already done so, it might be a good time to call or
email your US senator (www.senate.gov) and ask them to support the
Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008. This bill gives more time for
webcasters (such as Pandora) to negotiate with RIAA on the royalty
rates.
If you own a Smartphone with an unlimited data plan with a service
provider that has a 3G network or a Smartphone/PDA with WiFi you can
check out Conduit Pocket Player 3.7.
http://www.conduits.com/products/player/ You can connect to ShoutCast
via Pocket Player and easily interface to Shoutcast
I just pulled up the synchronize menu in Squeezecenter (SC 7.2 on Win
XP)and noticed it only listed the first 14 players with no button to go
to a second page. How do I get to the rest of my players when setting up
synchronization?
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Oh your going to be sick of me! :-)
Does the patch work with 7.2.1? I updated and now seem to have lost the
features? tried reverting to 7.2 and still no joy.
Not done a full wipe and reinstall as i'd rather not lose everything,
but I have tried reinstalling the patch many times.
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Thanks - I didn't know this function before! Is there anything similar
from the default WebUI?
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Hi Andy, still standing by for a fix. Let me know if there's further
debug information that I need to provide.
BTW, thanks for your sincere effort to get this resolved soon,
Michael
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Can someone, please, verify for me that your SB3 player screen updates
the track info when switching to the next track while playing a Slacker
station via the SqueezeCenter (not the SqueezeNetwork). I've been using
the latest SC7.2.1 and SC 7.3 with the same bad result. Anyone?
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Are you saying the latest 7.2.1 nightly didn't fix the problem?
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justreturned;345303 Wrote:
Thanks - I didn't know this function before! Is there anything similar
from the default WebUI?
I'm not sure if this works with the current SC (and don't have SC
available now to test) but you should try the ?moreThanThis=1 trick,
as described here:
Yes Andy. I hope you dont take this the wrong way, but did you look at
the Debugview and server.log output after upgrading to 7.2.1?
andyg;345312 Wrote:
Are you saying the latest 7.2.1 nightly didn't fix the problem?
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tamanaco;345310 Wrote:
Can someone, please, verify for me that your SB3 player screen updates
the track info when switching to the next track while playing a Slacker
station via the SqueezeCenter (not the SqueezeNetwork). I've been using
the latest SC7.2.1 and SC 7.3 with the same bad
Michael,
Its difficult to see what is causing these requests. Could you enable
control.command debbugging on the logging web page and then post what
you see in the log.
Thanks
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It's probably time to contact support. They are best equiped to help you
with your problem:
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_tech.html#email
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No one able to add random play to the favorites menu?
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toby10;345320 Wrote:
Mine is functioning fine via SC7 with Slacker. All songs artists
listed on SB3 and Boom from Slacker as it should.
SC7.2, XP
EDIT: Yes, skips too.
I'm going to test going back to 7.2... Maybe the latest 7.2.1 and 7.3
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That feature is currently broken:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9097
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Hi Andy, I have looked and looked, but I cant find any documentation on
how to enable control.command logging. I have also searched all over
the web interface for logging features. Can you please tell me where
to turn this on and where to grab the information?
Thanks!
Michael
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If you go to the Settings screen in the SC7 web interface and select the
Player tab, and then select Basic Settings from the drop down you
should see a setting near the bottom of the page for Play other
songs... which will toggle the two choices.
davep
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Filed a bug on this:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9608
Did you try a different skin like the classic one?
Mike
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Same thing with today's SC 7.2 build... What Firmware version are you
using in your SB3 and what SC7.2 build? I'm using firmware version 112
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I would contract support for help on this in both your instances:
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_tech.html#email
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tamanaco;345344 Wrote:
Same thing with today's SC 7.2 build... What Firmware version are you
using in your SB3 and what SC7.2 build? I'm using firmware version 112
SqueezeCenter Version: 7.2 - 22900 @ Tue Aug 26 11:27:23 PDT 2008 -
Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Player Firmware Version: 112
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Where are the directions to enable control.command debugging and how to
retrieve info?
I have searched all over the forums and google; but, can't find any web
page that describes how to simply turn on control.command debugging and
where to retrieve the output.
Thanks in advance for the quick
Sync is also accessible from the Player Settings, though the semantics
are different. If you're using the main page pulldown, sync means
take control of. On the player settings page, it means play what
that other (group of) squeezebox(es) is playing.
Where are the directions to enable control.command debugging and how to
retrieve info?
I have searched all over the forums and google; but, can't find any web
page that describes how to simply turn on control.command debugging and
where to retrieve the output.
Settings-Advanced-Logging.
Bloody hell, I should have seen this coming.
I get this e-mail from Logitech :
We hope you are enjoying your Squeezebox or Transporter. At Logitech,
our first priority is you our customer. We want to make sure your
Give more details.
1. What URLs used.
2. Was the Squeezebox direct using SqueezeNetwork ?
3. WHat were you using on the PC ?
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Bot FAAD and MPlayer use the same libraries so there should be no
difference in the quality of audio decode.
FAAD only decodes AAC so it is much smaller and possibly more efficient
but there is minimal maintenance.
MPlayer is a swiss army knife application - it can handle lots of
codecs and
The logitech logo on the Boom is far better than the one they put on the
Squeezebox Classic.
+---+
|Filename: boom-vs-classic-logo.jpg |
|Download:
The logo sucks, the Slimdevices logo was freaking good.
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funkstar;344996 Wrote:
Slated for SC7.3.
Audio playback will be required in the SqueezeOS for SqueezePlay as it
is going to be the replacement for SoftSqueeze as a desktop player.
Awesome, I feel like doing a happy dance.
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ASS-Ware;345351 Wrote:
I did not choose Logitech, I would not have chosen Logitech, and I did
not give Logitech my e-mail address.
How the f... dare they ?
Did you give Slim Devices your E-mail address? Did you fill out any of
your warranty cards? Did you leave your e-mail for notice of Slim
iPhone;345362 Wrote:
Did you give Slim Devices your E-mail address? Did you fill out any of
your warranty cards? Did you leave your e-mail for notice of Slim
Devices updates? Have you bought any other Logitech products or
products from other companies Logitech has aquired?
Logitech now
There's a little program for Windows that can act as a nice interface
and alternative to Denon's Web GUI.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=949351
There has not been much development lately though.
It basically communicates via Telnet. Kinda what one would want SC to
do.
Also,
Thanks so much!
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Thanks again Michael, I understand your position, and I am glad to hear
it is still an objective for you to solve this issue. I also needed to
vent a bit since it came as a shock to me.
I installed the fonts (simhei), it was easier than I expected, and it
is kind of acceptable: Chinese
My Slimserver info is:
SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12568 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Server IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt
Squeezebox Player firmware is 4.0
When I save current playlist, I get a playlist file which is
Went back all the way to the earliest SC 7.2 build I was able to quickly
find 23230 09/21/08 - Same issue - Xilink reset and factory reset the
SB3 against both the SC 7.2 and 7.3 builds - No dice. When back to the
earliest SC 7.3 build 23170 09/13/08 - Maybe next time. I sat and
starting looking
SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12568 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Server IP address: 192.168.1.153
Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt
squeezebox player firmware version 4.0
When I save playlists I get a 1kb file. Last playlist I saved prior to
upgrading
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