ok, trademark rights... it does not change the nature of the problem.
you are right also about million of words... the statistic also says
that few people on this earth may overcome a hundred thousand limit,
most are below or much below ten thousand.
Please do not take me wrong. I am not to
WSLam;426573 Wrote:
Love iPeng!
But I have this one issue. There is a 'phantom' music source. No matter
what, iPeng lists it, but it doesn't exist! It's not listed under the
Additional Servers either, so I can't manually remove it. Any idea?
Interesting.
How is it called?
I'm seeing the
Cheers Sean, all the best for the future.
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Hey Sean
Thanks for everything. I still have my old slimp3 and often show it off
and talk about the good old Sweat Shop pictures you had up on the
original site.
Wow.. 9 years, time does fly. Thanks for coming up with a truly
innovative product, when home networks were a geeks-only affair. I
Sike;426594 Wrote:
Hey Sean
Thanks for everything. I still have my old slimp3 and often show it off
and talk about the good old Sweat Shop pictures you had up on the
original site.
Wow.. 9 years, time does fly. Thanks for coming up with a truly
innovative product, when home networks
Good luck Sean.
Slim devices have certainly enriched my listening experience. The open
source philosophy has also been the trigger for me (and others) to start
using Linux, and opening up the world of computing.
I was always impressed by the fact that you, the founder, would
personally
I feel like I am the 100th one to say so, but thank you for such an amazing
product, Sean. I cannot remember how many people I have told that my
Squeezeboxes (and Booms and Duets) are the best purchases I have ever made.
I am listening to my Boom right now. I love music, and your products have
seanadams;426566 Wrote:
True, but in other cases that have also asserted patents so broadly as
to effectively claim ownership of any RCA connector deisgn.
http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm
Monsters indeed!
Indeed. And boy did they pick the wrong victim on that occasion!
Thank you Sean, you changed a little bit my life with your great idea.
Good luck for all your future projects.
Regards,
John
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last.fm/user/jo-wie
Dear Sean, Thank You! Your product truly have changed my musical life.
Please do not forget us crazy so called audiofools and let us know you
next adventure. If it has anything to do with audio, we will come
running to you.
You should go join Naim or Linn, they could do with a lot of help
Sean, thanks for moulding a great idea into a product with a heart.
May your next journey be an enrichment to your life!
And may SlimDevices The Next Generation (the -people,- not the
legal construct) be worthy successors.
Live long and prosper. ;-)
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Just to chime in with the same mixture of thanks and sadness!
Congratulations on producing such a great series of products, and good
luck with whatever you decide to try next. I just hope that the
squeezebox team at Logitech can keep up your good work, and continue to
innovate in this area.
So who will be taking the helm of the streaming unit now then Dean?
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Moonbase;426610 Wrote:
Live long and prosper. ;-)
In this context: Qapla'
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jo-wie's
madsandrup;416125 Wrote:
So the only fix I have found for XP is to run powercfg every 3.
minute.
I have decided to try this as well to get my Eeebox to respond more
effectively. (I assume a better solution has not yet been found).
However, my problem is that when I schedule a task,
pippin;426587 Wrote:
Interesting.
How is it called?
I'm seeing the same on my Controller but never on iPeng, yet.
It's the IP Address of an old server...
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Hello Sean,
After changing our lives in much better
you deserve to change yours
congratulations
and good luck for the future
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WSLam;426618 Wrote:
It's the IP Address of an old server...
Which is no longer present on the network?
Now that's really weired. iPeng will show:
- The server you were connected to the last time (unless you use
forget last server)
- All servers that respond to the server discovery
- All
Sean,
You've done what most of us only dreamed of doing. Good engineers are
rare enough, but a good engineer who can build a company and design its
products at the same time --- priceless.
Do it again sometime, we'll be rooting for you.
Have a great break.
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Hi lhmperth,
I have created a vbs which will fire the powercfg command every 3.
minute.
Unpack the attachment, and place the file in All Programs - StartUp.
To help me convince Asus about this problem, I need a little help from
other Eee Box owners. So could you all please try pinging
I just -knew- I should've bought one of those Sean Adams signed SB3s...
Best wishes Sean.
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i'm thinking about getting some powered speakers to get rid of the need
for a seperate amp between my squeezeboxes and speakers.
are there any decent ones out there. doing a search on google and i
keep ending up with links to speakers designed more for PC's rather than
playing relatively good
AudioEngine makes some great powered speakers.
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I can't get Slimserver to work at the moment (see thread Slimserver
will no longer start (Mac)) so need to do a complete uninstall and
reinstall.
What's the procedure for this on a mac?
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I just bought a pair of Adam A5:
http://www.adam-audio.de/hifi/english/index.htm
Very good speakers for the price IMHO.
Plus I've got a pair of small Audioengine A2s for the bathroom, very
happy with these, too.
aguess;426643 Wrote:
also, do speakers exist that can plug directly into either
What price ?
Aego M are good value
http://www.acoustic-energy.co.uk/Product_range/Aego_series/Aego_M.asp
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pippin;426653 Wrote:
I just bought a pair of Adam A5:
http://www.adam-audio.de/hifi/english/index.htm
Very good speakers for the price IMHO.
Plus I've got a pair of small Audioengine A2s for the bathroom, very
happy with these, too.
Receiver has RCA out, that should work with most.
Another vote for the Aego M from me. They are excellent value for money
at about £100. See all the reviews here
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SP-000-AEtool=3
Quad do some at about £500 a pair if you want proper audiophile quality
Now that Sean has decided to move on (and I wish him every success), the
question springs to mind: has anyone been groomed to take his place on
the engineering side?
I may be wrong, but I always got the impression that Sean was the one
guy with a comprehensive understanding of the hardware
Dean Blackletter seens to be 'da man'. I hope he doesn't leave.
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I can only echo the positive sentiments of the posters before me. I was
initiated into your product family two years ago and now have four
different units, which enhance my enjoyment of both my local music
collection and the options available via the internet. Best wishes in
your future
aguess;426660 Wrote:
i guess £100-£400 sort of range :)
although the ones you link look nice, i really wanted to avoid having
to have a seperate sub, which kinda leaves me with a pair of largish
speakers i guess. something that looks smart and have what might be
considered a traditional
When my friends and/or family visit the Squeezebox is usually one of the
topics discussed. Thanks Sean, for such great conversation piece.
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If you have between £3,500 to £28,000 there are a range of DSP
loudspeakers from Meridian...
http://www.meridian-audio.com/product-model/loudspeaker-systems.aspx
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omfg, now they are awesome :D i'll bare them in mind for one day.
i'm actually starting to change my mind about powered speakers. none
of them are pretty in the tradional sense and size i want from a
speaker pair.
i think i might just get a small form factor amp (denon or cyrus
(already have
aguess;426677 Wrote:
i'm actually starting to change my mind about powered speakers. none
of them are pretty in the tradional sense and size i want from a
speaker pair.
What the heck are you looking for? You can get any kind of speaker as
an active one these days!
Have you had a look
pippin;426678 Wrote:
What the heck are you looking for? You can get any kind of speaker as an
active one these days!
Have you had a look at the link I posted. A full lineup, most of them
available as active speakers.
Wouldn't know what else you want.
EDIT: All of them available as
The PRS in the UK have announced a reduction in the costs paid by
streaming music services from 0.22p per track to 0.085p. It's hoped it
will encourage Youtube and Pandora back to the UK market.
I've really missed Pandora so I hope we hear some positive news soon.
aguess;426681 Wrote:
now just a little nervous about moving away from the classic
amp/speaker set-up that i understand :)
Fully understand that :-)
Just did it myself and I have to admit I'm happy with it.
I agree the A5's (which are derived from th A7 studio monitor) probably
don't fit
OK, this spate of new hardware coincides with Sean's departure, so what
might that tell us? It seems like Sean decided to stay through this
product development cycle before seeking new pastures. I postulate that
Sean's role has been diminished for quite a while, as Logitech continues
to release
Best of luck Sean, hope you are at least taking a bit of your well
earned rest before starting up anything new. Won't be the same without
you around here.
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avta;426689 Wrote:
Sorry I didn't get back to you on your other post. Here's what I do.
Right click the Squeezecenter icon in the System Preferences and select
Remove. Then open the MacHD and put Squeezecenter in the Search box in
the upper right corner and hit Enter then delete any folders
ATC has vide range both active and passive
http://www.atc.gb.net/
AVi has one digital active speaker :)
http://www.avihifi.co.uk/adm9.html
PMC has a bunch of actives.
http://www.pmc-speakers.com/productCats.php?mode=productCatscid=5
Dynaudios pro division has them to
WOL is still working for me, the only thing missing is the ability to
see and edit the mac that gets the wol package
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aguess;426677 Wrote:
omfg, now they are awesome :D i'll bare them in mind for one day.
i'm actually starting to change my mind about powered speakers. none
of them are pretty in the tradional sense and size i want from a
speaker pair.
i think i might just get a small form factor amp
Sorry I didn't get back to you on your other post. Here's what I do.
Right click the Squeezecenter icon in the System Preferences and select
Remove. Then open the MacHD and put Squeezecenter in the Search box in
the upper right corner and hit Enter then delete any folders or files
you find. Next
The SqueezeBox products are just electronic devices.
Yeah, and Shakespeare was just a writer.
Thank you, Sean, for having the vision, and then sharing it with the
rest of us. Congratulations on the great success of the products, and
best wishes for your next endeavor.
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Sean,
Thanks for changing the lives of so many music lovers. Best of luck in
your next endeavor!
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kesey;426715 Wrote:
http://www.cooltopia.com/product.php?xProd=15815xSec=1jssCart=162ede47964d0cd62ecb2ecb84a5464a
That looks pretty pretty to me:-)
Guessing from the fact that he found the A5 too techy I would guess
they don't look pretty to aguess :-)
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Pale Blue Ego;426702 Wrote:
OK, this spate of new hardware coincides with Sean's departure, so what
might that tell us? It seems like Sean decided to stay through this
product development cycle before seeking new pastures. I postulate that
Sean's role has been diminished for quite a while,
Sean:
I haven't been around the forums lately but I wanted to wish you best
of luck in whatever happens next!
You were very much appreciated for being around here and it will be sad
not to get info directly from the creator anymore.
Please keep us informed of your new endeavors, I'm sure many
Sean,
Thank you for creating these wonderful products (I love my transporter)
and good luck with whatever comes next.
Teus
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I was very involved with the slimserver back in the day, but I've been
distracted and haven't paid much attention to my squeeze system for a
few years, but I thought I'd dust it all off and modernize. I bought a
Duet to see how cool the new controller is.
My number 1 impression is that I'm
Thanks for keeping us informed and answering questions on the forum.
All the best to you and your family.
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Yes yes I know it's been asked before
But, would anyone care to consider my hypothesis that if SD came out
with a 'box' - think something like a NAS or a fitPC or mac mini (or
the sonos lump), Squeeze would be almost entirely on a par with Sonos?
BUT SD would have the added benefits of
Sean,
I wish to echo the thank yous of so many, I truly love my Squeeze
Boxes. I hope you do continue to post here, your replies to the posters
that had lost their way were absolutely classic.
Take Care and good luck with future endeavors.
JDB
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Try this link to Connected Acoustic
http://www.connectedacoustic.com/index.php
One week ago I've been ordering P1 Active Speaker from this company at
a special launch offer price, but not received it yet. By the way they
also have an amplifier (SRi) with a build in squeezebox receiver
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Good luck, thanks for all the help you've given myself an the community.
I remember the time after first moving to Mountain View that I was
driving around looking for the recycling center. I saw the SlimDevices
logo on a small office building, turned around and drove into the
parking lot. Sean
seanadams;426472 Wrote:
I wanted to let you all know that I have decided it's finally time for
me to part ways with Logitech. This has been a wonderful experience,
but it has now been nine years since I started Slim, and I have come to
a point where I just have to do something new again.
OK - my other big techie interest (purely as a lively consumer) is
electronic books. Now, I really rather like my Kindle - but the quality
of imagination and enthusiasm that audio products attract from
inventors, entrepreneurs, and engineers just is not there in the word
publishing community
Like most people, Squeezeboxes changed my life: removing the rote task
of swapping CDs and making The Giant Jukebox wishlist I had a million
years ago not only feasible, but practical. A nice clean UI, tons of
enhancements from the community, and it is still the best-valued
consumer electronics
Dear Sean,
Just to add my heart felt thanks for bringing my music collection alive
with Slimdevices' fantastic products.
Good luck in your future projects.
Kind Regards
Alasdair
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Don't forget Caleb!
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ain't what you'd call minimal...
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cliveb wrote:
I may be wrong, but I always got the impression that Sean was the one
guy with a comprehensive understanding of the hardware design. And I
also got the impression that he was the person who best knew some areas
of the firmware.
You are correct back in the early days. I never
My Duet combo enables me to access and enjoy my music collection in the
way I have wanted to be able to nearly all my life. Thank you Sean.
Damon
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iPhone;426460 Wrote:
He needs to learn or research a product before he states what it can or
can't do. The Squeezebox can do so much more then the Sonos anyday of
the week and there is only one thing Sonos can do that a Squeezebox
can't, and that is require one to us an expensive propriatary
Hey Sean,
Thanks so much for everything. As a customer since the original SlimP3
it's been amazing to watch the company and products evolve best of
luck in your future endeavors.
A once/still/future customer/user/supporter/enthusiast,
Steve
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cliveb;426667 Wrote:
I may be wrong, but I always got the impression that Sean was the one
guy with a comprehensive understanding of the hardware design. And I
also got the impression that he was the person who best knew some areas
of the firmware.
I'm not that worried regarding
It's a pure bugfix release that will do two things:
Fix the crash on startup when connected to a router without internet
connection
A Bug causing crashes when starting tracks while the playlist is
empty and that prevented playlist updates under some conditions.
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erland;426773 Wrote:
There is a risk the mass market route is actually better economically
for Logitech but it will probably lead to very different products
compared to what we have seen so far, products where price is more
important than sound quality.
I pledge to disagree on this.
I
Good luck with your new ventures Sean, and enjoy the break. The
Squeezebox has been the best audio investment I ever made - opening up
music like no other.
Thank you.
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andyg;413350 Wrote:
capable of full transcoding and SC runs great on it!
I would love to help out with developing on this, but before I order
one I need to get the transcoding clarified, I have as an absolute
minimum that it should be able to transcode flac - 320Kbs MP3 with
lame, is this
pippin wrote:
2. If you don't get out of the techie corner and create volume, I'm
afraid this will be pushed out of the market, after all this is too much
of a systems business to work in the niche alone
This is one of the key reasons that Dalmer-Benz bought Chrysler. Other
than the obvious
I hate the auto mac/IP WOL feature, works nicely on my local network,
but I also have a Boom in my girlfriends apartment, and there the WOL
does not work. I have to have a ASP script on a webserver to wake up the
Sqeecenter machine, would have been nicer if the Boom and other products
could have
Sean,
Sorry to see you go.
There are very few (no?) other firms where the founder took the time
and effort to reply to questions on a web forum. This set the tone for
the 'slim' approach, which has built up such a loyal following. It was
your no-nonsense answers to a number of frankly daft
pfarrell;426794 Wrote:
This is one of the key reasons that Dalmer-Benz bought Chrysler. Other
than the obvious easy access to Trucks/SUV and the Jeep line.
MB cars have a ton of advanced engineering, and they needed volume to
spread the engineering cost (NRE in the buzz). If they could
I am anxious to help as well, but I need to get a hold of one the stupid
things first :-) The Sheevaplug kits seem to be taking ages to get
delivered according to posts on plugcomputer.org. Even the Pogoplugs are
shipping in 1 to 2 weeks according to the company's website.
I still don't see the
pfarrell;426794 Wrote:
MB cars have a ton of advanced engineering, and they needed volume
to
spread the engineering cost (NRE in the buzz). If they could have
pushed
down their technology, such as yaw control, into the Chrysler cars,
the
cost would become a trivial cost of the
Goodsounds wrote:
pfarrell;426794 Wrote:
spread the engineering cost (NRE in the buzz). If they could have
This explanation is a bit mangled. R+D NRE
The difference between NRE and RD is more of an accounting terminology
ontology/theology argument. Which term you want to use is
pippin;426780 Wrote:
I pledge to disagree on this.
I believe that upcoming SD products need MORE not less mass market
appeal. For two reasons:
1. They need to come out of the techie corner. The whole architecture
needs a better integration UI wise or it will never be possible to sell
m1abrams;426823 Wrote:
... I can not see how you can eliminate that source of confusion without
eliminating the server.
Give them a unit with a SC server included. Let them attache their USB
drives and many are happy. I see how often people in the German forum do
ask to use their music files
Does Logitech's streaming media business unit make a positive IFO
contribution? Are year-on-year sales volumes increasing? Is there a
killer product in the development pipe-line?
These are more likely to determine the future of the SD eco-system,
than the entirely predictable departure of the
You've made my life (and my brother's, and my dad's, etc.) that much
sweeter. You've created products that people view with an air of how
did I ever survive before this??. So much for you to be proud of, so
much for US to be thankful for!!
CHEERS, GOOD LUCK and GODSPEED!!
KM
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A sad day for the forum.
But still, all the very best in your future endeavours.
Where next Sonos? :D
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m1abrams;426823 Wrote:
While I agree with your reasoning, I am afraid in order to get out of
the techie corner would be to abandon the central server aspect of the
Squeezebox. And as I am sure you know the central server aspect allows
you to do some neat tricks that can not be done with a
Goodsounds;426718 Wrote:
Your comments make sense to me.
I'd posted some months ago that it is unusual for founders to stay
around for so long after an acquisition. It appears the reason they did
is that there is a contingent payout from Logitech to Sean et al if 2009
revenue exceeds
I just got a notice about the new Pandora One service which apparently
streams at 192kbps.As a Pandora subscriber for Squeezebox, will I
need to pay an additional amount, or will it automatically convert to
this service?
Has anyone tried this yet?
Larry
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It will be hard to support a mass market media streaming eco-system on
11g, as the bandwidth is getting to crowded and home users don't usually
do site surveys. A major source of performance complaints in these
forums are basic connectivity issues.
Sonos has a proprietary mesh-flavored
Not yet, but it's coming soon.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63574
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Anybody know?
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When I select a song the album art does not match the album. The album
art is usually from an album in the same folder but it won't match up.
I've cleared the cache and the preferences file and reread everything
from scratch but it still is incorrect. Any help is appreciated.
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As far as I know, the last product where most of the design was done by
Sean was the Transporter. I wonder if there will ever be a successor to
that...
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Fade-on-pause is used on all players.
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Thanks! Your little program works very well. I am getting excellent
response times now!
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I can't imagaine we will see a transporter #2, the market for £1000
streaming network players is very small. While Meridian, Naim and others
can charge premium prices for streamers, it doesn't seem to fit the
Logitech biz model, and I am not sure the Logitech brand name would
support that level
Andy8421;426913 Wrote:
I can't imagaine we will see a transporter #2, the market for £1000
streaming network players is very small. .
as you say, establishing brand is important in this emerging market.
the engineering excellence of a product like the Transporter trickles
down into customer
This sounds wonderful! Just wondering what other recommendations?
Best wishes
Blessings
Janine (Jolly Jan!)
(310) 358-9941
bobkoure;424695 Wrote:
IMHO, for visually impaired, an audio user interface might be the way to
go.
- Navigate via voice input (limited vocabulary / multiple users was
pablolie;426915 Wrote:
without market share numbers it is hard to tell whether the current
product portfolio needs any updating or changing.
If they like to move into the mass market route they need to change
because all the products are way too geeky and technical today to fit in
this
When Terry told me his son was cooking circuit boards in the sink at
home, I did not realize I would end up owning 4 of his products a few
years later. Congratulations on creating a wonderful product that truly
delights its users. All the best in your future endeavors.
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You need to provide more information.
How do you have your artwork stored? How is your music organized?
A typical arrangement is each album in its own directory (often
organized by Artist/Album). Within each album directory would be the
actual music track files, along with the album artwork,
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