Re: [slim] General Issues / a bit of help please?

2011-07-29 Thread onemeg
After a few days where squeezecentre hasn't 'seen' the Touch on the network, as soon as I slotted in the SD card we were up and running again with the Touch happy to connect to the NAS and Squeezecentre seeing it as a player. I'm going to leave 'settings' pretty much much alone now before

Re: [slim] MonkeySqueeze

2011-07-29 Thread Muele
Ok, I'll give it a go when I get some time :) -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Softsqueeze (at work), SqueezeCommander and SqueezePlayer on Se X10 mini and HTC Desire. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad (Yes I know most phones have more cpu-power

Re: [slim] Probably the Worst Update in The World ...

2011-07-29 Thread castalla
Thanks very much for your detailed replies. What if I uninstall then delete any residual traces of sbs (folders, etc)? Are there any hidden registry entries? -- castalla castalla's Profile:

Re: [slim] Why recommend someone to get a Squeezebox ?

2011-07-29 Thread Jokke
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Re: [slim] iPad SoftSqueeze App?

2011-07-29 Thread Kibodeaux
GeezerD;554038 Wrote: Since connecting to 'leather ipad 2 covers' (http://www.ebelow.com/ipad-2-covers-leather-ipad-2-covers-ipad2cover.html) the stream made no sense to me, I bought Squeezecast. ugh mistake. The app ui is crude, at 'ipad 2 covers leather'

Re: [slim] Probably the Worst Update in The World ...

2011-07-29 Thread gharris999
castalla;644644 Wrote: Thanks very much for your detailed replies. What if I uninstall then delete any residual traces of sbs (folders, etc)? Are there any hidden registry entries? If you're on debian/ubuntu, no, there's no registry in linux. Everything is a file there. The places to

Re: [slim] What's the Connection? Community and Logitech

2011-07-29 Thread gharris999
kmr;644618 Wrote: With regards to 7.6, I have no idea if it will turn out to be a disaster or not for the Squeezebox line [...]There have been other painful slimserver/squeezecenter/squeezeboxserver releases in the past. My personal low was with 7.4. Yes, 7.6 is a little rough around the

Re: [slim] iPad SoftSqueeze App?

2011-07-29 Thread andynormancx
Kibodeaux;644649 Wrote: I want my iPad to be able to play my Squeezebox music, and would happily pay Logitech or Richard Titmuss or someone if such an app were available. Already done, check the message before yours in this thread. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes,

Re: [slim] What's the Connection? Community and Logitech

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Herger
Personally I have the impression that 7.6 was the retiring CEO's farewell gift to Logitech! FWIW: we learned about the CEO leaving only hours before you did. And surely days after we released 7.6. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] iPad SoftSqueeze App?

2011-07-29 Thread bluegaspode
SqueezePad, iPeng for iPad, Squeezey, Squeezecast. The last two only support either mp3 or FLAC files so the server is forced to trancode heavily. Also both have them crash from time to time (when I last tested them) and don't seem to be developed any further. The first two support all kinds of

Re: [slim] iPad SoftSqueeze App?

2011-07-29 Thread pippin
Hey, that message (the one you two replied to) was a tricky kind of create-a-backlink-spam! -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile:

Re: [slim] What's the Connection? Community and Logitech

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Herger
The ongoing 7.6 fiasco set me thinking. Just what is the connection between this Forum and Logitech? Just seems that some posters here seem to have 'insider' knowledge, and certainly the Logitech support staff often direct queries here. Ok, here's my attempt of a reply: These forums were

Re: [slim] Rhapsody issues?

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Herger
I'm playing through my SB3, not sync'd. SBS 7.5.5. What player firmware? Are you using bridging? -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] MonkeySqueeze

2011-07-29 Thread Echo
Gingernut63;644184 Wrote: Quite a few people have downloaded MonkeySqueeze in the short time it has been available. Would love to hear their feedback on the program. I downloaded MonkeySqueeze but it wasn't until I installed it and read the help file that I realized it wasn't suited to my

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread MrSinatra
i actually think it makes some sense for microsoft or google to buy logitech. however, i think harmony remotes are basically obsolete. its already the case that a lot of new products have remote apps run from tablets and phones, etc... much better than even dedicated remotes. tivo has a

Re: [slim] MonkeySqueeze

2011-07-29 Thread Gingernut63
@Echo No need to change your present config. You can install Squeezebox Server on the PC and run it at the same time as the version on your NAS. When you wish to listen to music using MediaMonkey, run MM and the PC version of Squeezebox Server and direct any Squeezebox devices to connect to the

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread pippin
You can't replace IR remotes with Apps. An App is not responsive enough. The Apps excel at more complex tasks (browsing stuff, searching) but they are an epic fail if you look at your TV screen and just want to get rid of a lousy commercial ASAP since you first have to unlock your device, connect

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Leigh
pippin;644706 Wrote: You can't replace IR remotes with Apps. An App is not responsive enough. The Apps excel at more complex tasks (browsing stuff, searching) but they are an epic fail if you look at your TV screen and just want to get rid of a lousy commercial ASAP since you first have to

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread MrSinatra
i see your point, but for that the cheap remote that comes with the device is sufficient, the harmony seems surperfluous between the native remote and the apps. i find with my droid though, i like using it more (most of the time) than normal remotes. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using:

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread slippyr4
erland;644372 Wrote: What kind of Squeezebox model are you waiting for ? A boom replacement, based on the new (touch, radio) platform. -- slippyr4 slippyr4's Profile:

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Herger
You can't replace IR remotes with Apps. An App is not responsive enough. Hehe... interesting you mention this (and it doesn't only apply to IR remotes): I still often grab the good old Controller to quickly skip a track or change the volume, as firing up iPeng/SqueezePad/Controller app

Re: [slim] ReplayGain - How effective?

2011-07-29 Thread MrSinatra
here's a pic of the winammp RG implementation. interestingly, along with apply gain, the dropdown also has normalize but i don't use that or really know how its different in practice. what winamp does not have, is a smartgain feature, where it uses track or album gain as appropriate as per the

Re: [slim] iPad SoftSqueeze App?

2011-07-29 Thread bluegaspode
Which is not obvious after Micheal edited the post. Didn't realize that. -- bluegaspode Did you know: *'SqueezePlayer' (www.squeezeplayer.com)* will stream all your music to your Android device. Take your music everywhere! Remote Control + Streaming to your iPad? *'Squeezebox + iPad =

Re: [slim] iPad SoftSqueeze App?

2011-07-29 Thread pippin
bluegaspode;644721 Wrote: Which is not obvious after Micheal edited the post. Didn't realize that. It's not the first time it has happened in this thread. I fell prey to it earlier, too (as you can see from my comment above). It's quite a nice trick to embed the links into the quote but then

Re: [slim] Pandora/Squeezebox. L arrow button

2011-07-29 Thread Stevejm20
bobdonk;644295 Wrote: I can no longer use my R arrow button to show wether I like a song or not. Just happened a couple of days ago? Using a Squeezebox boom Same problem here. Its not just on Pandora. It happen with my classic and boom. Also both of my boxes no longer display the artist

Re: [slim] What's the Connection? Community and Logitech

2011-07-29 Thread toby10
castalla;644561 Wrote: An official release usually implies that it won't totally reduce the end-user's system to chaos. If it does, then a rapid retraction and apology is in order together with clear instructions on how to recover from the ruins of chaos!.. You have to also

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread bluegaspode
mherger;644716 Wrote: I still often grab the good old Controller to quickly skip a track or change the volume, as firing up iPeng/SqueezePad/Controller app takes too long... Mine as well sitting in the cradle. Just waiting for the volume button to be pressed. Much faster than finding the

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread tamanaco
erland;644608 Wrote: Harmony One - Hard buttons combined with small touch screen Revue - Touch screen and barely any hard buttons That makes them a gigantic difference to me. If one planned to get the Harmony 1000, it would maybe be smart to wait for the lower priced Revue. If you

Re: [slim] Rhapsody issues?

2011-07-29 Thread ajkidle
mherger;644685 Wrote: I'm playing through my SB3, not sync'd. SBS 7.5.5. What player firmware? Are you using bridging? -- Michael Firmware 134. Not bridging. Connected via WiFi -- signal strength has never been an issue, can stream FLACs reliably. -- ajkidle Squeezeboxen: 2x

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2011-07-29 Thread 2token2
Thank you, this app roxx... im using this with my samsung sgs and tab, works great over both wifi and 3g. my only issue is that spotify refuses to work, ive tried both the official plugin and the other one (im running the server on a win7). both spotify plugins work great with my squeezebox radio

Re: [slim] Change squeezecenter slimproto port

2011-07-29 Thread nspindel
So in other words, if my isp blocks port 3483, I'm SOL for SoftSqueeze outside of my house? -- nspindel nspindel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14586 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread Mark Miksis
mherger;644716 Wrote: You can't replace IR remotes with Apps. An App is not responsive enough. Hehe... interesting you mention this (and it doesn't only apply to IR remotes): I still often grab the good old Controller to quickly skip a track or change the volume, as firing up

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2011-07-29 Thread bluegaspode
The official Logitech App won't work with SqueezePlayer. Here the encrypted Spotify streams are sent directly to a Squeezebox, SqueezePlayer cannot handle those encrypted streams. The plugin from triode should work though. It sends FLAC to the player which SqueezePlayer is able to decode. Are

Re: [slim] MonkeySqueeze

2011-07-29 Thread stumble
@Muele Cool - you might like it more than expected and, as Gingernut63 demonstrates in his last post, it gives SBS that extra little bit of flexibility. Good luck cheers mccstumble (stumble) -- stumble Music Management: Mediamonkey Ver 4.0.01414 Gold Lifetime Music Server: Logitech

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[slim] Spotify 401 unathorized error

2011-07-29 Thread regalma1
I just subscribed to Spotify premium. I have been able to run it on all my computers and my Droid. I set up my Touch with it. Everything seems to run right but I can't access anything in Spotify. Whenever I do a search of any type I get a 401 unathorized message. The computer I am using runs

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread pippin
mherger;644716 Wrote: You can't replace IR remotes with Apps. An App is not responsive enough. Hehe... interesting you mention this (and it doesn't only apply to IR remotes): I still often grab the good old Controller to quickly skip a track or change the volume, as firing up

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread pippin
Mark Miksis;644840 Wrote: Interesting. I prefer my Harmony for a different reason. When watching TV, perhaps in the dark, nothing beats a good remote with hard buttons. I can mute or pause my DVR without looking at the remote. That's one of the reason why multimedia doesn't work. The use

Re: [slim] General Issues / a bit of help please?

2011-07-29 Thread aubuti
onemeg;644638 Wrote: After a few days where squeezecentre hasn't 'seen' the Touch on the network, as soon as I slotted in the SD card we were up and running again with the Touch happy to connect to the NAS and Squeezecentre seeing it as a player. That's just plain weird. Unless you're

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread Mark Miksis
pippin;644904 Wrote: That's one of the reason why multimedia doesn't work. The use cases for music and video are just too different. I couldn't agree more. I have 7 Squeezeboxes in my house. Only one is connected to the same system as a TV. Any merger of client functionality between SB and

[slim] SBS Why so much baggage as default?

2011-07-29 Thread cparker
Why is it that SBS doesnt install with all the plugins disabled? Its really frustrating to have to abort the scanning process to remove iTunes, MusicIP and about 15 other clutter plugins! Wouldnt it be better to have a simple initial installation and give it a clear run of a full scan with just

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread Grahame
The Register comments http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/29/google_tv_flop_logitech_pain/ -- Grahame Grahame's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1200 View this thread:

Re: [slim] SBS Why so much baggage as default?

2011-07-29 Thread JJZolx
MusicIP is loaded but not enabled by default. And the iTunes plugin won't do anything unless you have an iTunes library and SBS finds that library in an expected location. I think the philosophy is to make many of the features offered by plugins available by default rather than requiring new

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread erland
mherger;644716 Wrote: You can't replace IR remotes with Apps. An App is not responsive enough. Hehe... interesting you mention this (and it doesn't only apply to IR remotes): I still often grab the good old Controller to quickly skip a track or change the volume, as firing up

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread erland
Hmm, this is kind of interesting: http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/29/logitech-regains-guerrino-de-luca-as-ceo/ I quote: The company now plans to *improve its remote control* and set-top-box product line and establish itself in the business to business market. *Logitech also plans to

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread JJZolx
Logitech built its success on -peripherals-. With the old CEO back in charge I would expect a return to that rather than throwing considerably more money into either the Revue or Squeezebox, both of which require a fair amount of dedicated marketing. They also require a sizable shift in

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread Letten
JJZolx;644990 Wrote: Logitech built its success on -peripherals-. With the old CEO back in charge I would expect a return to that... But theres hardly a growing business in selling mice, keyboards and webcams when You look at the all the Touch devices with integrated cameras. -- Letten

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread JJZolx
Letten;645015 Wrote: But theres hardly a growing business in selling mice, keyboards and webcams when You look at the all the Touch devices with integrated cameras. The market for keyboard and mice isn't going away any time soon. True, there probably is not a lot of room for growth. But

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread aubuti
Letten;645015 Wrote: But theres hardly a growing business in selling mice, keyboards and webcams when You look at the all the Touch devices with integrated cameras. I sure hope it's a case of poor quote selection by the writer where the article implies that de Luca is counting on tablet

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2011-07-29 Thread 2token2
yeahh.. i tried both plugins through menu choise, when i goto radio / spotify and choose to play something, it buffers for 3 seconds and then nothing happens... if i start to stream though my squeezebox radio, and then connect my andoid, after the tune started, it hangs for all connected devies

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread Letten
aubuti;645020 Wrote: I sure hope it's a case of poor quote selection by the writer where the article implies that de Luca is counting on tablet owners to buy more external keyboards (and presumably mice) for their newly-stationary laptops There's an element of truth to the idea, but it

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2011-07-29 Thread bluegaspode
Guess you are using the latest version of the plugin. Anything in the server logs? Anyway else able to try Spotify via SqueezePlayer? Unfortunately I cannot test and debug it here in Germany, as it's not available here. -- bluegaspode Did you know: *'SqueezePlayer' (www.squeezeplayer.com)*

Re: [slim] Logitech CEO Steps down

2011-07-29 Thread Phil Meyer
Hehe... interesting you mention this (and it doesn't only apply to IR remotes): I still often grab the good old Controller to quickly skip a track or change the volume, as firing up iPeng/SqueezePad/Controller app takes too long... Snap! My SB3 IR Remote is wearing out - Up/Down buttons

Re: [slim] 7.6 is totally broken

2011-07-29 Thread pski
gharris999;644593 Wrote: There are at least two other ways to move players from one server to another: the player menu UI and via the CLI. Have you tried those? I seem unable to deduce your point. When I want to move players to another server, I go to the new server's WebUI and press the

Re: [slim] 7.6 is totally broken

2011-07-29 Thread HalleysComet
pski;644571 Wrote: I don't know what else to say. I sure would like to divert to one of my backup SBS machines. As an IT person for decades I cannot imagine the incompetence that led to the GA of 7.6 My experience was horrible too. I went back to 7.54 until the bugs get worked out. I

Re: [slim] 7.6 is totally broken

2011-07-29 Thread gharris999
pski;645075 Wrote: I seem unable to deduce your point.The point is this: there have been lots of things broken in this software for years. Sometimes, there's a work-around. If there is a work-around for a particular task, get over it and use the alternate method. -- gharris999

Re: [slim] Rhapsody no longer plays on Squeezebox Classic

2011-07-29 Thread William Szostak
I can confirm that the bug is somehow related to the wireless bridge settings. Even though I was NOT and never have used the wireless bridging option, when I connected an ethernet cable and explicitly disabled wifi bridging, it solved the problem. I had the same symptoms that others have

Re: [slim] 7.6 is totally broken

2011-07-29 Thread aubuti
...especially as it's only a temporary method of getting to your meticulously prepared backup servers. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: