Re: [slim] How many of you have "spare" squeezeboxes?

2012-10-16 Thread Mnyb
Pascal Hibon wrote: > > > And, I’m still too pissed at Logitech to feed them anymore of my money. Consider the used market , but wait a year or two the prices are very high rigth now, would be lower when all but the enthusiast forgot the squeezeboxes :-/ -

Re: [slim] iPeng, your iPhone Squeezebox Remote, gets even better with version 2.0!

2012-10-16 Thread pippin
MelonMonkey wrote: > How do you shuffle play an entire album? There's no shuffle mode when > adding tracks to the current play list. > Yes, I'm missing that one myself, too, I used it a lot. However, it was the single most confusing point in iPeng, there was a surprisingly high number of users

Re: [slim] iPeng, your iPhone Squeezebox Remote, gets even better with version 2.0!

2012-10-16 Thread MelonMonkey
How do you shuffle play an entire album? There's no shuffle mode when adding tracks to the current play list. If the volume is locked on a player (when using as a remote) please hide the volume slider and move the transport controls down. Please consider switching to larger transport buttons on

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Orange Squeeze 1.0 for Android Released

2012-10-16 Thread db122
castalla wrote: > Despite numerous attempts I can't connect to mysqueezebox.com That's one thing I haven't tried. Surely it's broken, I'll fix it ASAP. Thanks for letting me know. db122's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

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

2012-10-16 Thread bluegaspode
stevedresden wrote: > I recently bought the Squeeze Play app and use it with the Squeeze > Commander app on my Android tablet, but I've noticed that it never seems > to want to connect to my server if it's the only player connected. > > I have a Squeezebox Radio and if that is connected first th

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Orange Squeeze 1.0 for Android Released

2012-10-16 Thread castalla
Despite numerous attempts I can't connect to mysqueezebox.com 100% certain the login is correct castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/show

Re: [slim] How many of you have "spare" squeezeboxes?

2012-10-16 Thread gorman
I have currently five units on my network. Three Booms, 1 SB2, 1 SB3. I have 1 Boom and 1 SB2 in storage. What SBs offer is still with no alternatives on the market, IMHO. gorman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/mem

Re: [slim] DAC 101 Help Please!

2012-10-16 Thread Mnyb
Julf wrote: > i suggest deciding on the speakers first (and spending most of your > money on them as well), and only then deciding on the amp/DAC, depending > on what it takes to drive the speakers you like. The differences in > sound quality between decent modern amps is much smaller than the >

Re: [slim] DAC 101 Help Please!

2012-10-16 Thread Julf
Atlantic wrote: > I've been thinking about the Harmon Kardon range i suggest deciding on the speakers first (and spending most of your money on them as well), and only then deciding on the amp/DAC, depending on what it takes to drive the speakers you like. The differences in sound quality betwee

Re: [slim] DAC 101 Help Please!

2012-10-16 Thread Mnyb
Atlantic wrote: > Very interesting thoughts. (I don't know anything about DACs and > today's amps - we only have traditional analogue kit, actually just > integrated miniHiFi systems with various analogue inputs.) I think > you're saying that most analogue conventional amps are ok, but not the

Re: [slim] DAC 101 Help Please!

2012-10-16 Thread garym
Atlantic wrote: > Very interesting thoughts. (I don't know anything about DACs and > today's amps - we only have traditional analogue kit, actually just > integrated miniHiFi systems with various analogue inputs.) I think > you're saying that most analogue conventional amps are ok, but not the

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Orange Squeeze 1.0 for Android Released

2012-10-16 Thread jimbobvfr400
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Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Orange Squeeze 1.0 for Android Released

2012-10-16 Thread jimbobvfr400
It's all looking good so far. 1 little issue I've just noticed is that occasionally I'll get the album art in artist view will be repeated for the artist above. As in the 2 examples attached. Selecting the messed up artist will show the correct artwork. 1378613787 Sent from my HTC Vision using T

Re: [slim] DAC 101 Help Please!

2012-10-16 Thread Atlantic
Mnyb wrote: > > The space issue may be fixed with the next generation of switch mode > amps comes around , similar to the latest designs from NAD that is among > the few that can hold the line against conventional amps ( most switch > mode amps are not really up to it ). Very interesting though

Re: [slim] Original Slim Devices Owners

2012-10-16 Thread erland
garym wrote: > The poster that started this thread indicated he was interested in > making an offer. The odds of original owners buying it back are said to > be zero by people that know more about their situation. > I would say that the chance of Logitech selling to anyone would also be pretty

Re: [slim] DAC 101 Help Please!

2012-10-16 Thread Mnyb
Yep modern AV receivers are very good, things happened in the latest decade , the small signal processing is very good usually . The remaining weakness ,that would cost money to fix is the relatively weak power amps that don't work very well with all speakers . And then it is the space issue ( not

Re: [slim] DAC 101 Help Please!

2012-10-16 Thread bencat
I can not be sure but I would guess that the best option for sound quality would be to use the RCA SPDIF digital out from the Squeezebox in to one of the RCA digital inputs on the Denon AV Amp. This will mean that the Denon will do all of the digital conversion and then send that direct to the ou

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Orange Squeeze 1.0 for Android Released

2012-10-16 Thread db122
Just a note that I think we've ironed out most of big issues with the preview release. If you ran into crashes or other issues earlier on, give it another shot now. We're focused on polishing up for a good, stable 1.3.0 release now. Thanks everyone for your feedback.

Re: [slim] Should I Buy a Harmony Remote

2012-10-16 Thread Soulkeeper
The lastest software "update" made my Harmony 600 practically useless. As I've had the exact same problem before, I contacted support by replying to the mail from Logitech where they had told me that the problem was fixed last time. Soon after, Logitech support told me that I'd contacted the wro

Re: [slim] How many of you have "spare" squeezeboxes?

2012-10-16 Thread Pascal Hibon
Apart from the SB’s in use (one SB 3, one SB Boom, one SB Radio and one SB Touch) I won’t be buying any spare units. As much as I hate it, the Squeezebox product is dead since the manufacturer dropped it. If for some reason my Touch (the SB in the main listening area) would die premature then I st

Re: [slim] Original Slim Devices Owners

2012-10-16 Thread garym
babi8987 wrote: > now that logitech is not going to make the squeezebox products any > longer, i hope that the original owners of the squeezebox would buy back > the rights to continue to develop the product. > i've been an owner of a squeezebox classic for about eight years now. > for the price,

[slim] Original Slim Devices Owners

2012-10-16 Thread babi8987
now that logitech is not going to make the squeezebox products any longer, i hope that the original owners of the squeezebox would buy back the rights to continue to develop the product. i've been an owner of a squeezebox classic for about eight years now. for the price, i think that the squeezebo

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

2012-10-16 Thread stevedresden
I recently bought the Squeeze Play app and use it with the Squeeze Commander app on my Android tablet, but I've noticed that it never seems to want to connect to my server if it's the only player connected. I have a Squeezebox Radio and if that is connected first then the SqueezePlay app always c

Re: [slim] DAC 101 Help Please!

2012-10-16 Thread Mnyb
Hence you loses a lot of functionality in the receiver by going the pure route ( if it really exists denon product page is a bit ambiguous ). Audyssay room eq sub xover et all . For example nowadays some 5.1 simulation modes are really good not a gimmic . -

Re: [slim] DAC 101 Help Please!

2012-10-16 Thread toby10
You must compare for yourself, properly, to decide which DAC sounds best to you. You may not hear much if any difference. Set Touch volume to 100% then volume match output to speakers for each input type for fair comparison. To use Direct mode you must use a pair of full range speakers (can't b

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

2012-10-16 Thread godIsInTheRadio
bluegaspode wrote: > [...]So right now it doesn't look very promising to me, to already spend > the time needed to implement a completely additional audio API.[...] I can see your point - I was naive enough to assume that they would have used the pre ICS/JellyBean audio API with small modificati

Re: [slim] Should I Buy a Harmony Remote

2012-10-16 Thread bernt
Pascal Hibon wrote: > Beware about Griffin. I have one and boy did I regret that purchase. > Their support is even worse than Logitech's ( yes, it is possible...). > Their support is as good as unexisting. It is complete crap! Don't buy > it. > If you want something similar but way better, and wi

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

2012-10-16 Thread bluegaspode
Unfortunately Android before Jelly Bean does only support 16/44. With Jelly-Bean there is a completely new AudioAPI, which I guess is able to except higher audio rates - but I don't know yet, if it really forwards everything to an USB Dac (and I'm afraid this even depends on the particular device)

Re: [slim] Should I Buy a Harmony Remote

2012-10-16 Thread Pascal Hibon
SuperQ wrote: > Yea, I've had much worse luck with the reliability of the Harmony > remotes. And with the dropping of squeezebox line I'm thinking about > trying to find something new for when my 900 dies. > > I think the physical remote hardware industry is a dead end, niche > thing. > > Some

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

2012-10-16 Thread godIsInTheRadio
Hi there, now that Android supports external USB DACs with JellyBean, would SqueezePlayer also use that output? If so, would it support more than 16bi/44.1kHz? And if so, what would I need to do on both the SqueezePlayer / Android site as well as the LMS site, as currently it is only streaming 16