Re: [slim] Which streaming services (eg LastFM napster Spotify) display on SB Duet controller?

2013-01-03 Thread ajmitchell
thanks for your helpful replies. Just to be clear I'd like to use the SB duet controller if possible as my main controller and I'd like to use a good streaming service where the albums / tracks / artists / similar music / upcoming list etc etc is all on this controller. I am also in the UK so

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2013-01-03 Thread ralphy
PMusic wrote: Works as well perfectly for me on Mac mini and MLhowever after installing the 158.dmg package, the sampling rate of my MuFi VLink 192 XMos converter displays always a 192KHz sample rate, independently of the source FLAC being streamed (I've tried with 44.1, 88,2 and 96), is

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread garym
olive_media wrote: The ONE's going to be packing an internal Burr-Brown DAC–not Sonos-like at all :-). I assume olive_media represents olive in some way. That's good...I'm happy to see you here. As you'll find, there are lots of people here that are serious about use of network music

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread Ikabob
garym wrote: I assume olive_media represents olive in some way. That's good...I'm happy to see you here. As you'll find, there are lots of people here that are serious about use of network music streamers in good (or great!) audio systems. I have often said I would pay 10 times what I paid

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread garym
Ikabob wrote: I totally agree with all the criteria. Well said. I would just add (and maybe you includede these) A line in and line out feature. It's really too bad that LOGITECH has dropped the line of products that satisfies all these features. But I also do not think that LOGITECH

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread erland
Ikabob wrote: It's really too bad that LOGITECH has dropped the line of products that satisfies all these features. But I also do not think that LOGITECH is the kind of prestigious respected company that would leave its loyal consumers high and dry. I just don't think they would want that

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-03 Thread Triode
Can't match $30, but another alternative is the CuBox: http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox I got one this morning and the sock firmware will run squeezelite and supports usb audio and async hifi dacs. It's about 3 times the price of the Pi, but its doing what I envisaged Squeezelite could

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread socistep
garym wrote: I assume olive_media represents olive in some way. That's good...I'm happy to see you here. As you'll find, there are lots of people here that are serious about use of network music streamers in good (or great!) audio systems. I have often said I would pay 10 times what I paid

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-03 Thread bpa
An alternative is cubieboard ( http://www.cubieboard.org and can bought from here http://www.aliexpress.com/store/all-wholesale-products/511685.html ) but unlike cubox no nice enclosure but much cheaper US$49 and has 1Gb RAM and a SATA disk interface. I got one before Christmas but haven't had

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread Ikabob
erland wrote: Logitech is likely going to continue supporting Squeezeboxes and keep mysqueezebox.com running for the foreseeable future, except for this I think you can stop hoping for Logitech unless you are a user who love the limited simplified functionality in UE Smart Radio. For

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread Mnyb
garym wrote: I assume olive_media represents olive in some way. That's good...I'm happy to see you here. As you'll find, there are lots of people here that are serious about use of network music streamers in good (or great!) audio systems. I have often said I would pay 10 times what I paid

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2013-01-03 Thread bengaldave
Hello, I am unable to install applets on squeezeplay on the mac. I just downloaded and installed version 7.8.0 r158 The menu choice for settings-advanced-Applet Installer When I click, I can see the button depressing, but nothing happens. I am still new to squeezebox, plugins and applets.

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

2013-01-03 Thread gvh
Hi, I'm using this app on my Galaxy S3 and the phone vibrates in time to the music. Has anyone seen this and got any ideas? It's the same with speaker, headphones or bluetooth headphones. Latest OS and latest version of the app. many thanks

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread garym
Another important item I left out: ability to use ReplayGain tags. Squeezeboxes can use none, track gain, album gain, or SMART gain (I use the latter). Smart gain is nice because if playing an entire album it automatically uses ALBUM gain, but if playing a mixture of tracks from different

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2013-01-03 Thread Triode
bengaldave wrote: Hello, I am unable to install applets on squeezeplay on the mac. I just downloaded and installed version 7.8.0 r158 The menu choice for settings-advanced-Applet Installer When I click, I can see the button depressing, but nothing happens. I am still new to

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-03 Thread JackOfAll
Triode wrote: Can't match $30, but another alternative is the CuBox: http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox Yes, I ordered one of those too, probably for the same reasons as you after the issues running a UAC2 DAC on the Pi. Not got mine yet. (But I don't expect to have any issues with it,

Re: [slim] SqueezePlay for Windows with ASIO, DirectSound, WASAPI and WDMKS device support.

2013-01-03 Thread Musiclover
Dear Ralphy, I tried to bring run your nice squeezeplay version R0158 with high resolution wave formats. The soundoutput analog is set to 24bit 192kHz; testsound is O.K. System W7, 64bit I installed first LogitechMediaServer-7.8.0-1353679004.exe from today I installed your version Squeezeplay

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-03 Thread smiggs
Triode wrote: [My original target device was a Raspberry Pi, I'm hoping its usb driver can get fixed to make this a reality] Have you tried the method mentioned at http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38t=20866 or am I missing something?

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-03 Thread Triode
smiggs wrote: Have you tried the method mentioned at http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38t=20866 or am I missing something? Unfortunately that method doesn't work with my dac - setting dwc_otg.speed=1 means it can't connect. For those dacs using less of the usb bus its

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2013-01-03 Thread PMusic
ralphy wrote: The 158 package included an updated version of the portaudio library. Can you confirm that the previous '142 package' (http://squeezeslave.googlecode.com/files/SqueezePlay-7.8.0r142.dmg) opens the device to match the source file sample rate? In fact I didn't use the 142

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-03 Thread epoch1970
Triode wrote: Can't match $30, but another alternative is the CuBox ... the sock firmware will run squeezelite and supports usb audio and async hifi dacs. It's about 3 times the price of the Pi, but its doing what I envisaged Squeezelite could do on an arm like device. Plus there's an hdmi

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-03 Thread dyohn
agillis wrote: There has been a lot of discussion in this forum about a replacement for the SqueezeBox. I worked on this problem over the holiday and I think I came up with a good solution. Using a low cost ARM based system I was able to build a box that basically does everything the

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread garym
garym wrote: I assume olive_media represents olive in some way. That's good...I'm happy to see you here. As you'll find, there are lots of people here that are serious about use of network music streamers in good (or great!) audio systems. I have often said I would pay 10 times what I paid

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread garym
I had a followup email from Olive after I answered some of their questions and raised issues about their earlier answers. They seem very open to dialog and seem to understand many of the things that they need to add to future versions of the product. No idea how the ONE and future products will

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread erland
garym wrote: Library management: they simply talked about a tablet/ipad approach. Not sure exactly what that means. What do you mean with library management ? In my view, LMS has very little library management while apps like iTunes and WMP have a lot more. Library management for me means

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-03 Thread erland
garym wrote: 11. Playlist functions (preferably some sort of smart playlist ability) If you want smart playlists you also need to add handling of statistic data such as play counts, last played time and ratings to the list, smart playlists without this is more or less useless IMHO. Often

Re: [slim] What steps does community need to take to ensure continued function of SB players

2013-01-03 Thread erland
audiomuze wrote: - preserve the knowledge encapsulated in this forum and in the Wiki's - can they be replicated, how would they be hosted, could they be cut down to a focused Wiki dealing with the specific nuances of each devices e.g. how to hardware reset a TP, SB3, Touch etc. For