Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-07-18 Thread unclemat
JohnSwenson wrote: > Multichannel is going to be a problem, the hardware can handle > multichannel over HDMI no problem, but the whole squeezebox software > infrastructure is only two channel. Current techniques such as DTS > encoding in a FLAC or WAV file should work out of the box, but a full

Re: [slim] Pre-Announcement: ickStream Music Platform

2013-07-18 Thread remd
Just for information to everyone following this thread, we sent out an ickStream mailing earlier today to everyone who have subscribed for "Beta Tester" via our web site (http://www.ickstream.com). We included a survey in the mailing to invite testers when its most relevant both for our testing an

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-07-18 Thread JohnSwenson
unclemat wrote: > I am psyched to see this happening! I got a full house of Squeezeboxes > plus a decent stash of spare ones, but I'd totally pick up a new one. > > The most essential feature I'd look for is multichannel streaming over > HDMI. FLAC PCM would do, but if it also could do DSD from

Re: [slim] Back Cover Art

2013-07-18 Thread SlimChances
w3wilkes wrote: > I don't believe there's a way to see anything other than the single > folder.jpg (or whatever you call your cover art). I would envision this > to be a FANTASTIC enhancement. I'd not limit it to front/back. Add the > ability to do the booklets and stuff like the Woodstock cover

Re: [slim] Back Cover Art

2013-07-18 Thread Roland0
Wirrunna wrote: > but that won't happen until there is a server-side plugin that will read > the images This already exists - extGUI4LMS's plugin exposes this functionality (as a simple jsonp call), and any client could use it (not only extGUI4LMS itself) One other functionality worth mentioning

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-07-18 Thread unclemat
I am psyched to see this happening! I got a full house of Squeezeboxes plus a decent stash of spare ones, but I'd totally pick up a new one. The most essential feature I'd look for is multichannel streaming over HDMI. FLAC PCM would do, but if it also could do DSD from DSF files that would be fr

Re: [slim] Back Cover Art

2013-07-18 Thread JerryS
I started a thread on this some time ago. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?81716-Showing-CD-Inserts-(album-notes). As a new user of SB I found this deficiency to be a major drawback and devised my own standalone solution in the hope that one of the developers would implement such funct

Re: [slim] Back Cover Art

2013-07-18 Thread Wirrunna
I asked a similar question - http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98196-Other-Album-images-back-booklets-etc-Any-way-of-displaying-these - as I thought it would be a great enhancement to the software controllers like iPeng and OrangeSqueeze to be able to display other scanned images on the