Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-08 Thread Pascal Hibon
Nonreality wrote: Many people don't even know that there is better than mp3. Oh but they do know. They just don't care. Music consumption has changed a lot the last years. The people who enjoy quality music on their high quality music sets are a dying breath. The new generation is fine with

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-08 Thread Pascal Hibon
Mnyb wrote: You can and do hear the difference between good and bad masters and recordings . So the interesting part is how Pono will run their music store would they just accept files as is from their sources or will they do some decent quality controll ? I could not have said

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-08 Thread Mnyb
Pascal Hibon wrote: I could not have said it any better. I seriously doubt that Neil and his team would have all bad recordings re-recorded. I don't think this would be financially possible for a company such a Pono to survive. Not exactly re-recorded but track down a good master , from

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-08 Thread Pascal Hibon
Mnyb wrote: Not exactly re-recorded but track down a good master , from the original studio lests say done before some exec telled them that it was to weak and had to be louder ;) Sure, that works if the recording itself is of good quality. That is unfortunately not necessary true for all

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-08 Thread Mnyb
Pascal Hibon wrote: Sure, that works if the recording itself is of good quality. That is unfortunately not necessary true for all recordings out there. Dynamic compression is not the only bad thing that happens during the creation of an album. Not at all numerous reasons , there migth not

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

2014-04-08 Thread Julf
I purchased the app from the google play store, but unfortunately it seems the installer crashes on the android compatibility layer of my jolla phone :(. Strangely this doesn't happen with other apps from the store. To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-08 Thread Julf
Mnyb wrote: the pricing is going to be higher because I get the random noise in classic/old recordings spread on more bits ? I love the open, airy sound of all those empty bits! To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the

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

2014-04-08 Thread jimbobvfr400
So it's not actually an Android device, I rather suspect SqueezePlayer needs some sort of more direct access to the audio api/hardware than the compatibility layer on the Jolla OS provides. There is another alternative app that has basically the same functionality called SB Player, might be

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

2014-04-08 Thread Julf
jimbobvfr400 wrote: So it's not actually an Android device, I rather suspect SqueezePlayer needs some sort of more direct access to the audio api/hardware than the compatibility layer on the Jolla OS provides. Quite possible - it is just interesting that it never actually gets installed, the

[slim] Sirius/XM

2014-04-08 Thread scannerbob
Anyone having any problems with Sirius/Xm? I am getting this message: SIRIUS ERROR: unable to retrieve channel Info. (Unrecognized error code) This is on my two Duets using my squeezebox and LMS. Thanks! scannerbob's

Re: [slim] Sirius/XM

2014-04-08 Thread garym
scannerbob wrote: Anyone having any problems with Sirius/Xm? I am getting this message: SIRIUS ERROR: unable to retrieve channel Info. (Unrecognized error code) This is on my two Duets using my squeezebox and LMS. Thanks! working ok for me on transporter and boom (same technology as duet). I

Re: [slim] Sirius/XM

2014-04-08 Thread Michael Herger
Anyone having any problems with Sirius/Xm? I am getting this message: SIRIUS ERROR: unable to retrieve channel Info. (Unrecognized error code) This is on my two Duets using my squeezebox and LMS. Thanks! Is this with any channel or just some specific channels? -- Michael

Re: [slim] Sirius/XM

2014-04-08 Thread scannerbob
With all channels. I tried resetting everything and still the same. The graphics show up but no sound and that error. I wonder if it has to do with that it is a 30 day trial I got with subscribing with my vehicle? I have used them before with success. I have contacted support.