Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] VortexBox 2.3 reelased

2014-04-11 Thread Ron Olsen
banned for life wrote: > I have been unable to get any recent version of VB to recognize an NFS > mount. > > I agree: a great distro that thrives as a VM. I am, however, stuck in > the past. > > Banned I have no problem doing an NFS mount of VB 2.3. The nfs-utils package is part of the base in

Re: [slim] Automatic skips to next playlist station.

2014-04-11 Thread Ikabob
Thanks. I have soo many favorites already. And, not sure what a nested folder is. Ikabob Squeezebox Touch w/LMS V7.3; Benchmark DAC1 USB;Marantz Pre-amp; SAE Amplifier;ESS Heil Speakers(main listening speakers plus various additional speakers). Multiple players: SqueezeBooms,SqueezeRadios; S

Re: [slim] Automatic skips to next playlist station.

2014-04-11 Thread aubuti
Ikabob wrote: > It's very convenient to be able to change from say classical to Sinatra > or whatever. If you save those stations as Favorites then you may find it just as convenient. In fact, with Favorites on LMS you can create a nested folder structure, which can be more convenient than brows

[slim] Squeezeplay Odd Behavior

2014-04-11 Thread dasmueller
I run Squeezeplay 7.5.0 on my Windows 7 PC. Today I noticed that it was for some reason picking up songs which it should not be. If I search using My Music and look at No Artist or Various Artists I find tracks that appear there that are correctly tagged I think. I checked the tags using Mp3Tag a

Re: [slim] Not a big deal, I guess: Sonos + Google Music

2014-04-11 Thread DaveWr
banned for life wrote: > +1 : bigger speakers than your phone/tablet. > > I haven't actually heard the Sonos product but it is bound to be a > "limited fidelity alternative" compared to a real stereo. > > Designed to take no space, products like this are consistent with > approval from the spou

Re: [slim] Automatic skips to next playlist station.

2014-04-11 Thread Ikabob
jimbobvfr400 wrote: > What happens if it's not playing as part of a playlist, I presume the > station will just buffer and continue playing. > > Out of interest why do you have playlists of radio stations? Couldn't > you add them individually to favorite's > > Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatal

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] VortexBox 2.3 reelased

2014-04-11 Thread pippin
agillis wrote: > Squeezelite is now installed by default. It works much better then the > old mpd system. > Can you give details about what works better? Not that I'm questioning this at all but I have a number of users - especially audiophiles - who tend to ask whenever something changes in t

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] VortexBox 2.3 reelased

2014-04-11 Thread banned for life
I have been unable to get any recent version of VB to recognize an NFS mount. I agree: a great distro that thrives as a VM. I am, however, stuck in the past. Banned banned for life's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Not a big deal, I guess: Sonos + Google Music

2014-04-11 Thread banned for life
jimzak wrote: > http://www.sonos.com/googleplaymusic?lang=en-usĀ®ion=us&utm_source=biggie-launch-USp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=hero-image-USp&utm_campaign=2014Biggie > > Just another way to play lo-fi music from your phone to bigger speakers. +1 : bigger speakers than your phone/tablet. I ha

Re: [slim] I Am Uninstalling Orangesqueeze/Squeezeplayer

2014-04-11 Thread banned for life
bluegaspode wrote: > There is a bug when SqueezePlayer and OrangeSqueeze are installed side > by side. > > Sometimes (not always) when you receive a call and hang up, > SqueezePlayer is started automatically by OrangeSqueeze. > > Be assured that SqueezePlayer isn't sending any information to

Re: [slim] I Am Uninstalling Orangesqueeze/Squeezeplayer

2014-04-11 Thread banned for life
w3wilkes wrote: > BFL, Just curious what you're running Orangesqueeze on? I've seen this > behavior on my wife's Nexus 5 phone running KitKat, but Orangesqueeze is > not the only app that starts by itself on her phone. We both have the > same phones and pretty much the same apps, but mine works j

Re: [slim] Internet Radio buffering, Boom

2014-04-11 Thread bpa
To confirm the local LMS is not the problem and problem lies somewhere between Boom, network cable, router, ISP and BBC network, you can try to play the BBC WMA stream when Boom is connected to mysb.com Connect boom to mysb.com (you can prove this by shutting your LMS down). Then play the BBC rad

Re: [slim] Not a big deal, I guess: Sonos + Google Music

2014-04-11 Thread pippin
Well, they surely have an API, they just don't release it to everyone. Just like with Google+ where also only selected partners get access. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at pengu

Re: [slim] Automatic skips to next playlist station.

2014-04-11 Thread jimbobvfr400
What happens if it's not playing as part of a playlist, I presume the station will just buffer and continue playing. Out of interest why do you have playlists of radio stations? Couldn't you add them individually to favorite's Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk -

Re: [slim] Automatic skips to next playlist station.

2014-04-11 Thread Ikabob
Well, I guess I really did not fix this skipping problem. It seems , as I had stated in the original post, that the station still seems to randomly occasionally skip to the next station in the playlist. It happens only while listening to a certain station(WGUC) which is unique because it dreams a