Re: [slim] Comically Fumbled Squeezebox Replacement Thread - Would you be interested?

2015-02-09 Thread cathcam
Mark Miksis wrote: > To me, the sad thing is that I wonder how many other potential third > party projects or contributors are deterred by the mystery and > uncertainty of all this. I suspect that the truth about all of this is > much more mundane and narrowly defined than most people suspect.

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2015-02-09 Thread castalla
cathcam wrote: > and too complicated. I've removed almost everything I can off the menus > on my radio that is in the guest room. It's got search, sync, my music > and thats about it. I tell visitors to search for their favorite radio > stations and press and hold the channel buttons just like th

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2015-02-09 Thread cathcam
JJZolx wrote: > Other than possibly the Radio, the Squeezebox players were all too > pricey to gain much of a foothold in the market of consumers who were > interested in only music streaming services. If the SB were introduced > today, it would flop even worse due to all of the competition in th

Re: [slim] LMS Extractor Is Now Available

2015-02-09 Thread Dogberry2
venus light wrote: > This looks like an awesome tool. What would be a good resource to > discover how to write different SQL queries on this database? > > I'm not super versed on SQL, but am pretty computer-savvy, so I think I > could figure it out if someone pointed me in the right direction.

Re: [slim] Subwoofer with Duet/Classic

2015-02-09 Thread Mnyb
The best thing is to actually have a line level or preferably a digital filter in the amp or ht reciever or ht processor . and accept that the squeezebox is source component . If this filte is good (read steep enough ) conected with some DRC very good results can be obtained . I do unload the de

Re: [slim] Subwoofer with Duet/Classic

2015-02-09 Thread pablolie
the SB Boom does a very good jopb at feeding a sub through the audio out. doing so produces an amazing effect, it allwed the Boom to fill my large garage with Gym with very high quality sound. now there are an increasing number of DACs and Integrated Amps with the ability to offer separate, confi

Re: [slim] LMS in the Cloud?

2015-02-09 Thread banned for life
ctbarker32 wrote: > I have recently uploaded my entire music collection which clocks in > about 2 Tb to Onedrive. If you are an Office 365 subscriber you get > unlimited One drive storage. Supposedly, Windows 10 will recognize FLAC > as a music format natively and also Microsoft will be supportin

Re: [slim] Subwoofer with Duet/Classic

2015-02-09 Thread banned for life
The inherent benefits of bi-amping (sub/main) are not met when both sub and main get the same signal. As always, this leaves the "high" trying to reproduce the bass and vice-versa. Huge improvements in effective wattage (amperage, really) result from feeding the low speaker(s) the lows and the hi

Re: [slim] Pi 2 b

2015-02-09 Thread castalla
CommanderROR wrote: > Maybe the Max2Play imagee have been adapted for RPI2? I haven't checked, > since my server is an Odroid U3... Looks like they've been updated - https://github.com/max2play/webinterface Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitec

Re: [slim] Pi 2 b

2015-02-09 Thread CommanderROR
Maybe the Max2Play imagee have been adapted for RPI2? I haven't checked, since my server is an Odroid U3... CommanderROR's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59408 View this thread: http://forums.slimd

Re: [slim] Announcement - ickStream open beta release on Squeezebox !

2015-02-09 Thread netchord
i'm having the buffering issue via the Qobuz plugin, so thought I'd try using ickstream instead. I have Tidal, via ickstream, and it's worked very well. however, when i try to add Qobuz as a service, I see it already listed as active on the ickstream page, and Tidal is NOT listed as installed.

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2015-02-09 Thread JJZolx
Other than possibly the Radio, the Squeezebox players were all too pricey to gain much of a foothold in the market of consumers who were interested in only music streaming services. If the SB were introduced today, it would flop even worse due to all of the competition in the market. In fact, a f

[slim] Pi 2 b

2015-02-09 Thread banned for life
I've got one in the mail today. (AL case from Amazon) A couple of questions: 1. I see squeezeslave (squeezeplug) for PI in the code.google downloads: would running this be similar to the Mac implementation or are there pre-reqs? 2. This is a fairly powerful SOC. How would I go about trying to r

Re: [slim] Pi 2 b

2015-02-09 Thread castalla
banned for life wrote: > I've got one in the mail today. (AL case from Amazon) > > A couple of questions: > > 1. I see squeezeslave (squeezeplug) for PI in the code.google downloads: > would running this be similar to the Mac implementation or are there > pre-reqs? > > 2. This is a fairly powe

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2015-02-09 Thread castalla
Esel2k wrote: > I totally agree with that, since streaming services started and the > predictions (ok just a prediction) seems that it will exploded in > users. > 17323 > > Now this market needs the device to play that. On the phone they have > the apps. But at home? The market is very attractiv

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2015-02-09 Thread Esel2k
Squeezemenicely wrote: > Well Sonos was around quite a while before Logitech jumped out. But the > biggest trouble was that Squeezebox was simply there much too early for > consumers. Only really since streaming services as Spotify started has > the market for streaming / file players begun to ev

Re: [slim] Pimp your Squeeze(Box, Slave) Setup

2015-02-09 Thread wachtda
Hi Esel Sorry, i updated my post! I posted the informations about NEEO here in the hope to have many Squeezebox users as backers to get the Squeezebox integration on their map! :cool: There will be a survey at the end of the campaign and every backer which vote for Squeezebox will help to achiev