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

2015-08-10 Thread Julf
And, by the way... callesoroe wrote: > It turns Down the signal BEFORE it comes to your DAC. All DACS do not > like clipped signals... DACs really couldn't care less. A DAC doesn't know if a (digital) signal is clipped or not, and reproduces the signal just the same. OK, you might have a

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

2015-08-10 Thread Julf
callesoroe wrote: > It turns Down the signal BEFORE it comes to your DAC. All DACS do not > like clipped signals... > > I know that it can not do anything to the recording, but at least it do > not add more clipping... > > My Tact Preamp has a clipping indicator which makes this visable

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

2015-08-09 Thread Julf
callesoroe wrote: > No but so it is not > And then replay gain can prevent clipping being sent to your DAC. And > that has a positive effect on the sound. What, in your view, do you think replay gain actually does? "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this

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

2015-08-09 Thread Julf
callesoroe wrote: > Replay Gain is a very very nice and usefull function in these "Loudness > War" times. If all recordings were compressed to death, we wouldn't need Replay Gain at all :) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity

Re: [slim] stream from a phone/mp3 player to LMS

2015-08-08 Thread Julf
Wolfy wrote: > Hi, > I am wondering if it was possible to play music from your phone or mp3 > player to multiple squeeze players (squeezeplug). > I would want to be able to do this without having to install anything on > my phone. > I would like to hook my phone or MP3 player up to my local netwo

Re: [slim] player with gui

2015-08-08 Thread Julf
Wolfy wrote: > If you feel so, why keep arguing? Stating "according to the weather forecast, it will rain tomorrow" is not arguing - even if you don't happen to like rain. Good luck with your search! "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'h

Re: [slim] player with gui

2015-08-07 Thread Julf
Wolfy wrote: > so what you are saying is that there are no alternative "players" that > you know of that has a GUI that dose not look like "LMS" in one way or > the other unless they are "sugar coated"? > i believe it is the sugar coating i am looking for. As i said i am > looking for a nice GUI.

Re: [slim] player with gui

2015-08-06 Thread Julf
Wolfy wrote: > it feels old, going thru the settings page it feels rely difficult and > hard maneuverable. > the interface feels simple and boring. > > same for the jivelite page, in a kind of way it is almost exactly the > same.. > > there for i am looking for alternativ gui's Pretty much all

Re: [slim] player with gui

2015-08-06 Thread Julf
Wolfy wrote: > dose there have to be a reason why i don't like using a web interface? There doesn't have to be a reason - but understanding what you don't like about it would help in suggesting alternatives (or fixes). "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast

Re: [slim] player with gui

2015-08-06 Thread Julf
Wolfy wrote: > mostly because i don't want to use a web gui for acces Why not? > In my first post i wrote i don't like the feeling of jivelite Ah, sorry. What is it about jivelite that you don't like? > so would like to know if anyone knew of alternative players with a gui > already integrate

Re: [slim] player with gui

2015-08-06 Thread Julf
Wolfy wrote: > no, that means i have to hve a nother computer or tablet open just to > view whats playing (if I'm running a radio playlist or so) Why not run the web browser on the RPi? > squeezelite is possible to run on raspberry pi but it has no gui.. How about 'JiveLite' (http://forums.sli

Re: [slim] player with gui

2015-08-06 Thread Julf
Wolfy wrote: > Hi, > I have bin testing around with jivelite on a raspberry pi. I'm not super > fond of it. > It look's and feels a little old, lagging and not up to speed.. > I have bin looking around to find a player software that has a > "squeezelite" player incorporated into a gui. > Ether fo

Re: [slim] Is Bluetooth streaming to Squeezebox possible?

2015-08-04 Thread Julf
JayLaFunk wrote: > Can anyone recommend a bluetooth device(UK) to connect to my Boom and > send music to a shower bluetooth speaker or is this not possible. There are tons and tons of bluetooth transmitters that can take the output of a 3.5 mm jack and send it to a bluetooth speaker, but the fir

Re: [slim] PicorePlayer + internet browser

2015-08-03 Thread Julf
Instead of trying to get a very specialized setup to do things it wasn't set up to do, why not just run squeezeplayer on the standard raspian linux? That way you get X, GUI and any other extras you want. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of '

Re: [slim] Are we near the end...

2015-07-29 Thread Julf
jimmypowder wrote: > Use decibel meter . It was very clear that the Transporter was not as > dynamic had less resolution than the Aries. Same files,volume set with > meter ,coax out. > Squeezebox Touch was the same > .Not as good. So, just to confirm, this was sighted listening, not double-bl

Re: [slim] Are we near the end...

2015-07-28 Thread Julf
jimmypowder wrote: > So you are saying the streamer has ZERO impact on sound quality? Yes. Please explain to me what, in the digital part of a streamer, could actually make an impact on sound quality. > If thats the case then we should all just buy the cheapest streamer we > can buy for audio q

Re: [slim] Roon, a SqueezeBox ecosystem alternative ?

2015-07-28 Thread Julf
volpone wrote: > Price? That would indeed be the most important difference. The other being a heavy, airspace-grade milled aluminium enclosure... :) > Audiophiles magazines and fora are full of reviews about such huge > "differences" but technically i'm quite curious about the reasons ... If t

Re: [slim] Roon, a SqueezeBox ecosystem alternative ?

2015-07-28 Thread Julf
volpone wrote: > Interested in ABX blind tests between, for example, SBT (spdif digital > output) , and near 2000$ top end UPnP streamers (Bel Canto, Auralic, > Moon Mind ... ) with the same good DAC. Just curious, what do you think could/would cause any difference in the sound? "To try to ju

Re: [slim] Roon, a SqueezeBox ecosystem alternative ?

2015-07-28 Thread Julf
volpone wrote: > Interested in ABX blind tests between, for example, SBT (spdif digital > output) , and near 2000$ top end UPnP streamers (Bel Canto, Auralic, > Moon Mind ... ) with the same good DAC. Archimago, are you listening? :) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be har

Re: [slim] Roon, a SqueezeBox ecosystem alternative ?

2015-07-28 Thread Julf
volpone wrote: > Sound Quality enhancement: Squeeze devices replacement by more > "high-end" audio streamers. Just use an external DAC. > IMHO key point is *if they will be successful in deploying RoonSpeakers > protocol* to audio hardware vendors (network streamers, DAC, modern > integrated "

Re: [slim] Are we near the end...

2015-07-28 Thread Julf
jimmypowder wrote: > It does,just not as good as some of the other streamers that have been > introduced over the last several years. There are differences in the built-in DACs of various streamers that have an impact on the sound (but still way less than different speakers or different room pla

Re: [slim] Are we near the end...

2015-07-23 Thread Julf
epoch1970 wrote: > Second, don't look now but there is a chance your own systems are using > nearly 100% of available RAM (applications + cache), plus a bit of swap. I do tend to look fairly often, and with modern hardware, it is really hard to get a system to actually swap. Most of my systems d

Re: [slim] Are we near the end...

2015-07-22 Thread Julf
epoch1970 wrote: > If your linux machine decides to launch garbage collection/swap what > happens to audio processing? Programming language runtime environments do garbage collection, not the OS (there is no garbage collection in C, for example), and if your system swaps, you don't have enough R

Re: [slim] Are we near the end...

2015-07-22 Thread Julf
Pascal Hibon wrote: > I believe the RPI does not have a hardware clock on-board. The accuracy > of its clock is therefore maintained by the software (OS ?). Pretty much every processor has a hardware clock in the sense of "clock oscillator". From the point of view of accuracy, it doesn't matter

Re: [slim] Filtering Powerline (aka PLC) audible artefacts?

2015-07-14 Thread Julf
P Nelson wrote: > If it is the power source then you should be able to filter the noise by > using capacitors or a choke. A first, simple step would be a cheap X10 powerline filter. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the

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

2014-12-01 Thread Julf
wilbert-vb wrote: > No, I don't intent to make such claim, Julf. Thank you for the clarification, and apologies for misreading your message. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear

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

2014-11-29 Thread Julf
wilbert-vb wrote: > I have been a long time LMS on linux user and a while ago I was testing > Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 r2 and I noticed a different sound from the > server 2012 r2, more detailed. > So just to check - you are saying that you heard a difference in the audio quality between the

Re: [slim] Is this a good way to compare interconnect cables?

2014-11-28 Thread Julf
Kellen wrote: > > I think I hear a difference. I'm just not sure if this test is truthful > or not. On opinion of all . is this a good practice for acurate > testing. > It is better than listening to one set of cables one day and another the other day. If you actually want it to be a go

Re: [slim] Procol Harum concert on BBC R2, Friday evening, 8pm

2014-11-27 Thread Julf
I am not sure it is a good idea to discuss terrorist organisations on this forum. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ---

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-05 Thread Julf
Still happy with my 'Empeg cars' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empeg_Car) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ---

Re: [slim] Is Raspberry with Squeezelite and Hifiberry the best Squeezebox?

2014-10-23 Thread Julf
pinkdot wrote: > I will also add a linear supply to the Rpi B+, than it will be as good > as a Touch or even better! Do you know that in advance Sent from my computer using a keyboard "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' th

Re: [slim] Squeezeplay in Ubuntu shows content metadata and play time, but produces no sound.

2014-10-22 Thread Julf
Sounds like an ALSA-pulseaudio routing issue, but is there any reason for not usin squeezelite? "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 -

Re: [slim] Touch or Transporter?

2014-10-11 Thread Julf
garym wrote: > I have balanced out (from transporter or Benchmark DAC) to balanced > inputs to Preamp (and then balanced outputs from preamp to balanced > input to Amp) That is of course the ideal solution. It is a pity that audiophiles tend to frown at the "pro" approach of using balanced conn

Re: [slim] Touch or Transporter?

2014-10-11 Thread Julf
garym wrote: > I like the balanced analog outputs of the Transporter. Balanced outputs are nice, but nowhere as important as balanced inputs. You get most of the benefits of a balanced connection with an unbalanced output driving a balanced (differential) input, by using a converter cable that i

Re: [slim] What else is out there?

2014-10-07 Thread Julf
pablolie wrote: > I can hear a clear difference between the Benchmark and the Audioengine > even when I use them both exclusively as headphone amplifiers. So when only using their analog sections? "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high

Re: [slim] Internet radio - is logitechmedia server involved

2014-10-01 Thread Julf
wortgefecht wrote: > How can a MP3 stream be "audiophile"? It could be an mp3 with Diana Krall... :) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch,

Re: [slim] Replacement system recommendations

2014-09-23 Thread Julf
wortgefecht wrote: > Steinberg claims, that this PCIe card is "the best the market has to > offer". Don't they all? :) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people"

Re: [slim] Replacement system recommendations

2014-09-22 Thread Julf
agillis wrote: > - Custom aluminium case. You really need to see it to appreciate how > beautiful it is and and how well it works. The CD slot is hidden in the > border. Very "Apple like" Yes, good looking - but I guess no effect on sound quality. > - Custom low noise power supply How much aud

Re: [slim] Replacement system recommendations

2014-09-21 Thread Julf
cliveb wrote: > And they want $2.5k for this? Well, at least it isn't as bad as the $6,500 you have to pay for the same stuff in a 'McIntosh box' (http://www.mcintoshlabs.com/us/Products/pages/categorylanding.aspx?CatId=MediaStreamers). "To try to judge the real from the false will always be

Re: [slim] Replacement system recommendations

2014-09-20 Thread Julf
wortgefecht wrote: > Not sure, whether this device already came up here Yes, the SOtM has been discussed every now and then. Mostly with people questioning the high price compared to something like the Raspberry PI, but I guess the Sonore people have to recoup the cost of paid product placement

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-07 Thread Julf
bonze wrote: > Is there currently any other solution besides a 'tablet' for use as a > display? Pretty much anything that runs java (and thus jivelite). "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gil

Re: [slim] New PC - windows 7.0 or windows 8.1?

2014-09-04 Thread Julf
Deaf Cat wrote: > I have no clue how RF, EMF, Capacitance, Inductance, crosstalk, jitter, > noise, vibration etc. affect the audio signal or data transfer, that is > why I let my ears do the testing. Read & digest what others say, and > test what you feel like, that's how I see it anyway. Which

Re: [slim] Qobuz in financial trouble

2014-09-02 Thread Julf
matka wrote: > Let's hope that French governement will support them, my streaming and > downloading depends on qobuz. Actually, let's hope the French government won't. It would distort the market and harm other people who want to develop similar services with a more sustainable model. If we allo

Re: [slim] Amazon Prime Music!

2014-06-14 Thread Julf
jimmypowder wrote: > Amazon's audio quality stinks. > > It is worse then Spotify,Itunes Radio,Pandora ,etc. In what way? Lower bitrate? More compression? "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid g

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

2014-06-01 Thread Julf
cliveb wrote: > I get the impression that there are licensing complications that would > have left JackOfAll vulnerable to litigation, but haven't been able to > figure out what they are. My understanding (but I might be totally wrong) is that it was not so much a licensing complication as a lia

Re: [slim] Problem connecting one Touch to the LMS/Vortexbox

2014-05-31 Thread Julf
donmacn wrote: > Obviously static IPs are set up with DHCP temporarily disabled on the > router. Would it be the case that, as soon as you try to reconnect the > Touch to the network when DHCP has been re-enabled, that it would > default to a dynamic address? > > Knowing next to nothing about h

Re: [slim] Call for testers! Daphile

2014-05-19 Thread Julf
atca wrote: > what application / binary do you rely on for CD ripping? I was unaware > of accurate rip native applications on Linux. 'Morituri' (http://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/trac/) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity

Re: [slim] Does LMS run better on faster systems?

2014-05-10 Thread Julf
erland wrote: > Try to play an ALAC track and measure the CPU usage with "top" or > similar tool and see if it's using a lot of CPU. I personally suspect > the CPU you have today is already fast enough, but it's hard to say for > sure without measuring. Playing even hi-res FLACs, my 6-year-old l

Re: [slim] Does LMS run better on faster systems?

2014-05-10 Thread Julf
dyohn wrote: > Hi. I'm running Vortexbox on a DIY PC with an AMD Athlon processor and > 1Gb RAM, so it's a Fedora 20 kernel and LMS 7.8. My library is about > 1.4Tb on a 2Tb drive but that's probably not really pertinent to my > question. It's not that I think anything is necessarily slow, it'

Re: [slim] Now LastFM is proper dead, Spotify or Napster?

2014-05-07 Thread Julf
garym wrote: > Never had a single issue with spotify, but I'm sure some do, just as > some have troubles with LMS in general, which I luckily don't either. Likewise, both spotify and LMS just work for me without problems. Never used mysb.com. "To try to judge the real from the false will alwa

Re: [slim] FM radio vs. Streaming for sound quality

2014-04-24 Thread Julf
And remember that BBC FM broadcasts are distributed to the transmitter stations using a 14-compressed-into-10-bit/32 kHz NICAM digital distribution backbone. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-10 Thread Julf
garym wrote: > Not that there is anything wrong with 16/44.1, but it seems to be a > ripoff to sell hires files with no transparency regarding their source. I agree - nothing wrong with 16/44.1, but not very keen to pay a premium just to get a lot of empty space in the file... "To try to judg

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

2014-04-10 Thread Julf
bluegaspode wrote: > SqueezePlayer uses the Google NDK (native development kit), to be very > performant even on very old devices (like HTC Wildfire with only 500Mhz > CPU). > Typically this layer is not ported in emulators (which is why > SqueezePlayer also doesn't run on Blackberry). > > I hav

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-10 Thread Julf
agillis wrote: > A non networked music player does not interest me but a music store > filled with studio masters in FLAC format does. If they can get licenses > to good masters and the ability to release them as FLAC that will be > huge. The Pono music store will be the best part. Not sure why

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, t

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 q

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 fast-grow

Re: [slim] Last.fm going?! Doesn't look good for Squeezebox users

2014-03-28 Thread Julf
garym wrote: > :eek: My biases showing. I was assuming that a Finish music lover would > obviously live in that part of the world. Sorry I am originally Finnish, and I really don't like that stuff, so... :) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing

Re: [slim] Qobuz streaming (inc FLAC) and download site.

2014-03-26 Thread Julf
netchord wrote: > the hi-res FLAC subscription is wonderful, clearly better than 320 from > Spotify, MOG, Beats, etc. So you managed to do a controlled double-blind ABX comparision? "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the q

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-03-24 Thread Julf
Nonreality wrote: > You miss my point. He can't change everything that's wrong with music > formats and he has chosen this way to try to introduce people to a > better format. There is nothing wrong with 44.1/16 (apart from not giving the record labels enough revenue). "To try to judge the re

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-03-12 Thread Julf
Mnyb wrote: > EDIT: you can buy the music ! :) I would sure try out the store if it > works better than HD tracks. And I seem to remember Neil Young had something against DSD/SACD, so I guess the stuff will be all-multibit. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-03-12 Thread Julf
kesey wrote: > Have a look at www.ponomusic.com > > Neil Young launched his funding round on Kickstarter yesterday March > 11th, and there are already 5000+ backers who have kicked in $1.6 > million. The PonoPlayer is scheduled to launch in October next. The > video is well worth a watch on http

Re: [slim] New Device - Beep

2014-02-08 Thread Julf
kaja69 wrote: > Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk 'How to disable tapatalk sig' (http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2218964). "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that wi

Re: [slim] Beats Music to replace MOG..Where does that leave Squeezebox?

2014-01-29 Thread Julf
freelsjd wrote: > I discovered pono which is expected out soon. It has been "expected" for quite a while now. It might be more "out" than anything... > This appears to be much smarter Smarter? Yet Another Proprietary Format With Silly Copy Protection - not sure I would use the adjective "smart

Re: [slim] Beats Music to replace MOG..Where does that leave Squeezebox?

2014-01-16 Thread Julf
dsm1212 wrote: > Spotify only lets me play one song at a time Premium lets you have multiple players. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsc

Re: [slim] Recent problem: Constant rebuffering.

2013-12-12 Thread Julf
Ikabob wrote: > Could a neighbor's connection be causing interference during prime time? > I'll keep checking but right now (9:15am est) all is well. Not a single > rebuf. 'Cable is shared bandwidth...' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdiGsjfbjWw) "To try to judge the real from the false will

Re: [slim] Streaming from any source to LMS?

2013-12-08 Thread Julf
Mart1 wrote: > So if I go through the SB-receiver in the tv-room as well, then all > zones would be synced? Yes, but not with the TV picture, better leave the AV alone. > wav sounds like not so good quality, but I am still curious: how is it > done? Wav should sound just as good as flac - why

Re: [slim] Installing a Squeezebox system in a car

2013-11-10 Thread Julf
Otto-Wilhelm wrote: > I see no disadvantage of using IPeng, which I use at home as well for > controlling my different Squeezebox devices. In the car the iPhone is > placed in a cradle fixed to the dashboard to be conveniently accessible > during driving. There is no need for accessing other func

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

2013-11-09 Thread Julf
gstew wrote: > Given these, I'm curious why my request is a big deal? Extra complexity for something nobody really needs? "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many peop

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

2013-11-08 Thread Julf
JackOfAll wrote: > Guys, this is wandering into off-topic discussing the merits (or > not) of absolute phase. (Maybe take it to the Audiofool sub-forum. ;)) Agree. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will b

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

2013-11-08 Thread Julf
gstew wrote: > I have speakers that do preserve waveform timing and phase I am curious about what speakers you have, and how you know they preserve waveform timing and phase. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery

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

2013-11-08 Thread Julf
gstew wrote: > Absolute phase of the recording is easily measured. How? Wouldn't you have to know the original signal? > Instruments or voices recorded out-of-phase can be most easily discerned > with speakers that preserve the recorded waveform shape, typically > full-range single-driver or mu

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

2013-11-08 Thread Julf
gstew wrote: > Q2 - It can be easily done in either the SW or the firmware. I'm not > sure where it could be most easily done in this architecture, I figured > asking here might get a response that would clarify that. Well, it is best done once, on the FLAC (or whetever) file, instead of every t

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

2013-11-08 Thread Julf
gstew wrote: > What about being able to invert phase? I know the system will handle it > to provide the balanced output. Is it possible to have a selectable > 'In-Phase / Reverse-Phase' option. I have that in my current computer > music player (cPlay) and while I don't use it much, when it is nee

Re: [slim] More squeezebox hardware alternatives: MK808, Influence of the DAC

2013-10-24 Thread Julf
xvlun wrote: > So as long as I keep using digital outs (and sample rates of 44.1/48 > kHz, I could use just about any external soundcard? Yes. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge tha

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

2013-10-17 Thread Julf
volpone wrote: > My goal is to get, as soon as possible, a SB Touch alternative or > replacement for my HIFI digital setup and the most important point is > audio quality associated with Rega external DAC (or other good external > audiophile DAC). Well, Rega makes a point about their USB input b

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

2013-10-17 Thread Julf
volpone wrote: > In my setup i would prefer to use an external DAC (Rega DAC) but i'm > very pleased that digital outputs will be good. But if you only want to use an external DAC, wouldn't a raspberry pi work for you? "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast

Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-26 Thread Julf
nicky6 wrote: > When I ripped my CD's (about 1000) back in 2002-2003, I did them as > 320Kbps VBR MP3's. I'm not sure I want to go through the process doing > FLAC's instead, and rating all the music again just to have the music > rated 3-5 available for listening and the rest archived. Any compa

Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-09-24 Thread Julf
nicky6 wrote: > Will install some Linux dist on it. Anything that's recommended? I don't > know anything about Linux, but I do want some kind of RAID (RAID 0 and 1 > supported on HW controller) I still think Ubuntu is probably the easiest. "To try to judge the real from the false will always

Re: [slim] Toto not showing up in artist list

2013-08-28 Thread Julf
JJZolx wrote: > Alternatively, you could add a COMPILATION=0 field that would keep the > album from being marked a compilation. In my experience that doesn't work with LMS/Slimserver. COMPILATION=1 forces the album to be a compilation, but COMPILATION=0 does *not* force the album to not be a co

Re: [slim] Call for testers! Daphile

2013-08-19 Thread Julf
Ikabob wrote: > Not to detract from this informative thread, but what is the definition > of a "headless server"? What does it do? Thanks. A pure server, without display or keyboard (or touch display). Thus the only way to interact with the server is over the network (or by pulling the power or

Re: [slim] HDMI audio out on SqueezePlug -- analog or digital?

2013-07-11 Thread Julf
the nightfly wrote: > If I hook a SqueezePlug device up to the HDMI input on my A/V receiver, > is it going to send a PCM bitstream to the receiver's built-in DAC, or > is it going to send analog audio processed by the Pi's own DAC? The audio on a HDMI connection is digital, so it will use the D

Re: [slim] Magic Play

2013-07-04 Thread Julf
SlimChances wrote: > No Linux support as far as I can see :( The slashdot post had a link to instructions for running the server on a raspberry pi, but not sure about a client for linux... "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity

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

2013-05-30 Thread Julf
vzs wrote: > The perception and verification question is a very stuffed subject - I'm > open to discuss it but maybe in another thread. Yes, probably better in the Audiophile section. > Of course I'm using an analog filter, for now a passive second order > low-pass filter. I have in plans to tr

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

2013-05-29 Thread Julf
vzs wrote: > Yes, my DAC system is based around a classic multibit AD1865 without a > digital filter (basically its a NOS DAC) and I want to do (I'm doing on > PC) upsampling to 352k8 in software with SoX as I perceive it being > better then off the shelf digital filters I could use. Have you ve

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

2013-05-29 Thread Julf
vzs wrote: > I'm currently running SqueezeLite on my Touch connected to an Amanero > Combo384 and stream 352K8 upsampled FLACs to my DAC from an LMS 7.8 > installed on my PC. My albums are mainly 44.1K FLACs on an external USB > drive. Is there any specific reason you want to do the upsampling o

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

2013-05-28 Thread Julf
Kuro wrote: > If any of you guys believe different USB cable makes for a difference in > sound or using a different buffer size in Squeezelite or EDO will make a > difference in sound, then it is not so hard to believe a LAN cable can > also make a difference in sound. And if you believe that, t

Re: [slim] How to listen to a radio stream on squeezebox?

2013-05-27 Thread Julf
baconrad wrote: > Hi there, > There's a great radio show called Idiots Delight that has a stream > available from WFUV radio for the latest show each week. I dont see a > podcast. I would like to be able to listen to it on my squeezebox. It > seems like it uses a flash player as it won't play on

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

2013-05-27 Thread Julf
Kuro wrote: > Finally someone agrees with what I found. Please take this discussion to the audiophile forum, where we are more than happy to set your misconceptions right :) Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/m

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Server with Squeezeslave to turn on speakers when playing

2013-05-03 Thread Julf
RobbeD wrote: > is there a way to make the script use less resources? Only had a quick look, but it is a busy loop that gets executed once per second. I would look at something like the xPL plugin or something else that can actively send you a message when the player gets activated. --

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

2013-05-02 Thread Julf
SlimChances wrote: > If Ickstream is reliant on having LMS installed and new OSs appear that > are not compatible with the old LMS (presumably we will never get beyond > LMS 7.8 now Squeezebox is discontinued) where does that leave us? Worst case it will leave you running LMS in a virtual machin

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Server with Squeezeslave to turn on speakers when playing

2013-05-02 Thread Julf
TheD6Bel wrote: > but I have another error > > root@squeezeplug:/home# ./gpio.sh > File "./gpio.sh", line 84 > if playerdetected <> "": > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > I I'm not good in script, so I do not know fix it This isn't really a script error, it is a python syntax error, and the

Re: [slim] How to delete a Genre tag?

2013-04-21 Thread Julf
garym wrote: > yep, and the OP is not trying to make the sound better. He's got some > sort of odd 'tag' issue, that so far has not been easily solved, > although I'm sure it will be eventually. Sure. Just wanted to make sure that some audiophool wouldn't read the posing from DJanGo as implying

Re: [slim] How to delete a Genre tag?

2013-04-21 Thread Julf
DJanGo wrote: > Why? > If you say -the source is cd then re-ripp and tag them. Converting from > to and backwards again wouldnt make better sounds, may better tags - so > reripp them from the sources. Converting flac-wav-flac won't make the sound better, but it won't make it worse either. Re-rip

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

2013-04-19 Thread Julf
rpress wrote: > I have ported Squeezeslave to the "empeg" using the Boom interface and I > quite enjoy it. [/url] Very cool! But I have to ask "why?", as the default empeg user interface is pretty well optimized, and it can already contain all the music you might want even without an external se

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

2013-04-19 Thread Julf
bernid wrote: > I have considered DIY box that would accommodate four main components > (each with separate PSU) e.g. Carrier board , DAC (connected with > carrier board via I2S) and two separate clocks. But if someone is that obsessive and doesn't want to use the built-in stuff anyway, why wo

Re: [slim] Recommend "good" quality USB speakers

2013-04-17 Thread Julf
Mark Miksis wrote: > Or is this the wrong way to think about it and should I just plan on > buying good powered speakers and a separate USB DAC in line with my > price/performance point? Going for separates makes it easier to upgrade only the part that becomes obsolete first... ---

Re: [slim] Announce: Community Squeeze

2013-04-10 Thread Julf
maggior wrote: > What form will the "community hardware" take? Community software > projects make sense, but I've never heard of a community hardware > project. Will it be a parts list? A kit? 'Wikipedia: Open Source Hardware' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware)

Re: [slim] Top 7 products that should still exist according to CNET

2013-04-09 Thread Julf
castalla wrote: > ps: I do not have any i-Thingy things You could have done what I did - gone for the Nokia N9. Great hardware, great software - apart from all the bugs that could easily have been ironed out if Nokia hadn't chucked out their whole Linux group. Sounds familiar? :) -

Re: [slim] Pre-Announcement: ickStream

2013-04-08 Thread Julf
pippin wrote: > if you speak about Germany you are just as much caught up in > legislation, just different one. Sure. But at least legislation that the Germans are more familiar with. > No, because the law originally had a flaw that actually allowed the code > to be exported in printed form (on

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