usbethjim wrote:
> Yikes! Guesstimate on the number of units?
>
>
Well my LMS has 3099 Albums now (75958 titles, so over the Sonos limit)
- and I still have a lot to go... As it is all classical and every album
has 2-4 CDs, I guess it is a lot ;-)
That is where my money went. So putting
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Synology DS-414 NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry
PicorePlayer
Schiit - BIFROST AKM 4490 Dac
Spotify
Oh no, well CDs are definitely on the way out in the shops. Only real
way to get them are the big online stores. What a shame, but honestly I
mainly listen to music from my NAs and not put my CDs in a player
anymore. Not finished ripping my thousands of CDs yet, but getting
closer...
But what to
andifor wrote:
> Talking about sound: If the Receiver sounds different than the
> Transporter, a Sonore device might sound different than a Pi.
>
>
Nope, sorry you got it wrong. The Receiver and the Transporter were/are
complete devices including the DAC. Therefore they can sound different,
Wow, just seen the prices on sonore - pretty steep for a "Pi in
disguise" ... Well, no idea what they are really using as hardware, but
running Squeezelite etc.
What is the point of buying such a device? Just get a Pi with a DAC or
connect to the DAC of your dreams. It is all the same, except
Oh no! Amazon have killed "Music in the cloud" for me. This is really
terrible. I had setup my NAS to sync my music files to the cloud - all
was great.
Now they changed the game, no more unlimited and I would have to pay 180
Dollars for my storage, so obviously I will not renew my plan.
What a
I am using Amazon Drive and have about 2 TB music on there, it is great
I can use it to stream music on the go using CloudBeats, plus I have an
extra Backup of the entire music as an incremental Backup done via my
NAS.
Yes it takes long to upload at first, but afterwards it is worth it.
LMS
I had that problem, where my music player suddenly went whild in the
middle of the night, I had forwarded my LMS ports to the internet. Now I
use VPN and no problems at all anymore.
Shame, it was practical to use LMS on the road that way, but simply to
unsafe.
Absolutely block those ports, this
Hi Exile, if Spotify is what you listen to, I can completely understand
you crossing over to the dark side ;-) The ease of use on Sonos and the
reliability are great for that, friend of mine has Sonos and I never get
a call that something is not working, whilst two friends that I got
started on
How strange, his system went wild at exactly the same time that mine
did.
LMS 7.9.0 - 1470391720 on Pi2 (Max2play)
Synology DS-414 NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry
PicorePlayer
Schiit - BIFROST AKM 4490 Dac
Spotify Premium
Last night something strange happened, I was woken up by my radios and
boom playing full blast - a piece of music that I had not selected in
years.
How could this happen? How was the title selected and why was the volume
on full - plus why were they in at all?
Anyone else had this happen?
Mission accomplished, my music is now backed up in the cloud, more than
1 TB. Amazon really has good upload speed. Now I feel a bit safer. So
the worst bit is behind me, the initial upload. From now on my NAS will
automatically sync with the cloud. So all is good.
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I started uploading at full speed since yesterday evening and 80 GB are
already in the cloud. Amazon works at my internets full upload, so much
better than other backup services I tried in the past, where it would
have taken months to upload.
No problem with anything like streaming, phone etc in
JJZolx wrote:
> That's only really a consideration while you're originally ripping your
> CD library. IMO. After that, most people might buy one CD or a few CDs
> each week.
That is the big problem, as it looks now it is going to take me atleast
another year to rip my collection, if not much
The Amazon Cloud Drive is a cloudspace at Amazon, you backup your files
to a Datacenter where they also keep multiple backups. Therefore nothing
should happen to the data, it is not a device that is constantly
connected to my NAS.
I do not know how good most of you are about making backups, I
Sure, drives are cheap. Good thing about online backup is, that it is
constantly synced.
A manual backup not and it is not that I would want to deposit a drive
at a friends house every month. Hmm it is a difficult decision, but a
loss of all my digital files would be dreadful.
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Well with an ever growing music library on my NAS and ripping taking up
a lot of my time - seems like I will never be finished...
I was wondering about backup and options of having my music available
everywhere.
Up to now I am using an "oldschool" extra Drive for backup. But now I
have started
pippin wrote:
>
> So from a performance standpoint moving to watchOS 2 would be a step
> backwards
>
> ACCESS TO CROWN AND SENSORS
>
> Being able to change the volume using the crown would actually be the
> most important improvement in a watchOS 2 App and it's actually the one
> single
pippin wrote:
> so I would actually love to be able to use the crown.
>
Well, yes it would be nice to have - but not if the rest is moreless
unusable then ;-)
Yes I do also hope it will be new software and not hardware. The watch,
especially the more expensive models are not really the sort
Why so complicated? A new company could theoretically buy the concept
and run their own servers for their customers, or also buy into
ickstream and then sell hardware.
The old Logitech customers could/would log itno mysqueezebox.com as
long as it is alive and if they wanted access to the new
Well, there was the Community player project, which died - and it's
members mysteriously vanished, then Jackofall wanted to release a sort
of pseudocommercial product (if I understood it right) but nothing ever
came of that.
It is great that joint forces are keeping the system alive and making
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
It is iPeng that makes the obsolete Squeezebox system to the very best
and most modern Multiroom system alive. I believe the only Multisystem
with an Apple Watch app. - Not bad for Zombie turned Opensource...
I use the Watch App every day and am extremely happy
Since Triode seems to have left us for good now, after the
behindthescenes drama with a Squeezeboxreplacement. Would it be
possible to include Spotify in Ickstream?
Triode's plugin is not being updated and there should be more
possibilities with the new API. Also scared that it will stop working
It arrived, just installed and am impressed! Being able to check what is
playing and skipping from your wrist, is incredibly cool. Thanks!
Personally I would not include voicesearch. I do not think it is worth
it on the watch. Plus album titles are often in other languages. Being
in Germany
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In other news: the review times at Apple right now are really annoying.
Two weeks is too much.
That is totally ridiculous. Hope it will be released soon.
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Synology DS-410j NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry
Oh yes it does! I especially like the bar!. You should invite us over
for a drink.
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Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry
PicorePlayer
Schiit - BIFROST Dac
Spotify Premium
iPhone: iPeng - iPad: Squeezepad, iPengHD
as you probably know, I am excitedly waiting for the release of iPeng on
Apple Watch.
It is important to understand that the watch is perfect for basic info
and commands. It is not a mini iPhone. Something some developers simply
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I have had Wimp/Tidal Hifi for a while now, lossless streaming is a good
thing. But content - to me - is even more important.
With Tidal the selection of classical music is rather limited. Actually
so limited, that it is more like a service for someone who once in a
while wants to listen to
Sorry for crashing this thread. But I simply cannot get rad.io to play
any music.
I am using the updated plugin, but no sound.
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PicorePlayer
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I also have a Bifrost and it clicks when changing from standard to
hires. So having a playlist mixing them, would result in clicking.
But staying within the same sample rate playback from my touch via
bifrost is perfect and without gaps or clicks.
I also have a Rapberry Pi running Picoreplayer
JJZolx wrote:
For Bryston, installing Squeezelite, which they didn't pay a penny to
develop, on the BDP-2, with its bog-standard motherboard running Linux,
is a pretty low risk proposition.
Wow, so the BDP-2 is simply a Squeezelite player on a sort of Raspberry
card in an elegant case?!? Not
d6jg wrote:
Logitech might jump back on board - they must be peed off that they
jumped out just as Sonos jumped in - it's consumer electronics after
all.
Well Sonos was around quite a while before Logitech jumped out. But the
biggest trouble was that Squeezebox was simply there much too
Ok, now I am totally confused.
Two days ago John Swenson wrote a long post, saying the Project is not
dead and that a kit for the Wandboard will be available and a day late
the same John Swenson wrote the project is dead and that there will be
no kit.
This after months of silence. So why make
Hi there,
I am sure the info ist out there, but I cannot find it...
Running LMS 7.9 and have a lot of hires files. They play on my Touch
etc but not on Radio or Boom.
Where is the setting to transcode the files for devices that cannot
handle hires?
Thanks for your help.
LMS 7.9.0 on
I am running LMS 7.9 on a Wandboard via Triodes SOA .
I have not fiddled with the settings.
Still it is not transcoding.
No idea why. What should the setting be?
LMS 7.9.0 on Wandboard (SoA)
Synology DS-410j NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry
PicorePlayer
They are flac files and I have not installed those plugins
LMS 7.9.0 on Wandboard (SoA)
Synology DS-410j NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry
PicorePlayer
Schiit - BIFROST Dac
Spotify Premium
iPhone: iPeng - iPad: Squeezepad, iPengHD
SoX is selected for Ogg Vorbis - so it seems to be there.
I have DSD player installed, does that change anything?
LMS 7.9.0 on Wandboard (SoA)
Synology DS-410j NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry
PicorePlayer
Schiit - BIFROST Dac
Spotify Premium
iPhone: iPeng -
Flac all normal, set to native. There is no extra setting for down
sampling.
LMS 7.9.0 on Wandboard (SoA)
Synology DS-410j NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry
PicorePlayer
Schiit - BIFROST Dac
Spotify Premium
iPhone: iPeng - iPad: Squeezepad, iPengHD
d6jg wrote:
it is Smooth Radio that do a Christmas channel.
Thanks a lot. Great station.
LMS 7.9.0 on Wandboard (SoA)
Synology DS-410j NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry
PicorePlayer
Schiit - BIFROST Dac
Spotify Premium
iPhone: iPeng - iPad: Squeezepad,
What a shame, I cannot get it to work. Have LMS running on Wandboard via
SOA and when I try to register I get a Proxy Error 502:
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET
/ickstream-cloud-core/oauth.
CommanderROR wrote:
Stopped working here as well, just as I had registered my Deezer
subscription. I guess server maintenance or something
Ah ok, been restarting and trying like crazy to get it running ;-)
Glad it is obviously a short outage and nothing wrong at my end.
LMS 7.9.0 on
Thanks ickstream is running.
I have a Wimp Hifi sub and am only getting mp3 at the moment. Any ideas?
LMS 7.9.0 on Wandboard (SoA)
Synology DS-410j NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry
PicorePlayer
Schiit - BIFROST Dac
Spotify Premium
iPhone: iPeng - iPad:
Well my Hifiberry Digi Board arrived and I installed it. Since it is
connected to the same DAC as I used on the Touch - the Bifrost - it
sounds the same, which is damn good. ;-)
Really great little Player.
All in all it is a 100 Euro including case. Which makes it a very
affordable High-end
The raspberry with hifiberry has 192 k playback out of the box and even
Airplay.
So in a way it is more advanced than the Touch in that respect.
Big trouble with hifiberry is that it ships from switzerland, which
makes it slow and expensive to ship just about anywhere, plus customs
charges.
Hi there,
I have a new problem - after years of tagging without probs for LMS.
My new TAGS created with MP3Tag have now only got TRACK instead to the
TAG TRACKNUMBER, which cause chaos in LMS.
The order is not there anymore.
What could be wrong? Are the correct FLAC tracks not created
I have ssen that some names of my Flac's are too long - especially after
being in different folders.
I have no idea which ones are too long, is there a tool to search and
change these problem files?
I guess LMS also skips these tracks, or does it play them?
LMS 7.9.0 on Wandboard (SoA)
I do wonder now, if the community has actually produced a better product
than there was ever available before.
On one hand we have the Touch - ignoring the Display - i ask myself if
the following is not actually the better player:
Raspberry + Hifiberry Digi (the S/PDIF Version) or the DAC +
Grumpy Bob wrote:
It's not obvious to me what's to be gained from the HiFiBerry Digi card
over a USB output from the Pi itself, if you're feeding en external
DAC.
My Bifrost DAC has no USB input - therefore the Hifiberry Digi card.
LMS 7.9.0 on Wandboard (SoA)
Synology DS-410j NAS
OH no, hope it survives just started a subsription and am really
enjoying it.
Was thinking of gettin a years sub - but probably not a good idea now.
Do not want to loose my money.
LMS 7.9.0 on Wandboard (SoA)
Synology DS-410j NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio
Schiit -
Oh no, just read this. Had no idea.
This really sucks - ah well off to Spotify and Triode. But MOG was
cheaper and I preferred it.
Must all good thing always come to an end?!?
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Synology DS-410j NAS
Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio
Schiit - BIFROST Dac
I still do not quite understand why the customer thought he could get a
free Radio, plus his Touch (repaired or unrepaired)
Sort of two for one. This might come as a shock, but the dealers
actually have to also pay for the devices and sell them, since they have
to make a living...
If the Touch
JohnSwenson wrote:
How do I put this, with the right parameters and tweaked just right it
is literally spine tingling. I was listening to this with a friend
yesterday, when it got dialed in just right I was literally getting
goose bumps listening to music through this.
.
I am
JohnSwenson wrote:
Wow John, this sounds amazing. I want your baby! Well, better put - I am
hoping I can also be considered for CSP 1.
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From the very beginning of this Community funded SB replacement, I have
been very excited.
But it went from the idea of having a device that can stream high
quality music to an amp to a Touch clone with display and buttons and
infrared etc. for users who have no smartdevice.
In other words, it
bonze wrote:
Count me out of this project then, and I'm guessing a few others.
I don't ever want to rely on controlling my music with a
smartphone/iThing.
I'd also like to take this opportunity to apologise for 'killing' the
previous platform with my non-geekyness.
Sorry but that
Triode wrote:
I think we are in real danger of scope creep here... I think its going
to be enough work to get a common set of hardware to work well for most
people and avoid the only users being people who can hack the software
too much. I think that should be our target initially.
+1
JohnSwenson wrote:
So Gen1 is some assembly required, Gen2 is plug and play.
Thanks. I really would not see a problem in having a Gen2 version with
some assembly required - since having a complete plug and play device
would really mean that someone has to moreless make it his job to
JohnSwenson wrote:
Primarily because you will have to spend thousands of dollars on an
external DAC to get the level of sound quality this box is going to
have.
Really? You really think this new DAC will be that good? Wow, I was
already excited about this project, but now I cannot wait to
Pascal Hibon wrote:
This should not be an attempt to be a high quality DAC with all bells
and whistles attached to it. There are plenty of external high quality
DACs out there. I think that most users here are using an external DAC
with their Squeezeboxes any way.
Absolutely agree. Adding
@Johnswenson
Now you really caught my attention, this sounds nearly to good to be
true.
Very exciting indeed!
Once it gets to Gen1 is it supposed to be a solder yourself product?
Putting boards in a box and all is no problem, but I am sure there are
many who would be frightened away if they
Jackofall, this really souds exciting. Long live the Squeezebox!
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Might be the same thing happens that happened to Pebble (a smartwatch)
they wanted 100 thousand dollars and ended up with more than 10
million.
Meaning they had to also find a way to massproduce.
I funded them in april 2012, shipment was expected in september and I am
still waiting for my
These past days I had been thinking of changing over to Sonos, since at
the moment one can get good money for SBs and I wanted to invest into a
living infrastructure.
There had also been troubles and frustration with my SBs, but as I found
out they were mainly caused by my LMS on a low power
I just got to know the Aupeo music service through Sonos and it would be
really great if there was a plugin for the SBs.
Anyone working on that?
I know one can make it work via iPeng, but a real plugin would be a lot
better.
HMM,
I am a bit stuck making decisions at the moment...
I really like the Sonos, it is so reliable and searches etc. are
instant. Great system!
But,
having been a Squeezboxer it is hard to change over.
The main thing that drives nuts about SB is LMS running on Squeezeplug.
Searches can be
Wow, it really looks like this is actually gonna happen soon. I cannot
tell you how impressed I am.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Just having a little box that can be hidden away, like the receiver
would be more than enough.
@erland
Trouble with multiroom systems is, you buy into an entire ecosystem. So
if you spend money and want to expand your collection of devices you
need to trust that the system will be around in the future.
Of all the companies selling (moreless affordable) systems Sonos is the
one I would
I bought a Sonos connect to test the system - and see if I should change
over to them.
I must admit I really like it. Even with Squeezeplug, my SB system
sometimes drove me nuts, being slow and unresponsive. Troubles with the
server.
In a perfect world Sonos would not have the 65k limit, but I
Well as crazy as I think selling the Harmony division is, I wished they
had done that with SB instead of killing it off and replacing it with
this strange UE line.
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Love it! Another reason why Squeezeboxen rule the streaming world - no
other streaming eco-system has such a great app!
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My geek personality said wow, yes, I want one, so I got one. Then the
rest of me said ugh, that thing is *ugly*. Bah.
That was funny. Yes, I see your point.
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truehl wrote:
What about Raspberry Pi? Raspberry Pi is a very cheep hardware platform
which can be use as a Squeezebox Server and a player and if you like you
can run server and player on only one device! This device costs only 35
$.
...
. One open thing is to find a replacement for the
pippin wrote:
I believe almost all 3rd party Apps (except that one that was only a
wrapper around the MySB web interface) will work without MySB.
Well that sounds comforting, then we can have everything running till
our hardware dies.
Once it does, we can get ithingies running iPeng etc.
Since for obvious reasons this thread has become even more interesting,
could you please add a list of good dockingstaions with SPDIF out?
So I guess for many out there it will be a good option to just buy an
iPod and a dockingstaion instead of a Touch in the future.
Or an iPod in a speakerdock
pippin wrote:
So the input would have to come from users. Would it make sense to have
a page on penguinlovesmusic.com where people can discuss and recommend
devices or should it be here on the forum (I believe it could get a bit
lost among the threads here)?
Sure maybe there should be an
I am sure they are feeling really happy at the moment.
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There is no reason to toss the SBs out of your home yet.
Local playback will always work via a local server, if newer NAS are not
supported, simply run LMS on a MiniPC with something like squeezeplug.
The real problem is, online functionality. Will online services continue
to work. Like Spotify
I am confused, does this mean the end of the squeezeboxen?!?
The UE Radio is just an SB Radio with a different name printed on it.
So what would be the point of having a UE Radio and a SB Radio. Sure one
has to go and it would probably be the older one.
I thought the IFA would bring some
Squeezebox as we know it, is dead!
mherger wrote:
SB labeled products are being phased out. Get them while they're there.
:-(
Also, as Michael writes - beware of updating your radio!
Squeezemenicely's
unhappy about todays news, I had a look around for other systems.
Especially since I am setting up a music system or a friend next week,
was gonna be Touch - but now obviously not anymore.
I had another look at Raumfeld and Sonos. As much as I try, I cannot
fall in love with them.
Sonos - looks
Well, I am an avid CD collector - still buying a lot of them and have
about 3000 of them, plus 1000 albums on my server. So my CDplayer is
still doing it's work. But, less and less.
To be honest it is just so great to be able to go through your stuff
using iPeng.
But what would happen to those
After using iPeng on my iPhone for a long time I got myself Squeezepad
for my iPad, was great (still is). But then I tried the iPeng party app
on my iPad and that gave me a taste of what iPeng would be like, so I
bought it.
Absolutely great! just love the coverview and that I can finally use
garym wrote:
Mine's never been happier since my thousands of CDs are out-of-sight in
back room filing cabinets
Oh no, I could not do that - definitely not ready to put my CDs away.
Still hunting first release box sets via Amazon and Ebay, because the
rereleases do not have the boxes and
garym wrote:
: p.s. It is also very nice that I have my complete collection playable
at home, at the weekend place, and at the office, not to mention the
ability to load up tons of it to take with me on trips via
ipod/iphone.
Yes, that is definitely a great advantage! Guess I will have
Ok, just added a SB Radio to my collection. I really hope that Logitech
will continue the SB line.
It is such a great product.
I definitely listen to more music than before - and my CD player is
definitely getting jealous, since the SBs are getting so much more
attention.
.
All in all you will definitely loose new customers, but I still hope
you will continue developing for your loyal customers.
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I find the reviewers who give the Logitech app just 1 star, really
unfair.
This will not help promoting the 3rd party apps, there is nothing wrong
with the Logitech app - it actually works rather nicely.
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Squeezebox Receiver
had not given up and asked for help here.
It is really easy setting the receiver up, if you have the right
instructions.
So for all new squeezers out there trying to set up their receivers,
only go by the wiki and ignore all other info, which might be outdated
by now.
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on my Synology Nas and my wifi network is
secured with WPA2.
BTW, I am using iPeng for iPhone.
Hope you can help me, maybe I can even send you all my details via PM?
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sure I had not
made mistakes.
Any idea?
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my info that needs to be put into the receiver is:
SSID: Xberger
PSK: 453226982
WPA2
Squeezecenter: 192.168.178.40
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not sure anymore. I will retry tomorrow.
So the string from the wiki is the right one?
Thanks for your help.
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