d6jg wrote:
>
> 1. Get a NAS from either manufacturer but consider the storage
> requirement carefully. You can always upgrade the disks at a later
> stage.
> 2. Get yourself a Pi4. Install piCorePlayer and LMS on the Pi. Point it
> at the storage on the NAS.
Another advantage to having a Pi
If you have any DTS and/or AC-3 tracks, be sure to NOT add ReplayGain
tags to them.
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> bumping this. after moving to a RPi running pCP, i'm still having this
> issue, so seems clear it's an LMS problem (happened on both 7.9.2 and
> 8), or a player issue. i've spelunked through the settings for both,
> and don't see anything obvious that would cause this.
If
mandryka wrote:
> 1. Are some SD cards less reliable than others? I wonder if mine failed
> because I have a bad quality card.
I've had at least two of the better known brands (Samsung, SanDisk) fail
on me. When I looked around for allegedly more reliable ones, I found
Transcend High
erland wrote:
> Just for information to anyone still using ickStream Music Platform.
>
> As we indicated two months ago we have now permanently shutdown the
> ickStream servers.
>
> At the moment there are no plans to start the ickStream service again
> but if your company still feels the need
emalvick wrote:
> I think the key thing is that the software built into these stereo units
> is not great and the technology has shown minimal progress. I've had
> cars with these types of features (able to plug an SD card, CD, USB with
> files on it) since about 2010. They are often limited
I've given up on gapless for most non-LMS players. As someone who
usually plays whole albums, my workaround is a Linux script that
concatenates FLACs into a single file and then turns that into an MP3.
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Dogberry2 wrote:
> What, you mean you don't prefer a high noise floor, terrible
> signal-to-noise ratio, plenty of hiss, wow and flutter, with
> continuously degrading wear and worsening sound every time you listen to
> an album? What are you, a heretic? Any vinyl cult follower will tell you
>
Mnyb wrote:
> People much younger than me thinks vinyl i kind of hip hence its current
> comeback .
>
> I abamdoned it in the early 90s sometimes wonderng if i should take it
> up again as a nostalgig thing.
>
> My parents also gave up vinyl at the same time , but i do think must
>
I noticed non-gaplessness with AAC a few months back and found that the
problem only occurred with synced players. Streaming to a single player
worked fine.
As others have pointed out the issues with M4A file layout, I'll mention
that recent versions of Foobar2000 have an option under utilities
bakker_be wrote:
> Ever since they stopped allowing the use of rclone, I've been
> investigating alternatives. This is just another factor prompting a
> switch. Since I only need a backup solution I intend to try Crashplan
> ...
I love that I learned about rclone mere days before it was banned.
Testing hubiC at the moment. 25GB free and it works with rclone. Their
largest plan is 10TB, which works for me for now, so I just might go for
it.
rclone developer is hopeful that he can work things out with Amazon.
drmatt wrote:
> They don't like the word "unlimited" as much as their marketing would
> have you believe, apparently...
If I understand the situation correctly (and I'm not sure that I do)
rclone's developer had to work with Amazon to get the app approved, but
Amazon banned it without warning
bakker_be wrote:
> Since posting this, I've uploaded ±1TB of music to Amazon :p
And, just like that, Amascum has banned rclone.
https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-has-been-banned-from-amazon-drive/2314/10
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bakker_be wrote:
> Ehm, aren't we confusing *GOOGLE* drive and *AMAZON* drive here?
>
> Back to Amazon Drive:
> 'rclone' (https://rclone.org/) seems to support it, and it has a "check"
> function that compares file hashes allowing you to skip files that
> calculate as identical.
THANK YOU for
Paul Dorn wrote:
> For those of you who only care about local music, the Squeezebox devices
> should continue to work. But I suspect those of us making a lot of use
> of services such as Pandora would find their Squeezebox devices far less
> useful than they are today.
You're right, of course.
mherger wrote:
>
> Don't forget that Logitech is still providing a whole lot of
> infrastructure which would need to be replaced by the community: build
> systems, download servers, this forum etc. That could become a problem.
There would definitely be some initial pain, that's for sure. But
liffy99 wrote:
> Given that LMS support no longer exists
It doesn't?
Seriously, even if Logitech completely pulls the plug I don't see LMS
going away for a long, long time.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc
> NTSC discs have a 44.056kHz audio track.
Yep...I did things backwards and Googled that AFTER I stupidly
questioned it in public. :)
But I still wonder what really comes out of the digital output. I
started using the optical output on a
megarat wrote:
> The LD's native digital audio is Redbook-esque, but not precisely so,
> being 16 bit and 44056 Hz.
That's the first time I've ever heard that. My inner skeptic wonders how
that would work when plugged into equipment expecting 44.1 and why an
oddball sample rate like that
Squeezemenicely wrote:
> 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.
JerryS wrote:
> Your post gives me the courage to confess to an act of stupidity which
> may serve as a warning to others. Initiating a Grsync backup session
> before switching on the machine containing the files to be backed up,
> does exactly what you say, very fast catastrophic deletion
My routine:
1. Scheduled rsync backs up primary to local backup #1 once a day.
2. Scheduled rsync with --dry-run parameter compares primary to local
backup #2 once per day and reports what needs to change. If the report
makes sense, I manually run it without --dry-run.
3. CrashPlan running
Fahzz wrote:
> So... Smart Gain not working. I'm wondering if the SB3 has Smart Gain
> capability
I always used SmartGain when my players were SB3s...
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> Does the Chromecast Audio, when used in conjunction with Squeeze2Upnp,
> support (i) tight synchronization, (ii) ReplayGain, (iii) gapless
> playback, etc.?
And is it bit-perfect so it will work with DTS and AC-3?
netchord wrote:
> i'm getting a message on all channels today alerting me to the
> forthcoming change. essentially, a guy is reading the email we got last
> week. it's on all channels, and seems to be in a continuous loop.
>
> since i'm not prepared to invest in new hardware, it's addio
Julf wrote:
> 'Morituri' (http://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/trac/), since at least
> 2009...
2009?!?! I didn't realize it had been THAT long since I'd looked!
Thank you for the link!
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> Have not identified the source but it was probably the windo app
> 'EAC' (I stupidly didn't use my Linux machine!)
I'm far from a Windows apologist, but unless there's some incredibly
screwed up configuration, EAC is most certainly -not- creating botched
files.
Has anyone
amey01 wrote:
> I strange issue I can't seem to find any previous posts on
>
> I've got a 16 bit / 44.1 kHz .WAV file that just plays back as hiss /
> white noise.
>
> 1. I can play other .WAV files without issue on my SBT.
> 2. This particular file plays fine on VLC.
>
> What could
Mnyb wrote:
> i dont supose anyone has any cassettes left either they dont age well
I've found that quality blanks (TDK and Maxell) have aged just fine but
pre-recorded titles are likely to drag and squeal.
I still play reels, too!
Even more obscure, I use analog quadraphonic decoders and am
SlimChances wrote:
I downloaded an album of Joe Satriani from the web site 'Murfie's Music'
(https://www.murfie.com/) and put into my library but LMS refuses to
recognize the album or any songs in the album either under New Music,
Folders, or search. I have done several scans to no avail. I
Eric Seaberg wrote:
I converted the FLAC back to WAV and went to import, what I thought
would be a DTS encoded file. It was a 6-channel interleaved WAV that
had NEVER been DTS encoded... hence the problem with everything trying
to read it. Obviously, if I ever listened to it, it was from
Eric Seaberg wrote:
I'm on a Mac, so there isn't a c:\. Can I run this in the Mac Terminal?
As long as FLAC is installed, you should be able to. I do it in Linux
all the time. I can't remember if I had to specifically install FLAC,
if it's just standard with Ubuntu or if installing LMS also
Eric Seaberg wrote:
Any ideas? These files have played before WITHOUT ISSUE.
Is it only the Transporter that doesn't want to play the DTS tracks?
Can you use the FLAC command line to test the files in question for
corruption? (Sorry, I can't remember the command, but it should be easy
Eric Seaberg wrote:
The transporter is the only device hooked up to my 5.1 receiver.
But even just getting white noise (or not turning on your amp at all)
would let you test if other players can access the files without blowing
up.
In theory, any player should see DTS in a FLAC container as
Eric Seaberg wrote:
Atrocity, same issue with SB3... Same ERROR on screen, in fact I'll try
restoring FLAC files from a backup set.
If you still have trouble, try the FLAC test command:
Code:
flac -t File to Test.flac
You might have to prepend
CatBus wrote:
I could probably handle #7 and #8 via the SlimServer web interface (or
some other interface) on a phone or tablet, although I really do
strongly prefer using the IR remote control over the web interface.
We all prefer what we prefer and there's nothing wrong with that, but if
epoch1970 wrote:
These days I tend to replace drives every 2 years. A brand is no
guarantee.
I just had to replace a Buffalo NAS after less than a year and a half.
Sure glad I back everything up!
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My real question I suppose is has anyone seen this before? 100% ok in a
CD player but only 50% ok in a PC. If it was 0% in the PC I could sort
of understand.
I've seen:
1. Discs that look perfect and play fine but refuse to rip cleanly in
any drive
2. Discs that look perfect
I don't know if SqueezeWorld is overall shrinking or expanding, but I
know that I've personally set up and given or sold multiple Wandboard
Quads running SoA or CSOS to friends and family. And I'm currently
building another system for someone else.
erland wrote:
Is the multi disc album track order still incorrect ?
I tried the The Velvet Underground Nico 45th Anniversary (Deluxe
Edition) album you showed in the screenshot and it now looks fine to
me.
I just checked that and another Velvet Underground album that wasn't
sorting
I'm not sure if this is an ickStream bug, a Tidal limitation or just
something that needs to be lived with, but I thought I'd mention it in
case the behavior can be changed.
When playing tracks from Tidal, pausing or turning off the player (at
least for an extended period of time) results in the
It's working great for me, thanks!
My only complaint--and I wouldn't be surprised if the problem is on
Tidal's side--is that the track order for multi-disc sets can be pretty
chaotic:
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pippin wrote:
There seems to be an issue - it's a bit embarrassing given the fact that
we start with some lossless services - that LMS (and other UIs)
sometimes show MP3 as the stream format with our streams even when the
actual format is FLAC.
Thank you for mentioning that, it's actually
cca651 wrote:
This is indeed great news - I signed up for the trial yesterday and the
sound quality is very good (worth the price for me). Can't wait to be
able to stream via my Squeezebox devices!
I signed up for a 30 day trial yesterday myself. I don't know if they
were just having
Apesbrain wrote:
Like you I also uninstalled it. Its UI was very slow on my older Roku
XS and the device only able to play MP3 which is the minority of my
library.
I experimented with it over the weekend and also found the MP3-only
capability pointless.
Even odder, although it connected to
paulster wrote:
I used to use MOG, and now I use Spotify, so I'm a paid streaming
service customer. I do know that Rhapsody is a problem, but there are
perfectly viable alternatives that work just fine.
That's very good to know, thank you!
paulster wrote:
I have a load of Logitech SB hardware, but I've taken it all out of
service now. All of my Squeezelite-powered units sync perfectly, play
high-res audio, and do everything and more than the Logitech hardware
that preceded them did.
Only issue I've had with unofficial
gb115b wrote:
wow, thanks! not many squeezebox 3s on the uk ebay site sadly... and i
wonder if i'm just putting off the inevitable (given that hardware and
software are no longer readily available, maybe it's time to call it
quits?). it's a real shame what logitech did to slimdevices.
cliveb wrote:
For a useable multi-room streaming system, LMS remains a very sensible
choice.
And as much as we all like to scratch our heads and wonder what Logitech
was thinking, I'm very grateful to them and to SlimDevices for getting
us to this point.
Given how much interest there still
bonze wrote:
Is there currently any other solution besides a 'tablet' for use as a
display?
I have a monitor hooked up to a Wandboard.
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One particular question is - are there any GOOD devices, that people
know of, that stream (both from internet and PC) and that combine a
player that can handle CD, SACD, DVD-A, CD-R etc etc
You might want to look at the Oppo players. They play all the disc
formats you
StridingEdge wrote:
Thanks for that. All my Flac files are stereo (I assume when you said
multichannel you were referring to 5.1?) and that's all I want from
that side of things. Do the Oppos handle that OK?
The Oppos will play 2.0 just fine. But if your taste runs to opera or
prog rock or
When Squeezebox mania got me to carefully rip thousands of CDs, the only
commercially pressed ones that were flat-out impossible to read were the
two discs in Monty Python's Final Ripoff. They were victims of the
bronzing issue a British plant had for a while. I had other discs
that were
rmac321 wrote:
Has anybody received a quad wandboard in the last month or more? I've
had a quad on order since Feb 14 from future electronics and they keep
pushing back the expected delivery date. I don't want to make waves
with future if the problem is with wandboard...
I was backordered
aubuti wrote:
1) Setting aside for the moment pippin's key observation that nobody
buys iPods any more, that's the same price as a 64GB iPod touch, which
has half the capacity and no option for swapping out microSD card.
The iPod also works with fewer formats.
I haven't seen the issue of
garym wrote:
you're not getting the crashing because you're playing Rhapsody or
Napster thru the player are you? That is causing players to crash, but
is a Rhapsody/Napster issue, not the hardware of the player. Just a
thought.
Interesting...I tried to play Rhapsody on a Touch last
the nightfly wrote:
I know -- like anyone else frequenting these forums -- that Logitech
stopped producing the Squeezebox line. I'm referring to developments
such as Community Squeeze, players like SqueezeLite, and the like.
I have asked this before--most recently after learning that the
erland wrote:
Using the standard Wandboard together with the CommunitySqueeze hardware
sounds like it's going to be excellent based on what the people who have
tried it says, definitely superior to the Squeezebox Touch, but if you
hear the difference or not depends on your amplifier,
Triode wrote:
Re 1: can't comment on having tested it but people have been running
with an HDMI splitter to spdif with the wandboard - suggest posting on
the linux forum on the CSOS thread.
Done, thank you.
Triode wrote:
Re 2: unlikely as the playback application (squeezelite) is 2
JohnSwenson wrote:
#1 does work, I've tried it with DTS, as usual just make sure the volume
is at 100%, no upsampling, no replay gain, no fade in etc.
Very good news indeed, thank you. The need to get more reliable DTS
playback than I was getting from cheap CD-Rs and iffy disc spinners is
erland wrote:
Also, if there is anything special you have always wanted LMS/Squeezebox
to do which it doesn't support yet, please let us know through this
pre-announcement thread and we will consider if it's something that fits
ickStream.
I've always wanted support for multichannel playback
adamdea wrote:
Isn't that cyberpunk? Wouldn't steampunk be more like storing your mp3s
on wax cylinders?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1216161
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garym wrote:
I believe this question has been asked and I recall Spoon saying that
the exact file would be returned upon restore.
Cool, thank you.
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as seen here:
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?25788-PerfectTUNES
i need to investigate how it determines dupes...
thx Gary.
It took forever to scan my 78,000+ tracks and then declared many to be
dupes that are not. For example, it can't distinguish between
The only thing I would love to see that isn't there now is the ability
to output lossless multichannel.
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I just got an iPad and installed SqueezePad. I run two different
instances of LMS, and SqueezePad connected to the wrong when I first
ran it. I didn't see an obvious way to switch servers, so I just shut
down the server I didn't want and restarted SqueezePad. Now it's locked
in an endless loop
atrocity wrote:
I just got an iPad and installed SqueezePad. I run two different
instances of LMS, and SqueezePad connected to the wrong when I first
ran it. I didn't see an obvious way to switch servers, so I just shut
down the server I didn't want and restarted SqueezePad. Now it's
bluegaspode wrote:
Hi atrocity,
just enter the settings screen of SqueezePad (tap the small button on
the bottom right).
Here you can select which server to use (via the 'Search' button) and
also provide your server credentials.
Sigh...as I suspected, it was right in front of my face
erland;665802 Wrote:
Are there any advantages of using FLAC now when ALAC is open sourced ?
Last time I tested, stereo FLAC files were slightly smaller than their
FLAC counterparts...and mono FLAC files were a *lot* smaller.
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of just creating a two-second or so silent track, but that
would only work when I'm personally and explicitly building the
playlist.
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two). Everything works as expected with one server, connecting to the
other results in no time display when off no matter what I do.
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Best solution today is probably a Dune player for lossless multi-channel
FLAC through HDMI.
Is it gapless?
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fight with it, so I'm happily using 7.5.5
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using Linux. I started out with an XP server, but it was
just too overloaded and didn't work out so well. I wound up buying a
very cheap box to run Linux and haven't looked back.
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The WDTV boxes, like most non-Squeezebox devices, can't play music
gaplessly.
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. Usually it adds an album, but
then either just stops without playing it at all or only plays the last
track and gives up.
I use a separate instance of SBS for the weekend, so it's definitely
not a case of there not actually being any Never Played Albums.
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got dumped.
Of course, I could be completely insane and Erland doesn't know whether
to laugh or cry at my ignorance.
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Can foobar2k run under Wine?
Yes.
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. Reliability-wise, a Squeezebox
is 100 and a Popcorn Hour is 50.
Maybe the HDX1000 is better, but I wouldn't count on it.
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report the tag data in the pane where
you're browsing. If you actually add the files to the playlist/queue,
you'll see that it's reading tag data. It also adds those files to the
database, at least when running under Ubuntu.
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do with a multichannel FLAC? Might be interesting to see if such a
beast would ignore DVD-A watermarking.
Unfortunately, the correct way to rip a DVD-A remains to hope it also
has a DTS track or settle for AC-3 if it doesn't.
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snarlydwarf;368716 Wrote:
Hurry and buy them all now, that silk screen does affect sound quality,
even more so, than, well, a switch.
It's also worth noting that the devices were signed by a left-handed
person and a right-handed person, thereby improving the stereo imaging.
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at the time,
I'm not sure that even the impermanent file can be used to actually
bring up a station.
This in turn makes me wonder what the point is of the OPML browser.
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The only real Gotcha is that some programs make paths to files
relative instead of absolute... which won't usually work.
All my playlists have relative paths. As a result, the same playlist
will work on Squeezecenter/Ubuntu and in Foobar 2000/Windows.
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my
Windows machine do all its normal Windowsy stupidity without
interrrupting the music.
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Windows
XP. When I request http://192.168.0.105:9000 (that is, only connecting
through my local network), I'm prompted for the name and password, which
apparently are accepted, but then I just get a blank screen.
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like both: I run SqueezeCenter on a Linux box, but store the files on
a NAS so they're available everywhere on the network.
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allegedly more powerful Windows box, but I'm far more
comfortable with the manipulation tools (ripping, tagging, etc.) on
Windows.
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and tailing and
creating track marks...but I never even knew that was possible until I
bought one of the damned things. Sony just ran ads saying I can
record on a disc! and never said a word about how advanced the editing
capabilities were.
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standalone CD recorder, then copy the bits into the computer for
prettying up.
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to the HDD.
Are you sure the MD unit will pass an uncompressed signal? I think
it's likely that the signal present in the digital output will have
gone through ATRAC.
(This isn't a slap at MD, which I happily used for years myself and am
sorry to see obsoleted.)
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runs a
hell of a lot more reliably. Is it because I was asking too much of it
or is it because stuff that *should* have played nicely together didn't
due to unreasonable demands? I really don't know, but I think it's
worth thinking considering.
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WAVs. It doesn't seem a
stretch to assume that will have an effect on drive longevity. Storage
may indeed by cheap, but breakdowns are still annoying.
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(lots of DTS!), but no big deal.
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, if
reception is excellent, analog FM sounds better than its HD
counterpart. But where reception is marginal, HD is pretty darned
sweet indeed.
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