On 7 Mar 2012, at 01:49, pski wrote:
Why would you want to use LMS when apple solutions are totally perfect?
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Do you think so? What a pleasant surprise to see you're still here, then.
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On 3 Mar 2012, at 13:35, garym wrote:
norderney;693707 Wrote:
I have just downloaded and registered for this service and have started
the initial backup. As my music database is 757gb in size it is going
to take quite a long time to complete backup process.
I wonder how long a full
On 24 Feb 2012, at 11:45, castalla wrote:
Okay ... but it's all just smoke and mirrors, then! How can we know
anything has changed unless there's some announcement? It's all very
'cloak and dagger' stuff!
Smoke and mirrors AND cloak and dagger? Sounds like something starring Lon
Accepted.
On 16 Nov 2011, at 07:44, Muele wrote:
cunobelinus;670449 Wrote:
On 16 Nov 2011, at 07:30, Muele wrote:
Btw I'm very pleased to here that Logitech is devoted to Squeezebox.
Pleased to where?
Ja, undskyld at engelsk ikke er mit modersmål. Men jeg rettede dog
fejlen
On 16 Nov 2011, at 07:30, Muele wrote:
Btw I'm very pleased to here that Logitech is devoted to Squeezebox.
Pleased to where?
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On 12 Nov 2011, at 00:31, JJZolx wrote:
He doesn't mention Google TV or Revue and nothing about music products.
Says (about 20 times) that EMEA sales were disappointing. Then goes on
to say they've had record sales in mice and keyboards. :)
Mice and keyboards, Jerry. Mice and
castalla;669190 Wrote:
Thank goodness they've dumped the Revue and can re-focus on audio
solutions.
Like the Transporter, you mean?
Logitech Sheevaplug or equivalent, all server software installed, but beefed up
so that it is no longer not exactly beta in their eyes, no messing
Well, I've just tried to use my long-standing, pre-existing installation of
Multi-Library, which I was not aware of upgrading, and it's demanding the
licensing plug in. That appears to be retrospective charging, in that it
disables an existing service and then demands payment without notice,
On 20 Oct 2011, at 12:38, Michael Herger wrote:
Well, I've just tried to use my long-standing, pre-existing installation
of Multi-Library, which I was not aware of upgrading, and it's
demanding the licensing plug in. That appears to be retrospective
charging, in that it disables an
On 20 Oct 2011, at 13:21, Soulkeeper wrote:
Oh, so this is why Custom Browse doesn't work anymore (I haven't read
this thread before). I occasionally used it to browse artist by letter.
Oh well. I guess I can do without.
I've never previously attempted to use Multi Library, despite
+1. Perfect summary.
On 20 Oct 2011, at 14:39, Phil Leigh wrote:
Just to be clear, I have no issue with Erland choosing to charge people
for his work going forward - that is his inalienable right. However,
nobody SHOULD provide anything - under licence or under contract - for
free or for
Charging is fine. Charge new customers by all means (or old customers who want
to add new plug ins) but not for goods already supplied. However, if I
understand this correctly, the intention is to charge retrospectively.
Charging retrospectively for a commodity - any commodity - that was
Is that what's being offered here, though? If so, then fine. It would be both
legal and entirely reasonable. My impression from the initial post in this
thread, however, was that - to quote its first sentence - trackstat
deactivated itself. This implies that an existing update had been
I'd guess that by access the server on the laptop from my desktop he means he
wants to control the server on the laptop - and so all his SBs - from his
desktop, not just from the laptop. (Answer: forget the desktop and use an
iPod/iPhone/iPad and iPeng!)
On 31 Aug 2011, at 17:55, Phil Leigh
Mine won't connect to SB3 over direct cabled ethernet connection or bridged
since updating to 7.6.1 (latest general update rather than a nightly). Haven't
yet tried in plain wireless mode. It gets an IP address without problem, then
cannot connect to server First time in about four years that
Problem solved. Server's name had changed for some reason. Probably something
I'd done, although I don't recall it. However, SBs of all flavours and vintages
now connecting without problems.
On 28 Aug 2011, at 11:52, cunobeli...@mac.com wrote:
Mine won't connect to SB3 over direct cabled
Upgraded from 7.6 yesterday. No prompt for iTunes, but there was not need for
it. Use iTunes is checked under Settings - iTunes as and where it always
has been.
On 24 Aug 2011, at 04:15, mlsstl wrote:
I upgraded to 7.6.1 from 7.6.0 and it was one of easiest and fastest
upgrades I've had
I've now been running SBS since 2004. There were some initial problems setting
up, but these were solved very rapidly with the very generously given help of
members of this forum. There were problems with drop outs of wireless
streaming. Again, those were solved rapidly with help from here.
You may know the answer to your own question. Perhaps the OP does not. Perhaps,
then, you could explain why he wouldn't. That might, perhaps, answer the
question he posted, which might, perhaps, give some point to your response.
On 27 Jan 2011, at 03:12, pski wrote:
Bolouswki;605700 Wrote:
Used iTunes with iPods and Macs for six years, and with Squeezeboxes (use
iTunes checked) for five. Library of around 12000 tracks, in about 1,000
albums, split roughly 60/40 classical to rock/pop/etc, all but a dozen with
artwork. No problems, and really don't see why so many people seem so to
See Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like? thread 17:51 on 14
March 2010 and following.
On 6 Sep 2010, at 15:46, JerryS wrote:
Thanks Gilles, glad someone likes it, was beginning to anticipate the
'nerd of the month award' from the apparent lack of interest!
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It's going to cook, too? Wow!
On 18 May 2010, at 20:17, pippin wrote:
No ETAs anymore. Maybe when the d..n playback woks nicely I will risk a
prediction again.
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Squeezebox is indeed life enhancing. As iPhone says: say a silent (or even a
musical) prayer for Sean Adams and the rest of SlimDevices, then. Sean's the
one who created and he and the others made it. They are the ones who deserve
the credit for any warm glowing feelings. Oh, and Pippin, of
No - using iTunes; very interested; but am without any alternatives to offer
that better it, or that don't involve Parallels and Windows, so it would have
been pointless to respond.
Regards to you, too.
On 13 May 2010, at 09:46, local.bin wrote:
Ok so no one using apple products without
+1
On 8 May 2010, at 13:41, sleepysurf wrote:
I'd suggest the Touch Plus which would be a full (or half) rack width
device with a WIDER (and more legible screen), high quality DAC, better
analog output section, and both RCA and balanced outputs. Price it
below the Transporter (say
and it would change its behaviour when observed. Can also be active in
several places at once and affect directly at enormous distances the behaviour
of others unfortunate enough to be entangled with it. Quantum troll.
On 18 Mar 2010, at 18:56, seanadams wrote:
erland;526148 Wrote:
Anything that can be downloaded and saved as a PDF, I think, can be the source.
For instance, I collect the Gardiner/Monteverdi Choir Bach Cantatas. They have
superb and extended programme notes, available to download as PDFs (although
it's easy enough to convert and save pages that aren't
I take the point that iPeng already displays all the data that SBS can deliver,
of course, and that iTunes data are not accessible to it. However, I absolutely
was not writing about iTunes data, or expecting iPeng to access them.
There is nothing about these PDFs that makes them in themselves
Yes, that's what I thought you meant, despite your use of the phrase. I
presumed that the plug in you suggest would be to get SBS to get it/read it
from the music library (that is, the real library - where the files are). Of
course, a lot of the info is actually on line - available from the
reader in a new window.
Geraint.
On 15 Mar 2010, at 18:30, erland wrote:
cunobelinus;525264 Wrote:
There is nothing about these PDFs that makes them in themselves iTunes
data, any more than are the music files themselves, or the artwork and
tags attached to them.
Do you know
The size and speed of the iPad raise the possibility of using it to display
extended programme notes as well as displaying good quality artwork, at full
length and size. If iPeng for iPad could do this, enabling access to
information such as libretti, synopses or other extended texts either
Doesn't work for UK either. Nice thought, though.
On 28 Feb 2010, at 11:42, rocketdmc wrote:
gcurrie;521206 Wrote:
I would have sprung for two Receivers - if they only had a buy button
active...
You and me both!
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Boom ~ Radio ~ Classic ~ Controller
Sorry if this is old news, but this is breathtakingly lazy stuff that ought to
be challenged:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020504740.html
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Receiver is also available from Amazon.co.uk for £106 ($145).
Also note that SB Classic is currently available from Amazon.de for €150 or
$205 plus postage, but including 19% tax that buyers outside the EU would not
pay. Even including the tax if you're in the UK, that's still only £141.80
Is the HD 1Tb or bigger; is it available in the UK; and how much is it?
On 28 Jan 2010, at 16:06, agillis wrote:
VortexBox has SqueezeBox Server pre-installed and it auto rips CDs.
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rip, tag, get cover art∑ All you do is insert the CD!
http://vortexbox.org
agillis
No. You can use Ethernet, including Ethernet over mains, otherwise known as
Homeplug. Ethernet avoids issues of signal strength/drop out/bandwidth (not
that the latter three should happen if the first is OK) that you might get if
your walls are substantial or you have problems with wireless
If you're using iTunes, especially on a Mac, then AIFF is much more
usable than WAV because it also takes the full range of tags. The
other alternative is ALAC (Apple Lossless) which is great for iTunes,
great for iPod, but has the minor drawback for Squeezeboxes that you
can't FF or RW in
ALAC is also a lossless format, although yes, it is proprietary (which is why
it's also known as Apple Lossless, I suppose..)
AIFF is well supported and tools are available to handle it, (including those
in Squeezebox/server).
On 15 Jan 2010, at 16:54, wavfan wrote:
My 2 cents on this:
I don't know whether others have had the same experience, but I've also found
that the database that Max uses (MusicBrainz, I think it is) is simply dreadful
for classical and early music. I usually re-tag most of the music I rip to some
extent, but it's very rare indeed to find an album that
On 14 Dec 2009, at 11:14, ajkidle wrote:
Will iPeng run okay on the first gen iPod Touch?
Yes.
Any concerns with the
older hardware?
None that I've seen after six months or more of such use.
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Hmm. Thanks for the heads up, but I don't see that offered for the UK. Just
free postage. Can you access from here?
On 12 Dec 2009, at 11:31, vinnielo wrote:
Those subscribing to the 12 days of Logitech sale newsletter will know
that for today only, you can get your hands on one in-stock
Thanks, but how? No option shown in the store. It's down until 18.00 anyway,
now, apparently.
On 12 Dec 2009, at 11:56, vinnielo wrote:
Unfortunately, yiu need a unique code which is given to you in the
email.
Try subscribing now.. You might still get today's mailout.
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I was thinking of it - certainly wanted to see if there was anything tempting!
Is forwarding easy?
On 12 Dec 2009, at 15:10, vinnielo wrote:
Hmm.. it seems I can forward the email to a friend using their own
mechanism.
Are you looking to buy anything from the shop?
I can see if
I;ve just been trying to find a way to PM you, but can't. I can't even edit my
own account settings, either. This is getting very frustrating indeed...
On 12 Dec 2009, at 16:59, vinnielo wrote:
I think so.. I just dump in an email address.
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Price seems to be all over the shop at the moment. I got one from Amazon UK in
July for £119.99; last month they were £169.99; you say that yesterday they
were £30 more expensive than that; and now they're back down to £159.99. One
wonders whether anybody knows what's going on, let alone what
:
cunobelinus;494496 Wrote:
One wonders whether anybody knows what's going on, let alone what they
ought to be doing about it
Eh? It's called a 'sale', 'special offers' shops do it now and
then ;)
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On 1 Dec 2009, at 21:09, garym wrote:
I should add that why are you ripping to AIFF. FLAC
is lossless, has excellent tag support, etc. etc.
On 1 Dec 2009 at 19:36:030 LinnFan wrote:
I am ripping
on a newer iMac using iTunes 9.x
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Would someone please switch on the bulb for a poor unenlightened iTunes user
(that's me) and explain (preferably in words of no more than two syllables and
something approaching every day English!):
1. what's so bad about it?
2. How does one do what it does on a Mac, including its
.but AIFF does, and takes tags.
On 25 Nov 2009, at 14:06, andyg wrote:
Correct, AAC and ALAC don't support seeking at the moment. It's a
difficult problem to solve.
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Adapters cost here about £30 at each end for a single ethernet port, or £70 for
an extension with three ethernet ports and seven power sockets. That's a lot
less expensive than any quote I've had for running equivalent concealed cables
within the walls and floors round this place. Terminating
Here's another one. It reset mine. However, that was only the preference for
sound produced directly from the computer (preference changed from output via
my plug-in speakers to output via my Focusrite Saffire) not from anything to do
with Squeezecenter. Squeezeboxes were not affected.
On 12
Or use Homeplug. Certainly not as neat, given the size of the adaptors, as
having cables installed, but much less expensive, and it works.
On 12 Nov 2009, at 01:05, Pat Farrell wrote:
ajkidle wrote:
If I were going to run ethernet throughout the house (new
construction,) what kind do should
A lot less expensive than a professional rewiring of an existing property. A
lot less trouble than doing it oneself. And from what I've experienced so far,
just as reliable.
That's what I mean, since you ask so politely.
On 12 Nov 2009, at 14:49, Pat Farrell wrote:
cunobeli...@mac.com wrote:
So it is. My mistake.
On 12 Nov 2009, at 17:13, Pat Farrell wrote:
cunobeli...@mac.com wrote:
A lot less expensive than a professional rewiring of an existing
property. A lot less trouble than doing it oneself. And from what
I've experienced so far, just as reliable.
This thread is about
and password
are recognised if I try to change account options on the account,
including changing the password.
I'd be very grateful if someone on the forum can help resolve this,
please. The whole thing is just bizarre.
Thanks in advance.
Cunobelinus
Thank you for the thoughtful responses, Funkstar, but I was definitely
a member of both lists, (and posts will still be in the archives
somewhere, I expect); I am still getting eight membership reminder
emails for this list a month; and I can log in to my forum account in
order to change
Homeplug works fine for me - excellently, in fact - for everything,
and especially for streaming music The wiring in this place is truly
appalling, but there have been no problems, issues or even hitches. No
drop-outs, no break-ups - unlike my old wireless and even
(occasionally) my old
(NB This may not be true in the USA) I don't know whether this is
going to be useful or not, but it might be worth bearing in mind that
there is available (at least in the UK) a 7-way short extension lead/
gang with four ethernet over mains ports in it. That's enough ethernet
ports for
There'll be a lot of people saying want one of those. Well, there's
one here, anyway. I hope Logitech comes knocking.
On 17 Oct 2009, at 10:00, toby10 wrote:
That is very cool! I've often wondered why SD/Logitech does not offer
similar such add-ons to their SB players.
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If you do, then I suspect that before long you'll be wondering how you
could think that an official app could be faster and better built.
iPeng is very well made indeed, and a lot faster than the native SB
interface.
You'll also find that this forum sometimes turns into an iPeng
feedback
Audacity will convert ALAC to AIFF. It's free. It's also a very good
audio file editor. And cross-platform, incidentally.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
On 15 Oct 2009, at 22:47, USAudio wrote:
USAudio;472723 Wrote:
I've been running the conversion process from Apple Lossless to AIFF
This is my approach, too, for the same reason coupled with my perfect
contentment with iTunes' tagging and cataloguing, which therefore
disqualifies FLAC. AIFF retains tags, as you suggest.
I've found no issues apart from disc space, unless you intend to use a
wireless network and your
Has that changed? I thought SC used to play AIFF as native.
Either way, there's no reason not to use AIFF with Squeezebox apart
from disc space (and perhaps a bit of processing power), and a good
many reasons to use it if one is running a Mac.
On 15 Oct 2009, at 14:46, radish wrote:
Ethernet over power. Homeplug. As suggested previously.
On 11 Oct 2009, at 19:18, jdoering wrote:
Is it infeasible to connect your server to the routers with CAT5?
Then you wouldn't have to transfer traffic between your server and
your
G devices over your N network at all. May not be a
May be OK for non-classical, useless for classical. (Bach cantatas
produces no results; Bach, 34 results. Mozart, 67 results
Mahler, 8 results. Yes, well)
On 10 Oct 2009, at 10:36, moley6knipe wrote:
Artwork motherlode http://www.albumartexchange.com/covers.php
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If I remember correctly.
On 9 Oct 2009, at 17:06, DaveSte wrote:
All my CDs were ripped to FLAC, and now I want artwork. Is there some
simple way to do this? Must I install iTunes and re-rip everything
into
MP3?
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Sorry. Slip of the fingers. That should be
www.equinux.com
unless you're into yoga.
On 9 Oct 2009, at 18:00, cunobeli...@mac.com wrote:
Coverscout 3.
www.equinox.com
If I remember correctly.
On 9 Oct 2009, at 17:06, DaveSte wrote:
All my CDs were ripped to FLAC, and now I want
Are they on the CD somewhere? No. They are not.
Is there an archive of art to download? No. There is not.
Coverscout 3. www.equinux.com.
Again.
On 10 Oct 2009, at 03:10, DaveSte wrote:
OK, I understand that I could tag the files. But where do the little
jpegs (or whatever) come from?
in
practice into an explanation that's clear as mud, my sincere apologies!
Cunobelinus.
On 6 Oct 2009, at 17:23, jrgrott wrote:
Hi,
I am thinking of getting a Squeezebox Touch. Right now I use iTunes
w/
an Airport Express and use my iPhone REMOTE app to control iTunes and
the volume. If I do
On 5 Oct 2009, at 10:25, autopilot wrote:
my wife loves the Squeezeboxs's almost as much as me.
Almost as much? You sure about that? This is sounding slightly
worrying. For you, that is.
She is addicted to BBC iPlayer..(edit) if we had to get rid of
some stuff, they would be the last
Perhaps a little more reassurance necessary? I don't have any
connection with iPeng other than that I'm an extremely happy user.
(It's transformed my Slimserver/Squeezeserver experience, in fact,
which was previously inducing ever increasing frustration at it's
multiple clunkinesses). My
Other dorks, clearly.
Geraint.
On 30 Sep 2009, at 23:07, eq72521 wrote:
I don't know who
the marketers are marketing to; I think even my six year old would
find
it dorky.
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How about using iPeng on an iPod Touch? That looks and feels like
iTunes on the Touch, but operates Squeezecenter running on the Mac
without reference to the (horrible, slow, clunky, ugh) web interface,
or, indeed, any need to touch the Mac at all other than to turn it
on. It's transformed
interface isn't
perfect, but I think it might do the trick. Thank you!
@cunobelinus: thanks, but in this case she's actually using the
Mac as
the client, there's no iPod in the house!
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There's a podcast plug in. Enable it by checking the box in plug
ins (under settings). That should do the trick.
Geraint.
On 23 Apr 2009, at 15:16, bozer wrote:
Hey Chunky
One question I have...
Is there a way to have Squeeze Center automatically grab the podcasts
that I have in
Old Mac Minis are fine for SC, although I admit that the response to
iPeng is slow on mine. I run it on an early-ish one one not much
faster than your current G3 (the 800MHz version, to be precise),
under OSX 10.4.11 and it can take 10 or 15 seconds for sound to
reach the speakers after
Sorry - that should have been 1.42MHz, not 800MHz. Getting confused
with the eMac on which I used to run it (also without problems).
Geraint.
On 22 Apr 2009, at 18:12, cunobeli...@mac.com wrote:
Old Mac Minis are fine for SC, although I admit that the response to
iPeng is slow on mine. I
A lot more arguments for using AIFF than WAV. You can do everything
with AIFF that you can with FLAC and considerably more because it
works with iTunes, which, of course, FLAC doesn't.
Apart from the space issue, which is probably going to be significant
only for tracks used on an iPod (and
Very interesting, although I am one of those for whom SB2 works
flawlessly on wireless (Airport Extreme from an eMac boosted by
Airport Express in the same room as the SB2) - or, at least, it does
for more than 95% of the time. There's the odd irritating glitch, but
that's about it.
I
It is configured for WDS, as a repeater, I think.
My recent minor tribulation with the new firmware (the SB2 having a
hissy fit and refusing to connect wirelessly, maybe because I'd typed
in the WPA2 password wrongly the first time, until I'd reinstalled
the firmware) led me to try
Can it? I didn't know that! Do you have a reference/URL at which I can see how, please?Cunobelinus.On 16 Sep 2006, at 17:38, tomjtx wrote:I know a macbook could be set up to do this but that is cumbersome. ___
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That's very kind, both of you and Funkstar. Thank you both. That's
something I really should have discovered a long time ago, so now I'm
going off to write out 1000 times I really, really must read the
manual! (Thank you for not saying it for me, too. It was very
forbearing of you both).
If it weren't Elgato might also have something to say about it, given
the name of their own EyeTV product.
Is the iTV so very different from the Elgato EyeHome? Seems to do
much the same to me. If so, the only exciting things about it seems
to be that it's being produced by Apple and that
Their business model being that they are exclusively online music
publishers who, for the price of the download for the one with the
credit card, also throw in three full quality downloads for their
friends. It's an excellent idea. However, because they are not a
simple rip-n-download
Interesting how experiences vary. I (perforce - broadband speed
upgrade, allegedly, but that's another story) moved to the same
Netgear router about the same time, and had nothing but trouble with
it until they eventually released some new firmware a few months
back. At one stage I was
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