bluegaspode wrote:
> FINALLY, we have reached the state "Ready for Sale". Might take one or
> two more hours until the update is rolled out to all App-Store sites,
> but the update should be available then.
>
> Thanks a lot for all of your patience!
Hi Stefan:
Thank you for fixing the
bluegaspode wrote:
On the settings page of SqueezePad you will find the 'playlist
modification mode' option. You should change it to 'always ask' to get
the behaviour from your old iPad.
Cheers Stefan
Thanks very much for your prompt response.
Guido F.
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Recently switched from an old iPad to a new iPad Air. Noticed one
strange behavior. In my old iPad, a light tap on a track brought up a
3-item pop-up, one of which items was play. Tapping on that then
played the whole album/playlist starting from that track. On my new
iPad, tapping on a track
erland wrote:
I'm reasonably sure that Logitech isn't involved in any legal action
related to the old dead project, so don't consider Logitech to be the
bad guy regarding all this.
Skickat från min iPhone med Tapatalk
Absent any actual information, one can only speculate. But if
castalla wrote:
Are you wearing a 'disgruntled costume' in your avatar??!!!
Ha ha. (Ask the SNL's father).
Guido F. , not S.
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pippin wrote:
You are assuming that anyone from Logitech other than Michael has even
looked at this forum over the last two years. I believe that assumption
is wrong. To the contrary, I'd be willing to bet that nobody who matters
in issues like this at Logitech is even aware of this whole
garym wrote:
Here's to a healthy and prosperous 2015 and a future life for all things
squeezebox and LMS.
+1!
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JohnSwenson wrote:
The hardware as discussed in this thread is not dead. The legal issues
that happened with the software side made it abundantly clear that we
cannot release any hardware without a corporation's legal protection. I
am working on how to get that setup so this can go forward.
John, I vote for robust, even if not gold plated. No uprising from me.
Regards.
Guido F.
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JohnSwenson, Triode, JacOfAll:
Thanks for the update and most especially thanks for all the hard work.
As a non-technical user of the Logitech ecosystem and music lover, I
continue to look forward with great anticipation to trying out the fruit
of your labor when it becomes available. I'm
P Nelson wrote:
The question of who this box is for needs to be answered. Is it for the
computer expert that likes music? Or is it for the music enthusiast
that is willing to learn the computer skills necessary to operate the
box. I have already ruled out that this will be for the plug
Excellent post, Erland!
Very helpful.
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the nightfly wrote:
Thanks, erland. A couple more quick questions:
1) If I were going to use the Pi with SqueezeLite, but didn't need to
run LMS on it (because it would be running on a separate machine), would
I still need to install SqueezePlug first? In other words, on the Pi,
is
A list of external power supplies that work well with the CS would be
helpful, when the time comes.
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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.
This is way
JJZolx wrote:
So make a product available containing a good internal linear power
supply.
Or, a separate (optimal/linear) power supply as an option.
Guido F.
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Chunkywizard wrote:
Hi there,
I have condensed the Community Squeeze threads into an FAQ to answer
some questions people might have who haven't read all the posting there
has been on the subject. If you find any omissions/errors/typos, please
let me know.
Chunkywizard wrote:
I have written an FAQ to cover this which John is checking and then
hopefully it will be published and should answer some questions (without
reading 90 pages of this thread),
HTH
CW
Excellent idea!
Guido F.
JohnSwenson wrote:
I connected this test board up to the I2S signal from another USB DAC
board and got music out of the DAC chip right off the bat. After a
couple days burnin the sound was amazing, simply stunning, the best DAC
I have at home right now. This thing was blowing away all my
Mark Miksis wrote:
As a non-audiophile, I've been thinking about how I might use
Squeezelite with a Pi/Wandboard/etc as a tabletop replacement. Can
anyone recommend good quality USB speakers (AC powered) suitable for
this purpose? By good, I mean something similar in size, price and
dasmueller wrote:
^ I believe that most if not all who have been following this thread
applaud the efforts that folks have made. Some have made suggestions
which have been perceived as more than can be done at this point.
Perhaps some or all of their wishes may be met in the future. Some who
Squeezemenicely wrote:
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
JohnSwenson wrote:
First let me say that I don't have a fully defined set of rules such as
if xyz is greater than abc it sounds bad . Also it's difficult to find
out exact implementation details of particular filters without the
designers telling you what they did in the chip. (some do, most
JohnSwenson wrote:
The chip I'm using (PCM5142) has programmable DSP system inside that
lets me turn off the builtin complex filter and use my own simple
filter. My experiance has shown that a simple filter with with not quite
as good specs sounds much better than a complex filter with
Congratulations, John.
Go, SWAMP!
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cliveb wrote:
Excellent news that balanced is in.
If packaging the XLR sockets is a significant problem, would 1/4 TRS
jacks be any easier? (I personally prefer XLR, but TRS jacks are also
widely used for balanced). I suppose you could even go completely
non-standard and use 3.5mm TRS
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JackOfAll wrote:
Yep, and just to be clear, I get what the idea is behind it now, (the
cassette), but don't like it one bit. Orange and black colour schemes,
I'm warming to.
+1. Avoid the cassette, please. Even a simple (black) box would be
better.
Guido F.
JohnSwenson wrote:
OK,
so what I'm going to do for Gen1 is nothing on the front panel, a green
led on the back that is a real power led, it is directly across the
incoming power feed.
On the back I'll also put a small RGB led connected to 3 pwm outputs of
the processor, that way the
ajkidle wrote:
For my two cents, I like SWAMP. Not sure where that name came from that
John is using, but I like it.
+1.
Personally, I much prefer the short SWAMP to the long Community Squeeze.
Easier to design a nice logo for, too.
Guido F.
Decisions, decisions.
I vote for a power-on indicator green led in the back.
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If at all possible, let's keep the same power connector as the SBT, by
all means.
Please.
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JohnSwenson wrote:
That brings up another issue, do we want labels on the back pannel, and
if yes, should they be text or icons, and if text what language.
John S.
Given the space constraints, probably mostly icons. Perhaps some text,
such as outs to identify a group of items.
Guido F.
rgro wrote:
Yeah, but most of us are owning Logitech devices with a compatible power
supply, so I think what we're saying is to please use the same barrel
size that we're already using.
Yes.
Guido F.
guidof's
John,
I'm not a developer and don't think like one. I just want the SWAMP to
play my music. I'm interested in convenience and SQ. if that qualifies
me as a beta tester, then please count me in.
Regards,
Guido F.
zenesh wrote:
Just following the development with lots of interest
Can we ditch the toslink. If cost and size is no problem, Use bnc
connector. Better for digital and if a user wants to use coaxial,
passive bnc to RCA connectors are readily available.
Regardless of what may happen over
John, congratulations on the launch of SWAMP0.5!
On the matter of balanced outputs, it would seem reasonable to think of
them as an extra cost 'optional' add-on. If the SWAMP1.0 internal DAC is
that good, those of us with balanced setups can probably afford to pay
the extra fare and retire our
Best wishes for her speedy recovery!
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JohnSwenson wrote:
The DAC chip I'm going to be using on these boards is a brand new one, I
have not used it before, so I can't be completely sure, but my gut
feeling on this is that it is going to be way better than what was in
the Touch. A big advantage of thisone is that it has a direct
Triode wrote:
Must admit I think this would be a distraction for this effort. It will
require significant additional software as LMS and the current players
don't support it. At present I'm afraid I would like to concentrate on
getting good/execellent quality two channel audio working for
garym wrote:
I'm happy to participate as one of the community funders of this
project, as that is my only possible assistance. Is there any mechanism
setup for this yet?
+1
Guido F.
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rgro wrote:
Wha..? No Latin? No counseling and/or confessional for lapsed
audiophiles??? You're slipping, Father Sarducci. ;)
Nemo perfectus est.
Guido F.
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epoch1970 wrote:
For the French choosing this name would be a cacastrophic decision
+1 for the Italians!
Guido F.
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garym wrote:
So in the near future I can store a few billion lossless song files in
some of my DNA. Tell Bruce Willis that it will soon be easier to pass
his itunes purchases on to his children. ;-)
*and think of the audiophool possibilities. Music files stored in the
DNA of one
dustinsterk wrote:
Agreed and added.
GEN1:
1) Hardware design and implementation - JohnSwenson
2) Compiling OS/Building a bootable image/Writing automated scripts/Etc
(this will break out much further in the future) - Dustinsterk (Me),
eLR!C
3) Squeezelite Player - Triode
4) Case
dustinsterk wrote:
Not a bad idea.but the question remains would the community be
willing to donate for the first round? Even at $10.00 a donation we
would need over 500 users to reach a goal of 25 units @ $200 a board.
We probably won't know the answer to this until we try. Or at least
A very happy Holiday Season to all!
Of course there is a Santa, and you can hear him swooping down the
chimney -- if you have golden ears and the right cables.
Peace!
Guido F.
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agillis wrote:
We already have a fork that we are running as part of the VortexBox
distro and we already have a player that can replace Logitech hardware.
Now that all the logitech code is on Git Hub it should be really easy to
do a proper fork if we want.
I'm a satisfied but naively ungeek
garym wrote:
I'm 99% sure he means the VB Player. And you are correct, although a
very nice software player, it does not take the place of a TOUCH (that
can sit in a different room from the VB server/computer and be connected
via WIFI or ethernet back to the server).
I was sort of hoping
bluegaspode wrote:
Why do you need track bit information available all the time?
).
There is a simple way to have this info displayed next to the album's
title: just enter it after the album's title tag when ripping or
downloading a music file. That's what I do. Works fine for me.
Guido F.
.
I know, one -could- keep a magnifying glass handy, but that would be an
inelegant fix.
Thanks again for your work on this app.
Guido F.
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guidof;630665 Wrote:
OK, I bypassed the UPS, turned on my iPad and . . . NO YELLOW FLASHES!
So I plugged everything back in the UPS and STILL NO FLASHES.
Obviously, to do this I had to perform a power down (rather than merely
a reboot). That appears to have solved the problem. I hope
that on, but I only have a few lines so far.
I will submit when I get about 1000 lines.
Guido F.
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guidof
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this hypothesis by stopping apcupsd
manually and I still got the yellow flashes. Next, I'll try bypassing
the UPS entirely.
Guido F.
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*Front End*: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge;
Cambridge Azur 840C CD Player; Oppo BDP--83 Universal Player;
Squeezebox Touch Music File
guidof;630652 Wrote:
Just thought of something: I recently plugged the Vortexbox Server into
an Uninterrupted Power Supply (APC BACK-UPS ES BE750G). It is monitored
via USB connection by the apcupsd software. Could this be the culprit?
Seems unlikely, but I did test this hypothesis
bluegaspode;630516 Wrote:
Hi Guidof,
what Squeezebox Server version are you using?
I expect some error message in your server logs, did you check them
already?
I'm using Squeezebox Server Version: 7.5.4 - r32298
The /var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log-20110508 file contains
flashes, every 15-30 seconds or so, when
I'm not doing anything with SqueezePad (or with the server) other than
listening to music.
Guido F.
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. No stuttering, no rebuffering, no hiccups.
Nothing has changed in my WiFi connection (100% reported strength). No
new networks in sight. No similar problem if I switch to iPeng.
Any idea?
Guido F.
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guidof
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fingers as well as communicate
to new users that the speaker icons are in fact tappable.
Guido F.
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guidof
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at elegant and clean design, so I'm sure
you can come up with a nice-looking set of buttons and slider.
Guido F.
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of the target surrounding the icon (like the button on the Web UI
-- though obviously that one is not tappable). I think it would help
aiming one's finger, which for right handed persons hides the icon as
one tries to hit some undefined area to the left of it.
Guido F.
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to see a longer slider in the main screen so that I could more
easily make minor volume adjustments (near the 100 mark) with greater
precision.
Guido F.
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bluegaspode;614244 Wrote:
Hi guidof,
in the latest version you can tap on the volume icons to get increments
of 1. You can also hold the icon to increase/decrease volume in a slow
pace.
I guess this should help you settings the right volume!
Thank you. I was not aware
, but this
suggests to me that the sonic benefits of 24/96 recording may be, at
best, secondary to the quality of the entire recording set-up (mic
positioning and quality, cables, electronics, venue, etc.).
Guido F.
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guidof
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know there is in my mind . . .
So, I also keep downloading the hi-rez stuff.
Guido F.
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Not SqueezePad *-or-* iPeng but SqueezePad *-and-* iPeng.
(I find them both useful, though I use SqueezePad most of the time).
Guido F.
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guidof
*Front End*: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge;
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Squeezebox Touch
.
Thanks.
Guido F.
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guidof
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DAC)
*Preamps*: Conrad Johnson Motif (Phono); Adcom GFP-750 (Line
bluegaspode;596667 Wrote:
Hi guidof,
Is there any need to keep the embedded art if it's of lower quality
than the folder.jpg ?
There are great tools that can remove all embedded art automatically at
once (Bliss being one of them - I wrote a blog about it some time ago:
http
the option of prioritizing cover.jpg files rather than
embedded art.
I hope the developer of this otherwise fine app will provide that
option in the near future.
Guido F.
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