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another reason is battery life.
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Hi Erland
Sorry wasn't that clear in my post, I actually run Linux and use
Banshee to sync music from my mp3 collection to my ipod and iphone.
I have actually found a way of doing it, I used your playlist generator
to pull back the 4 5* tracks into a static
received, it might already be possible or
may need a lot of work but would be interested in knowing!
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generator action rather then going into SB
server and running the generation?
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looked at a vortexbox appliance as an alternative to a NAS?
www.vortexbox.org - I went for that over a Qnap NAS a couple of years
back
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girlfriend recently puchased a windows 7 netbook
and I noticed some problems similar to what you describe, but not had
chance to look into it. Have you tried the vortexbox forums?
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itself to be 'geeky'
However I think the Touch interface is great and iPeng compliments it
very well, to the extend that my girlfriend is happy to use it. I set
up the dynamic playlists that we listen to, this centers around rating
songs and having top rated dynamic playlists
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control for volume but they were probably designed more for being on a
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USE MUSICIP BUT NOT AS OFTEN AS I THOUGHT, DON'T USE ITUNES OR ANYTHING
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Some of these collections are massive! I wonder what % of 150k+ tracks
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for that purpose only.
So I did a search on the forums and was pleased to see this app, I'm a
big fan of iPeng on the iPhone so good to see there is an app available
on android
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) Turn off vortexbox auto ripping and use dbpoweramp to make sure the
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but nothing that detracts from the listening.
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Hi Sue
Thanks for the reply, I was actually looking at a Sennheiser pair, the
130's, so its good to get some positive feedback.
Ian
I received a pair of Sennheisers over the weekend and am impressed, was
pleasantly surprised by the sound quality - would recommend
this a few times with iPeng and had the same result, I then
tried exactly the same process with Duet controller and the GUI on
laptop and this worked as expected, I changed album/playlist and the
Duet stayed powered off.
Would appreciate any advice on this one.
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user error. I
didn't realise the implications of the active device, but that explains
the problem - I had the Duet highlighted as active player, so it was
correctly being switched on, I know now for future
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ajkidle;506758 Wrote:
Amen.
Some people love to complain, I've had a few issues with my SB players
but they pale into insignificance compared to the positive experience
from my music set-up
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Jesper et al - I echo your sentiment 100% I started off with a Duet
about 18months ago, perservered with it and its been rock solid for the
past year+, since then I have added a Boom and a radio as well as a low
powered server running vortebox
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really good
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over something completely different and much more suited
to my requirements - I also think the touch looks completely better then
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.) - this would be particularly beneficial for compilations
if there was some way of displaying album art for an artist rather then
'101 power ballads' for example.
As mentioned I doubt whether this would ever be viable but I think it
would be a nice feature!
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more
expensive.
Overall, this is still a pretty specialist bit of kit and I am not sure
retail stores are really ready for it yet.
WhaleOil
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one thing which worked ok
to a degree, that was using the internet browser on my Wii to access the
web interface (set to touch) and controlling the players through that
however the resolution wasn't great
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was actually looking at a Sennheiser pair, the
130's, so its good to get some positive feedback.
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Have recently been looking at some wireless headphones, am interested
in any views/recommendations from any SB users so please let me know..
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of products that may well push that
number up. That might come across as slightly snobby but I think people
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bpa;453171 Wrote:
Amazon change their APi and now requires users to register to do
searches.
I have mods to PLugin but needs to do a few more changes for 7.4
support.
Thanks for the explanation, I'll wait for the updated version
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Robin Bowes;443565 Wrote:
On 26/07/09 23:36, socistep wrote:
Hi All
Have got flac2mp3 working well on my server, scheduled to run daily.
On checking outputs I've noticed that each time it runs that the
following files are updated
Writing tags to /storage/music/mp3/Black Rebel
to /storage/music/mp3/British Sea Power/Open Season/00
Hidden Track.mp3
Writing tags to /storage/music/mp3/Goldie Lookin Chain/Greatest
Hits/00 Hidden Track.mp3
Anyone know why it would keep re-writing tags for these '00 - Hidden
Track' songs ?
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the
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Any ideas what could be causing this ?
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ModelCitizen;442152 Wrote:
Yup, the $ character. Robin only thinks in pounds.
MC
Yeah I pretty much set myself up for that one :-)
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files or delete them and
re-rip manually with dbpoweramp, with the above functionality it gives
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Hi All,
Interesting discussion forming on the Sonos board
http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=13161
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Frankly, I agree with some of their comments regarding problems with the
Duet Controller. I bought one, then quickly sold it to pick up another
SB3.
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which are no longer
present?
So maybe SqueezeCenter creates a separate database containing just the
songs on the external drive, and then wipes it after the drive is
removed.
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SBCs for
control, as well as occasional iPeng use on my phone.
It just worked.
impressive. On the Sonos forum I got flack related to SB kit not being
proper zones, not really sure what the difference is but that
highlights the potential
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correctly) serve music to my SB players is great. I first had it
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manually sort the remainder that's better then having to manually kick
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., thats a bit better then the last
time I was in and I hope they are getting more business as a result !
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I was going to pop in there to see if they have any offers on the SB
Classic, are the prices same as web?
I can't remember any offers or the price of the SB classicI
remember though that the Booms were on at £185
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but are
having problems in getting it to connect to server.
Auto search doesn't bring it up so I add in the manual details but it
won't connect, IP/ports I believe are correct - any advice on how to
get back this stage ?
I run SC on Ubuntu and have the latest version
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Didn't realise thisso near enough all PC Worlds have a prominent
Apple display, they would pay a premium for this ?
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management a lot quicker and easier,
however it will only run on Windows Home Server.
Not sure on what to do, does anyone know of similar software on Linux
that provides a more automated solution or would I have to go for a WHS
type solution ?
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, there would be a lot of tagging
afterwards required, especially for compilation albums.
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with no
special feature, demo kit on display etc. - Just the boxes...in the
wrong section
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they get a lot of business from when people are in buying speakers, amps
etc. - Nothing from logitech.
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them.
Also, no sign of Squeezeboxes returning to John Lewis as yet :/
SONOS has a lead in this sense, it is seen by many as as 'expensive
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Thanks. I don't have Rhapsody so I didn't know. One more question... Why
doesn't any album art appear on the Now Playing screen with Napster
tracks?
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also other users playlists - Are these available via a Squeezebox ?
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in the states, there negative is
that Napster is a paid service.
I believe Spotify gives that option also and is a free service (advert
based), this hasn't made it onto the Squeezebox yet but hopefully it is
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of the controller over the iTouch/iPhone are -
A) Audio playback via the headphone jack which has added an extra
dimention to the SBC
B) Ability to control Squeezenetwork if required
C) If you have an iPhone it means you can control your music and speak
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, rather then having to wait to
switch laptop on etc.
B) 24hr access - For listening late night/early morning without having
to have laptop on
C) Use laptop less - I tend to use my iPhone for a quick browse/emails
in the evening so no real reason to run laptop except for SC
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been debating this for months, I've decided to go for a low power
unit over a NAS for pretty much the reasons stated above - I'm going
for a Tranquil PC T7 (barebones)
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I have re-ripped my cd's) to see how it performs, using a *better*
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wrote:
I know what ReplayGain is but haven't progressed using it much. I
did,
however, find that when I first starting using my Duet my mp3's
.
Question: can I write files to this HD, unplug, and replug into a Mac?
I can't comment for macs but when I moved from a pc to Linux then there
was tools to use ntfs external drive
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just put them into the
Downloads artist within my library I have which is a bit of dumping
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much the same set-up as you.
Interested in getting some more views on this
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Is this the plugin or is that something different ?
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that the Sonos 'box' runs their equivilant of Squeezecenter
whereas Squeezebox has to have this running on a seperate PC, server,
NAS etc. ?
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that explains it well.
I still believe the pro's for SB far outweigh the Sonos, but I guess
their approach is easier for NAS's which cause a lot of SB users
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Hi All,
Very happy with the performance of my Boom for last nights New Years
Eve gathering, I loaded a big playlist and put it on shuffle and the
sound was excellent, I controlled it with both the controller and the
iPeng application and it worked well
Happy New Year All!
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problem.
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twynne;365705 Wrote:
Thank you! :-)
Done.
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their devices.
I'd like to see a better computer software client, which should be here
with 7.3, and hopefully a gateway to transfer music to portable devices
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Apple, when they could be improving their own products doesn't make
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this through adding a favourite ?
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