Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-03 Thread bobkoure
Mnyb wrote: ... drat ! That I did not took the opportunity to try when mysb.com was down. You can just change the IP address mysb resolves to, either in the hosts file of the server or, if you have a firewall that can intercept DNS requests, there.

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-03 Thread Mnyb
bobkoure wrote: You can just change the IP address mysb resolves to, either in the hosts file of the server or, if you have a firewall that can intercept DNS requests, there. It solved itself, i got the oportunity to try , triode spotify works just fine without mysb.com

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread erland
castalla wrote: Today's SB outage gives us a taste of the future without MySB.com. Squeezebox maintained by Logitech isn't the long term future, we just need it to live long enough until someone else (or Logitech) comes up with something better, hopefully Logitech will keep MySB.com alive

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread erland
castalla wrote: At the very least, Tunein should be independent of mysb.com. As far as I know, Tunein on other systems is not dependent on a 3rd party connection? It's not a problem to have third party streaming services depending on a central cloud server, if the software isn't

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread ModelCitizen
You are entirely right. I think you'll find that most here think that Logitech's decision to make services on their players dependent on MSB was an atrocious one. At the time they made it (during development of the radio?) All the beta testers advised against it. I don't think that anyone save

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread tin
ModelCitizen wrote: I think you'll find that most here think that Logitech's decision to make the functionality of their players so heavily dependent on MSB was an atrocious one. At the time they made it (during development of the duet, radio?) All the beta testers advised against it. I

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread AndrewFG
ModelCitizen wrote: ... Logitech's decision to make the functionality of their players so heavily dependent on MSB was an atrocious one. ... I don't think that anyone save some stupid Logitech manager thought it was a good idea. ... it is the sort of short-sighted, short-term,

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread ButC
Is it possible to connect a smartphone, as an input source, to the Squeezebox Touch? I was thinking that, post-mysb.com, if one could connect an old smartphone which can play TuneIn Radio or Spotify or any other service, then one could remotely control that phone with ones other smartphone. Is it

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: Today's SB outage gives us a taste of the future without MySB.com. Switching to local LMS, the only radio app which I could use was BBC iPlayer. Tunein is crippled and can't get playable streams. I didn't test other apps plugins but it was a frustrating

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread toby10
ButC wrote: Is it possible to connect a smartphone, as an input source, to the Squeezebox Touch? no ButC wrote: be easier to just attach the old smartphone directly to the receiver, wouldn't it? yes

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread garym
castalla wrote: You are too sanguine! How many ordinary Radio users: 1. Have LMS installed on a local server? 2. Have any idea what stream url they need to enter in the appropriate section of LMS? At the very least, Tunein should be independent of mysb.com. As far as I know,

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread bonze
bpa wrote: LMS Tunein without mysb.com works OK for me - at the moment this problem seems to isolated to Tune-in playing BBC station by UK users unless other users have more info. Just tried various stations - I'm in the UK. Can't connect to mysb, but any stations I tried worked including

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread Mnyb
erland wrote: It's not a problem to have third party streaming services depending on a central cloud server, if the software isn't maintained it doesn't matter if it's installed on your local device/computer or in a central cloud server, if it isn't maintained it will stop working either

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread erland
Mnyb wrote: Yes it will , if the central server goes down it's dead for everyone if it runs locally on everyone's server a failure only affects one machine , the slow death of lack maintainnance is another issue . Correct, but it would really just make it work a bit longer, if it's not

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread oddball
I'm new to the forum as I had only recently bought a SB Radio Touch after many years of thinking of getting an SB device. Can't believe how it's turned out! I mainly listen to Spotify but also a couple of Internet stations including 6 Music - Can anyone shed any light on the following: 1) I

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread Mnyb
Spotify use triodes spotify plugin for the LMS server ,but configure it to show up in the radios menu instead of apps . This should work even today, drat ! That I did not took the opportunity to try when mysb.com was down.

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread erland
oddball wrote: 1) I get that the Radio stations could still be accessed directly by url but what solutions are there for Spotify support if MySB.com goes down or is pulled completely? There is a third party Spotify which you can install in LMS running on a computer on your local network,

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread oddball
Mnyb wrote: Spotify use triodes spotify plugin for the LMS server ,but configure it to show up in the radios menu instead of apps . This should work even today, drat ! That I did not took the opportunity to try when mysb.com was down. At the moment when I test my Network connection on the

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread erland
oddball wrote: If I can't connect am I able to install the Triode Spotify Plugin? You might have to configure his repository URL directly since the default repository url's are hosted on mysqueezebox.com at the moment. His direct repository url is: Code:

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread Mnyb
oddball wrote: At the moment when I test my Network connection on the either device it says that the connection to mysqueezebox.com is not ok (understatement!) - Is the connection working for others? If I can't connect am I able to install the Triode Spotify Plugin? Ok I already have it

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread oddball
erland wrote: There is a third party Spotify which you can install in LMS running on a computer on your local network, this will work without mysqueezebox.com. Would ideally like a solution that would not require running a local server erland wrote: I can't go into any details regarding

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread bpa
bonze wrote: Just tried various stations - I'm in the UK. Can't connect to mysb, but any stations I tried worked including some BBC. I tried via saved favourites and via the menu, Radio Local London All Stations. BBC2, BBC4, BBC6 all worked OK - reported as File format: AAC

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-02 Thread bonze
bpa wrote: Castalla's problems seem to be with the BBC WMA streams not the AAC ones. Did you do anything special to get AAC rather than WMA ? such as disable WMA native. Not that I'm aware of, in fact I can't see any formats disabled in Advanced File Types. Isn't AAC higher up the food

[slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-01 Thread castalla
Today's SB outage gives us a taste of the future without MySB.com. The only radio app which I could use was BBC iPlayer. Tunein is crippled and can't get playable streams. I didn't test other apps plugins but it was a frustrating experience enough. I wonder how many Radio users

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-01 Thread Jeff52
castalla wrote: I wonder how many Radio users (without local LMS access) are tearing their hair out It is what it is. Without MySB.com you will just have to access the streams by the url via LMS. So quit tearing your hair out. It is not a good thing to do if you value your personal

Re: [slim] I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! It doesn't look good ...

2012-11-01 Thread castalla
You are too sanguine! How many ordinary Radio users: 1. Have LMS installed on a local server? 2. Have any idea what stream url they need to enter in the appropriate section of LMS? At the very least, Tunein should be independent of mysb.com. As far as I know, Tunein on other systems is not