pippin wrote:
But then they only needed half an hour to get it back up again
I always wonder who buys things they see on fb?
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Sandy had more of an impact than initially thought?
MySB is back up working at this minute but now facebook is down
No, not Logitech's facebook implementation, calm down, no Squeezeboxes
involved, facebook's facebook
But then they only needed half an hour to get it back up again
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Getting there... But is the volume adjustable yet?
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1's
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*Kitchen :* Squeezebox Boom
autopilot;354859 Wrote:
Getting there... But is the volume adjustable yet?
It is for headphones... :-)
No tone controls yet though.
I thought that the output auto switching had been implemented quite a
while ago though. Maybe I've been imagining it.
MC
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On average people
So the headphone output is now fully fully adjustable just like with
other players? Time for a revisit then i think. How is 3220 in general?
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autopilot;354875 Wrote:
So the headphone output is now fully fully adjustable just like with
other players? Time for a revisit then i think. How is 3220 in general?
r3220 is pretty decent. As andy said, it's better if it's in the
cradle. I really don't mind an occassional skip because I
autopilot;354875 Wrote:
So the headphone output is now fully fully adjustable just like with
other players? Time for a revisit then i think. How is 3220 in general?
I think the Vol control is in r3226
see:http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=354773postcount=2
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autopilot;354875 Wrote:
So the headphone output is now fully fully adjustable just like with
other players? Time for a revisit then i think. How is 3220 in general?
Ah, I was not talking about the controller. Sorry.
MC
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On average people have fewer than two feet.
made it so when you put a plug in the jack the external speaker
shuts off. Pretty cool...
Only with SC 7.3 beta.
Howard
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Yes, I contacted support through that portal (via the help page in
SqueezeCenter). The reference number is 081010-001492.
The contact was made last Thursday and I have not received any contact,
other than the automated reply, since.
I am in Toronto.
As I mentioned, these players worked just
I brought this up the attention of our support team.
You should be getting a response soon if you haven't got one already.
Mike
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Thank Mike. I got an automated request to fill in a survey rating how
good the non-existent support has been. I tried rebooting after filling
in the survey, but that didn't fix the problem either. Has Logitech laid
everybody off?
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Rein;349703 Wrote:
Thank Mike. I got an automated request to fill in a survey rating how
good the non-existent support has been. I tried rebooting after filling
in the survey, but that didn't fix the problem either. Has Logitech laid
everybody off?
Is it possible you have some kind of
lanierb;349753 Wrote:
Is it possible you have some kind of filter that's filtering out the
real e-mails? (but apparently not the survey spam?!)
I have verified the filters are not catching anything.
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Rein's
Well, it appears Logitech got a real bargain. They bought a company
without having to support it's customers. Just pass it off on the user
community...
After combing the FAQ and this forum I could not find a suitable answer
to the following synchronization problem, so I sent a support request in
My first suggestion is a follow-up support request to Logitech.
Occasionally things that should not get dropped do--mistakes happen. I
don't imagine they are singling you out and only providing excellent
customer service to everyone else.
As for the drift, I'm wondering if you have clock drift
Thanks CatBus,
I did try the hard resets without luck, return to defaults and
re-booting the server. I'm running XP, I wonder how different the issue
is v.s. your Linux configuration?
How did you verify the server clock's accuracy? Is there a simple tool?
If it is the problem, then I also have
The clock doesn't actually have to be accurate, it just needs to
progress at a rate of one second per second. A quick test would be to
use a trusted clock, and record the system time at the start of the
test and then one day later (by the trusted clock). Then see how much
time has elapsed
Hey Rein,
Sorry you are having trouble with your new purchase. As an FYI, our
support teams do not work weekends so this may have extended their
response time.
Where are you located? Did you contact us thru this link:
http://slimdevices.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/slimdevices.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php
I wonder if I can get my dead SB2 back to life again...
I will check out if there is a way to remove the wireless antenna and
report back here.
If anyone has a suggestion, please suggest :)
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It seems that JohnLewis in the UK have decided to sell off all the
Toshiba HD-DVD players cheap...£99 is the current price for one...
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Alasdair
3 SB3s - Linn - Acoustat - AudioEngine 2 - Cambridge Audio 640R -
Mordaunt Short
In some instances, DVD collections of TV shows have been altered not
because of censorship, but due to music royalties. I forget which
series it was, but it was one which used music of the period to great
effect (Wonder Years? Northern Exposure?). Anyway, they stripped out
all the good music
I suspect you're thinking of WKRP in Cincinnati
Kevin
On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:08 , Pale Blue Ego wrote:
In some instances, DVD collections of TV shows have been altered not
because of censorship, but due to music royalties. I forget which
series it was, but it was one which used music of
Somehow I think claims like physical media is dead are a bit
premature. And the new HD content is The problem there.
Think about the bandwidth required to stream 1080p content to thousands
and millions of customers. Can you imagine it becoming available anytime
soon? I don't think so.
So, we
Discs will be around for a long time yet.
People that use forums like this assume that everyone out there has
super fast broadband.
ADSL is the most prevalent in the UK and some people are lucky to see
even 1Mbps if they're too far from the exchange.
I'd rather buy a disc than have to spend
jjanis;271166 Wrote:
Somehow I think claims like physical media is dead are a bit
premature. And the new HD content is The problem there.
Think about the bandwidth required to stream 1080p content to thousands
and millions of customers. Can you imagine it becoming available anytime
soon?
jjanis;271166 Wrote:
Think about the bandwidth required to stream 1080p content to thousands
and millions of customers. Can you imagine it becoming available anytime
soon? I don't think so.
JJanis
It will happen, but not for many more years. The BW is available now to
make it a
jjanis wrote:
Think about the bandwidth required to stream 1080p content to thousands
and millions of customers. Can you imagine it becoming available anytime
soon? I don't think so.
Its available today in much of the developed world.
Not in most of the US because of monopoly telco resistance.
one more voice to add into the mix... here's a great article about the
current blu-ray situation and the future of media content.
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/wilson_tim/blu-ray.php
I'll add too that perhaps I'm a bit biased in my thinking because I
work in television (I'm an editor
Physical media is going to stay. More so for movies.
1. Bandwidth does not catch up fast enough. By the time you could
download a Blu-ray disc fast enough, Sony will have Blu-ray Ultra with
2TB media supporting 4320p HD format.
2. Hard Disk size not catching up fast enough. A 500G drive
Yes, HD is compressed (mpeg) video. It has to be. Uncompressed 24-bit
RGB images are 5.9 mb PER FRAME or 177 mbps. An HD transport stream is
19 mbps if you pull it in over the air. Cable companies compress it
further to fit more channels through the pipe, so you're actually
getting somewhere
yes, hd is compressed. I was referring to the notion of watching hd shot
footage before it gets compressed by a cable provider like comcast.
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Interesting article on theregister today, around ISPs and media
streaming (legal) by the BBC using its iPlayer software.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/20/iplayer_isps_broke/
In only its first month of service, iPlayer pushed up ISP costs by 200
per cent, from 6.1p per user to 18.3p per
Death of physical media is not only a technical problem. Imagine all the
movies in servers where you must log in to watch a particular movie.
Then imagine a new witch hunt or a puritanist regime, and all your
favourite films are not available anymore. Seems a little far out at
first, but it has
Pat Farrell;271248 Wrote:
jjanis wrote:
Think about the bandwidth required to stream 1080p content to
thousands
and millions of customers. Can you imagine it becoming available
anytime
soon? I don't think so.
Its available today in much of the developed world.
Not in most of the US
Pat Farrell;270836 Wrote:
No, its not that you will rip them at all.
They will be delivered over the 'net.
Physical plastic disks are dead. As are players for them.
Very unlikely.. physical media is here to stay.
The convenience of the plastic disc is far higher than the gauntlet of
Pat Farrell;270948 Wrote:
cparker wrote:
Pat Farrell;270836 Wrote:
They will be delivered over the 'net.
Physical plastic disks are dead. As are players for them.
Very unlikely.. physical media is here to stay.
The convenience of the plastic disc is far higher than the
cparker wrote:
Pat Farrell;270836 Wrote:
They will be delivered over the 'net.
Physical plastic disks are dead. As are players for them.
Very unlikely.. physical media is here to stay.
The convenience of the plastic disc is far higher than the gauntlet of
bandwith limits, crashing
Pat Farrell;270948 Wrote:
This is exactly what was said about music CDs in 1999 or so.
All of us SqueezeBox users know that physical music disks are
irrelevant.
Well its almost 2009 (well shortly) and how many people do you know
that have offloaded all their CDs and are fully online only?
Personally, I think that the need to have a physical media disk will
quickly give way to the convenience of server driven media content. I
too like having lossless quality music files. The majority of my music
collection is in flac format because I had the actual cd's to rip. But
now that we live
The real tragedy is that U.S. citizens have already paid for high-speed
(45 mbps) connections. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 gave the
telecom companies hundreds of billions in tax breaks and incentives in
exchange for the promise of high-speed broadband to all citizens within
10 years. It
Pat Farrell;270948 Wrote:
This is exactly what was said about music CDs in 1999 or so.
All of us SqueezeBox users know that physical music disks are
irrelevant.
Hardly. I use the SB in my house but I buy music almost entirely in CD
format and the CDs are regularly used in the car. They're
exile;271069 Wrote:
I have to respectfully disagree. I exchange music with friends quite a
bit and it's all done through portable drives.
I think the physical disk is indeed almost dead.
Sorry - that's wishful thinking. Don't extrapolate what you and your
friends do to the other 6Bn people
I didn't mean tomorrow.
I'm convinced though that physical media platforms like the cd or dvd
are a dinosaur medium that will rather quickly (within the next decade)
go the way of the record album- they will feed a niche market and not
the masses.
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dSw;271061 Wrote:
They're also the most convenient way to loan music to friends.
I have to respectfully disagree. I exchange music with friends quite a
bit and it's all done through portable drives.
I think the physical disk is indeed almost dead.
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But a large portion of your life will go by before then. The way this
stuff works is once it reaches a price point you are comfortable with,
JUMP IN -- NO REGRETS. Don't look back for a few years becuase it will
just be a painful experince. First you see your equivalent equipment
drop in price,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7250068.stm
Blu-ray has the potential to give us higher-than-cd quality music, of
course we would want to be able to get that off the disc and onto the
hard drive
Guess this thread is for non-US citizens only, as even making a post
would be illegal, as I
bigfool1956;270604 Wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7250068.stm
Blu-ray has the potential to give us higher-than-cd quality music, of
course we would want to be able to get that off the disc and onto the
hard drive
Guess this thread is for non-US citizens only, as even
I'd add that even blu-ray technology appears to be somewhat irrelevant.
As a user of a digital music server I can only imagine a future where we
have digital video media centers just like a slimserver. movies and tv
shows may live on hard drives (or on an accessible online server) and
we use a
I'm not about to change my main listening environment to more than 2
channels any time soon, even rhough I love multi-channel for film etc.
This isn't really because I'm a Luddite, but because I cannot see how I
can physically achieve it in my room, and get the same quality, plus the
cost would
bigfool1956;270604 Wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7250068.stm
Blu-ray has the potential to give us higher-than-cd quality music, of
course we would want to be able to get that off the disc and onto the
hard drive
Guess this thread is for non-US citizens only, as even
Honva;270671 Wrote:
.It is good for all of us with only one format. Blue-ray sales
should go up fast and price should start to drop to the $150-$200 level
soon. However, for most people, the main cost of the switch is not
buying the player, but to upgrade the Receiver.
Yes, in
exile wrote:
The notion of using video discs seems already to be an
old school way of watching video programs. I use my dvd player as
frequently as my cd player-almost never.
I agree, this was a silly war that no one will care about in a year or
two. And if the US had broadband like Korea,
bigfool1956 wrote:
I'm not about to change my main listening environment to more than 2
channels any time soon, even rhough I love multi-channel for film etc.
This isn't really because I'm a Luddite, but because I cannot see how I
can physically achieve it in my room, and get the same
Pat Farrell wrote:
exile wrote:
The notion of using video discs seems already to be an
old school way of watching video programs. I use my dvd player as
frequently as my cd player-almost never.
I agree, this was a silly war that no one will care about in a year or
two. And if
bigfool1956;270604 Wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7250068.stm
Guess this thread is for non-US citizens only, as even making a post
would be illegal, as I understand it.. Oh dear.
It was announced on NPR in the US this morning.
Also on USA Today
schatzy;270712 Wrote:
It was announced on NPR in the US this morning.
Also on USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2008-02-17-toshiba-hddvd_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Schatzy
USA Today (not surprisingly) is a little behind on reporting the
rumours speculations of Toshiba
Looks like Paramount Pictures missed the opportunity. As the last film
producer in HD DVD group, Paramount could have use the opportunity to
strike a good deal with the Blu-ray group to end the war. Now that
toshiba made their move first, Paamount no longer has this advantage.
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I don't think movies on disc is such a bad thing. Do we really want to
rip 50 GB to our hard drives for a movie we may watch only once or
twice? I don't.
Anyway, it's good to see this format war coming to an end. We should
see reasonably-priced players soon.
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Pale Blue Ego wrote:
I don't think movies on disc is such a bad thing. Do we really want to
rip 50 GB to our hard drives for a movie we may watch only once or
twice? I don't.
No, its not that you will rip them at all.
They will be delivered over the 'net.
Physical plastic disks are dead. As
jeffmeh;230590 Wrote:
My experience is that the quality is very good and that we are merely
seeing a biased sample. How many people bother posting that everything
is fine?
Also, most reasonable people report that the SD/Logitech service has
been good even in the event of a faulty unit.
+1 for SD/Logitech support. They are RMAing it despite it being ~21
months old. Very refreshing for a tech company.
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simonn;230665 Wrote:
Out of interest, did anyone who has experienced the dead SB3 thing also
start having mysterious wireless problems a few months beforehand as
well, e.g. SB losing connection and restarting for no apparent reason
etc after being stable for months/years?
Yes, that's
Do these things die with much regularity? They are not cheap and from
reading here the longevity isn't great!!! I am considering getting one
but this is a little off-putting.
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Empgamer;230540 Wrote:
Do these things die with much regularity? They are not cheap and from
reading here the longevity isn't great!!! I am considering getting one
but this is a little off-putting.
My experience is that the quality is very good and that we are merely
seeing a biased
jeffmeh;230590 Wrote:
My experience is that the quality is very good and that we are merely
seeing a biased sample. How many people bother posting that everything
is fine?
Also, most reasonable people report that the SD/Logitech service has
been good even in the event of a faulty unit.
jeffmeh Wrote:
My experience is that the quality is very good and that we are merely
seeing a biased sample
I hate being bias! :) :(
Glennmcb;227893 Wrote:
Thanks to you guys and the advice here, I removed the wireless card from
my TOTALLY DEAD pre-Logitech SB3, and it's jumped back to
Min just died as well. Same symptoms.
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Thanks to you guys and the advice here, I removed the wireless card from
my TOTALLY DEAD pre-Logitech SB3, and it's jumped back to life again
('though, via a network cable). Refitting the card gave the original
result - nothing! No power, no display, no output.
My question now is, would a
Well after 19 months my Squeezebox 3 has died. I'm getting the same
symptoms as many others on here. I'm also in the UK.
Brain, did you ever get yours repaired? I'm reluctant to write off a
£230 device after just 19 months :-(
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I've responded to Dave directly, but in case anyone else is interested:
Dave2O84;223347 Wrote:
Brain, can you email the detail of who you went though for repairs?
(Who's Brain? Had quite enough of that at school, thanks :-) )
I'm reluctant to write off a £230 device after just 19
SD Support had suggested that removing and replacing the wireless card
would reset it, which might get it working again. (I wouldn't have
tried this if it had still been under warranty.) Glad to hear that it
seems to have worked in your case!
-- Brian
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After my last post I was wondering about the Wireless Mini-PCI card ...
As Brian's symptoms were the same as mine and his wireless card had tp
be replaced, would the Squeezebox work if I removed the wireless card?
The answer is YES! (though of course only wired).
Interestingly, I refitted the
Well, I sent my SB3 back to SD for repair. It was far less painful than
I'd feared:
19th April : sent SB3 off (postage + insurance was about 18 quid).
26th April : got an email saying it had been repaired, and was ready to
be sent back. Apparently the wireless adapter needed replacement. The
I'm in discussion with Tech Support at the moment. Looks like my SB3
would need to be returned for repair.
As it's not under warranty, I presumed that the repair cost plus
postage would be prohibitive; but at the moment it's not looking too
bad (assuming I've got my calculations right: $90
If you're still within the warranty period, Slim Devices will pay for
shipping it back and send you a new one. Just open a ticket with their
support group.
I recently had a failure on my SB3 as well and I had a great experience
with SD support even though I am in Japan.
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devin;195062 Wrote:
If you're still within the warranty period, Slim Devices will pay for
shipping it back and send you a new one. Just open a ticket with their
support group.
I recently had a failure on my SB3 as well and I had a great experience
with SD support even though I am in
whdean;194782 Wrote:
Have you tried unplugging and plugging power back in while holding down
the Add button (Remote aimed at the SB3, of course)?
Thanks; I've tried this several times, but it doesn't seem to work
either. There's a small chance that it could be the display that's
gone, but I
... in suspicious circumstances :-(
I'd been playing music for a couple of hours, and it seemed to be
working fine. Then, *just* when I had to dish up dinner, and right
between two tracks, the display briefly went funny (fizzy feels like
an apt description) and then it went blank, and the audio
Maybe I missed it, but did you try a hardwired Ethernet connection to
see if that works?
Not particularly related to your problem, but is there a HomePlug-style
option available in the UK? Could help reduce/eliminate the wireless
problems you've had.
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Restart the SlimServer server and see if it makes any difference. But I
think you're probably right to be concerned if there's no splash screen
when you plug in the SB3. After restarting the server try a wired
connection and see if the player connects to the server and can be seen
in the web
Balthazar_B;194763 Wrote:
Maybe I missed it, but did you try a hardwired Ethernet connection to
see if that works?
I tried it just now, but no joy: no display, SS doesn't find it, and
the router doesn't list it as a client.
Not particularly related to your problem, but is there a
JJZolx;194765 Wrote:
Restart the SlimServer server and see if it makes any difference. But I
think you're probably right to be concerned if there's no splash screen
when you plug in the SB3. After restarting the server try a wired
connection and see if the player connects to the server and
Have you tried unplugging and plugging power back in while holding down
the Add button (Remote aimed at the SB3, of course)?
That forces a hard rest, back to factory condition. If you don't get
the splash screen w/in a few seconds (Give it 30 seconds to reset the
device), then I would say you
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/live-from-the-steve-jobs-keynote-its-showtime/
At the end, the iTV, plays music, video, photos etc and plugs into your
stereo and TV. Just goes to show that the Transporter was a good
strategic move...
Paul
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You're only young once, but you
Here's what you get when you sign up for Last.FM service;
What you get when you sign up:
Personal music profile
Your own music charts
Friends and neighbours
Audioscrobbler plugin
Discussion groups and forums
Thousands of radio tracks
Your own music journal
Album art and artist stats
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105169
the only thing i see under changes are:
Fixed sync - Fixed gapless FLAC playback
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time to see if this fixes my slow/frozen screens
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