Re: [slim] Download speed from SlimDevices very slow

Thanks for the interesting diagrams - explains a lot ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5282 View this thread:

[slim] New SB Classic owner! Lots of questions!

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum and am glad to say I've bought my first Squeezebox. It's brand new and should be arriving next week in the mail! I probably would have never bought one of these if it wasn't for the outstanding comments about it over at the Steve Hoffman forums. I have

Re: [slim] Gapless playback

funkstar;348785 Wrote: Please someone correct me if I'm wrong again, but I don't think WMA files have any provision for being gappless at all, it's a bad format in that regard. MP3 has no support for gapless, the Lame gapless support works, but it is a hack rather than anything standard to

[slim] 100Gb log file in a few months - Select task failed plus sync issues

Hi, yes, I've found I've got a 100Gb log file with all the plugins on error level reporting and its only been a few months. I think this might just be the largest file I have ever seen on a normal computer and I code for a living. I can't help but feel a little proud. SqueezeCenter Version: 7.1

Re: [slim] TP DAC output to preamp options

all digital outputs are before the internal DAC -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods)- Linn 5103 -

Re: [slim] New SB Classic owner! Lots of questions!

Welcome! You should use 7.2. It is extremely stable on XP. Most of the isssues reported are Mac or Vista related..and to be fair most of the issues are not problems with SC itself. A must-have plugin is a very personal judgement. For me, Lazy Search and AlienBBC are mandatory, as are MusicIP

Re: [slim] New SB Classic owner! Lots of questions!

kurtphyre;348877 Wrote: 1.) Which Squeezecenter version would be the best for me? I've read some pretty negative things about 7.2 (the newest version). You want the latest versions, 7.2. If you go back far enough in the forum archives you'll read some pretty negative things about every

Re: [slim] New SB Classic owner! Lots of questions!

Welcome to the forums, kurtphyre ! kurtphyre;348877 Wrote: 3.) Would a $500 DAC improve sound quality enough to justify the $500? Or the DAC inside of it better than a $500 DAC?There are some people who have a better experience with some sub-500$ dacs. But, as Phil says, you should give

Re: [slim] Problem with external Dac and SB outputs always on - please help!

Nope, still not working. If 2 tracks are mixed together on an album this problem dont occur. Its when theres a gap of silence in the end of a track before the nextcomming track begins. I want to have the SB giving a constant signal to the Dac EVEN IF THERES NO MUSIC on the track Anyone???

Re: [slim] Turning SB on or off and controlling volume from timers?

How about the srvrpowerctrl plugin? It looks at first glace like this plugin can do all of this??? -- mskvarenina mskvarenina's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17717 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Turning SB on or off and controlling volume from timers?

WHy not use alarms ? It may not be quite the functionality you need but no coding. An alarm to turn it on with a long duration. An alarm which plays a short track of silence to turn it off. -- bpa bpa's Profile:

Re: [slim] SB3 Bridged doesn't work

You need to connect an active Ethernet device to the SB3 and hold the left arrow to get to setup mode to enable bridging. It's more likely that a laptop will reliably try to maintain an Ethernet link than your DRM-laden video device. Once you've set up bridging once, you can connect whatever you

Re: [slim] Turning SB on or off and controlling volume from timers?

I'm a programmer/software developer by trade. I just don't know the commands or parameters for the SB so a simple example would be great. Don't know much about alarms, if they can select a playlist at a certain volume at a certain time then they may work but you can always do more with direct

Re: [slim] I'm tempted to try MusicIP again, but...

Okay, looks like all my stats are synced up now. I understand about filters and using them as a mix base, but I can only define which filter to be used in the SC Web interface, right? There's no way to have the player prompt me for the filter when a mix is created, is there? What do the rest

Re: [slim] Turning SB on or off and controlling volume from timers?

peterw, Would you mind posting a small working example. I'm sure if I see it once I'll be able to modify it to meet my need. For example purposes, let's say I wanted to turn on RECEIVER1, set volume to 50(%) and set the playlist to PLAYLIST1. From what you said earlier I'd setup a PERL

[slim] SB3 Bridged doesn't work

Hi, I have just connected my SB3 to my Samsung BD-1400 Bluray. But it doesn't get connected to the internet. I have restartet the SB3 many times with no luck. Under current settings it say no to wireless bridged, and I can't change it to yes. The cable works - I've tried connecting two

Re: [slim] SB3 Bridged doesn't work

Thanks. That did it :-) -- BorreBoy BorreBoy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9610 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53655

Re: [slim] New SB Classic owner! Lots of questions!

1) If you are using a library that is FLAC only, I think you will find 7.2 works just fine. However, I would be tempted to use 7.2.1 from the nightly builds which has a number of bug fixes included. The list of issues fixed so far in 7.2.1 be found at the top of this file:

Re: [slim] Gapless playback

andynormancx;348876 Wrote: MP3 has no support for gapless, the Lame gapless support works, but it is a hack rather than anything standard to the MP3 format. Oh absolutely, but at least it's documented and developers know how it works :) -- funkstar

Re: [slim] Receiver Amplifier Power Control

peterw;348814 Wrote: Yes, someone (not I!) has tried succeeded. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46109 which links to this nice write-up http://www.delback.co.uk/squeezebox/sbr_signal.html Just to clarify: this is a hardware mod, whereas I believe the OP was thinking about

Re: [slim] Way to edit/create profile for not-connected players

A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53612 Question:

Re: [slim] Problem with external Dac and SB outputs always on - please help!

To be clear - the SB sends digital zeroes between tracks. Some DAC's will mute with digital zeroes over a period of time and some won't. Some will only mute when lock is lost - i.e. there is no digital signal at all. You should contact Harmony Design to find out how their muting circuit is

Re: [slim] Problem with external Dac and SB outputs always on - please help!

jwo;348704 Wrote: Hello. I have an extarnal Harmony Design ( Swedish )Dac. It sounds lovely. But I have a problem. My Dac has a protection curcuit that turns the Dac into standby-mode if it doesnt gets an in-signal from my Squeezebox. When it goes into standy-mode it makes an

[slim] Controller has lost receiver

I have a Duet system that was working fine. While it was running, I used SqueezeCenter to change the music source from the computer to Squeeze Network, then I shut down the computer. Now the home screen of the controller displays only Settings and Music Source. The name of the receiver is not

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

Thought I should add . . . The controller shows connected to my wireless network and has a good IP address. -- Mike-NC Mike in North Carolina Mike-NC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20163 View

Re: [slim] RadioTime - Bloomberg Radio

Any news here - no posts in the last few days? -- estevan estevan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20471 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53241

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

When this happened to me, I had to power cycle the Receiver. Yes, power cycle the Receiver, even though it was playing fine from SC. Doesn't make any sense at all, but it worked for me! Hope this does it for you. Mark -- mhilbush

[slim] Album Art Display Problem

In SC 7.2 (obtained and installed via .deb stable release) the artwork fails to display for some albums, but not all. In some directories, some of the albums display perfectly, while others do not. Instead of album art, only the placeholder artwork is displayed. The artwork is stored in a

Re: [slim] RadioTime - Bloomberg Radio

Should be fixed, have you tried? -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53241

Re: [slim] Album Art Display Problem

If you rename a couple of the missing artwork files as Artist.jpg (i.e. lose the s and initial capitalise the file), do they appear when you rescan using the %ALBUM - ARTIST format? -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? -Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up.

Re: [slim] Turning SB on or off and controlling volume from timers?

mskvarenina;348926 Wrote: peterw, Would you mind posting a small working example. I'm sure if I see it once I'll be able to modify it to meet my need. For example purposes, let's say I wanted to turn on RECEIVER1, set volume to 50(%) and set the playlist to PLAYLIST1. From what

Re: [slim] Gapless playback

funkstar;348785 Wrote: Please someone correct me if I'm wrong again, but I don't think WMA files have any provision for being gappless at all, it's a bad format in that regard. That was what i thought too. -- autopilot *Server:* SC7.2 (Windows Vista 64) *Players:* Squeezebox 3 (main

Re: [slim] Gapless playback

Although I don't really like the WMA format, I'm interested in figuring out if it's really gapless or not and what it would take for us to support it. -- andyg andyg's Profile:

[slim] Liner notes plugin?

I found Song file viewer plugin which it seems would work. I downloaded the file and unzipped to the plugin folder. Restarted and checked in Squeezecenter settings plugins. The Song file viewer does not show there. Instructions say to Ensure the plugin is enabled in server settings. Where

[slim] Liner notes plugin?

I found Song file viewer plugin which it seems would work. I downloaded the file and unzipped to the plugin folder. Restarted and checked in Squeezecenter settings plugins. The Song file viewer does not show there. Instructions say to Ensure the plugin is enabled in server settings. Where

Re: [slim] New SB Classic owner! Lots of questions!

Hey Kurt, welcome Not much to add to accumulated good comments, other than to say I would start out keeping things plain vanilla for awhile. Get your basic stuff set up and running, use it, try out the different capabilities, see what features you like and dislike, etc. Accumulate some

Re: [slim] Help! Lost Playlist Reference

Thanks - New playlists work fine. However, if I change the path in existing playlists the list does not work. Also, I can create MusicIP lists in MusicIp, and the little m is there, both on the SB and in SC. However, it does not work. Any thoughts on getting MusicIP to create a playlist?

Re: [slim] RadioTime - Bloomberg Radio

Yes tried severl times - must be doing something wrong. I'm going to favorites and adding thie URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/radio How should I do it? -- estevan estevan's Profile:

Re: [slim] I'm tempted to try MusicIP again, but...

I understand about filters and using them as a mix base, but I can only define which filter to be used in the SC Web interface, right? There's no way to have the player prompt me for the filter when a mix is created, is there? Yes there is (for SB PlayerUI - not sure what happens on an SBC). In

Re: [slim] RadioTime - Bloomberg Radio

Have you tried accessing it through RadioTime? -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53241

Re: [slim] RadioTime - Bloomberg Radio

tried through radiotime and added to presets - no luck -- estevan estevan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20471 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53241

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

mhilbush;348954 Wrote: When this happened to me, I had to power cycle the Receiver. Yes, power cycle the Receiver, even though it was playing fine from SC. Doesn't make any sense at all, but it worked for me! Hope this does it for you. Thanks, Mark. I've tried it twice without success.

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

I've had this happen a few times now, i had to to do a factory reset. -- fuel2000 fuel2000's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19839 View this thread:

[slim] Transporter stuck on Now Playing / Nothing with Squeezecenter 7.2/7.3

I'm running Vista x64 and my Transporter is connected over ethernet. My router is properly configured and there are no communication problems. Everything works fine with Slimserver 6.5.4. But if I install any version of Squeezecenter 7.x, the Transporter starts up and shows Now Playing /

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

fuel2000;348993 Wrote: I've had this happen a few times now, i had to to do a factory reset. Thanks -- I think that's what I did last time. It was a pain entering the wireless password again, I lost all my favorite radio stations. I am hoping someone will come up with a better solution. Mike

Re: [slim] PC goes into stand by while song is playing

Hello again. Thanks for the suggestion. I went through all of the settings in Squeezecenter and didn't find anything that looked like it would keep the computer awake. Do you know where this setting is located? Thanks -- cjv

[slim] iTunes plugin to drive SqueezeCenter / SqueezeBox?

This may be a stpid question but here goes anyway . . . I like everything about my SB3 Classic setup except the web interface to SqueezeCenter which is depressingly slow and clunky (still). I'm using an old Sony Vaio laptop as the music server and it's running XP Pro on 512MB RAM and using

Re: [slim] Turning SB on or off and controlling volume from timers?

If you are programmer, then the CLI (command line interface) should be pretty easy to work with. The documentation is on your slimserver - you can get to it at yourserver:9000/html/docs/cli-api.html You can test your commands by using telnet to connect to your server on port 9090. I wrote a

Re: [slim] RadioTime - Bloomberg Radio

Have you tried connecting directly to the stream at http://www.bloomberg.com/streams/audio/radio_live_a.asx ?? -- rfreedman rfreedman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7270 View this thread:

Re: [slim] New SB Classic owner! Lots of questions!

Phil Leigh wrote: Before you add an external DAC, try a replacement linear power supply on the SB. These do not cost much and believe the consensus is that the internal DAC in the SB seems to benefit. A consensus? That's news to me! Regards, Peter

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

How many times I switched off/on the Controller I don't know, but every time it works well, for the time-being. The menu's shows up, the wifi icon glows true white. I refuse to do again and again invoke the factory-reset! -- Henk51

Re: [slim] iTunes plugin to drive SqueezeCenter / SqueezeBox?

GRC;349003 Wrote: This may be a stpid question but here goes anyway . . . Has there been any discussion about being able to use iTunes to drive SqueezeCenter through some form of plugin / interprogram communication so that I can tell SqueezeBox what to play from iTunes. I envisage

Re: [slim] Transporter stuck on Now Playing / Nothing with Squeezecenter 7.2/7.3

Just the question is: It must be a clean install, I mean , complete remove the 6.5x and restart the PC and after this you can (try) to install 7.x again. This is one of the reason I used only a NAS/Server for the SC software, only to aviod. I'm afraid I can't give a better help on this. --

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Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

Henk51;349015 Wrote: How many times I switched off/on the Controller I don't know, but every time it works well, for the time-being. The menu's shows up, the wifi icon glows true white. I refuse to do again and again invoke the factory-reset! Henk -- Do you mean switch on/off the

Re: [slim] PC goes into stand by while song is playing

Okay, I looked too and had the same results as you. I guess I was remembering incorrectly and had hoped that someone else would have baled me out, but no luck with that yet. However, today I was poking around and found a plug-in that looks promising. Check out this link

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

Mike-NC;349022 Wrote: Henk -- Do you mean switch on/off the Controller or the Receiver? Only the Controller; Long press, on the Home-button. After this, turn on after a; Short press on the Home button. -- Henk51

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

Thanks, Henk. I tried it again, but it didn't solve the problem. -- Mike-NC Mike in North Carolina Mike-NC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20163 View this thread:

[slim] My Radio Stations Plugin

Did the My Radio Station plugin disappear? It still shows up in the settings under plugins but says I need to update. It's no longer in the plugin folder. I'm running 7.2 with XP -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.-

[slim] WPA encryption

I would like to change from WEP 128-bit encryption to WPA. WPA, unlike WEP, allows use of both upper case and lower case letters. I see no way of entering lower case letters on my Controller. Is this possible, or am I relegated to only using capital letters? My product is Squeezebox Duet. I use

Re: [slim] RadioTime - Bloomberg Radio

andyg;348958 Wrote: Should be fixed, have you tried? He's right, it's not working via SC7 RadioTime http://opml.radiotime.com/StationPlaylist.axd?stationId=47135Formats=mp3,wma,realusername=(insert RadioTime user name) -- toby10

Re: [slim] Liner notes plugin?

Bert57;348965 Wrote: I found Song file viewer plugin which it seems would work. I downloaded the file and unzipped to the plugin folder. Restarted and checked in Squeezecenter settings plugins. The Song file viewer does not show there. Instructions say to Ensure the plugin is enabled in

[slim] SqueezeCenter 7.2 RSS New Ticker Config on Linux

In older versions, URL's for the RSS News Ticker were stored in /etc/slimserver/slimserver.pref. Since I upgraded to SC 7.0, I can no longer find where the RSS News Ticker is stored. On old versions, it was often easier to edit the slimserver.pref file than fool with the Web UI. The current

[slim] Internet Radio out after update

Haven't used my Squeezebox for a few weeks. Fired it up, tried to update, failed, updated again, worked. Now I can only seem to connect to about 10% of the internet radio streams in Shoutcast, RadioIO, etc. These URLs are right and load when I enter them on my PC, but timeout or have bad data

Re: [slim] PC goes into stand by while song is playing

I use a Mac, so my solution below won't be immediately relevant, but it might suggest a way that you can go. I have a program called Jiggler that simulates mouse movement after a user definable period of time. So the computer won't sleep if Jiggler is running. And I use the Execute Script

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

Mike-NC;349032 Wrote: Thanks, Henk. I tried it again, but it didn't solve the problem. Did you have set up a account to Slimdevices before this situation? If yes than you can try via your account and acces your Music systems. Then you can disconnect the Receiver from SqueezeNetwork and bring

Re: [slim] WPA encryption

At least on the IR controllers for the other products, you can mix upper and lower case. You just need to hit the button more times to get to the lowercase options. You even have full punctuation options. Not absolutely sure this applies to the Controller, but I'm pretty sure. -- CatBus

Re: [slim] Album Art Display Problem

None of the files are actually called 'album - artists.jpg'. They are actually listed as follows: /Rock/R.E.M./ Accelerate - R.E.M..jpg Automatic For The People - R.E.M..jpg Document - R.E.M..jpg Eponymous - R.E.M..jpg Great Beyond [Single] - R.E.M..jpg Green - R.E.M..jpg Life's Rich Pageant -

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

Mike, I can't help with your question, but I just wanted to observe that you appear to be a guy who loves his state and his own name - each appear 3 times in most of your posts. Way to go. You should work for the tourist board or development agency in .. I forgot, what state you in ? --

Re: [slim] WPA encryption

MGreene;349037 Wrote: I see no way of entering lower case letters on my Controller. Is this possible, or am I relegated to only using capital letters? After you scroll past the upper-case letters, you will get lower-case. After that, numbers and symbols. -- MeSue Sue

Re: [slim] Internet Radio out after update

Radioio just finished a maintenance sweep and we have just brought all the streams back up. -- Gregory Walters A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of ioWorldMedia,Inc Gregory A Walters Radioio Tech 5025West Lemon Street #200 Tampa FL USA 33609 800 884 8634 X 718 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [slim] Album Art Display Problem

Oddly, I've gotten the album artwork to display for *most* albums. I used %ALBUM - ARTIST.jpg Some of the albums refuse to display, however. The R.E.M. albums that I listed above are of particular annoyance right now. Any ideas why those, in particular, won't display? I checked the

Re: [slim] Internet Radio out after update

That wouldn't explain 90% of shoutcast streams failing though would it? I'll check again in a few hours. Thanks for the note. -- BrockStone BrockStone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16497

Re: [slim] Controller has lost receiver

Henk51;349047 Wrote: Did you have set up a account to Slimdevices before this situation? ... Thanks again, Henk. Yes, both the receiver the controller have IP addresses. I filed a bug report will see if there is any response from Logitech. -- Mike-NC

Re: [slim] WPA encryption

Sue and Cat, thank you very much. -- MGreene MGreene's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20405 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53676

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Re: [slim] I'm tempted to try MusicIP again, but...

Philip Meyer;348985 Wrote: In the MusicIP settings, you can set Player settings for each mix to Yes. Then, when you hold down play button, you get to select Mix Size, Style, Variety, etc. From that menu you can also select the Mix Filter. Ah, thanks. I see it now when I use the buttons

[slim] Enhancement? Help Find Lost Controller

After having lost my controller for two days (don't ask!), I had an idea for a possible enhancement: Since, unlike all of my remotes, the SBC has two way communication with a computer and it has a speaker, so why not add functionality to Squeezecenter to find a misplaced controller? You would

Re: [slim] Album Art Display Problem

I don't know if it's the same on other OS'es, but there is something weird that happens when you have a directory with a trailing period. I would guess it has something to do with that or the two periods before the jpg extension. -- MeSue Sue http://www.last.fm/user/MeSue

Re: [slim] Enhancement? Help Find Lost Controller

I think it's a good idea. You should request it at http://bugs.slimdevices.com (but search first to make sure it's not already been requested). -- MeSue Sue http://www.last.fm/user/MeSue MeSue's Profile:

Re: [slim] Biogrpahy and Album Review Display on Duet Controller?

Hi - i was just wondering if getting Bio and Album Review ont eh SC is improved or working? Are there any instructions? Thanks! On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:43 PM, pc4ever1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ModelCitizen;296380 Wrote: However if I wait for a while the Album Review page loads.

Re: [slim] Turning SB on or off and controlling volume from timers?

rfreedman;349006 Wrote: If you are programmer, then the CLI (command line interface) should be pretty easy to work with. The documentation is on your slimserver - you can get to it at yourserver:9000/html/docs/cli-api.html Wow, this sounds and looks perfect! Thanks for the tip. Now

Re: [slim] Fixing iTunes downloaded cover art

AndrewFG;346750 Wrote: As various people have discovered, the SqueezeCenter scanner is not able to extract album cover art that has been downloaded from Apple iTunes store. This is because such downloaded art is stored by iTunes in a proprietary format that the scanner cannot interpret.