Re: [slim] Thread on Sonos board

2009-07-01 Thread iPhone
socistep;436816 Wrote: iPhone - you look to have a fair few zones, whats your experiencing with syncing been ? At present I only sync 2, the Boom the Duet and its flawless but wondered what it was like with more players ? I have had very good experiences in Syncing all or as many of my

Re: [slim] Thread on Sonos board

2009-07-01 Thread iPhone
autopilot;436832 Wrote: Could someone explain that to me please! It's about why can't we all get alone no matter what our differences are. I think this 'You Tube' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlLPAIrmqvENR=1) works better at explaining it. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter,

Re: [slim] New Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch spotted !!

2009-07-01 Thread Sike
pfarrell;436702 Wrote: SlimDevices/Logitech never, repeat never, comments on future products. Google osborne computers to learn why Been there, done that. What I was saying is: If it will be availible in 3 weeks, why not tell us about it so we have something to look forward to. The

Re: [slim] Thread on Sonos board

2009-07-01 Thread ptrainer
I regularly sync 7 SBRs playing flacs. It works great but my units are all connected via Ethernet. Running only wirelessly you might run into issues when adding more and more players. I used to have SB1s in the mix but they caused sync problems so I got rid of them. -- ptrainer

Re: [slim] New Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch spotted !!

2009-07-01 Thread aubuti
Sike;436921 Wrote: Been there, done that. What I was saying is: If it will be availible in 3 weeks, why not tell us about it so we have something to look forward to. The Duet was announced about 5 months before it was readily availible... It was more like 2 months for the Duet (January

Re: [slim] New Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch spotted !!

2009-07-01 Thread Sike
aubuti;436931 Wrote: It was more like 2 months for the Duet (January to March, 2008). Maybe it wasn't readily available where you are until later, Ok.. I might of just felt like 5 months.. but it was more than 2 months in switzerland.. very frustrating if you think that Slim is now a Swiss

Re: [slim] New Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch spotted !!

2009-07-01 Thread dave77
Pale Blue Ego;436735 Wrote: Maybe it's set up so any USB drives plugged in are immediately added to the database? That wouldn't work too well if, for instance, a friend drops by and hooks up his 1TB hard drive to play a few songs. So when he leaves, the database contains 50,000 tracks

Re: [slim] New Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch spotted !!

2009-07-01 Thread sebp
Pale Blue Ego;436735 Wrote: Maybe it's set up so any USB drives plugged in are immediately added to the database? That wouldn't work too well if, for instance, a friend drops by and hooks up his 1TB hard drive to play a few songs. So when he leaves, the database contains 50,000 tracks

[slim] limiting the number of tracks to play from a playlist

2009-07-01 Thread NeilT
I have been trying to set up a playlist to use as an alarm. What I'd like to do is play one or two random tracks from a playlist then switch to a radio station for the news. I've managed to make a playlist that will play a specified track, then the radio station (which is saved as a favourite),

Re: [slim] Thread on Sonos board

2009-07-01 Thread panos_k75
my 2 cents...I don't own Sonos but my friend does...money wasn't an issue. The main issue that kept me away from purchasing a Sonos is the luck of features and especially the ability to create clever mixes (see MusicIP or Genius). Having said that, there have been times that I wanted to throw my

Re: [slim] limiting the number of tracks to play from a playlist

2009-07-01 Thread bpa
How about two alarms - 1st alarm with playlist and 2nd a few minutes later with news. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Running SC on $100 Linux Wall Wart

2009-07-01 Thread bebop
If you follow this thread in the 3rd party hardware section, you can see that people are working on this, don't be confused about the Pogoplug/Sheevaplug name confusion, they are nearly identical and runs the same sw. Slim devices Pogoplug thread :

Re: [slim] Driver to stream PC output to Squeezebox?

2009-07-01 Thread citoyen
bpa;436697 Wrote: Linux is straightforward using Pulse. Do you have documentation on that? -- citoyen citoyen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19776 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Running SC on $100 Linux Wall Wart

2009-07-01 Thread andyg
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.4 The squeezecenter+perl-armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi file will run on the Sheevaplug. This is a stripped-down version of SC though, and does not include the web UI, some transcoders, etc. We are working on fixing that. This also includes our

Re: [slim] Thread on Sonos board

2009-07-01 Thread Greg Klanderman
pippin pippin.3um8e01246402...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com writes: AAC and higher bitrate flac causes trouble with more than two since my server has to transcode then and runs into the limit of it's capacity Is the server transcoding independently for each synced player? That seems like a

Re: [slim] Driver to stream PC output to Squeezebox?

2009-07-01 Thread bpa
You need the basic plugin WaveInput for Linux ( see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49584 ) There are a number of discussion about using Pulse with WaveInput. A search of the forum will find them but you could start looking at post #35 onward in the above thread. -- bpa

Re: [slim] Driver to stream PC output to Squeezebox?

2009-07-01 Thread citoyen
Thanks! I didn't know that plugin worked with Pulse Audio. -- citoyen citoyen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65080

Re: [slim] Running SC on $100 Linux Wall Wart

2009-07-01 Thread SamS
Thanks for the links guys. Looks like I might wait a bit longer until the setup/installation is a bit more mapped out or plug 'n play. I'm no developer or expert with command lines ;-) In happier news, my Transporter arrives Friday :D -- SamS

Re: [slim] Running SC on $100 Linux Wall Wart

2009-07-01 Thread sjschaff
SamS;437043 Wrote: Thanks for the links guys. Looks like I might wait a bit longer until the setup/installation is a bit more mapped out or plug 'n play. I'm no developer or expert with command lines ;-) In happier news, my Transporter arrives Friday :D Same here. What I think I see so

Re: [slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst

2009-07-01 Thread Declan Moriarty
jo-wie;436692 Wrote: It's not very common to have a Domain Name Server in a home network installation. Your provider DNS do not know the local names. It's possible that your systems support resolving host names by using Microsoft NetBios protocol, but that's not supported by every system.

Re: [slim] Thread on Sonos board

2009-07-01 Thread pippin
gregklanderman;437034 Wrote: pippin pippin.3um8e01246402082 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com writes: AAC and higher bitrate flac causes trouble with more than two since my server has to transcode then and runs into the limit of it's capacity Is the server transcoding

Re: [slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst

2009-07-01 Thread radish
Declan Moriarty;437084 Wrote: Note that my brother inlaw has a Belkin router that displays the name of his laptop. This implies that the router is operating a local DNS. Those names are typically taken from the hostname field in the DHCP handshake. SBs populate that field with the player

Re: [slim] Controlling Squeezecentre with a Nokia phone

2009-07-01 Thread brijus123
Hi There, same again nokia 5800 but will not let me connect to server enter my ip example http://192.168.0.5:9000/handheld/ and also tried nokia 770 but keeps on coming with no gateway reply. I have had this working on both my PSP XDA Orbit but can not seem to get it working on my Nokia please

Re: [slim] PDA controller solution

2009-07-01 Thread mertles
Downloaded SlimControl last night and I'm very impressed - running on an old T-Mobile MDA with 3000+ artists and the speed is exceptional. Have only played around it for an hour or so far but have a few suggestions before I forget them: 1. A shuffle button (next to the repeat button) on the

Re: [slim] PDA controller solution

2009-07-01 Thread Locuth
mertles;437227 Wrote: 1. A shuffle button (next to the repeat button) on the playlist screen would be nice. Can I shuffle from elsewhere at the moment? Hey mertles The shuffle button is implemented in version 0.96 which is coming up. I need some beta testers actually. 2. The three

Re: [slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst

2009-07-01 Thread Nonreality
pfarrell;436776 Wrote: rfreedman wrote: This is known as Static DHCP, and I can confirm that it works quite well in this situation. I do this on all the things in my house. All my laptops, squeezeboxes, transporter, etc. I do leave normal DHCP available for an occasional guest who