That's interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_3_cable
In theory you can get reliable 100 Mbps from Cat3, but that probably
requires some special hardware in each end of the cable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100BASE-T4#100BASE-T4
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I've recently discovered some annoyances that I hadn't noticed before - I think
they must be fairly new.
SB3, SBS 7.5.1.
1. When alarm is playing, if I press pause, it goes into power off mode, rather
than just pausing.
2. When alarm is stopped (eg. press power off, or pause), the volume
My Linksys WAG54GX2 wireless gateway router has started to overheat and
power down when I connect more than one device to it now. Overheating
routers is a known issue but I wondered if anyone else is having a
similar problem in a music streaming context.
I have a desktop PC, laptop PC music
That could be a picture of SqueezePlay on anything for all we know :)
Instructions???
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Get VMWare for the MacBook and find someone with a copy of XP that they
aren't using anymore. With VMWare on the Mac you can even have
dbPowerAmp appear as if it is a normal Mac app.
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Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
andynormancx;540788 Wrote:
Get VMWare for the MacBook and find someone with a copy of XP that they
aren't using anymore.
It would have to be a retail licensed copy of XP, as OEM licenses
aren't transferable between machines. So you couldn't use an XP
product key from an old Dell being thrown
JJZolx;540791 Wrote:
It would have to be a retail licensed copy of XP, as OEM licenses aren't
transferable between machines. So you couldn't use an XP product key
from an old Dell being thrown away and be able to activate it.
True.
*pats MSDN subscription with a smug grin*
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FYI: The new Android image supports ethernet, touchscreen, sound, wifi,
shutdown/reboot by touch...
The only key problem left is the slow GUI. I would appreciate anyone
helping to solve this GUI issue. (Join #mer on irc.freenode.net!)
If you want to try it, we've created a prebuilt image that
Just a simple question:
Is it (somehow - e.g. with a plugin) possible to submit a YouTube link
to the Squeezebox? So that the soundsignal is played via speakers? (I
do not care about the pictures in this case. :)
Or even better: search YouTube directly by typing in keywords in the
remote from
Not as you said, but it is possible to send whatever is playing on your
PC speakers to the squeeze. Normally this would not be in sync with
what is on the screen but in your case you don't seem to care. You
could use wavinput plugin to do that.
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'Last.fm'
YouTube music on a Squeezebox is my #1 missing feature!
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YouTube music on a Squeezebox is my #1 missing feature!
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I'll give Android a try now, nice work :)
How about this! http://www.joggler.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33t=414
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lrossouw;540798 Wrote:
Not as you said, but it is possible to send whatever is playing on your
PC speakers to the squeeze. Normally this would not be in sync with
what is on the screen but in your case you don't seem to care. You
could use wavinput plugin to do that.
Thanks for the fast
OppfinnarJocke;539072 Wrote:
I am quite sure I have read somewhere in this thread that SBS and
Spotify + DSbridge have to be on the same computer. DSBridge only
serves the computer it is on, so if SBS is not on the same comp it
won't work. Something like that...
No, that is plain wrong.
Luzifer;540520 Wrote:
Hallo ralphy,
the version 0.9-151 shows the following error message:
output_thread: PortAudio error1: Invalid sample rate
squeezeslave -L now shows the right device but still the above
message.
I use Windows ASIO version.
Thanks
Axel
That error
Well, I've not uploaded a complete image, because it takes way longer to
download/put it on the USB key, because large parts of the image will be
empty.
I think the easiest way is to download an Ubuntu CD, boot your PC from
this CD in a Live-Ubuntu (that does not change anything on your
ScaredyCat;540663 Wrote:
There's really no need to go about installing ubuntu to use the Joggler
as a Squeezecenter, Squeezeplay will run on it.
Do you have any instructions? This sounds really promising... although
I'd still like to have Android running on it! :-)
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*bedroom:*
Warranty?
DIY cooling ribs?
Or just drill some air holes in it?
Or glue a fan to it. :D
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Or, just buy a new one if the current one isn't under warranty.
They are not very expensive compared to most audio products. I think I
paid $35 for my Belkin and it runs fine.
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Or, just buy a new one if the current one isn't under warranty.
They are not very expensive compared to most audio products. I think I
paid $35 for my Belkin and it runs fine.
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dave77;540815 Wrote:
I'll give Android a try now, nice work :) Is there anyway for us Windows
people to create the USB, with Ubuntu we can just download an image and
burn it to USB
I've created an empty image for the Android build.
You can unpack it and dump it on the USB stick just like the
Seems odd it would be over heating under normal usage.
I've only ever heard of regular over heating of routers when they have
been over clocked or tweaked for boosted signal strength coverage.
But then this isn't something I follow very closely either.
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Yup, that's what I did in the end, I felt sure I was missing something,
but alas no.
I went for the Harmony One BECAUSE it was by Logitech, my assumption
being that although its a lot more expensive than the other one I was
looking at, it should be no problem with compatibility with my
Digital Music Server is just the generic primary category for devices
that stream/play digital music files. It doesn't really fit in any of
the other categories, does it?
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Some ideas:
license agreement with spotify to use the same method as with pandora
etc...
or implement basic spotify in the controlling software and send the
audio between devices using existing drm. Drop support in the firmware
(give the user a choice though).
testify is open source code that
dnm;540888 Wrote:
But it almost seems like you have decided it is impossible. I guess I
have to tape something together myself...
Please let us know how that works out. :)
Five years ago I bought my first Squeezebox 3. The number of services
added after my purchase (s) have been a
Hallo ralphy,
first of all both versions show the output device * 0: ASIO Hammerfall
DSP after squeezeslave-asio-pa1485-0.9-153 -L and
squeezeslave-asio-pa1495-0.9-153 -L.
The pa1495-0.9-153-version starts with the error message from the
previous posts.
The pa1485-0.9-153-version works well.
I have had situations where we had to run networking over cat3 due to
very old buildings. Most modern 100mbps PHYs are good enough that it
should work reasonably well. Gigabit on the other hand is not going to
work well. It might get a link but you will get mostly packet loss.
You will get
Excellent work Christian! will try the image now.
ScaredyCat;540663 Wrote:
There's really no need to go about installing ubuntu to use the Joggler
as a Squeezecenter, Squeezeplay will run on it.
ScaredyCat
This would be great if its true. Any more info on how this works??
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colincliff;540942 Wrote:
Excellent work Christian! will try the image now. Does squeezecommander
work with the joggler resolution/orientation?
It's not really optimized for this resolution/screen size, but it works
pretty well.
(Of course, a special tablet version would look much better...)
The big improvement (and only noticeable improvement) for me when going
to my current 6.3.3 from 6.3.2 (using only SB2s and an SB3), was the
better syncing between devices (in that, rather than restarting the
current track when you power on another device, that is set to sync, it
does it's best
The big improvement (and only noticeable improvement) for me when going
to my current 6.3.3 from 6.3.2 (using only SB2s and an SB3), was the
better syncing between devices (in that, rather than restarting the
current track when you power on another device, that is set to sync, it
does it's best
I think alarms came with the Boom, circa 7.2 (?) I use alarms throughout
the week (not only in the morning).
The CLI (or even Json) is nice too, if you want to automate stuff. I
use power management on the music server; the CLI and the presence of
mySB.com on the internet made that possible.
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dave77;540786 Wrote:
That could be a picture of SqueezePlay on anything for all we know :)
Instructions???
Compile Squeezeplay - I used my ubuntu box. Copy the generated tarball
to the Joggler ( I use /media as there's more space on there)
You'll need to export the libs from the tarball
Compile Squeezeplay - I used my ubuntu box. Copy the generated tarball
to the Joggler ( I use /media as there's more space on there)
You'll need to export the libs from the tarball (include the tango ones
too)
...
Great work!
Maybe you could create a short step-by-step guide in the
flattermann;540994 Wrote:
Great work!
Maybe you could create a short step-by-step guide in the wiki?
http://jogglerwiki.info
I think many people would appreciate it!
I've modded my last post to include a tarball to get people going. Can
do instructions for compilation too...
btw
flattermann;540795 Wrote:
The only key problem left is the slow GUI. I would appreciate anyone
helping to solve this GUI issue. (Join #mer on irc.freenode.net!)
You're right, the GUI is very slow! Excellent work so far though. Is
Android the only OS that uses framebuffer drivers? I'm just
flattermann;540795 Wrote:
The only key problem left is the slow GUI. I would appreciate anyone
helping to solve this GUI issue. (Join #mer on irc.freenode.net!)
You're right, the GUI is very slow! Excellent work so far though. Is
Android the only OS that uses framebuffer drivers? I'm just
ScaredyCat;541007 Wrote:
I've modded my last post to include a tarball to get people going. Can
do instructions for compilation too (probably at the weekend)...
thanks muchly for the tarball :-) I'll have a stab at getting it going
on my joggler. If I can manage then i think anyone will be
colincliff;541021 Wrote:
thanks muchly for the tarball :-) I'll have a stab at getting it going
on my joggler. If I can manage then i think anyone will be able to.
I, perhaps incorrectly, presumed that everyone had sshd/scp running on
their joggler. If so it should take 1 minute to get up
ScaredyCat;540987 Wrote:
copy to /media and untar it. Use
Code:
/media/squeezeplay-runnable/start_squeezeplay
to run it...
ScaredyCat
Just wondering, is it even possible to integrate this with the standard
Flash UI on
simbo;541028 Wrote:
Just wondering, is it even possible to integrate this with the standard
Flash UI on the Joggler?
I'm not sure if you can execute scripts from flash. If you can then it
should be relatively easy to get the screen positioning correct (to
show home button). However, my
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but does this support local playback
on the Joggler, or does it work only as a controller for other Squeeze
devices?
Any reason this tarball wouldn't work on the disca (slimmed down full
Ubuntu) or dysentry (Ubuntu Netbook Remix) builds over at
www.joggler.info
ScaredyCat;541035 Wrote:
If I'm truly honest, if Android ran fast enough on the Joggler then I'd
be there running it.
I concur... I'd like to run Android (with full-speed graphics!) with
SqueezeCommander, and SqueezeSlave in the background to turn it into a
player too.
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florca;541041 Wrote:
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but does this support local playback
on the Joggler, or does it work only as a controller for other Squeeze
devices?
It also works for playback - You need to select Settings - Advanced -
Audio Playback - Enable Playback
florca;541041
ScaredyCat;541048 Wrote:
because the networking chip in the rio is buggy and doesn't negotiate
properly
ScaredyCat
That was the thing that consigned mine to the garage - I had it running
through a daisy-chained 10Mb hub for a while but the number of boxes and
plugs just got out of hand -
The router probably is just not up to moving so much data, so I'd
recommend replacing it with a different model. I had a Netgear router
that worked fine until I got Squeezeboxes. After that it would
sometimes lock up, either when streaming FLAC or even when copying huge
batches of FLACs from my
I've decided since logitech doesn't have an easy email me with updates
regarding the availability of the battery pack and other new products- I
put together a centralized location for SB information.
Hopefully I'll be adding all sorts of stuff including tips, tricks, and
updates.
Check it out:
First of all this is not critique, I've thought about doing similar
things like this myself. I think I understand why you do this and I
completely understand your frustration, but I'm not sure it will be
good for the community and product on longer term. I think most
community member sees exactly
GRC;540784 Wrote:
Had to play some real CDs last night!
GRC
Oh, the horror!
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So the router will throttle the speed automatically based on quality of
the connection?
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erland;541106 Wrote:
First of all this is not critique, I've thought about doing similar
things like this myself. I think I understand why you do this and I
completely understand your frustration, but I'm not sure it will be
good for the community and product on longer term. I think most
any way to get the ubuntu version to recognize USB audio devices?
if i do aplay -l they show up
squeezeslave -L does not though
can i trick it by adding a asound.conf entry maybe?
Thank you,
Richard
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I have a few Squeezeboxs we are testing out for one of our business
clients to get music into their buildings.
So we set up a custom radio using shoutcast and winamp as a test run,
and all was great!
But now they keep droping the stream..
So far i've tried pretty much everything i can think of
I overheated my WRT54GL when it when sitting on top of my computer.
I moved it and it was ok.
I use tomato software with it I have not tweaked the wifi ro the
highest setting 80 -100mW is enough.
The overheating did not start until i got more squeezeboxes :-)
But a better location solved the
hellbringer616;541132 Wrote:
Or their business class router (i believe it's called a sonicwall, But
i'd have to check)
Ugh, you do NOT want to know the words I would use to describe my
experiences with SonicWall. Firewalls that drop packets under load are
Very Bad, especially when the load
on mysqueezebox.com you can add favorites i added my dyndns connected
to the media server to it. and it picked up perfectly.
From what you say though it is indeed the sonicwall then, As on my
10mbps home internet it would connect and stay connected perfectly.
(hence why i thought maybe it was
ajkidle;541117 Wrote:
So the router will throttle the speed automatically based on quality of
the connection?
It might but your audio quality will definably suffer. Expect dropouts
as your router tries to make everything work.
Your better off going with wireless then trying to run Gig over
agillis;541150 Wrote:
Your better off going with wireless then trying to run Gig over Cat3.
In this case, there's no point in trying to use GE anyway since none of
the SB products support it. You may get away with 10/100 especially if
your runs are much shorter than the 90m allowed for CAT5.
hellbringer616;541149 Wrote:
on mysqueezebox.com you can add favorites i added my dyndns connected
to the media server to it. and it picked up perfectly.
Ah, well then you're using SBS (well, the customized-version that is
MySB...) That makes more sense.
From what you say though it is
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