Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread erland
TO EVERYONE THAT HAVEN'T POSTED YET: First of all, I just like to say that this thread turned out to get really interesting, so people who haven't posted yet, please post your thoughts to the questions in the initial post. If you are interested in music discovery related features, I want to hear

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store

2010-08-06 Thread bluegaspode
pippin;567014 Wrote: Did you use that? I thought I was the only one Um - it was the default for iPeng, I left it that way and now wondered, why cover art looks different on the main screen. As I'm not using iPeng much ;) I don't care, just wanted to let you know. -- bluegaspode Big

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-08-06 Thread bluegaspode
Hi Ron, 1. The current playlist should be accessible by one touch at all times. 3. Highlight the currently playing track in the current playlist. When I implement better playlist support, there will be an icon on the right and a playlist-only window will move in (which you can dismiss

Re: [slim] UPS recommendations for my Vortexbox Appliance

2010-08-06 Thread mherger
We have only few rules in this forum: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43454 This thread unfortunately must be closed because it's violating more than just one of those simple rules. -- mherger Michael -

Re: [slim] Android

2010-08-06 Thread KMorgan
I use Squeezecommander on my Android 1.5 phone and it works a treat. Keith -- KMorgan - Sorry, can't spare enough hours today for that 5 min job on the computer.

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store

2010-08-06 Thread hvb83
Nice update Pippin, thank you for your hard work! Looking forward to the iPad-version already! Also, please let me know if you would like to add a Dutch language pack. In that case I could provide the translation. -- hvb83

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-08-06 Thread hvb83
pippin;566802 Wrote: Actually that's usually not a server issue since iPeng caches the artwork on the device. The problem here is that scrolling on an iThingy takes 90% of the CPU power and prioritizes so much higher than the main thread that you have no chance to bring in artwork from the

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store

2010-08-06 Thread Daverz
pippin;567055 Wrote: Didn't know these are Custom Browse. It's the default Artist menu that comes with Custom Browse. You should be able to test this out yourself if you have Custom Browse installed. Have you set the playlist menu type to Album (don't ask me how)? Do you mean the

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-08-06 Thread Ron Olsen
bluegaspode;567074 Wrote: There is already! Just long tap the menu title (or this little arrow I implented in the latest version) This feature was available from the very first version (and documented in the App-description). Thanks for pointing this out; it certainly isn't obvious. I

Re: [slim] Android phone + Squeeze Commander + Rhapsody = THE BEST 3-SOME EVER!

2010-08-06 Thread flattermann
Henry66;567017 Wrote: Does this affect all phones running 2.1 or just some with specific hardware? I have a Samsung Galaxy S Captivate. I'm not sure. According to the bug tracker, it's a bug in the wpa_supplicant binary on *HTC* devices. If you have root access, you can even replace the

Re: [slim] Android

2010-08-06 Thread flattermann
stevecross;567065 Wrote: Good morning guys, is it possible to use an android based phone to control my squeezebox,using an app. I am still using 1.5 There are several Apps for Android available in the Market, most of them also work on 1.5. -- flattermann Christian Home of

Re: [slim] Using ipod touch as remote control ........

2010-08-06 Thread hvb83
Me and my girlfriend 've both got an iPhone, which adds another plus; the controller is probably somewhere between the pile of newspapers when you're looking for it, or on the couch, or in the charging dock, or somewhere else where you forgot about it. One of us is probably carrying it's phone

Re: [slim] Android phone + Squeeze Commander + Rhapsody = THE BEST 3-SOME EVER!

2010-08-06 Thread pippin
flattermann;567094 Wrote: AFAIK, it *does work* on e.g. a Nexus One with 2.1, so it really looks like a HTC problem. That sounds like an issue with the htc software bundle, isn't the Nexus one also an htc phone? -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-08-06 Thread pippin
hvb83;567087 Wrote: So even if it stores artwork on the phone itself, there must be some request going to the server prior to showing the artwork? :S Only after a rescan of the library (all artwork) and when you start the app (before artwork shows up at all). After that it doesn't, it reads

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-08-06 Thread hvb83
pippin;567102 Wrote: Only after a rescan of the library (all artwork) and when you start the app (before artwork shows up at all). After that it doesn't, it reads them fully out of the iPhone's cache. Ok, potato potato, I was talking about iPeng start-up. Sorry about the confusion. :) --

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-08-06 Thread pippin
hvb83;567105 Wrote: Ok, potato potato, I was talking about iPeng start-up. Sorry about the confusion. :) OK, but that has nothing to do with artwork. What iPeng does is check the albums table to see whether the albums have changed. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread MichelM
That's a very good idea... 1. How do you find music in your own library ? Use the search function (when I remember only part of the song title or artist name, because I have a lot of acid Jazz compilations..). Otherwise by Artist or Album. I use album art when selecting what to play... 2. How

Re: [slim] Quality loss with ReplayGain?

2010-08-06 Thread Teus de Jong
pski;567038 Wrote: So if this is No Volume Adjustment, what is the effect on playback volume? Like the options says: there is no effect on the volume. In other words: the cd is played as loud as it is recorded. Some CD's (Live at SXSW by Thomas Dolby and the Jazz Mafia Horns) are really

Re: [slim] Android phone + Squeeze Commander + Rhapsody = THE BEST 3-SOME EVER!

2010-08-06 Thread flattermann
pippin;567100 Wrote: That sounds like an issue with the htc software bundle, isn't the Nexus one also an htc phone? The Nexus One is manufactured by HTC, but it has no HTC enhancements (e.g. no SenseUI...). It's probably just the vanilla Android firmware (maybe with additional hardware

Re: [slim] wiki.slimdeivces.com updating fails

2010-08-06 Thread ralphy
No. The wiki updates are working fine now. Thanks so much for your help getting this fixed. I posted the update a couple minutes before I saw mickeyg's post about the problems being resolved. So I edited my original post to reflect my findings. You just happened to see my original update

Re: [slim] Beta: SqueezeConfig - UDAP Config tool for Android

2010-08-06 Thread flattermann
SQUEEZECONFIG IS IN OPEN BETA NOW. Anyone who wants to try it, please register in the tracker at http://www.squeezecommander.com/trac As a registered user, you can download SqueezeConfig from http://www.squeezecommander.com/trac/SqueezeConfig (using your Trac username/password). NOTE: =

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-08-06 Thread bobpenn
When I look at album view in My Music every track of the album is listed as a separate album. So an album with 10 tracks would list 10 tines as the same entry. This also happens when you drill down via the Artist view, too. Has this been reported? Sorry if it has. Didn't go through all 12

Re: [slim] Is Receiver wifi reception poorer than other SB devices?

2010-08-06 Thread MadScientist
Adding an external aeriel has solved the problem; signal strength from 20-25% to 80% and no rebuffering in over 2 hours play. Took less than 30 min to fit and cost me less than 5GBP. Result! Note the small aeriel on the side of in the picture :; MS

Re: [slim] LAN acquiring network address constantly

2010-08-06 Thread usr33t
Many thanks for that. Before I was going to change to a static IP I tried a factory reset on the Squeezebox and everything seemed to work fine again. Cheers Usr33t -- usr33t usr33t's Profile:

Re: [slim] Is Receiver wifi reception poorer than other SB devices?

2010-08-06 Thread maggior
MadScientist - That's really cool! Nicely done. -- maggior Rich - Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 Duet, 1 Receiver, 1 Touch. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.0, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 33,060 songs, 2,656 albums, 484 artists.

Re: [slim] Rhapsody Playlists missing album artwork

2010-08-06 Thread thunder3dan
Anyone experience this problem? Or have a solution? -- thunder3dan thunder3dan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37821 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80725

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread audiomuze
erland;567068 Wrote: [b]There are also commercial pretty expensive solutions like allmusic.com which from what I've heard mostly focus on B2B integrations besides their web site, unfortunately this will make it harder to have any discussion with them with only community

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread audiomuze
Let me start off by saying I agree with everything Pat suggested. Now, at the risk of repeating myself... erland;566383 Wrote: So some questions to guide the discussion: 1. How do you find music in your own library ? - Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus) -

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-08-06 Thread NNN
I have a squeeze box duet. downloaded squeeze pad. I tried connecting to my server and it says bad URL. 192.168.1.100:9000 Tried connecting to squeeze box and bad URL. 192.168.1.151:9000 I even turned off the firewall and still nothing. I tried to connect to the Internet server

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-08-06 Thread dem
NNN;567178 Wrote: I tried connecting to my server and it says bad URL. 192.168.1.100:9000 Can you connect to your server's web interface from Safari on the iPad? -- dem Dave Squeezeboxes: 3 (a.k.a. Classic), Duet, Boom

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread pfarrell
audiomuze;567175 Wrote: Let me start off by saying I agree with everything Pat suggested. I believe that it can be implemented fairly easily with only one additional field in the sound/track table, and one in the album table. This field is just a big space for text, that we use to store the

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread mschr
1. How do you find music in your own library ? - I buy/acquire new music quite often and thus use New Music as the most common entry. Sometimes this leads me to want to listen to other albums by the same artist for which I either drill down the menus with the remote or use iPeng. - Otherwise I

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread erland
audiomuze;567167 Wrote: SoundHound app. It's really worth downloading the freebie to check it out - the demo is fully functional for recognition of 5 tracks per month, and it'll give you a good idea of what's on offer. I already have the payed version on the iPad and IPhone and like it and

Re: [slim] Android

2010-08-06 Thread stevecross
Thanks guys, seems just what i need, is it poss to get the apk file, i know i have to pay but just in case i swap my phone. Dont really want to pay twice -- stevecross stevecross's Profile:

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-08-06 Thread bluegaspode
NNN;567178 Wrote: I tried connecting to my server and it says bad URL. Hhmm - for me it always said 'cannot connect to host' when I simulated wrong urls. Anyway: Have a look at this post: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=565677postcount=101 where you can find all information needed

Re: [slim] Android

2010-08-06 Thread flattermann
stevecross;567196 Wrote: Thanks guys, seems just what i need, is it poss to get the apk file, i know i have to pay but just in case i swap my phone. Dont really want to pay twice If you buy it on the Android Market, the license is bound to your Google Checkout account, i.e. as long as you

Re: [slim] Android

2010-08-06 Thread fragfutter
any application you bought is tied to your google account. You can redownload it any time on any new phone. -- fragfutter sent from a computer using a keyboard fragfutter's Profile:

Re: [slim] OpenFrame remote for SB?

2010-08-06 Thread MusicManiac
Did anybody see these announcements from March? I just stumbled upon them by accident. http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/openpeaks-opentablet-7-hands-on-moorestown-has-found-a-friend/ http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/03/24/opentablet-openpeak-announced-opentablet-coming-late-2010/ A bit

[slim] Squeezebox classic HELP!!

2010-08-06 Thread Will Dawn
I have the classic and it suits fine with Itunes.. The only thing is this: When i play a number using the classic, the played song is not noted in Itunes. Pretty uncomfortable because frequently use my most played genre on the classic / and or Ituns... Could anyone help?? txs -- Will Dawn

Re: [slim] Squeezebox classic HELP!!

2010-08-06 Thread maggior
Hi Will, welcome to the forums. There is an add-on plugin that you can use that will update the stats in iTunes. Let me see if I can scare up a link to the download page for plugins... -- maggior Rich - Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 Duet, 1 Receiver, 1 Touch. SuSE 11.0 Server running

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread Philip Meyer
erland;566383 Wrote: It's getting painfully clear to me that it's not the primary focus area for Logitech, at least not during the last year or two. I don't think there's been any new functionality for browsing/playing music from your own library in a hell of a long time - perhaps the last

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread maggior
This is a good idea. I agree that the innovations in this area have been lacking as of late. Here are my responses: 1) As with my iPod, I navigate the browse menu via genre-artist-album. This mimics the way I would browse my CD/LP collection back in the day. I use either the Controller or the

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread Phil Meyer
I may be kind of special in that while I love to see cover art, have tagged all my albums correctly to show it and also want to see it while browsing I don't like to SELECT music based on the cover since I find that rather confusing (I often don't recognize music based on the cover). CoverFlow is

[slim] SBS 7.5.1 - Is it really this broken?

2010-08-06 Thread Skipperrik
I'm using a Squeezebox Classic 3, Windows 7 64 bit, and Firefox 3.6.8. I installed SBS 7.5.1 as well as firmware version 130 in my SB3 and now a whole range of issues have appeared. Here's a list: Web Interface Issues 1. When using the default web interface screen it does not show the SB3

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread pippin
Philip Meyer;567244 Wrote: I may be kind of special in that while I love to see cover art, have tagged all my albums correctly to show it and also want to see it while browsing I don't like to SELECT music based on the cover since I find that rather confusing (I often don't recognize music

Re: [slim] SBS 7.5.1 - Is it really this broken?

2010-08-06 Thread Mnyb
Did you clear the browser cache ? -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE for the rear ch. Rel

Re: [slim] SBS 7.5.1 - Is it really this broken?

2010-08-06 Thread JJZolx
Try another browser. Then to get it working in Firefox, maybe clear Firefox's cache, or disable Firefox addons until it works once again. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10

Re: [slim] SBS 7.5.1 - Is it really this broken?

2010-08-06 Thread Skipperrik
I've cleared the cache in Firefox, disabled all the plug-ins and got nowhere. I did however use IE to open Squeezebox Server and things seem to be working fine there. It's definitely a Firefox issue but I don't have a clue what the fix is. Thanks for your comments. -- Skipperrik

Re: [slim] SBS 7.5.1 - Is it really this broken?

2010-08-06 Thread JJZolx
Just on the off-chance that the cache wasn't cleared completely in Firefox, try loading the main page of the web skin, then use Ctrl-F5 to reload it from freshly retrieved files. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile:

Re: [slim] SBS 7.5.1 - Is it really this broken?

2010-08-06 Thread Skipperrik
Just tried using control + F5 and got no changes. Thanks. -- Skipperrik Skipperrik's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5208 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80985

Re: [slim] SBS 7.5.1 - Is it really this broken?

2010-08-06 Thread JJZolx
If you can't solve it, switch to Chrome. ;) Seriously, I switched after years of being a diehard Firefox user and I doubt that I'll ever look back. Every once in a blue moon I'll have to use Firefox for a site that doesn't work right in Chrome, and it now feels like bloated crapware worthy of

Re: [slim] SBS 7.5.1 - Is it really this broken?

2010-08-06 Thread Skipperrik
Switching to Chrome was actually a great suggestion. It helped me solve the problem with Firefox. I did a fresh installation of Chrome. No cache, no cookies, right out of the box. When I set it up I checked Block sites from setting any data to eliminate sites from setting cookies. I entered

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store

2010-08-06 Thread gellie
I must add the album art resolution is a bit underwhelming on the iPad in 2x. Way to much distortion. -- gellie gellie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34468 View this thread:

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store

2010-08-06 Thread Jeff Flowerday
gellie;567277 Wrote: I must add the album art resolution is a bit underwhelming on the iPad in 2x. Way to much distortion. iPeng isn't an iPad app. iPad is getting it's own application. -- Jeff Flowerday Jeff

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store

2010-08-06 Thread pippin
gellie;567277 Wrote: I must add the album art resolution is a bit underwhelming on the iPad in 2x. Way to much distortion. Are you talking thumbs? That's a bug and will be fixed in the update I'm going to submit, well, in a few minutes, Or are you talking about the big cover on NowPlaying?

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store

2010-08-06 Thread pippin
Daverz;567034 Wrote: Filed as 'Ticket #243' (https://trac.penguinlovesmusic.de/trac/ipengnat/ticket/243#preview). It turns out that this actually INTENTIONAL behavior of CustomBrowse. This is a plugin-generated menu and it doesn't specify a switch to NowPlaying. I remember Erland did this on

Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!

2010-08-06 Thread erland
pfarrell;567182 Wrote: I believe that it can be implemented fairly easily with only one additional field in the sound/track table, and one in the album table. This field is just a big space for text, that we use to store the unique fingerprint of the song/track/album. Perhaps we would want

Re: [slim] Android

2010-08-06 Thread stevecross
Many thanks for that info, i shall do that today after work and have a play. steve -- stevecross stevecross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29599 View this thread: