briank;665541 Wrote:
-1
I disagree. Erland's excellent plugins provide the tools to create the
(IMHO) close-to-ultimate smart music selection system (short of
actually determining your taste by reading your mind or using the if
you liked X then you'll probably like Y because other people
gruntwolla;665343 Wrote:
Forgive me if I'm being naive here, but if paranoia becomes reality,
couldn't a third party take over the running of mysqueezebox.com. If
the new third party were seen to be committed to rd, then would people
not be willing to pay a modest annual subscription?,
@ DK Dennis. Good stuff this is somesting I'd definitely use. Please
keep us all posted on your progress!
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HectorHughMunro;665616 Wrote:
If they could make it better, I'd pay for it.
I agree, this is paranoia until it actually happens. I could live
without Squeezebox Server being updated but I'd be far more concerned
if support was withdrawn from Ipeng!
I think all this stems ( for me anyway)
reniera;665615 Wrote:
Briank,
Did you try the excellent sugarcube plugin ? In the past, I used it
together with trackstat to block unwanted (rated 1) tracks but I
realize that removing trackstat doesn't change anything. Very few rated
1 goes thru anyhow. Sugarcube realy adds values and
verypsb;664931 Wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody know a good Squeezebox alternative? I'm not really
confident that the Logitech Squeezebox lineup will last much longer.
Important features (to me):
I have just started to look at the Duet, and I cannot find it on the
Logitech US web page. It is
I think if Logitech were to decide to not produce Squeezeboxes anymore,
they'd probably look to sell it, unless it's just too tied up with the
Revue, etc.
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wt0;626731 Wrote:
As long as the pixi has a palm profile and that profile was created
while the phone was in a country which can have paid apps in the App
Catalog, you should be able to buy Squeeze Control even without
registering the device with a carrier.
Hi Angry Goat,
I am very aware
gbcambridge;665654 Wrote:
Can anyone clarify what is going on with Duet.. and why Transporter now
appears to be back?
Logitech's seat-of-the-pants inventory management does make it hard
to tell where things are going
The Duet is discontinued, and so is the Transporter. So retailers are
excalibur;665662 Wrote:
From our numbers you will never be rich anyway. We are a dying race...
If never being able to get rich off of an item is enough of a reason
for giving it away then probably the vast majority of all items you see
in any store should be given away for free.
Because of
I think his main point is distribution channels, not getting it for
free... Is there any feasible alternative for WebOS' market when WebOS'
market is not available in a lot of countries?
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see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and
*New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com
No, there's only one marketplace for webOS. Currently, the only other
alternative would be to sell it directly, but I never wanted to deal
all the headaches that goes along with that.
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gruntwolla;665626 Wrote:
I think all this stems ( for me anyway) in disappointment that whenever
I go into a hifi shop ( something I'm doing quite frequently at the
moment ) there is always a sonos system on display ready for a demo,
whereas one can only buy Squeezeboxen online nowadays.
briank;665541 Wrote:
-1
I disagree. Erland's excellent plugins provide the tools to create the
(IMHO) close-to-ultimate smart music selection system (short of
actually determining your taste by reading your mind or using the if
you liked X then you'll probably like Y because other people
To me it's simple. Everyone deserves to get paid for their craft. Be
it art, technology, or ability to create. It's called capitalism. I
paid for Mr Erland's products and I strongly feel it has enhanced my
system. If one does not wish to contribute to someone's time and
effort, then dont
when I opened the front page of the NY Times website this morning, there
is a very prominent SONOS ad. When you click on it, you go to a site
that does a very good job of simply explaining how an integrated sonos
system works (with one player or many). sigh if only logitech could
get their
socistep;665679 Wrote:
Hi Trev
I went to the Manchester HiFi show last sunday, which I enjoyed,
Logitech had no presence at all there - from a streaming perspective
Sonos had a stand as did Simple Audio (although I managed to miss it!)
- There was also the big hulk boxes of Naim, Cyrus
socistep;665679 Wrote:
I too have found nothing on display in HiFi shops also
Thanks
Ian
PS - In a HiFi shop is where a potential 'Touch 2' - beefed up to run
tinySB and support external HDDs better would, I believe, demo and sell
very well - a pipe dream though...
The question is
garym;665700 Wrote:
when I opened the front page of the NY Times website this morning, there
is a very prominent SONOS ad. When you click on it, you go to a site
that does a very good job of simply explaining how an integrated sonos
system works (with one player or many). sigh if only
briank;665541 Wrote:
-1
I disagree. Erland's excellent plugins provide the tools to create the
(IMHO) close-to-ultimate smart music selection system (short of
actually determining your taste by reading your mind or using the if
you liked X then you'll probably like Y because other people
erland;665704 Wrote:
My feeling is that Logitech is mostly used to be able to sell most of
their other products without any advertising. This is easy for mices,
web cams and similar stuff but it's a lot harder for products that need
advertising, like Squeezebox, Harmony remotes and Revue.
paul.raulerson;665722 Wrote:
In any case, none of this says to me that they are automatically going
to shut down the Squeezebox stuff.
Is there something I don't know about that is generating this concern?
-Paul
not at all. about once a year or so, our general paranoia pops up and
erland;665703 Wrote:
...
My local HiFi shop were selling Sonos, Teac and Logitech, their message
was that Logitech's devices (including Transporter) was bad in
comparison to Teac and Sonos, primarily from an audio quality
perspective. We all know this isn't the case, at least it's not a
nicolas75;665731 Wrote:
But it is simply not possible with SBS nor TinySBS.
Browse Music Folder?
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Please vote for bug 1330: new music should work on creation date
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330
Please
Thans Garym
When I connect to mysqueezebox.com, Last.fm is not in the list of apps
available.
I also checked My Apps to see if I had already had it there but I
didn't.
Is Last.fm App no longer available?
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Lambchop
verypsb;665733 Wrote:
Browse Music Folder?
No this is not possible.
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paul.raulerson;665722 Wrote:
LOL! I think Logitech accidentally create a high-end audio product with
the Squeezebox Touch, when they were trying to compete with Bose. After
not having gangbusters success with the Transporter.
Now they have little idea how to move forward with such a
Last fm is not avaible in all countries on a squeezebox .
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Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x
MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3
sub.
But is the Scrobbling part of Last.fm not freely available? I can
already use this on my other squeezeboxes including the Touch when it
is connected to my pc library.
I am not looking to set up a Last.fm subscription but to scrobble my
played tracks to Last.fm when I use the Touch server (USB)
i also used last fm from the wrong country :-/
the server onboard Touch does run any plugins, so you can't use the
third party scrobbling either.
or the server plugin from logitech ?
they started to use geo ip a while back , so playing is not possible I
used the old trick of setting my
Thanks MyNb.
I am beginning to feel that I will have to go back to using my pc for
longer periods.
One last question before I begin to sound like I am obsessed with
this!!
In the settings advanced Squeezebox information Plugin Modules
there is a Last.fm Audiscrobbler v1.0 listed.
What is
Yes you should definitely install this plugin. Sorry, I assumed you had
this. Not sure why you don't see last.fm in your app gallery but it
could be your country.
Ps. I'm a big fan of using SbS on a computer, NAS, etc that is on 24/7.
Too many low power use options for this now not to be a good
In the settings you mention, make sure your lastfm credentials are
entered.
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Location 1: Vortexbox Appliance 6TB (1.10) SbS 7.6.2 Transporter,
Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
Location 2: Win7(64) laptop SbS 7.6.2 TouchBenchmark DAC I, Boom,
Radio w/Battery
No luck
When I go to applet installer, audiscrobbler is not listed as one of
the plug-in's I can install.
I've tried the reinstall-all option in that menu but nothing changed
when it restarted.
In the menu, settingsadvancedLast.fm audiscrobbler is still visible
but not editable
When you say to
Lambchop;665765 Wrote:
No luck
When I go to applet installer, audiscrobbler is not listed as one of
the plug-in's I can install.
I've tried the reinstall-all option in that menu but nothing changed
when it restarted.
In the menu, settingsadvancedLast.fm audiscrobbler is still visible
but
froth;665768 Wrote:
Even if the whole SB line is tossed out by logitech, as long as you dont
use mysqueeze.com and your SB hardware works, you can keep using it.
More than likly for years after.
true, for your own music, and internet radio streams where you can
enter the URL. But one needs
froth;665768 Wrote:
Even if the whole SB line is tossed out by logitech, as long as you dont
use mysqueeze.com and your SB hardware works, you can keep using it.
More than likly for years after. I plan to do just that. By the time
I need to replace my kit or expand it there may other good
froth;665768 Wrote:
Even if the whole SB line is tossed out by logitech, as long as you dont
use mysqueeze.com and your SB hardware works, you can keep using it.
More than likly for years after. I plan to do just that. By the time
I need to replace my kit or expand it there may other good
In my paranoid moments, I worry about the loss of this very useful
community of experienced users if you logged on to this forum one day
to find it gone (which is likely how it would happenpull the plug
with no notice). I've often thought that we should create a google
group or something that
A similar 'sudden event' happened at Reciva - they closed the official
users' forum without any notice. Fortunately, somebody had already set
up a 'Reciva Refuge' forum elsewhere ... and many users simply just
transferred to the new independent forum.
Even Reciva have now joined as a 'helpful'
Even if the whole SB line is tossed out by logitech, as long as you dont
use mysqueeze.com and your SB hardware works, you can keep using it.
More than likly for years after. I plan to do just that. By the time
I need to replace my kit or expand it there may other good options out
there. If I
Apologies for the confusion, I am doing a great job confusing myself
too.
I found this on the Mysqueezebox.com website under What's new
Player menus have changed
If youre an existing Squeezebox user you may have noticed that some of
your player menus have changed. Weve eliminated the Music
garym;665773 Wrote:
In my paranoid moments, I worry about the loss of this very useful
community of experienced users if you logged on to this forum one day
to find it gone (which is likely how it would happenpull the plug
with no notice). I've often thought that we should create a
Interesting news:
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/27/apples-alac-codec-is-now-open-source/
Personally I think this is great news. I currently keep my music
library in FLAC format. But we're an Apple house, and lately I've been
considering converting it to ALAC so that everything works better with
Phil Leigh;665705 Wrote:
Or you could simply enjoy MIP or random mixes of your entire collection
having deleted/archived any 1 or 2 star stuff...
I bet once you have rated something 1 or 2 you never listen to it again
- so it might as well be removed from the collection. So the 1-5 scheme
I believe ALAC has been supported by squeezebox for a while, but without
the ability to seek within the track.
This is great news, and hopefully the seek feature will finally be
available in the next release.
I too was wanting to convert my flac library to ALAC, simply due to the
fact there's
ALAC seeking is supported. But yes this is great news, we can finally
implement the official decoder.
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Hi Again Friends: :)
Since my last post earlier in the thread, I noticed now that station
KPOJ doesn't play on my SB Touch either, when I attempt to start that
stream using my display remote as opposed to starting it via the touch
screen (which does work).
I can and do start/play other
This is great news. Even better would be Apple adding support for FLAC
to their products but this is a great step forward for lossless audio!
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wazza;665791 Wrote:
I believe ALAC has been supported by squeezebox for a while, but without
the ability to seek within the track.
This is great news, and hopefully the seek feature will finally be
available in the next release.
I too was wanting to convert my flac library to ALAC,
Are there any advantages of using FLAC now when ALAC is open sourced ?
Is FLAC still better supported in Squeezeboxes ?
Is FLAC still better supported in other software/hardware players ?
The big advantage with ALAC from my perspective would be that suddenly
I can use the same files both in
They also need the comunity we are the white mice in mr hergers and mr
grundmans labyrinth ;)
Have you seen the bug reports by the some outsourced testers they
finaly are using for 7.7 ?
Admittetly 90% bug reports from the forum is noise.
But some here find a file real bugs very well
erland;665802 Wrote:
Are there any advantages of using FLAC now when ALAC is open sourced ?
Well, it may have been open sourced but the likes of Logitech still
have to develop decoders for it allowing full use of the specification
(seek, etc.) so FLAC still has the advantage for the time being.
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