Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread verypsb
If I understand correctly, Apple doesn't allow Airplay on devices with an open (streaming) OS, like LMS/SqueezePlay. -- verypsb ::Please vote::: '::bug 1330:: New music should work on creation date' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330) '::bug 2140:: Allow specification of

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread bhaagensen
gruntwolla;686207 Wrote: . Looking at the manual, it is clearly aimed at owners of ios devices. For those people, LMS would just be a confusing distraction, so as it isn't mentioned, it won't be there. Though the ultimate conclusion may be right, I think you are overlooking the fact that

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread DaveWr
I think 90,000 new iPhones per day is a little larger target market, than squeeze things. Don't forget Logitech got burn't on Google TV. Any I don't think that they want to undermine the current Squeeze price points. -- DaveWr

Re: [slim] Recommended server/ NAS solution

2012-01-27 Thread Blisteringblue
vett93;685379 Wrote: If you listen to the music for more than 1 hour (your sleep timer duration), do you get the music cut off because Windows Vista decides to go to sleep? No because LMS stops it going to sleep if any players are active. Be that the my Boom, receiver or squeezeplay. Works

Re: [slim] Recommended server/ NAS solution

2012-01-27 Thread Blisteringblue
vett93;685893 Wrote: Just found out that LMS has a plug-in that prevents the PC from going into sleep mode while you play songs. So you are safe... Yep, works well too. Players don't even have to be playing, just on and the PC will not sleep. Caught me out recently because I had my Boom and

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread Soulkeeper
verypsb;686597 Wrote: If I understand correctly, Apple doesn't allow Airplay on devices with an open (streaming) OS, like LMS/SqueezePlay. Every time I start considering to buy an Apple product (this time it was the iPad), something like this comes up. And makes me turn on my heels. Thanks

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Squeezeslave: 1.0 released

2012-01-27 Thread routerunner
Hi Ralph, I've updated with the latest code from the head of SVN and made a makefile to compile for Linux 2.4.26 armv4 with a quite old version of GCC 2.95.3 and I found a couple of bugs: 1) Vorbis v1.3.2 the os.h line 41 the conditional compilation should add a test for __GNUC__ as well. 2)

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread TheLastMan
Soulkeeper;686630 Wrote: (Starts looking for an Android pad.) Don't. You will regret it. Regardless of your feelings towards Apple, the iPad is streets ahead of any of the Android pads in usability, app availability. There is a reason why it is twice the price of the Android pads. Anyway you

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread Soulkeeper
TheLastMan;686672 Wrote: Don't. You will regret it Ok? No pad for me then? TheLastMan;686672 Wrote: Anyway you cannot really blame Apple for the fact that Logitech wants to use its technology. And I don't. Besides, it's not my feelings towards Apple that makes me turn away from them.

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread pippin
TheLastMan;686672 Wrote: There is a reason why it is twice the price of the Android pads. It's not. There are capable Android Pads but they cost as much as Apple's although they are really lacking Apps. Kindle Fire Co don't really help with that. Me thinks the market will settle towards

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread pippin
Soulkeeper;686675 Wrote: It's just that I don't want to spend money on a sense of claustrophobia; that I can get for free if I want to. ;) Yes, you are right. Easy to get a bit claustrophobic with all the content on that platform. Compared to that you do indeed get a good sense of freedom

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread erland
I assume people know that they can make any AirPlay speaker/receiver a Squeezebox by combining it with one of the iOS apps which support playback, for example iPeng or SqueezePad. As long as you don't need synchronized playback it should work very good. Just configure the iPhone/iPad to output

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread MrSinatra
erland;686715 Wrote: Does anyone know which audio quality you get through AirPlay ? Does it allow some lossless format or is everything encoded through some lossy codec ? i have no idea how airplay works, but i suspect it allows for different codecs, and it might transcode or something based

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread DaveWr
erland;686715 Wrote: Does anyone know which audio quality you get through AirPlay ? Does it allow some lossless format or is everything encoded through some lossy codec ? Everything is converted to 16 bit 44 khz cd standard ALAC according to Linn, who have incorporated Airplay

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread gruntwolla
bhaagensen;686603 Wrote: Though the ultimate conclusion may be right, I think you are overlooking the fact that many are using the very iPods, iPhones, and iPads to control LMS... I don't disagree with that; I was referring more to the thousands who are happy to plug their ios device into a

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread MrSinatra
DaveWr;686743 Wrote: Everything is converted to 16 bit 44 khz cd standard ALAC according to Linn, who have incorporated Airplay support in their v expensive streamers. They have also added Songcast to support high sample rate 24 bit music. that seems really odd... why bother to make a mp3

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Orange Squeeze 1.0 for Android Released

2012-01-27 Thread db122
Hi everyone. I'm happy to announce the first major feature upgrade release for Orange Squeeze, version 1.1.0. It is available on the Android Market, SlideME and AndroidPIT and automatic upgrades should be happening as we speak. The major new features for this release are synchronization

Re: [slim] Logitech Airplay Speaker

2012-01-27 Thread DaveWr
MrSinatra;686753 Wrote: that seems really odd... why bother to make a mp3 lossless to send wirelessly? and whats really odd about it, is i have seen in practice, music go from a laptop, wirelessly, to a router, to an airport express and / or apple tv, again, wirelessly, and not hiccup

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2012-01-27 Thread bluegaspode
I just release SqueezePlayer 1.3.0 to the market. This release comes with a nice new goodie: full integration with OrangeSqueeze. This not only means that you can start OrangeSqueeze directly from SqueezePlayer - no it comes even better: OrangeSqueeze can start SqueezePlayer automatically! Gone

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2012-01-27 Thread indifference_engine
Thanks, I love this app and I *think* I have left the 200th comment although the stats still say 199. I love to Celebrate arbitrary numbers! Is there any chance of integrating into squeezecommander in the same way you have just done for orangesqueeze? Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2012-01-27 Thread bluegaspode
indifference_engine;686790 Wrote: Is there any chance of integrating into squeezecommander in the same way you have just done for orangesqueeze? flattermann already knows all details for quite some time, so integration into SqueezeCommander will be just a matter of time. Flatterman's been

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2012-01-27 Thread bluegaspode
indifference_engine;686790 Wrote: Thanks, I love this app and I *think* I have left the 200th comment although the stats still say 199. Yes, I can see the comment. Typically takes some hours until it is visible on the market. So 200th is gone guys (though I still love to see more) :) --

Re: [slim] Should I buy a Transporter?

2012-01-27 Thread Recoveryone
I just wanted to share a bit for those that feel the urge to make the leap to a Transporter: http://youtu.be/hxwYXVsrjFw Sorry for the low res, but the youtube police cut the sound on the Hi res verison as soon as it loaded up. -- Recoveryone Slim Device Transporter wirelessly connected