Would it be possible that someone takes over the squeezebox name and
continues it ? what about the people that created it 'Slimdevices' ?
Should be hard for them seeing being killed by Logitech
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Would it be possible that someone takes over the squeezebox name and
continues it ? what about the people that created it 'Slimdevices' ?
Should be hard for them seeing being killed by Logitech
Complete uninformed speculation on my part, but I seriously doubt that
Sean, Dean, or
(Hoping that this is the right forum, as I couldn't find a SB Classic
forum.)
I have a SB Classic and a SB Radio. Both were running fine until I
recently reconfigured my network to let the Classic connect over
Ethernet instead of WiFi. The Radio still runs fine. The Classic still
runs fine for
froth wrote:
So for me, it is not good news to hear that this is being done but my
squeeze installation should be around for many many years. And by then
things should have changed in the tech world and it may be time to
change.
Amidst all the -sturm und drang- on the forums the past couple
andy_c wrote:
I browse shoutcast.com a lot. Do the features under the Internet Radio
node in the LMS interface (Staff Picks, Local, Music, Talk, etc.) depend
on mysqueezebox.com?
That functionality could be returned in a third party plugin. Until
mysb.com disappears, there's no incentive
autopilot wrote:
Would people please read the first line of my original post please :)
Which first line? The thread topic about the next system? Or the
body of the post about what one would buy now? Given the expected life
of SB hardware, and even some expected continuation of mysb.com, I
What happens if you set the Classic to use WiFi again, instead of
ethernet?
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A Logitech Transporter for running LMS
and a Sonos Connect connected to the digital input of the Transporter
for music services and Internet radio .
I'll do this only when mysqueezebox is
discontinued and I look to buy a cheap used Sonos .
JJZolx wrote:
It's not obvious, but mysb.com registration can be bypassed by swiping
the screen (L-R, IIRC) at that point in the setup.
Thanks! I just ordered a spare Touch, so that trick may come in handy
at some time in the future.
jhonsber...@msn.com wrote:
A Logitech Transporter for running LMS
and a Sonos Connect connected to the digital input of the Transporter
for music services and Internet radio .
I'll do this only when mysqueezebox is
discontinued and I look to buy a cheap used Sonos .
interesting. my
aubuti wrote:
Which first line? The thread topic about the next system? Or the
body of the post about what one would buy now? Given the expected life
of SB hardware, and even some expected continuation of mysb.com, I would
certainly have very different answers to those two very different
If Sonopsy could work on a Mac to transcode hi-res files on Sonos for
the rooms for casual listening, I could live with that and a computer
hooked directly to my main system.
Another solution would be a good dock like the Pure i20 with ipeng
running on an ipad or iphone.
in hindsight this has been on the cards for a while
1. wind down of the dev team
2. lms releases full of bugs
3. Phil Leigh leaving the forum
4. Touches being sold off at discount on amazon
etc
It's rather poor form of Logitech not to announce the plans for SB.com.
Apart from that this is what
SBGK wrote:
3. Phil Leigh leaving the forum
No, Phil likely left because he got tired of idiots taking over many
threads, spewing nonsense. Too much to wade through to get to useful
things.
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No, Phil likely left because he got tired of idiots taking over many
threads, spewing nonsense. Too much to wade through to get to useful
things.
Did he officially announce his departure?
autopilot's
autopilot wrote:
Did he officially announce his departure?
no
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SBGK wrote:
in hindsight this has been on the cards for a while
1. wind down of the dev team
2. lms releases full of bugs
3. Phil Leigh leaving the forum
4. Touches being sold off at discount on amazon
etc
It's rather poor form of Logitech not to announce the plans for SB.com.
garym wrote:
No, Phil likely left because he got tired of idiots taking over many
threads, spewing nonsense. Too much to wade through to get to useful
things. autopilot wrote:
Did he officially announce his departure?
It would be very unusual for an ordinary forum member, or even an
aubuti wrote:
It would be very unusual for an ordinary forum member, or even an
extraordinary member, to officially announce leaving the forums. In my
experience, the people who announce they are leaving usually reappear in
short order (many of them the same nonsense-spewers garym cites).
Yes!
Give us Transporter 2 with USB input and 384/32 processing :)
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Really a bummer. In the 2 1/2 years since I got my Touch it has become
the primary focus of my listening. I looked at all kinds of different
systems while the Touch was in that long delay before it finally hit the
stores, and for quite a while before deciding to by a Touch as well.
But I
autopilot wrote:
Ok, this thread was intended to get some hypothetical views about what
people would buy now, other than a Squeezebox. The first line was
Putting the fact that we can still run our hardware in the short term
aside for now was intended to avoid but I'm still going to use my
Well, that's also bizarre, actually: if I reconnect the Classic on Wifi,
then the Classic no longer finds my LM Server, but it *can* access
mysqueezebox.com and external radio streams. It's particularly bizarre
given that the Radio is on the same Wifi and can see the Classic without
problem...
I just ordered another Touch after seeing all the news here today. Been
meaning to do so for a while and just hadn't gotten to it, but wanted to
get one before the price starts heading up and stock dwindles. Heck
there have been times before all this that the Touch was somewhat hard
to find, so
Connection timed out means it has problem connecting to MySB.com.
You can logon to MySB.com via web browser to see of the SB Classic is
connected.
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gdude wrote:
Well, that's also bizarre, actually: if I reconnect the Classic on Wifi,
then the Classic no longer finds my LM Server, but it *can* access
mysqueezebox.com and external radio streams. It's particularly bizarre
given that the Radio is on the same Wifi and can see the Classic
I would have a look at the router's configuration:
a - 2 networks, one for wifi, one for LAN,
b - 2 wifi networks, one regular, one of the guest type,
c - Fixed DHCP addresses delivered to the players (possibly now in the
wrong range, cf. a)
d - LAN being mostly firewalled, wifi network mostly
Thanks for all your prompt responses. No luck yet so far, though.
First a correction: when trying to connect to mysqueezebox.com, it
doesn't say Connection timed out but Can't find address for
mysqueezebox.com. When trying to connect to an external radio stream,
it says Connecting... for a while
jean2 wrote:
Does it have the standard SB features, such as gapless, replay-gain,
sync and remote SB control ? Ideally, you would want a SqueezePlay port
for the VortexBox to make sure everything is properly supported. Bonus
points if you can use the VortexBox itself as a controller.
Jean
I agree that this is a bummer, and I'm trying to decide on picking up a
spare Touch. Right now I have a Touch, a Boom, and a Radio (n.b. Touch
Boom Radio would be an excellent name for a band). The quality of sound,
multi-room playback, and apps are all important to me, but if I loose
the apps
gdude wrote:
First a correction: when trying to connect to mysqueezebox.com, it
doesn't say Connection timed out but Can't find address for
mysqueezebox.com.
I have a vague recollection that the ip3k players store an IP address
for mysb.com on the 1st time they connect to it, and things can
I have 4 SB radios (all wifi) and 1 Touch (cable). Few week ago, I
replaced my router with a new one with the same SSID and encryption
password. One of the radio had problem connecting to MySB.com. I
remember I had to do the following steps to fix it:
- Logon to MySB.com and delete the
becseattle wrote:
Took a quick look at the new Radio, and it looks to have only an
minijack in and no digital out. Will there really be nothing to take
the place of a SB with a digital out and optical/coax inputs?
good question
Squeezebox's audio out is not audiophile quality, hence
castalla wrote:
Not being any kind of devloper, I wonder how difficult it'd be to create
an alternative Tunein plugin which doesn't depend on mysb.com?
As long as the developer can get access to the API from TuneIn it won't
be a big problem as long as you are running a local LMS, the LMS is
lrossouw wrote:
erland wrote:
...but I don't want to go into any further details regarding this at the
moment
What are you up to erland? :)
I don't want to go into any further details at this moment. :)
The only advice I can give you is to not get panic and start buying
erland wrote:
Your Squeezebox hardware worked excellently a week ago, it works
excellent today and it's likely going to work excellent 6 months in the
future, so there isn't any reason to hurry or get panic at the moment,
just wait a bit and see how things will evolve before making any
Does anyone have experence with Popcornhour products. I'm looking at the
newer A300 model.
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Is this a ploy to make us buy more squeezeboxes?
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lrossouw wrote:
You can do this pretty much with any small form factor pc. You could
slap together a small silent PC with rapsberry pi with digital audio out
via USB sound for probably $100. You could run linux and
squeezeslave/squeezeplay on it and then you have a squeezebox with all
the
epoch1970 wrote:
Did you try to power off the player by pulling the power cord yet ? I
think a power cycle refreshes it better. I'm a bit unsure, but I guess
there's no harm in trying.
I have had a similar problem as OP, and unplugging the receiver has
always been the simplest and most
The whole development has been pretty interesting for me, as a new
initiate to the SB world. Got my first device, a Touch, about a month
ago. So far, I've only used it for local music, and am just scratching
the surface. My first reaction was return the Touch and keep using
iPeng/iPhone player.
DubMarc wrote:
The whole development has been pretty interesting for me, as a new
initiate to the SB world. Got my first device, a Touch, about a month
ago. So far, I've only used it for local music, and am just scratching
the surface. My first reaction was return the Touch and keep using
erland wrote:
I don't want to go into any further details at this moment. :)
If you're doing what I'm thinking than I'm not worried about the future
of the SqueezeBoxes... ;)
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4 radios and 1 Touch. Just bough a Touch. Amazon ordering page said
less than 10 available, more coming soon.
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lrossouw wrote:
If you're doing what I'm thinking than I'm not worried about the future
of the SqueezeBoxes... ;)
What do you think he's doing? :)
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Or these
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GSB4OC/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_7?ie=UTF8smid=A3LLMZ9K72U9P2
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kidstypike wrote:
Come over here where we can't be heard ...
What do you think he's doing? :)
I find this I know something you don't know game very annoying.
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Triode wrote:
I actually think that for audiophile playback this is the way to go. We
should leave the audio engineering to an external usb based dac and keep
the streamer to a low power linux platform which runs squeezeplay (or
cut down version of it or something similar...) This with LMS
garym wrote:
If you plan on listening via a dedicated stereo or at least larger self
powered speakers (eg audio engine A5s), then you should keep. If you
mostly do headphones then iPhone is all you need.
Thanks...that was the conclusion I drew for myself. Kinda leaning
towards keeping it for
In Use
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1 Boom
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drgn95 wrote:
Does anyone have experence with Popcornhour products. I'm looking at the
newer A300 model.
I have 2, and they are great, but they are video products and no
replacement for SB.
I also have the A110 - 4 years old I figure and still having firmware
versions coming out to support
lrossouw wrote:
If you're doing what I'm thinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8idUH83Y8
and
http://thejunket.org/2012/01/issue-two/are-you-thinking-what-im-thinking-youre-thinking/
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aubuti wrote:
It would be very unusual for an ordinary forum member, or even an
extraordinary member, to officially announce leaving the forums. In my
experience, the people who announce they are leaving usually reappear in
short order (many of them the same nonsense-spewers garym cites).
Should any of mine go tzts-up, I'll scrounge for a replacement.
Should a replacement boom be unappealing, I'll BT my tablet to external
speaker (or jack it to a real stereo for remote use.)
Should a replacement receiver be unappealing, I'll get another sb3.
(Duh)
yes, FOR LIFE
I have a spare Touch and (don't laugh) 2 old Slimp3's which are ok for
the workshop / garage.
In use, 3x touch, 2x radio, 1 slimp3, 4 duets, 3 SB2 and 1SB3.
I figure they'll work for another 5 years or more, by which time who
knows where we'll be on technology.
I'm minded to buy one more
With all the doom and gloom in the forums the last couple days, I
thought I'd release a couple of new SqueezePlay ports that I've been
using for a while now with great success.
They are based on the 7.8 branch Jul 17, 2012 git check in which I've
exported back to subversion as I really dislike
I will never use a DIY PC as an audio player. Not even a very cheap,
very small, very green one.
I tried the HTPC for years, and the experience was pure junk. I used
iTunes 1.0 with a long audio cable running to my stereo, and that wasn't
so good either.
I went to the SB system because it was a
I guess Android needs to watch out, since that's been my current
interest.
Actually, I still have Beta tapes and a Betamax (although I never play
them). I still have all my LPs, a solid new turntable, and vinyl is
making a comeback. SageTV appears to have been reborn in Google's TV
box in
yeomanspc wrote:
I have 2, and they are great, but they are video products and no
replacement for SB.
I also have the A110 - 4 years old I figure and still having firmware
versions coming out to support new video functions. How's that for
support?
The new A300 has a very clever
SBGK wrote:
his last post in no way indicates his intention to leave, so garym was
correct, or is there a hidden message in there ?
I no longer have anything to contribute here.
It's been (mostly) fun ... Have a nice life
Ciao,
Phil
Why am I not surprised you cut out the line immediately
Labarum wrote:
The Apple Airport Express (£79) has all the hardware in it to do the
work of a Squeezebox Receiver.
I am guessing that running LMS, Squeezeplay and Airfoil
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/windows/
would achieve all; but a single Squeezebox-Airplay App would be neater.
Yes, keep the squeezeboxes alive !
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We need to fix the My apps menu to work without mysqueezebox.com .
I have two local apps , triodes spotify and mhergers bandcamp , these
are local plugins but their UI resides in my apps .
If the conection with mysb.com breaks I have observed that this menu is
totally empty ? No local apps ?
drgn95 wrote:
Does anyone have experence with Popcornhour products. I'm looking at the
newer A300 model.
dborod wrote:
This is pretty close to what I do, although I use squeezeslave instead
of squeezeplay . . . In my perfect world . . .
A software with all the ability of Logitech Media
Labarum wrote:
A software with all the ability of Logitech Media Server and able to
send media streams to any Apple compatible (Airplay) device would be a
boon. Apple would hate it, and the software would no doubt have to be
constantly modified to dodge spoiling tactics, but that's one way
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