Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-10-17 Thread volpone
JohnSwenson wrote: The software supports TOSLINK on both the wandboard and CSP boards, and coax on the CSP boards, BUT the outputs on the CSP boards will be much better. The outputs are ground isolated and reclocked with an ultra low jitter clock. The coax output is also properly

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-10-17 Thread Julf
volpone wrote: In my setup i would prefer to use an external DAC (Rega DAC) but i'm very pleased that digital outputs will be good. But if you only want to use an external DAC, wouldn't a raspberry pi work for you? To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-10-17 Thread cliveb
Julf wrote: But if you only want to use an external DAC, wouldn't a raspberry pi work for you? Depends on the DAC. The Raspberry Pi has only USB and HDMI - no SPDIF. And its USB is known to be a bit dodgy. It works fine with some USB DACs, but not with others. (Don't know anything about its

Re: [slim] Maximum number of hardware devices that can be synced

2013-10-17 Thread DJanGo
hi, access points (in most cases) are always shit... The only good way to manage Access points is one switch feeds all of them only via LAN. If any works as a repeater you just get the half of its capacity because he must send the ack from the client back to the server - if that works just

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-10-17 Thread volpone
cliveb wrote: Depends on the DAC. The Raspberry Pi has only USB and HDMI - no SPDIF. And its USB is known to be a bit dodgy. It works fine with some USB DACs, but not with others. (Don't know anything about its HDMI). Thank's Julf and Cliveb My goal is to get, as soon as possible, a SB Touch

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-10-17 Thread Julf
volpone wrote: My goal is to get, as soon as possible, a SB Touch alternative or replacement for my HIFI digital setup and the most important point is audio quality associated with Rega external DAC (or other good external audiophile DAC). Well, Rega makes a point about their USB input

Re: [slim] Maximum number of hardware devices that can be synced

2013-10-17 Thread garym
DJanGo wrote: hi, access points (in most cases) are always shit... The only good way to manage Access points is one switch feeds all of them only via LAN. If any works as a repeater you just get the half of its capacity because he must send the ack from the client back to the server

Re: [slim] Maximum number of hardware devices that can be synced

2013-10-17 Thread epoch1970
tandy1000rl wrote: Have my needs outgrown Squeezebox's capabilities? Any other thoughts on this? Sorry I can't test. I surmise that in the group of 18, 12 (or so) get ready to play, but their readiness status expires before the other 6 are ready too, so the whole group is never ready to

Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-10-17 Thread headed4hires
I may have missed it, but I didn't see anyone talking about the Surface RT tablet from Microsoft as a replacement for Squeezebox devices. Like original poster on this thread, I have my music on a Windows Home Server system (HP Datavault), including MP3s and FLAC files, some of which are 24-bit

Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-10-17 Thread qnology
Using the Surface RT would be interesting. I wonder if we can compile LMS and Squeezelite and side load/install them on the Surface RT? qnology's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59703 View this

Re: [slim] Maximum number of hardware devices that can be synced

2013-10-17 Thread tandy1000rl
epoch1970 wrote: Sorry I can't test. I surmise that in the group of 18, 12 (or so) get ready to play, but their readiness status expires before the other 6 are ready too, so the whole group is never ready to startÂ… Have you tweaked settingsadvancednetworkSynchronized Players Startup Delay