radish Wrote:
Thanks all :) I didn't mean to hijack the thread! But yes, weddings
are expensive, particularly when they're in NYC. It's not going to be
particularly extravagent in the grand scheme of things, but with 100
people @ $200 a head (plus tax tip!), a dress, a honeymoon, a
Thanks, I'll try that when I get home.
I was looking at the wrong thing entirely - I'd gone straight for the
.map file (once I'd found it) and was fiddling with that. (A copy of
it!)
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I'm no audiophile so while I can appreciate the Transporter, it does
nothing for me and I wouldn't buy one even if I had the money.
I got a SB3 because I want a simple (ish) way to have decent sounding
music throughout the house and get rid of all the CDs that clutter up
the place.
What I'd
My 5 year old daughter really likes it too. She can find her Disney
audio books on there, and her music too (all listed under her own
genre...).
My wife too thought I was mad spending sooo long ripping (and sometimes
re-ripping) CDs (using dbpoweramp), spending ages getting the tagging
schema
It's interesting all the variations that are possible. I'm sure a lot of us are runnign at least one of our SB's into a surround amp and probably using the optical out on the SB and using the amp's DA converter.Built in amp? don't understand that one. As it is you can use a set of powered speakers
hi everybody
I recently purchased Sennheiser HD-650 headphones, which I totally
liked in the shop (where they were driven by some special headphone
amp). However, connected to my SB2 they just do not sound really good.
I'm a bit confused now, since the same SB2 connected analogically to my
What about EURO prices, and when will it be available in the
Netherlands?
Which shipping costs will be charged: if you first send the SB3 and a
few weeks later the Transporter, do you charge me 2 times shipping
costs?
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radish Wrote:
I am very pleased to be able to confirm the cheesy DJ will be replaced
by a laptop a squeezebox with a bunch of custom playlists.
Hey!
Some of us non-cheesy DJs (who DJ with a laptop and an SB1) object
strenuously :-)
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Simon Still Wrote:
It's interesting all the variations that are possible. I'm sure a lot
of us
are runnign at least one of our SB's into a surround amp and probably
using
the optical out on the SB and using the amp's DA converter.
This may be a stupid question but I think I need to
rick's cafe Wrote:
if you use optical out from SB3 into a surround sound amp do you negate
the effects of the Sb3's internal DAC?
You don't use the SB3 DAC, but the surround amp's one.
rick's cafe Wrote:
if so then is the only way to make proper use of the SB3's DAC to use
the analog
if so then is the only way to make proper use of the SB3's DAC to use
the analog output
Correct.
In my experience, you'll not only hear the differences in DACs, you'll
hear the differences in analog versus digital implementation. Most
receivers digitize all signals, even analog. If it's
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
Despite the SB3's DAC, I found the analog sound to be so warm as to be
muddy and indistinct in vocals. This problem is largely negated by
using headphones directly to the SB3, which obviously bypasses the
receiver. The digital is clear and crisp, perhaps a little
Well if it was a server performance issue, wouldn't you expect it to
show problems on the SB2 as well as the SB1? The fact that my SB2
perfoms AOK leads me to believe it's an isolated problem with the SB1.
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thanks for the replies
will try out the different combos to see what difference I hear
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On 7/26/06, rmassey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well if it was a server performance issue, wouldn't you expect it toshow problems on the SB2 as well as the SB1? The fact that my SB2
perfoms AOK leads me to believe it's an isolated problem with the SB1.If you look at the specs, the SB1 has a much
Perhaps it will inherit the following items from the Transporter:
- DAC input
- tactile feedback knob
Oh, oh! I vote for 2 screens and on device controls with knob!
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Well if it was a server performance issue, wouldn't you expect it to
show problems on the SB2 as well as the SB1? The fact that my SB2
perfoms AOK leads me to believe it's an isolated problem with the SB1.
The SB1 and 2 are very different internally - specifically the SB1 has
a
I recently purchased Sennheiser HD-650 headphones
Is there any difference between the line out and headphones output?
Nice headphones, congrats.
Line outs aren't meant to drive a load so they aren't designed to
provide the power needed for that. On top of that, the Senn HD-650s
(while great
In keeping with the original Transporter vs SB3 question I also would
like to know how they stack up to each other in terms of sound quality.
I suppose we'll have to wait for the independent reviews to start coming
in but I'd really like to know how the 2 devices sound side by side on
the same
born2bMild Wrote:
Hi. Another newbie here.
I've recently purchased a 200Gb QNAP, and I'm having a little trouble
with the device shutting down and restarting for no apparent reason.
It's quite warm at the moment, which makes me wonder whether there's
some sort of thermal protection, but
JJZolx wrote:
What kind of audiophile buys a $2000 source component without hearing
it first?
It appears that the 30 day trial applies to this product as well. And
how better to try out a component but in your listening room, connected
to your gear?
radish Wrote:
What I'm looking at now is how to add an idiot-proof jukebox style
browser so people can choose tunes themselves and have them added to
the queue.
Have you looked at Moose? I haven't looked at it in a while but it
seemed not bad last I looked.
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In that case I'll order off the web, take the complimentary SB3 and
1. List it on eBay
2. ??
3. Profit!
Donated SB's always welcome this way - might be able to get the
Zones feature working properly in Moose.. :-)
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radish Wrote:
I know. I'm one myself :) But for what we have planned a human just
isn't required. What I'm looking at now is how to add an idiot-proof
jukebox style browser so people can choose tunes themselves and have
them added to the queue.
Congrats radish and congrats to SD on the new
Hmmm not heard of this happening before. PM me your MAC address and/or
serial number and we'll take it from there.
Thanks
Paul
born2bMild Wrote:
Hi. Another newbie here.
I've recently purchased a 200Gb QNAP, and I'm having a little trouble
with the device shutting down and restarting
radish Wrote:
That's a bargain. I thought I was getting the cheap option by only
shelling out $20 for a months membership of match.com and now I'm
having to find $40k for a wedding! That's 20 transporters! Damn. Time
to reevaluate priorities...
Your scaring me man! I proposed two weeks ago,
radish Wrote:
What I'm looking at now is how to add an idiot-proof jukebox style
browser so people can choose tunes themselves and have them added to
the queue.
Like a Windows Media Player interface where you can drag songs to the
Squeezebox queue?
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Hello,
together with my Squeezebox, I installed the current version of the
Slimserver. For the old one I had a manually created converter file.
Now with the new one, I'm tying to get bitrate limitation for the
SoftSqueeze player to work again. But if I only configure a bitrate
limitation on the
Quoting Lars [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
are still streamed as their self and not converted to low bitrate mp3s.
I'm woundering what I'm doing wrong?
If you are limiting, then you'll need LAME installed. For licensing
reasons, this is not included with slismerver. The description text
for the
sfraser wrote:
radish Wrote:
That's a bargain. I thought I was getting the cheap option by only
shelling out $20 for a months membership of match.com and now I'm
having to find $40k for a wedding! That's 20 transporters! Damn. Time
to reevaluate priorities...
Your scaring me man! I proposed
Lame (and other codecs) are installed, as I was using them together with
the old Slimserver. The path to each codec is put into the lines in the
config file. So that should not be the problem ...
Regards, Lars
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Lame (and other codecs) are installed, as I was using them together with
the old Slimserver. The path to each codec is put into the lines in the
config file. So that should not be the problem ...
The conf file is written with substitutions and the server will
I actually got married on my lunch hour, then went back to work. How's
that for romance?
Still, it's one of the greatest days of my life; a happy memory, a few
cherished photos, and a wonderful life together.
Priceless.
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Under a properly conducted level-matched A/B/X test I would imagine no
audible difference between the Transporter and SB3. There is nothing in
the Transporter spec that I can see significantly improving the sound
quality for most users. Balanced analogue XLRs are nice but generally
not necessary
shabbs Wrote:
I too have the Harmony 880 and love it. The wife was getting sick of
wading through so many remotes. She is now very happy, and so am I.
Money very well spent. Just like my SB1. :)
Cheers.
I picked a Harmony 880 up last night. But I am having trouble having
it learn my
GeeZa Wrote:
A functionally identical product line that now goes from $299 to $1999
with a gaping void in between is frankly silly.
Your opinions on audiophile concerns would naturally lead you to that
conclusion. Nevertheless, I don't think everyone feels that AES digital
outputs, the
earthbased Wrote:
I picked a Harmony 880 up last night. But I am having trouble having it
learn my Pioneer digital cable box remote (TW). I will get a good scan
for TogglePower but then subsequent button scans are always Bad
Infrared error. I emailed Logitech and am still waiting for a
GeeZa Wrote:
There is nothing in the Transporter spec that I can see significantly
improving the sound quality for most users.
That is an interesting comment. If not lower noise, lower distortion,
higher sample rates etc, what COULD the specs possibly offer that would
improve sound quality?
I am aware the SB1 has less memory
From OP
I realize the SB1 has less memory and a lesser DAC, but it's worked
fine for over a year and just now has recently shows these problems.
I am not playing uncompressed audio. I am playing 320 cbr mp3s. They
have played fine in the past and all of
shabbs Wrote:
Is the make/model not in their database?
Nope. At least not what I could identify as the model # on the box.
The box is made for Time Warner and doesn't identify itself well. Just
says Pioneer with what I think is a serial # and model # on the
bottom...
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That is an interesting comment. If not lower noise, lower distortion,
higher sample rates etc, what COULD the specs possibly offer that would
improve sound quality? Are you asserting that there is no room for
improvement in SB3? If so, I'm flattered, but respectfully
Hi everyone,
I've just purchased a SB3 and I'm very happy with it indeed.
However there is one niggle that I can't seem to fix despite scouring
the threads here for a solution.
When running Apple Lossless files wirelessly into the SB3 the first
fraction of a second is lost before the DAC
Is there a way of just writing a simple batch file using the command
line that would start a playlist in shuffle mode, etc?
I've been reading the documentation and it mentions using telnet to do
an interactive session, but I really don't need this. I just want to
pass simple command sets from
Robert_W Wrote:
In keeping with the original Transporter vs SB3 question I also would
like to know how they stack up to each other in terms of sound quality.
I suppose we'll have to wait for the independent reviews to start coming
in but I'd really like to know how the 2 devices sound side
Sorry, not getting that at all.
As an example, the font or title format settings do what you say
but the now playing information is just a drop-down list where only
one can be selected.
Pressing the now playing button on the remote still toggles through
all 12 options!
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I've heard great things about the Harmony 880. I also checked on another
forum, and there was a specific profile made for the squeezebox, so it
is supposed to work really well.
Havn't bought it myself, but it's the only universal remote that seems
to answer all my requests.
There is also a new
i don't think there's anything wrong w/someone mentioning it again, the
more it is, the more of a priority it becomes. its good for SD to see
how many people care about the issue.
since SS seems to do a scan and build its own DB, and since most people
rip individual albums into album folders,
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Just wanted to check in on this thread. Since upgrading to 6.3 this
issue has ceased to be a problemand I am a happy man.
In fact, 6.3, so far, is the most stable version I've used. So far so
good.
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I concur with the suggestion to buy a headphone amp from Headroom. I
have their Total Bithead portable amp, and connected to my SB3, it
sounds fabulous. Way better than the headphone jacks on the SB3, and
way better than even the headphone output on my Yamaha receiver.
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just as an aside, i have noticed that some software players, like wmp
and winamp, either start streaming your stuff at 320 and dial down, or
simply stick at 320... however, i think this is a display issue of the
player.
if u have lame installed correctly, i think it does stream at the right
sbjaerum Wrote:
Benchmark DAC-1 sounds pretty decent with Sennheiser HD650. I am not
alone in thinking that.
Anyway, budget is not limitless.
If it's primarily headphone listening you care about, though, you
should be putting more money in the headphone portion of things and
fewer in the
MrSinatra Wrote:
how do i verify that the info is in the tag? thx! -mdw
LAME adds RG info to MP3s in a way hardly any program can use. See
here:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=32288st=175p=339667#entry339667
MP3Gain can using APEv2 tags.
foobar uses a different
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just as an aside, i have noticed that some software players, like wmp
and winamp, either start streaming your stuff at 320 and dial down, or
simply stick at 320... however, i think this is a display issue of the
player.
When bitrate limiting is engaged
The silence sample played intitially (and when there's no music to
play) is 320. So they player will see that initially and then see the
reduced rate once the music starts.
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ok, but the big Q is does SS read them the way LAME inserts them?
if not, is there a bugzilla request for this to be so?
some of what you are saying is above my head... i'll check out the
thread and come back.
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I'm not going blind then!
Cheers anyway, I'll live with it until it's released fully.
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I have found that even an inexpensive headphone amp ($200) from Headroom
sounds considerably better than the headphone output on my SB3. Much
lower noise floor, and better sound as well. FWIW, the Headroom amp
also sounds better than the headphone output on my high end Yamaha
receiver when
My guess is you've always had marginal bandwidth (hence mp3 plays fine
but not flac, which would be sent as pcm to a sb1) and something
recently changed to make it worse - interference from a new applicance
(yours or a neighbours), relative positioning, etc. I'd strongly
suggest running the
MrSinatra Wrote:
ok, but the big Q is does SS read them the way LAME inserts them?
if not, is there a bugzilla request for this to be so?
some of what you are saying is above my head... i'll check out the
thread and come back.
When you check the thread you'll notice the LAME experts
radish Wrote:
Something along those lines yes. I used to use Meedio (RIP) on a HTPC
and that had a great party mode which allowed you to browse (by name or
artwork) and add to the queue, and nothing else. Utterly idiot proof and
nice to look at.
It would be cool if WMP could integrate like
There's absolutely no reason that a skin couldn't be built specifically
for kiosk/jukebox mode. In fact, this has me thinking that maybe I'll
build it into Touch/Nokia770 as an option.
Basically all it would do is, if jukebox mode is selected (through
server settings), remove a bunch of the
On Jul 25, 2006, at 3:15 AM, rick's cafe wrote:
Can Slim please post more
pics of the new Transporter remote so we can all take a closer look...
Look on our press page: http://www.slimdevices.com/au_press.html
The graphics have changed since those pictures were taken, but it's
essentially
Any word from Infrant?
Thanks,
David
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Very cool idea. Should you still be able to change the order of the
songs in the queue (move up/move down)?
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MDR-EX71SL'
maybe i'm a dummy, but i don't see any pics on this page:
http://www.slimdevices.com/au_press.html
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scroll down. there are lots.
-k
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stinkingpig Wrote:
That makes two positions in the code I have to change on every new
Slimserver release. The other one being the SQLite pragmas for using
RAM instead of temp files.
Seems like that's a UI option in 6.3, are you sure you need to do this?
See
Server Settings
Infrant tells me that if you've got the RAIDiator 3 beta installed, the
log file is in the .zip file that's created when you do Download All
Logs from the the Logs tab.
If you don't have RAIDiator 3, is there any relevant message on the
Status - Logs page about Slimserver crashing?
It's a
huh...
now there are, but at first it took me here:
http://www.slimdevices.com/au_press_transporter.html
not sure what happened, but cool.
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Ah it's under Shares - Services. There's a Remove button next to
Slimserver.
Then reinstall it the same way you installed it originally (probably
System - Update).
And let me know if you've tried this before.
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i wonder what music out there actually takes advantage of a $2k piece of
transporting hardware?
i wonder if anyone would bother to take a double blind test b4 forking
over that kind of dough?
i've been dating my other squeezebox for 5 years, and i'm still
blindly testing the waters.
i listen
I must be the only one who finds the current SB remote to be fine. It does what it needs to do in order for me to enjoy the SB. Sure, if they made a souped up remote I might be interested, but I have no complaints with the existing one.
On 7/26/06, MrSinatra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:i wonder what
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I must be the only one who finds the current SB remote to be fine. It
does
what it needs to do in order for me to enjoy the SB. Sure, if they
made a
souped up remote I might be interested, but I have no complaints with
the
existing one.
No, you're not the only one.
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The first year I had the box, I only ever used the remote to flash the
Prom. I kinda forgot it was there. I only ever used the web interface.
Now that I think about it, between my SB2 and my SB3, I only use one
remote. I used the first remote to program the universal and
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I bought one white SB3.
About 6 months later I noticed, on the picture on the web site, that
the white SB3 comes with a white remote. Sure enough, I looked in the
box, there it was unused. I'd never noticed it was white. Never took it
out of the box.
Saved on batteries, I guess.
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I can certainly try some server/network health tests. Tech support also
recommended a factory reset, can't hurt.
interference from a new applicance (yours or a neighbours), relative
positioning
Would this apply with my wired SB1 install, or are you perhaps
thinking I am running wireless?
I think the current remote is fine. I know it so well I use it in total
darkness with no problems. It's an extension of my hand, actually.
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So, it's almost the same layout, but longer, thicker and backlit.
Except for that last part, I get similar offers in my spam folder all
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Hi,
I'm running Slimserver 6.3.0.
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Mark Lanctot Wrote:
Except for that last part, I get similar offers in my spam folder all
the time.
Me too... the question is, -HOW DO THEY KNOW?-
It's not like my email is @microsoft.com, for crying out loud.
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