Patrick Dixon;343618 Wrote:
I think you make some very valid points - what about a 'FAQ when your SC
upgrade fails page' linked from the download page? It could include all
the removing cache and database file stuff, as well as reseting SBs and
TPs.
It shouldn't be limited to just upgrade
My playlist saves correctly in my computers folder when a create it. But
it disappear from my handcontrol next time i rescan music library. The
paylist is still on my computer.?
windows vista, duet
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Sounds like a bitrate miss-match of some kind. Does it always happen
with some songs? Or does it happen randomly on all songs?
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SuperQ;343911 Wrote:
Sounds like a bitrate miss-match of some kind. Does it always happen
with some songs? Or does it happen randomly on all songs?
I noticed today that in Pandora, I was trying to play a song, and it
would not play it... I tried several times, and finally, it played an
RB
After I upgraded to SC 7.2, I can't listen reliable to my favorite radio
station anymore. The problem is in parsing the ASX file:
Code:
$ curl http://www.omroep.nl/radio2/live64.asx
ASX version = 3.0
TitleRadio 2/Title
entry
titleRadio 2/title
abstractRadio
Sharing files between Vista and XP should be completely transparent.
While Vista is certainly different from XP many of the horror stories
were I think related to pre Vista SP1 releases and hardware
incompatibility issues. If you buy a new machine with Vista SP1 on it
then these should not be a
Someone had exactly the same problem yesterday. It turned out that the
.m3u file type was disabled on his setup.
Go to Settings/Advanced/File Types and check that you don't have
anything in the Disabled Playlist Extensions box. If you do, clear
the entry, save and do a playlist only rescan.
If
SomeChap;343778 Wrote:
What gives here? Why is Squeezebox so utterly hidden from UK buyers?
Please excuse my rant, it may sound negative, but I'm trying to give
realistic feedback on the frustration of trying to purchase one of
these devices.
Squeezeboxen and the Transporter have been in
Great stuff, I just remote desktopped into it from work and it seems to
have found all my tracks.
Through the SC web interface I clicked on the MusicIP Mix icon to the
right of a track and it created a mix (though I can't confirm it
actually plays until I get home). Does it work the same on the
I posted this a little while back with a longer explaination of what I
thought all the various options meant:
MusicIP Player Settings for Each Mix - Yes [see explanation about
Filters below]
MusicIP Mix Size - Tracks = 50 [I tend to run through the playlist and
delete the ones I'm not happy
erland;343904 Wrote:
It shouldn't be limited to just upgrade issues, some kind of
troubleshooting guide which you can follow step by step instead of
posting things like this thread in the forum would be good. Besides
upgrade problems a lot of people have problem with their initial
I should have mentioned before that these files were all encoded to AAC
128k using the Apple encoder. So they are half the size of the MP3
files.
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The AAC files will be decoded on the server and then, if using defasult
settings, sent as Flac to SB - so you need bandwidth of about 1500kbps
between server and player.
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bpa;343955 Wrote:
The AAC files will be decoded on the server and then, if using defasult
settings, sent as Flac to SB - so you need bandwidth of about 1500kbps
between server and player.
bpa, please could you confirm same bandwith is needed when using the
following custom-convert.conf
Glad to hear that you made some progress. Tagging is am art. You might
first check out the wiki as there's lots of information there:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Beginners_Guide_To_Tagging I have
followed those guidelines using MP3Tag with great results. I think the
one thing that made
In this photo:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mikefiegerlogitech/LogitechSMSBBQ20080911#5246435049171085938
I believe that's Dean on the left, Sean 3rd. I have a suspicion the
second person is Caleb (holding Boom). Right?
Nice to put names to faces.
Also there seem to be cool understated black
I might go and see if they have made it to the Aberdeen store. Would
really like to see a transporter in the flesh :)
It's the only type of SlimDevice I don't have!
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I believe that's Dean on the left, Sean 3rd. I have a suspicion the
second person is Caleb (holding Boom). Right?
Correct for Caleb and Sean. Dean had to leave early. Left is Tim Westergren
(Pandora founder).
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Mark Lanctot;343972 Wrote:
Also there seem to be cool understated black shirts here and there with
squeezebox boom and squeezebox duet on the back.
Wait - there are shirts?!? I need something to go with my old skool
Slim Devices polo shirts :)
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I have a desktop tower running XP Home in a cupboard upstairs with all
my music and photographs on it. It is plugged into a BT Home Hub and I
have no problems with the SB talking to it wirelessly. I even have the
Wake-On-Lan working so it is off untill I switch the SB on then goes
back into
radish;343981 Wrote:
Wait - there are shirts?!? I need something to go with my old skool
Slim Devices polo shirts :)
squeezebox boom shirt on the left here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mikefiegerlogitech/LogitechSMSBBQ20080911?pli=1#5246435005153531074
squeezebox duet shirt on the left
I have had a duet for about 3 months now, and recently added a SB3 into
the mix. My Linksys A/G wireless router needed a factory reset, and
I've had nothing but problems with the sb3 since then.
Little overview of my setup: I have a wireless usb adapter at the
computer, the wireless router at
Hi
I have been a happy Squeezebox Classic (SB3) owner for a couple of
years now. Unfortunately it was dropped on the floor, resulting in a
ruptured VFD display = useless SB.
Logitech Europe had no way of repairing it so they offered me a
discount on a new SB. I opted for the SB duet.
Having
SomeChap;343778 Wrote:
Squeezebox is certainly available online in plenty of online places in
the UK, including Dabs, Amazon, Ripcaster etc. However I'm sorry to
report that a year on from this discussion the high street situation is
no better - if anything it's got worse.
Same as my
I made an earlier post to this thread regarding setting up a dedicated
Wireless B network for the Duet alone. Last night after playing MP3's
for a couple of hours the controller (off the charger) reported that
the players signal strength was 80. Two hours later the controller
(now on the
radish;343981 Wrote:
Wait - there are shirts?!? I need something to go with my old skool
Slim Devices polo shirts :)
Speaking of the shirts, were they promotional items? I don't see any
Logo Clothing for sell on the Slim Devices website.
So the next question is, how do we get our hands on
Mark Lanctot;343984 Wrote:
squeezebox boom shirt on the left here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mikefiegerlogitech/LogitechSMSBBQ20080911?pli=1#5246435005153531074
squeezebox duet shirt on the left here:
The newest software in my Duet controller seems to have a bug when
describing players. It used to say Transporter and something else for
the SB3, but now it just says function 0x11d28 or somesuch. Is this a
bug?
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iPhone;344005 Wrote:
My question is about the guy holding the gray object in the Duet shirt
picture. What is that guy behind the table holding? Anybody?
Well spotted! There's also another shot of this mysterious bulgy
silver object here:
iPhone;344005 Wrote:
My question is about the guy holding the gray object in the Duet shirt
picture. What is that guy behind the table holding? Anybody?
A guess: some sort of credit card handling machine for those buying
items at the BBQ?
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Hi and thanks for your answer
- I only need one SB for now.
- I'm not prepaired to move my Wifi router, but perhaps get another as
extender.
- Some of the time I use the remote in good WiFi conditions, but the
other annoyances are still there.
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no just one account
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I can say for the battery problem- put your controller back in the
cradle nightly. That will solve your issue there.
Turn down your power settings- it will drain your battery faster, but
will get rid of that annoying reconnection every time you use the
controller.
My controller picks up my
How is your SqueezeCenter server connected to your network?
Wirelessly?
If so there are two wireless hops and you will be prone to wireless
problems.
Also see here:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/NetworkProblemsSecondGuide
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Make it so it doesn't suck is a good design
Yea, I just keep my controller in the cradle when I'm not using it.. It
adds the added bonus of not going to sleep, and is protected from my
cats curious paws.
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I'm surprised that Logi/SD don't try to enable the use WDS on their
devices.
Implementation is admittedly a non-trivial thing, especially given the
problems with cross-vendor compatibility but it would solve an awful
lot of these WiFi related problems.
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Hello,
I have exactly the same problem! But I had it also on previous
SlimServer releases. I might be wrong, but I think it started with
7.0.1
Cheers
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kdf;343871 Wrote:
On 24-Sep-08, at 4:44 PM, flacfan wrote:
bump.
Would one of the developers say whether this is something that might
be
implemented in the near future?
see bugs.slimdevices.com and search for artwork.
You'll find at least a few different requests for
You could just go wired for the receiver. I just bought ethernet
powerline adapters (plug the router in to one and plug the receiver
into the other - ethernet connection, but through your electrical
outlets!), and it's so nice not to have to worry about wireless signal
strength anymore! Granted
Sweet, cheers for that Sidhue, I'll start with those setting values and
work it from there.looking forward to finally getting the benefits
of setting this up.
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Mark Lanctot;344010 Wrote:
Well spotted! There's also another shot of this mysterious bulgy silver
object here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mikefiegerlogitech/LogitechSMSBBQ20080911?pli=1#5246435018794332930
Doesn't look like anything in the Logitech SMS line. There seems to be
a
http://images.google.com/images?hl=enq=kerbangobtnG=Search+Imagesgbv=2
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Oh wow, it was a Kerbango.
I'm pretty sure he had modded it into a Squeezebox tho. I was running
around and didn't get a close look at it, but I thought that's what he
had done from my quick passing view.
Mike
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Do you mean 333 for f?
Wouldn't 222 have been c?
Just trying to get clarification before I ask an engineer on this...
I've never actually browsed Shoutcast genres this way.
Mike
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iPhone;344003 Wrote:
Speaking of the shirts, were they promotional items? I don't see any
Logo Clothing for sell on the Slim Devices website.
So the next question is, how do we get our hands on Logo Shirts?
I'm rather hoping that one will turn up in the post by magic at some
point. :-)
What country are you in?
Mike
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You might try rebooting your computer running SqueezeCenter, and
rebooting your Squeezebox Controller by taking out the battery and
plugging it back in.
Mike
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You guys are good. It was a Kerbango.
A guy who had worked on the Kerbango for 3Com showed up. I was behind
one of the tables when he approached me and pulled it out of a bag. I
didn't recognize it at first, but I had that aha! moment when he
mentioned the name.
His point was that Slim
MY SETUP:
router:
NETGEAR WGT624
Hardware version = V3
Firmware version = V4.2.4_1.0.1
Wireless encryption = WEP 10 digits
I Use DHCP with IP address reservation for each device
Standard Wireless setup: Everything connected Wireless
My SqueezeCenter
7.2 - 22900 @ Tue Aug 26 11:27:23 PDT 2008
I'm not sure if it has worked in 7.2 since I don't use it very often but
the search function on the controller produces strange output;
- black regular small type characters instead of white bold
- inconsistent indents
Controller firmware version: 7.2r2873
SC version: SqueezeCenter Version: 7.2
Chrobrego, unfortunately I do not have that router here to try to
reproduce. However I do have a question about the router firmware, are
you sure about that version?
http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/WGT624v3.asp
Sailnut, thanks for the details but I'm not sure the inconsistent
wireless
I have a Transporter, SB3, Receiver, Boom and two Controllers.
Although I have no real problems with the controllers I find
remote/SB3/Transporter set up quicker to use and more reliable. I like
being able to just look up from wherever I am in a room to see the SB3
display. I like the
weinstro;343774 Wrote:
When this happens, iTunes appears to update the ITL and XML files on the
local harddrive, and not on the NAS drive
When you lose connection with the wifi network, exit iTunes. Then start
iTunes when your network works !
If this happens often, then either :
- your
Hi
I have a problem with the album ...Something to Be by Rob Thomas.
SqueezeCenter doesn't seem to properly index the album and since I'm
running SC on a Synology NAS I suspect it has something to do with the
beginning dot actually hiding the directory from SqueezeCenter.
Does anyone have any
Hi
I'm a regular user of the play random album feature and tried adding
this option to the favorites. It seems to work as the menu-item appears
under favorites - with an integer input-argument probably specifying
amount of loaded tracks in the now playing list.
BUT when I choose the option from
Perhaps by renaming the directory ? (without renaming the album)
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It would probably work but what annoys me is that it used to work - I
remember playing Rob Thomas on earlier occations and now it doesn't
work anymore - something must have changed... and maybe I can unchange
it and get SC to index properly without renaming to wrong names...
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I am in the UK
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Ross L;344089 Wrote:
Chrobrego, unfortunately I do not have that router here to try to
reproduce. However I do have a question about the router firmware, are
you sure about that version?
http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/WGT624v3.asp
Well I checked the router itself, it is in fact
Mark Lanctot;344032 Wrote:
How is your SqueezeCenter server connected to your network?
Wirelessly?
If so there are two wireless hops and you will be prone to wireless
problems.
Also see here:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/NetworkProblemsSecondGuide
Yes, there are two hops,
I have a problem with the album ...Something to Be by Rob Thomas.
Folders/files with a leading dot are hidden items on Linux systems.
They're ignored by SC. As mentioned before, rename the folder and you
should be fine.
Michael
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Hello, of course (at least in my case!) pressing three times 2 gives
now 222, while in the past it used to result in c
Greetings
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Hi there,
Please could you tell me if the Squeezebox can handle big libraries
(like 150G+ )?
Thanks!
Dplx
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Chrobrego;344122 Wrote:
Well I checked the router itself, it is in fact written WGT624 V2 not
V3, I wonder why the Web interface indicates Hardware version = V3 in
that case.
You may want to have a word with Netgear about that. Would you be
willing to update the firmware of your router and
I have personally more less 400gb in flac and that's running correctly
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snarlydwarf;344132 Wrote:
The ability of the Squeezebox to handle large libraries depends on your
PC.
150G is probably around 20,000 tracks or so? SC shouldn't flinch at
that on any even semi-modern machine.
That is a bit less than what I have, and it's far less than what many
here
thanks for answer
first row in the debug, why cant it create new preferences dir ?
[08-09-25 21:45:18.0095] Slim::Utils::Prefs::__ANON__ (269) Error:
can't create new preferences directory at C:\DOCUME~1\ãÂÂçµ
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OK, my bitrate might be a bit low thus, when streaming it's kinda choppy
when I start playing flac files from the remote. But as soon as I just
play one song from the computer where I have SC running, and then go
back to the remote and play another song I have no problem any more.
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my specs are below. fw = 1.20 for the router.
i think there is more than one issue involved here, and the conflation
of factors makes figuring this out very tricky. its not just the dhcp
for the SBC, my sbc has its dhcp IP reserved, (my sb2 uses a static
private ip).
i think a lot of it is
Do you have a playlist folder set in SC?
Do you run XP as English language or some other language?
Are you running an antivirus or firewall?
I haven't seen that Prefs:_ANON___ bit before - it may be
peculiar to WHS but I suspect the developers may need to comment.
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snarlydwarf;344132 Wrote:
The ability of the Squeezebox to handle large libraries depends on your
PC.
150G is probably around 20,000 tracks or so? SC shouldn't flinch at
that on any even semi-modern machine.
Hi Snarlydwarf,
Could you elaborate a little bit on the specs of semi-modern
Anyone know what could be causing this? I'm very happy with Chrome for
majority of my browsing, but it's a pain that it doesn't work with
Squeezecenter when password protection is enabled.
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Any format which is not native (i.e. not Flac, MP3, WMA, Wav) has to be
transcoded into one of the native format of WAV, Flac or MP3.
If transcoding is into Flac, then no matter what the encoding rate
(e.g. 32kbps, 320kbps) of the source - the Flac stream from server to
player will always
mvalera;308201 Wrote:
We're not interested in an integrated amp. The $350+ saved when buying a
Duet over the least expensive Sonos one room solution (zp80 plus cr100)
buys you a _much_ better amp than the one in the even more expensive
ZP100. It also allows you to choose the one you want,
tipsen;344112 Wrote:
It would probably work but what annoys me is that it used to work - I
remember playing Rob Thomas on earlier occations and now it doesn't
work anymore - something must have changed... and maybe I can unchange
it and get SC to index properly without renaming to wrong
Hi
I have ordered two sets of IR emitters. I don't know which side of a
soldering bolt is the hot side so decided to pay someone for these.
Anyway they will be useful in the normal usage scenario (e.g. turning
amp on etc).
What would be very useful for me is if they can act as repeaters
Looks like the Computer History Museum here in Mountain View is looking
for a Kerbango.
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/donateArtifact/wishlist.php
Unfortunately, they're not looking for any of the junk in my garage.
Mickey
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Mr Sinatra,
Sorry, you got me, I linked to the wrong bug. I meant to link to this
one:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8159
9425 is a receiver bug, and it's also very high on my list.
I'm mostly concerned with the official release of 7.2 which is firmware
r2873. I've managed to
volpone;344157 Wrote:
Hi Snarlydwarf,
Could you elaborate a little bit on the specs of semi-modern machine
(I'm Linux oriented).
Then your specs needed are going to be much lower than a Windows
machine. (Especially if you run headless... killing X off saves a ton
of RAM.)
My machine is a
I don't think the IR-Blaster plugin has the ability to repeat to a
different player (although it can repeat locally). Maybe drop the
author a line and suggest an enhancement?
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snarlydwarf;344187 Wrote:
Conversion is very dependent on what you do... I convert to a 64k mp3
stream to listen to music at work, but don't do any other on the fly
conversion.
You say you have SC already... so don't you know how it performs with
your collection? Or are you talking
Yes, I meant 333 for f. Thanks
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Hi all,
I'm new here and hoping you can help me out with some questions before
I potentially buy an SB Classic :)
I will only be using it to play my flac copies of my cd collection so
it is imperative that it plays the files without gaps as they would if
I played a CD as much of my music has
stephentw;344198 Wrote:
Hi all,
I'm new here and hoping you can help me out with some questions before
I potentially buy an SB Classic :)
I will only be using it to play my flac copies of my cd collection so
it is imperative that it plays the files without gaps as they would if
I
volpone wrote:
So, i'm thinking on the best hardware (small, silent, powerfull,
secure, and reliable) to use.
As Tim says on Tool Time, more power, must have more power.
Modern desktop PCs are near silent and far more powerful than needed for
any combination of SqueezeCenter. My library is
MickeyG;344180 Wrote:
Looks like the Computer History Museum here in Mountain View is looking
for a Kerbango.
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/donateArtifact/wishlist.php
Unfortunately, they're not looking for any of the junk in my garage.
Mickey
There's a Kerbango in the
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