Re: [slim] UPS recommendations for my Vortexbox Appliance
pfarrell;566448 Wrote: ... there are different types of UPS designs. The cheap ones switch quickly, the better ones are called line interactive and always charge the battery and always run off the battery (not the mains). Its rather easily to know which UPS is which. To have line interactive and 'clean' power, then UPS costs $500, $1000, or more. Most all UPSes are switches. Since a UPS is intended for electronics, that 'cheapest solution' is more than sufficient. Anything a UPS might do is already done better inside electronic appliances. And 'protection' provided by a line interactive UPS is already inside every electronic power supply. If that UPS AC to DC to AC conversion supplies protection, then the AC to DC to AC to DC again protection inside every electronics appliance is superior. The UPS does not have 1000 volts galvanic isolation. Computers do. Intel requirements demand that computer supplies be superior to other electronics appliances. All electronics already contains significant protection. Therefore additional protection is only for direct lightning strikes. Surges that typically occur once every seven years. Any protection a UPS might do is already inside the computer. Why is a UPS output (in battery backup mode) so 'dirty'? Why does a typical 120 volts UPS output 200 volt square waves with spikes up to 270 volts between those square waves? Because all electronics - especially computers - are so robust. Makes 'dirty' UPS electricity irrelevant. Most all UPSes connect the appliance directly to AC mains when not in battery backup mode. They will do most anything to keep you confused. Many foolishly believe its AC power is generated from DC. Nonsense. Put a scope on the UPS output. When is its output cleanest? When the relay connects the appliance directly to AC mains. Anything a manufacturer can do to subvert knowledge gets the naive to claim a UPS 'cleans' electricity. Any urban myth that increases sales is a good thing. A Linux box (properly assembled) should recover harmlessly from unexpected power loss. -- westom westom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39650 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80889 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android
I got one of these for $107 (even less in ) from DealExtreme and purchased Squeeze Commander from SlideME. Android Market doesn't seem to work, or something. The pad is quite a slow device, but after disabling animations and background artwork in Squeeze Commander, it actually works very well. Thumbs up! - Skinny -- Skinny This sentence says less than a list of audio equipment. Skinny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21538 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69352 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What should be in the next version of SqueezePad ?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 Question: Whats your highest priority ? - More images of your music collection - Playlist management - Syncing Players Variation A - Syncing Players Variation B - MySqueezebox.com Integration - TrackStat Ratings - Caching of Album + Artist Lists - Album Art Only Screen - Better Search - Something else - Please do the poll with different options ! nathan_h;566475 Wrote: After living with the app some more i am finding the menu structure to be a little strange. Actually it should be exactly the menu structure you would see on the logitech device. So if you use a Radio, Controller or Touch they'd present the menus in the exact same (dis-?)order. The Extras menu is special I think. Its disabled per default on the devices - but its where most of the third party stuff puts its sub-menu under. I'll keep a note to hide it if it has no items. Also if you search for the 'Apps' thingies you will find a lot of threads here on the forum. Apps is what is provided by Logitech - so Album-Review cannot appear there (but somewhere else - whatever the author chose). Using the original menus has a lots of advantages and disadvantages: (-) if users don't like the logitech way, they won't like the SqueezPad way (+) users don't get confused by the menus when switching between SqueezePad/Controller/Touch/Radio/Boom/Classic (+) I automatically have all features available on all devices. If I started something on my own a lot of stuff would be missing (like Spotify, Pandora, Napster, Rhapsody, Third Party plugins) - as I even don't know all this stuff users are using. For the 7.6. beta version logitech decided to make it possible to reorder menus. I'll probably need to implement this feature as well. -- bluegaspode Big Screen for great Boxes available now at your AppStore: *'Squeezebox + iPad = SqueezePad ' (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/squeezepad/id380003002) *! Want to see a Weather Forecast on your Radio/Touch/Controller ? = why not try my 'Weather Forecast Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73827) Want to use the Headphones with your Controller ? = why not try my 'Headphone Switcher Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67139) Setup: 1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet), 1xSB-Boom. 1xSB-Radio Server (7.5.1) running on SheevaPlug (Ubuntu) with attached Western Digital MyBook Essential. bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Is Receiver wifi reception poorer than other SB devices?
I have a Receiver in one of our bedrooms and have had constant rebuffering problems lately. It's always been problematic but much worse recently. The signal strength frequently drop to 10% (tried changing wifi channels etc. but no help).If I position either a SB Classic or Radio in the same spot I have no such problems (signal 60% at all times). Is reception by the Receiver poorer than other devices of do I have a duff unit? MS -- MadScientist MadScientist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80915 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What should be in the next version of SqueezePad ?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 Question: Whats your highest priority ? - More images of your music collection - Playlist management - Syncing Players Variation A - Syncing Players Variation B - MySqueezebox.com Integration - TrackStat Ratings - Caching of Album + Artist Lists - Album Art Only Screen - Better Search - Something else - Please do the poll with different options ! Yes after a little more exploring i guess Squeezepad is using the same menus as my other devices --- which i think it the right thing to do. I just need to fix my menu settings better, get rid of some stuff i dont use etc. The Extras menu should actually have some items for me because it does on the web interface but doesnt in Squeezepad. Although i like ipeng i am glad you chose the other route (sticking with the logitech way) because it will scale better with new apps and plugins i think. Right now Im still gettin used to how it handles plugins. -- nathan_h nathan_h's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is Receiver wifi reception poorer than other SB devices?
I've also experienced the same issue with my receiver. That's one of the reasons why I don't use it anymore. -- didjean Slim SB3 + Cambridge Audio 640R + Cambridge Audio DAC Magic + Q Acoustics 1050i ** SB Touch + Yamaha DSP A595 + Morel Applause MKII ** Duet (just the controller is still being used) ** SB Boom ** SB Radio (Red) ** Logitech Harmony 900 ** Windows XP SP2 / Squeezebox Server 7.5.1 on ASRock ION 330 didjean's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80915 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android
Skinny;566481 Wrote: I got one of these for $107 (even less in ) from DealExtreme and purchased Squeeze Commander from SlideME. Android Market doesn't seem to work, or something. The pad is quite a slow device, but after disabling animations and background artwork in Squeeze Commander, it actually works very well. Thanks for the report! Maybe I should also disable the MainMenu / BrowseList layout animation (the entries are filled in one by one from the top) if Animations are disabled, this will probably make it more convenient on slow devices... -- flattermann Christian Home of 'SqueezeCommander' (http://www.squeezecommander.com) - The SqueezeBox Remote Control App for Android flattermann's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69352 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is Receiver wifi reception poorer than other SB devices?
Some people find that because of the position of the internal antenna it helps to stand the SBR on its side. Personally, the SBR that I have connected via wifi reports about the same signal strength as other SBs, and it doesn't have problems keeeping the buffer full, etc. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80915 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What should be in the next version of SqueezePad ?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 Question: Whats your highest priority ? - More images of your music collection - Playlist management - Syncing Players Variation A - Syncing Players Variation B - MySqueezebox.com Integration - TrackStat Ratings - Caching of Album + Artist Lists - Album Art Only Screen - Better Search - Something else - Please do the poll with different options ! bluegaspode;566483 Wrote: iPeng choose a different route - pippin made his own top-level menu for albums + artist - and somewhere else you can find the squeezeplay menus as well. iPeng uses the Squeezeplay menu as well but adds additional items on the top level because you can only put top-level items onto the Tab Bar. Apart from that I pretty much leave the SP menu structure as it is with the notable exception of trying to group player settings menu under player settings to be able to create a player settings context menu instead of having them distributed across the whole menu structure as SqueezePlay does. I believe the SP philosophy is that the whole SP menu structure is player specific so a player settings menu doesn't make sense which is a philosophy I don't agree to. How about agreeing on a way to customize the home menu structure through the server and have a plugin for that? The motivation for me would be to have then same menu structure for all players and all client devices which I think is otherwise a pain in the ass to design. We would need somebody to write the plugin, though, I'm not gonna touch Perl -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Album Art Screensaver - now playing?
Hi everyone - A little while back I installed the screensaver that was announced a few years back by cr-mattias here - http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35267 It works great, but There was originally integration with slimserver to feature 'now playing' details, but that doesn't seem to work on my setup. I get the screen display of changing album art (which is great), but nothing about what is currently playing. I guess this may be because the author hasn't been able to keep the screensaver up to date. The screensaver is available from here http://www.crayonroom.com/screensaver.php, with a forum also available from that page. But posts are moderated before display, and the moderator doesn't seem to be at home :-( Has anyone been able to use the 'now playing' feature on current squeezebox server and windows PCs? If so, do you have any tips that I could try? My set up uses Squeezebox Duet, SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, Windows Vista with Server HTTP Port Number: 9000 and Command Line Interface port number 9090 -- Viragored Squeezebox Duet (Sept. 2009) digital into Yamaha RX-V2700 and Jamo speakers; analogue into Speakercraft MZC-66 for whole house system. Viragored's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32954 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What should be in the next version of SqueezePad ?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 Question: Whats your highest priority ? - More images of your music collection - Playlist management - Syncing Players Variation A - Syncing Players Variation B - MySqueezebox.com Integration - TrackStat Ratings - Caching of Album + Artist Lists - Album Art Only Screen - Better Search - Something else - Please do the poll with different options ! As Ben is currently writing something on the SqueezePlay Client Side in the end I will need a solution too. Be it clientside or serverside. Most important: easy to configure but still versatile enough to make 80% of users satisfied :D - lets wait what a bit how the discussion from erland goes on. -- bluegaspode Big Screen for great Boxes available now at your AppStore: *'Squeezebox + iPad = SqueezePad ' (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/squeezepad/id380003002) *! Want to see a Weather Forecast on your Radio/Touch/Controller ? = why not try my 'Weather Forecast Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73827) Want to use the Headphones with your Controller ? = why not try my 'Headphone Switcher Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67139) Setup: 1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet), 1xSB-Boom. 1xSB-Radio Server (7.5.1) running on SheevaPlug (Ubuntu) with attached Western Digital MyBook Essential. bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] New official Logitech Squeezebox support forums
We are pleased to announce the creation of new official Squeezebox boards: http://forums.logitech.com We do not have any plans to close down the forums.slimdevices.com platform and we welcome your participation in the official Logitech Squeezebox forums. http://forums.slimdevices.com is intended to be a peer to peer community platform, there's no official support by Logitech stuff (though some of us keep participating as always). On http://forums.logitech.com a number of Logitech's support and product specialist do regularly participate in conversations, and it is a great environment for beginner questions or support oriented questions. -- mherger mherger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=50 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80919 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Problem searching in forum
When I try searching for custom browse problem, I get an empty page The problem was php running out of memory on searches with lots of results. I increased the max memory to be used. This should hopefully improve the search behaviour. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB html5 audio elements
Thanks for your response. The missing functionallity for SB is that you aren't able to search/browse through internetsites like youtube on your squeezebox to listen the music. I am wondering if it will be possible when using the new html5 elements (instead of the flv format) to parse the music directly on the SB. -- bock87 bock87's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39630 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80885 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB html5 audio elements
I think I see the point - but I'm not sure how big of a difference it makes as of today. Squeezebox'es, and in particular the server, uses dedicated API's for accessing services such as Last.fm, Rhapsody, Pandora, etc. And the issues of A/V sync would still be there. -- bhaagensen bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80885 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!
erland;566383 Wrote: However, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be the only one interested in this kind of functionality. No you're not alone in this :-) erland;566383 Wrote: 1. How do you find music in your own library ? All my browsing/searching of the SBS library is done through iPeng usually by artist or by album. I don't use the web interface at all except to track down tagging issues and I rarely use the SB3 remote. I also use Trackstat, Dynamic playlist, MusicIP and Spicefly plugins to delvelop 'on the fly' playlists when I don't have anything particular in mind and imported playlists for manually produced efforts. erland;566383 Wrote: 2. How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently don't have in your library ? For sometime I have been using a combination of Spotify, Last.fm and Groveshark. This started from the fact that I have only recently (this year) joined the ranks of SB users and have a much larger vinyl LP (4500 records) collection than a digital collection (700 CDs). I therefore wanted to hear lots of the stuff that I have on vinyl (hence the use of Spotify free) and I started using the biography and related artist festures to listen to music I don't currently own. I have subsequently broadened my searches by also using Last.fm. I now use these two products plus Groveshark to preview music I might want to buy. I recently discovered the Biography plugin for SBS and have started to use that to track down related artists but still tend to go back to the computer to preview any new music found rather than trying to do it through the DSBridge/Spotify setup I also use via the iPod Touch. I would tend to use the computer rather than my hi-fi due to the low quality of most (free) streamed services. I have no desire to use subscription based services at present as I wish to have bit perfect recordings held digitally and played back through my hi-fi. As with everyone friends also play a large role in introducing me to new music. The biggest difference today is that I can then perform more discovery on a new band/performer recommended to me by a friend using the tools identified above. I'm not a fan of community sites like Twitter and Facebook but this is probably due to my age (50)! erland;566383 Wrote: 3. How would you like to be able to find music in your own library in the future ? As a long time vinyl collector I find myself both liberated and strangled by the digital era. By this I mean that the speed with which I can now play music and the ability to produce static and dynamic playlists is awesome, but it could be improved and it tends to make one lazy and stop searching and playing individual albums. As I've stated I use MusicIP and Spicefly on SBS and get great value out of both. I've also started using Moodagent on the iPod and am beginning to think that this has a very bright future. I would like to see these types of feature more heavily integrated into the base feature set of SBS. However, they still don't go far enough IMO in that sometimes I want a feature similar to the Last.fm artist radio feature to randomly play artist related music from my own collection. The combination of these features would give me all I need to produce all the random playlists I could ever want. I feel particularly strangled in the area of searching music, although I find this much harder to describe properly. My vinyl collection is held on purpose built selves where each shelf holds about 600 LPs. The LPs are not ordered alphabetically or by genre, but are grouped by artist/ composer and very loosely by classical, blues, rock. The point is that I can find any individual album very quickly because I know where they are on the shelves I think through some sort of pattern recognition. Accepting that I can always search for a known album alphabetically I would like to be able to search via album art and find that the current mechanisms are all lacking in some way. The coverflow (ala itunes) mechanism doesn't do anything with a big collection because it's just an alphabetical listing. I would like something that gives me an overview of the entire collection, ordered as I want it (and its not related to current tag info), and then allows me to drill down to see more detail. I know this is vague but I want to graphically recreate and use my LP shelving system as a search mechanism. erland;566383 Wrote: 4. How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the future ? Having recently discovered the Biography plugin I really want to be able to perform the functions that I currently do through Spotify, Last.fm and Groveshark on my computer without ever leaving the iPeng/SBS wrapper and my hi-fi from my armchair. erland;566383 Wrote: 5. What kind of tagging/management do you do on new music you add to your library to make it easier to find stuff later on ? I think that my tagging is fairly standard in that I rip through EAC to flac, tag via
Re: [slim] Moderator Wiki
There's a 'new problem with the wiki' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80868)... -- Soulkeeper Soulkeeper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35297 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74373 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Moderator Wiki
There's a 'new problem with the wiki' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80868)... We're investigating, thanks. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Need help with streaming/radio/recommendation suggestions.
I'll try to make a long story short: Used to live in the US and loved having all the preset Internet Radio stations as well as Last.FM access via my SB3. Now I live in Ireland, and Last.FM doesn't have a license for the SB3 here, nor do any of the preset internet radio stations work. What are my options for discovering and listening to new music via SB3 now that I live in Ireland? I've thought about starting up a Spotify account, as apparently there's a loophole for signing up (via a proxy)... But I'd love to hear advice on how I might get other net radio stations working, or anything else like Last.FM radio, etc. Thanks. -- Symbiotic Symbiotic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13490 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80923 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!
In another thread Erland wrote this and suggested that it should be possible to look up on Spotify and similar services artists/albums not in the local library through a context menu. erland;564817 Wrote: I just realized something that would be really great. There are a few plugins available that provides things like similar artists through the context menus of an artist. For example, the Spotify and Biography and Song Info plugins have functionality like this. [Snip] Scenario 2: 1. I'm listening to an artist in my library 2. I pull up the Biography plugin and lists some followers to this artist 3. I would now like to find and play some music on one of these followers, to do this I would at this stage want to launch the On Spotify menu for the selected follower. This is not possible today since there aren't any context menus for items that doesn't exist in the SBS database. I too use the similar artists function a lot to find new artists and to get ideas on what to play next. Erland's suggestion would make a great improvement. I would also like to be able to use such a context menu on a follower/similar artist in the Biography plugin to look up that artist in my own library. I also often use the song info context menu to look up guest artists and composers and play more tracks by them. With this approach I often wish it would be easier to expand an album, i.e. see, or play, all tracks in an album, not just the tracks where the artist/composer appear. Otherwise I mainly use the artist list to find music. I would use the search function more often if it was faster in large libraries. Now, I basically only use it to find songs I cannot otherwise find. I use the standard tags recognised by SBS and add cover art and information on original release year and style, mood, theme and album rating tags according to the system used by AMG. I also use the genres used by AMG and add Christmas, Compilation, Live, Soundtrack, Bootleg, Bonus Track, EP and Single tags. I have tried to import and use the style, mood and theme tags but I am experiencing such performance issues with a large library that I cannot do that currently. Importing and merging tags for original release year works so I use that and also import album ratings. I personally would not use a function to download music via SBS and automatically adding it to SBS, because I want to check and supplement the tagging before committing anything to SBS. I mostly play full albums. Sometimes I use CustomSkip to play only the original album and get rid of all bonus tracks with crappy demos, discarded takes etc. added to reissue albums. For the occasional random playing I would love to be able to use the style, mood and theme tags. Today I have only one dynamic playlist to play songs originally released in a particular year. Otherwise I use the standard random song mix with CustomSkip adequately configured. Before I sometimes used MusicIP, but as the library grew I experienced such performance issues that I stopped using MusicIP. Nowadays I use almost exclusively iPeng to control SBS. I loved muso and the way it sorted artists/albums and displayed automatically information on biographies, reviews and similar artists (from LastFM and Amazon), but development unfortunately seems to have stopped. I do not do manual or automatic rating of songs. I use only the album rating as reported by AMG. The folder structure is not per se important to me, but I find that SBS and other software works better if the structure is consistent (one folder per album). I do not embed cover art in flac files but use folder.jpg so the folder structure for those files becomes important. -- vagskal 2 x SB3 (wired), Receiver (wireless), Boom (wireless), Controller, iPeng on iPod Touch, muso on remote computer running Win 7 | 7.5.2 on Win XP vagskal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20778 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Need help with streaming/radio/recommendation suggestions.
There are a number of US based stations (e.g.iheart users) and some UK one which are restricted but most free internet stations work OK in Ireland. I think Last.fm may still be used if you use the 3rd party plugin with a local SBS server and not the Logitech supplied service. Which preset stations do not work for you ? Have you changed your location in MySqueezebox account ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80923 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android
Still enjoying the app on my Nexus One. Very happy to hear that Global Search capability is in the pipeline. A few observations with the latest version; - I find it near impossible to change the master volume control that appears at the bottom of the album art and other screens. I can pause/fwd/rev the music selection, but for some reason, I can't change the volume. - On the screen that display my 4 players, I have a really hard time selecting/changing the volume of a specific player (doesn't matter if it's master or slave). I have to use the tip of my pinky finger, and even then, it takes several attempts. If someone asks me to change the volume, it's ~2 minute task :( - On the playlist screen, when I scroll right (to hopefully move back to the album art or players screen), it always seems to add the currently swiped song to the playlist. It takes several attempts to get to the desired screen, so I'll often go back to the Home screen and reselect the app. Maybe it's just a case of fat finger Larry on my part, but I really don't have big hands ;) -- apn 1x Duet 3x BOOM SBS on WHS w/ 8TB storage apn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35030 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69352 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 7.5.x Playlist limit of 30 songs
I was trying to play a multi-disc collection using the latest 7.5 nightly and discovered that only 30 of the 121 songs load into the playlist. I went back to the official 7.5.0 and it does the same thing... only loads 30 songs. Reverting back to the last official 7.4.2 works the way it should. I'm running on a MacMINI OS 10.5.8, as I have been for the last 4-years. Anyone else seeing this? Did I miss a thread where it's already been reported? -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg - San Diego -A.E.S., S.M.P.T.E., S.P.A.R.S.- e...@seaberg.com Eric Seaberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80929 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Wiki down temporarily (4 August 2010)
We're experiencing technical difficulties with wiki.slimdevices.com. It's currently unavailable. We're hoping it will be back up relatively soon. Mickey -- MickeyG Transporter Classé Audio DR6 Mark Levinson 23 Wilson Watt 3/Puppy 1/Martin Logan Dynamo 700 MickeyG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11644 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80931 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
I also get no cover art on the main 'Now Playing' pane on the right hand side. If I bring up the 'current playlist' via the menus on the left (Music Library- etc.) I see the playlist and the cover art for each track. These are FLACs with embedded cover art. I picked a track on the current playlist showing the cover art and played that song (despite a message saying that feature was not enabled).But all I get on the RHS is the title, artist etc. and the time bar. Just a large blank area where I would expect the cover art. Image on the left, blank on the right. SBS 7.3.2 -- RichardL RichardL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16586 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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RichardL;566603 Wrote: I also get no cover art on the main 'Now Playing' pane on the right hand side. Hi Richard - sorry to hear, that Cover Art is not working for you. The good thing - they appear in the menu so at least we can exclude a problem with your server, I guess. To help me fix your problem could you please provide me with log-files as written here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=564512postcount=63. You should surf the menu, start a track and wait one or two seconds until the progress bar starts to move when doing the logs. If I can spot the error I can provide you with a beta-built within 24hours which will hopefully solve the problem. Thanks for reporting by the way! - I'm pretty sure we can solve your problem really fast. -- bluegaspode Big Screen for great Boxes available now at your AppStore: *'Squeezebox + iPad = SqueezePad ' (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/squeezepad/id380003002) *! Want to see a Weather Forecast on your Radio/Touch/Controller ? = why not try my 'Weather Forecast Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73827) Want to use the Headphones with your Controller ? = why not try my 'Headphone Switcher Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67139) Setup: 1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet), 1xSB-Boom. 1xSB-Radio Server (7.5.1) running on SheevaPlug (Ubuntu) with attached Western Digital MyBook Essential. bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android
apn;566581 Wrote: - I find it near impossible to change the master volume control that appears at the bottom of the album art and other screens. I can pause/fwd/rev the music selection, but for some reason, I can't change the volume. On my Hero, I need to touch the screen some pixels above the expected volume slider grab area. I installed the app Draw to see the real touch point. E.g. draw a horizontal line and try to draw another line directly on the old line. BTW: You can also change the volume of the current player by using the hard buttons for volume up/down on your phone. - On the playlist screen, when I scroll right (to hopefully move back to the album art or players screen), it always seems to add the currently swiped song to the playlist. It takes several attempts to get to the desired screen, so I'll often go back to the Home screen and reselect the app. You mean on the *current playlist* screen? (The 3rd screen on the main view?) That's strange, because if you tap on a song in the current playlist, it will not be added (because it is already in the playlist), but it will jump to this song and start playing. If you try to swipe on some other views (Album/Artist/Playlist ... browse list), this does not work. The 3-screen-layout ONLY exists on the main View (Player/Server - NowPlaying - CurrentPlaylist). The other views only have ONE screen with a big list. :-) But remember the button on the top-left corner (the note symbol with the arrow) on most screens. This will bring you directly to the NowPlayingScreen. -- flattermann Christian Home of 'SqueezeCommander' (http://www.squeezecommander.com) - The SqueezeBox Remote Control App for Android flattermann's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69352 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android
Christian While there is talk of problem touch screens, may I make a suggestion? When browsing the libary touching a song sets it playing, unless something is already playing, in which case it adds it to the end of the playlist. I constantly find myself making a mistake with this. e.g. I intend to swipe the screen but accidently add a song to the playlist etc. You get the idea. I would prefer if touching a song always brought up the context menu regardless. If the intention was to play the song or add it to the playlist, those options are immediately available. If the menu pops up because of a mistake then it can easily be cancelled. Cheers Keith p.s. thanks for pointing out that the hard volume buttons work. Didn't know that -- KMorgan - Sorry, can't spare enough hours today for that 5 min job on the computer. KMorgan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69352 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DSBridge - A simpler way to stream Spotify
I have a problem with this.. since my home network only uses a switch (not a router as normal people do) to communicate, I don't get a local IP address for my computer. What then do I enter into applications trying to access dsbridge and the stream? -- KeeSe KeeSe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39672 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64590 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wiki down temporarily (4 August 2010)
wiki.slimdevices.com is now back up. An issue preventing editing of wiki pages has now been fixed too. Mickey -- MickeyG Transporter Classé Audio DR6 Mark Levinson 23 Wilson Watt 3/Puppy 1/Martin Logan Dynamo 700 MickeyG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11644 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80931 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.5.x Playlist limit of 30 songs
What is your setting for max playlist size? That setting was introduced with 7.5.0. I believe the default is 500, but maybe yours is set to 30. Sorry, but I forget which tab it's on in SBS settings. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80929 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
IMO, your current feature set doesn't warrant the new $9.99 price. I'd rather continue running iPeng on the iPad as a controller or just use my iPhone. At, $5.99 I was willing to give it a go once authentication support was implemented. Now I'm just one customer but I thought I'd let you know my thoughts on the pricing in a friendly manner. Jeff -- Jeff Flowerday Jeff Flowerday's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
Jeff Flowerday;566645 Wrote:
IMO, your current feature set doesn't warrant the new $9.99 price.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion regarding the price so I'm not
going to say that you are wrong. However, I'm so happy that SqueezePad
exists and I personally think it's worth $9.99 and I would be happy to
pay even more for it. The main reason for this is that bluegaspode
seems to be very focused at improving it to make future versions even
better and helping users who have some problem.
We have to remember that Squeezebox iPad apps isn't a huge market the
possible customers are only those that have both an iPad and a
Squeezebox. Due to this you can't compare the prize of a Squeezebox
iPad app with a $7 game where the potential customers are every iPad
owner on the planet.
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Re: [slim] What should be in the next version of SqueezePad ?
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Question: Whats your highest priority ?
- More images of your music collection
- Playlist management
- Syncing Players Variation A
- Syncing Players Variation B
- MySqueezebox.com Integration
- TrackStat Ratings
- Caching of Album + Artist Lists
- Album Art Only Screen
- Better Search
- Something else - Please do the poll with different options !
pippin;566493 Wrote:
How about agreeing on a way to customize the home menu structure
through the server and have a plugin for that? The motivation for me
would be to have then same menu structure for all players and all
client devices which I think is otherwise a pain in the ass to design.
Since Logitech have decided to do it on the client side it's not going
to be enough to have a server side plugin, we will also need an applet
that can modify the menus on the client and report to the server side
plugin which menus that are available. In SqueezePlay it's important to
remember that some menus might be created by applets which the server
side isn't even aware of.
There isn't any way to replace/reorder menus on the server side, there
was support for this earlier but the functionality disappeared in a 7.x
release (don't remember exactly which one). Some support for it might
come back in 7.6 if the onebrowser functionality is included but that
only involves menus under My Music.
pippin;566493 Wrote:
We would need somebody to write the plugin, though, I'm not gonna touch
Perl
Let's wait and see what Logitech will do first.
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Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
At the current price I'm giving the full feature set of a $213.00 controller. With even bigger cover art and snappier touch navigation. With much faster player switching. With a lot of free improvements coming down the road. Without you needing to up- and downgrade firmwares. With currently much more instant support than Logitech. And a bluegaspode hanging around these forums helping with all the other various problems outside the world of SqueezePad. So all people already owning an iPad for other stuff actually safe $204 and get a better remote control. I think its a very fair price, compared to what you already invested in your Squeezeboxen, your iPad and iPhone (I'm asking for less than 2%). We should also not forget - with every sold piece we sponsor the following parties as well: 30% go to Steve 15% Luxembourg VAT for all European Countries (currently 66% of my market) 25% German income tax go into stabilizing the financial crisis *cough* and debts of Germany. So nothing to make me rich actually. The price won't go down in the future I guess, rather up, based on the market and upcoming competion when Squeezebox-Apps will challenge each other with more and more cool features. I won't go deeper into pricing discussions, its your choice anyway ;) -- bluegaspode Big Screen for great Boxes available now at your AppStore: *'Squeezebox + iPad = SqueezePad ' (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/squeezepad/id380003002) *! Want to see a Weather Forecast on your Radio/Touch/Controller ? = why not try my 'Weather Forecast Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73827) Want to use the Headphones with your Controller ? = why not try my 'Headphone Switcher Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67139) Setup: 1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet), 1xSB-Boom. 1xSB-Radio Server (7.5.1) running on SheevaPlug (Ubuntu) with attached Western Digital MyBook Essential. bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DLNA Compliance?
OK, I gave up my DAB+ kitchen radio against a Squeezebox Radio. -- Metazargo Metazargo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38404 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18295 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Any way to configure a power-on sound for an SB3?
Does anyone know a way (a plugin, I presume, but I'll accept another solution if someone knows one) to configure a sound to play when I turn on my SB3? My SB3 is connected to an Audiosource Amp-100, which has an auto-on feature that turns itself on when the SB3 starts playing above a certain volume threshold. It works great, but there's some latency, and if the first song starts off quiet, it can take a while before the amp powers up. If the SB3 made a power-up sounds, that would trigger the auto on as soon as I turned on the squeezebox, so I wouldn't miss the start of the music once I hit play. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, - Marc -- msherman msherman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80937 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DLNA Compliance?
Metazargo;566670 Wrote: OK, I gave up my DAB+ kitchen radio against a Squeezebox Radio. Now to see how long before it breeds. Squeezeboxes are Tribbles. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18295 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Any way to configure a power-on sound for an SB3?
Batch script that uses CLI to play a track plus ExecuteScript plugin? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'DenonSerial' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/DenonSerial.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80937 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
Just got 1.2.5! Exciting to have a new version! A few things: * I wish you could do more than pause and go to the menu in landscape mode... Why not forward and back buttons? * Not too crazy about the power on and off button now. It's not too obvious when its off vs. on, and is that an iPod icon? Hm... * Some of the other features/bug fixes sound really good, but haven't had enough time to play with em/see em yet. Glad to see an update though!!! - Jon -- jonbauer jonbauer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13615 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store
After a period of silence there is now a new iPeng update on the App Store - 1.2.5 I call it the iOS4 update since one of it's drivers was to provide full compatibility with iOS4 including multitasking support. But then this name is a bit inaccurate since iPeng 1.2.5 actually runs on any iPhone OS device from 3.0 on, not only on iOS4 There's more than just iOS4 support in this update SO WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Let's group this into what's new, what's improved and what got fixed: WHAT'S NEW? iOS4 support. iPeng now makes use of fast App Switching and Multitasking. This means if you leave iPeng and come back later it will still be in the exact same place where you left. iPeng does NOT run in the background, this would eat up too much power, but it does continue synchronizing the cache from the server until that's done. Landscape Mode. iPeng now supports both portrait and Landscape modes. The NowPlaying screen in Landscape mode will now provide a screen-saver like full screen view. Some spill over from some other development we're working on ;) High-Res graphics. iPeng now uses full-scale graphics on NowPlaying and bigger cover art thumbnails on iPhone 4 (and iPad). Actually the and iPad part for the thumbs doesn't work right now but I will upload an 1.2.5.1 update shortly that will fix this. Accessibility. iPeng now fully supports VoiceOver (iPhone from 3GS, iPod touch from 3rd generation and iPad only) making it probably the most powerful Squeezebox remote control solution for people with visual disabilities. This sounds like what's this good for? for a lot of people but actually it's a biggie. First: It's not as simple as Apple claims and second: it's really, really helpful for blind people compare to iPeng's last release but especially to most other means of remote control Localization. iPeng is now fully localized in English, German and Danish languages and provides enhanced support for many other languages, too. More to come. WHAT'S IMPROVED? Improved Player and Music Source handling. iPeng will now find your player automatically in even more cases and also switch Music Sources if required. This is especially important if you switch Music Sources a lot and don't find your player then. Now iPeng usually will find it for you. Also: iPeng is ow able to reconnect lost players as long as they are still on the network, a big improvement especially for users of the SB Receiver. Even more enhanced Squeezebox feature and plugin support with additional search and context menu functionality. Global Search is now supported through Extras and also through additional context menus on the NowPlaying Context Menu. Enhanced Server configuration support. iPeng now allows you to change your MySqueezebox.com account and has improved support for Wake-On-LAN (WOL). WOL can now be activated manually, you can define more than one WOL address and iPeng autodetects your server's MAC for convenience. WHAT GOT FIXED? Several issues with iOS4 and Squeezebox Server on the Squeezebox Touch are fixed in this release: Alarms do work now in iOS4 DragDrop now works in iOS4. This one was the technical biggie. Apple made a change in iOS4 that effectively means you can no longer update a view in the background when using DD. Which is kind of a problem if the data you show is permanently being updated from an external server and can stop to make any sense if it's not. SO WAIT A MOMENT, WHAT HAPPENED TO IPAD AND PLAYBACK? Now, playback has eaten up a lot of time and resources here and still doesn't work correctly, I'm sorry for that. Actually since it DOES take so much effort I decided a while back to focus on iPad first. So the next thing you are going to see is not an iPeng with Playback but iPeng for iPad. DOES THIS MEAN PLAYBACK IS DEAD? Not it's not, but it's delayed. We are pursuing some alternative options to integrate it that might speed things up but as it stands right now, iPeng for iPad will come first. But for now: Have fun with iPeng 1.2.5! More images and the online manual are to be found here: http://penguinlovesmusic.de [image: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/gallery/ipeng-1-2/img_0320.png] [image: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/gallery/ipeng-1-2/img_0323.png] [image: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/gallery/ipeng-1-2/img_0321.png] -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80940 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
jonbauer;566709 Wrote: * I wish you could do more than pause and go to the menu in landscape mode... Why not forward and back buttons? Yes, I sometime miss those, too. But then, this is supposed to be the picture frame mode and I fear even the current two controls are close to being too much clutter for that :) * Not too crazy about the power on and off button now. It's not too obvious when its off vs. on, and is that an iPod icon? Hm... You have no idea how much experimenting we have through with that. There will be some improvement with an 1.2.5.1 update that will also be required since the high-res thumbnails don't work on iPad which they really should :) -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
pippin;566711 Wrote: Yes, I sometime miss those, too. But then, this is supposed to be the picture frame mode and I fear even the current two controls are close to being too much clutter for that :) Why does it have to be picture frame mode? I'd like to still be able to use iPeng when I'm in landscape mode! In fact, I'd prefer to use landscape mode to control iPeng! pippin;566711 Wrote: You have no idea how much experimenting we have through with that. There will be some improvement with an 1.2.5.1 update that will also be required since the high-res thumbnails don't work on iPad which they really should :) I appreciate the hard work! But... :-) - Jon -- jonbauer jonbauer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13615 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
jonbauer;566715 Wrote: Why does it have to be picture frame mode? Oh, because so many people asked for it :) Plus: The normal NowPlaying screen simply doesn't work for landscape and I don't really have short-term plans to port that. Most of the other landscape work simply results from higher flexibility I got from the work for iPad and since there will not be a NowPlaying screen on iPad there was no need to fix something on this. So I just used the screen saver I had... I'd like to still be able to use iPeng when I'm in landscape mode! In fact, I'd prefer to use landscape mode to control iPeng! For anything but NowPlaying this works. For NowPlaying there is no way I will implement this soon since it will require a complete redesign of the NowPlaying screen which is like a month of work or so. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
Changing the subject a bit, what's that grey line that appears at the top of both the landscape and the portrait mode? It kinda ruins your picture frame... - Jon -- jonbauer jonbauer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13615 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
jonbauer;566718 Wrote: Changing the subject a bit, what's that grey line that appears at the top of both the landscape and the portrait mode? It kinda ruins your picture frame... Grey line? You mean the iPhone's status bar? Or the progress bar at the bottom of the overlay? (yes, it does move). But that one's not showing up in portrait mode. Oh, and you can do away with the overlay by clicking the cover. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
Not the status bar - it's a grey bar that is at the top of the screen (not the tippy top where the status bar is) - it is on top of the album art... My iPeng crashed at one point... Maybe it's some kinda residual grey bar? - Jon -- jonbauer jonbauer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13615 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
jonbauer;566721 Wrote: It only appears on my iPad, not on my iPhone... Ah. You mean the grey bar the iPad puts in place of the status bar? No influence on that one. Like the top one here: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/gallery/ipeng-1-2/ipadls2.png If it's immediately on top of your artwork chances are that it's actually PART of your artwork. Where did iPeng crash? -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
BTW, could we move this discussion here http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929page=193 This is a thread about how iPeng 4 Pad should look like. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
There are two things on my mind related to the additional real estate available on the iPad. Browsing/Selecting by album art - I'm very visual and when I browse as opposed to look for something specific I do it in a very visual ways Lots of big album art and not so much text. What room am I controlling? - For the women of the world that will use this new iPad app (thanks to the iPad form factor and ease of use that number has the potential to go way up) I need to know what I'm controlling at a glance rather than dig/slid through pages and pages to see if I'm inadvertently going to turn the music on or up in another room. Most of us will put up with making that mistake but alot of women will just consider it not easy enough, not usable. +---+ |Filename: iPAD-Squeezecontrol.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10430| +---+ -- tbowland tbowland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39675 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v3
SilverRS8;558580 Wrote: ACC should list Artist, Album automatically. Tracklisting is optional. A .CAT file is created as temporary file when you have selected to generate a Table Of contents. It is removed after the catalog has been successfully created. I'll need some more information to try to get to the real issue: - ACC.log file (e-mail it or post it here on the forum. - SqueezeboxServer version - Is SBS running locally on your WHS or on a remote (NAS) device? Frank hi got the program running now,its done a full scan. could you tell me if it includes cd singles as well as albums as im missing my cd singles which are tagged correctly,do i need to something in the program to include cd singles if so can you please explain. thank you for this excellent program. gary -- mrgothic mrgothic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10759 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74452 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store
Ah, there's one feature I forgot to mention: A lot of people asked for a way to keep iPeng running to be immediately available when picked up while shutting off the screen to save power. Now the issue is that iPhone doesn't let any App control the screen or the screen saver. I can disable the screen saver but then the screen will stay on forever. The one workaround I found (iPhone only) is now implemented whenever you enable Prevent Standby in iPeng: It will use the proximity sensor to turn the screen off. This way, if you put the iPhone on the table with the screen facing downwards you get exactly this behavior. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80940 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Aol Radio
Found an old thread about AOL radio being under radio time-internet only- AOL radio.Can`t find it there. Can you still play AOL streams. New user with Touch -- franklyfred franklyfred's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39410 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android
KMorgan;566616 Wrote: I would prefer if touching a song always brought up the context menu regardless.I second this. -- Henry66 Henry66's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69352 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.5.x Playlist limit of 30 songs
I just DL'd 7.5.1... let's see if I can find it. Thanks! -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg - San Diego -A.E.S., S.M.P.T.E., S.P.A.R.S.- e...@seaberg.com Eric Seaberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80929 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?
Bringing up a page of album art like that would be way too slow. The speed squeezebox server can serve the art seems to be an issue. Just look at the art being populated when you bring up the 5 album under an artist using the current iPeng. You would have to wait 5 seconds for a page of art just load at the least. Performance should be the #1 goal, IMO. -- Jeff Flowerday Jeff Flowerday's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store
I was really hoping the next revision would do something to provide larger text, especially for long titles where text gets TINY. It was the one improvement that I was really counting on. I can't seem to find any change in this regard. -- jstraw jstraw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17008 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80940 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Any way to configure a power-on sound for an SB3?
Good idea, thanks! -- msherman msherman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11966 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80937 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android
It's important to me to be able to shuffle the contents of a playlist, album or folder. I just recently installed the app and I can't figure out how to do this. -- jstraw jstraw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17008 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69352 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store
Good update ! -- mortslim mortslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80940 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!
1. How do you find music in your own library ? - Custom Browse Random Albums or Artist By Letter. Sometimes I use Lazy Search for something really specific. 2. How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently don't have in your library ? - Friends, internet news/reviews... I have a large collection, and do not need a lot new music. 3. How would you like to be able to find music in your own library in the future ? - I use MusicIP with Spicefly's Sugarcube a lot, as well as custom browse random albums. I would love to have the two combined, where the albums are selected based on the Music IP data seeded from the last album. 4. How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the future? - An RSS news feed based on what you are listening to.. i.e. new album from band in your collection, or specific style (last.fm data?) 5. What kind of tagging/management do you do on new music you add to your library to make it easier to find stuff later on ? NOTHING OTHER THAN MAKE SURE TAGS ARE COMPLETE AND CORRECT. - Nothing gets in my library without first passing though MusicBrainz (Picard), then a volume analysis with MediaMonkey, I clear all Genre tags, and then finally a Music IP scan (i archive the analysis in the tag). Everything is stored in a folderstrucutre (\albumartistsort first letter\album artist\album\tracks) 6. Do you synchronize the data in SBS with some other application to make it easier to find interesting music ? - No... SBS manages the library based on the track metadata. MusicIP integration is to indicate a track is mixable only. hope this helps, Matt -- matthijskoopmans www.linkedin.com/in/mattkoop matthijskoopmans's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!
1. How do you find music in your own library ? Mostly My Music-Dynamic-not rated (use all kind of expressions) or top rated I m listening music based on ratings and history (top rated songs not recently played) Often use the simple search feature too. Album art is nice, i love it, but i never use. :) Im a total idiot, but dreaming about a simple menu that can be able to choose some genres with top rated tracks and play them. (a+b+..n genre -top rated songs in dynamic playlist) 2. How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently don't have in your library ? Always look my fav band's side projects, search all artist's bio and seek for new bands. Looking new youtube links on Facebook. :) Sometimes im listening radioio, and try to remember the best songs and bands Sometimes use Allmusic.com Through friends (but its a marginal factor) Always previewing before i buy something. Good audio quality is important too. 3. How would you like to be able to find music in your own library in the future ? Im a total idiot, but dreaming about a simple menu that can be able to choose some genres with top rated tracks and play them. (a+b+..n genre -top rated songs in dynamic playlist) Would be nice, if i can be able to change/add tags via SB Classic (or on web) or write comments to each song (maybe can marking points of a track (nice drum solo here, and search it later) 4. How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the future ? Nowadays i use the Squeezeplay more than SB Classic, but i prefer Classic with remote. 5. What kind of tagging/management do you do on new music you add to your library to make it easier to find stuff later on ? I'm not using custom tags yet, but i ll do that Yes, im rated my songs/albums manually and this make the base of my playlists. I have a huge collection of music (21000 songs) and id like to see, whats my really fav songs. 6. Do you synchronize the data in SBS with some other application to make it easier to find interesting music ? Only Facebook app Thanks for your hard work Erland! Saughassy -- Saughassy Saughassy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18489 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store
pippin;566710 Wrote:
High-Res graphics. iPeng now uses full-scale graphics on NowPlaying
and bigger cover art thumbnails on iPhone 4 (and iPad). Actually the
and iPad part for the thumbs doesn't work right now but I will upload
an 1.2.5.1 update shortly that will fix this.
Probably great for iPhone 4 users and also for iPad users when Apple
decides to release iOS4 for iPad. However, for current iPad users I
have to say that the low resolution text still is too distracting to me
in 2x mode. However, this isn't really your fault, I realize that it
will soon be solved with the new iPad app or a iOS4 release by Apple,
which ever comes first.
In the meantime, I use the excellent SqueezePad app on the iPad and
keep use iPeng on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
pippin;566710 Wrote:
Even more enhanced Squeezebox feature and plugin support with
additional search and context menu functionality. Global Search is
now supported through Extras and also through additional context
menus on the NowPlaying Context Menu.
I love it and it's even better now that Triode has added global search
support in the Spotify plugin.
By the way, opening the context menu from a year gives me a Bad
dispatch error
pippin;566710 Wrote:
So the next thing you are going to see is not an iPeng with Playback
but iPeng for iPad.
Very exciting, correct prioritization IMHO.
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Re: [slim] Let's make the Squeezebox to the ultimate music discovery device!
I have a large library of mostly classical/opera, with some soundtracks, jazz, and electronica thrown in. I've ripped about half of it so far, and have approx 2 TB of FLAC files. 1. How do you find music in your own library ? - Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus) By Album or Artist (using custom album format for classical based on composer and work; Artist includes performers, conductors, and ensembles). - Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different situations ? iPeng on iPhone (preferred), front-panel controls on Boom, or IR remote for SB3. - Do you find music through statistics based browse menus ? (ratings, play counts, history) No -- I find music based on whatever my mood strikes me; whether that means listening to a Ring cycle, or all my Autechre albums. - Do you find music through smart playlists based on statistics or random selection or other kind of automatic mixes ? No - Do you use album art when selecting what to play ? No - Do you typically start searching/browsing from an artist, album or track and want to find something related to that ? Start at Album or Artist, not track 2. How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently don't have in your library ? - Heard it on the radio? In the past, when I lived in LA and listened to KUSC, not anymore. - Where do you start when searching ? Top charts ? Genres ? Similar artists ? Branch from known composers to related unknown ones, or to unfamiliar works. - Do you use some web site when searching or do you browse some music store directly? Web sites, Amazon reviews can be useful to help distinguish versions or different remasterings. - Are you using the computer, your Squeezebox or some other device when searching for new music ? Computer. - Do you preview the music before puchasing ? Do you preview it on the real system or cheep laptop speakers or something similar? I usually only buy based on reviews. I exclusively buy lossless, and MP3 previews are not useful to me. - Do you use a subscription based service so you aren't actually buying albums, you just need to find the albums/tracks you are interested in by browsing the service ? No, but the BW service looks interesting. - Through reviews ? Any specific online site ? Various classical music blogs, subscription to Fanfare (fanfarearchives.com), reviews on music-web. - Through friends ? Some community site ? No 3. How would you like to be able to find music in your own library in the future ? - What kind of functionality is missing today related to browsing? Lacking lots of needed features needed for classical/opera, such as explicit support (tag support [incl. sort versions] and menus) for the following tags: composer, work, opus no.(or KV etc), original work name (e.g. in german or french), classical part (e.g. movement no. and description), conductor, performer with instrument, singer with voice type and role. - What kind of functionality is missing today related to searching? Search by conductor, work, opus no., ensemble, performer, instrument, voice type, opera role. 4. How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the future ? - What would you like to do through the Squeezebox/SBS or one of it's remotes? No. - What would you like to do on some other hardware? Browser the web and read e.g. Fanfare via something like an iPad, but with more resolution. 5. What kind of tagging/management do you do on new music you add to your library to make it easier to find stuff later on ? - Which additional tags do you add which isn't handled by standard SBS today ? Disknumber/Disktotal Disktracknumber (per disc, allowing track to overflow for multi-disc albums) Classical work Classical opus no. Classical composer, and composersort Classical part Classical short work (e.g. abbreviating A-flat minor to ab) Classical album is synthesized from composer and work, a single CD may contain multiple albums. Classical album name (e.g. Bernstein plays Bernstein), if applicable - Is the folder structure the music files are stored in important ? Yes. This is my primary way of recovering the location of the FLAC files relating to a single CD. - If you use Custom Scan, which additional tags do you add besides those supported by SBS ? Stopped using custom scan due to inability to get it working just the way I needed it. - Do you manually add ratings to your music ? Why ? No ratings. 6. Do you synchronize the data in SBS with some other application to make it easier to find interesting music ? No. I won't allow any app to touch my tags automatically. I use Foobar 2K to query my tags and find things, MP3Tag with lots of custom regexes to help automate my tagging process. -- felixh felixh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39681 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910
Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store
pippin;566710 Wrote: SO WAIT A MOMENT, WHAT HAPPENED TO IPAD AND PLAYBACK? Now, playback has eaten up a lot of time and resources here and still doesn't work correctly, I'm sorry for that. Actually since it DOES take so much effort I decided a while back to focus on iPad first. So the next thing you are going to see is not an iPeng with Playback but iPeng for iPad. You can achieve mp3 playback on an iOS4 device that supports multi-tasking by going to Safari, entering the URL of your stream (http://mysqueezeboxserver:9000/stream.mp3) and then going back to iPeng to manage the music. It's not perfect, but it works when you want to stream some music to your phone. -- dborod dborod's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21049 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80940 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android
flattermann;566490 Wrote: Thanks for the report! Maybe I should also disable the MainMenu / BrowseList layout animation (the entries are filled in one by one from the top) if Animations are disabled, this will probably make it more convenient on slow devices... Sure, anything you can do to further improve the usability on slow devices is appreciated. Any fade in/out is also pointless on my pad, since it only manages to render a couple of steps in time:D Skinny -- Skinny This sentence says less than a list of audio equipment. Skinny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21538 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69352 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
