[slim] Random album

I have just 'discovered' the ability to play random albums through 'Random Mix' and find this a good way to expose myself to music that I would not normally pick from choice. However, is it possible to play just one random album without another automatically being selected when the first one is

Re: [slim] ANNOUNCE: iPeng for iPad - Your Squeezebox Remote Gets Big

Maybe. I thought about that, too. But you are probably right, unlike me, most people will not have both iPeng for iPhone and iPeng for iPad on the iPad so there should not be confusion. Next release. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com

Re: [slim] iTunes - File Format: MPEG-4

bigblackdog;585750 Wrote: (...) I have approximate 66,000 songs all in apple lossless and it seems that my system is 'slowing down'. (...) Would seem to me that if the server has to do less work then should free it upmarket bit By default, when you play a format not supported by a player

[slim] How to add an album to a Favorites FOLDER?

Hi, if I create some folders within my favorites, how can I add an album to a specific folder within my Favorites? All added tracks/album get at the Favorites top level. Can't get them into a folder. How to use this functionality? -- MrRalph Meridian 506.24, Squeezebox Touch, Technics

Re: [slim] How to add an album to a Favorites FOLDER?

are you using SqueezeboxServer running locally? If so, you can create subfolders under favorites in the Web GUI. Click on the edit symbol next to favorites (pencil?), and scroll down to bottom of favorites and look for new folder button. note: there is no subfolder function for users of

Re: [slim] Announce: New Squeezeslave 0.9 Release available on sourceforge

I'd just like to report that i have squeezeslave beta running on my dockstar (Marvell ARM no FPU). So far seems to be working just fine. Thanks guys! -- ehode ehode's Profile:

Re: [slim] Squeezeplay full screen

gorman;585383 Wrote: I know this is an old(ish) thread but... see here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=585357postcount=20 I am using an old build (I actually revived it just to show the original poster of that thread) and I didn't do anything special. The full screen Now

[slim] Sonos Wireless Dock

I doubt that I would be a purchaser, but I'm surprised that there has been no conversation about the Sonos Wireless Dock. I suspect it will move a lot of product for them. See: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/26/sonos-wireless-dock-for-ipod-and-iphone-is-out-now-for-119/ I suspect it uses

Re: [slim] album art

jbloewheedle;586066 Wrote: i figured it out, i have to cut and paste artwork in itunes to imbed it in the file. sort of a pain but it works. Rename the attachment so it has a .js extension. It will extract the artwork from iTunes and put in each folder as cover.jpg You may need to change

Re: [slim] How to add an album to a Favorites FOLDER?

I don't know of a way to direct a newly-created favorite to a particular Favorites folder. However, after creating a favorite at the top level you can move it into the desired folder using drag-and-drop in the SBS web ui, after getting into edit mode using the pencil icon as described by garym.

Re: [slim] How to add an album to a Favorites FOLDER?

Yes, dedicated SBD7.52 server. Aha, didn't found the drag/drop functionality myself, thanks! It would be a great enhancement if there was a 'add to Favorites' actions that would ask for a specific sub folder to create the favorite in. But I guess this is workable. Thanks, Ralph -- MrRalph

Re: [slim] Utility for downloading album art

If you want to try bliss, there's the option for ignoring (or even removing existing) embedded art and a co-located file is always saved. -- elstensoftware 'bliss' (http://www.blisshq.com) - fully automated music library management. 'Read the music library management blog'

Re: [slim] Announce: New Squeezeslave 0.9 Release available on sourceforge

ehode;586150 Wrote: I'd just like to report that i have squeezeslave beta running on my dockstar (Marvell ARM no FPU). So far seems to be working just fine. Thanks guys! Hi Ehode, I'm massively interested in how you did this! I'm trying to get it to work for month now. Could you tell me

[slim] I want partymode

Yesterday evening we held a party and as usual squeeze is a great success. Except for the five or seven times our ad-hoc-built playlist was wiped despite me vigorously explaining how to use the more button. I hate touch-to-play. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. Please bring back partymode. --

[slim] Other Players Plugin gone?

Hi all! After I reinstalled Squeezebox Server I also wanted to have the Other Players Plugin active again. Is this plugin not available anymore? I cannot find it in the 3rd Party Plugins list anymore... Where is it gone? Christian -- TheRooster2000 *-Transporter + Touch + Radio +

Re: [slim] Squeezeslave stops playing after changing tracks

Ralphy: thank you--that was a really, really stupid mistake I made. It's in the process of compiling now. -- Dean L. Surkin Dean L. Surkin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14034 View this

[slim] Where are my apps?

Why don't my apps show up on Squeezebox Server? They used to show under My Apps, but they don't any more - just a link to Apps Gallery, which confirms that I have them installed. I'm fairly dumb so I expect there's a simple answer, but would appreciate any advice. -- Johnbax

Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock

ericj;586159 Wrote: I suspect it uses airplay to stream, and is of limited quality, BUT, I suspect for many the convenience factor will be significant. I understood that they where using digital only in original resolution? -- bhaagensen

Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock

It's really just using the iPod like a wireless hard drive via Sonos' wifi mesh network, and allowing access of the contents through the normal Sonos controllers. I can see it being quite useful at parties when people come over with iPods and want to play it through your system. It does not use

Re: [slim] Utility for downloading album art

While testing all these different utilities I also completed the first version of my own tool. It is no way near as rich on functions as the other but does the trick for me. It downloads covers (good enough for iPeng) If anyone wants to try it out, it’s attached. It requires .NET 2.0 or greater

Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock

My mistake, of course it will stream at the original encoding, I was just assuming that most ithings contain low bit-rate mp3s and the like. My bad. Interesting Nikhil, that they use the iPhone as a wireless drive. Is that possible on a non-jailbroken iphone?That raised the possibility that

Re: [slim] Other Players Plugin gone?

TheRooster2000;586191 Wrote: Hi all! After I reinstalled Squeezebox Server I also wanted to have the Other Players plugin active in SbS again. Is this plugin not available anymore? I cannot find it in the 3rd Party Plugins list of SbS anymore... Where is it gone? Christian Hi

Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock

It does not need a jailbroken iDevice. Should work out of the box on any iPod / iPhone that has a dock connector. -- Nikhil Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock

ericj;586159 Wrote: I doubt that I would be a purchaser, but I'm surprised that there has been no conversation about the Sonos Wireless Dock. I suspect it will move a lot of product for them. See:

Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock

ericj;586159 Wrote: Will Logitech introduce something similar? The Squeezebox design has never been able to stream arbitrary music sources. Despite the open source background and plugin extensibility, the core capabilities remain rather inflexible. By all appearances Logitech looks like

Re: [slim] Moderating the forums

Phil Leigh;585954 Wrote: Seriously? - You think these rules are very strict? - which of them would you like to violate? You know what strikes me about that post more than anything else? The moniker of 'jennifer'. This forum has been going strong for something like 5 years and nobody has

Re: [slim] I want partymode

I second that. Whilst the breadth of functionality is great for core users, it is far from pick up play for parties. Is there any likelihood of this coming back? -- yannyb SqueezeServer - 7.5.1 (on Mac Mini) Squeezebox Duet - 7.5.1 Squeezebox Radio - 7.5.1 r8837 iTunes Library Media on

Re: [slim] Moderating the forums

jennifer;585941 Wrote: I am new here, so i had read forums rules, they are very strict. pfff :) they are not strict compared to other forums, they are ok the rules focus the discussions. On this forum you have . Fanboys ;) And a variant of justice obsession syndrome people that can badmount

Re: [slim] I want partymode

Excuse the question, what was party mode? A parallel playlist ? -- epoch1970 Daily dose delivered by: 2 SB Classic (fw 130), 1 SB Boom (fw 50) • SqueezeCenter 7.3.4 (Debian 5.0) with plugins: ContextMenu, SaverSwitcher by Peter Watkins • Server Power Control by Gordon Harris • WeatherTime by

Re: [slim] I want partymode

Muele;586187 Wrote: Yesterday evening we held a party and as usual squeeze is a great success. Except for the five or seven times our ad-hoc-built playlist was wiped despite me vigorously explaining how to use the more button. I hate touch-to-play. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. Please

Re: [slim] I want partymode

yannyb;586225 Wrote: I second that. Whilst the breadth of functionality is great for core users, it is far from pick up play for parties. Is there any likelihood of this coming back? You wax far from the understandable. ? -- pski real stereo makes the lights dim on the bass notes.

Re: [slim] I want partymode

epoch1970;586230 Wrote: Excuse the question, what was party mode? A parallel playlist ? Party mode was a socialist plot that prevented your guests from listening to what they want (right now.) It was developed by Friends of Pelosi and is no longer available because nobody likes her any more.

Re: [slim] Where are my apps?

Johnbax;586199 Wrote: Why don't my apps show up on Squeezebox Server? They used to show under My Apps, but they don't any more - just a link to Apps Gallery, which confirms that I have them installed. I'm fairly dumb so I expect there's a simple answer, but would appreciate any advice.

Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock

iPhone;586222 Wrote: Who wants to listen to lo-res music? Think about where the files for an iPod or iPhone came from. That's right, from a PC, your iTunes account (PC again), or something that was ripped to MP3. So if you already have them, why not just stream them with SBS, Doh. This Sonos

Re: [slim] Squeezebox UI on the TV?

Henry66;585967 Wrote: I have the Touch which has its own screen, but I sit 12 feet (3.6 meters) away from it and it's a bit small. I also have SqueezeCommander on my Android phone with a nice screen. This is easy to see, but it drains my battery if I want to have the screen on all the

Re: [slim] Rearrange music on Squeezebox Server

Wirrunna;586043 Wrote: igeorge, on the web display, go to Settings, My Music, and check what is selected for the Compilations options and the Group Discs. I think the default changed between releases a while ago, so if the display changed and you haven't been changing the tags, this may

Re: [slim] Sonos Wireless Dock

If one have actual irl friends in meatspace teoretically *they* could come over with iThings full of music, thats the idea :) You could advice them beforehand to bring USB drives with files instead... That you carefully tag for 3 hours before anything sounds from the system ;) So the idea is

Re: [slim] Random album

Ah, unchecking the 'add new items when old one finished' tick-box does it. Sorry, should have spotted that earlier. Perfect now. Jerry -- JerryS JerryS's Profile:

Re: [slim] I want partymode

pski;586234 Wrote: You wax far from the understandable. ? Perhaps what I should have said is whilst it is great to have all the options functionality provided by squeezebox this takes a fair bit of trial error to learn how to use it. A well designed party mode would get around that and

Re: [slim] I want partymode

Ever see someone unfamiliar with an iPod queueing up songs at a party or elsewhere? Exactly the same thing happens. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread:

Re: [slim] I want partymode

JJZolx;586252 Wrote: Ever see someone unfamiliar with an iPod queueing up songs at a party or elsewhere? Exactly the same thing happens. Except for: When playing from the iPod it even happens to somebody _familiar_ with the iPod because you have no choice :D -- pippin --- see iPeng, the

Re: [slim] I want partymode

pippin;586254 Wrote: Except for: When playing from the iPod it even happens to somebody _familiar_ with the iPod because you have no choice I don't follow. You can add a track to the current playlist with a press-hold. (?) -- JJZolx

Re: [slim] I want partymode

JJZolx;586256 Wrote: I don't follow. You can add a track to the current playlist with a press-hold. (?) On an iPod? I wasn't aware iPods even _had_ a current playlist. I thought you can only play predefined playlists or albums on an iPod? I admit it's been a while since I frequently used my

Re: [slim] I want partymode

Oh, ok. I see what you mean. The On-the-Go playlist. If you're playing it then press-hold adds the track to the end. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread:

Re: [slim] I want partymode

No On-The-Go Playlist anymore in iOS4... Actually I never knew this, I always found On-The-Go playlists too impractical... maybe for the very reason I never figured this out. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com

Re: [slim] Can't play KUOW stream with sync'd players

Looks like this is still a problem. Any hints or advice for troubleshooting this? From what I can tell, I cannot sync this particular station whenever one of my Squeezebox Radios is synced, but any combination of my Duet / Boom don't have any problem with this station. But the Radio + Boom just

Re: [slim] I want partymode

Muele;586187 Wrote: Yesterday evening we held a party and as usual squeeze is a great success. Except for the five or seven times our ad-hoc-built playlist was wiped despite me vigorously explaining how to use the more button. I hate touch-to-play. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. Please

Re: [slim] I want partymode

It would turn of everything that could destroy the current playlist, which is: - play - trash playlist (but not single tracks from playlist) - maybe sync Plus changing the shuffle mode. I know there are a few cases I will probably not get covered (e.g. Random Play; playing a Pandora playlist

Re: [slim] I want partymode

pippin;586270 Wrote: It would turn of everything that could destroy the current playlist, which is: - play - trash playlist (but not single tracks from playlist) - maybe sync Plus changing the shuffle mode. I know there are a few cases I will probably not get covered (e.g. Random

Re: [slim] I want partymode

JJZolx;586271 Wrote: Instead of simply disabling Play, the Party MOde behavior should be changed to ADD. That's more or less what happens automatically in iPeng. iPeng doesn't have the same TTP as SP. For Albums/Playlists it has three modes (Play, Add, Add Next) that define the single-tap

Re: [slim] I want partymode

Oh, and only having Add would work out badly the way I handle party playlists. I usually have around 20h of Music in the list and then re-arrange it during the party. If you then add at the end, well, you get the point. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at

Re: [slim] iPeng problems connecting

i guess the bugfix isn't out yet? if not, np. new question: if i go into albums, how do i get them to display in artist, year, album order? is that possible? i do have it set like that for the webui via the SBS side. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 sbc (my home) / sbrec

Re: [slim] I want partymode

Hey, if all you accomplish is prevention of playlist trashing, you'll be even more of a hero in my yes than you already are! -- GeeJay GeeJay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11388 View this

Re: [slim] iPeng problems connecting

MrSinatra;586276 Wrote: i guess the bugfix isn't out yet? if not, np. No, the one on iPeng for iPad is, but the iPeng one is still waiting for approval. if i go into albums, how do i get them to display in artist, year, album order? is that possible? i do have it set like that for the

Re: [slim] I want partymode

pippin;586270 Wrote: It would turn of everything that could destroy the current playlist, which is: - play - trash playlist (but not single tracks from playlist) - maybe sync Plus changing the shuffle mode. I know there are a few cases I will probably not get covered (e.g. Random

Re: [slim] I want partymode

I don't think passing around a laptop is feasible at most parties. Folks will pick up a one-handed device like a controller or iPod/iPhone. A laptop would be a bit intimidating and awkward. -- GeeJay GeeJay's Profile:

Re: [slim] Squeezebox UI on the TV?

Ok, maybe you should wait for the Tablet version of SqueezeCommander... I seriously doubt that any touch UI would be suitable for a remote controlled device. Imagine you'd have to drag stuff around your TV set using an IR remote... It's a totally different interaction model. Unfortunate for

Re: [slim] I want partymode

No On-The-Go Playlist anymore in iOS4... Really? How come I didn't notice? Actually I never knew this, I always found On-The-Go playlists too impractical... maybe for the very reason I never figured this out. Maybe me too :-) -- Michael ___