[slim] Spotify problem

2011-05-24 Thread mikael_b
It seems that Spotify are providing some Bob Dylan albums but I can only listen to them from my pc, when i try to run the playlist through my Squeezebox Touch I get a message claiming This track is not available in your region Any ideas?? Mikael -- mikael_b

Re: [slim] Squeezebox ( MySqueezebox.com) DOWN!!!

2011-05-24 Thread chipmalee
JJZolx;632950 Wrote: http://forums.slimdevices.com/announcement.php?f=2 Thanks. Not to sound ungrateful but does this show a weakness in the Squeeze network that everything is routed thru a server? And if the server goes down or logitech goes out of business, does our Squeezebox becomes

Re: [slim] Squeezebox ( MySqueezebox.com) DOWN!!!

2011-05-24 Thread Mnyb
chipmalee;632968 Wrote: Thanks. Not to sound ungrateful but does this show a weakness in the Squeeze network that everything is routed thru a server? And if the server goes down or logitech goes out of business, does our Squeezebox becomes worthless? I've never thought about this before

Re: [slim] Squeezebox ( MySqueezebox.com) DOWN!!!

2011-05-24 Thread JJZolx
chipmalee;632968 Wrote: Thanks. Not to sound ungrateful but does this show a weakness in the Squeeze network that everything is routed thru a server? And if the server goes down or logitech goes out of business, does our Squeezebox becomes worthless? I don't use mysqueezebox.com. At all.

Re: [slim] Squeezebox ( MySqueezebox.com) DOWN!!!

2011-05-24 Thread servies
chipmalee;632968 Wrote: Thanks. Not to sound ungrateful but does this show a weakness in the Squeeze network that everything is routed thru a server? And if the server goes down or logitech goes out of business, does our Squeezebox becomes worthless? To use a car analogy: If your car is

Re: [slim] Connecting... Buffering... Connecting... Buffering... Connecting... Buffering...

2011-05-24 Thread Moffedille
ja2038;632631 Wrote: The problem tends to be on AM Clearchannel Icecast Akamai stations, but sometimes it appears on all sorts of my stations. I am using a COX cable connection, that is usually 12-30Mbps down and about 1M up. And usually stable. What I see is that the player tries

Re: [slim] Squeezebox ( MySqueezebox.com) DOWN!!!

2011-05-24 Thread cliveb
servies;632977 Wrote: To use a car analogy: If your car is getting some maintenance, you still expect to be able to drive your car to your work at the same time? The answers to your questions: no and no. As a non-user of mysqueezebox.com, the issue doesn't affect me at all. But I think

Re: [slim] Squeezebox ( MySqueezebox.com) DOWN!!!

2011-05-24 Thread servies
cliveb;632984 Wrote: As a non-user of mysqueezebox.com, the issue doesn't affect me at all. But I think chipmalee has a point. Logitech should not be running this service through a single point of failure. They should have some redundancy in the system and when maintenance is due only take

Re: [slim] Squeezebox ( MySqueezebox.com) DOWN!!!

2011-05-24 Thread Mnyb
When there was fever users they probably could redirect between US and EU server(s), but who knows if it could take the load nowadays ? And it is more than one server at each location ? I guess ? mysb.com seems not be designed for easy maintenance then ? -- Mnyb

[slim] Easy way of Having Music on several Disks

2011-05-24 Thread jimbo45
Hi all Having looked at the excellent Multi-Library plugin I still found this a bit Overkill and it does need the music to be tagged whereas I have a LOT of FLAC music not all of it tagged. So the EASY way (Windows) is simply in the main music folder is to create Shortcuts to the other folders

Re: [slim] Squeezebox ( MySqueezebox.com) DOWN!!!

2011-05-24 Thread jimbo45
Hi there The value of the squeezebox.com service is probably a moot point anyway since most people I know never use it. You can still access FREE Internet Radio services etc using your LOCAL server and the correct URL's which you need to save as favourites (enetering them manually is a real

[slim] Connect Boom to Server via iOS hotspot

2011-05-24 Thread david_f1976
I'm temporarily down to a small bedroom setup where there is no internet connection. I have the wifi hotspot feature on my iPhone and was trying to use it as a router of sorts. Both the Boom and Server (7.5.4 on Windows 7 64-bit) can connect to the hotspot and get IP addresses but the Boom cannot

Re: [slim] Squeezebox ( MySqueezebox.com) DOWN!!!

2011-05-24 Thread tamanaco
Discarding mysb.com is easy for those that bought their SBs just to connect to a local server, but what about those that bought them to use them with mysb.com? Maintaining a local server is not a walk in the park for those that lack computer skills. Too many things can go wrong with an SBS which

Re: [slim] AWARD: YouTube Plugin

2011-05-24 Thread john9
pippin;630778 Wrote: Ok, since there doesn't seem any progress with this on it's own, let's add some motivation: 1. I'm willing to award and iPad 2, (your choice of 32GB, WiFi only or 16GB with 3G) including a smart cover in a color of your choice. 2. It goes to the first one who releases

Re: [slim] Connecting... Buffering... Connecting... Buffering... Connecting... Buffering...

2011-05-24 Thread john9
bpa;632782 Wrote: Have you tried increasing Radio Station Buffer it is helpful if the station has a lumpy stream. Increase WebUI Setting/Advanced Network/Radio Station Buffer and click Apply. Another suggestion If the stream is MP3 or WMA then the stream goes from station direct to

[slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread MrSinatra
i can only guess he used to work on the revue. logitech really needs to examine their approach. one wonders how long any of this stuff has once the slim guys thin all the way out. the below is quoted verbatim, unedited, out of today's email. start at the bottom, work your way up: Yes, would

Re: [slim] Strange problem of Transporter

2011-05-24 Thread MrSinatra
this may not solve any of your issues, but i always advise anyone on an ip3k device to use [force] a static IP, instead of DHCP. try it and see if it helps. (i don't have a transporter, so i don't know if you can do a static IP easy via the device, or if you need the net-udap tool) --

Re: [slim] Strange problem of Transporter

2011-05-24 Thread gharris999
arteck;632391 Wrote: I was playing music with my transporter as a digital sourse for my DAC. I heard some kind of noise with the sound weakening till to silence. Immediately I go to check the transporter and find it fail to work with symptoms as follow: 1. The display become abnormal, some

Re: [slim] Broken up albums

2011-05-24 Thread MrSinatra
make sure all the files for one album are in one folder. make sure you only have one tag type per file. make sure the album, albumartist tags of differing tracks match exactly. try deleting any disc or discnumber tags. look for trailing spaces. use mp3tag. and of course, do a full clear and

Re: [slim] SBS + Synology ds211+, Disk Hibernation

2011-05-24 Thread mikep666
Hi Sorry realy didnt mean to sound sacastic I really thought I was missing something in the other thread. So now some feedback: Synology are investigating the disk access to localtime issue, looks like a bug. I have also disabled ALL plugins in SBS and it seems the SB devices are now much

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread Phil Leigh
MrSinatra;633055 Wrote: i can only guess he used to work on the revue. logitech really needs to examine their approach. one wonders how long any of this stuff has once the slim guys thin all the way out. the below is quoted verbatim, unedited, out of today's email. start at the

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread erland
MrSinatra;633055 Wrote: logitech really needs to examine their approach. one wonders how long any of this stuff has once the slim guys thin all the way out. the below is quoted verbatim, unedited, out of today's email. start at the bottom, work your way up: real nice, huh? he also

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread Michael Herger
Sure, he could probably have phrased himself a bit better when talking to a customer but honestly I've sometimes seen a lot worse than that on these forums when someone have had a bad day. ...not to mention that MrSinatra can be... let's call it... irritatingly direct in his writing ;-). --

Re: [slim] Windows: update file modified date based on created date

2011-05-24 Thread Steve Bernard, Jr
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:02 PM, hunta hunta.4u7non1306188...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: Mnyb;632844 Wrote: If you use for example mp3tag or puddletag you can set it do not change the date, so that you can safely update tags without the files showing up at the top of the new music

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread maggior
Wow. Sorry, but I think that's inexcusable. All this person had to do was state he does not work directly with customers, CC tech support on the email, and be done with it. This engineer needs to be better shielded from customers. No matter how irritating the customer may be, the customer is

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread michael123
Did you talk to QA in some other company directly, without having a support contract? -- michael123 Michael michael123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23745 View this thread:

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2011-05-24 Thread bluegaspode
SqueezePlayer is now also available on AndroidPit http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/de.bluegaspode.squeezeplayer/Squeeze-Player AndroidPit is available in all countries and you can pay via ClickAndBuy or PayPal. So if you either have no credit card or Android Market is not

Re: [slim] Stream plays fine on VLC but refuses to work on Squeezebox

2011-05-24 Thread Nick_G
Anyone please? -- Nick_G Nick_G's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38427 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87834 ___

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread MrSinatra
mherger;633075 Wrote: Sure, he could probably have phrased himself a bit better when talking to a customer but honestly I've sometimes seen a lot worse than that on these forums when someone have had a bad day. not to mention that MrSinatra can be... let's call it... irritatingly

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread MrSinatra
erland;633073 Wrote: Honestly I'm not sure I understand the problem, he is working with Logitech internal QA and isn't working with customer support, if he doesn't want to communicate with the customers that's no big issue as long as other people within Logitech does communicate with us. As

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread pippin
MrSinatra;633130 Wrote: that an employee who does QnA testing would respond to a customer who does the same for free, (and also as a customer helps keep him in a job); Form your e-mail conversation he's not am employee but a contractor. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread erland
MrSinatra;633130 Wrote: the point is that 1. i wouldn't and shouldn't be expected to know or care how logitech runs itself, (not that i was told his POV until the last email anyway) and 2. that no employee should EVER communicate with customers in this rude way, ESPECIALLY customers who

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread MrSinatra
pippin;633133 Wrote: Form your e-mail conversation he's not am employee but a contractor. BTW: You have to excuse Erland. He's from Sweden and there is a specific Scandinavion attitude to service, even by European standards; after all, it's them who invented IKEA ;) hahaha, funny!

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread MrSinatra
pippin;633133 Wrote: Form your e-mail conversation he's not am employee but a contractor. maybe, i don't know, but he has a logitech email and clearly they pay him so to me the distinction isn't germane. his official role and/or their internal protocols really have nothing to do with it, imo;

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread andyg
Just remember he is not actually an employee... but a short term contractor. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread dasmueller
What is the intent of this thread ? Seems to have stirred folks up, but I doubt there will be any positive outcomes from it. -- dasmueller dasmueller's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38035 View

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread maggior
andyg;633150 Wrote: Just remember he is not actually an employee... but a short term contractor. All the more reason to keep him from communicating directly with customers...what does he care if he pisses of a customer or two, he has no investment or loyalty. -- maggior Rich -

Re: [slim] Logitechs new sugary customer approach!

2011-05-24 Thread MrSinatra
Paul has since emailed me and apologized, and of course i accept it. i don't know if he saw this thread or not, but really i don't think that matters. whatever the larger implications about whats going on behind the scenes at logitech, i now consider the issue between me and Paul closed,