pongagt;664379 Wrote:
I know what you mean and i wonder why KPOJ would limit its audience like
that. You think they could collect more advertising revenue with a
larger audience. It's too bad because i listened to them quite a bit.
If that spreads the Boom will be useless unless you want to
GeeJay;664374 Wrote:
My plugins worked fine until I upgraded, several weeks after he
introduced License Manager and the new versions of his plug-ins. It was
clear to me that if I upgraded I would have to pay the fee, but as long
as I didn't I could still use the older version.
I've been
flattermann;664219 Wrote:
A folder is only treated as album if there are no subfolders.
If there are subfolders, the touch-to-{play,add,...} action is disabled
and a context menu will open with the available actions.
One reason for this is that Play other tracks should also work for
I've been using a SB for several years.
1. When I try to log into my Squeezebox account I can't.
2.I therefore asked for a new PW, which was sent to me in the mail. I
try the new PW. Still cannot access.
3. I try to contact support through supp...@mysqueezebox.com and get an
error reply mail
Have you tired to call them via the support line? They are quite
effective by phone.
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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 ** 2
Gadgety1;664389 Wrote:
.
7. I could try to establish a new account name, but I assume that it
will tell me to register the product, and when I do it will probably
tell me this product is registered under a different account name.
Correct. If a newer player (Touch/Radio) you can
OK, running 2 classic SB3 off a Win7 PC server. Seem to always have
problems connecting to server after a power down or sleep. Was running
7.5.4, then updated to 7.6.2 ... that caused a continuous 'rebuffering'
every 5 or 10 seconds, so rolled back. The SB3's have two different
firmwares - one is
pongagt;664379 Wrote:
I know what you mean and i wonder why KPOJ would limit its audience like
that. You think they could collect more advertising revenue with a
larger audience. It's too bad because i listened to them quite a bit.
If that spreads the Boom will be useless unless you want to
Ideally it should be the other way around wired server ?
what if server goes to sleep wifi may be disconnected ?
Player can send WOL (wake on lan) to wake a sleeping server but that
only works if the server is wired, there is almost no wifi cards that
supports WOL.
So if the server goes to
Of course an all wired or mixed setup is also good , I have wired server
3 wired players and one wifi player one controller and one iPad
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Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x
This was one of the factors considered when they developed Touch and
Radio .
Much more flexible OS and cpu it can be made to support more codecs etc
.
Old players is not very powerful and they are already 100% utilised no
more room for anything .
So it was clearly time for a new player for the
reniera;664385 Wrote:
Note : I don't argue on paying 'something' for those plugins but 20 or
50$ is just too expensive i.e. compared to ipeng that also benefits
from a good support from a developper who also spend a lot of time on
it.
You are probably right that downgrading or altering the
Hi all
New here and trying to help a friend out. The 3rd party hardware
section here seems all about servers. That may come in handy (for me!)
with time, but I'm looking at alternatives for a player. Ideally it
would have digital/optical out, but 3.5mm out is fine if not. Doesn't
have to be
Logitech does not allow third party players to be connected to MySb.com,
so I guess you won't find something that satisfies this part of your
requirements.
Other than that you can look out for cheap hardware to run a third
party player on it.
Can be SheevaPlug with USB soundcard or any cheap
ok, cool thanks. That's useful to know.
It seems to me that his best/cheapest/simplest combination option would
be the squeezebox radio with the 3.5mm out connected to his A/V amp. If
he wants to double his cost he can go for the touch with the
optical/digital out.
So, for example, if he got a
carled;664420 Wrote:
So, for example, if he got a hacked joggler, it would speak to
squeezebox server on his pc/a nas device but it would not speak to the
mysqueezebox.com service?
yes
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Did you know: *'SqueezePlayer' (www.squeezeplayer.com)* will stream all
your music to
Touch is on sale right now for $209 so it's only about $70 difference to
a Radio.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/speakers-audio/wireless-music-systems/devices/5745
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toby10;664426 Wrote:
Touch is on sale right now for $209 so it's only about $70 difference to
a Radio.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/speakers-audio/wireless-music-systems/devices/5745
I'm in the uk... import taxes would probably kill that deal!
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carled;664420 Wrote:
ok, cool thanks. That's useful to know.
It seems to me that his best/cheapest/simplest combination option would
be the squeezebox radio with the 3.5mm out connected to his A/V amp. If
he wants to double his cost he can go for the touch with the
optical/digital out.
Well, I've just tried to use my long-standing, pre-existing installation of
Multi-Library, which I was not aware of upgrading, and it's demanding the
licensing plug in. That appears to be retrospective charging, in that it
disables an existing service and then demands payment without notice,
cunobelinus;664435 Wrote:
Well, I've just tried to use my long-standing, pre-existing installation
of Multi-Library, which I was not aware of upgrading, and it's
demanding the licensing plug in. That appears to be retrospective
charging, in that it disables an existing service and then
Well, I've just tried to use my long-standing, pre-existing installation
of Multi-Library, which I was not aware of upgrading, and it's
demanding the licensing plug in. That appears to be retrospective
charging, in that it disables an existing service and then demands
payment without
pongagt;664378 Wrote:
I would prefer to use my Boom being located in a more central location
in my apartment but i really don't want to run a computer all the time
i want to listen to streaming. I gave up on listening to over the air
radio. I may have to look for the Radio even though i love
On 20 Oct 2011, at 12:38, Michael Herger wrote:
Well, I've just tried to use my long-standing, pre-existing installation
of Multi-Library, which I was not aware of upgrading, and it's
demanding the licensing plug in. That appears to be retrospective
charging, in that it disables an
mherger;664438 Wrote:
Well, I've just tried to use my long-standing, pre-existing
installation
of Multi-Library, which I was not aware of upgrading, and it's
demanding the licensing plug in. That appears to be retrospective
charging, in that it disables an existing service and
carled;664427 Wrote:
I'm in the uk... import taxes would probably kill that deal!
I got a joggler from UK and i installed Squeezeplay on it what works
pretty cool. For me this was much more usefull than a touch or a radio.
The hacking is pretty easy to do. Just google a little arround for O2
mherger;664438 Wrote:
Well, I've just tried to use my long-standing, pre-existing
installation
of Multi-Library, which I was not aware of upgrading, and it's
demanding the licensing plug in. That appears to be retrospective
charging, in that it disables an existing service and
cunobelinus;664441 Wrote:
On 20 Oct 2011, at 12:38, Michael Herger wrote:
Well, I've just tried to use my long-standing, pre-existing
installation
of Multi-Library, which I was not aware of upgrading, and it's
demanding the licensing plug in. That appears to be retrospective
carled;664427 Wrote:
I'm in the uk... import taxes would probably kill that deal!
i think they are on sale WITHIN the UK as well
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System 1: Vortexbox Appliance 6TB (1.10) SbS 7.6.2 Transporter,
Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
System 2: Win7(64) laptop
I have no objection whatever to people charging for their work, but
within the law. Retrospective charging is not.
Sure. Sue him.
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Oh, so this is why Custom Browse doesn't work anymore (I haven't read
this thread before). I occasionally used it to browse artist by letter.
Oh well. I guess I can do without.
It was of course noble of Erland to make this plugin for free
originally. But marketing-wise, I can't help thinking
Don't accidentally mix cables from left and right channel thats all.
output is a bridge of some kind, nieter + or - is connected directly to
ground or probably, gnd is somewhere in the middle of the amp circuit
?
other amps with - at gnd plane for both channels migth tolerate that
you switch -
Soulkeeper;664454 Wrote:
Oh, so this is why Custom Browse doesn't work anymore (I haven't read
this thread before). I occasionally used it to browse artist by letter.
Oh well. I guess I can do without.
It was of course noble of Erland to make this plugin for free
originally. But
Monteaup;664141 Wrote:
Hi,
I'm using the squeezeslave-ubuntu version on my ubuntu 11.04 machine
starting it up using upstart. I have the problem in deamon mode (-M) no
other application is able to use the sound device.
There should be a few post in this tread on the topic if you search
I reckon that they're only interested in getting customers to buy the
Revue at the moment having spent much time cash on its RD.
Once LMS 7.7 is officially released I would think there will be some
sort of relaunch that highlights all of the added functionality (for
the Revue) that LMS brings.
cunobelinus;664441 Wrote:
I have no objection whatever to people charging for their work, but
within the law. Retrospective charging is not.
He could have renamed all the new versions of his plugins to 7.6
edition. Then you'd have been in the same situation.
All plugins for free (and
There's one thing I don't understand here:
If it's really as unimportant a feature to you as some claim here, then
why is it worth to make such a fuss around it?
I _know_ how much work it is not just to develop something for the
Squeezebox environment, but more importantly, just to MAINTAIN it.
I have been struggling for ages to find a way to play music on my HTPC
using SqueezePlay without the computer going to sleep. I don't want to
increase the sleep timeout to 3-4 hours, as if the HTPC has been left
on and is not being actively used I want it to sleep.
I have now got a way to launch
mherger;664438 Wrote:
Well, I've just tried to use my long-standing, pre-existing
installation
of Multi-Library, which I was not aware of upgrading, and it's
demanding the licensing plug in. That appears to be retrospective
charging, in that it disables an existing service and
On 20 Oct 2011, at 13:21, Soulkeeper wrote:
Oh, so this is why Custom Browse doesn't work anymore (I haven't read
this thread before). I occasionally used it to browse artist by letter.
Oh well. I guess I can do without.
I've never previously attempted to use Multi Library, despite
reniera;664470 Wrote:
Michael, are you from Logitech ? If you are not, fine, I respect your
opinion and don't read further. If you are, I can tell you that you
have no idea what such statement can create in term of bad feeling
about a company and products that were once so desired. You
You should sue Erland. Really. After offering his services for years he
now wants to have a beer? This must be illegal.
Guys, your postings are poor jokes.
Michael, are you from Logitech ? If you are not, fine, I respect your
opinion and don't read further.
Even though I'm a Logitech
cunobelinus;664473 Wrote:
On 20 Oct 2011, at 13:21, Soulkeeper wrote:
Oh, so this is why Custom Browse doesn't work anymore (I haven't
read
this thread before). I occasionally used it to browse artist by
letter.
Oh well. I guess I can do without.
I've never previously attempted
cunobelinus;664473 Wrote:
It was of course noble of Erland to make this plugin for free
originally. But marketing-wise, I can't help thinking that nag-ware
(or, well, anything, really) would have been more psychologically
effective than the give-and-then-take-away approach.[/color]
http://echr.coe.int/NR/rdonlyres/97564258-437D-4FFD-A54D-2766DE255CCA/0/DG2ENHRHAND102007.pdf
http://www.ilaw.com.au/public/licencearticle.html , in particular:
Estoppel
There may be scope to argue that a licensor is precluded from changing
the licence conditions on software if he or she misled
Erland did not change the license conditions. He just charges for the
use.
You _can_ still use the plugins without the license manager if you
remove it you just have to do that.
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---
see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and
*New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com
+1. Perfect summary.
On 20 Oct 2011, at 14:39, Phil Leigh wrote:
Just to be clear, I have no issue with Erland choosing to charge people
for his work going forward - that is his inalienable right. However,
nobody SHOULD provide anything - under licence or under contract - for
free or for
Our setup uses SBS, and SBRs. Everything is working fine. The music -
whether an album or a hand-built playlist - plays back without gaps
between the tracks. We'd prefer to have a short gap between tracks so
I looked through SBS settings to see if this was possible.
I couldn't find anything.
Hi,
I have a Mac Mini PPC G4, it is a 1.42ghz model, and was wondering if I
would be able to use that to run my squeezeserver.
I am thinking that this would be cheaper to keep running all the time
than my main PC.
Also, is it possible to run squeezeplay on a mac of this spec? ATM I
have my main
Yes, we support running the server on a PPC Mac.
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I don't think I've ever heard of someone wanting gaps! You should listen
to the music the way it was intended, and the same way it plays on a CD.
:)
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cunobelinus;664491 Wrote:
+1. Perfect summary.
On 20 Oct 2011, at 14:39, Phil Leigh wrote:
Just to be clear, I have no issue with Erland choosing to charge
people
for his work going forward - that is his inalienable right. However,
nobody SHOULD provide anything - under
That works fine.
Until a month ago, my SBS was running on a MacMini G4 1.3Ghz running
Debian Linux.
The speed was totally sufficient for SBS, I just had a HDD crash on the
MacMini and then switched to an Atom based Linux server, because I also
wanted to be able to decode Videos on this box
djc45;664490 Wrote:
Would I be better running these on my mac, or installing something like
vortexbox on the mac mini instead.
I`d appreciate any advice.
Thanks
Duncan
yes, there is a squeezeplay download for the Mac. And keep in mind
that Vortexbox takes over your entire OS, so you'd
andyg;664493 Wrote:
You should listen to the music the way it was intended, and the same way
it plays on a CD. :)
Andy, I completely agree! I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear. The
problem is that when playing individual tracks, say 1812 Overture,
followed by Romeo Juliet, at present
I'm afraid there really is no good way to do this. You might want to try
using Fade in and out as your crossfade setting, which will at least
make it less abrupt.
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Also make sure you select Smart Crossfade so it won't fade if you are
playing 2 consecutive tracks.
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cunobelinus;664491 Wrote:
+1. Perfect summary.
On 20 Oct 2011, at 14:39, Phil Leigh wrote:
Just to be clear, I have no issue with Erland choosing to charge
people
for his work going forward - that is his inalienable right. However,
nobody SHOULD provide anything - under
Atlantic;664498 Wrote:
Andy, I completely agree! I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear. The
problem is that when playing individual tracks, say 1812 Overture,
followed by Romeo Juliet, at present there is no gap at all between
the end of the sound of the first piece, and the beginning of
andyg;664501 Wrote:
I'm afraid there really is no good way to do this. You might want to try
using Fade in and out as your crossfade setting, which will at least
make it less abrupt.
Ok, I will try this, and see how it sounds. From what you say, it's
the practical thing to do with SBS.
On
garym;664507 Wrote:
This is very odd. All of my rips of CDs/Tracks that do have gaps play
with gaps on all my SB players. How were your CDs ripped and was there
some odd setting you used at the time of ripping that removed the gaps?
And agree, make sure you don't have crossfade turned on (in
socistep;664506 Wrote:
ok so legally there is a potential conflict, what are you going to do
next? Your options look like
1) Legally take it further
2) Write your own version of the plugins which is legally correct and
keep them free fully in your control
3) use previous versions of
socistep;664506 Wrote:
ok so legally there is a potential conflict, what are you going to do
next? Your options look like
1) Legally take it further
2) Write your own version of the plugins which is legally correct and
keep them free fully in your control
3) use previous versions of
Atlantic;664512 Wrote:
Gary, I must check that; it may be that the problem is ok on the CD rips
we have but is definitely prevalent on digital captures from analogue
sources where our music was captured on a track-by-track basis. From
now on (knowing this) we can add a few seconds silence,
garym;664449 Wrote:
i think they are on sale WITHIN the UK as well
Hmm. Not at Logitech they're not at £259!
http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/speakers-audio/wireless-music-systems/devices/5745
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garym;664515 Wrote:
I'm not much help here, but I know that some rippers have options of
removing, adding, etc. gaps. I highly recommend dbpoweramp as a CD
ripper for FLAC. At least in my case, it addresses gaps perfectly with
no special setting. That is, if it is a live concert or pink
carled;664516 Wrote:
Hmm. Not at Logitech they're not at £259!
http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/speakers-audio/wireless-music-systems/devices/5745
i think they were on sale at 209euros at one point. they often go on
sale...or logitech has 50% or 40%, etc. coupon off periods...
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Bought the app today. Set up was easy and it worked right away. So far,
so good!
Please keep working on it...
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Here is another concern I have when a dev starts charging for something
that they previously gave away for free. They realize their time is
worth something which it is and I am not saying it is not. But then
they charge a price that will force users like me to say no thanks and
not buy. Well
Oh yes, automatic bitrate limiting is of course the more elegant (and
complicated) solution than simulating two different players. (Since I
decided to transcode into mono 64kb instead of stereo 64kb, the stream
doesn't hurt that much anymore anyway).
So about the synchronization: I played around
I think the Squeezbox is under-marketed and misunderstood. I think it
has the genuine potential to appeal to both the plugplay crowd with
multicolor touch screens (UI needs to be dumbed down), and to us
fiddlers.
I agree with those ho propose a Boom v2, which could become the most
popular device
Hi all...not sure where to put this as there is no SB3 sub forum any
more!! My SB3 works fine but if the power cable is moved slightly there
is an almighty crackle/screech and the unit loses power, a twiddle and
power is restored and the unit reboots.
I think the problem is with the cable/plug
garym;664526 Wrote:
i think they were on sale at 209euros at one point. they often go on
sale...or logitech has 50% or 40%, etc. coupon off periods...
The diference in price on electrical goods between the UK and USA has
long been a source of irritation over here.
As a matter of interest,
gruntwolla;664570 Wrote:
The diference in price on electrical goods between the UK and USA has
long been a source of irritation over here.
As a matter of interest, when it comes to these 40/50% coupons, how
does one become more noticeable to Logitech. I will probably buy a
touch at some
My HTC Wildfire only has 500Mhz and this is plenty for robust playback
and synchronization.
I just tried it again with a radio station and some mp3s - sync is
perfect here.
Did you try syncing to just one device? If even that does not work, I'm
afraid your device is just not suited.
You might
An interesting discussion. I am sitting here reading while listening to
some music (using DynamicPlaylists) and drinking red wine.
I like the legal stuff, great fun.
I paid the money - not because I use the plugins, but I recognised the
efforts that Erland puts into this forum and the software.
No worries - no refund necessary. Streaming only to SqueezePlayer works
perfectly - both at home and right now a few miles away from home, both
over 3G and Wifi through OpenVPN. Response times during these remote
streaming sessions (and a little difficult setup, with two other
routers and a proxy
There is a new iPeng update (iPhone version only) on the App Store now
which fixes two issues:
iOS 5: FIXED: playback stops when the code lock screen engages
iOS 3: FIXED: Main player controls don't move out of the way when edit
mode is being selected in MultiPlayer control.
If you haven't done
carled;664415 Wrote:
Hi all
New here and trying to help a friend out. The 3rd party hardware
section here seems all about servers. That may come in handy (for me!)
with time, but I'm looking at alternatives for a player. Ideally it
would have digital/optical out, but 3.5mm out is fine
Yeah, I used to have it wired, but we moved our office around, and now
the main computer/server is in a room that I screwed up and didn't
bring cat 5 to. I am probably going to have to rebuild one of my old
carcasses into a server and stick it in another room with wired access.
Can't really move
Sorry, didn't spot this thread until now, guess it's time for some
official answer. I'm not going to start a long discussion about it, I'm
just going to post some comments, even though most of them have already
been answered by other people earlier in the thread.
1.
Setting and viewing ratings
Well, my old SB3 gave up the ghost. First I dropped it and blew the
display, but because I run it wired to cut down on interference, I
still could run it with my android tablet and Squeezecommander.
Last week it wouldn't connect (couldn't find it). I tried rebooting
everything and unplugging
You don't have that much of a choice, if you want to buy a new player .
It is the Touch .
Neither SB3 or duet (receiver+controller) is manufactured anymore may
still exist on some sites.
Touch is also showing up at discount prices here and there, so you can
grab one for the same kind of money as
I wondered about the tough set up w/o display. To be honest, yes the
touch looks like the right choice, but I really would rather NOT have
the display. In this day and age I see no reason to have another
display cluttering up the view space when it can be controlled by other
units. When my SB3
The touch scren is neat for the initial setup a on screen keyboard for
the wifi password is a blessing
The capacitive touch screen is the same as in many simpler phones and
not a very expensive one, the vfd in sb3 cost more , so you paid more
for the display when you bougth the sb3...
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Mnyb
Erland you could add some info on your site/wiki on how to install and
keep the old plugins( not updating ) I have a feeling that many simply
don't know how and you will be answering this a lot .
We are all spioled with to the new way off adding plugins via the web-
page manually installing may
Lewis Moon;664622 Wrote:
I wondered about the tough set up w/o display. To be honest, yes the
touch looks like the right choice, but I really would rather NOT have
the display. In this day and age I see no reason to have another
display cluttering up the view space when it can be
Erland sorry Logitech has not supported devs such as yourself and it
makes me question the future of the squeezebox products. Your post
actually makes me even less likely though to put more money into this
product.
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m1abrams
JJZolx;664628 Wrote:
Uhhh... if you hide it behind another component, what difference does it
make?
You can also set all of the screensavers (while playing, while
inactive, while off) to a blank screen (it actually turns the display
off). The screen will then only be active when you use
I am relatively new to this community-about 1 yr. I read the forums
daily and in many cases they have been of great help to me. I also do
not use the plugins I see people talking about.That being said, an
observation-most of the posts I see especially over the last several
months are due to
reniera;664494 Wrote:
A resolution to this would be Logitech take a couple of hours to
integrate a copy of trackstat in the original product.
The trackstat functionality should definitely be part of LMS!
I think this would differentiate it from the competition.
The competition (iTunes,
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