I also think that if I'd only need one player where the main Hifi is, I
would choose whatever there is available on the market (maybe even DLNA
stuff).
But in the meantime I own three Squeezebox Radios (Bedroom, Kitchen,
Bathroom) and I couldn't replace them with Apple stuff anymore,
because:
-tm-;696825 Wrote:
2. It just works: Have you ever hestitated installing a new Squeezebox
Server release? Waiting for other users on the forum reporting their
experience? I have. I had troubles with some updates e.g. with
sleep/wake functionality of the server. I took time to fix these. Not
bluegaspode;696848 Wrote:
...Squeezeboxes big advantage over other systems is still their very
good multiroom capability but also their form factor.
If only Logitech would understand this too... They don't if you look at
their marketing.
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'::bug 1330:: New music
One big advantage with Squeezebox is LMS. It's the best music server
software out there. (No, I'm not kidding)
I like to keep everything in one location. Easy to maintain and easy to
control.
AirPlay works for casual listening but thats it.
Other advantages is
Display on the player.
IR
All -TM- would have to add to his set-up is one or two Airport Express
base stations (to which you can attach speakers) in order to get
multi-room capability.
With software available to set up your NAS as an iTunes server, you
would also solve the issue of having to have the iMac running in
bernt;696854 Wrote:
One big advantage with Squeezebox is LMS. It's the best music server
software out there. (No, I'm not kidding)
I like to keep everything in one location. Easy to maintain and easy to
control.
I actually agree with the above.
My problem is that I have a large music
-tm-;696825 Wrote:
1. Sound quality: Apple TV sounds better then Squeezebox. I would have
never guessed this. I have fairly good HiFi equipment. Most of my music
is either in Apple Lossless (ALAC, which is like FLAC) or 320 CBR mp3
format. Apple TV is connected via HDMI. Squeezebox is
AnthonioBEL;696856 Wrote:
At the end of the day, it makes sense to have one software-package
control all your digital media, whatever form it may take.
Why?
The use cases are very different (listen to music anywhere vs. in front
if the TV; view one movie every evening vs. 20 tracks/hour;
servies;696857 Wrote:
So both the Squeezebox and the Apple TV do nothing to the sound as the
digital processing is done by your receiver... How then can it be that
they sound different???
I'm not 100% sure, but Apple might apply some compression.
It's the same thing as a lot of people
I find it makes sense (for me) not so much because of the final use
(Listening vs viewing) but browsing...
For me it's the difference between having to go to one shop to buy/rent
movies, then walk up the street for another shop to buy/borrow books,
and then walk to yet another shop to buy a
But do you find the Apple remote to be so much different than the SB
Apps? Maybe you've been using the wrong ones :D
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Haha, no, not much different.
Again, it's whether you'd have to use two different remote apps to
access different types of media vs just the one accessing all your
media.
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Apple TV outputs stereo audio at 16bit 48K on hdmi and toslink outs.
This is independent of file type.
Not really good enough
Dave
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DaveWr;696864 Wrote:
Apple TV outputs stereo audio at 16bit 48K on hdmi and toslink outs.
This is independent of file type.
Not really good enough
Dave
If we are to believe the article + discussion posted here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93990
it would be good
AnthonioBEL;696865 Wrote:
If we are to believe the article + discussion posted here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93990
it would be good enough. No?
I also believe that 44.1k 16 bit audio is adequate for music
distribution. But I don't however believe that taking a well
DaveWr;696866 Wrote:
I also believe that 44.1k 16 bit audio is adequate for music
distribution. But I don't however believe that taking a well made file
at 44.1k sampling rate and up-sampling it to a non multiple like 48k is
benign without great care. I don't necessarily expect Apple to do
garym;696872 Wrote:
Even if I had no other issues, if apple TV upsamples my 44.1/16 files to
48k, this would be a deal breaker.
+! yes is it not the same with the airports .
And wonder how the volume works then ?
Of the op can hear the difference that would prove that something is
not rigth
garym;696872 Wrote:
Even if I had no other issues, if apple TV upsamples my 44.1/16 files to
48k, this would be a deal breaker.
And here is JA discovering somebody else doing it badly (Roku):
http://www.stereophile.com/content/roku-soundbridge-m1001-network-music-player-measurements
Dave
DaveWr;696881 Wrote:
And here is JA discovering somebody else doing it badly (Roku):
http://www.stereophile.com/content/roku-soundbridge-m1001-network-music-player-measurements
Dave
yep, key quote from end:
A Roku spokesperson on the Web forum stated that though this design
decision
You are using Apple TV to play music and you've decided what song you
want to hear next: how do you accomplish this without interrupting the
current song?
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pski
real stereo doesn't just wake the neighbors, it -enrages- them.. It is
truly the Golden Age of Wireless
Your are now using Apple TV exclusively. You are out-of-town at a
friend's house and you want to play some of your CD's and you don't
subscribe to Match but you have an Apple TV with you. How do you play
your music remotely?
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real stereo doesn't just wake the neighbors, it -enrages-
garym;696872 Wrote:
Even if I had no other issues, if apple TV upsamples my 44.1/16 files to
48k, this would be a deal breaker.
I believe that was a typo, all Apple devices usually only do 16/44.1,
not 16/48
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pski;696886 Wrote:
You are using Apple TV to play music and you've decided what song you
want to hear next: how do you accomplish this without interrupting the
current song?
You -can- achieve this, if:
- you are streaming from you iPhone/iPad to the Apple TV
- you are using one of the third
pippin;696890 Wrote:
I believe that was a typo, all Apple devices usually only do 16/44.1,
not 16/48
Not true Apple TV2 and Apple TV3 only output stereo audio at 16bit 48k.
Totally different to Airport Express. Check Apple support. Or try
plugging in a DAC!
Dave
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DaveWr;696892 Wrote:
Not true Apple TV2 and Apple TV3 only output stereo audio at 16bit 48k.
Totally different to Airport Express. Check Apple support. Or try
plugging in a DAC!
Dave
Oh wow. In this case they really do a lot of sample rate
transformation.
AirPlay, at least when
pippin;696895 Wrote:
Oh wow. In this case they really do a lot of sample rate
transformation.
AirPlay, at least when streaming from an iOS device (iPhone/iPad/iPod)
streams 16/44.1, that's the only format iOS devices support internally
and I don't believe (again: don't know; I know the only
pski;696887 Wrote:
Your are now using Apple TV exclusively. You are out-of-town at a
friend's house and you want to play some of your CD's and you don't
subscribe to Match but you have an Apple TV with you. How do you play
your music remotely?
You'd use similar wizardry you would have to
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how did you get the app to work in Canada
i signed up for Online+ yesterday (added it to my acct) and now want to
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can't find anyplace to change my password or acct name either (has
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Feel foolish for even having to post this but I am attempting to add a
URL to my SB and am following the steps provided by Logitech but can't
find the save icon that I am supposed to click on to save my URL to
the playlist. Any help would be most appreciated!
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It'S at the bottom right in the web interface
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Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks.
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I'm using ipeng on my iPad 3 and loving it! The only drawback is gapless
playback. I see squuezepad says it allows gapless playbackwhenstreaming
to an iPad. Can any users confirm that it will do so for FLAC files?
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FYI I don't use playlists. Will it preload the next track in an album
based on track number?
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I have been using iTunes for years but would never go to Apple TV or
Airport Express instead of using my Squeezeboxes and LMS. Why? The
Apple devices, using the digital outs to my DACs, sound like crap. The
Squeezebox Classics and Touch that I use sound as good as my CDs in a
good player. The OP
Will come with the next update in iPeng for iPad, too, which hopefully
will show up end of this week or early next week in the App Store.
It's been waiting for review for a while, see the iPeng support thread
for details on the delay.
It will support gapless and synchronization.
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pippin;696940 Wrote:
Will come with the next update in iPeng for iPad, too, which hopefully
will show up end of this week or early next week in the App Store.
It's been waiting for review for a while, see the iPeng support thread
for details on the delay.
It will support gapless and
jclyle;696941 Wrote:
Great to hear! Will it do gapless for FLAC?
Yes, it will also do gapless between different formats.
And it works with some streaming services, too, although they have
almost no gapless material and even edit some albums that are
originally gapless as of my experience.
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jclyle;696936 Wrote:
I'm using ipeng on my iPad 3 and loving it! The only drawback is gapless
playback. I see squuezepad says it allows gapless playbackwhenstreaming
to an iPad. Can any users confirm that it will do so for FLAC files?
SqueezePad supports gapless playback for all formats
piperpilot12w;696842 Wrote:
It appears the disabled remote settings on the Transporter only take
effect when LMS is active. Before LMS is started, Transporter registers
signals from the remote. Once LMS is active, the remote doesn't have any
effect.
That makes sense, because disabling the
AnthonioBEL;696900 Wrote:
Surely the average user has not set their LMS up so they can stream
their own music remotely?
You did not answer the question. I asked How? not Why not?
Your i holds 600GB of music and can play flac ?
To be fair, most of my library is lossless m4a
P
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andynormancx;696891 Wrote:
You -can- achieve this, if:
- you are streaming from you iPhone/iPad to the Apple TV
- you are using one of the third party apps that plays from the local
iTunes library but allows on the go playlist creation
Admittedly that isn't how I'd want to manage my
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mkaye;696908 Wrote:
how did you get the app to work in Canada
i signed up for Online+ yesterday (added it to my acct) and now want to
use it with my Squeezebox, but i can't login to the app
can't find anyplace to change my password or acct name either (has
email address)?
mark
Read my
I am having the same problem. It was working, now I am getting nothing.
I was going to wait unto the 27th, then see if it corrected itself.
David
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bluegaspode;696974 Wrote:
SqueezePad supports gapless playback for all formats since the day the
playback was released (Xmas '10) . This includes FLAC of course.
Does it allow playback on iPhone too?
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jclyle;696993 Wrote:
Does it allow playback on iPhone too?
It's purely an iPad App
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I find this thread very timely. I have a Boom in a bedroom, a Classic
connected to a stereo in my office, and a Duet in my family room. Love
them all. However, I have ordered the new Apple TV with hopes of it
replacing my Duet.
My reasons to move forward are that I have finally given up
jclyle;696993 Wrote:
Does it allow playback on iPhone too?
No, but iPengHD also does not run on iPhone.
Playback on iPhone is possible with iPeng or SqueezeCast which are both
sold separately.
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