Re: [slim] Twonky kills LMS

2013-01-02 Thread bonze
If Twonky is already running when you install LMS, then LMS will automatically assign a different port number (e.g. 9001). If you install Twonky after LMS, then it is best to assign the port number yourself for LMS beforehand. Server Settings Advanced Network

[slim] Hello Everyone

2013-01-02 Thread freeware12
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Re: [slim] Hello Everyone

2013-01-02 Thread castalla
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Re: [slim] Hello Everyone

2013-01-02 Thread Hofstede
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Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread chill
This is excellent news. This is what I love about the Squeezebox community - despite the demise of the official product, or maybe because of it, the various community efforts (e.g. iPeng/Sqeezepad etc, Squeezelite, RPi and now the VAMP) are already making my spare Touch look redundant. Maybe I

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread bernt
chill wrote: This is excellent news. This is what I love about the Squeezebox community - despite the demise of the official product, or maybe because of it, the various community efforts (e.g. iPeng/Sqeezepad etc, Squeezelite, RPi and now the VAMP) are already making my spare Touch look

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread garym
erland wrote: Does it even have enough power to run LMS on it ? My reading is that it would replace a TOUCH player. But LMS would still need to run elsewhere (vortexbox, PC, NAS, etc.). Also, my question is related to whether one could run free pandora on this unit. The software SB

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread erland
chill wrote: What would it take to make a software player do the job of a UE player I wonder. Are we in danger of killing off a UE Touch before it's even announced? To kill a potential UE Touch it would have to be distributed and sold in all warehouses where mass market users would buy a

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread erland
garym wrote: Also, my question is related to whether one could run free pandora on this unit. The software SB players I use (squeezeplay) won't allow me to run the free pandora. I'm guessing the reason Pandora doesn't work is because Logitech have blocked software players from some

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread pippin
You need a paid Pandora account to make it work with software players. Rhapsody won't work at all. Spotify requires Triode's plugin. pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread pippin
Oh. And if you really want to sell it as an audio device you can add a healthy margin - something like 200-300% would be common - for distributors and the fact that you are in to open a can of worms regarding licensing. If you sell this thing as an audio device, you are violating patents you have

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread Triode
agillis wrote: There has been a lot of discussion in this forum about a replacement for the SqueezeBox. I worked on this problem over the holiday and I think I came up with a good solution. Using a low cost ARM based system I was able to build a box that basically does everything the

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread castalla
Triode wrote: This is indeed the type of device I envisaged when I started writing squeezelite. It's intended to be a good emulation of a squeezebox from a headless playback point of view and to support usb audio devices. When run on a low power arm device this gives a good alternative to

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread albright
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Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread erland
pippin wrote: Oh. And if you really want to sell it as an audio device you can add a healthy margin - something like 200-300% would be common - for distributors and the fact that you are in to open a can of worms regarding licensing. If you sell this thing as an audio device, you are

Re: [slim] Interest for community maintained music streaming wiki ?

2013-01-02 Thread Julf
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Re: [slim] Twonky kills LMS

2013-01-02 Thread chenrikson
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Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread Julf
Triode wrote: My original target device was a Raspberry Pi, I'm hoping its usb driver can get fixed to make this a reality If not, there will be a Pi 2.0, or some other competitor offering even more power and functionality for less money and space... It seems to be a nicely developing

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread agillis
The PogoPlug I'm using has a Marvell Kirkwood 1.2GHz (ARM) processor and 256 GB memory. You could run LMS on it if you wanted. I'm using squeezeplug as a base OS so this would be very easy to do. I never recommend running LMS on a unit like this becasue of problems with rebuilding a your libary,

Re: [slim] Twonky kills LMS

2013-01-02 Thread Mnyb
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Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread pippin
erland wrote: Just for my understanding, is the licensing issues any different than for the current Vortexbox Appliance products which also includes a software player last time I checked ? At least my Vortexbox installation on a laptop have a software player built-in. Technically not. But

[slim] Which streaming services (eg LastFM napster Spotify) display on SB Duet controller?

2013-01-02 Thread ajmitchell
Hi I am a later adoptor to streaming services. I don't have a touch just classic SB's and the duet controller (the one with the jog wheel and display). Will any streaming services work using the duet controller showing tracks/albums/artists? Alternatively i have an android smart phone, if the SB

Re: [slim] Which streaming services (eg LastFM napster Spotify) display on SB Duet controller?

2013-01-02 Thread Recoveryone
Just to get a clear picture of what you are looking for? You are asking if the remote for the duet will show album art, track info.via using a internet streaming services? I know that Pandora shows album art and I think LastFM will also. As far as apps for your android phone, there are

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2013-01-02 Thread PMusic
lopasilver wrote: Very useful for me, as I had trouble to set up SqueezeSlave to digital output... Works perfectly with ma SQ Radio and Touch on LMS w/Synology Philippe France Works as well perfectly for me on Mac mini and MLhowever after installing the 158.dmg package, the sampling

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2013-01-02 Thread Triode
PMusic wrote: Works as well perfectly for me on Mac mini and MLhowever after installing the 158.dmg package, the sampling rate of my MuFi VLink 192 XMos converter displays always a 192KHz sample rate, independently of the source FLAC being streamed (I've tried with 44.1, 88,2 and 96), is

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread NFLnut
Honestly, and I know that I'm risking getting flamed BIG time on this board, but if Logitech is going to pull the plug, I think it's time to abandon or phase out LMS in any home built effort! I still think the Squeezebox is THE best music player on the market. It's truly a shame that Logitech IS

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread garym
NFLnut wrote: Honestly, and I know that I'm risking getting flamed BIG time on this board, but if Logitech is going to pull the plug, I think it's time to abandon or phase out LMS in any home built effort! I still think the Squeezebox is THE best music player on the market. It's truly a

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread NFLnut
garym wrote: I rarely use browse music folder. LMS is not really designed to use Browse Music Folder as a way of accessing music. Its internal database is based on tags, etc. So using BMF could be the cause of the hanging you see. That may be. The way I have my music categorized is by

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread garym
NFLnut wrote: That may be. The way I have my music categorized is by folders. I am an old radio guy. I was raised on, and worked in top-40/pop/rock radio in the (60s) 70s 80s. A few of my hits folders have several thousand FLACs in them. I often will cue up one of those folders for random

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread aubuti
NFLnut wrote: That may be. The way I have my music categorized is by folders. I am an old radio guy. I was raised on, and worked in top-40/pop/rock radio in the (60s) 70s 80s. A few of my hits folders have several thousand FLACs in them. I often will cue up one of those folders for random

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread garym
aubuti wrote: -- and multiple genres are easy in LMS. Yes, I use multiple genres in some file tags. And easy to add multiple genres in batch ways using mp3tag. (note, in the genre field use double back slashes to separate genres, enter something like: Rock\\Holiday This will then show up

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread garym
aubuti wrote: And actually the Sonos hardware isn't too hard to grok. Very roughly speaking: Play:3 -- like the SB Radio, but with no display or controls Play:5 -- like Play:5, but bigger Connect -- like the SB Duet Receiver Connect:Amp -- like the SB Duet Receiver mated with an

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-02 Thread olive_media
Jokke wrote: If there is no analog output to a regular hifi, it is a no-go for me. What is the benefit of a built in amp, for an audiophile network player ? The 32w amp can never drive my bw speakers. Hey there, The ONE has a Class D amplifier with 2x32W into 8Ohm. As a general note:

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread aubuti
garym wrote: interesting that there is nothing that seems to function as a bedside radio. With all the alarm complaints that SB gets, I can understand this. But it seems like it would be nice to have a bedside player that one can listen to via speaker or headphone AND IMPORTANTLY control

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-02 Thread olive_media
dyohn wrote: IMO it needs digital outputs and analog line level outs. Until it does, it's just a Sonos knock-off, not a high-end music player solution. http://www.myoliveone.com/Ones/tech_specs The ONE's going to be packing an internal Burr-Brown DAC–not Sonos-like at all :-).

Re: [slim] squeeze server down? anyone else?

2013-01-02 Thread chipmalee
Happy to say no issues so far. So it was down for about 3 hrs on 12/23 24. Can't believe how integral Squeeze is in my life...from time I go to the bathroom in the morning to the time it puts me to sleep. iHeart my SqueezeRadio.

Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-02 Thread Wirrunna
agillis wrote: The PogoPlug I'm using has a Marvell Kirkwood 1.2GHz (ARM) processor and 256 GB memory. You could run LMS on it if you wanted. I'm using squeezeplug as a base OS so this would be very easy to do. I never recommend running LMS on a unit like this becasue of problems with

Re: [slim] Interest for community maintained music streaming wiki ?

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Herger
I've recently realized that we barely maintain and update the wiki at wiki.slimdevices.com anymore. For me personally, one reason to not spend significant time to update information at wiki.slimdevices.com is that it's hosted by Logitech and I'm a bit afraid that one day sometime in the future

Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2013-01-02 Thread Mnyb
olive_media wrote: Hey there, The ONE has a Class D amplifier with 2x32W into 8Ohm. As a general note: Class D amp output wattage cannot be compared to regular analog amps, as they are much more powerful and power efficient. We are driving some BW Cm9 and 804Ds here in our office and

Re: [slim] Which streaming services (eg LastFM napster Spotify) display on SB Duet controller?

2013-01-02 Thread Mnyb
Regarding playback that's up to the player and not the controller . Classic aka Squeezebox 3 can not use logitechs oficial spotify app for example , you must use triodes plugin on your own server , so these older players would not be able to use mysqueezebox.com exclusively for spotify ( but it