Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-01-19 Thread Mnyb
You may need some CAD skills prototyping and -design- skills for a product . Prototype can lurk in an over the counter generic box or a shoebox (shoebox lid can work as temporary circiut board to :) just punch holes for component legs ) , but to actually sell it to more than 100 people it has to

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2013-01-19 Thread swayzak
Hi How do I switch between LMS mysqueezebox.com for a selected player ? Thanks swayzak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16575 View this thread:

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2013-01-19 Thread jimbobvfr400
swayzak wrote: Hi How do I switch between LMS amp; mysqueezebox.com for a selected player ? Thanks From the now playing screen swipe left to see the players/servers page, then click the edit icon in the top left and drag and drop your players, you can also drag layers together here to

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2013-01-19 Thread kidstypike
jimbobvfr400 wrote: From the now playing screen swipe left to see the players/servers page, then click the edit icon in the top left and drag and drop your players, you can also drag layers together here to sync them. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD From the now playing screen

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

2013-01-19 Thread Triode
crooner wrote: I will attempt building a VAMP today. I want to use with my Audioquest Dragonfly USB DAC. I am hoping it will work fine. This DAC has a volume control in the analog domain that is usually controlled by the Windows operating system. It acts exactly like the regular system

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

2013-01-19 Thread crooner
Triode wrote: Squeezelite (the player VAMP is based on) will not access any hardware specific volume controls. It does support digital domain volume control using the standard LMS controls. It may be that you can access the hardware volume from linux, but this will require you to find a

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-01-19 Thread JJZolx
If you're an audiophile looking for highest sound quality, an external async USB DAC will give you better fidelity than an internal one in anything other than a very expensive Squeezebox replacement. So, without a screen and a touch and/or IR user interface, what real need is there for a

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-01-19 Thread Triode
I'm not sure whether we can turn this into a community product, but my personal view is that an effective Squeezebox replacement for the community can be made from a small existing arm based device + an external usb dac. This means all the audio engineering can be part of the dac and you can

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-01-19 Thread erland
JJZolx wrote: 've said in the past that an established audio company might be a good candidate for producing a Squeezebox capable player. Probably the biggest obstacle to that, however, is the current state of the server software and the astronomical costs of both supporting it and of

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-01-19 Thread erland
JJZolx wrote: Bottom line: It's just not going to happen, no matter how you slice it. Depends on what you mean with Squeezebox replacement. 1. DIY products is/will happen, we are already seeing this now, but for these we are likely taking about very small volumes, maybe a few hundred

Re: [slim] Do we need an updated wiki ?

2013-01-19 Thread garym
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Re: [slim] Do we need an updated wiki ?

2013-01-19 Thread erland
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Re: [slim] Do we need an updated wiki ?

2013-01-19 Thread garym
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Re: [slim] Logitech SqueezeBox replacement for under $30

2013-01-19 Thread crooner
I am having trouble restoring the VAMP image. I have a 4 gB USB Drive. USB image tool keeps telling me image size is too large. What should I do? I have run the program as an administrator and I don't want to truncate the image for fear of losing data.

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

2013-01-19 Thread crooner
Got myself a 8GB Sansa USB drive. Hopefully it will work. crooner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3379 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97721

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

2013-01-19 Thread crooner
Ok. I managed to get the image into the 8Gb USB. Now I am getting an alsamixer error on Putty: cannot open mixer: no such file or directory This really sucks! Any ideas? :scratch: crooner's Profile:

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

2013-01-19 Thread crooner
ok. Plugged the USB dac into a different USB port and it now works. Will plug headphones and will report back! crooner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3379 View this thread:

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

2013-01-19 Thread crooner
Got everything running smoothly! The Audioquest Dragonfly works great on it. Now to try to adapt the Griffin Powermate volume control to work on it... crooner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3379