Re: [slim] Squeezebox is (not) dead... One year later.

2013-10-18 Thread bernt
Just got my hands on a second Slimdevices SB3 (Silver). I love it!!! :D 'LastFM' (http://www.last.fm/user/ottovonkopp/) SB3, SB BOOM - Vortexbox@HP SFF iPod Touch\iPeng bernt's Profile:

Re: [slim] Maximum number of hardware devices that can be synced

2013-10-18 Thread pippin
The server isn't connected over WiFi, isn't it? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and *New: Logitech UE Smart Radio* as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com

Re: [slim] What should replace my Squeezebox system?

2013-10-18 Thread Gingernut63
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2 (ARM processor) running Windows 8 with SqueezePlay installed. I've tried it with two DACs, a Muse Mini USB DAC and a Behringer UCA202 with no problems. Won't use it this way myself but good to know there are no problems with this approach. Not a fan of Windows 8

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

2013-10-18 Thread Phil Karn
On 10/10/2013 08:17 PM, Mnyb wrote: If you run debian testing ? why not run the 7.8 beta version of the server that have some fixes for the perl issues ( perl 5.18 ). if your prepared to run a beta versions of an OS Why not of the server I didn't even know there was a 7.8 beta version --

[slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread castalla
Over the last 24 hrs all the BBC national channels fail to play - the station info appears on screen but there's no sound. Can others confirm this? On Tunein site the channels fail to play also, but a message appears saying the channel is not available at the moment. Touch - Muse M50 EX

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread bpa
6music and R4 play OK for me but I'm outside UK and so Tunein plays 48kbps WMA format. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: 6music and R4 play OK for me but I'm outside UK and so Tunein plays 48kbps WMA format. I think that's the problem - the streams are wma format (which have never played on my setup!). I think previously they were AAC - but seem to have changed format ... Touch - Muse M50 EX

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread Grumpy Bob
Radio 4 was playing fine this morning through the iPlayer plugin (I don't use Tunein). I'm in the UK. Robert Touch DacMagic 100 Naim Audio Nait 3 Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 and Naim CD3) 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 SqueezePad, iPeng, Squeezeplay, Squeezeslave QNAP TS-239,

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: I think that's the problem - the streams are wma format (which have never played on my setup!). I think previously they were AAC - but seem to have changed format ... The Tune-in URL used to have options about which formats to return. Perhaps (because of adding metadata)

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: The Tune-in URL used to have options about which formats to return. Perhaps (because of adding metadata) they are limtiing BBC to WMA and perhaps the BBC geo-ip lock is messing things up (e.g. Tune-in is not in UK and so it will get a non UK WMA URL which cannot be played from

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: Okay - thanks. So, you confirm that the issue is with Tunein no longer offering AAC? I don't know if Tune-in ever offered AAC on BBC but if you try adding formats=aac,wma to the Tune-in URL only WMA URls are returned Is there a list of overseas wma stream urls anywhere?

Re: [slim] Call for testers! Daphile

2013-10-18 Thread kipeta
CHANGES ON OCTOBER 18TH 2013: - First 32bit x86 release for i486 and above - Composer (available only for classical music) and Label tags for ripping - Shutdown and restart button to main menu - TRIM support for ext4 SSD partitions - WLAN HW switch detection (RFKILL; Connect Wi-Fi: HW

Re: [slim] Wandboard for sale

2013-10-18 Thread JohnnyBAwesome
Hi there - Is this still available? Where in the US is this shipping from? Is pricing flexible / is shipping included in your price? JohnnyBAwesome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61906 View this

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread castalla
Thanks for the info. I wanted to set up a couple of favourites for BBC 5 and BBC 4 - guess I could do that just as easily via iPlayer plugin. I switched to mysb,com and when I play the tunein favourite there then it plays wma okay. Think there must be a gremlin in my lms server setup which is

Re: [slim] Maximum number of hardware devices that can be synced

2013-10-18 Thread pippin
The mesh network has the same bandwidth limitations as other WiFi networks, it would be even worse than the OPs current setup because it will only use a single channel. Have you ever tried to sync 18 devices with Sonos? If this is really a bandwidth problem over WiFi or on the server side, Sonos

Re: [slim] itunes radio

2013-10-18 Thread JohnnyBAwesome
I could be way off, but iTunes radio seems to be Apple-specific and not likely to ever be ported off to non-iOS devices? JohnnyBAwesome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61906 View this thread:

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

2013-10-18 Thread JackOfAll
JohnnyBAwesome wrote: I've been searching fro a Squeeze Box replacement for a while, and found this option the other day: http://www.vidabox.com/opensqueeze-replacement-squeezebox-alternative-multi-room-zone-music-hardware-audio-players.html I've been made aware of this product too.

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

2013-10-18 Thread froth
JohnnyBAwesome wrote: I've been searching fro a Squeeze Box replacement for a while, and found this option the other day: http://www.vidabox.com/opensqueeze-replacement-squeezebox-alternative-multi-room-zone-music-hardware-audio-players.html Seems to be close to a Duet replacement, and

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

2013-10-18 Thread JohnSwenson
volpone wrote: Thank's Julf and Cliveb My goal is to get, as soon as possible, a SB Touch alternative or replacement for my HIFI digital setup and the most important point is audio quality associated with Rega external DAC (or other good external audiophile DAC) . So if CSP carrier and

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread bwaldron
bpa wrote: I don't know if Tune-in ever offered AAC on BBC They did; I have been getting AAC from the BBC via TuneIn for at least the past few years. I just checked and confirmed that I'm now getting WMA. bwaldron's

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread castalla
bwaldron wrote: They did; I have been getting AAC from the BBC via TuneIn for at least the past few years. I just checked and confirmed that I'm now getting WMA. I've reinstalled lms - still can't get wma to play on Touch. If I switch Touch to mysb.com then the wma streams play. The failed

Re: [slim] Call for testers! Daphile

2013-10-18 Thread dminches
I read through the information on the web site, including the diagram, but I am confused as to how people are using this. I understand the server side but not the player side. I see that I can connect the server to a USB dac. Am I able to use my Touch? How does the touch connect to the

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread castalla
After a lot of reconfiguring, testing with vpn, etc. I give up on this problem! There's no way the BBC wma streams will play on my system - consistently getting 'Connection reset by local host'. Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio + remote Raspberry

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: After a lot of reconfiguring, testing with vpn, etc. I give up on this problem! There's no way the BBC wma streams will play on my system - consistently getting 'Connection reset by local host'. Are you using a proper VPN or one with a smart DNS to make it appear as if

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread castalla
Okay - using te beebotron url for Radio 4: Native dns - plays via VLC True vpn - plays via VLC smart dns - fails to play via VLC With LMS - fails to play with all the above settings - I rebooted the LMS server for each of the settings. Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread bpa
LMS has a two stage analysis or URLS/playlist and perhaps it is not using your DNS (IIRC years ago openDNS was used) - perhap you should check by enabling logging for network.asyncdns A workaround may be to avoid playlist and minimise DNS lookups by using the real BBC URLs BBC has many WMA

Re: [slim] Maximum number of hardware devices that can be synced

2013-10-18 Thread bpa
You should check the TCP statistics (using netstat) for the server ethernet interface and if you see a number of timeout or packet retransmissions just after starting playing on synced players - then you'll know it is a network overload problem.

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: LMS has a two stage analysis or URLS/playlist and perhaps it is not using your DNS (IIRC years ago openDNS was used) - perhap you should check by enabling logging for network.asyncdns A workaround may be to avoid playlist and minimise DNS lookups by using the real BBC URLs

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: The non-UK works - UK fails If only non UK works - then it sounds like BBC geo lock have got around the VPN and/or smart DNS bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: If only non UK works - then it sounds like BBC geo lock have got around the VPN and/or smart DNS Ah - but the streams work if I play on VLC using PC with vpn. Is there a way to force LMS to use the openDNS address? My system is set-up to use smart dns via the router. On the

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread bpa
castalla wrote: Ah - but the streams work if I play on VLC using PC with vpn What is the MMS url which VLC is playing ( I think you need to go into Tools menu to find it) As a control point the URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/r4.asx does not play for me on LMS or VLC but the mms url

Re: [slim] Tunein - BBC national channels

2013-10-18 Thread castalla
bpa wrote: What is the MMS url which VLC is playing ( I think you need to go into Tools menu to find it) As a control point the URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/r4.asx does not play for me on LMS or VLC but the mms url will play. I think the BBC have done something weird with their