Re: [slim] Last.fm going?! Doesn't look good for Squeezebox users
What would be cool would be a plugin to be able to play your last.fm loved tracks using other services with some search integration. That's what I hoped would be possible when they mentioned that mixes would still be available through Spotify. But my inquiries so far have gone un-responded :-(. The contacts I had at last.fm seem to have left the company... -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last.fm going?! Doesn't look good for Squeezebox users
Ah. But I was thinking about something like SmartMix which does the lookup by itself :) --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101226 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last.fm going?! Doesn't look good for Squeezebox users
asdti wrote: Me too.:( I have over a year's Last FM subscription pre-paid. At least they say I can claim a refund (we'll have to see how quickly THAT happens...) FWIW - just as an alternative suggestion for ex Last FM subscribers - I still have a Napster/Rhapsody subscription which still has many of the same features, although its a bit dearer. Now if Napster disappeared that really would be the end of Squeezebox for me. I never really understood the appeal of Spotify (I have both but never use it). To me it seems twice the price for less (yes I know stream is better quality but I honestly can't hear the difference and the cover art on Spotify is dreadfully pixelated. By sheer luck, my Last.fm subscription is just about to expire. Sadly, it won't now be renewed. It probably took up the majority of my Squeezebox listening hours as I loved to put a custom station on, based on a favourite artist or a genre. I've got Napster too (wonder how long that will last?) but it really is a different kind of service despite having some areas where functionality is similar (themed radio stations). Clearly, this is all happening because the music industry jacked up the cost of streaming. Well, they really shot themselves in the foot if my own personal music listening is anything to go by as I discovered a lot of new music by first hearing a track/artist through Last.fm .. then added the album to my Napster Library to check out in more detail .. and if I really liked it would buy the mp3 downloads or CD. It was a really well-integrated chain of music discovery and purchase. The fatcats in the record companies seem to want to wipe out as much online streaming as possible - or at least make it as expensive as just buying the music outright for the end user. Utterly short sighted. slimfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101226 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last.fm going?! Doesn't look good for Squeezebox users
garym wrote: never used last.fm (other than for scrobbling my tracks). Did Last.fm allow you to select and play particular songs or albums, or did it work similar to Pandora (that is, play a mix of songs based on a track or artist, but not be able to play *particular* songs. What I like about Spotify is the ability to play specific songs or albums (mostly for previewing new music I might buy later or for one off playing of things I don't want to own). So that's my basis for liking spotify (mog or rhapsody would allow the same thing too, but I moved from MOG to spotify, because it will work even if they shut down mysb.com). Spotify combined with smartmix plugin makes for a fantastic random play method as well. Services like spotify and napster are about allowing you to build a music library that you stream, with a monthly subscription. They essentially are like 'renting' your music but are a great way to access a lot of music for not a lot of money. Last.fm was all about discovering new music and sharing it with other people who had similar tastes. It used to be that you could build playlists but not control exactly which songs were played but that was dropped quite a while back. What you could do was listen to a custom stream that was tailored around what you normally listen to, or a stream of stuff it reckoned you would like, or a stream built around music similar to that made by a given artist or a specified genre/tag. You could also listen to the streams of your 'friends' on the service. It was absolutely great for getting a selection of music that you were almost sure to like but either didn't have to choose yourself (in the case of the station tailored to your known musical choices) or would never otherwise have heard (for the recommendation or genre stations). slimfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101226 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?
Any update on the SWAMP or COPY DAC boards? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk BNAL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2582 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!
ModelCitizen wrote: This company is a car crash. Agreed - there's clearly money to be made from 'network connected' home music systems as evidenced by the fact that Sonos are currently running a TV advertising campaign in the UK for their products. Logitech had an incredibly well designed system of top-notch hardware and open and super-flexible software and managed to do absolutely nothing of note with it except first lobotomise it to UE and then completely discontinue it. I can see the same thing happening with their Harmony line of remotes which they had recently said they would ditch but have kept going for the time being. Recent product developments have been less than stellar and the system seems to get less flexible all the time with their so-called 'improvements'. Why do they take absolutely brilliant products and mess them up?! Just what sort of people have risen to the top at the company, anyway they once really seemed to be on top of their game but ever since the fiasco of their Google TV box they seem to have embarked on a downward spiral of destruction. slimfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101217 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Windows 8.1 upgrade - compatible with Squeezebox Touch?
Get the latest offical download here: http://mysqueezebox.com/download Works fine on Windows 8.1 Please note that MSIE 11 has a problem rendering some pages of the web UI in 7.7.3 (the latest official release). You better get 7.7.4 which has a fix for this issue. http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.7 -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!
slimfast wrote: Logitech had an incredibly well designed system of top-notch hardware and open and super-flexible software and managed to do absolutely nothing of note with it except first lobotomise it to UE and then completely discontinue it. I'm not going to get into a whole post-mortem, but lobotomizing it to UE was far from the first thing of note. The Boom and Duet came out under the Logitech flag, although it seems that those benefited from momentum that started under Slim Devices (and continued while some of the SD team was still with Logitech). Then there's the Touch, which I think is a great product, but with a very mangled development process (including the TinyLMS travesty) and a launch so delayed that you could see Moore's Law played out in real time. IMO, that's when things took a serious downward turn. And continued from there. aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101217 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Call for testers! Daphile
alzy wrote: Kipeta, Updated to latest version. now every time I start Daphile it stays on the Please wait awhile page and just keeps counting seconds. If I wait a few minutes and go to player page , it loads page but it won't show my networked drives because on every start it wants to rescan media even though on the previous start it completed a total scan of all storage locations. Its now useless. That's strange and sad :-(. There shouldn't be any changes between last two versions that would cause such problems. You can disable automatic rescan at Settings (tab) - Advanced Media Server Setting (button) - Advanced (tab) - Performance (select list) - Automatically detect changes. Kimmo www.daphile.com kipeta's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=51816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99132 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last.fm going?! Doesn't look good for Squeezebox users
slimfast wrote: Services like spotify and napster are about allowing you to build a music library that you stream, with a monthly subscription. They essentially are like 'renting' your music but are a great way to access a lot of music for not a lot of money. true, or a way to preview specific albums before decisions about purchasing (which is my primary use of Spotify and why Pandora doesn't work for me in that way). I still believe in building my own collection without relying on rented music. I've seen too many artists/albums available for streaming that then disappear from the streaming service. I do like the added benefit of Spotify that on my iphone/ipad/computer when I'm away from home, I have lots of things to listen to without bothering with bringing songs from my collection with me or somehow connecting back over the internet to my home music server. I wouldn't pay the $9.99 a month just for that part however. It's the previewing new music that I pay for. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.2) LMS 7.8 Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) LMS 7.8 Touch Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) LMS 7.8 SqueezePlay *Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone4S iPad2 (iPeng7 Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Streaming - Spotify garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101226 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last.fm going?! Doesn't look good for Squeezebox users
I've been a subscriber to Last.fm for six years and will really miss it. The best thing about it for me has been the depth of the music they have. I listen to a wide variety of music, and through Last.fm am continually discovering new artists and buying their music, both as mp3's and as CD's. Spotify, Pandora, etc, seem only interested in major labels and don't have a quarter of the artists I've come to really like. Just this month I've really been liking a Finnish big band rap collaboration, but the chances of finding Ricky-Tick Big Band Julkinen Sana, let alone Tsuumi Sound System, Trio Mio, Frigg, Harv and similar groups on any other service are next to nil. And that's just the Scandinavian side of my musical taste! kc5f's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19652 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101226 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Last.fm going?! Doesn't look good for Squeezebox users
garym wrote: true, or a way to preview specific albums before decisions about purchasing (which is my primary use of Spotify and why Pandora doesn't work for me in that way). I still believe in building my own collection without relying on rented music. I've seen too many artists/albums available for streaming that then disappear from the streaming service. I do like the added benefit of Spotify that on my iphone/ipad/computer when I'm away from home, I have lots of things to listen to without bothering with bringing songs from my collection with me or somehow connecting back over the internet to my home music server. I wouldn't pay the $9.99 a month just for that part however. It's the previewing new music that I pay for. I have found that Spotify is actually saving me money as I used to buy Cd's without being able to preview them . Now if I only really really like the cd do I purchase it . There are many albums that simply Aren't that good all the way through. jimmypowder's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61215 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101226 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...
Hi Blugaspode, Long time no speak, I hope you're well. I have just updated to v1.3.8 of Squeezeplayer, released a few days ago, and have noticed the battery usage has shot up. I don't know for sure if it is down to this app as such as the upgrade coincided with my phone's upgrade to KitKat but SqueezePlayer is now number two on my list of battery hogs (after the Screen) at 19%. Before (and on JellyBean) it was way down the list in the nothing-to-worry-about section (~1% maybe). I must confess that despite this I haven't noticed the phone going flat any quicker. Have you noticed this? Has KitKat changed the battery metric? Cheers. 1xRadio, 2xReceiver, 2xController, 1xSB3, 2xSqueezeSlave, SBS 7.5.3 Inventor of SqueezeIR applet for the Controller indifference_engine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87364 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why does Logitech have client restrictions on Pandora in Australia?
Australians need to: 1. log into Pandora to set up an account 2. log into mysqueezebox.com and set up USA as your country the website will tell you that it thinks you are somewhere else 3. Install the Pandora app if your country is set as Australia, the Pandora app won't be available 4. in Mysqueezebox.com you can add your players and set up the menus (like in any country) Cheers Ant Perry Adelaide, Australia Squeezebox Classics Squeezebox Duets Squeezebox Touch ant.perry's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17504 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96768 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
