ninjapanda wrote:
Oh, in the end I found a different app Squeezster on the nokia store
http://squeezster.garage.maemo.org/
Works well on nokia devices and will allow you to select which player
you want to control. Costs AUD$2.00 though.
I have now paid for it twice, and still not
For some interesting data, this is a Dutch price comparison web site
data on the Sqeezebox Boom: [image:
http://ic.tweakimg.net/ext/i/?ProduktID=222860]
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slimhase wrote:
Does anybody know were one can order SMD Parts like this regulator
(package label 'L33 B' - zxcl260) where I do not need to purchase 1
of these or pay 30 bucks shipping???
Depends on where in the world you live.
slimhase wrote:
I life in Germany, but I have friends in the US UK to whom I could
ship as well.
Yes, the usual suspects are RS Components, Farnell and Conrad.
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Mnyb wrote:
Do people actually pay other people to setup things like a normal home
theater reciever ?
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,
in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Atlantic wrote:
I've been thinking about the Harmon Kardon range
i suggest deciding on the speakers first (and spending most of your
money on them as well), and only then deciding on the amp/DAC, depending
on what it takes to drive the speakers you like. The differences in
sound quality
andynormancx wrote:
They do have ringer silencers and even off switches...
The ringing silencer only works if the phone is capable of proper
multitasking... :-/
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andynormancx wrote:
It does ?
As in if an incoming call still interrupts other applications despite
being muted, it will be annoying...
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geoffh wrote:
Looking at this thread, I suspect this problem is due the problem Dudley
mentions - yes?
Probably yes.
geoffh wrote:
Secondly, I have another Internet Radio model which works, in basic
terms, why does the SB Radio need the mysqueezebox.com link?
The SB Radio doesn't need
geoffh wrote:
Are you suggesting I can reconfigure so I can get at these stations
despite the MySB problems?
Well, the simplest solution, if you have a computer available, is to
install Logitech Media Server - it replaces MySB.
If you don't want to run LMS, it gets trickier - the Touch has
castalla wrote:
Several reports have said 'It's the storm in the USA' - if so, then why
are the EU servers down? It's a helluva long way from the hurricane
region?
The EU servers might be hosted in the US. If so, they would be on the
east coast, because that is where the transatlantic fibre
Mnyb wrote:
Is not the EU data center in Ireland or Germany it used to be ?
At least for me, here in Amsterdam, it seems to be on
eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com in Ireland.
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Mnyb wrote:
Lately the new post view are swamped with reoccurring digests whats
that ?
Looks like somebody has created a loop by subscribing the list
submission email address to the list - fortunately only for digests,
otherwise every message would get looped...
castalla wrote:
There must be an OFF switch somewhere???!!!
Well, the forum/list manager must remove the looping address from the
list.
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Gealt wrote:
They maybe to divert our simple minds from the fact that our bedside SB
are worth sweetfall at present.
Well, I for one am just as happy with my SBs now as when I first got
them...
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ajkidle wrote:
The problem I'm having is that when daylight savings time happens and we
gain/lose an hour, this PC clock doesn't seem to update. When the
system reboots, the time shown on my Squeezeboxen is off by an hour.
And is your computer (OS) set to the tight time zone?
Is there a
ajkidle wrote:
No reason except that I don't know how to do it. :-)
Not sure about vortexbox, but there should be a file called
/etc/ntp.conf. Insert a line with server pool.ntp.org.
How do I check to see what time zone Fedora thinks my computer is in?
echo $TZ
and you should also compare
saeyedoc wrote:
The article I found stated that for now it doesn't come with analog or
digital outputs, just speaker outputs from a 32 w/ch stereo amp. If they
do come out with digital outputs, it could be a SB replacement.
And it seems to have it's own, very limited, internal storage,
erland wrote:
My crystal ball tells me that the following will happen (sometime in the
not too distant future):
1. Some critical problem occurs that makes LMS more or less useless for
a lot of users
2. One of the following will happen:
- Logitech steps up and shows that they really meant
Steven Moore wrote:
Moved to Apple TV a while back and don't regret it.
I am glad that solution works for you, but the reason most of us are
still part of this forum and community instead of hanging out in the
Apple fanboy groups is that we either prefer the superior functionality
the SB
Time to give up on mysqueezebox on rely on your local LMS?
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jhonsber...@msn.com wrote:
Well then if someone in the community created plugins like Tiode's
Spotify plugin for MOG,Tunein Radio , etc . the squeezebox
product line would lose no functionality whatsoever when mysqueezebox is
shuttered and knowing the community folks here would work alot
jhonsber...@msn.com wrote:
Another reason to ultimately move on to a new system .
Only if a better one comes along.
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Yes and yes.
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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
AndreE wrote:
The funny thing is that we are more in the minority.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. - George
Bernard Shaw
:)
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fewleh wrote:
Sorry, I'm totally new to the squeezebox arena and this thread has made
me very confused. I just bought a slim devices squeezebox, and was
thinking of getting a few more.. but what is this about the servers
dying? What does it mean to an end user? Will I no longer be able to do
asplundj wrote:
can one connect an android phone to an external USB dac?
'Some phones/tablets to some DACs'
(http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=93402st=76)
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maggior wrote:
The revue can't run squeezeplay because squeezeplay is built for the ARM
processessor and the Revue runs an Intel Atom. Orange Squeeze looks
awesome on it though as a gigantic now playing display.
Well, the Atom should be able to run squeezelite just fine...
igoddard wrote:
If the latter then I think you need to start with a self-contained
appliance.
I think I have to disagree. The self-contained appliance has been tried
a number of times, starting with the 'Rio Advanced Digital Audio Center'
Concertina?
Harmonica?
Accordéon
Fisarmonica?
Dragspel? :)
Harmonikka, Hanuri, Kurttu? :)
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Mnyb wrote:
In that vein why not *Brikk* ,with Linnesque spelling and a hint of bugs
to come... :)
+1 :)
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Gandhi wrote:
FLÄKK
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Indeed, 255.255.252.0 is a somewhat odd netmask - covering 4 old-style
class C networks (up to 1023 hosts). Most home and small office networks
cover one class C - 254 hosts.
If the netmask is wrong on one of the hosts, broadcasts won't work
properly.
vortecjr wrote:
There are also various player, such as HQ Player from Signalyst, that
will up sample PCM to DSD to take advantage of the DAC's inherent Delta
Sigma Modulation when converting to analog.
Why is that better than letting the DAC do it internally?
vortecjr wrote:
Do you want a canned solution or do you want options? I like to have
options...
So, if I understand you correctly, you are saying that one is not better
than the other, they are just different - and having more choice is
better?
castalla wrote:
PLONK
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JJZolx wrote:
My 2¢: I couldn't care less about DSD support. Or even 192 kHz, for that
matter.
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vortecjr wrote:
I'm very open minded about new features.
You might be. I think we, as a collective, shouldn't. We don't want to
throw in every possible kitchen sink if it makes the product expensive
and complicated without providing tangible benefits for a significant
group of users.
I would
vortecjr wrote:
Yes you need all the formats and all the formats to come.
So you want us to support bluetooth and 4-bit ADAC too?
Look you don't actually have to do anything to support DSD on the player
so don't worry it. BTW you can already play Native DSD through it, but I
guess you are
epoch1970 wrote:
Perhaps using Power Over Ethernet?
But won't the electromagnetic field from the supply current affect the
IP packets in a way that is detrimental to sound quality? :)
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vortecjr wrote:
the DSD2PCM conversion is not lossless
Definitely not lossless, but will the loss be audible? We all remember
the 'AES paper'
(http://old.hfm-detmold.de/eti/projekte/diplomarbeiten/dsdvspcm/aes_paper_6086.pdf)
that concluded that ...No significant differences could be heard
Jesus,
I don't mind misspelling my name now and then, just don't make a habit
of it... :)
vortecjr wrote:
Juff, DSD should not add any cost and it's a bit more than a kitchen
sink...it's the whole kitchen.
A whole kitchen sounds expensive! :)
Mnyb wrote:
You could contribute by actually describing how encapsulate a DXD or DSD
stream in flac or WAV we have a wiki it could just be short a link to an
already existing article on the subject , Julf may already know the
details as he have some sort of pro audio affiliation
It's pretty
epoch1970 wrote:
Oh no, on the contrary. POE energizes the sound. Try it if you don't
believe me.
I clearly need to! I am sure it removes some digital granularity and
enhances the terroir :)
(I was thinking of using a passive poe injector, something like this:
JohnSwenson wrote:
If it is decided to be a good thing, I will want to do a separate test
board (with just the DAC and what it takes to do the DSD) to make sure
it can be done without sacrificing the normal output. The problem is
that unless we add a separate set of output jacks the output
stereoptic wrote:
Is there a way to password protecdt access via remote connections and
not have the physical device password protected?
Sounds like what you really want is the Block Incoming Connections
setting in Advanced/Security. Set it to block and set allowed
addresses to cover only
stereoptic wrote:
Yes, that is how I have it set for now, but I was wondering if ther eis
another way around the password issue.
Not as far as I know - I would really look into a VPN connection when
you travel, if your router supports it.
Mnyb wrote:
Many people actually likes the sound of class d amps ,but I thinks it s
due to the fact that they have an audible sonic signature and given the
specs it will be heard all the time , so I'm not surprised that these
amps makes a difference .
Output impedance is usually a bit high
Mnyb wrote:
I know ;) my generalisation is about the typical chip amps of the net +
some others . There are exceptions.
I know what you mean - just had to pitch in. My main system uses 400W
class D amp modules from Hypex. Output impedance 1 milliohm :)
A 5w amp is a 5w amp , I do not buy
Kellen wrote:
Does this infos mean that we need to ? the science (Fourier) invloved in
digital audio (PCM) because it doesn't do a good enough job (compared to
ear) of representing the analogue signal that digital is asked to
capture?
No. That paper is concerned about discerning phase
Mnyb wrote:
brikk was my bad joke :) the spelling to have fun with Linn and Rega
naming
And it is a pretty good joke, so it still has my support! Better than
the other top choices...
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castalla wrote:
It's really not appropriate:
To brick it - means to be frightened to do something.
Take pretty much any word and there will be some degrading usage for
that word somewhere in the world.
I hope you realize that vuvuzelas are regarded as extremely annoying and
inappropriate
castalla wrote:
I'm just pointing out how particularly inappropriate 'Brikk' is.
To you. To me vuvuzela is worse. It's all relative.
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castalla wrote:
It's relative to not choosing a ridiculous name which can provoke
tasteless comments!
Well, of the other ones on the current voting list, FLÄKK is a homophone
of (sounds the same as) fläck - stain in Swedish...
bengaldave wrote:
So is the second squeezebox radio causing problems because it has the
same network hostname as the first squeezebox radio?
Shouldn't be a problem - the network itself doesn't use the hostname at
all, all the network cares about is the numeric IP address (I assume you
bengaldave wrote:
Thanks for the tip, but the host name that is being reported to the
router, SqueezeboxRadio is not the same string that is editable in the
settings.
The name reported by the router is just the hostname tag used in the
DHCP request, all units use the same string. Nothing to
bengaldave wrote:
Cool, I got worried because I asked one of the maintainers of one of the
firmwares for my router and he said something like duplicate host names
are not supported.
I guess he meant that the router won't be able to show the duplicate
names.
liffy99 wrote:
I'm interested in analysing some audio CDs to see if clipping is present
in their recording. Can anyone recommend software that will allow me to
analyse this (Mac) ?
I have tried Audacity which has an 'Analyze Clipping' function which
identifies possible culprit peaks. On
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So does the 'interpolating filter' reconstruct an approximation of the
waveform?
Yes, but it will be an incorrect approximation, because the data itself
is wrong (as in clipped - limited to 0 dBFS instead of whatever higher
value the original sound wave data contained).
In
erland wrote:
It's not about the code being bad, it's about the code having a legacy
of almost 10 years development and barely none in the community
understanding how the different pieces works together and being willing
to take over the maintenance, but as said above it's not an issue on
castalla wrote:
That's my only doubt about the project that it's so locked down to the
Wandboard - can't justify to SWMBO any more expenditure on plastic
bits'n'pieces ...
As far as I understand, there won't be anything binary-only locked down
to the Wandboard, so it should be fairly
garym wrote:
For me it doesn't matter, I'm happy seeing everything. My wife would
prefer to not have such overwhelming choices. She wants to see only the
stuff she's interested in. We mostly share musical tastes, but out of my
70,000 tracks, she's interested in about 10,000 of them and
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sbp wrote:
Hi
Sorry for this question, but I just updated to LMS 7.8, and needed to
change some settings, and it ask for a restart of the server - but I
simply can't recall how I restart the server from the web pages?
/etc/init.d/logitechmediaserver restart
sbp wrote:
Somehow I seem to remember that it should be possible from the server
pages, but as I haven't found the button to press here - I'm having
doubt about my memory
My memory might be just as bad - seem to remember that when LMS tells
you it needs restarting, it also offers you a
So what you have there is two different things - SqueezePlay (that is
producing the sound) and the LMS web interface that just controls
SqueezePlay but doesn't produce any sound on it's own.
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zenesh wrote:
Can we ditch the toslink. If cost and size is no problem, Use bnc
connector. Better for digital
Really?
The benefit of toslink is galvanic isolation.
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I assume this is intended only for Windows users?
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cliveb wrote:
Excellent news that balanced is in.
Agree.
If packaging the XLR sockets is a significant problem, would 1/4 TRS
jacks be any easier? (I personally prefer XLR, but TRS jacks are also
widely used for balanced). I suppose you could even go completely
non-standard and use 3.5mm
If you share music, remember to use clean headsets!
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w3wilkes wrote:
Will there be a placeholder spot for a antenna on the back for gen2 or
will there never be a wireless option? Not sure that a internal antenna
would work with the aluminum case.
I assume the wireless option would be using a USB dongle outside the
case.
Gilles2 wrote:
+1 on Qobuz : great catalogue of music in lossless quality (even Studio
Master, better than CD).
Just a warning about the studio masters - I don't think Qobuz does any
real integrity checking on the material they get from the record labels,
so just like HDTracks they often end
Pascal Hibon wrote:
Many on-line services tend to sell either a lossy version or a high-res
version but no CD quality version. I couldnt care less about lossy or
high-res formats.
You could just buy the hi-res version - often what you get is only CD
quality anyway :)
bert1e wrote:
I use an HP Microserver N40L in the UK they often sell these cheap with
a cashback offer. I use a Linux operating system (ClearOS) and I have 3
drives configured as a RAID 5 array using software RAID. Works great, I
was worried about using software RAID as opposed to a hardware
bobk...@digido.com wrote:
My transporter (and Squeezebox) are not able to read some Pro Tools
24-bit wav files due to some field in the header. They won't even see
the files as legitimate WAVs, which is sad, because the software should
be smart enough to present the file as a playable
You might want to look into 'xPL'
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/XPL)
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You can fix it by installing audiophile-grade Flux Capacitors.
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bobk...@digido.com wrote:
I can edit the files themselves to fix the header fields using an
application such as Wave Editor on the Mac. Maybe I can applescript this
function.
It shouldn't be too hard to make a script to do the conversion. I could
definitely do it on Linux, but I am not
Mnyb wrote:
Hmm, but the scanner must still accept the file ? if LMS cant accept
them it wont matter much .
Ah, yes, good point.
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pippin wrote:
Well, it was obviously tried out on at least one. How bad is it?
Well, you *could* have called it ickypoo... :)
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Kim Kruse wrote:
I am very confident with the fact that it is based on a commercial
business model, because it might give possibilities to obtain a stronger
economical market penetration through payed services.
Actually, that is the one part that gives me doubts. I believe the
project would
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It's a funny discussion with different points of views on both sides of
the Atlantic, btw.
Whenever I talk to people in Europe they don't believe in cloud services
and that people will always prefer their own stuff.
That could be because if you are in the US, you are already
pippin wrote:
if you speak about Germany you are just as much caught up in
legislation, just different one.
Sure. But at least legislation that the Germans are more familiar with.
No, because the law originally had a flaw that actually allowed the code
to be exported in printed form (only
castalla wrote:
ps: I do not have any i-Thingy things
You could have done what I did - gone for the Nokia N9. Great hardware,
great software - apart from all the bugs that could easily have been
ironed out if Nokia hadn't chucked out their whole Linux group. Sounds
familiar? :)
maggior wrote:
What form will the community hardware take? Community software
projects make sense, but I've never heard of a community hardware
project. Will it be a parts list? A kit?
'Wikipedia: Open Source Hardware'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware)
Mark Miksis wrote:
Or is this the wrong way to think about it and should I just plan on
buying good powered speakers and a separate USB DAC in line with my
price/performance point?
Going for separates makes it easier to upgrade only the part that
becomes obsolete first...
bernid wrote:
I have considered DIY box that would accommodate four main components
(each with separate PSU) e.g. Carrier board , DAC (connected with
carrier board via I2S) and two separate clocks.
But if someone is that obsessive and doesn't want to use the built-in
stuff anyway, why
rpress wrote:
I have ported Squeezeslave to the empeg using the Boom interface and I
quite enjoy it. [/url]
Very cool! But I have to ask why?, as the default empeg user interface
is pretty well optimized, and it can already contain all the music you
might want even without an external
DJanGo wrote:
Why?
If you say -the source is cd then re-ripp and tag them. Converting from
to and backwards again wouldnt make better sounds, may better tags - so
reripp them from the sources.
Converting flac-wav-flac won't make the sound better, but it won't make
it worse either.
garym wrote:
yep, and the OP is not trying to make the sound better. He's got some
sort of odd 'tag' issue, that so far has not been easily solved,
although I'm sure it will be eventually.
Sure. Just wanted to make sure that some audiophool wouldn't read the
posing from DJanGo as implying
TheD6Bel wrote:
but I have another error
root@squeezeplug:/home# ./gpio.sh
File ./gpio.sh, line 84
if playerdetected :
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I I'm not good in script, so I do not know fix it
This isn't really a script error, it is a python syntax error, and the
error is in
SlimChances wrote:
If Ickstream is reliant on having LMS installed and new OSs appear that
are not compatible with the old LMS (presumably we will never get beyond
LMS 7.8 now Squeezebox is discontinued) where does that leave us?
Worst case it will leave you running LMS in a virtual machine
RobbeD wrote:
is there a way to make the script use less resources?
Only had a quick look, but it is a busy loop that gets executed once per
second. I would look at something like the xPL plugin or something else
that can actively send you a message when the player gets activated.
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