Re: [slim] Moving on...

2012-10-29 Thread StridingEdge
ModelCitizen wrote: The only way a smart phone will destroy your experience of being outside is if you let it, actually not even if you let it... if you make it so.I couldn't agree more! I have similar uses for my smartphone - except I don't have so many specialist apps. My phone

Re: [slim] Moving on...

2012-10-29 Thread StridingEdge
ModelCitizen wrote: Shame about the lack of storage. otherwise it sounds like ViewRanger would be right up your street..Looks very similar to MM Tracker. You have to buy the maps though I presume? StridingEdge's

Re: [slim] Moving on...

2012-10-29 Thread StridingEdge
I'll PM you... StridingEdge's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96877 ___ discuss

Re: [slim] Moving on...

2012-10-30 Thread StridingEdge
ModelCitizen wrote: Not far from Crowborough (which i know well). A small village called Barcombe, 3 miles North of Lewes. Off the beaten track and surrounded by estate land (woods, pheasants and deer and the like). Barcombe is elevated and sits above the Ouse and Bevern water courses. I

Re: [slim] Accessing BBC5 Live Sports Extra

2012-11-15 Thread StridingEdge
I have an SBTouch and listen to 5LSE on a regular basis. I just found the station in the list of BBC programmes and added it. I'm listening to TMS as we speak! StridingEdge's Profile:

Re: [slim] Accessing BBC5 Live Sports Extra

2012-11-15 Thread StridingEdge
Geoff Just to clarify - that URL was taken from my touch settings and that it needs no further intervention from me to enable the stream to work. I didn't mean that it was the URL for listening via the internet on a PC. If it doesn't work for you then I suspect it is as others have mentioned

Re: [slim] Andriod apps for controlling Logitech devices. (question)

2012-11-27 Thread StridingEdge
It depends on what you want the app to do, I suspect. All I want from an app is to be able to have minimal control from the sofa (where I cannot see the tiny screen, even if it were angled at the correct position). I have the official one and with that, I can see what's playing, I can skip tracks

[slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-04 Thread StridingEdge
Hey all My Touch was working perfectly until the scan started terminating after a minute or so. I have decided that I can no longer run with a device that is unsupported and cannot waste any more time trying to fix a problem for which there seems to be no company support and with an issue that

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-04 Thread StridingEdge
Yes, bad file it turns out. It wasn't a rant at all but more one of sheer disappointment. But, as with many others I have seen on here over the last year or so, I can see a finite lifetime for the Touch, as everything has of course but I know if it has any sort of actual fault it's not going to

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-05 Thread StridingEdge
atrocity wrote: You might want to look at the Oppo players. They play all the disc formats you mentioned and do some streaming. As far as I know, streaming from your own library still involves DLNA/UPNP with no gapless playback, though you'd be able to stream multichannel FLAC. They

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-05 Thread StridingEdge
JJZolx wrote: Sheer disappointment in software that is unable to read a bad file? :confused: Anyway... Are you unaware of the many different approaches to creating a Squeezebox equivalent from a small, inexpensive computer? It's discussed in many, many threads in these forums. Well I

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-05 Thread StridingEdge
It would make more sense to clear cache as part of the process wouldn't it? What would it matter if it was an automated and combined process? Are there any downsides to that? I might, as new practice clear it every time I do a complete scan from now on. The disappointment was the final straw at

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-06 Thread StridingEdge
Thanks - that's interesting. I will continue to look at solutions and see what is best. I might, I confess, go down the Sonos route but it is an expensive one. Re Tags - I see more problems on home audio forums relating to poor tagging than just about anything else. I was lucky to have spent

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-06 Thread StridingEdge
^ I read somewhere, only in the last couple of days, that Sonos are changing from that limitation. I'll try and find the link... StridingEdge's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57498 View this

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-07 Thread StridingEdge
jmschnur wrote: You might look at JRiver software and their new hardware. I just looked at their site - nothing mentions any hardware options StridingEdge's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57498

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-07 Thread StridingEdge
Possibly interesting but doesn't look like anything near the finished article and not what I'm looking for. I suppose what I really want is something very similar to the Touch but with a screen twice the size and a remote you don't need a teenager with a magnifying glass to use (to see the tiny

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-07 Thread StridingEdge
I've tried the smartphone route but it's just too small again. Is there a way of using a SmartTV? StridingEdge's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57498 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-07 Thread StridingEdge
OK - got that. I have just configured both TVs to access the Media Server. So, that's some progress with my setup. At least I can see what's playing, instead of having to stand up and walk over to the screen every time a track comes on that I don't recognise. I don't know why it didn't occur to

Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch

2014-09-08 Thread StridingEdge
stvjfp1 wrote: High price, but looks good: http://www.bladelius.com/products/bladelius/mimer/Strewth - high price is right! StridingEdge's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57498 View this