For what I was using the forums
- hitting 'new posts' 10 times a day
- reading it via Tapatalk the rest of the day
- writing some answers now and then
the new forum works reasonably well and I like the fresh look!
Thanks a lot for the smooth transition and especially for convincing
your
Hi uzi2,
I was just about to write that I'm out of ideas in your case and about
to summarize the case so that maybe anyone else could help.
As we already found out the connection didn't fail for FLAC but was
throttled - and the pictures on the xda-developers now also sort of have
a proof for
mps wrote:
Just wanted to say good job and thank you.
Hi Mike,
thanks a lot for the very kind words.
Yesterday I sent out a new release, which improves the small covers on
Retina resolution.
I also finally found the bug, why on iPad 1+2 the artwork was a little
bit more blurry than in all
Ben - regarding the Extras menu: the items are already sent by the
server (if there are plugins using it). You just need to manually create
the parent 'Extras' node.
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Hi atrocity,
just enter the settings screen of SqueezePad (tap the small button on
the lower right).
Here you can select which server to use (via the 'Search' button) and
also provide your server credentials.
db122 wrote:
I'm on Skyrim Break this week.
Sounds so familiar. Only played 10 hours in the last two months, needs
to change.
Don't get lost in the snow on the high mountains we need you back here
bluegaspode's
SqueezePad 1.9.5 is available on the AppStore now.
While version 1.9.4 was the first version to really support Retina
resolution, in this version I had to focus on the parts which didn't
take too long to implement to make you happy with your new iPad. Now
some more time has passed and I have
tonyptony wrote:
The other UPnP stuff out there is pitiful by comparison.
The reason for this is UPnP, which is a somewhat flawed (least common
denominator) specification (at least when you expect anything that comes
near to the Squeezebox experience).
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HumanMedia wrote:
You are right. I reconstructed the database again and restarted the app
tonight and it updates the artwork fine albeit slower than usual.
What type of server are you using (and what server version) ?
I'm running a SheevaPlug at home (using LMS 7.7.2) , which I guess is
not
xprezz wrote:
Really? No one with more than two players who knows how the sync options
work in squeeze pad?
I'm very sorry, I missed your question.
SqueezePad supports the official sync menus of the Squeezeboxes, so just
enter the Settings menu - Synchronization.
Right now I don't plan for a
Plugins which create their own menus on Squeezebox (either main or
context menu) are fully supported by SqueezePad.
I never used the Synchronizer myself, but all CustomBrowse, Trackstat,
PlaylistSwitcher, and Spotify menus work fine, so I don't have any
doubts.
Umlauts via Tapatalk don't work right now.
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Beefy wrote:
Hi
Just bought this app and I have a question regarding direct connection
to MySqueezebox.com when not having a local server.
When I try to login to MySqueezebox.com it will fail for some reason.
When I try to connect using my logininfo a yellow screen will suddenly
flash
Did you modify your Touch (if your Squeezebox is a Touch) , or are you
running official firmware?
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but I'm planning to provide some comparisons of old and new icons on my
blog (http://www.squeezepad.com/blog/)
I've finished the article - for anyone interested just head to:
http://www.squeezepad.com/2012/05/artwork-and-icon-improvements-in-squeezepad-1-9-5
john greenwood wrote:
I see this issue has come up before, but I couldn't figure out if it has
been resolved. If I switch one of my Squeezeboxes (or worse all of my
Squeezeboxes) to mysb.com as a server, how do I switch back? If I
switch Squeezepad back to my local server, it doesn't see
john greenwood wrote:
Edit - I think I solved the problem. I had recently changed the
password on my mysb.com account. I had made the changes on the
Squeezeboxes and my iPad, but not on my server. Did that and all seems
OK.
Thanks for reporting back, that it was resolved so easily.
Are you running your own server or are using the Touch inbuilt server?
Is your Squeezebox maybe connected to MySqueezebox.com, so that you also
cannot remote control it on the web interface of your server ?
If that is case, just enter the 'my music' menu to make it switch back
to your server .
Bg56 wrote:
Apologies, I should have been more specific. I do not use
mysqueezebox.com. I control my server from the web interface.
When you open the web-interface of your server, does it show your
Squeezebox?
Did you try to enter the My Music menu on your Squeezebox as written
(sometime
Bg56 wrote:
My sincere apologies. Not sure how but my device had been switched to
mysqueezebox - i reverted to local server and connected squeezebox to
media server and all is well. Thanks!
if you enter your MySB.com credentials into the server settings,
SqueezePad is able to show you the
It's Fathers Day (at least here in Germany) !!
People/Men get usually very drunk today (see here) and to pretend that
I'm too, *all my Apps will be on Sale until Sunday* !!
50% off for SqueezePlayer
50% off for SqueezePad
50% off for SqueezePad playback
Hurrayyy ...
(now off to the
sheppy wrote:
Hi Stefan,
thank you for your great Squeeze Player app! This made my music playback
at night so much more convenient :-)
I just have a tiny enhancement request:
Could you make server selection a little easier? Like, let us choose
from a list of preconfigured server
albertone74 wrote:
Hi there,
Quick question. Would it be possible to see in 'Music Folder' the covers
of all the albums same as when you tap on 'Albums'?
Thanks in advance
Hi albertone74,
unfortunately this is not possible. The server does not provide the
images in these menu, and I also
I think it all depends on your personal taste.
Both are operated a bit differently and what is most convenient is up to
you.
SqueezeCommander does have some advanced features like easier player
syncing with drag and drop. Or you can download songs to SD-card.
But these features are only
I'm not aware of a way to achieve what you want with the native App.
You could download the Tasker App though
(http://tasker.dinglisch.net/).
Then you can create a small widget that turns on WiFi and then starts
the Logitech App.
It might be even possible to automate turning on WiFi
Hi DanishBacon,
SqueezePad adheres to your Squeezebox-Servers settings. Please open the
web-interface, go to settings and select the target player.
There you'll find a Play other songs in album option, which in your
case is activated.
(Be aware that this option exists for every single player).
This behaviour is triggered by the server I cannot change that.
This quick 'always ask' popup is based on the button mapping of a
Squeezebox Radio and independent of the context menu items.
It's also not easy to argue what the desired behaviour should be.
When the option is turned on in the
It's the most economic way for everyone I guess.
- Logitech can put their App sticker on the boxes
- User can choose from great alternatives for literally no money
compared to their investment in the Squeezebox line
- third part devs keep their income and keep improving their stuff
Whether
Hi Chris,
I'm afraid the promo is over and I don't have a date yet when a new
promotion will be available.
Actually I do try to be a little bit unpredictable in this regard ;)
...
I'm happy to refund you your purchase though, if you don't prefer
SqueezePad over iPengHD ... give me a note via
mwiedrick wrote:
I use Squeezepad to operate my Logitech Transporter and I've built quite
a library of music within the Squeezepad Spotify app. *Unfortunately I
don't see the library additions when I login to the Spotify software on
my laptop. *
Is there something I can do to ensure the
SqueezePad 1.9.6 is available now.
It focusses on improving the overall stability.
- better performance of album view: users with larger libraries
(=40.000 tracks) reported, that with the Retina release the album
view got a bit slow (even after caching the list) - on rare occasions
SqueezePlayer + SqueezeCommander. Where does this combo lack in
comparison to iPeng?
OK its two Apps but apart from that?
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Jeff Flowerday wrote:
Not many options for smaller non phone android devices.
OK I see,
If I had more time (and if Logitech got out a new SqueezeBox), I'm
pretty sure I would port SqueezePad to Android.
But my family is taking loads of free time right now.
There is no known trouble with the paid Apps regarding the MySB.com
password.
I don't know how to fix it for the free version, but several people seem
to report the same problem via AppStore comments.
bluegaspode's
Barry,
I have been away over the weekend, the please forgive the delayed answer
to your mail.
The change in SqueezePad regarding the fixed volume is very very old and
intentional:
- users where confused, that in SqueezePad they could change the volume
even though it was set to fixed at 100%
-
pippin wrote:
Why don't you just implement the getexternalvolumeinfo protocol like
iPeng does? The plugin would of course have to do that, too, then.
The Denon plugins and IRBlaster all use that as well as some others.
Because I don't know about it and noone ever requested it.
Andrew,
how many UPnP renderers do you know, which fully support the
specification, so that people can really enjoy sync + gapless playback?
I only had one encounter of UPnP, which was my Samsung TV where I wasn't
able to play a single song of my library. And a program called
plugplayer, which
Such as SqueezePlayer, which is available already ;-)
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pippin wrote:
but maybe bluegaspode and James (who did iPeng's sync) and all the
others here are simply brighter than all the other consumer electronics
developers out there.
_I_ tend to believe that :D
I'm still wondering if I could beat PlugPlayer with my own App, but I am
very very
Hi Peter,
I'm sorry to hear that you are having problems with the playback. I'm
not sure if problem is based on authentication- this has been a rather
old problem fixed already.
- what type of music (file format) are you trying to play?
- did you try a server restart already (what type of
This is also, why I (beside the price point) cannot switch to Sonos.
My wife wants to hit a button in the kitchen or bathroom to start the
radio.
And my son (2 1/2) needs the 6 preset buttons to start his own tunes
(yes - he is having is own Squeezebox already :) )
The only interesting thing in there are the 'doesn't exist on disk -
skipping!' messages for
clientplaylist_0004201e6ace.m3u and
Kings%20of%20Leon/Radioactive%20-%20Single/01%20Radioactive.m4v
So your server might not be able to access the files you are trying to
play?
I suggest to do a full
You can send me anything to supp...@squeezepad.com.
Could you please try to be a bit more specific about the songs that are
in your playlist (file-type and order in the playlist) when you write
me.
Did you load one of your playlists when doing the tests or did you build
up a playlist from
I'll publish an update tonight. There is a bug with gapless playback
(some milliseconds at the end of the song are sometimes skipped) which
might cause problems for the second song. Please try with this version
again.
I just uploaded version 1.3.3 to the store (might take some minutes
until available).
version 1.3.3:
- fixed some issues with gapless playback
- fixed an issue, that caused Controller Apps to show a wrong progress
for the second song
As always: if anything is not to your expectations, drop me
Well yes on Android any App can have background services running as long
as they want. Which is why SqueezePlayer stays alive even when silent
(but only when the device is connected to the mains)
Never would have thought though, that someone would use it as an alarm
clock.
Please take care
Hi Peter,
I'm afraid I don't know what is going on there (and I'm also not aware
of anyone else having such problems).
I still suspect one of the songs is making trouble. You said you are
playing a shuffled playlist, which makes finding the cause a bit more
difficult I guess.
Could you please
Hi Kingwire,
what type of music files are you trying to play? What server version are
you using? Are you using the latest version of SqueezePlayer from the
market (1.3.3) ?
Do you also get into trouble with 1 SqueezePlayer + 1 SqueezeSlave + 1
Radio (i.e. not more than 3 players playing at the
Hi kingalien,
another user recently detected, that the order in which he synchronizes
devices matters. SqueezePlayer (in the current version) only works as
expected, when it is synced to another device (i.e. being a slave in the
sync group).
I doesn't like being synced to (i.e. being the first
Endpoint AppleTV in the logs?
Does it just stream to a different target?
In the SqueezeSlave thread there was a log of the output devices, and
AirPlay was there in first position as well.
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SqueezePad 1.9.7 is available now on the AppStore
Is can be seen in the version number, its a bugfix release addressing
some of the currently reported issues:
- on large collections the indexbar in the menu sometimes disappeared.
This has been fixed
- after 15min idle/sleep time of the
Hi Thadmcbride,
could you be a little bit more specific?
Are you using mysqueezebox.com or do you operate your own server (and if
so, what version of the Squeezebox server is running there).
What did you try so far: does SqueezePad already show you the players
list at least and just the main
Hi Wilco,
as written per mail, I sent you a beta version to try.
Cheers
Stefan
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Ok thanks. I didn't receive anything yet but I'll wait for it.
Let you know if it works.
Wilco.
please write me a mail directly to support(at)squeezeplayer.com.
Maybe Googles help system does not forward attachments correctly?
mail was sent again
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Fredly wrote:
Hey Stefan, Fred here in Canada
I don't post much, but love Squeezpad and have pointed several of my
buddies to this fantastic App!
So...as my title says, have you ever considered an Artist Screensaver
for Squeezepad, when it's playing a particular Artist?
I know your
big_marcelo wrote:
Hi Stephan, something that I quite miss is the track bit information, ie
16/44, 24/96, etc... Flax, mp3, AAC, etc... Would be nice to have that
displayed in small letters, next to the album artwork... The linn app
does it very well..
13634
Sent from my iPad using
big_marcelo wrote:
If its easy, why not?
I'm reluctant, because those little things add up and do clutter the
interface.
If I'm not convinced that it serves the majority of users I often decide
to rather leave it out to keep SqueezePad simple and clean.
wildgoose wrote:
What I do with my regular SB is, I'll navigate to the Baby folder, turn
on shuffle to enable shuffle by song, and press 'play'. It will shuffle
and play back all music under the current folder.
Did I miss something obvious? In album view, I can press the album art
to
I just uploaded version 1.3.4 to the Play Store
- On Android 4.x devices, SqueezePlayer now prevents that the WiFi
throughput is throttled when the display is off. Buffering issues you
might have been seeing due to this should be gone.
- SqueezePlayer has been recompiled to also
I just uploaded version 1.3.4 to the Play Store
- On Android 4.x devices, SqueezePlayer now prevents that the WiFi
throughput is throttled when the display is off. Buffering issues you
might have been seeing due to this should be gone.
- SqueezePlayer has been recompiled to also
kidstypike wrote:
Well if it's resting, I'll wake it up .. ::Wake up Logitech!!!::
Oh no, You stunned them, just as they were waking up.
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/pet-shop.html
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I small promising sign today.
The German ct' magazin today writes (it's a wrapup about what is to be
expected from the IFA consumer show regarding music streaming services)
It is rumored that Sonos will announce a new player, also a new
SqueezeBox is said to appear soon. If one of the new
krkr123 wrote:
I installed SP on a cheap Android 4.0 Tablet, it works perfectly, but
after a few days i get the message:
license authentication failed
If i delete and reinstall SP, it works perfectly, till, a few dys later,
the same...
when i get this message, wifi is on, working, also
mp3 decoder is free, if one is not making revenue with it.
if you are doing revenue, you are safe as long as you don't have more
than 100.000USD / year. Then its 2% of your revenue.
http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/emd.html
Grumpy Bob wrote:
Well, I will in the future think carefully about buying into an
interdependent system again
What system that was created in the last two years and use on a regular
basis is not interdependent ?
GoogleTV does not support the NDK, so it's very unlikely to see a player
software there. I tried hard, but failed to circumvent this limitation
with my SqueezePlayer App.
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As for hardware alternatives: look out for SheevaPlug and RaspberryPi on
this forum. Both are cheap, are fanless, powerful and have ready to run
builds with SqueezeSlave.
One probably would just need an extra casing for RaspberryPi (there are
some to buy out there) and then you'll have a device
Wow - the Nexus + Dock looks indeed awesome
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pippin wrote:
But please be aware that despite all their lyrics about their 192kHz DAC
the dock will only use 48kHz streams, everything else will be
downsampled on iOS. 96kHz currently ONLY seems to work with the Camera
Connection Kit for the iPad!
Other streams will play fine, but as I
jimzak wrote:
There's also a 64k file limit :(
...and the things won't be in production until November at the
earliest...and that date keeps sliding.
It's basically a hi-res Sonos that is powerline-networked with software
that's still more or less in beta.
SimpleAudio had a booth at
norderney wrote:
Or have they just been lazy and forgotten to change the heading of the
page.
This is the most obvious reason. It's a generated page, maybe it's even
not easy to just change the heaer.
As this is an unofficial page, I guess noone really cares (nor would I -
never realized
df9864 wrote:
I have arranged all my music in folders over the years. I have about 100
gig or so, and find that navigating through my music folders (on a NAS)
is slow. The albums/artists caching is great but I'd much rather go to
my music through the folder structure.
Is there anything I
Hi Astix,
as already told on the other thread: you need to go to the web-interface
of LMS, there to Settings-Plugins and then install triodes 3rd party
Spotify plugin.
Then Spotify will also work through your Receiver - you won't need to
switch to MySB.com (wouldn't help anyway, as Logitech
2pods wrote:
Pretty much as above.
I have Slimserver running on an old QNAP TS101 via wifi with a SB3
squeezebox, and want to do the the same with my Galaxy Tab2.
The tablet reports playback is on in it's SP app, but when I start the
control app it says player not found. Make sure your
2pods wrote:
It's an old version.
SlimServer Version: 6.3.1 - 8476 - Debian - EN - utf8
I don't think anything more recent will work on the QNAP TS101, as it
has very little memory. It still works great with my SB3.
I thought it would be just a case of pointing it at Slim Server.
There are no known problems with Vortexbox and SqueezePlayer.
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I uploaded a new version to the AppStore.
It fixes a problem with synchronization: when you synchronized another
Squeezebox to SqueeezPlayer (thus making SqueezePlayer the
synchronisation 'master') stopping a stream didn't work.
Well - now it works again :)
Anyone who didn't upgrade their phones into a Squeezebox might be
interested in the fact that
*This weekend SqueezePlayer is available at a 50% discount*!!!
I don't know how fast the prices update, but you should be able to get
it for 1,99#8364; (2,49$) now.
Together with Orange Squeeze this
jmiller284 wrote:
Question ... Why is it that when I stream music using SqueezePad, that
the device that I am streaming from (either Squeezebox Radio or
Squeezebox Duet) does not turn on (display stays off) if the unit is in
Sleep mode or off whereas with the Logitech Controller app for
tigersim wrote:
So I suppose my question is, what are the legal and technical barriers,
if any, of forking the LMS development and moving away from reliance on
Logitech?
Without written permission by Logitech I suppose that:
- all images contained in the repository are under copyright
SqueezePlayers pricing does have 50% discount now as well (2 / $2,49),
available only this weekend.
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With high probability its moderated and takes some time before getting
visible. On my Blog it can also take up to 24 hours to react, too much
spamming otherwise
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Hi murrayb,
your Squeezebox is connected to MySqueezebox.com where local music is
not available.
In the web-settings of your Squeezebox-Server please enter your
mysqueezebox.com credentials. If you now set Use MySqueezebox.com to
Off in SqueezePad (as you want to use your local music again),
gorman wrote:
Does it support replaygain with its playback function?
Neither SqueezePad nor iPeng support ReplayGain.
SqueezeCast might support it (I am not sure though), but it lacks in
other areas (i.e. UI, you will often need to switch to a different App
then).
maggior wrote:
Will it blend?
They did that test with an iPhone, didn't they?
Doubt that iPeng could prevent that? :D
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Unfortunately Android before Jelly Bean does only support 16/44.
With Jelly-Bean there is a completely new AudioAPI, which I guess is
able to except higher audio rates - but I don't know yet, if it really
forwards everything to an USB Dac (and I'm afraid this even depends on
the particular
stevedresden wrote:
I recently bought the Squeeze Play app and use it with the Squeeze
Commander app on my Android tablet, but I've noticed that it never seems
to want to connect to my server if it's the only player connected.
I have a Squeezebox Radio and if that is connected first then
Hi Jylppy,
for your scenario there is a setting in the web-server of your
Squeezebox.
Please open the web-interface of your server, then go to Settings -
Player.
For each (!) Squeezebox there is a setting play other songs from
album. When you activate it, you can tap a song in SqueezePad and
Jylppy wrote:
OK, I had this option set, but I used long press since that is the way
how it works elsewhere. There is no option play album when doing long
press for a track. For sake of consistency that could be added to the
list?
One of SqueezePads main philosophies is to stick with the
pippin wrote:
My favorite right now is crashes all the time. There are exactly THREE
crash reports under iOS 6 in Apple's crash report tool, ZERO for all
previous iOS version (unfortunately the three ones are very
inconclusive it crashes in iOS' own even handling, not iPeng, I
believe
pippin wrote:
Do you have a good template or something or did you write one from
scratch?
I'm am using the same, that did already work great at times when such
reports were sent directly to Apple.
In addition the user is asked, if he wants to send a report directly
after a crash.
SqueezePlayer right now does not support ReplayGain. So I'm wondering if
the server - maybe while transcoding ? - applies replay gain.
It's on my list of things to do, though it is unlikely that we'll see it
still this year.
johnas wrote:
Any chance you could post some details or screen shots when it is close
to release?
It will obviously try to come as close as possible to the current
SqueezePad and won't actually look much different :)
Due to some limitations the context menus will not be as feature rich as
When the normal music App plays fine via Bluetooth, no problems are to
be expected for SqueezePads playback.
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As much as I hate to say it: a discontinued product isn't a good choice
for a whole new house either?
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Pete Gintz wrote:
I've been looking at tablets for a while now wondering how they'd work
as a Squeezebox 3 alternative.
Ideally, i'd vesa wall-mount something like a 7 Nexus or Samsung
Galaxy Tab 2, and use the WiFi connection to access my Logitech Media
Server.
So far, this seems to be
d'ovada wrote:
I believe that the latest update corrects these issues - just not for me
as yet
I'm afraid right now I have no means of testing Qubuz.
Do the images show in the web interface of Squeezebox Server or in the
free App from Logitech?
Only if images are available there you should
ak1 wrote:
SqueezePad works great for me for a few months now and I really like
using it.
But now I've got a suggestion for an improvement, at least I think it
would be one:
When selecting a compilation (various artists) album and having all the
tracks of this album listed on the left
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