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Andy Cudlip;346024 Wrote:
Yes, thats what the problem was! I was using the international URL!
Changing to the UK URL solved it. It was a simple as that. Have to
admit to feeling a bit foolish now!
Thanks for all your help
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other ways to resolve.
I also know of the Ethernet Powerline adaptors but could do without the
extra cost at this stage.
Any help appreciated, if details on router etc. needed then can
provide
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...getting closer..
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Will be good to be able to listen through headphones via controller
rather then through hi-fi equipment.
Any feedback on the sound quality coming through the beta testing on
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the ability to stream internet radio
and other services (last.fm etc.) ?
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, worked
well and only had a small number of manual artwork additions to do.
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the Battery life stacks up, I could
always just have the controller in the cradle from time to time as its
next to my sofa.. :-)
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set-ups? Also if people
have 'better' equipment, how does the volume level for say FLACs via a
SB versus a CD.
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how do others similar systems compare ?
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it like this from now. Thanks all for your help
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SC is upgraded to 7.2.1 however can't update controller to the latest
firmware.
Will try a few more times
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of sync with 7.2.1, what do others think ?
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need to do a re-set, the menu item to turn off is then replaced by an
entry to turn back on - are we on the same hymn sheet here ?
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HUEY;356594 Wrote:
Problem seems to be fixed. When I went to use the controller last
night, said an update was available, and now is working as it should.
Rob
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a refund onto your
card or in cash and then buy a SB online :-)
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but I never looked since I got mine on pre-order.
I musn't be looking hard enough ! I'm going to try and beat you to that
Boom..
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and haven't
tried it over a longer period so will send some further thoughts
through.
Best go, the Dog is getting ready to eat my tea...
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and an iPhone and gives us a new way to interact with our
kit.
I'm staying open minded on all 3 apps and have no problem in purchasing
all 3 until I make a decision on which one is besthow much did that
wine ribs cost ? ;-)
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No, it's neither an iPeng nor a Squidgy limitation, it's currently a SN
limitation.
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in the mean time.
Correct, I couldn't find any link to my favourites from the main menu
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so doubt whether that is your problem.
I haven't since the 8.10 checked the sound quality between the 2, I
guess this is a hard thing to measure as with the wireless issues
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Maybe it's my installation that is messed up. I have installed Kubuntu
8.04 with KDE 3.x, installed KDE 4.x and then upgraded to Kubuntu
8.10.
I think I try a clean install to see if that solves the problem.
socistep. How do you the set the volume in Kubuntu?
I
tag which is setting those to the individual
album rather then a greatest hits one.
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Mine is one of the following
A) Socistep was a greek warrior, famed for his excellent music tastes
and of using advanced technological trojan horses
B) Socistep was my user name at Uni to logon to the network and has
stuck since
ok...so it was B)
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, artwork, etc. I'm just glad I never purchased any music
from iTunes.
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helping to promote the product line.
As long as they can make sure all features they need are supported,
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and it is growing
rapidly. Many of them will see the iPeng app, for example, and start
their own inquiry about Slim Devices. Once the consumer then proceeds
to investigate these products, the Controller will be the last item on
their shopping list at current prices.
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from their engineering development pool to work for
Apple, when they could be improving their own products doesn't make
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, is the only current way to access
this through adding a favourite ?
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their devices.
I'd like to see a better computer software client, which should be here
with 7.3, and hopefully a gateway to transfer music to portable devices
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twynne;365705 Wrote:
Thank you! :-)
Done.
Damn, I just paid £199 from Ripcaster for mine :-(
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isn't going to cause me a
problem.
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Hi All,
Very happy with the performance of my Boom for last nights New Years
Eve gathering, I loaded a big playlist and put it on shuffle and the
sound was excellent, I controlled it with both the controller and the
iPeng application and it worked well
Happy New Year All!
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that the Sonos 'box' runs their equivilant of Squeezecenter
whereas Squeezebox has to have this running on a seperate PC, server,
NAS etc. ?
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that explains it well.
I still believe the pro's for SB far outweigh the Sonos, but I guess
their approach is easier for NAS's which cause a lot of SB users
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. I'm running pretty
much the same set-up as you.
Interested in getting some more views on this
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Is this the plugin or is that something different ?
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just put them into the
Downloads artist within my library I have which is a bit of dumping
ground for random tracks.
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Question: can I write files to this HD, unplug, and replug into a Mac?
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been debating this for months, I've decided to go for a low power
unit over a NAS for pretty much the reasons stated above - I'm going
for a Tranquil PC T7 (barebones)
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very well in others)
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(once
I have re-ripped my cd's) to see how it performs, using a *better*
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Ben Sandee;386880 Wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:17 AM, socistep
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wrote:
I know what ReplayGain is but haven't progressed using it much. I
did,
however, find that when I first starting using my Duet my mp3's
, rather then having to wait to
switch laptop on etc.
B) 24hr access - For listening late night/early morning without having
to have laptop on
C) Use laptop less - I tend to use my iPhone for a quick browse/emails
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getting this or know why this might be ? I checked on
the 5live website and the station is streaming from the website so
unsure as to why it would be unavailable via Squeezenetwork
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I'm in the UK and never had this problem before, will try again tomorrow
to see if it is still happening.
Have you tried AlienBBC ? not looked into it much but heard that it
enables non UK users to listen to the radio stations amongst other
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I got mine at BH in New York when I was over from the UK, thats not too
far from NJ is it ?...
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I guess the cost is the major negative against the Sonos, also as they
mentioned a lot of users would want to stream music in average size
houses so that plus cost might push them towards the Roku.
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I live in the UK, aside from internet radio the only services we can get
are Last.Fm (which is very good) the live music archive. Unfortunately
Pandora and Rhapsody aren't available here, guess you might have similar
in the Netherlands.
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journal would be appreciated.
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on something that should work as standard for UK users
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ps Andy - I'm with sky so its obviously related to more then one ISP
TurnipMan;345748 Wrote:
I'm pretty sure you need the Alien BBC plugin to play RA streams.
Tom
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of the controller over the iTouch/iPhone are -
A) Audio playback via the headphone jack which has added an extra
dimention to the SBC
B) Ability to control Squeezenetwork if required
C) If you have an iPhone it means you can control your music and speak
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in the states, there negative is
that Napster is a paid service.
I believe Spotify gives that option also and is a free service (advert
based), this hasn't made it onto the Squeezebox yet but hopefully it is
in the pipeline
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of Napster so far, will make a decision in
due course on whether to go for the subscription
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the years and
also other users playlists - Are these available via a Squeezebox ?
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ptrainer;400430 Wrote:
Thanks. I don't have Rhapsody so I didn't know. One more question... Why
doesn't any album art appear on the Now Playing screen with Napster
tracks?
I had the same problem about figuring out how to play songs, will try
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with no
special feature, demo kit on display etc. - Just the boxes...in the
wrong section
In Richer Sounds in Leeds there is a Sonos display stand which I'm sure
they get a lot of business from when people are in buying speakers, amps
etc. - Nothing from logitech.
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them.
Also, no sign of Squeezeboxes returning to John Lewis as yet :/
SONOS has a lead in this sense, it is seen by many as as 'expensive
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Didn't realise thisso near enough all PC Worlds have a prominent
Apple display, they would pay a premium for this ?
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management a lot quicker and easier,
however it will only run on Windows Home Server.
Not sure on what to do, does anyone know of similar software on Linux
that provides a more automated solution or would I have to go for a WHS
type solution ?
All comments welcome !
thanks
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be used for music
management/streaming - I was looking to potentially use the box for
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, there would be a lot of tagging
afterwards required, especially for compilation albums.
More thinking required...
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but are
having problems in getting it to connect to server.
Auto search doesn't bring it up so I add in the manual details but it
won't connect, IP/ports I believe are correct - any advice on how to
get back this stage ?
I run SC on Ubuntu and have the latest version
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., thats a bit better then the last
time I was in and I hope they are getting more business as a result !
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davidrhodes;415343 Wrote:
I was going to pop in there to see if they have any offers on the SB
Classic, are the prices same as web?
I can't remember any offers or the price of the SB classicI
remember though that the Booms were on at £185
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thinking of home server options
Any questions on the set-up please let me know.
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manually manage an element.
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manually sort the remainder that's better then having to manually kick
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me was the size of the case so that pushed me towards the mini ITX
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correctly) serve music to my SB players is great. I first had it
running on a £20 old compaq pc so it can offer a cheap server solution
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Hi All,
Interesting discussion forming on the Sonos board
http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=13161
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Frankly, I agree with some of their comments regarding problems with the
Duet Controller. I bought one, then quickly sold it to pick up another
SB3.
Initially I had problems but its been fine this year, I've not upgraded
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which are no longer
present?
So maybe SqueezeCenter creates a separate database containing just the
songs on the external drive, and then wipes it after the drive is
removed.
I am looking forward to further details on this one coming out, I hope
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- you look to have a fair few zones, whats your experiencing
with syncing been ? At present I only sync 2, the Boom the Duet and
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SBCs for
control, as well as occasional iPeng use on my phone.
It just worked.
impressive. On the Sonos forum I got flack related to SB kit not being
proper zones, not really sure what the difference is but that
highlights the potential
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Andrew on the Vortexbox forum and I don't think its possible due to
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files or delete them and
re-rip manually with dbpoweramp, with the above functionality it gives
the user the option on whether to proceed with the rip or do it
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error.
Any ideas what could be causing this ?
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ModelCitizen;442152 Wrote:
Yup, the $ character. Robin only thinks in pounds.
MC
Yeah I pretty much set myself up for that one :-)
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to /storage/music/mp3/British Sea Power/Open Season/00
Hidden Track.mp3
Writing tags to /storage/music/mp3/Goldie Lookin Chain/Greatest
Hits/00 Hidden Track.mp3
Anyone know why it would keep re-writing tags for these '00 - Hidden
Track' songs ?
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Hi All
Have got flac2mp3 working well on my server, scheduled to run daily.
On checking outputs I've noticed that each time it runs that the
following files are updated
Writing tags to /storage/music/mp3/Black Rebel
when ever I'm
doing work on the server
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