Can anyone give me some info on why audio sounds terrible. I have sb3
connected to a onkyo receiver with boston acoustic speakers and my
music sounds terrible.
Thanks for any help!
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Aaron Zinck Wrote:
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[...] when I currently go into Browse Playlists I have several
pages (effectively every album I have). I didn't mean to create
these
playlist and just want to clear EVERYTHING and start from scratch.
What's the simplest way to clear ALL
Note that all 5.1- and 6.1-receivers have
6-channel external inputs by definition.
If you're talking about 5.1 and 6.1 external *analog* inputs, then this is
not actually entirely true. While it's now quite uncommon to find receivers
without full multi-channel analog inputs, this hasn't
I've been trying to get the concept of playlist straight andI think
I understand.
However, when I currently go into Browse Playlists I have several
pages (effectively every album I have). I didn't mean to create these
playlist and just want to clear EVERYTHING and start from scratch.
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It sounds like the SB3 is being more picky about the quality of the
connection. There has been some discussion to this affect on the forums
over the last couple of weeks or so. It probably isn't aut-negotiating down
to 10mbps for a more stable connection (the old SB1 had only a 10base-t
card).
Bummer! Sorry to hear you fried your switch.
I hope you can get things worked out...keep us posted as to how things go.
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Yes, you can use the preamp as a brute-force and simplistic gain
control. I was not saying that you cannot do that. But it mostly not a
good solution for listening to music.
This is a solution that all of the music-listening world uses. You need a
gain control of some sort. Period. If you
I don't have a lot of time to spend figuring out the very best way to
talk about something for a company that ripped me off for $200+. Having
almost blown some very expensive speakers with the SB1, I really don't
have any patience left for the raft of digital noise bugs that
apparently still
As digital data is present on the server (for the most part) before
being sent to the SB, what would be useful is a scanner that looks for
digital noise in the input stream. This would help the overall signal
chain quite a bit.
As per the OP, this isn't where the problem originated.
Do any of these units come with a built in speaker or does it have to
connect to a speaker?
Cheers
RJ
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None come with built-in speakers.
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What's the difference between SlimDevice 2 and SlimDevice 3?
Any estimates about Real Audio becoming avaliable?
Thanks.
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Functionally they're identical--the only difference is cosmetic.
Real Audio is supported by the AlienBBC plugin. Search around the forums
and you'll find
What OS are you running? Do you have a firewall enabled? (remember that XP
sp2 has a firewall enabled by default)
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Aaron - does this mean that SB2/3 doesn't have Rhapsody support? I'll
try to look around for an answer, but is that because SB2/3 isn't
supported by Slimserver 5.4 or is it something else?
Thanks to all for the feedback!
KDF hit all the major points
Hmmm, but telling it to play now using the fishbone skin clears the
playlist and you have to tell the Squeezebox to start random mix again.
Andrew (audiofi) was referring to the play next button on the fishbone
skin. This is actually a button distinct from the play and add buttons
in
There are a number of things that have already been recounted in this thread
that make the SB2/SB3 superior to the SB1. Some others are the geekport,
more advanced wireless support (wireless G, WPA, etc.), support for
visualizations, and bit-perfect pass-through (important if you want to
stream
for mass adoption, our favourite music player HAS to work quickly and
effortlessly out of the box
It's a good point and there is probably a lot of room for improvement there.
There are still lots of very geeky things about the interface, the software
probably makes too many assumptions about
The only solution I can think of is this:
You could have one location (or even your home?) run a pc beaming a playlist
of your choice to a shoutcast server. You would have to get hosting for
this such as what can be found here: http://shoutcast.serverroom.us/ (I
don't know anything about that
An easy measure of usabilty :- If you gave a squeezebox to your
granny for Christmas would she use it to play music or as a door
stop ?
A tired analogy - Granny's are not the universal measure of usability.
My Granny could give me a set of kintting needles for Christmas and I
wouldn't
Sorry if this is a repost, but the forum won't let me search for WPA
since its too short a term.
Anyhoo, will my SB1 support WPA?
No, it will never be able to. The hardware just isn't capable of doing it.
Sean has addressed this in some previous threads, I'm just too lazy to go
look them
What exactly do you mean by can't get it to connect to my network?
Is it not associating with the access point? or are you not getting an IP
address? or is it not finding the server?
Hi,
After a full month of waiting my SB3 arrived today.
Its absolutley beautiful but i cant get it to
This is good stuff, Ben. People often gripe about the interface but rarely
offer suggestions. Kudos for bringing some real thoughtful and constructive
recommendations to the table and helping to make the player better.
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It's nice that the review had a positive conclusion but I worry that all of
it's omissions and inaccuracies might turn folks away from the SB3. It
seems as though this reviewer never bothered to look at the manual or spend
any time with the SB3 as he was baffled even by how to properly cue music.
If I have volume set at full on the SB3 will the sound quality degrade.
I'm not an audiophile - but I think we've all noticed that when you
crank the volume on source devices that use plain 'ol RCA jacks that
you can sometimes get some distortion in the signal. Not sure if that
same
the only other thing that it could be then would be browser caching. I
don't
recall any of the skins using a hard coded title, and the localised
strings all
come from strings.txt (unless you specifically create a
slimserver-strings.txt
file for custom strings).
Maybe you can coax it into
I sent another complaint to RadioIO yesterday. Hopefully they'll appreciate
that this is a real problem.
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Hi,
I've got an old pc based on via [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mini-itx motherboard,
fanless, two ethernet onboard) with 512 mb of ram). I'm planning to use
it as a dedicated slimserver. The OS will be gentoo with only sshd,
dhcpd, slimserver installed on a 4gb microdrive (or a 1GB notebook hard
I now remember the name - one is Omnifi (the one that has wifi
ability):
http://www.omnifimedia.com/home/
I actually have an Omnifi...it has it's plusses and minuses but overall I'm
quite happy with it. I considered building a car computer for some time but
couldn't justify it since you
Can't do that! No way to hold a button down in an IR macro!
Are there any buttons you don't use on the remote (for instance, I don't use
the volume buttons)? You can remap a given keypress to the STOP function.
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Hi all ,
I've just got my new squeezbox2 from United States and I need to use an
AC adapter (I live in israel where we use 220V). I've got one from
Philips but it is limited to electric products that consumes as much as
30 watts. Does anyone know how much squeezbox2 consumes?
Thanks ,
I was spitting at this comment on the article This product seems pretty
much identical in functionality to the Roku Soundbridge, except it costs
over $100 more. When is someone going to make a network mp3 player that
I can connect directly to my external harddrive full of music?
Funny thing
This can be implemented in skins--the fishbone skin has a specific button
for this (immediately next to the play button) but I am unsure of which
other skins support it.
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This is how it =should= work but doesn't. You have to press the
button for each increase in speed (e.g. 4 clicks to go to 16x). Not
very intuitive. I've posted a feature request which addresses this and
a few other usability issues.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911
y.
Though I haven't explicitly tried it, I'd be surprised if Girder weren't
capable of responding to those button-presses. You could then make that
event do anything you might like, including instantiating other keypresses
or running scripts or anything. Check out http://www.promixis.com/
IMHO Time-shifting live streams seems like a logical extention of
Slimserver capability. Has anyone looked into what it would take for
Slimserver to mesh with an application like Replay Radio or Replay
Music (or any others...)? Could a plugin be written, or are the two
technologies
I guess my main question is why this plugin is even necessary. Right
now I have my screensaver set to progress bar when music is playing.
Why couldn't the up/down buttons on the remote just use that for
real-time scanning, while also showing the progress through the song?
This would make it
there are workarounds for drm issues. use a program that broadcasts
sound produced by the computer, and point sb at the broadcast.
This is not really a viable alternative. While technically this will allow
broadcast of the audio to the squeezebox, you are limited to controlling the
audio
Here's an old thread on the
topic:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=10597
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I am not hearing static on either my squeezebox or the 128k RadioIO stream
using Windows Media player.
When you use Windows Media player are you using their pay stream or the
free-but-hidden 128k stream provided to SlimDevices customers? (I don't know
if we've established if the free 128k
dean Wrote:
Given that you've heard it in SoftSqueeze and on the hardware player, I
suspect it's a problem in the original RadioIO data. I'd drop their
customer support folks a note.
That's exactly what I will be doing, but it would be nice to say that
I've found other people who have
There is no such thing as digital speakers, all loudspeakers are
inherentily analog, as they take an analog electrical signal and
translate it to an analog sound.
Agreed
The question is do you want an amp and DAC inside the speaker?
I'd answer no, because the SB2's DAC is pretty darn
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Given that you've heard it in SoftSqueeze and on the hardware player,
I
suspect it's a problem in the original RadioIO data. I'd drop their
customer support folks a note.
That's exactly what I
I've SlimServer hang running RealSlim before because of a UPnP issue
that I fixed by manually setting IP address in common.pm. If you've
done this, make sure you've set the correct IP address for your new
computer rather than just copying the file over. (This might be
obvious, but I thought
Jim's right, of course, I just wanted to add a bit
of clarity: he's referring to selecting the player from the drop down on
the top-right of the screen, not from the panel on the left.
Are you sure you chose the right player in the web interface? You
need to select the player then start
Hmmm. I don't think it's a problem with HookAndDie after all. I've also
seen the problem you mention, where restarting slimserver makes things
work. I've been meaning to figure that out and fix it, but haven't felt
that motivated, though it's a nuisance. I also noted in my last update
to the
Where is that setting?
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It's actually under player settings, not server settings. Go to player
settings - audio
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I'm attaching a modified version of HookAndDie.exe. I made some comments
a while back about what I modified in the realslim forums on
sourceforge. Let me know if it makes any difference.
+---+
|Filename: HookAndDie.zip
This is not strictly a Slim Devices query, but someone may have some
insight they wish to share. I have an original SLIMP3 player which has
served me well. I'm interested in upgrading to a new SB2 for my master
bathroom, but I'm having trouble finding an appropriate receiver. I am
looking
Do you need a whole receiver or just an amp?
Also need a receiver. My wife likes to listen to a few radio stations
that do not stream and it would be a problem if she could no longer
pull them in.
Thanks,
Jon
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Sorry--if I'd read your original post more carefully I
I've been trying to set up a new (new to me...old in actuality--it was
given to me by a friend) server these past couple of days but have had fits
getting the Realslim plugin to work. There have been a number of problems
(I've always had a number of problems initially configuring realslim), but
I don't know why I didn't think of this originally but it occurs to me that
I should have posted this in the 3rd party plug-ins forum. Sorry about that
folks! I'll move it there now...
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Newbie here, so please be gentle if I ask something which has already
been answered.
I'm a strickly a two channel guys BUT have a Home Theatre which
currently uses PowerDVD to Project on a screen and sound via a long
coax cable from my Computer, to an external DAC.
As a Video player
now I'd like to be able to listen remotely using
SoftSqueeze, and I don't have the bandwith to stream
the lossless tracks.
No need to complicate matters with multiple libraries...Slimserver can do
downconversion on-the-fly on a per-client basis. In the web interface go
the player settings
I realize that this would be difficult to implement accross platforms,
but would it be possible for Slimserver to respond to keyboard shortcut
commands...? For instance:
Play or pause a file. CTRL+P
Stop playback. CTRL+S
Mute the volume. F8
Increase the volume. F10
Decrease the volume. F9
I suppose it'd be possible to do this with a clever javascript skin though
that may be tricky.
There are keyboard shortcuts in ExBrowse2 and Default2:
Z - previous
X - play/pause
C - play/pause
V - stop
B - next
R - toggle repeat
S - toggle shuffle
-, = - volume down and up
- Jacob
So this is off-topic, but are you the same gonk as the fellow from the
Outlaw forums?
So I have now opened the SB2 and yes, you can rotate the display and the
cable is just long enough. I had to cut two small supporting tabs as
some leads on the PCB to the display got in the way. But there
Does the handheld skin not work well?
The Sony PSP will have Web browser capability with the 2.0 firmware to
be released on August 12, 2005.
It would be great if a new Sony PSP specific web page served by the
SlimServer could be created. It would be formated for the small screen
of the
You can get pretty close to your flag idea if you take advantage of the
zapped songs functionality. When playing a song in Now Playing, if you
press and hold the add button the song will be removed from Now Playing
and added to your Zapped Songs playlist. Once you've added all the tracks
you
Ha...sorry...I didn't see this branch before I posted this same idea to the
other branch...
Isn't this pretty much what the 'zapped' playlist does?
You press and hold the 'add' key to move the currently playing song to
it, rather than just delete it.
I haven't used it for a while but I
Sean, what does this mean for the SB2's ability to have discrete power
on/power off codes? From a recent thread here, I got the impression
that this feature was forthcoming.
Once the SB2 is updated to recognize other IR signals (the sb1 and slimp3
can currently do this) then you'll have no
I'm still using 5.4 but don't feel like signing up for the forum so I can't
actually vote. I'm using 5.4 since it works well with Rhapsody/Realslim and
meets most of my needs (I have a non-graphical SB1).
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But to be hinest, I don't think this would offer any new functions on
the remote to make it easier to use, just allow me to control all my
devices (in a more limited way) with one remote.
You actually could (quite easily) add functionality--take a look at the .map
and .ir files...by
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Since the file sharing companies are being held responsible for what
people do with their computers then
the gun companies will now be sued for all the woundings and killings
by idiots with guns.
The car companies for people killed in accidents etc or will
Would someone care to give me a simple explanation of the various
operational states of a Squeezebox.
Looking through player settings, we have different settings for both
screen savers and brightness and their relationships to player states.
But those states are described differently.
The question is the title. The title is the question. Any idea?
I own a SB1 and tried ripping a Dolby Digital 5.1 file to FLAC. Playing
it back through SB1, with fixed digital volume, did not work on my DD
enabled receiver (as in: no sound at all while the tags got read
correctly).
Is it
No I don't. Unfortunstly I'm past the 30 day period. Do you think Sean
will make an exception in my case?
I've found SlimDevices to be a very accomodating company, so perhaps they
will take it back. But why should they? You had *30 days* to figure out
that this wasn't the unit for you. I'm
While I'd love to see support for Rhapsody, I don't recall ever seeing this
featured advertised for the SqueezeBox 2.
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I was actually able to get realslim running with SS 6.1, with a few
minor modifications. There was a thread in the developers forum a
couple weeks ago. There still appear to be occasional problems, and I
was planning on trying to resolve these before making this more well
known -- but then I
I realize I'm becoming boring, but you guys at Slim Devices ought to
read the reviews you post on your website. The one from Maximum PC that
you flaunt has as it's last word, Rhapsody. Do you think you would
have gotten that good a review if you didn't have that capability?
S, my question
Aaron,
I'm not a bad person, but when the company implies through the posting
of reviews that tout it's ability to stream Rhapsody and when it's
marketing literature specially states it supports real player I as a
reasonable person expect to be able to use it for the stated purpose.
When I
The review from Maximum PC is the one that's prominently displayed.
Since when does a product upgrade mean that functionality is taken
away?
It sometimes happens.
But aside from that...a 3rd-party plugin is not a product feature.
SlimDevices cannot be expected to support every 3rd party
I've been making an ass of myself to try to get a response from them
stating what their plans actually are. If they have no intention of
supporting a means to use squeezebox for streaming Rhapsody or any
other DRM service, they should have the stones to put that on the
website.
I believe
This is a currently known problem with the SB2.
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No problem here with my Harmony 676. :)
There's no problem using the squeezebox2 IR codes (which your Harmony is
using), the problem is that, for whatever reason, the SB2 does not
process/recognize other IR codes like the SB1 does. This is probably just
some sort of firmware setting. I
You can even use character combinations to make the separator more unique.
Something like %; would be a pretty safe bet, for instance.
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I believe it may be unnecessary to use Total Recorder--I'm fairly confident
that Vidur's RealSlim plugin already does essentially the very same thing.
It just needs to be updated to support the new version of Rhapsody and
SlimServer. Perhaps Vidur could correct me if I'm wrong?
I think the huge bulge of electrical tape in the middle of the cord
should be fairly obvious =)
I'm surprised this works for you. Don't be surprised if the connection
flakes out or is slower than spec. High-speed data transfer through
twisted-pair cabling relies on the pairs being nicely
I'm sorry if this question has been asked before, but I couldn't
find the answer. I'm thinking of purchasing a SB2 to use with my
Rhapsody service. Can the SB2 be used as a virtual sound device on
my Windows XP machine? That way I could stream any audio
source to the SB2? Does SlimServer
If this isn't the case now, it soon might be. In a business where
exclusive contracts are the norm, why shouldn't one or more big labels
base their licenses on exclusive relationships with subscription
services? Or maybe they devise some sort of discount, where a
subscription provider has to
Is there any way to vote *against* enhancement or bug requests? The server
should show what's in your tags. Period. That way people can use their
tags however they want and they don't end up getting confused by having
Michael Jackson songs listed only under mICHAEL jACKSON simply because they
I know just what is going to happen...the day after I buy a Roku, Slim
is going to announce Rhaposody support!! :-)
Yeah...and there's another bit of irony that actually keeps me with the
squeezebox: when using RealSlim my Squeezebox actually has more complete
Rhapsody support than any other
I guess I have my own opinion of who should be getting abused right now.
I don't entirely understand what you meant by this statement but I hope you
didn't take any offense at my comment. I only meant to acknowledge you and
the sentiments that you've already repeatedly expressed about the
Really? - So I'd just have to put a sniffer on the network between the
two devices to get unencryted data? Unlikely, but worth a try. Is
there a network sniffer module for perl? :)
I'm not sure how the current realslim plugin works exactly, but it would
seem that however it works it's
It's clear that different people have different priorities when it comes to
how they pay for and consume music. I trust that the market will have
different approaches that will meet the needs of different types of
consumers. I'm sure each of us will continue to consume music in the way we
feel
Here in Austria there's a levy on blank media, scanners, printers,
photo copy machines, CD burners ... expressly for compensating content
producers for private non-profit copies of media. At the same time I'm
prohibited from circumventing DRM measures - I'd say the whole mess is
quite at odds
All-you-can-eat _streaming_ subscriptions are fine, I was talking
about buying music. AFAIK the original poster was talking about Pay
For Sure.
With Rhapsody you can't purchase music *files*. If you choose to purchase
music you create a playlist with the music you want to purchase which is
This isn't really our position or our goal (see roadmap: http://
wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SoftwareRoadmap ) . We are working to
support the formats that are feasible and interesting to support, and
that includes DRM formats. Unfortunately, right now the most
interesting ones are not
Allen,
The great thing about this community is that, unlike with most other
software products, when something's not working you have a bunch of folks
who want to fix the problems in the software and are relying on folks like
you to find the bugs. So...rather than just giving up how about helping
My SB1 was working fine, but now there is no sound from the receiver. The
volume is up on both and the receiver fm tuner produces sound. The SB has
the track playing symbol present. I can't get it to work either with the
optical cable or RCA. Any ideas?
I don't want to insult your
or perhaps you have headphones plugged in? if you don't have headphones
plugged in, how about trying that and seeing if you're getting sound there.
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There's a couple of BBC radio programs I'd dearly like to record for later
listening. Can AlienBBC handle this? If not, is there any other way
torecord apart from paying for the full version of spit Real Player?
AlienBBC cannot handle this but I've had loads of success recording internet
It depends on how sophisticated the firewall is and what ports they block.
The easiest thing would be to just try it. If you can find even just one
open port then you could use softsqueeze over SSH.
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I love the idea of audiofeast...can't justify the price, though. Do you use
it? How has your experience been? Right now I have my own audiofeast
setup which uses TotalRecorder to record all of my favorite NPR and American
Public Radio shows in the
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Sure--you have to record it in real time but you can grab anything that's
available on their site. And with cartalk programming you can even get the
old shows
The new client is pretty slick with some creature comforts.
It does not work with Real Slim. Real Slim does not recognize that
Rhapsody is running.
It does download 160kbps audio files. Mine show up as WMAs but I think
its likely that WMP is my default player for the type it downloads.
Checking the listen.com website looks like a major announcement April
26. Probably the broad release of the 3.0 service with to-go
features.
So has anyone tried the new Rhapsody with the existing Realslim plugin?
Seems unlikely that it'd work but I gave the new rhapsody a try here at work
Why does my stream still get reported as 320Kb/s?
does it report this even while you're actually streaming music? While I
don't know the details of how it works the silence that is broadcast while
no music is playing is 320K. When the music starts it should then report
the correct bitrate.
If you have your player set to no limit then OGG is being streamed as FLAC
so it's likely that either your 802.11b network can't handle the much higher
bandwidth requirements of FLAC or, if you're running this on a real old
computer, it may not be able to keep up with the transcoding from OGG to
Your subject line gave me a good laugh...:)
Thanks for the tip. Sorry to hear of your woes.
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