SamS wrote:
> I'm not following. You use Apple TV, AVRs as LMS, or Plex clients?
LMS. With Philippe's bridge plugins you can send music practically
anywhere: *"playback is almost exclusively via LMS with iPeng as a
controller"*
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I'm going to be VERY generous here. Plex is at least 10 years (of
full-time development) behind LMS. Again, that's being VERY generous.
I'm not holding my breath for Plex to have caught up in 10 years. I let
it scan my music library, but playback is almost exclusively via LMS
with iPeng as a co
Roon should be a continual reminder to Logitech of the opportunity they
pissed away with SS. On the hardware side they already have plenty of
reminders...
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yxz11 wrote:
> I searched and haven't found anyone mentioned this specifically. I'm
> wondering why don't people just use an android media player for
> squeezebox replacement.
Good suggestions IMO. Much cheaper than a phone or tablet, especially if
you don't need the screen on the player device
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> OPENSQUEEZE SOLO: IMHO, $239 is way over the top.
It's a $240 Raspberry Pi. All the value is in the community open
software it's running.
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How do you shuffle play an entire album? There's no shuffle mode when
adding tracks to the current play list.
If the volume is locked on a player (when using as a remote) please hide
the volume slider and move the transport controls down.
Please consider switching to larger transport buttons on
Do you store different configurations of iPeng's icon row depending on
the server one is connected to? If not, then the user's choice should
be reflected as soon as the app loads - it looks strange having the
icons suddenly change.
Also, when we dismiss the tips/help one time, will they now stop
Can you share any more details about any changes to Landscape view?
It's been needing updating for a long time and it will be very welcome
when you can do everything in this orientation.
Back to what's been shown already...
How about an option to remove the volume slider at the bottom? That
wi
The classic players have a dot matrix display, not a one line display,
and can be made, through settings and/or plugins to display anything you
want. The remote features a "size" button that switches between three
different display modes (or layouts), but via plugins you can do
anything. The web s
Wow, the lowly ARM-CPU-powered empeg car stereo maintained playlists
longer than 30k tracks easily, shuffling, reshuffling, changing track
order, adding tracks, removing tracks, all without skipping a beat.
There seems to be some serious inefficiency and possible
underdevelopment with SB's playli
If you want to see how a mass-market product is, well, marketed, look at
the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Look at most people's music collection in
iTunes. Then imagine (or verify) how that would play out with SB.
Collectors (us/we) are a rare breed and always have been, it doesn't
matter what decade
The new products are coming about primarily because SB is not easy to
use and completely inaccessible to the general public.
I love the flexibility of SB and have been using it since 2006, but this
product line and the server software are not mass-market products and
can never be without drastic
Streaming services and the like are replacing radio, not music
ownership. If you look at music purchases historically, including the
yardsticks by which sales awards are given, you'll see that music
ownership has always been comprised of a rather insignificant proportion
of the music listenership
iPeng running on iDevices of your choice are the best alternative to
Squeezebox in my opinion. You can even serve the music and host a
private WiFi ad-hoc hotspot from a tiny mini computer - portable and
mobile if you wish too.
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er than developing your own
OS.
Logitech would do well to stay far away from any Google software in the
future. They'd be better off buying Boxee and spending some time fixing
up that platform.
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(and currently playing) track. Lyrics, what track number this
is as part of the original album, etc.
For Random Mixes, it would be excellent to remove the requirement to
tap twice. After selecting the random mix, just start that mix, not
present another screen.
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ears to be getting some attention from Logitech.
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dphone port of the iOS device.
Analog line-out from the dock connector of the iOS device.
Digital audio using an HDMI adapter on the dock port of the iOS
device.
IMO, that's far and away the best alternative to using Squeezebox
hardware for playback, and certainly for control/UI.
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What will it be called early next year? Just in case I don't update to
this version and want to be able to find it easily again by name? ;)
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desired.
This iPeng installation is going to be installed in a car, being served
by a private mobile network. More details when it's finished. :)
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view.
Hope it's coming, as I have some plans that would really make best use
of the iPhone on its side.
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itself will no longer show the actual track
being played, but one previous in the playlist. At least when using
Random Mix.
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rum and now go to what you might find as the official Logitech
page about Squeezbox and try to find this forum. Good luck.
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l case and swipe it in
front of the reader to start it playing on the Squeezebox in that zone.
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d iPad. Now
that's a big missed opportunity.
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right now, so I
just want to run the rather stable 7.5.0. 7.5.1 was a huge mistake and
really killed performance and usability of the web interface and scanner
for my installation. Equally, I don't have the time/patience to give it
another go.
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aterial - this has
been a challenge.
I haven't played any of them in a long time, so it's likely some of
them will no longer play correctly due to less than stellar storage
practices. ;)
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ou should attach a price to it if you're
disappointed that you have to burn time working on it. I'd pay for it.
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p and
continue to consume CPU resources as if it's playing, but no audio can
be heard. Pausing and then playing again brings the audio back.
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images on the main page, zoom to a full
(non-rotated) image. The web, the traditional place for virtual
software sales, is going to become more and more important to
distinguish an iPhone app. The App store is overcrowded and that's not
likely to change any time soon.
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, I'd
really like to get back to nearly instant sleep. Right now it takes
about 20 seconds. :)
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isn't good enough. Most listeners here don't have the rest
of the equipment to ever notice a difference either.
I've already got 2 classic SB3 and a radio on the way, and I can still
appreciate and desire iPeng with playback support for use on either
iPhone/iPod or iPad.
own iPod app where
turning the device is the only way to do cover flow - and it's the only
thing you can do in that orientation. The new iPod app on the iPad
looks a lot better than any of Apple's previous efforts, but it
shouldn't be to difficult to make something even more sp
mon and corner cases that will most definitely affect others when
implementing your suggestion.
You may want to look at the source code - which you may find easy
enough to insert your query into, thereby solving your unique issue.
Just a suggestion.
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My personal suggestion (and what I do): Run Squeezeslave (headless)
instead. Then simply control it from your web browser. Unobtrusive, low
CPU usage, 0 CPU usage when idle, essentially transparent.
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ing to see it.
But there's nothing else out there that compares. No Sonos, no
Sooloos, not anything. It doesn't matter how much you're willing to
spend, you're not going to find better or more useful audio playing
software than Squeezebox Server, all things considered.
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r103 (Mac OS) seems as good as the previous two versions with regards to
coming back from sleep. Working ok now for a day.
But the delay in going to sleep is still there. The machine takes at
least 10 seconds to sleep if squeeeslave is running.
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101 has been working fine since updating. Playing right now. I haven't
yet removed the logging option since I just came to read the forum now.
:)
Will test 103 without logging and report back about the sleep delay
issue.
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t (if it's not there immediately after wake, it's there a few
seconds later)
About to download r101 and will report back with details.
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Ok, about to give this a shot. As before, I'll report back with news
later today.
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MelonMonkey&
Trying the new option and will post back the results as soon as I see
them.
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events and at least one
hibernation event.
Does anyone at all have this working in Mac OS 10.6 or newer?
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play any music.
Download here: http://twistedmelon.com/downloads/squeezeslavelog.zip
(2.4k)
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works. Sometimes when waking from sleep it's still listed and
will play perfectly fine. If you'd like to send up another version with
additional logging capabilities, I'll gladly capture another log file
for you and put it up on my own web space so you can download it (the
forum onl
Downloading now. Will report back as soon as I've been able to confirm
the new behavior. Thanks for the quick turn-around.
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P sudo[222]: Bruno : TTY=ttys000 ;
> PWD=/Users/Bruno ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl unload
> /Library/LaunchDaemons/squeezeslave.plist
> Nov 19 18:24:11 hybridMBP squeezeslave[62]: Error in recv 1: Bad file
> descriptor
> Nov 19
output_buffer_fullness=3526080
elapsed_seconds=9 elapsed_milliseconds=9659 server_timestamp=0
slimproto_send: cmd=STAT len=55
continued...
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ess.
I'm gong to update the params and will get the details to you shortly
for the last questions.
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embered to check. No longer
listed.
I'm going to try the -k (keep alive) next.
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eopard . The arguments must all be split into
their own strings wherever there is a space on the command line. For
instance "-o 4" must actually be two separate strings.
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ezeslave 2" - I've changed this in the webUI settings, but it's
seemed to revert back after some time. Maybe when coming back from
sleep... It would be nice to supply the display name as an argument the
same way we can already supply the MAC address.
Great work and thanks for keep
y
want 3 or 4 of them. The ION platform was promising this for under $200
and that's what all the Myth fans were raving about. Solutions using a
SoC offer sub $200 completely fanless ability today.
The "free" solutions (Myth) actually cost more than the commercial in
many setups.
ad. They're currently not only the best solution for video
streaming, they're the only solution with an integrated PVR server.
This is the direction MythTV has supposedly been moving in, but there's
currently no stand-alone SoC (absolutely quiet) extenders for Myth.
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etty nor
durable, but may be faster and cheaper. Then you can use the mini as
that client we mentioned earlier...
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e same as USB.
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numbers. :)
Next to "Play all songs" I would add that shuffle icon/control I just
discussed above. That then makes this consistent with the other list.
BTW, look through your UI for consistency of using the word "Song"
versus "Track." In the search results you use &q
ying still, don't quote this message back yet...
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x27;d better be good at it.
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garbage through.
I'm sure your application, which is actually very nice and in the other
10%, would not be blocked for stylistic choices.
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of
specific albums. I'd also like to see the total number of tracks listed
next to the album name above the tracks. It could be as simple as
this:
Album Name (#)
I'd also like to see the track times listed next to the track names in
the track listing for an
ature. It would stink to miss an
alarm (and wake-up) because your network connection happened to be down
one day.
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d I will gladly take that SB3 off your hands
for $100. I have a 100' Ethernet cable and portable amplifiers and
speakers to test it with. Once it's up and working properly it can live
a long life on my network and you can be free of this infernal headache.
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without virus protection since 1994
For Mac OS: None.
As an aside, McAfee is worse than some of the threats it protects
against unfortunately.
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You have special context-click (right-click) functionality when browsing
Slim Center's web interface?
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(TPE2) -> ALBUMARTIST. I also use iTunes to tag right now because
there is nothing available for the Mac that is as good as even a
mediocre tagger on Windows. When using Slim server together with
iTunes, it would be nice to have it respect the original meaning of the
tags in iTunes (TPE2 *IS* ALBUM A
ages/regions because not everyone here is from the
Southern US.
I'm of course blown away that this wasn't made a priority to be
included sometime before SS4, but that's another story. I was going to
make the lightbulb analogy originally but didn't want to go there. ;)
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replace display
with large-format progress bar so you can clearly see where you are in
the song, etc.
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s already been filed? I'll gladly submit it if not.
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ave COMPILATION=0 or
unset, including albums by ALBUM ARTISTS with guests.
If you had both the original Various Artists option set as well as the
group by Album Artist, then you would never have individual artists from
either type of album listed in the album or artist browse lists.
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nched them on our web site. I'm only really mentioning
their availability to other Slim Devices forum members.
http://twistedmelon.com/shop/?show=bug1
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e products.
Hopefully this will change once this stuff is released. Now with a more
consumer-friendly approach to the hardware, the web site needs to follow
suit.
I think an easier way to turn on shuffle is also in order (watch the
end of the video if you haven't already :) )
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from.
BTW, the copyright date on the pref pane GUI still says "2002 - 2005"
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Slimcenter (or any version of Slimserver) will then see the artwork
because it will appear where it belongs, inside each track.
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he exception of the model 1000.
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y
package. I've said it before, this is why products like SONOS and
Olive have done so well, despite their very high prices.
Now how about a discount for loyal forum participants? :)
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our SB. I keep Super Date & Time running to see weather
and time instead of looking at a blank SB.
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gnorance. Just look at the telecom and cable industries in this
country.
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any other consumer NAS such as the
terribly slow Infrant products.
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tom left of the iTunes window,
COPY it and then PASTE it into one or more tracks using the "Get Info"
window.
This is really old news and it would be nice if people would just stop
griping about this rather minor annoyance with iTunes:
http://twistedmelon.com/blog/sep2006.html#09230601
cheap).
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point I wouldn't run one even
if it were given to me for free - with hard drives and all.
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o access the alternate library filename
though. Hopefully I'll have some time to experiment with iTunes
updates over the next few weeks. Though I won't be installing 10.4.10
on any machines.
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interface
allowing selecting any number of tracks and simply drag and drop them
where you want them.
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ll
the niceties provided by iTunes with a very easy and straight-forward
installation procedure. It's as easy as installing the current
software can get anyway.
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the words "building"
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he cover myself - this is always my last resort as it's definitely more
involved than click-click-drag on a web page. :) But of course produces
the best quality if you're willing to spend the time.
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Sonos
controller. Every MS PDA also loses all its software when the battery
runs dead (I have two and they're garbage devices).
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rable option. There are already so many I'm sure
another one won't cause a huge issue. All these hundreds of options need
to be hidden away for a more consumer interface anyway. And this mode
set up as a default will definitely cause much less confusion when
someone uses this product for the
function go hand in had. In my books, You really can't have one without
the other in product design.
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with a standard base socket are easy to
find for no more than $2 each here in 15, 17, 22w, etc...
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plaining about
command collision with JVC DVD players. Unfortunately a number of
command codes overlap on device 239 (which Slim is using). Really, a
unique device number should have been selected to prevent collisions
with already established products.
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er-based nature of the product may include some
latency, but I'd rather take my chances than be stuck with what exists
now.
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e
table. Logitech are not typically niche market players. At least not
esoteric niche markets.
There are so many possibilities and my curiosity has obviously got a
hold. Do I have to get a job at Logitech to find out what's going on?
:)
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that Logitech doesn't rely only on its superior
distribution channel to move product and that we continue to see
innovation and a move into a more graphically pleasant (and highly
usable) interfaces.
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gh the
features and more importantly, MISSING features of every Rockbox
release.
Now what's this about toning the language down? Get real.
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ds UI's ever put upon man - it's idiotic (and yes, I know
exactly how it can be fixed if Apple cared). But as much as I could
never buy any current or past gen iPod because of it, I could never run
that Rockbox crapola on any DAP either.
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than the fact it's
controlled by the server. Not to mention going down from volume level 2
immediately goes to 0 instead of 1. Need to file that one as a bug if
it's not already there.
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n look at the option titled "Power on Resume." Do you have something
selected there that would not either continue or restart the song? Such
as the "Remain Stopped" option?
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