Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2022-02-19 Thread Pascal Hibon
chill wrote: > No - that doesn't install it. You need to drag it to the Applications > folder. You'll find that some .dmg files include a shortcut to the > applications folder, which makes this slightly easier. But just open > another finder window, or go to View -> Show Toolbar, which will

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2022-02-19 Thread Pascal Hibon
mherger wrote: > > I the tried to use the command "xattr -cr > /Applications/SqueezePlay.app" > > and I get this reply: "No such file: /Applications/SqueezePlay.app". > > Where did you install SqueezePlay? I downloaded it from the internet and then double clicked the img file in the downloads

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2022-02-19 Thread Pascal Hibon
I tried installing SqueezePlay on a Mac M1 as well but it doesn't work. I get the message "SqueezePlay is damaged and can't be opened. You should eject the disk image". I the tried to use the command "xattr -cr /Applications/SqueezePlay.app" and I get this reply: "No such file:

Re: [slim] Spotify on Squeezebox / UE Smart Radio - end of life

2017-07-13 Thread Pascal Hibon
slartibartfast wrote: > There is a new Spotify plugin based on librespot which will continue to > work when the official plugin becomes obsolete. > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107615 > I wonder why Michael did not mention this solution in his initial post. 'Cambridge

Re: [slim] The King is dead;-)

2017-06-18 Thread Pascal Hibon
Don't worry guys, the industry found yet another way to retrieve money from your pockets. This time it is called MQA. The industry doesn't care about quality, it only cares about revenues... Licencing stuff is a great way to achieve that without attracting to much attention. MP3 licencing

Re: [slim] A Final Goodbye and thanks to this amazing community

2017-05-10 Thread Pascal Hibon
raven22 wrote: > Not that is is bad but I settled with players from MUSAIC. I hope they provide you as much joy as Squeezebox did. A friend of mine had a very bad experience with Simple Audio. He bought a Roomplayer for about 800 Euro (new) only to find out that the company went bankrupt a

Re: [slim] Apple Music on SqueezeboxServer?

2016-07-26 Thread Pascal Hibon
soulgazer wrote: > Now that Apple Music are officially launching on SONOS > (http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/09/apple-music-sonos-launching-tomorrow/), > are there any plans to integrate this into SqueezeboxServer, either by > ickStream or other plugins? > I don't know if an API is even

Re: [slim] Single speaker for kitchen - advice needed

2016-02-28 Thread Pascal Hibon
Blackfiction wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion but I think I just would like to place a > single box speaker in a cabinet. Cambridge Audio also has a nice range of (wireless) speakers. Most of the wireless / bluetooth speakers have an aux input too:

Re: [slim] Single speaker for kitchen - advice needed

2016-02-28 Thread Pascal Hibon
Have you considered in-ceiling speakers? In-ceiling speakers provide a lot of advantages: nice spread sound, almost invisible, no visible cabling etc. I've done that in the bedroom and am very happy with the result. Almost every brand has them in their lineup but I used speakers from Art

Re: [slim] PC or Mac?

2016-01-19 Thread Pascal Hibon
d6jg wrote: > Apologies. 1gb it is. Still enough for a very capable server. Yes, and if you create a ramdisk and use the LMS databse files in that drive it gets a whole lot faster! I've done that on a WB and on a BananaPI and the performance increase is quite important. The PI hasn't got the

Re: [slim] Preparing for my players demise

2015-11-13 Thread Pascal Hibon
kolossos4730 wrote: > Pascal, > > You need to resize the original jstraw .png file to exactly 1 x 453 > pixels. Then everything lines up OK. Picture attached is of the Joggler > skin in SqueezePlay for Windows with the vu_analog_25seq_w.png file > replaced. > > Only thing which could be

Re: [slim] Preparing for my players demise

2015-11-13 Thread Pascal Hibon
doctor_big wrote: > So with this touchscreen and a pi 2,all I would need is picoreplayer? > And it would emulate a SB Touch? > > It can't be that simple... Can it? > Yes it is that easy ! 'M-DAC' (http://www.audiolab.co.uk/M-DAC%20Series.aspx?lang=En) -> 'Focal MP1200'

Re: [slim] Preparing for my players demise

2015-11-13 Thread Pascal Hibon
sbp wrote: > Hi, where Can i find the jstraw images? Or Can you send Them to me? > > steen This is from jstraw's repository: http://www.smallproblem.com/touchmeter/VintageVUMeter-1.0.zip 'M-DAC' (http://www.audiolab.co.uk/M-DAC%20Series.aspx?lang=En) -> 'Focal MP1200'

Re: [slim] Preparing for my players demise

2015-11-13 Thread Pascal Hibon
ralphy wrote: > The VU images are all stored in one file that can be replaced with the > VU images you prefer. The problem with picoreplayer is the jivelite > install is read only. At the moment you would have to unsquash the tcz > image replace the file and squash it again. Pretty simple if

Re: [slim] Preparing for my players demise

2015-11-12 Thread Pascal Hibon
sbp wrote: > If you are interested in seeing how piCorePlayer with touch screen > support and the new 7" screen is performing have a look at this video: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3q1-ywD-0 > > Steen Yes I'm so temped to buy the display. But I would like to use the custom vintage vu

Re: [slim] Is this it for my SB3?

2015-11-12 Thread Pascal Hibon
Wigster wrote: > Yes that I have tried already. > > OK, so the question now is hot to build a Squeezelite/RaspberryPi > Squeezebox replacement. Does anyone know of a good beginning guide? There are plenty of threads on this forum. Here are a few:

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-12 Thread Pascal Hibon
mherger wrote: > > Can anybody define how LMS actually calculates the Artist Count? > > Why would you do the counting yourself? Let LMS do it for you, then you > > don't have to know about the innards :-). > Hi Michael, How would one let LMS do the counting; is there an SQL query that would

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-12 Thread Pascal Hibon
mherger wrote: > > There should be a CLI command to request this information from LMS. > > info total artists ? > > http://localhost:9000/html/docs/cli-api.html?player=#DB > > -- > > Michael Sure, but this is not what pkfox is looking for. He needs a way to retrieve all tracks with the

Re: [slim] Preparing for my players demise

2015-11-12 Thread Pascal Hibon
pkfox wrote: > I'm currently looking at the market for a streamer that can replace my > TransPorter ( shudder ) when the day arrives for it's funeral - one of > the players I've read about is a Cambridge CXN - anyone have any > knowledge on this ? looks pretty neat and understated and most >

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-06 Thread Pascal Hibon
reinholdk wrote: > Just tried and it worked for me, using a LMS 7.8 library file. Don't > have a current 7.9 installed. > But the good thing with this application is, you can adapt the SQL > statements yourself, if necessary. I'm running 7.9. If there are differences in the db between LMS

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-06 Thread Pascal Hibon
w3wilkes wrote: > @Pascal, > LMS does store BPM in the database if... It is an integer. Yes, I found the bpm value in the tracks table. I'm using Mixed In Key to generate the bmp and key values. My bpm values are in "Denon" format and are indeed numeric. 'M-DAC'

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-06 Thread Pascal Hibon
reinholdk wrote: > See 'here' > (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?101600-LMS-Extractor-Is-Now-Available=781353=1#post781353) > for an other application that exports data from LMS (didn't try it > myself). Just gave it a try and it always reports an SQL error. This probably due to

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-05 Thread Pascal Hibon
steve-g wrote: > I've been taking a closer look at the pdf - your program seems to miss > out special characters such as "'", "+", "&" etc. so that for instance > 'Blackmore's Night' becomes 'BLACKMORE S NIGHT' and 'Florence + The > Machine' becomes 'FLORENCE THE MACHINE' any chance of

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-05 Thread Pascal Hibon
pkfox wrote: > Hi there, thanks for your feedback , I'm looking into it now - it > appears that not all contributors are linked to either an album or a > track if you run the query below you will probably see the missing > records > > > Code: > > > select * from

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-05 Thread Pascal Hibon
d6jg wrote: > Possibly. There isn't much difference between what I get and what Pascal > gets. He has some missing tracks whereas I don't. I suspect he may have > missed the Various Artists in the index but maybe not. Pascal ? > I just did a text search on the PDF file and there are no Various

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-05 Thread Pascal Hibon
I also gave the latest version a go and I too have a result that is different from LMS: According to LMS, I have 14.699 tracks, 1746 albums and 3354 artists. The PDF file lists: 14.532 tracks, 1746 albums and 712 artists. The number of albums is the same but the number of tracks and especially

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-05 Thread Pascal Hibon
d6jg wrote: > Are you sure that is the current structure? I ask because I was looking > at the tracks table and there is a field called primary_artist (INT) > which equates to "artist" in tag terms and that isn't in the table in > your PDF. No, I'm not sure. I found it in my archives :-) It is

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-05 Thread Pascal Hibon
hm... that certainly suggest that the way of tagging influences the way LMS stores the data. Hope that Michael comes to the rescue :-) 'M-DAC' (http://www.audiolab.co.uk/M-DAC%20Series.aspx?lang=En) -> 'Focal MP1200' (http://www.mp1200.co.nf/) -> 'Focal Electra 1028 Be'

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-05 Thread Pascal Hibon
Found this is my archive; maybe it can be useful. It shows how the different tables are tied together in LMS. 19141 +---+ |Filename: Database Structure.pdf | |Download:

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-05 Thread Pascal Hibon
d6jg wrote: > I am convinced that primary_artist in tracks is key to the structure > these days. There is nothing else in tracks that associates a given > track to an artist except that and the album number. > > If I was to bet I would say that they LMS artist count is the sum of > unique

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-04 Thread Pascal Hibon
pkfox wrote: > Hi there, my app is not meant to compete with a data management tool it > is purely a cataloguer which produces a portable document. I know that and it is certainly not my intention to "compete". I was just showing what I'm currently using. Your post got my intention because I

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-04 Thread Pascal Hibon
pkfox wrote: > Hi there, if you let me know what format you would like the CSV file in > I could add it to the application. By format I mean what fields do you > need > . This is what my CSV file looks like that I feed to HanDBase: 19138 I don't know if LMS even stores the values of Key and

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-04 Thread Pascal Hibon
d6jg wrote: > There is a suitable tool !!! > > SQL Lite Manager Firefox Add-on > > The basic SQL syntax to produce a basic listing is > > select albums.title, contributors.name, albums.year from albums left > join contributors where albums.contributor = contributors.id I don't want to

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-03 Thread Pascal Hibon
d6jg wrote: > I don't use iTunes at all these days Pascal. A simple PDF carried round > on my iPhone would be fine for me. Sure, but HanDBase is not tied to iTunes. If you have a way to export your data to an CSV file then you can use HanDBase. HanDBase works great on a mobile device and it is

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-03 Thread Pascal Hibon
d6jg wrote: > I would be interested in that. I always curse when I am in a record shop > (yes an actual shop) and can't get access to check whether I already > have a version of a particular album - often happens with Jazz where > there can be albums with different names that are the same thing.

Re: [slim] Document your collection

2015-11-02 Thread Pascal Hibon
Might be interesting. Do you have some screenshots and / or pdf sample to share? 'M-DAC' (http://www.audiolab.co.uk/M-DAC%20Series.aspx?lang=En) -> 'Focal MP1200' (http://www.mp1200.co.nf/) -> 'Focal Electra 1028 Be'

Re: [slim] Sleep or Turn Off At x:00 every night?

2015-10-28 Thread Pascal Hibon
Jeff07971 wrote: > How about setting an alarm at zero volume at the time you wish to stop > the player ? > If you want not to set zero volume for the alarm create a silent mp3 or > FLAC to play You could actually combine an alarm with the PowerSave plugin. Set an alarm at 00:00 hours to play a

Re: [slim] Sleep or Turn Off At x:00 every night?

2015-10-28 Thread Pascal Hibon
Jeff07971 wrote: > You don't even need powersave, the player is switched off after the > "Alarm Timeout". Yes, that's true; my bad. 'M-DAC' (http://www.audiolab.co.uk/M-DAC%20Series.aspx?lang=En) -> 'Focal MP1200' (http://www.mp1200.co.nf/) -> 'Focal Electra 1028 Be'

Re: [slim] Sleep or Turn Off At x:00 every night?

2015-10-28 Thread Pascal Hibon
spedinfargo wrote: > I think PowerSave alone might be a perfect fit. I'll have to research > exactly what it means by inactivity (does it essentially mean nobody has > pressed a key for that player in x number of minutes?) since she > basically falls asleep with it on. If it turns off after

Re: [slim] Sleep or Turn Off At x:00 every night?

2015-10-28 Thread Pascal Hibon
Not entirely what you're looking for but maybe you could make it work in your situation. There is a plugin called PowerSave. It allows you the power off a player after a certain amount of active time. 19092 +---+ |Filename:

Re: [slim] 9 y old slimdevice SB3 died

2015-10-20 Thread Pascal Hibon
gian wrote: > > > I am very pleased with the result: you lose display and remote, so you > need pc or smartphone handy, which is not a problem for me. > You do not necessary loose display and IR remote. There are plenty of displays for PI and other boards that work fine. As for IR, you can

Re: [slim] 9 y old slimdevice SB3 died

2015-10-20 Thread Pascal Hibon
gian wrote: > this is very interesting... but what would I see on the display? > > If I hook up a display I only see the terminal console... You need to install jivelite (see picore thread) and that will give you an "SB Touch" like interface. 'M-DAC'

Re: [slim] 9 y old slimdevice SB3 died

2015-10-20 Thread Pascal Hibon
pgnyc wrote: > hi, > > bought in october 2006 died october 2015. > > Screen just went dark and sb3 unreachable ( was ethernet and static > IP). > > Test remove the wireless card but nothing. > power is good ( have a backup SB3 ) > > Any solution ?? > > > Left : 1 SB3(logitech), 2 boom !!

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller without Receiver?

2015-08-26 Thread Pascal Hibon
With a PI (or other small computer solution) you have the option to use a 'FLIRC dongle' (https://flirc.tv/). With that dongle you have the option of using a regular IR remote or even a universal IR remote. I use this on one of my Wandboards and it works great. 'M-DAC'

Re: [slim] Is Bluetooth streaming to Squeezebox possible?

2015-08-04 Thread Pascal Hibon
Guut_Boy wrote: I see Bluetooth speakers are becoming very popular, and it makes a lot of sense to me. It seems really convenient to just be able to stream whatever sound is playing on my phone or tablet on a larger speaker. So I was wondering if i could do the same through my Squeezebox

Re: [slim] Is Bluetooth streaming to Squeezebox possible?

2015-08-04 Thread Pascal Hibon
d6jg wrote: I'd forget about Bluetooth and use Airplay instead. Bluetooth is compressed and introduces loss. Airplay should happily accept any content that you can play on an iPhone and is bit perfect. It should be possible to get shairport installed on LMS (tricky on Windows but easy on

Re: [slim] Are we near the end...

2015-07-22 Thread Pascal Hibon
philippe_44 wrote: Sync is maintained while playing a track, unless disabled. LMS evaluates network round trip constantly as well as gathering the local player clock and requires players to feedback ms accuracy play time compared to their local clock. When gap is found, LMS will ask player

Re: [slim] 10 year anniversary

2015-06-02 Thread Pascal Hibon
I have to wait one more year. Bought my first SB3 in 2006... 'M-DAC' (http://www.audiolab.co.uk/M-DAC%20Series.aspx?lang=En) - 'Focal MP1200' (http://www.mp1200.co.nf/) - 'Focal Electra 1028 Be' (http://www.focal.com/en/electra-1000-be-2/209-electra-1028-be-3544053695099.html) 1 x SB3, 1 x SB

Re: [slim] iPeng 8 Design Poll

2015-04-28 Thread Pascal Hibon
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102134 Question:

Re: [slim] Call for testers! Daphile

2015-03-30 Thread Pascal Hibon
mauri_va wrote: Thank you for the answer! Yes, my music library on the NAS has scanned. When I navigate from Album or Artist, this albums works in the same way: the first track is not playable. Why? (and: why I can not navigate my music with folder browsing?) Does the title contain some

Re: [slim] Call for testers! Daphile

2015-02-28 Thread Pascal Hibon
I'm trying a Daphile setup of a friend of mine. It's installed on a SSD drive connected to a ASRock Q1900dc ITX board. I have my M-DAC connected through one of the USB ports and Daphile recognized it immediately. But I hear small plops in the music stream. The plops are at irregular intervals. I

Re: [slim] Call for testers! Daphile

2015-02-28 Thread Pascal Hibon
Lem wrote: Daphile is quite adjustable. Try increasing the buffers slightly. I already tried that before posting but that had no effect on it. Lem wrote: Also check the default CPU setting - it may have been misconfigured on boot. You can set to a fixed rate or dynamic. CPU is

Re: [slim] Comically Fumbled Squeezebox Replacement Thread - Would you be interested?

2015-02-11 Thread Pascal Hibon
JJZolx wrote: More assumptions and speculation, just like those voiced by the previous poster. How can you know the important lesson unless you know the issues that were (or weren't) dealt with? If you don't think Logitech was involved, then why would you think the name was an issue? That

Re: [slim] If CD won't rip is it grounds for return?

2015-02-03 Thread Pascal Hibon
I have a few CD's who don't rip at all but never had a partial CD that wouldn't rip. In the few cases where the CD wouldn't rip it was because of a copy protection mechanism applied to the CD. I don't expect a copy protect mechanism to be implemented on just a few songs of the CD but one can

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2015-02-01 Thread Pascal Hibon
Lem wrote: The bulk of LMS is open source is it not (from the old Slim Devices days)?, and still being developed upon by users of this very forum.. I don't see why it would be such an issue if you were to bundle LMS into a streamer. For a DIY'er it is not a big deal. For a company it is a

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2015-02-01 Thread Pascal Hibon
mherger wrote: It's unsure, unless they decide not only to take advantage of the free software provided by some guys out there, but to contribute to it, helping to keep it alive. That would be nice Michael. But honestly, that is just wishful thinking. The software is open source and

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2015-02-01 Thread Pascal Hibon
JJZolx wrote: For Bryston, installing Squeezelite, which they didn't pay a penny to develop, on the BDP-2, with its bog-standard motherboard running Linux, is a pretty low risk proposition. They didn't develop the system to be a Squeezebox emulator; it's an afterthought. It may generate a

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2015-01-31 Thread Pascal Hibon
doctor_big wrote: Bryston has included squeezelite in their BDP2 streamer. The product is outrageously e pensive considering what it is, but maybe it's a turnaround for the SB... Jason Glanced at the manual. They have indeed included Squeezelite but that's not a Logitech product. So it

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2015-01-22 Thread Pascal Hibon
chrissy wrote: I guess there is a simple reason: You can't earn money with it. Look at the SOtM sMS-100 . It is priced as high as 499€ here in Germany and nothing more than a raspie with pi-coreplayer you can buy for 60€. If you take a cubie +2 tb Disk, you pay about 200€ and have a

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?

2014-12-31 Thread Pascal Hibon
ctbarker32 wrote: So, my question for 2015 - Is the Universe of LMS and Squeezebox expanding, contracting, or staying about the same? Probably no one can answer that question since there are no figures available. But since Logitech killed the Squeezebox product line it is safe to assume

Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?

2014-11-03 Thread Pascal Hibon
wortgefecht wrote: Long story short: What is your mobile setup and what are your experiences with it? At first I used a Wandboard with CSOS in a small enclosure that holds a hard drive. I called it 'msqueeze' (http://www.msqueeze.co.nf/index.html). The drive is sync'd with my NAS when at

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2014-07-11 Thread Pascal Hibon
John Westlake's 'M-DAC2' (http://mdac2.lakewestaudio.com/) will most probably have a squeezebox option as well. John plans on using the new 'Raspberry Pi Compute' (http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-product/) module that can be fitted inside the M-DAC2 to function as a

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2014-07-11 Thread Pascal Hibon
JJZolx wrote: How well are the Squeezebox clones built on consumer ARM-based boards doing sync these days? I have three WB's running all without issues. Even sync'd they work very well and I consider them as true Squeezeboxes. There are plenty of ARM boards out there who are running

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2014-07-11 Thread Pascal Hibon
Antoniop wrote: What do you mean by abandoned the Squeezebox lineup ? They still have the UE smart radio. UE is no Squeezebox. Squeezebox was abandoned a few years ago! And by the way, Logitech also dropped the UE Radio. So that story is over too. 'M-DAC'

Re: [slim] Power Switch II for LMS in Mac OS X

2014-06-29 Thread Pascal Hibon
I don't remember if the plugin provided additional logging or not but if it does then you need to set it in Settings - Advanced - Logging. At the top of that page you'll see links to the log files as well. If you want to know the exact location to the log files then have a look at the bottom of

Re: [slim] Power Switch II for LMS in Mac OS X

2014-06-28 Thread Pascal Hibon
vett93 wrote: Thanks. The PowerSwitch II's maxVersion was any already, even though it was last updated in 2008. I manually installed the plugin and it did show up on Mac LMS's active plugin list. However, the SB3 cannot control the power with Mac LMS server. If I change the LMS server back

Re: [slim] Power Switch II for LMS in Mac OS X

2014-06-23 Thread Pascal Hibon
vett93 wrote: Any Mac users out there? Not a mac user but I guess that this plugin would be available on all platforms. There is a good chance that the plugin is out of date since it hasn't been updated since 2008. You probbaly need to edit the install.xml file and modify the maxversion tag so

Re: [slim] Squeezebox touch or external DAC ?

2014-06-10 Thread Pascal Hibon
Although a SB Touch is a great player, it certainly is not worth 800 Euro. You better buy a 'Wandboard' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?101624-Announce-Squeeze-on-Arch-developer-version), 'Raspberry Pi' (https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home) or other ARM hardware platform

Re: [slim] Squeezebox touch or external DAC ?

2014-06-10 Thread Pascal Hibon
Antoniop wrote: What do you do then for the display and the remote control ? I know any android device can be used, but it's not so convenient. Thanks a lot I use iPeng and SqueezePad to control all my SB's. I also have a 'FLIRC' (http://flirc.tv/) dongle connected to a WB so that I can

Re: [slim] 'Play from here' feature

2014-05-24 Thread Pascal Hibon
pippin wrote: Um, in iPeng you also just need to tap the track, Yes, that was what I was doing wrong. M-DAC - Cambridge Audio Azur 840E - Focal MP1200 - Focal Electra 1028 Be 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and 2 x SB Touch - all wireless 1 x Wandboard Dual behind the bedroom ceiling 1

Re: [slim] Computer as a player?

2014-05-24 Thread Pascal Hibon
Apesbrain wrote: It can: 1. Android mini-PC + Squeeze Player, or 2. Raspberry Pi + piCorePlayer. Having both, I prefer the second as it offers a fine-sounding analog output as well as digital via USB, S/PDIF and HDMI. It plays 24/96 files just fine. I'd like to add the Wandboard (Dual

Re: [slim] Computer as a player?

2014-05-24 Thread Pascal Hibon
slate wrote: Was there not a problem with Toslink not working on Wandboard? There was with the old A0 revision board. Newer boards don't have that problem anymore. And if you want to be really sure then buy a Quad; that one never had the old A0 revision. 'M-DAC'

[slim] 'Play from here' feature

2014-05-23 Thread Pascal Hibon
I recently bought 'a box set of a great Belgian artist' (http://www.qobuz.com/album/le-coffret-essentiel-arno/0825646281978). The box set has 13 discs with a total of 169 tracks. By the way, I bought the box set as a download and not on physical media. While browsing through this ‘huge album’ I

Re: [slim] 'Play from here' feature

2014-05-23 Thread Pascal Hibon
JJZolx wrote: Settings Player Settings Play Other Songs In Album Seems to work everywhere except in the web interface. Navigate to a track within an album, press 'Play' and it queues up the whole album and begins playback at that track. That is actually the default setting. But this

Re: [slim] anybody tried one of these?

2014-05-16 Thread Pascal Hibon
d6jg wrote: http://www.amazon.co.uk/WiFi-Audio-Music-Receiver-Adapter/dp/B00IHGMGNI/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8colid=3GIELLDTQQNOAcoliid=I1HKLNDZ7D2HPB tthinking of getting one to use with iPeng in player mode it does have an Optical out but thats not clear from description If you plan

Re: [slim] Logitech killed Squeezebox were to get a duet

2014-05-11 Thread Pascal Hibon
Not really what you are looking for but I just wanted to post this if anyone else is looking for a SB Radio. 'This store' (http://www.laboutiquederic.com/) seems to have stock again. M-DAC - Cambridge Audio Azur 840E - Focal MP1200 - Focal Electra 1028 Be 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and

[slim] Duplicate tracks - how to cope with these?

2014-05-08 Thread Pascal Hibon
Like a lot people, I have a ton of duplicate tracks in my library. I’m not talking about different versions of a particular track but really duplicate versions of a track. This is a phenomenon that is greatly due to compilation albums. I’m looking for a way to get rid of duplicate tracks without

Re: [slim] Scrobbling issues?

2014-04-24 Thread Pascal Hibon
mrMuppet wrote: Hi, i'm having problems with scrobbling, too! I converted from QNAP to freenas and everything is running fine, only Last.fm scrobbling is not working! The Server log is not diplaying anything related to last.fm. Perhaps someone can tell me how to enable some last.fm-logging.

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-08 Thread Pascal Hibon
Nonreality wrote: Many people don't even know that there is better than mp3. Oh but they do know. They just don't care. Music consumption has changed a lot the last years. The people who enjoy quality music on their high quality music sets are a dying breath. The new generation is fine with

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-08 Thread Pascal Hibon
Mnyb wrote: You can and do hear the difference between good and bad masters and recordings . So the interesting part is how Pono will run their music store would they just accept files as is from their sources or will they do some decent quality controll ? I could not have said

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-04-08 Thread Pascal Hibon
Mnyb wrote: Not exactly re-recorded but track down a good master , from the original studio lests say done before some exec telled them that it was to weak and had to be louder ;) Sure, that works if the recording itself is of good quality. That is unfortunately not necessary true for all

Re: [slim] What can I do now? Squeezebox classic died

2014-04-01 Thread Pascal Hibon
Evan_E wrote: so I guess I either suck it up and buy a Touch for $600 or think about replacing my whole system with a Sonos system. Hang in there. Sonos is no match for Squeezebox; believe me I have tried it. There are other options. You could wait for the 'Community Squeeze project'

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-03-24 Thread Pascal Hibon
Nonreality wrote: You mean he needs to do what you want and only what you want, regardless if he feels he's doing something good to help music quality. You missed the point. Who is interested in listening to high quality music on a portable player? The biggest portable audio listeners

Re: [slim] Pono Player

2014-03-13 Thread Pascal Hibon
I don't understand the Pono product. It just seems like yet another portable music player. There are plenty of portable music players around who are able to play lossless music formats. If this is about quality, then why a portable player and why not a streamer that you can hook up to your

Re: [slim] Beats Music Support Maybe Possible.... VOTE!

2014-02-19 Thread Pascal Hibon
I had a look at their website but it doesn't say much. Things like what are their strengths, how are they different from other music services, etc. And it seems that this service in only available in the US(?) Can anyone here explain why you would recommend them? 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB

Re: [slim] Scrobbling issues?

2014-02-11 Thread Pascal Hibon
I use both LMS 7.7.3. and 7.8. Scrobbling works fine on both systems. 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and 2 x SB Touch - all wireless 1 x Wandboard Dual behind the bedroom ceiling 1 x Wandboard Dual for 'msqueeze' (http://www.msqueeze.co.nf/index.html) project ReadyNAS NVX running LMS

Re: [slim] Question for the Wandboard user...

2014-02-09 Thread Pascal Hibon
zoula wrote: Hi, My Duet is now officially dead :( I now need a replacement. I'm looking for a Raspberry Pi or a Wandboard running piCorePlayer. or some other soft. I'm also changing my loudspeaker system for a 4 ways active diople system, that will be control with a Najda DSP board.

Re: [slim] New Device - Beep

2014-02-07 Thread Pascal Hibon
kaja69 wrote: Will I be able to stream my 7.000 FLAC files? According to their website, Beep currently does not yet support local music. It looks like a sexy product though. Ah, will stick with Squeezebox now that we have a decent alternative with CSOS! 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB

Re: [slim] New Device - Beep

2014-02-07 Thread Pascal Hibon
kaja69 wrote: CSOS? Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk Yes, a community effort to provide a next gen Squeezebox. http://www.communitysqueeze.org/ http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?99395-Community-Squeeze-OS-F19-Release-1

Re: [slim] Qobuz streaming (inc FLAC) and download site.

2014-01-31 Thread Pascal Hibon
From time to time I visit the Qobuz site to query for some albums. But in many cases the search comes up empty. This suggests to me that there library is not as large as Spotify's. They seem to be very French minded. Are there any people here who made the switch from Soptify to Qobuz and care to

Re: [slim] [1]

2014-01-27 Thread Pascal Hibon
matthew_hodgsk...@yahoo.com wrote: I recommend to visit the site! http://lkatriona.ru/_make.your.dreams.come.true?tofjrjhjb === Sent: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:22:07 Checked: Secure Link Norton™ Internet Security I haven't clicked the link because I suspect it to be

Re: [slim] [1]

2014-01-27 Thread Pascal Hibon
Mnyb wrote: The little black triangle in the lower left corner is for reporting spam , done . Btw i do that as soon as I spot some spam Ok, thanks for the heads-up. Didn't know that one. 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and 2 x SB Touch - all wireless 1 x Wandboard Dual behind the

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2014-01-21 Thread Pascal Hibon
Reeshar wrote: Scanning music files doesn't actually involve reading the whole file. That would take forever! LMS merely pulls off the tag and any associated artwork which is only a few kB per track. My impression in the past has been that slowness in scanning was down to manipulation of

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2014-01-21 Thread Pascal Hibon
pippin wrote: iPeng 7.0.2 finally reached the App Store. The update - fixes some artwork issues, you no longer have to open Albums to make sure album artwork gets correctly loaded - greatly improves the scrolling performance. Some of the system blur effects (not the ones

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2014-01-21 Thread Pascal Hibon
pippin wrote: It's not until all images are loaded but until the whole table is loaded (the list of albums) so it will get better once that's cached. It's actually the result of a fix for another problem (the index bar often being missing) looks like _that_ fix deserves more tweaking...

Re: [slim] Thinking about my Squeezebox/LMS future

2014-01-07 Thread Pascal Hibon
castalla wrote: Tunein is very useful when others want to find an alternative station (without having to search for the stream urls), Also, Tunein has different clients, so it's possible to have the same favourites across a variety of devices. Those are all very valid arguments, Castalla.

Re: [slim] Thinking about my Squeezebox/LMS future

2014-01-07 Thread Pascal Hibon
toby10 wrote: That's TuneIn. But these work without a mysqueezebox.com account. Also the mysqueezebox.com integration is disabled on my systems, yet those menus work. Does it still use mysqueezebox.com in the background in that case? 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and 2 x SB Touch -

Re: [slim] Boom bust

2014-01-07 Thread Pascal Hibon
ModelCitizen wrote: Thanks all. Will go for a 12v supply and keep my fingers crossed. Pascal, the one you link to looks best but it is surprisingly expensive and I've no real idea if the barrel connector is the right size. Might have to go for the one at Amazon but it does not look too

Re: [slim] Boom bust

2014-01-07 Thread Pascal Hibon
ModelCitizen wrote: That 12v 2.5W PSU at Mouser works out at a total of €43.37 ! I've realised that the Radio PSU is 18v and has the same sized barrel connector and, although it's only 1.0 amp the Boom seems to sound OK with. Not much of a solution though. I can't seem to find

Re: [slim] Thinking about my Squeezebox/LMS future

2014-01-06 Thread Pascal Hibon
MrRalph wrote: will I still have internet radio through the TuneIn app? Do you really need TuneIn? I mean, if the internet radios you listen to have direct streams available then you can listen to those without an external app. For example, Belgian radio station Studio Brussel has this

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