Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-09-01 Thread Rangdo
My next system will be the replacement Touch I just ordered in case my current one dies. ;) I don't use any online services, don't even do multi-room syncing; just play my local library. The only features I use are new music and random. I reckon I've got years before I need to worry about a

Re: [slim] I love my Squeezebox!

2008-03-11 Thread Rangdo
music on-tap, if I can't decide what I want I can randomise tracks or albums and let the thing decide for me, etc. Magic!! -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 Benchmark DAC1 Bel Canto S300iu MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http

[slim] Loving SqueezeCentre 7, however....

2008-03-06 Thread Rangdo
was LazySearch due to the scan not completing until after I'd retired for the evening :) -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile

Re: [slim] Loving SqueezeCentre 7, however....

2008-03-06 Thread Rangdo
doing a new/changed scan. It was a while ago now so I may try it again. So how about that stop button then ? :) -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20

Re: [slim] Loving SqueezeCentre 7, however....

2008-03-06 Thread Rangdo
Check that, LazySearch works fine as well :) -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] Loving SqueezeCentre 7, however....

2008-03-06 Thread Rangdo
Same here, from Internet Radio it works fine but not from Favourites. Not a biggie for me TBH. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20

Re: [slim] Rumor: Microsoft to buy Logitech?!

2008-01-18 Thread Rangdo
change things to such an extent that a non-DRM WAV file is unplayable. Millions of previous recordings, mobile ring-tones, personal diary audio blogs, whatever suddenyl unplayable - don't see it myself. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu

[slim] Interest Check: UK Silver Wired SB2

2007-11-19 Thread Rangdo
if I'm breaking any un-written rules (couldn't see anything) -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http

Re: [slim] Interest Check: UK Silver Wired SB2

2007-11-19 Thread Rangdo
And it's gone :D -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View

Re: [slim] 20% of all Logitech products (may be UK only)

2007-09-04 Thread Rangdo
Excellent, totally spur of the moment purchase but a black SB3 will look better in my living room than my silver SB2. £178, people are paying more than that on the 'bay. Cheers. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4

Re: [slim] Does not advance to next song in list

2007-07-15 Thread Rangdo
Couldn't be related to pausing near the end of the track at all, could it? I get similar symptoms if I pause roughly 30 seconds before the end of a track, when I resume it'll play the rest of the track then nothing without skipping forward or stop/play. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2

Re: [slim] Very annoyed and disappointed (not with SD - read on...)

2007-06-23 Thread Rangdo
I'll worry about it when I turn on my SB and it announces over the speakers Squeezebox, brought to you by Logitech Otherwise, can't say the brand worries me one bit. But to the OP, it's so annoying when people's communication is so [EMAIL PROTECTED] :| -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2

Re: [slim] Where does everyone buy their online music from?

2007-05-25 Thread Rangdo
amcluesent;203362 Wrote: Magnatune, good source of FLAC encoded (plus MP3 etc.) music I like their attitude as well, you don't actually buy as much as donate so you can choose the amount. And they are quite happy for you to distribute to upto 3 friends. RIAA anyone!!?! -- Rangdo GRONDA

Re: [slim] Slimserver will not accept mapped drives, UNC paths for music, playlists

2007-05-09 Thread Rangdo
I think if you go into the Slimserver service properties and select to logon as administrator that'll cure it. I had a similar issue with my collection living a drive hanging off a different PC to the one Slimserver was installed on. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark

Re: [slim] Can you permanently assign a drive letter in XP?

2007-05-03 Thread Rangdo
-folders of a 'master' folder. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus Pre Xvs [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus X-Power [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http

Re: [slim] Playing 24/48

2007-04-27 Thread Rangdo
with no trouble. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus Pre Xvs [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus X-Power [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

Re: [slim] Playing 24/48

2007-04-27 Thread Rangdo
on my laptop as a player I have bitrate set to 320 so the server automatically feeds me MP3 @ 320. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus Pre Xvs [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus X-Power [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20

Re: [slim] Playing 24/48

2007-04-26 Thread Rangdo
. -- Rangdo Gronda Gronda Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34783 ___ discuss

Re: [slim] 24/96 PCM to SB3 not so good.

2007-04-15 Thread Rangdo
In the meantime, why not just decode on the server side and stream WAV? -- Rangdo Gronda Gronda Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] 24/96 PCM to SB3 not so good.

2007-04-15 Thread Rangdo
Oops, good point - I raised that bug too :D What I've done for now is just retain the WAV file until that one is fixed - it's been a little while so I'd forgotten. Obviously I lose the tag information on those tracks but otherwise they play fine. -- Rangdo Gronda Gronda

[slim] Re: Media Center PC as remote

2006-11-18 Thread Rangdo
. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29810 ___ discuss mailing list

[slim] Re: Media Center PC as remote

2006-11-18 Thread Rangdo
there) together with zoom functions for easy reading at a distance but navigating the SS web interface isn't great via remote, you'd need a wireless mouse for that. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: Do you backup your FLACs (or other lossless files)?

2006-10-06 Thread Rangdo
said, HDD's are cheap so I've got 2 400GB drives for my FLACs, both in USB2 enclosures - one is connected to my server this is mirrored to the other drive which is then stored safely. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Do you backup your FLACs (or other lossless files)?

2006-10-06 Thread Rangdo
to put anything intelligent around the process. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28360

[slim] Re: Where did bitrate limiting go?

2006-10-03 Thread Rangdo
It's in the player settings, under audio. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28221

[slim] SS doesn't advance to the next track after pause

2006-10-02 Thread Rangdo
got it with 6.5 (which was a fresh install). Is anyone else still experiencing this; this is now my only bug-bear (no pun intended and only a minor issue at that) -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)

2006-07-17 Thread Rangdo
) :) -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss

[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)

2006-07-17 Thread Rangdo
Fair do's, thanks for the replies ;) Shame I didn't look on the forum *before* spending an hour this morning figuring out what was causing the dupes. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

[slim] Re: Shuttles New Slim PC

2006-06-09 Thread Rangdo
These have an external power brick that is silent, just like my Shuttle Zen. So the only fan is the one on the CPU heatpipe - no idea how noisy that is but my Zen is pretty quiet (albeit inside my TV cabinet behind a glass door) -- Rangdo

[slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!

2006-04-29 Thread Rangdo
difference was that I normally manually enter the network details, final time I let them pick up via DHCP. Plucking up the courage to try 6.2.2 and use the auto-DHCP part again. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http

[slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!

2006-04-29 Thread Rangdo
And it worked :) -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23389