Re: [slim] NAS Advice
d6jg wrote: > > 1. Get a NAS from either manufacturer but consider the storage > requirement carefully. You can always upgrade the disks at a later > stage. > 2. Get yourself a Pi4. Install piCorePlayer and LMS on the Pi. Point it > at the storage on the NAS. Another advantage to having a Pi in the system is that it can handle the backups. The primary storage can be on fancy NASes, but the Pi can host external USB drives and automatically perform automatic backups using rsync jobs scheduled via crontab. (That's pretty much what I've been doing for years now.) I'm curious if the new 8GB Pi 4 models work well with zfs (allegedly the most reliable file system out there). My guess in that case is that having two Pi 4 boxes (a primary and a backup) hosting USB drives would probably be both cheaper and more robust than a commercial NAS, but maybe I'm crazy. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112670 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ReplayGain questions
If you have any DTS and/or AC-3 tracks, be sure to NOT add ReplayGain tags to them. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112610 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Weird Playlist behavior
netchord wrote: > bumping this. after moving to a RPi running pCP, i'm still having this > issue, so seems clear it's an LMS problem (happened on both 7.9.2 and > 8), or a player issue. i've spelunked through the settings for both, > and don't see anything obvious that would cause this. If you rescan playlists does the log say any tracks can't be found? atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112317 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Some Rasberry Pi / LMS questions for a complete beginner.
mandryka wrote: > 1. Are some SD cards less reliable than others? I wonder if mine failed > because I have a bad quality card. I've had at least two of the better known brands (Samsung, SanDisk) fail on me. When I looked around for allegedly more reliable ones, I found Transcend High Endurance and have used nothing else for years now. Not a single one has failed. Of course this is ONE person's experience and it's possible I was just unlucky with the other cards followed by getting lucky with the Transcend. But at this point the price difference is sufficiently uninteresting to make me want to stick with alleged high-endurance cards. They're often sold as being suitable for dashcams as they allegedly stand up better to repeated rewrites. I also usually go no lower than 32GB on the assumption that extra space means fewer writes over the same sectors...but I could be laughably wrong about that. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110533 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ickStream Shutdown
erland wrote: > Just for information to anyone still using ickStream Music Platform. > > As we indicated two months ago we have now permanently shutdown the > ickStream servers. > > At the moment there are no plans to start the ickStream service again > but if your company still feels the need to use some of our technology > or has the need for or interest in a continued service, please feel free > to contact us, we are open for all kind of options including licensing, > sale of our technology or the ickStream GmbH company. I'm sorry that it didn't work out, but tack så mycket very much for trying and sticking with it for as long as you did! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110399 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SD Card & Car: Track order wrong
emalvick wrote: > I think the key thing is that the software built into these stereo units > is not great and the technology has shown minimal progress. I've had > cars with these types of features (able to plug an SD card, CD, USB with > files on it) since about 2010. They are often limited to id3v1, miss > gapless, occasionally only play in the order files are written, etc. I > know you know that as you mentioned it up front, but it's almost 10 > years since I got my first car with these features; you think they would > improve. And, given you have an Audi, I would expect better by now. They want to do the bare minimum amount of work that will allow them to list it as a "feature". atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110224 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SD Card & Car: Track order wrong
I've given up on gapless for most non-LMS players. As someone who usually plays whole albums, my workaround is a Linux script that concatenates FLACs into a single file and then turns that into an MP3. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110224 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] CDs rapid Demise
Dogberry2 wrote: > What, you mean you don't prefer a high noise floor, terrible > signal-to-noise ratio, plenty of hiss, wow and flutter, with > continuously degrading wear and worsening sound every time you listen to > an album? What are you, a heretic? Any vinyl cult follower will tell you > all that crappy noise stuff translates into a "warmer sound"! I just got the new Andy Partridge 10" yesterday. It sounds shockingly good...except for the side that's wildly off-center...and ends with a single long, sustained note. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109154 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] CDs rapid Demise
Mnyb wrote: > People much younger than me thinks vinyl i kind of hip hence its current > comeback . > > I abamdoned it in the early 90s sometimes wonderng if i should take it > up again as a nostalgig thing. > > My parents also gave up vinyl at the same time , but i do think must > audiophiles are my dads ago or slightly older. > With them a lot of silly things would ll die. > Most normal people of that age probably have a harder time to abandon > vhs and fm radio at home ( fm radio in the car is sad necessity) I've been on a vinyl digitizing kick again lately and have been doing my collection of Warner Brothers Loss Leaders. I'm occasionally surprised at how good some of it sounds, but it's sure variable! Even the same side of a record can start out horrible but be terrific by the end. It's interesting to also get visual confirmation of what I'm hearing: ClickRepair will show me it's doing all kinds of work on some passages and nothing at all on others. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109154 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS AAC/M4A gapless
I noticed non-gaplessness with AAC a few months back and found that the problem only occurred with synced players. Streaming to a single player worked fine. As others have pointed out the issues with M4A file layout, I'll mention that recent versions of Foobar2000 have an option under utilities to optimize the file layout. Not sure if that will help you, but in my experience it doesn't hurt anything. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108774 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud
bakker_be wrote: > Ever since they stopped allowing the use of rclone, I've been > investigating alternatives. This is just another factor prompting a > switch. Since I only need a backup solution I intend to try Crashplan > ... I love that I learned about rclone mere days before it was banned. But that ban got me to immediately request non-renewal of my ACD account. I signed up with hubiC, which works just fine with rclone, but my multi-terabyte library is currently on day five of the backup process. I don't think it's painfully slow, it's just not blazingly fast. I also use CrashPlan, but "painfully slow" definitely applies. The price and feature set are fantastic, but it's definitely something you use AFTER you have your local backup figured out. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107345 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud
Testing hubiC at the moment. 25GB free and it works with rclone. Their largest plan is 10TB, which works for me for now, so I just might go for it. rclone developer is hopeful that he can work things out with Amazon. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107345 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud
drmatt wrote: > They don't like the word "unlimited" as much as their marketing would > have you believe, apparently... If I understand the situation correctly (and I'm not sure that I do) rclone's developer had to work with Amazon to get the app approved, but Amazon banned it without warning or consulting him and has yet to respond to his inquiries. For now, I've told Amazon not to renew my plan when it expires in August. If they allow rclone again, I'll probably keep the service, but for people with large music libraries the inability to automate a sync makes even "unlimited" useless. I'd be OK (not thrilled, but OK) if they'd just allow it with --dry-run so I could see what needs to be done and do it manually, but absent that or a similar tool, forget it. I'm currently testing a 10GB backup to https://hubic.com - they have a 25GB free version that works with rclone. Unfortunately, they don't have an unlimited plan, though their 10TB should work (for now!) for me. The test isn't finished yet, but it's been running for a few hours and seems to be working well: Code: Transferred: 7.864 GBytes (726.991 kBytes/s) Errors: 0 Checks: 1 Transferred: 4942 Elapsed time:3h9m1.9s atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107345 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud
bakker_be wrote: > Since posting this, I've uploaded ±1TB of music to Amazon :p And, just like that, Amascum has banned rclone. https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-has-been-banned-from-amazon-drive/2314/10 atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107345 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud
bakker_be wrote: > Ehm, aren't we confusing *GOOGLE* drive and *AMAZON* drive here? > > Back to Amazon Drive: > 'rclone' (https://rclone.org/) seems to support it, and it has a "check" > function that compares file hashes allowing you to skip files that > calculate as identical. THANK YOU for this!!! I just set it up yesterday and it seems to be working fine. Greatly preferable to trying to sync using Amazon's horrific W*nd*ws client. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107345 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Moving away from LMS ?
Paul Dorn wrote: > For those of you who only care about local music, the Squeezebox devices > should continue to work. But I suspect those of us making a lot of use > of services such as Pandora would find their Squeezebox devices far less > useful than they are today. You're right, of course. I occasionally use Tidal but LMS mostly serves up my 100k+ tracks and Internet radio. I tend to selfishly forget that other people have different needs. Having said that, it seems like there are respected alternatives for those who use the services but still nothing with the amazing cost/value ratio as LMS for local libraries. Paul Dorn wrote: > On that topic, I want to thank Logitech for continuing their support for > the backends. I think they have gone way beyond what is required. I > know we all hated when they discontinued the Squeezebox line. But I'm > amazed online services are still provided. Seconded! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107002 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Moving away from LMS ?
mherger wrote: > > Don't forget that Logitech is still providing a whole lot of > infrastructure which would need to be replaced by the community: build > systems, download servers, this forum etc. That could become a problem. There would definitely be some initial pain, that's for sure. But it seems likely that there'd be too much interest in keeping it going to have it just fade away. And please let me again take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for all you've done and continue to do! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107002 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Moving away from LMS ?
liffy99 wrote: > Given that LMS support no longer exists It doesn't? Seriously, even if Logitech completely pulls the plug I don't see LMS going away for a long, long time. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107002 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to fix music track that Transporter plays back twice as fast?
Wombat wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc > NTSC discs have a 44.056kHz audio track. Yep...I did things backwards and Googled that AFTER I stupidly questioned it in public. :) But I still wonder what really comes out of the digital output. I started using the optical output on a Panasonic player into a Sony receiver circa 1992 and everything just worked, with the Sony indicating a 44.1 sample rate. Is 44.056 simply close enough that nothing complains or is the output upsampled to 44.1? atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106680 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How to fix music track that Transporter plays back twice as fast?
megarat wrote: > The LD's native digital audio is Redbook-esque, but not precisely so, > being 16 bit and 44056 Hz. That's the first time I've ever heard that. My inner skeptic wonders how that would work when plugged into equipment expecting 44.1 and why an oddball sample rate like that wouldn't completely break DTS. Are you sure that's the real sample rate and, if so, that players don't already concert to 44.1 before outputting? Though I also have trouble believing circa 1990 consumer equipment could convert on the fly that well. On the other hand, maybe you're right and it explains why I got intermittent single sample pops when attempting to capture LD output via optical TOSLINK into a standalone CD recorder. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106680 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music Backup in the Cloud
Squeezemenicely wrote: > Mission accomplished, my music is now backed up in the cloud, more than > 1 TB. Amazon really has good upload speed. Now I feel a bit safer. So > the worst bit is behind me, the initial upload. From now on my NAS will > automatically sync with the cloud. So all is good. What I've learned so far about the Amazon Cloud Windows client: 1. It will not install from a "network location" (i.e., NAS). I can't imagine why that check was even put in there...and the installer just initiates a download of the real code, anyway! 2. If you're running a VPN, attempting to log on just results in a claim that the client can't connect to the Internet. As soon as you disconnect the VPN (i.e., compromise your security) it will connect. Again, I can't even imagine why that check was put in there. 3. There are no encryption options at all that I can see. Whatever you're uploading appears to be completely visible to Amazon to do with whatever they please. Or maybe it's all encrypted with some default users can't control. 4. It will fail to upload files when it deems the path name too long. 5. If you accidentally create a directory via the client, you can only delete it via the web interface. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105604 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music Backup in the Cloud
JerryS wrote: > Your post gives me the courage to confess to an act of stupidity which > may serve as a warning to others. Initiating a Grsync backup session > before switching on the machine containing the files to be backed up, > does exactly what you say, very fast catastrophic deletion of files > from the back up disk.. Doh... Been there! My main rsync job (the #1 backup) is wrapped in a Perl script that counts directories on the source drive and doesn't do anything if nothing is found. I haven't found this to be an issue since putting everything under Ubuntu, but it bit me pretty hard once when I was doing file sharing under Windows. Both Vista and 7 had a nasty habit of deciding they didn't want to share any more... atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105604 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Music Backup in the Cloud
My routine: 1. Scheduled rsync backs up primary to local backup #1 once a day. 2. Scheduled rsync with --dry-run parameter compares primary to local backup #2 once per day and reports what needs to change. If the report makes sense, I manually run it without --dry-run. 3. CrashPlan running 24/7 in a dedicated Ubuntu VM. Steps 1 and 2 give me two backups with the second NOT being prone to catastrophic auto-deletion should something go horribly wrong with primary storage. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105604 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How Replay Gain Works
Fahzz wrote: > So... Smart Gain not working. I'm wondering if the SB3 has Smart Gain > capability I always used SmartGain when my players were SB3s... atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104121 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Chromecast Audio ideal for Squeezebox replacement hardware?
poing wrote: > Does the Chromecast Audio, when used in conjunction with Squeeze2Upnp, > support (i) tight synchronization, (ii) ReplayGain, (iii) gapless > playback, etc.? And is it bit-perfect so it will work with DTS and AC-3? atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104383 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sirius Dead on the Logitech Devices
netchord wrote: > i'm getting a message on all channels today alerting me to the > forthcoming change. essentially, a guy is reading the email we got last > week. it's on all channels, and seems to be in a continuous loop. > > since i'm not prepared to invest in new hardware, it's addio SiriusXM. Yep. I made it clear that this was the final straw when I called and cancelled this morning. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104287 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Click at end of ripped track or long silences at end of tracks FIX
Julf wrote: > 'Morituri' (http://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/trac/), since at least > 2009... 2009?!?! I didn't realize it had been THAT long since I'd looked! Thank you for the link! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104255 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Click at end of ripped track or long silences at end of tracks FIX
TheIBM wrote: > Have not identified the source but it was probably the windo app > 'EAC' (I stupidly didn't use my Linux machine!) I'm far from a Windows apologist, but unless there's some incredibly screwed up configuration, EAC is most certainly -not- creating botched files. Has anyone yet come up with a Linux ripper that consults the AccurateRip database? It would be nice to see that finally happen. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104255 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hiss - 16/44.1 WAV
amey01 wrote: > I strange issue I can't seem to find any previous posts on > > I've got a 16 bit / 44.1 kHz .WAV file that just plays back as hiss / > white noise. > > 1. I can play other .WAV files without issue on my SBT. > 2. This particular file plays fine on VLC. > > What could the issue be? Is it possibly a DTS file that VLC is decoding on the fly? atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104226 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Cable Connection Advice
Mnyb wrote: > i dont supose anyone has any cassettes left either they dont age well I've found that quality blanks (TDK and Maxell) have aged just fine but pre-recorded titles are likely to drag and squeal. I still play reels, too! Even more obscure, I use analog quadraphonic decoders and am disturbed at the disappearance of multichannel analog inputs on most new equipment. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104214 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Murfies' Law
SlimChances wrote: I downloaded an album of Joe Satriani from the web site 'Murfie's Music' (https://www.murfie.com/) and put into my library but LMS refuses to recognize the album or any songs in the album either under New Music, Folders, or search. I have done several scans to no avail. I have never had an album not recognized by LMS. Any suggestions? Can you play the files on your computer using whatever software you'd normally use? atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Ran out of decoder data memory
Eric Seaberg wrote: I converted the FLAC back to WAV and went to import, what I thought would be a DTS encoded file. It was a 6-channel interleaved WAV that had NEVER been DTS encoded... hence the problem with everything trying to read it. Obviously, if I ever listened to it, it was from the original DVD-A disc. ;-) I feel stupid!! Re-encoding both of those albums now. You read my mind! I was thinking about your error message this morning and remembered that I had seen it when sending a multichannel FLAC to a player. Not sure how it works on a Mac, but if you can sort your library by file size you may be able to spot any other similar files as they'd be large. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Ran out of decoder data memory
Eric Seaberg wrote: I'm on a Mac, so there isn't a c:\. Can I run this in the Mac Terminal? As long as FLAC is installed, you should be able to. I do it in Linux all the time. I can't remember if I had to specifically install FLAC, if it's just standard with Ubuntu or if installing LMS also installed FLAC. https://xiph.org/flac/download.html makes it look like http://xact.scottcbrown.org/ might be useful. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Ran out of decoder data memory
Eric Seaberg wrote: Any ideas? These files have played before WITHOUT ISSUE. Is it only the Transporter that doesn't want to play the DTS tracks? Can you use the FLAC command line to test the files in question for corruption? (Sorry, I can't remember the command, but it should be easy enough to look up.) atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Ran out of decoder data memory
Eric Seaberg wrote: The transporter is the only device hooked up to my 5.1 receiver. But even just getting white noise (or not turning on your amp at all) would let you test if other players can access the files without blowing up. In theory, any player should see DTS in a FLAC container as just any other FLAC, so I'd want to first rule out file corruption as the cause of the trouble. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Ran out of decoder data memory
Eric Seaberg wrote: Atrocity, same issue with SB3... Same ERROR on screen, in fact I'll try restoring FLAC files from a backup set. If you still have trouble, try the FLAC test command: Code: flac -t File to Test.flac You might have to prepend the directory with the FLAC executable, e.g.: Code: C:\flac\flac -t File to Test.flac If nothing is wrong with the file, the command should return: Code: File to Test.flac: ok atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103998 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Status of various Squeezebox replacement projects/products?
CatBus wrote: I could probably handle #7 and #8 via the SlimServer web interface (or some other interface) on a phone or tablet, although I really do strongly prefer using the IR remote control over the web interface. We all prefer what we prefer and there's nothing wrong with that, but if you've never tried using one of the smartphone control apps I'd strongly suggest that you try one. You might be pleasantly surprised. It's really the best of both worlds in that it's small and handheld like an IR remote but considerably more flexible because of the screen. I'm fortunate in that all my official products still work as well (though one has a dying IR sensor), but I've been playing with Wandboards and RPis. I really appreciate the fact that a Wandboard Quad makes a great player (up to 24/192 out of the box) *and* server. For boring reasons, I run multiple servers and they've all been Wandboards for a while now. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103588 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] NAS SSD Drive...?
epoch1970 wrote: These days I tend to replace drives every 2 years. A brand is no guarantee. I just had to replace a Buffalo NAS after less than a year and a half. Sure glad I back everything up! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103359 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] If CD won't rip is it grounds for return?
d6jg wrote: My real question I suppose is has anyone seen this before? 100% ok in a CD player but only 50% ok in a PC. If it was 0% in the PC I could sort of understand. I've seen: 1. Discs that look perfect and play fine but refuse to rip cleanly in any drive 2. Discs that look perfect and play fine but will only rip cleanly in *some* drives 3. Discs that look chewed up but read perfectly in a single pass 4. Discs with damage that interfered with normal playback but that ripped cleanly 5. Bronzed PDO discs that looked screwed up but ripped just fine 6. And yes, visually-perfect discs where only some tracks can be read in some drives After ripping too-many-thousand CDs I think I've seen it all. I can't make any generalizations about commercially-produced discs, but I can say that those who sprung for Taiyo Yuden and/or Mitsui CD-Rs did not waste their money. I keep a couple of very, very old IDE Teac and Plextor drives around and mount them in a USB adaptor for problem discs. Sometimes even a brand new disc requires hooking one or both of them up to get a clean read. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103058 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox 2015 - Is the Squeezebox Universe Expanding of Shrinking?
I don't know if SqueezeWorld is overall shrinking or expanding, but I know that I've personally set up and given or sold multiple Wandboard Quads running SoA or CSOS to friends and family. And I'm currently building another system for someone else. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102809 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement - ickStream open beta release on Squeezebox !
erland wrote: Is the multi disc album track order still incorrect ? I tried the The Velvet Underground Nico 45th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition) album you showed in the screenshot and it now looks fine to me. I just checked that and another Velvet Underground album that wasn't sorting properly and they both look good. Thank you! The only oddity I've noticed lately is micro-gaps between tracks on the newish live Leonard Cohen album. But I assume that's an issue with Tidal since I've heard other albums play gaplessly. In general, it seems very stable. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102497 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement - ickStream open beta release on Squeezebox !
I'm not sure if this is an ickStream bug, a Tidal limitation or just something that needs to be lived with, but I thought I'd mention it in case the behavior can be changed. When playing tracks from Tidal, pausing or turning off the player (at least for an extended period of time) results in the track not playing all the way through once playback is restarted. The song will continue for a while, then at some point will jump to the next track before it's finished. My assumption is that the buffer stops filling once playback is halted and does not continue for the current track when restarted. Instead, the next track begins buffering and as soon as the current track's data is exhausted, the next track plays. That aside, I've generally found Tidal via ickStream to be much more stable and reliable than Rhapsody ever was for me. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102497 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement - ickStream open beta release on Squeezebox !
It's working great for me, thanks! My only complaint--and I wouldn't be surprised if the problem is on Tidal's side--is that the track order for multi-disc sets can be pretty chaotic: +---+ |Filename: Screenshot from 2014-11-16 09:22:18.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=16670| +---+ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102497 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement - ickStream open beta release on Squeezebox !
pippin wrote: There seems to be an issue - it's a bit embarrassing given the fact that we start with some lossless services - that LMS (and other UIs) sometimes show MP3 as the stream format with our streams even when the actual format is FLAC. Thank you for mentioning that, it's actually what I came here to check. I don't claim my ears can tell the difference, but I was curious. I did suspect I was really getting FLAC because I used my go-to album (The Dark Side of the Moon) to test for gapless playback and was very happy to hear perfection! Thank you for all your work! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102497 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Tidal Hi-Resolution Streams available on ickStream, soon for all Squeezebox users!
cca651 wrote: This is indeed great news - I signed up for the trial yesterday and the sound quality is very good (worth the price for me). Can't wait to be able to stream via my Squeezebox devices! I signed up for a 30 day trial yesterday myself. I don't know if they were just having problems or if the system is fundamentally flawed, but in my testing I found that they take lack of gapless playback to an extreme I've never heard before. If that's really how it's going to be, there's no way I'm paying. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102381 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Amazon Fire TV
Apesbrain wrote: Like you I also uninstalled it. Its UI was very slow on my older Roku XS and the device only able to play MP3 which is the minority of my library. I experimented with it over the weekend and also found the MP3-only capability pointless. Even odder, although it connected to my server without any issues at all, it never showed in the web interface or any other controller as a connected player. This makes it impossible to control without having the TV on and makes it impossible to configure for transcoding to MP3. It's a real shame, too. The Roku is inexpensive and seems to be stable. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102153 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Replacement system recommendations
paulster wrote: I used to use MOG, and now I use Spotify, so I'm a paid streaming service customer. I do know that Rhapsody is a problem, but there are perfectly viable alternatives that work just fine. That's very good to know, thank you! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102119 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Replacement system recommendations
paulster wrote: I have a load of Logitech SB hardware, but I've taken it all out of service now. All of my Squeezelite-powered units sync perfectly, play high-res audio, and do everything and more than the Logitech hardware that preceded them did. Only issue I've had with unofficial hardware is an inability to play the pay streaming services, or at least Rhapsody. In my case, it's a minor issue, but I could see it being a showstopper for others. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102119 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Replacement system recommendations
gb115b wrote: wow, thanks! not many squeezebox 3s on the uk ebay site sadly... and i wonder if i'm just putting off the inevitable (given that hardware and software are no longer readily available, maybe it's time to call it quits?). it's a real shame what logitech did to slimdevices. The software is under active development. Logitech-manufactured hardware is out of production, but there's no shortage of low-cost alternatives that work great with LMS. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102119 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Replacement system recommendations
cliveb wrote: For a useable multi-room streaming system, LMS remains a very sensible choice. And as much as we all like to scratch our heads and wonder what Logitech was thinking, I'm very grateful to them and to SlimDevices for getting us to this point. Given how much interest there still is in the system and how many of us have concluded that there's still nothing better, it seems like it would be pretty easy for Logitech to get back into the game if they ever wanted to. For some reason, this makes me think of Fiesta, a popular American line of dinnerware that was pulled from production by its manufacturer. After a few years of watching prices for used pieces skyrocket, they realized they were missing out and began making the stuff again. Of course, the salad plates didn't do such a great job of decoding FLAC... atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102119 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch
bonze wrote: Is there currently any other solution besides a 'tablet' for use as a display? I have a monitor hooked up to a Wandboard. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102086 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch
StridingEdge wrote: One particular question is - are there any GOOD devices, that people know of, that stream (both from internet and PC) and that combine a player that can handle CD, SACD, DVD-A, CD-R etc etc You might want to look at the Oppo players. They play all the disc formats you mentioned and do some streaming. As far as I know, streaming from your own library still involves DLNA/UPNP with no gapless playback, though you'd be able to stream multichannel FLAC. They also stream from the Internet, though I'm not sure if you can just tune in a URL like you can in Squeeze World. Oppos are pre-loaded with apps for Pandora, Netflix, etc...I haven't put any serious work into investigating non-app options. I bought my first Squeezebox in 2008 and have yet to see anything else that comes close. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102086 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Alternative to Touch
StridingEdge wrote: Thanks for that. All my Flac files are stereo (I assume when you said multichannel you were referring to 5.1?) and that's all I want from that side of things. Do the Oppos handle that OK? The Oppos will play 2.0 just fine. But if your taste runs to opera or prog rock or any other genre where a single piece of music spans multiple tracks, you'll likely be annoyed by the lack of gapless playback. Though I dimly remember hearing that Oppo was working on fixing that for directly attached storage (but not for files streamed over the network). The suggestion about small, cheap computers is also a good one. $125 gets you a Wandboard that works just fine as both Squeeze server and player. There may be a slight learning curve involved in initially writing the operating system to the MicroSD card, but once you've got it up and running it's absurdly easy to keep updated. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102086 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The failure of CDs
When Squeezebox mania got me to carefully rip thousands of CDs, the only commercially pressed ones that were flat-out impossible to read were the two discs in Monty Python's Final Ripoff. They were victims of the bronzing issue a British plant had for a while. I had other discs that were visibly bronzed, but none of them gave me any special problems. Having said that, to this day I encounter visually perfect pressed discs with various levels of readability. Sometimes they'll just zoom along in one drive but re-read multiple sectors in others. Sometimes no drive will read them accurately (I'm looking at you, original Geffen issue of Peter Gabriel's So!) DualDiscs seem to be particularly troublesome on the CD side. I found CD-Rs to read pretty much as one might expect: The Mitsuis and Taiyo Yudens were fine, the lesser brands were sometimes fine and sometimes worthless. My favorite is still the Memorex that was completely destroyed when a Post-It note managed to peel off the recording layer. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101549 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?
rmac321 wrote: Has anybody received a quad wandboard in the last month or more? I've had a quad on order since Feb 14 from future electronics and they keep pushing back the expected delivery date. I don't want to make waves with future if the problem is with wandboard... I was backordered at AVNet for a month or more as well, though in theory I now have one on the way. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Pono Player
aubuti wrote: 1) Setting aside for the moment pippin's key observation that nobody buys iPods any more, that's the same price as a 64GB iPod touch, which has half the capacity and no option for swapping out microSD card. The iPod also works with fewer formats. I haven't seen the issue of gaplessness addressed yet. One would hope that will all the artists and technicians on board that won't be an issue, but... atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101133 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 reboot loop -- hardware error?
garym wrote: you're not getting the crashing because you're playing Rhapsody or Napster thru the player are you? That is causing players to crash, but is a Rhapsody/Napster issue, not the hardware of the player. Just a thought. Interesting...I tried to play Rhapsody on a Touch last night, only to have it reboot. I finally unplugged the player for a minute, plugged it back in and queued up a couple local albums...at the transition between one album and the next, it rebooted again! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100786 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Multichannel on future Squeezebox development?
the nightfly wrote: I know -- like anyone else frequenting these forums -- that Logitech stopped producing the Squeezebox line. I'm referring to developments such as Community Squeeze, players like SqueezeLite, and the like. I have asked this before--most recently after learning that the Wandboard can output audio via HDMI--and have received answers indicating that the code is very much built around 2-channel audio in a way that would be very difficult to alter. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100250 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wandboard
erland wrote: Using the standard Wandboard together with the CommunitySqueeze hardware sounds like it's going to be excellent based on what the people who have tried it says, definitely superior to the Squeezebox Touch, but if you hear the difference or not depends on your amplifier, speakers and ears. Erland, I know the Wandboard and CommunitySqueeze are not your projects, I'm just choosing your post to hang my two questions on. :) 1. Has anyone tried a Wandboard + HDMI setup with DTS and/or AC-3? I'm curious if it's as bit-perfect as a Touch/SB3 and can be used with my surround library. 2. Since the Wandboard can run its own server and has HDMI output, is there any chance that in the future it will be possible to use it to play multichannel FLAC? That's literally the only feature I've ever missed in a Squeezebox. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99926 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wandboard
Triode wrote: Re 1: can't comment on having tested it but people have been running with an HDMI splitter to spdif with the wandboard - suggest posting on the linux forum on the CSOS thread. Done, thank you. Triode wrote: Re 2: unlikely as the playback application (squeezelite) is 2 channel only. I don't know a about the underlying hardware but we are only targeting 2 channel for playback from LMS. I suppose since it boots from an easily-swapped MicroSD card, it would be pretty easy to just boot into XBMC (or whatever) for multichannel. Thanks again! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99926 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wandboard
JohnSwenson wrote: #1 does work, I've tried it with DTS, as usual just make sure the volume is at 100%, no upsampling, no replay gain, no fade in etc. Very good news indeed, thank you. The need to get more reliable DTS playback than I was getting from cheap CD-Rs and iffy disc spinners is one of the things that first got me interested in the Squeezebox universe. JohnSwenson wrote: #2, is probably never going to happen directly. Well, I guess that's what XBMC is for. In fact, since I don't actually *need* another Squeezebox at the moment, maybe I should let the evil voices in my head convince me to get a Wandboard just to see how it works with XBMC. If it gives me grief, I can always make it a backup server. Thanks for the information! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99926 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Pre-Announcement: ickStream Music Platform
erland wrote: Also, if there is anything special you have always wanted LMS/Squeezebox to do which it doesn't support yet, please let us know through this pre-announcement thread and we will consider if it's something that fits ickStream. I've always wanted support for multichannel playback of multichannel FLAC, though that's obviously more of a hardware issue. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Ultimate Data Storage Device
adamdea wrote: Isn't that cyberpunk? Wouldn't steampunk be more like storing your mp3s on wax cylinders? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1216161 atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97988 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] audio fingerprint dupes?
garym wrote: I believe this question has been asked and I recall Spoon saying that the exact file would be returned upon restore. Cool, thank you. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95965 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] audio fingerprint dupes?
MrSinatra wrote: as seen here: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?25788-PerfectTUNES i need to investigate how it determines dupes... thx Gary. It took forever to scan my 78,000+ tracks and then declared many to be dupes that are not. For example, it can't distinguish between original issues and remasters. Makes me wonder if AudioSafe will not return the same file that was uploaded... atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95965 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?
The only thing I would love to see that isn't there now is the ability to output lossless multichannel. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94987 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
I just got an iPad and installed SqueezePad. I run two different instances of LMS, and SqueezePad connected to the wrong when I first ran it. I didn't see an obvious way to switch servers, so I just shut down the server I didn't want and restarted SqueezePad. Now it's locked in an endless loop of Connecting to SqueezeboxServer folowed by SqueezeboxServer disconnected. I'm guessing there's an easy fix that I'm just not seeing. Thanks! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
atrocity wrote: I just got an iPad and installed SqueezePad. I run two different instances of LMS, and SqueezePad connected to the wrong when I first ran it. I didn't see an obvious way to switch servers, so I just shut down the server I didn't want and restarted SqueezePad. Now it's locked in an endless loop of Connecting to SqueezeboxServer folowed by SqueezeboxServer disconnected. I'm guessing there's an easy fix that I'm just not seeing. Thanks! OK, I uninstalled and reinstalled SqueezePad while on the server I wanted was running. That server requires a login, so while SqueezePad now sees it and tries to connect, it's locked in a different loop because Authentication failed. Unfortunately, it's not allowing me to input the user name and password. atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
bluegaspode wrote: Hi atrocity, just enter the settings screen of SqueezePad (tap the small button on the bottom right). Here you can select which server to use (via the 'Search' button) and also provide your server credentials. Sigh...as I suspected, it was right in front of my face the entire time. Thank you! bluegaspode wrote: PS: be aware that SBS requires passwords to be send in plaintext over the network. This is not really good security, you might find that not using credentials at all might make your life easier. Thank you for the warning. I tend to access that server remotely, so I figure any authentication at all is better than none. The user name and password have no relation at all to anything I use anywhere else. Thank you again! atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple's ALAC now open source!
erland;665802 Wrote: Are there any advantages of using FLAC now when ALAC is open sourced ? Last time I tested, stereo FLAC files were slightly smaller than their FLAC counterparts...and mono FLAC files were a *lot* smaller. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91185 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Gapped playback? (playback with gaps between tracks)
andyg;664493 Wrote: I don't think I've ever heard of someone wanting gaps! You should listen to the music the way it was intended, and the same way it plays on a CD. :) Is it gapless? is always my first question about any device...usually the answer is no and I immediately lose interest. But having said that...I do occasionally wish for the ability to automatically insert a couple dead seconds between albums, especially when playing them randomly. My tastes are such that I'm perfectly happy to go from Beethoven to the Sex Pistols, but not necessarily with a hard splice. I've thought of just creating a two-second or so silent track, but that would only work when I'm personally and explicitly building the playlist. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91049 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Not showing date and time when switched off
On the times I've seen this, it's because the brightness has been dropped to zero. I know you've checked, but try using the brightness button on a remote to change the brightness when the player is off. Something else is definitely going on here. As of yesterday, I run 7.6.1 on two different Ubuntu servers (long boring story why I need two). Everything works as expected with one server, connecting to the other results in no time display when off no matter what I do. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88373 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DVD-Audio 5.1 on Touch
gonk;650291 Wrote: Best solution today is probably a Dune player for lossless multi-channel FLAC through HDMI. Is it gapless? -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88778 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 7.6 is totally broken
pablolie;645956 Wrote: Are all problems Windows and perhaps specifically Vista OS related? Things seem to run OK in Linux land, the usual quirk or two excepted here and there... Ubuntu 11.04 here. 7.6.* doesn't work (OK with a small subset of FLACs, won't scan my full library) and I lack the time and energy to fight with it, so I'm happily using 7.5.5 -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89144 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Why do you continue to use your Squeezebox ?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88916 Question: Why do you continue to use Squeezebox ? - I'm satisfied with the Squeezebox system, why change something that works good ? - I have already invested too much in Squeezebox devices, would cost too much to switch - I have just purchased a new Squeezebox and won't switch to something else anytime soon - I love the 3rd party plugin/app model and would only switch to something else that supports this - I would consider switching if someone offered something with similar functionality - I have already started to look for something else but haven't found anything interesting yet - I have already started or completed the transition to something else I'm usually the first one to bitch about anything, but I agree with every positive comment in this thread and have not experienced any of the downsides some have. I think the *only* issue I've ever had over the years was the obnoxious network trouble in 7.5.3, and even that was pretty minor. Someone else used the phrase life changing and I have to agree. I'm 52 and have been obsessed with recorded music and its playback technology literally for as long as I can remember. When people first started talking about music servers, my knee-jerk reaction was Why bother? I still think that the CD is an *excellent* music delivery system and thought that people complaining about the alleged inconvenience of discs were crazy. But at some point in the high-speed Internet era I started downloading lossless live concerts and, as an eMusic member, MP3s. I also discovered online radio, specifically Radio Paradise. Integrating all that stuff into a normal stereo was a pain. I started out with a Roku Soundbridge just because I liked having something like that for Internet radio. But I was never happy with its playback of my own files (anything that isn't gapless is, as far as I'm concerned, crap) and on a whim bought a Squeezebox. Oh, boy. At first it was just to let me mix and match Internet radio with what I'd downloaded. It was nice to be able to audition the downloads before committing them to disc and *then* finding out there was some fatal problem. But it didn't take long before I started thinking about putting my main collection of pressed CDs online and once I started, I was unable to stop until I was finished. It took me fully a year and half to get it all done but now, as others have said, I listen to my music more than I did for years beforehand. I've probably got 2,500 or more CDs. They're reasonably well organized, but the physical reality of the layout of the house combined with general clutter makes some of them difficult to get to. Then there's that whole thing where I know I have a copy of that song, but what compilation CD is it on..? None of that is an issue any more. And my normal collection integrates perfectly with my bootleg collection and with Internet radio and with podcasts. EVERYTHING is in one place. The ability to queue up any songs I want, re-arrange playlists on the fly, add another track because something in what I'm listening to now reminds me of it, etc. just makes it all even sweeter. There are even obscure cases where playing something via the Squeezebox works better than playing the disc. I've collected a lot of DTS conversions of old quadraphonic albums over the years, and my luck getting CD-Rs to work reliably on disc spinners has been up and down. I no longer care: If I can get a clean read into the computer, I'm set. Then there's the whole thing about being able to get to my entire library from any wi-fi equipped motel anywhere in the world... The list just goes on and on and on. Other than, I suppose, the amount of time it took to set everything up, I can't think of a single negative about this system at all. No, I take that back: The one single lone thing it can't do that I wish it could is output multichannel FLAC, allowing me to get my DVD-As online. Of course, that's probably a fraction of a percent of my collection and I'm not losing any sleep over it. Another completely unexpected benefit is that it's gotten me a bit more comfortable using Linux. I started out with an XP server, but it was just too overloaded and didn't work out so well. I wound up buying a very cheap box to run Linux and haven't looked back. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88916 ___ discuss mailing list discuss
Re: [slim] Anyone using WD TV HD media player?
The WDTV boxes, like most non-Squeezebox devices, can't play music gaplessly. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87035 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB release 7.5.3: Unreliable. Anyone else?
Kuben72;615256 Wrote: Has anyone tried to disable any plugins like Dynamic Playlist and SQL Playlist? No, but: My weekend routine for a while has been to use Dynamic Playlists with Never Played Albums all night long. Since 7.5.3, it's common for it to work for a couple albums, then stop. Usually it adds an album, but then either just stops without playing it at all or only plays the last track and gives up. I use a separate instance of SBS for the weekend, so it's definitely not a case of there not actually being any Never Played Albums. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85474 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB release 7.5.3: Unreliable. Anyone else?
ModelCitizen;608969 Wrote: Anyone else notice a degradation in reliability since 7.5.3? This on Windows 7. I have one instance on native Ubuntu 10.04 and am seeing: 1. Squeezebox 3 looks fine...I turn it on and try to go to the library. I immediately get the Can't connect to server... message. It eventually goes away and everything works fine, as far as I can tell. I have not noticed issues once music from my library is playing, but I'm usually playing it while I fall asleep, so I could be missing something. 2. Alarm doesn't work with a dynamic playlist, I just get the beep-beep-beep backup. 3. Radio Paradise seems to go silent fairly frequently. I have another instance running on Ubuntu 10.10 in VMware under Windows 7 and am seeing: 1. Same Can't connect... issue as above. 2. I use this instance almost exclusively to play never played albums via dynamic playlists/custom skip. I've twice had it add a new album to the playlist, immediately jump to the last track and stop without adding anything new. I have not had a problem with either instance when I specifically select and play an album or track...typing this while listening to a Touch right now without issue. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85474 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Occasional long pauses during playback - mysqld.exe culprit?
Martin_Edney;572995 Wrote: So I'm starting to think that there may be a problem with my Trackstat plugin, or its data. Whether this is what caused the original problem is not clear. Any ideas please? Try one of the newer betas that uses SQLite? (Sorry, that's probably not very helpful!) -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81416 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Occasional long pauses during playback - mysqld.exe culprit?
Martin_Edney;571110 Wrote: Occasionally (once or twice every few hours) playback stops in the middle of a song, for something like 30 seconds to 1 minute or more, and then picks up again where it left off. I've been having trouble with this as well, both with a dedicated Ubuntu server and with a different server running virtualized Ubuntu against the same library under Vista. On weekends, I use Dynamic Playlists, Custom Skip and TrackStat to play Never Played Albums all night long with a fairly large list of genres to skip. At several points during the night I was having trouble with random pauses and, more recently, trouble with an album playing, stopping at the end and not moving on to another album. For various reasons too boring to explain, I move some of my directories around between two NASes, which of course screws up the TrackStat data. The new bit of fun where a new album wouldn't get added to the list got me to suspect that this was part of the problem. So yesterday I used the virtualized-under-Vista server as a test and I: 1. Imported my TrackStat backup from the main Linux server (the one I use most commonly). 2. Did a complete clear and rescan of the database 3. Went into TrackStat settings and selected Delete unused statistic, which wipes out TrackStat data for files that no longer exist. I never woke up to silence during the night and when I woke up for real this morning I still had music...it's only been one night, so I can't swear that I fixed the problem, but I *suspect* that my TrackStat data was sufficiently out of touch with reality to cause a problem. My last trackstat backup file prior to the cleanup was 30,686,088 megabytes. The file that was created last night was down to 28,756,471 megabytes, so a couple megs of obsolescence got dumped. Of course, I could be completely insane and Erland doesn't know whether to laugh or cry at my ignorance. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81416 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Volume Levelling
aubuti;492633 Wrote: Can foobar2k run under Wine? Yes. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72031 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch spotted !!
Andy8421;439367 Wrote: If I were Logitech, I would be tempted to stick a 'squeezebox' sticker on the front of an HDX1000, and spend all the development $$ I had saved on excellent front end and server software to support it. HDX 1000 uses the Networked Media Tank (NMT) middleware provided by Syabas, which is a established middleware company. I've got a Popcorn Hour, which is also using the Syabas middleware...it's nice enough, but it's not particularly stable (I'm using an older firmware, because the newer ones are even less stable), can't play DTS FLACs and isn't gapless. Reliability-wise, a Squeezebox is 100 and a Popcorn Hour is 50. Maybe the HDX1000 is better, but I wouldn't count on it. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64706 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Quick way to add a CD to library without rescanning
toby10;429549 Wrote: Create a folder within your music folder, usually people call this folder New Music. Add the files or rip your CD to this folder. These will be immediately available to you via SC7 Music Library Music Folder No rescan needed using Music Folders but I think this method ignores TAGS and can only utilize simple file name structure (like accessing music files via My Computer *folders*). I just put the music in whatever folder I'd normally put it, then use the Music Folder method you describe to browse to it. It doesn't exactly ignore tags, but it won't report the tag data in the pane where you're browsing. If you actually add the files to the playlist/queue, you'll see that it's reading tag data. It also adds those files to the database, at least when running under Ubuntu. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64148 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] RokuLabs - No more soundbridge
autopilot;418171 Wrote: The fact that the Soundbridge's had shocking poor build quality did not help. TBH though i think SC's continual improvement and vastly superior feature set helped. I started with a Soundbridge because I was interested primarily in Internet radio easily integrated with my main stereo. I liked it so much I bought another for the bedroom. There's no question that the Squeezebox is a better product to begin with and better supported on top of that, but at the time I started doing all this stuff, there was a $100 price difference that wasn't worth it to me when I was not yet interested in doing the Put your CDs on the computer thing. My Soundbridges were generally pretty stable (imperfect, but OK). If they'd reliably figured out gapless playback and didn't have the DTS-killing feature of converting everything to 48kHz, I probably would have stayed satisfied. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62643 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transporter: Ran out of decoder memory
seanadams;394641 Wrote: If anyone can advise the correct way to rip a DVD-A please chime in... Ignoring any copy protection issues, I don't think it can be done in a way that would make sense to a Squeezebox, Transporter or any receiver to which one is connected. WAV and FLAC won't work and I can't imagine one of the players knowing what to do with an MLP stream. I'd also be a bit surprised if the average decoder would handle MLP or 5.1 PCM sent via standard coax or optical, assuming it's even possible to do so. Are there any non-computer-based components out there that know what to do with a multichannel FLAC? Might be interesting to see if such a beast would ignore DVD-A watermarking. Unfortunately, the correct way to rip a DVD-A remains to hope it also has a DTS track or settle for AC-3 if it doesn't. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59868 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 2009- Important Year for Slim Devices Founders
snarlydwarf;368716 Wrote: Hurry and buy them all now, that silk screen does affect sound quality, even more so, than, well, a switch. It's also worth noting that the devices were signed by a left-handed person and a right-handed person, thereby improving the stereo imaging. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56164 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement Squeezecenter 7.2.1
pza;354162 Wrote: Quite a few people seem to be irritated by the removal or MyRadio. I filed it as a bug, but the only response I got was that the release notes would be updated to show that it has been removed. No other explanation: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9805 While you can add radio stations to Favorites, I think there should be somewhere to store a library of radio stations without cluttering up your favorites. This really irritates me. I finally looked into building an OPML playlist of radio stations last week and was delighted by the ability to set up hierarchies. I spent quite a bit of time setting it all up, but apparently that time was wasted. Tried this morning to manually import myradio.opml, but it doesn't stick. Renaming the file to something else and importing it is also not permanent. For that matter, having been in a hurry at the time, I'm not sure that even the impermanent file can be used to actually bring up a station. This in turn makes me wonder what the point is of the OPML browser. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54045 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] managing playlists
snarlydwarf;353970 Wrote: The only real Gotcha is that some programs make paths to files relative instead of absolute... which won't usually work. All my playlists have relative paths. As a result, the same playlist will work on Squeezecenter/Ubuntu and in Foobar 2000/Windows. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54297 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Just curious: when/why did you get your first Slim/Logitech player?
A couple years ago, I found out about the Roku Soundbridge and snagged one. I wasn't looking for a way to serve my own music, but for a way to listen to Internet radio through the real stereo without having to connect a computer. I loved it so much that I bought another one just for the bedroom. After a while, I decided to try running its server software to play back some of my live music downloads, most of which were (and still are) FLAC. I wasn't so impressed...sound quality was OK, but the lack of true gapless playback really annoyed me. It also bothered me that the forced resampling to 48k destroyed DTS. Still, I loved the little boxes for the radio capability and still think that they're a good deal if that's your primary focus. After a while I heard about the Squeezebox and, when a friend asked what he should get, I told him that I liked the Roku well enough, but that it looked like the Squeezebox was better. So he bought one and began raving about it, which in turn got me to give in and buy one...and then another. I gave away one of the Rokus and still use the other in another room. The downside to the Squeezebox is that I suddenly got obsessed with getting all of my live, rare stuff (CD-DA, FLAC, SHN) onto a server. So I had to spend big bucks for a NAS and am still working on getting all the music onto it. I'm also loading up a few normal (i.e., official/mainstream) CDs, but my collection has got to be in the 2,500 range, so I'm definitely not making the same effort to convert everything. I love that I can listen to downloads without all the annoyance and unpleasant additional sounds or interrutions that can happen when trying to listen through the computer. I also appreciate that SqueezeCenter runs nicely on a cheap Ubuntu box, so I can have my Windows machine do all its normal Windowsy stupidity without interrrupting the music. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53831 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Google Chrome new browser
DoomWolf;336078 Wrote: Interesting, I get a blank page when I try to open SC from Chrome installed on the same machine that SC is running, but it worked fine when opening it across the internet from Chrome installed at work. My Squeezecenter is running under Ubuntu 8.04 and Chrome under Windows XP. When I request http://192.168.0.105:9000 (that is, only connecting through my local network), I'm prompted for the name and password, which apparently are accepted, but then I just get a blank screen. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51913 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Google Chrome new browser
moot;335964 Wrote: I just came here to post that Chrome is noticeably much faster for browsing SqueezeCenter. Anyone who has complained about the speed of the SqueezeCenter UI (and are on Windows) should give it a go. I just get a blank page, though I get the Classic interface just fine in Firefox. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51913 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] WMA Lossless
pfarrell;334441 Wrote: But a NAS is designed to serve as a file storage, its limited by design and purpose. That some folks can get SqueezeCenter to run on some of them does not mean its a good general solution. The general solution, robust and inexpensive, is to use a cheap computer. I like both: I run SqueezeCenter on a Linux box, but store the files on a NAS so they're available everywhere on the network. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51731 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] WMA Lossless
Phil Leigh;334813 Wrote: Wow - another blindingly sensible post! - yes that's what a NAS is designed to be...a file server, not an App Server. The approach also allows the best of both worlds: I find that SqueezeCenter runs infinitely better on an underpowered Linux box than it did on my allegedly more powerful Windows box, but I'm far more comfortable with the manipulation tools (ripping, tagging, etc.) on Windows. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51731 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Goodbye SqueezeSlave! :-)
maggior;332125 Wrote: I would imagine he is referring to Hi-MD, which supported recording/playing uncompressed WAV files. Yes, that's certainly a possibility. I'd definitely want to test it (somehow), though. It'd be a waste to create full-sized WAV or FLAC files that only contained what ATRAC left behind. maggior;332125 Wrote: It's a dead format at this point - Sony no longer makes them (perhaps they still make a professional model) and the discs are no longer manufactured. Are you sure about that? I think Sony is still making a single expensive portable model...or maybe there's still some old stock out there. I haven't seen blank discs in stores in quite a while, but they're easily mail-ordered. maggior;332125 Wrote: It was a great format, but it was too late to the game. Even the first-generation models beat the pants off analog cassettes. I sure wish Sony had marketed it better. When MD appeared, it was infinitely easier to deal with than the extremely expensive and extremely fussy computer equipment necessary to make CDs. I loved being able to archive vinyl by getting the levels right, letting everything record, then going back and neatly topping and tailing and creating track marks...but I never even knew that was possible until I bought one of the damned things. Sony just ran ads saying I can record on a disc! and never said a word about how advanced the editing capabilities were. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Goodbye SqueezeSlave! :-)
peter;332369 Wrote: Nah, they should've made PC mini disk drives from day one. Being able to play/read, write/record and copy on a PC would've been a huge thing back then. Now, they were left behind by the CD which - eventually - did allow that. Too afraid of 'piracy', of course But remember that at the time the MD was introduced, you needed an extremely expensive computer to properly do audio recording. Heck, I bought a new PC after having MD for a couple years and even it had a tendency to drop a lot of samples when I tried to use it as a recorder. Not that I really mean to defend Sony here...they eventually did come up with a PC MD drive, but of course they deliberately crippled it for music use which, combined with its absurdly slow speed, made it largely uninteresting to just about everyone. I still find it less nerve-wracking to capture analog sources via a standalone CD recorder, then copy the bits into the computer for prettying up. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Goodbye SqueezeSlave! :-)
DanielTheGreat;331924 Wrote: When I'm ready to digitise my LP collection (those not available on CD), I can hook up a high-quality digitiser (an old unused MD recorder) to the turntable (part of the 'hi-fi' system upstairs) and feed its Toslink output down to the office PC for recording to the HDD. Are you sure the MD unit will pass an uncompressed signal? I think it's likely that the signal present in the digital output will have gone through ATRAC. (This isn't a slap at MD, which I happily used for years myself and am sorry to see obsoleted.) -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stop the bloatware madness!
pfarrell;326488 Wrote: This whole discussion is silly. A typical PC these days has 2GB. Bloat doesn't matter. Doesn't matter is awfully broad. It might not matter to a lot of people who aren't trying to do a lot of things at the same time, but it certainly matters to some of us. I'm not criticizing SC at all, just going on a more generalized rant. I've just seen too much wildly, blatantly *stupid* code in my day to be able to dismiss bloat that calmly. I recently moved SC, Firefly (mt-daapd) and Apache off my Windows machine onto a lower-powered Linux one. The Windows machine now runs a hell of a lot more reliably. Is it because I was asking too much of it or is it because stuff that *should* have played nicely together didn't due to unreasonable demands? I really don't know, but I think it's worth thinking considering. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50698 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Should I upgrade to Squeezecenter 7.1 or not?
cavediver;325856 Wrote: I chose wav for my archive format because I don't care about storage space as I have a lot and can add as much more when I need it. Storage is not expensive. If a FLAC file is 60% the size of a WAV file, your storage device is doing 40% less work serving up FLACs than WAVs. It doesn't seem a stretch to assume that will have an effect on drive longevity. Storage may indeed by cheap, but breakdowns are still annoying. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50609 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement: SqueezeCenter 7.1.0 Now Available
Just upgraded via the normal Ubuntu 8.04 package and am up and running and streaming Rhapsody at 192k. Didn't work until I rebooted, but that's minor. Only quirk I've noticed so far: The volume control was set at 50% and had gone back to being variable. I used Setup to park it back at 100% (lots of DTS!), but no big deal. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50361 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Time for Slim Devices to get partnering up and licensing?
EFP;312922 Wrote: terrestrial over the air already has high definition (video as well as audio) available. But broadcast HDTV has nothing on the disc-based formats. Broadcast looks great until too much moves within the frame, at which point it consistently breaks up into utter garbage. And, while I have no complaint with it, the accompanying audio is 5.1, but certainl not high definition. The HD in HD-Radio is Hybrid Digital, not High Definition. Oddly enough, I notice more compression artifacts during speech with HD-Radio than I do with music. Not sure why. In my experience, if reception is excellent, analog FM sounds better than its HD counterpart. But where reception is marginal, HD is pretty darned sweet indeed. -- atrocity atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
