aubuti wrote: That's
cool if it will work in my car. Thanks.
Yes, yes it will. And is.
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Old thread but new idea. As I am now leaving my house and saying goodbye
to my beautiful Squeezebox music, it just hit me!
We could use a mobile Squeezebox application to use in the car. We'd
never have to leave the Squeezebox experience behind.
What do you think?
I know that Apple limits the rate at which you can stream, but I would
vote for a pseudo-stream option where I either load up my iPhone ahead
of time (a la iTunes) or let it buffer for a while to accomplish the
same result. Then be able to output at something like VBR 0. I got a
Squeezebox
Ikabob wrote:
We could use a mobile Squeezebox application to use in the car. We'd
never have to leave the Squeezebox experience behind.
Aren't people already doing that with the iPhones and the
iPeng-as-player add-on? And maybe with comparable hardware/software for
Android devices?
aubuti wrote:
Aren't people already doing that with the iPhones and the
iPeng-as-player add-on? And maybe with comparable hardware/software for
Android devices?
I am not sure what that add-on is but if it is the ipeng playback add
on, I didn't know it would work that way away from my
Ikabob wrote:
I am not sure what that add-on is but if it is the ipeng playback add
on, I didn't know it would work that way away from my router. That's
cool if it will work in my car. Thanks.
this might help.
It works with iPeng and you can also set a higher limit for the bitrate
(there's a Bitrate limiting menu in the player settings for iPeng
playback.
It's bending Apple's rules a bit (by default it's set to the 128kbps
limit for 3G) but so far they didn't complain.
Caching would be nice and it's
aubuti wrote:
Aren't people already doing that with the iPhones and the
iPeng-as-player add-on? And maybe with comparable hardware/software for
Android devices?
Yes, this is easily done on Andriod devices too with SqueezePlayer and
either Orange Squeeze or Squeeze Commander. I don't have
pippin wrote:
It works with iPeng and *you can also set a higher limit for the
bitrate* (there's a Bitrate limiting menu in the player settings for
iPeng playback.
It's bending Apple's rules a bit (by default it's set to the 128kbps
limit for 3G) but so far they didn't complain.
Caching
Thank you all very much. It's nice to know that Squeezebox can be
remotely accessed. The Squeezebox ecosystem keeps getting better and
better!
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What I really miss and want is the ability of squeezebox to pause and
rewind live internet radio and to schedule recordings. Hope that it
will do radio just like what a PVR could do to TV channels. It should
be easy for logitech to add that function to the media server.
I've been pretty happy with Slimdevices for many years. My Duet hardware
works flawlessly as do the booms and various revisions of classics
around the house. Only recently has my enjoyment been reduced by the
fact that Squeeze does not fully support Slacker Premium service.
Slacker is my
Thanks for the tips about searching. I don't have an IOS device so I
don't get to try iPeng, and I don't have a windows machine, so I don't
get to try museo.
As for why LMS search is inadequate for my needs, I see that I have
posted previously about this:
I am very satisfied with the functionality of my Squeezeboxes. I LOVE
them... Truly love them. Last night we were without electricity for
about 10 hours and I really missed them even more than I missed my
coffee maker this morning. The electric came on at about 6:30 and I'm
now enjoying my music
What I seem to be missing (and I wonder if I'm overlooking something) is
the fact that nowhere I can find a list of active alarms and when they
will trigger. I would have expected this on the stand-by clock screen,
somewhere below the alarm bell icon.
Player Settings Alarm Clock, all set Alarms are listed. You can
move Alarm Clock folder to your Home menu for easier access.
Might check with the author of the Custom Clock applette, maybe that
person can add the next scheduled alarm to the clock screen.
fredgoodman wrote:
I find two real obstacles in using LMS: searching and streaming.
1) Searching in LMS is primitive. Maybe this is not so much a problem
for listeners to other music types, but it is a problem for me since I
listen mostly to classical music. What is needed is a search
adamdea wrote:
I have posted this elsewhere but, in case anyone is listening, the thing
missing from my squeezebox experience is the ability to read booklet /
lyrics information which comes with the cd and could be scanned, or
which can be downloaded with the flac files. For opera and lieder
sherington wrote:
Muso - http://klarita.net/muso.html - it certainly allows you to read a
number of graphics files, but I have not done this. Might be worth a
look - I have a strong feeling that not nearly enough people know about
this system. I have not bought it yet but have been hugely
maggior wrote:
I read 3 and thought uh, that's the Boom, but then I realized you
meant something you can connect your own speakers too. In the world of
powered speakers, would that really be necessary. Somebody that is
inclined to buy their own passive speakers would also be inclined to
maggior wrote:
Logitech needs to relaunch the Squeezebox line with some new exciting
hardware and marketing support.Yep, that is exactly what they have to do.
They won't though. My
favourite discount hi-fi retailer, Superfi, has just stopped stocking
any Squeezebox stuff. John Lewis used
TheLastMan wrote:
I have no idea what I will do when Logitech finally stop supporting the
system and turns off the MySqueezebox web site.
Can't you just run a local LMS on a computer ?
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TheLastMan wrote:
...she looked at me as if I had just suggested she should ditch Harvey
Nichols and start buying her clothes at Primark!! (you have to be
English to understand the implications of that...)
That's funny! I'll attempt a translation: ...ditch Talbots and start
buying her
I find two real obstacles in using LMS: searching and streaming.
1) Searching in LMS is primitive. Maybe this is not so much a problem
for listeners to other music types, but it is a problem for me since I
listen mostly to classical music. What is needed is a search that
searches in all tag
fredgoodman wrote:
1) Searching in LMS is primitive. Maybe this is not so much a problem
for listeners to other music types, but it is a problem for me since I
listen mostly to classical music. What is needed is a search that
searches in all tag fields for all words with an (implicit)
fredgoodman wrote:
2) Many streaming sources do not allow or provide a URL that can be
pasted directly into LMS. The only way I have found to get them into
LMS is to play them on a computer (with sound muted), rebroadcast
locally using Nicecast, and point LMS to the Nicecast stream.
erland wrote:
If your wishes where fulfilled, would you like to perform the search
using a IR remote, tablet, smart phone or computer ?
Could you give some examples of what streams you are talking about ?
Searching: Computer. I have LMS running on a desktop computer. I
access LMS via
SoundCloud plays through HTML 5 on the web site.
It's one of these examples that work from iPeng but it's difficult.
Soundcloud links expire after a few seconds so you can't re-play them
and if you pause them, they are gone.
You'd need native support for SoundCloud's API to do any better than
I have posted this elsewhere but, in case anyone is listening, the thing
missing from my squeezebox experience is the ability to read booklet /
lyrics information which comes with the cd and could be scanned, or
which can be downloaded with the flac files. For opera and lieder the
ability to read
What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?
What's missing from my Experience can be found in the upper left corner
of this post...
Sorry, but I just had to!
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I'm honestly pretty happy. All my stuff works together well, audio
quality is good, sync works well. Erlands plugins are very useful,
particularly dynamic playlist.
I would like faster/more access to services. For example, wolfgangs
vault has been on Sonos a while. And we've lost live music
Usually most consumer users rather than enthusiasts want to keep it
simple. Most of the suggestions here are from rather hard-core users,
as you would expect on a dedicated forum.
Unfortunately Sonos has beaten Squeezebox in this particular format
battle. Now when I describe my Squeezebox
I read 3 and thought uh, that's the Boom, but then I realized you
meant something you can connect your own speakers too. In the world of
powered speakers, would that really be necessary. Somebody that is
inclined to buy their own passive speakers would also be inclined to buy
their own
maggior wrote:
I'm amazed that Sonos has jumped ahead of Logitech with this. Logitech
had a huge head start and certainly the brand power to see it through.
It upsets me when I go to my local department store (Target) and see a
large prominent Sonos display. Sonos is also so expensive!!
erland wrote:
So, what's missing, what features do you think would make everyone
purchase a Squeezebox instead of Sonos ?
Is it just the lack of hardware with Logitech logo on the front as
TheLastMan suggested or is there something we could do in software that
would make everyone select a
I would like a service that would stream the audio of the many
television programs. I can get CNN and HLN via Sirius but I would like
to listen to any available TV stream.
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Here is what's missing for me:
Add to Amazon Wishlist from music services. Current Amazon app only
works with CD and only adds to cart.
Slacker App that supports all Premium features of the Slacker
service--waiting over a year now for that.
More apps for more music services - Amazon cloud
What's missing for me is a flexible and intuitive interface for setting
up and running automated playback schemes. My daily routine is fairly
consistent and I'd like to create a number of unique music play back
scenarios for morning and evening listening, for both weekdays and
weekends.
I would
When thinking about missing features, new hardware devices came to my
mind first.
But besides the missing devices, a decent integrated library management
is missing, too. Music playing functionality should not be separated
from music management functionality. Playing music with LMS, ripping and
A simple idea !
To add music to an ongoing playlist we have two ways + that append our
selection last in the playlist and | play next that chucks our
selection rigth into the playlist after the current song .
I need a third mode play next -album- .
I want it to work like this I sometimes
What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?
The ability to pop to the shops and buy one. There's none to be seen in
the high street any more here in the UK, unlike Sonos, AirPlay, Philips
Stremium, Naim etc. These are everywhere from department stores to hifi
shops. It's really quite sad
I haven't read through this entire thread, but here are things that are
missing from my Squeezebox experience:
1. Ability to embed lyrics into a song file. Using the Song Lyrics
plugin, I can see the lyrics on my computer browser or through iPeng.
I'd like to be able to save those into the file
prabbit wrote:
1. Ability to embed lyrics into a song file. Using the Song Lyrics
plugin, I can see the lyrics on my computer browser or through iPeng.
I'd like to be able to save those into the file somehow. When I ran my
lyrics finder batch program, it found lyrics for ~50% of the songs in
1: TuneIn Radio Pro, or similar. I have this on my i-pad and phone, you
can pause the live radio stream and later on continue listening. You can
also record streams, manually or with a programmable timer, handy if
your favourite radio station lacks a listen again feature. The pause
function
bpa wrote:
The BBCiPlayer plugin is a 3rd party plugin and so is not part of LMS
per se and should not be treated as part of LMS as it has to deal with
BBC foibles.
The BBC WMA URLs are fixed and reused on a 7 day cycle (see how to make
a link here http://beebotron.org/beebobodgewma.php
erland wrote:
How do you usually work when you add new covers, do you typically
replace the cover for a single or a few albums or do you typically go
through your whole album and update a lot of albums ?
As an example, would a possibility to refresh the covers for a selected
track or
erland wrote:
JJZolx wrote:
More flexibility in configuring the SqueezePlay interface - text
size, color, now playing, title formatting.
If you look at your own needs, and ignore everyone else, what would
you like to change regarding text size, color, now playing screen and
title
JJZolx wrote:
More flexibility in configuring the SqueezePlay interface - text
size, color, now playing, title formatting.
If you look at your own needs, and ignore everyone else, what would you
like to change regarding text size, color, now playing screen and title
formatting ?
erland wrote:
What's the reason ?
Is it too complex/user unfriendly to configure it through the
SqueezePlay interface ?
Are you just looking for a way to configure it from a more user friendly
interface or is there another reason why you like to do it through the
web ui ?
Do you
erland wrote:
On which platforms is this a common problem today ?
I'm just asking because I want to understand, I'm not saying that you
are wrong.
If the issues are limited to platforms that aren't officially supported,
it feels like a better solution would be to add support for those
Mnyb wrote:
Another usability improvement would be plugin install/uninstall that not
required restarts of LMS
I would agree with this.
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- reduce standby power to 1W
- add HDMI video and multichannel audio playback capabilities
- wireless speakers
- small digital hi-end mono amps to drive audiophile speakers,
extendable/syncable to multichannel setup
- choose between advanced and simple setup
I'm actually quite happy with my Squeezebox setup, I spent a lot of time
getting it so that it is pretty low maintenance, especially important
since my son was born I'm more inclined just to listen to music and my
tinkering/forum posting has dropped dramatically.
Roughly speaking the main
I realize that this is a give me ideas for new plugins thread, but I
have to say that what I feel is missing in the Squeezebox experience
is missing from the base server.
- Browse Album Artists.
- A better, more dynamic web interface with more attention paid to
making it easily
Coverflow for browsing albums.
Stripping the Touch's inbuilt server down to the bare bones if that
would actually make it work.
Native simple support for multiple libraries.
Support for basic Spotify rather than just Premium.
A statement from Logitech on the Squeezebox road map, assuming
I miss:
- built-in playback statistics and dynamic playlists based on those
statistics, like TrackStat but built-in;
- Multi-library support;
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Coverflow for browsing albums.
In which interface do you feel this would be important ? web ?
Controller ? iPhone/iPad/Android ?
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In which interface do you feel this would be important ? web ?
Controller ? iPhone/iPad/Android ?
He did want to send out a search party for Flatterman, so I'm going to
guess Squeeze commander.
Jeff
Every time I mention it in the forums I get booed off the stage, but I
would really like to see some simple Voice Control of the squeezebox
ecosystem. We have this a lot in cars (Ford Sync) and other devices
(Iphone), and Kinnect, so I would really love to see it here as well.
It could be very
erland wrote:
In which interface do you feel this would be important ? web ?
Controller ? iPhone/iPad/Android ?As Jeff rightly said, I primarily use
SqueezeCommander so would like to
see it on Android. If it was incorporated into the web browser I may use
that more often but it's a
The only thing I would love to see that isn't there now is the ability
to output lossless multichannel.
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Reducing the bewildering array of helper apps that might or might not
work on your choosen platform, or migth not even be there at all ?
Compiling in licenced transcoding ability in the main app somehow, so
the lame search for lame could end ? or ffmpeg or mplayer or
Including licensed wma
Mnyb wrote:
Reducing the bewildering array of helper apps that might or might not
work on your choosen platform, or migth not even be there at all ?
Compiling in licenced transcoding ability in the main app somehow, so
the lame search for lame could end ? or ffmpeg or mplayer or
erland wrote:
From what kind of device would it be important to do the purchase ?
Are we talking all interfaces, like even a IR remote, or do you expect
that you will sit beside a computer when you like to purchase something
? Would it be useful if you could only purchase when you are
Hi erland
I listen daily to BBC Radio shows using BBC listen again. A couple of
years ago, if I wanted to listen to the Alex Lester show each day
(several hours after broadcast), I would set up five favourites: one for
the 'Alex Lester Monday show', one for the 'Alex Lester Tuesday show',
and so
AussieSqueezeFan wrote:
I listen daily to BBC Radio shows using BBC listen again. A couple of
years ago, if I wanted to listen to the Alex Lester show each day
(several hours after broadcast), I would set up five favourites: one for
the 'Alex Lester Monday show', one for the 'Alex Lester
There are two things I would really like to see in the near future.
I've used MusicIP and don't care for it, but I've grown to love
MoodAgent from the Spotify app. I really like the mixes it comes up
with and it is so easy to use.
I would love to see a MoodAgent plug-in for LMS or at least one
A simple option to download a podcast to a default folder.
I find I don't always get the chance to listen to a podcast in one
sitting, and it would be easier to download it.
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epoch1970 wrote:
#2: Proxying the local library via mySB.com (or whatever.com)
On the move, the only protocol I am sure to have access to is HTTP on
port 80. All the rest is likely to be filtered. I don't want to open
this kind of gate on my LAN. But SBS could connect to something like
quite frankly, i would like to be able to ditch server altogether when i
want to, and have some kind of transparent, near optionless middleware
that would power the hardware. essentially, something to turn the
hardware into a remote soundcard, so i could use ANY software i want,
and play to it.
I think an updated, easier to use and better looking webinterface would
be nice. Something that looks a bit more modern.
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#5: Quality (which means authorized I suppose) art and metadata.
I like discogs a lot, but really I am spending too much time on that
site.
I think I understand what you mean with art, but what do you mean with
metadata ?
Would you expect it to find metadata even if your
Mnyb wrote:
Enhance the bandcamp plugin so that you can shop music and download
within the system .
( I could have my paypal account stored in the plugin settings ).
Downloads go to a dedicated folder unzips and scan into the dB .
Any other kind of integrated shop for lossles music ( I
From my perspective:
1. Better support for podcasts (streaming m4a files, a what's new
channel that would sort all podcasts chronologically, marking episodes
as listened), especially since MediaFly is now no longer available for
consumers.
2. AirPlay support
3. Some sort of Firefox/Chrome
Wigster wrote:
2. AirPlay support
Are there any specific iPhone/iPad apps which you feel it would be more
important to be able to send the audio to the Squeezebox for ?
I'm just asking because AirPlay is a bit tricky from a legal standpoint
unless you like to pay license fees to Apple, so
An updated version of Inguz EQ, maybe using SoX.
InguzEQ was (and still is for me) a great plugin but some users are
having trouble getting it to go.
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Wigster wrote:
From my perspective:
2. AirPlay support
4. Ability to temporarily add libraries on machines which are not always
on the network
These are features which should be in LMS [next] and/or Squeezebox
[next], I think. It would allow visitors to play something from their
iThingy
erland wrote:
I think I understand what you mean with art, but what do you mean with
metadata ?
Would you expect it to find metadata even if your tags are a complete
mess or non existent or are you looking for a way to find extra metadata
which most people normally don't put into tags ?
epoch1970 wrote:
#4: A not dead MIP-like system.
I use MIP and it kind of works. But it has its quirks and won't run on
anything other than i386 (AFAIK)
+1
Actually MIP works pretty well for me (aside from utf-8 issues), but we
all know it's on borrowed time at best. The SB system needs a
erland wrote:
Are there any specific iPhone/iPad apps which you feel it would be more
important to be able to send the audio to the Squeezebox for ?
I'm just asking because AirPlay is a bit tricky from a legal standpoint
unless you like to pay license fees to Apple, so if we know exactly
I'd like to see a *comfortable* way of synchronizing the favorites
beetween MySB.com and LMS.
I prefer to manage the favorites in LMS (because the search function is
much better here) and export them to MySB.com. Actually I can import
them into MySB.com only line by line, a little bit outdated
The most annoying thing - and this not unique to Sqeezebox in any way -
is that iTunes beats it hands-down in the creation and use of playlists.
The Squeezebox implementation is based on the assumption, I assume, that
Squeezebox users don't really need such a simple interface - they can
cope with
About the only thing that might be of interest to me is a Touch 2.
Something with a bit bigger screen, maybe a bit more robust at being
it's own server, and the ability to display on a TV or monitor. The way
I think it could make great strides for the simplification of use, is a
self contained
I agree with improving the touch's USB and SD card slot. I have problems
with the scanning and trying to use the internal server. You should be
able to copy folders from the LMS server computer to an SD card and it
should work without waiting forever for the scan to complete.
erland wrote:
To me it feels like my Squeezebox experience hasn't really evolved much
during the last year.
In answer to your question, the key problem with pushing forward
development of the experience is the pitiful lack of opening up the
Jive interface to Third party developers. Simple
cparker wrote:
In answer to your question, the key problem with pushing forward
development of the experience is the pitiful lack of opening up the
Jive interface to Third party developers.
Without any movement on feature requests like;
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15067
To me it feels like my Squeezebox experience hasn't really evolved much
during the last year.
When thinking back, I remember things like:
- SqueezePad announcement
- iPeng for iPad announcement
- Triode's Spotify plugin announcement
All these are things that truly made big changes to how I use
erland wrote:
To me it feels like my Squeezebox experience hasn't really evolved much
during the last year.
I don't want a list of ideas which you think someone else wants, I want
a list of ideas which YOU want.
I don't want a list of bugs to be fixed because that's obviously
something
My experience with squeezebox degraded when you Erland decided your
plugins (and the ones of sugarcube) become commercial and payable.
Thanks to that change, i then realised lms is in fact very stable with
no 3P plugins, thank you and that i can recover a lot of free time by
sticking to the
reniera wrote:
I really wonder what is the sense and motivation of your post and why
this initiative comes from you and not from Logitech.
Couldn't be much clearer:
-The purpose of this thread is mainly to give existing and new third
party developers ideas of things which people want, since
Still my number 1: A working SoundCloud plugin.
There is one, but since it doesn't process the link authorization (or
re-authorization) correctly it doesn't work any better than iPeng does
out of the box meaning you can play a track but not store it in a
playlist or a favorite.
Also, it's
1st of all I will say I am happy w/ SBS 7.6 and I think Erland's
dedication to enhancing our musical experience should be praised.
For me:
#1: System actions in the playlist.
Like setting volume up/down before/after a song; playing a radio stream
for X minutes then switch to another source;
missing a true audiophile option ie stripped down firmware etc so that
all extraneous processes etc can be switched off and the Touch can reach
it's true potential.
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Simple for me I guess...
1. When you add an album to library in Triodes spotify plugin it also
goes in under artist or indeed goes in the main album list perhaps. This
would help search or select by artist
2. When streaming spotify to lose the occasional hangs which almost
always occur at the
Enhance the bandcamp plugin so that you can shop music and download
within the system .
( I could have my paypal account stored in the plugin settings ).
Downloads go to a dedicated folder unzips and scan into the dB .
Any other kind of integrated shop for lossles music ( I exemplified
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