Re: [slim] (Vaguely) Audiophile alternative to Transporter and SB+?

2021-03-30 Thread drmatt
Personally I stockpiled SBTs on ebay so have a never ending supply of touchscreen bit-perfect digital sources to feed to whatever DAC takes my fancy. :) Right now it's a Mytek DSD192 (also scalped used from Ebay for a sensible price). Prior to that it was a Naim Supernait built-in DAC. I would

Re: [slim] replay gain recommendations?

2021-04-22 Thread drmatt
reinholdk wrote: > Or you can use the command line tool metaflac from FLAC tools > (https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_metaflac.html). Another vote for metaflac. It's the final stage of my ripping process. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian

Re: [slim] BBC online radio fiasco - comments, news, moans, campaigns

2015-05-23 Thread drmatt
Seems likely they should be able to cope with providing keys that will be used this way - distributed to many users. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.sl

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-23 Thread drmatt
Always disable replaygain when doing critical listening as it's done in the digital domain and adds aliasing at the LSB. Sent from my XT1562 using Tapatalk drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?useri

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-23 Thread drmatt
Well, in my case I have an external DAC so I want the original bits off the CD sent to it at 44k/16b. The volume and replaygain are applied within this precision and are audible. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-23 Thread drmatt
Well I have a 16 bit DAC with an analogue pre-amp and volume control after it. The DAC is 24 bit capable though. Sent from my XT1562 using Tapatalk drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-23 Thread drmatt
Mnyb wrote: > Squeezeboxes always put out 24bit data 16 bit material is paddel with > 8bits and then the volume control is made in 24bit it's not dithered but > the steps are cleverly chosen so and truncation happens at rely low > volumes where the volume is low :) so you practically don't hear t

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-23 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > Fair enough, but not something I would advice other people to -always- > do. My view really is that disabling RG and setting fixed 100% vol will never hurt the quality and it /can/ degrade it. So I figured it was a fair punt! -

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-23 Thread drmatt
It's a 24b/96k DAC. Have to admit I assumed the SB was sending 16 bits because the source is a 16 bit flac.. Maybe that's not true. I am however certain that using the digital volume or replaygain on the SB results in poorer, not just quieter, sound...

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-23 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > Disabling RG will not hurt quality, but you lose the RG functionality, > so there should be a somewhat better reason that "it won't hurt". As to > volume control, digital volume control can often be much better than > analog, so setting fixed 100% vol is actually harmful to sound qu

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
My ears. Haha. YMMV. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105484 ___ discuss

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > Obviously I can. A lot of what makes up good sound quality as an > objective criteria can be quantified and measured, and subjective > preferences can also be measured (in the meaning of "assignment of a > number to a characteristic of an object or event, which can be compared > wit

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
Mnyb wrote: > It should be noted that there are no real 24 bit audio anywhere ( except > some electronica ) both ADC and DAC is practically limited to about 21 > bit in practice a squeezebox touch analog out would be aproxmately 17 > bits . Indeed, I'm told my DAC manages about 18 bit of clear r

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
Meanwhile, still would like to find out how to find a live value of the in-use bitrate on the spdif outputs.. Sent from my XT1562 using Tapatalk drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 Vie

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > Indeed. Factual accuracy is a true sign of pedantry. Everything you said was obvious and not "news" to anyone. You still can't measure to tell the difference between the type of sound I prefer and the type you prefer. ---

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > Rather unlikely. I would suspect your DAC getting into some funky mode, > and resynchronizing when you unplug and replug the cable. Also possible. Annoying if so cos trust me I do not have a spare.. drmatt'

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > You keep making claims without any factual support. We don't know that > we can't measure to tell the difference between the type of sound you > prefer and the type I prefer until we try. It might be possible that our > preferences differ based on easily measurable parameters. How d

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
Mnyb wrote: > But the point is when there is no difference a human could hear ? then > taste does not come into to it at all . We are there with most digital > sources of reasonable quality . > > Most "issues" these days are of such smal influence that human bias are > magnitudes bigger . > > [

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > So worth trying to isolate the issue. Next time your system goes into > the weird mode, try turning the DAC on and off to see if it fixes the > problem. Pretty sure I have power cycled the amp during this phase before and it didn't snap out of it but yes this is obviously one to try

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
Fwiw (warning: not measured, for those that care) I have the impression that the background noise level is noticeably higher when the issue is happening... Gonna swap the SBT.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices

Re: [slim] Remote Access to LMS Options

2016-04-24 Thread drmatt
Corporate VPN solutions very much frown upon allowing local access to anything, even if you have local admin in windows (so much stuff is policy driven) so the only real option is to password protect and open up your lms to the Internet. Seems crazy to have to send traffic to the office to come ba

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-27 Thread drmatt
Mnyb wrote: > That's weird ? Assuming you have a normally very quit DAC ? Much gain in > the system ? It's not particularly quiet no, and the gain on the DAC through the pre-amp is very high which makes this worse. Result is noise level is relatively obvious if it steps up a few dB (such as stepp

Re: [slim] Confirmation of bitrate?

2016-04-27 Thread drmatt
Julf wrote: > As it should be in any decently designed DAC - if your DAC is sensitive > to source, there is something wrong. My point exactly. Bits is bits, so if it isn't awesome, something is wrong. drmatt's Profile: h

Re: [slim] Music Backup in the Cloud

2016-05-16 Thread drmatt
I've been looking at tools for Amazon glacier for ages but never got far with setting anything up. By far the cheapest, for data, and you can (and should) encrypt it before you upload. Not suited to rapid updates though.

Re: [slim] Receiver Optimal Orientation?

2016-05-16 Thread drmatt
I would look at Powerline ethernet connectors in your position. You don't need a high speed link for audio. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevic

Re: [slim] Music Backup in the Cloud

2016-05-16 Thread drmatt
JJZolx wrote: > Why would anyone bother to encrypt media files to store them in the > cloud? More sensitive data, sure. I would likely not just be uploading music, so for me it's a definite. And even amongst the music there may be stuff I do not still own. Ahem. So, just for privacy sake. They do

Re: [slim] Receiver Optimal Orientation?

2016-05-17 Thread drmatt
Redrum wrote: > Something else but on topic, Through squeezebox information, I can only > get a snapshot of the signal strength. Has anyone, through a SB app, or, > say SqueezeCntrl (which I use) or similar, created a "live" display of > the % that the SB sees? Just curious. It seems like it woul

Re: [slim] Still using 7.7.5 LMS. Downsides?

2016-05-19 Thread drmatt
Could be just me, but you get to use the official SB app from the play store too. Doesn't work for me after the upgrades to lms 7.9. I did upgrade to hopefully fix some issues with cover photo cache DB size, but nothing much changed. In the end I gained library views, which is cool, but I have yet

Re: [slim] Still using 7.7.5 LMS. Downsides?

2016-05-19 Thread drmatt
kidstypike wrote: > Nothing to to with the LMS version, Android OS 5.x and later broke it. > Not likely to get fixed though. Aha, that would be it. Thanks for confirming. Pity, it supported some useful things that don't work in e.g. squeezer. --

Re: Wifi WLAN Network problems � Attempt to summarize the problem

2016-05-20 Thread drmatt
One question - did you check uptime on your router? drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105634

Re: Wifi WLAN Network problems � Attempt to summarize the problem

2016-05-20 Thread drmatt
Reason I ask about the router is that the only time I had problems my router was crashing... And the only way you can for sure what caused that last brief outage was to check the uptime.. drmatt's Profile: http://foru

Re: Wifi WLAN Network problems � Attempt to summarize the problem

2016-05-20 Thread drmatt
If it supports WMM I would turn that off too.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105634 _

Re: Wifi WLAN Network problems � Attempt to summarize the problem

2016-05-21 Thread drmatt
I have heard one or two comments that the WiFi performance can degrade when the power supply degrades.. May not be so easy to try that one out. I have to say though I've run a SB touch on WiFi running 8-12 hours per day streaming radio services and with WiFi strength generally over 60% all day I'

Re: [slim] Music Backup in the Cloud

2016-05-21 Thread drmatt
I used to use rsync to maintain an offsite backup - you can have it write out the change journal to a file then transport that file via USB drive (or whatever) to be later applied at the target end. But now I go for portable drives so they're not even mounted in order to be susceptible to accident

Re: [slim] Music Backup in the Cloud

2016-05-21 Thread drmatt
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

Re: Wifi WLAN Network problems � Attempt to summarize the problem

2016-05-22 Thread drmatt
Dunno I used to have chronic issues with one router that failed to renew any dhcp leases on wired clients once it had been up for more than a couple of days. It was useless... Seems likely the FritzBox will not be this dumb, but you never know..

Re: Wifi WLAN Network problems � Attempt to summarize the problem

2016-05-25 Thread drmatt
Signal strength as reported by the SB is "received" signal strength, it does not measure the integrity of the signal that makes it back to your router.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59

Re: [slim] if you could voice-enable squeeze boxen...

2016-06-01 Thread drmatt
mherger wrote: > > data that's available. it's actually better in the car for the most > > part, at least those systems that relay on Nuance AVR. > > How do you know which system they're using? And what is "Nuance AVR" > anyway? Google doesn't really show up anything interesting... And would

Re: [slim] Music Backup in the Cloud

2016-06-01 Thread drmatt
atrocity wrote: > What I've learned so far about the Amazon Cloud Windows client: > > (5 silly things)... Sounds like a beta version... drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this

Re: [slim] Boom and Radio...what could have been...

2016-06-09 Thread drmatt
"Retro" design nonsense. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105726 ___ dis

Re: [slim] Boom and Radio...what could have been...

2016-06-10 Thread drmatt
It did mention sync. But otherwise I'd rather trawl ebay for used sqb.. the only additional thing I'd like there is a Bluetooth audio- like capability to throw audio from my mobile device. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.

Re: [slim] ReplayGain test files

2016-06-17 Thread drmatt
DanielF wrote: > ... encoded them to FLAC with ReplayGain. > Out of interest, what encoder did you use to calculate the replaygain? drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread

Re: [slim] 24 bit??

2016-09-09 Thread drmatt
Wish my DAC reported its incoming data stream type! drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105986

Re: [slim] Turn off all devices

2016-09-09 Thread drmatt
Apesbrain wrote: > PowerSave plugin will put each player into standby after a set time of > inactivity. Or, using Netcat you can run a batch file at the recurring > time of your choice: > > > Code: > > > @echo off > > ::adapt the following set statements > se

Re: [slim] Turn off all devices

2016-09-10 Thread drmatt
reinholdk wrote: > This would also be a nice task for an Amazon Dash button that you could > stick near your front door. Great idea! But.. I have kids. It needs to be password protected.. :) drmatt's Profile: http://for

Re: [slim] Headphones and Raspberry Pi

2016-11-13 Thread drmatt
The pi audio output also improved drastically between the early revs and the model B. Pi 2 and 3 are pretty decent but you're right they may not produce enough volume for some headphones. Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk -

Re: [slim] Listen to music at work

2016-11-13 Thread drmatt
Is anyone also just streaming from a dlna server? Saves complications at the client end. Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http:

Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool

2016-11-20 Thread drmatt
Have to go digging for signatures in Tapatalk! Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] FS: Selling my squeezeboxen (3*boom, transporter, touch)

2016-11-26 Thread drmatt
Would love to take one of your Booms off your hands but not sure import duties etc to the UK would make it worthwhile.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://foru

Re: [slim] FS: Selling my squeezeboxen (3*boom, transporter, touch)

2016-11-26 Thread drmatt
... but that would involve you taking a boom through customs only to chuck ot over the wall at a greedy eyed Brit. :) drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums

Re: [slim] Streaming from android smartphone to Squeezebox

2016-12-04 Thread drmatt
Wavinput plugin is the usual response, assuming your LMS server has an audio input you can get to (or plug a chromecast into). drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http

Re: [slim] Streaming from android smartphone to Squeezebox

2016-12-05 Thread drmatt
Aha. DRM. Not much you can do then other than root your phone or connect its analogue audio out to an input that can be streamed from. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thre

Re: [slim] Squeezebox 3 keeps resetting

2016-12-06 Thread drmatt
Have a search through older threads, but I would start with a replacement PSU myself.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php

Re: [slim] Play other songs in album or directory - does it work?

2016-12-13 Thread drmatt
Press the + next to the track for more info, it tells you the artist and album.. click on the album. Click play next to the album. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Streaming from android smartphone to Squeezebox

2016-12-13 Thread drmatt
The killer solution would be a software streaming target e.g. a software chromecast, but I think development of that would be a bit of a slog. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View t

Re: [slim] Market for used Touch and Duet?

2016-12-14 Thread drmatt
There's a strong market for the touch, but the duet is much less loved. Both are worth money in good order though and if you will really never use them again you should definitely liquidate. Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk --

[slim] Recording-Software: legal or not?

2016-12-15 Thread drmatt
Depends which country you are in but broadly speaking recording has always been legal, it's what you record and what you do with it that matters. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3

[slim] Recording-Software: legal or not?

2016-12-15 Thread drmatt
Mnyb wrote: > Is that any legal difference between a software and a good old fashioned > tape recorder ? Legally no but they have not often bothered to prosecute "lossy" recording methods like tape, historically. They were more concerned about redistribution with the advent of perfect digital rec

[slim] Recording-Software: legal or not?

2016-12-16 Thread drmatt
Under fair use it means you are recording the sample (and it should normally be just a sample not an entire track) for parody, criticism, or other legitimate commentary. Fair use provides no protection for arbitrarily recording protected works for indefinite later replays, even if you have no int

[slim] Recording-Software: legal or not?

2016-12-19 Thread drmatt
RonM wrote: > You need to be a bit more careful about such assertive, and wrong, > statements. Fortunately the context for the statement that preceded it was "here in the UK".. so in fact it's true. Anyway, the whole area is an international joke. People have been and will continue to format sh

[slim] Recording-Software: legal or not?

2016-12-20 Thread drmatt
The (correct) statement was qualified, cites a reference and postscripts the whole thing with a massive winking smiley. I hope most people didn't take it too seriously. Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0

Re: [slim] Audio Cross-fading

2017-01-03 Thread drmatt
I think by default it also doesn't cross-fade between tracks in the same album. Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ---

Re: [slim] Audio Cross-fading

2017-01-03 Thread drmatt
Doesn't it do some analysis of the end/start of each track to see if they are suitable for crossfading too? Or did I dream that...? -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k album

Re: [slim] Need to change volume to hear music, help needed

2017-02-04 Thread drmatt
Blame sonos. Buy proper active speakers. I guess you must have a reason but I am surprised you would buy a £500 wireless sound system and feed it an audio connection from another wireless sound system..:) -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0

Re: [slim] Need to change volume to hear music, help needed

2017-02-05 Thread drmatt
Blackfiction wrote: > I would like to have a single active speaker with AUX in, wireless or > wired, that looks nice, plays ok, and is positioned above ear height. > The Sonos ticked those boxes although I also considered the Audio Pro > Addon T10 and Audio Pro AllRoom Air One. > > Do you know

Re: [slim] Need to change volume to hear music, help needed

2017-02-08 Thread drmatt
Fair enough, we have a big kitchen so even the missus conceded there was space for a more normal stereo setup.. :) -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. -

Re: [slim] Probably dumb squeezebox question...

2017-02-09 Thread drmatt
Did you have to change the access point? Not sure why the devices wouldn't simply require at most a reboot to get back on the same WiFi with the same password on the same Mac. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB o

Re: [slim] Probably dumb squeezebox question...

2017-02-09 Thread drmatt
Benefactor wrote: > It has always been a simple reboot to reconnect. > > Today I was prompted to do the setup again manually for some unknown > reason. Household power glitch? -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB

Re: [slim] Bluesound Node 2 vs SBT

2017-02-17 Thread drmatt
Jim Pattison wrote: > After I posted my comment and read it over, I began to wonder if perhaps > I'd shared a little too much... Sounds like BS need to modify network timeouts to tolerate slightly less perfect networks.. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with

Re: [slim] Fix for Squeezebox Controller by Logitech (Play-store app)

2017-03-01 Thread drmatt
Yeah I suspect this app is just past its time now, there are plenty of alternatives. The only advantage it does seem to have is matching the UI a bit more closely. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLA

Re: [slim] IMPORTANT: Stop forwarding your LMS ports to the internet!

2017-03-22 Thread drmatt
Wait till they enforce ipv6, then there will be none. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. d

Re: [slim] IMPORTANT: Stop forwarding your LMS ports to the internet!

2017-03-23 Thread drmatt
Just because no-one knows how ipv6 works.. :) -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. drmatt's

Re: [slim] Reinstalling Logi Controller App; lost password

2017-04-01 Thread drmatt
I believe there is a password reset page on the mysb website. The code for the app is frozen in aspic, it will not be updated to bypass MYSB. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24

Re: [slim] IMPORTANT: Stop forwarding your LMS ports to the internet!

2017-04-02 Thread drmatt
I wonder if anyone has searched the darkwebs for LMS attacks..? There are probably "slurp all the music and set some annoying alarms" scripts out there. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less

Re: [slim] IMPORTANT: Stop forwarding your LMS ports to the internet!

2017-04-02 Thread drmatt
You do, you know the control protocol. The script kiddies know nothing, they just run scripts. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. -

Re: [slim] slim devices

2017-04-12 Thread drmatt
Your what? What model? -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.

Re: [slim] Spotify Question for Michael - Will it really go away?

2017-04-18 Thread drmatt
Never used Spotify, don't expect to start. Doesn't bother me one jot if it goes away. Everything does, all is ephemeral on the internet. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k

Re: [slim] Spotify Question for Michael - Will it really go away?

2017-04-18 Thread drmatt
I used to do that in a record library. :) Just saying that for a lot of people the loss of this one aspect won't kill the platform. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albu

Re: [slim] IMPORTANT: Stop forwarding your LMS ports to the internet!

2017-04-26 Thread drmatt
If you can identify their mysb accounts then you could insert a message on their login banner? Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-01 Thread drmatt
Took me about a week to upload 2TB to exactly that service using my BT fibre line. Tedious but doable. And next time the incremental backups are trivia to send up to the cloud. Amazon can do media-based ingest to S3, but a) you pay for it and b) it's not Drive. Otherwise find a friend with a good

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-01 Thread drmatt
No, there are no utilities for accessing Drive, I scripted backups to large files using dar on my Linux box then just copied the files to a Windows box to drag and drop in the UI. AFAIK there is no API to access Drive directly yet, so nothing going for automatic updates etc. Sent from my ONEPLUS

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-01 Thread drmatt
Awesome, that's new. They didn't publish anything like that when I I started using it. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-01 Thread drmatt
That is why I went with a virtual tape type thing. Stage the backups to large encrypted files and move the encrypted virtual tapes to the cloud. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs,

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-01 Thread drmatt
mandryka wrote: > It's not going to work for me., 400 files in 6 hours, to upload the lot > will take about two months. Depends on your broadband upload speed. Unlimited fibre is the only way this makes sense, that's the only way to get 18-20 Mbit upload. With that, I put 2TB up in a week and two

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-01 Thread drmatt
SlimChances wrote: > An external HD in my safety deposit box works for me. It is far cheaper > and much larger storage options Larger than infinite? And the price? Fifty five quid a year for infinite? Personally I have found that a new HDD every three years or so actually costs more than this. Th

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-01 Thread drmatt
SlimChances wrote: > Infinite is a bit of an exaggeration. But I can fit 4 -3 1/2" drives in > my box. Right now it is easy to obtain a 10 TB Hard Drive. How much is > Amazon going to charge for 40 TB of data? Also how long does it take to > download that information if your house catches fire an

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-01 Thread drmatt
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. No sign of an op

Re: [slim] Strange Behavior with Multiple Duets (low level output on non playing unit)

2017-05-03 Thread drmatt
Input cross talk on your amplifier. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. drmatt's Profile: h

Re: [slim] Strange Behavior with Multiple Duets (low level output on non playing unit)

2017-05-03 Thread drmatt
But my point is how are you listening to the "output from the other duet"? If you are switching the amp to D2 input while D1 is playing and hearing this then it's cross talk in the amp. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NA

Re: [slim] Router Issue (MODERATER: Please move post if there is a better section to be in)

2017-05-11 Thread drmatt
Big question: how is your Lms connection linked in to the LAN? Via ethernet, I assume...? And, we assume that both 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi networks are on the same subnet and are set to bridge on the router..? Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers,

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

2017-05-17 Thread drmatt
No idea why the register decided to frame it this way. It's clearly NOT dead. Sloppy headline writing. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3

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

2017-05-17 Thread drmatt
Elvis lives in Reading, everyone knows that. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [slim] IMPORTANT: Stop forwarding your LMS ports to the internet!

2017-05-18 Thread drmatt
On Linux I would suggest iptables. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. --

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-19 Thread drmatt
They don't like the word "unlimited" as much as their marketing would have you believe, apparently... Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-19 Thread drmatt
So this is why I used "dar". Keep a local metadata copy and I can run differential backups against the metadata to upload as a tarball (um, darball) without having to keep the data local too. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microser

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-30 Thread drmatt
Maths to the rescue! 1TB is 800 Mbits. This will take 5.1 days on an 18Mbit/s uplink (typical unlimited fibre package). -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-30 Thread drmatt
Ok, so you had a specific problem. What did you change? Are they artificially limiting upload speed in the client package? I had no issues with Amazon drive on upload speed. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debi

Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud

2017-05-31 Thread drmatt
So it seems they restricted everyone by default to prevent impact to browsing experience and general connectivity whilst uploading. They seem to have somewhat overcooked the throttling if it went to less than 10% of your link speed, however.. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardwa

Re: [slim] Failed Duet?

2017-06-13 Thread drmatt
Hold down the button on the front for a while after a power on, it'll go into discover mode and the remote should pick it up and allow you to reconfigure it. They crash from time to time. Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver N

Re: [slim] BBC radio stations - restoring (hopefully)

2017-07-06 Thread drmatt
Have to say, this is refreshing. We don't often get newbie questions on a forum devoted to obsolete hardware! :) -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No

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