, but I couldn't
get that to work (yet). Does the the firmware that comes with SC 7.0
still support the WOL magic packet?
Do other people have different ideas that they could share here? It may
help a few people and save a few mega Joules of energy aggregated over
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that practical.
Thanks for your post,
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. In the longer term, I would like to build
a custom box with low power in mind, using VIA or possibly the Intel
Atom if I can find a suitable MOBO when the time comes.
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be fun to do and give a certain amount of satisfaction, I should
probably reserve that option for when I have an actual hardware failure
to contend with.
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use an analog volume control somewhere between your SB and
the power amplifiers, i.e., don't try to use the SB3 as a pre-amp.
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on end). I tried a couple
of versions of lame and few different players (iTunes, foobar2000).
This bug seems very easy to reproduce (and hard to avoid), so if you
are curious, try it. It takes about 90 seconds for the player to stop.
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be just like converting from Apple Lossless (ALAC)
to FLAC, which I do with ease using this method.
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to build
another music server. Instead I an running a very old Shuttle small
form factor PC, which has lower specs than your netbook approach. So I
know you will get at least as good results, probably better.
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It should be a fairly easy hack of custom-convert.conf, but strangely I
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WebUI - Settings/Advanced/FileTypes - disable native for OGG.
Is there a way to transcode Icecast ogg/flac streams to native flac for
decoding on SB3? I'm not sure that sox knows what to do with an ogg/flac
stream.
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Any further clues would be appreciated.
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Many things are working as they should, e.g., my mplayer command is
being asked to run under socketwrapper, but no bytes are ever
forthcoming from the stream. Perhaps someone who knows more about the
internals can comment on what might be going on?
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audible artifacts.
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It works reliably now.
Same for me. I was having no end of issues, but for the last few days
it seems to be working. No unexpected halts of any kind.
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may like this one:
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All,
I noticed that this appeared recently
http://www.stereophile.com/features/1208jitter/ .
The right bits at the wrong time are equivalent to the wrong bits at
the right time. --John Atkinson
Nice one, John. :-)
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Gah! I don't get it!
I.M. Dalliance? :(
I.M. = Instant Messaging
Dalliance = Playful flirtation.
The previous Woosh! was the sound of it going over your head.
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scheme and tell SC about
it in the settings (Advanced, Formatting).
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the sweeping gestures -- and physics
emulation -- to get to the playlist overlay or player selection menu
from the now-playing screen. Really cool stuff.
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, but I've seen this message playing an incompatible ogg vorbis
file/stream. Please check the file type and report back. Thanks!
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think there is still strong value in the SlimDevices product line,
particularly if analog sound quality is a key driver for you.
Furhermore, there is a whole line of products to fit different usage
models from the Boom at one end to the Transporter at the other.
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Touch. I can vouch for the fact that using iPeng to control
SqueezeCenter is a great way to go.
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is integrated in
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Consider it a feature request for SB4, if such a thing is on the
drawing board :-)
Meanwhile if there are any solutions out there, even if they involve
hardware from other companies, I would be interested to know about
them.
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on it. But finding a DVD player that is known to do this is
quite hard.
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hope that now the 7.x squeezecenter is in pretty
good shape, we will only see small improvements in stability and
performance and the odd bug fix; no more revolutions, please.
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feelfree;339586 Wrote:
Just entered a bug-report:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9474
Fully agree with all your comments.
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... something is wrong.
I can see why the folks at Slim Devices wanted to get rid of the blank
screen due to the difficulty of diagnosing issues for customers, but
they forgot (or ignored) that this may be a regular use case.
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and claiming that anyone who gets
different results is wrong.
Of course, I may also be wrong if they took greenfield preamble out of
the spec by now. But as far as I know the WiFi Alliance is still
testing for it, if implemented.
Cordially,
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everything works perfectly. I am running SC 7.4.
Any ideas, suggestions would be great. Thanks for the help.
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10325
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creates double entries
for each album. (Thanks to goharbourview123 for that suggestion.)
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if you are
going all-out for a no-compromise system and really want to avoid all
possible sources of jitter, real or imagined. (But in that case, use
the coax output.)
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with WPA1, and anything using AES or AES +
TKIP is associated with WPA2 and thus you will need to set
wireless_wpa_mode to 1 or 2 for WPA1 or WPA2 respectively. (WPA1 is
generally known as WPA, since it was once the first and only WPA
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I think should be called
standby. You should be able to find it in the SqueezeCenter web
interface and toggle the power mode.
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the wireless one and you should be
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cause unexpected issues.
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are used for the actual streaming, but in general
I think I have excellent IP connectivity to servers on the West Coast.
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the code,
we can't make strong assertions about how much effort has been put into
programming the cases that shouldn't occur compared to the expected
cases.
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Sean,
You've done what most of us only dreamed of doing. Good engineers are
rare enough, but a good engineer who can build a company and design its
products at the same time --- priceless.
Do it again sometime, we'll be rooting for you.
Have a great break.
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yourself scope
to provide really reliable wireless streaming.
My main point is that growth is not possible without reliable and
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that it is giving you better SNR values.
One thing you could try is pair of Apple airport express units
configured as a wireless bridge at 5GHz to get away to where the air is
cleaner. 2.4GHz is just getting too crowded in manny places, and sounds
like it is where you live too.
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native used by Logitech, so I am wondering what made you think there
was a point to refute.
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enabled mine, but I have issues with it timing out while reading
long lists of available metadata from the server. It doesn't seem to get
much attention from the developers anymore.
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dsdreamer;434511 Wrote:
There is a UPnP client built into SqueezeCenter that is disabled by
default.
Oops, put it down to jet lag, I didn't notice that your objective was
to *eliminate* SqueezeCenter.
So, the answer is no. You purchased a Slim device, and the only way it
can behave
solution could probably be adapted from the the DSBridge for
Spotify that was introduced recently to forum readers. (I think MM can
use DirectSound output, not 100% sure).
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64590
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). But if they force me to use a touch screen on the
device itself to control the beast, I'm not buying. And if a SBC is
needed, to get remote operation, that will not convince me, either
(reliability issues with past products are making me play defensive).
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network and will be fully supported by Logitech for that purpose.
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where 7.3.2 didn't.
Makes perfect sense. Enjoy.
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and want SqueezeBox access to the entirety of your purchased
iTMS library.
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that his iPhone / Touch app
is an excellent way to get control of your entire Squeezebox
client/server system from the palm of your hand, and is available on the
App store for a modest fee.
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by squeezesoft, but if that was actually
Squeezeplay (rather than softsqueeze), I can understand your comments
about the lack of UI polish, but I find it quite solid and simpler to
use than the web UI of SC, when it comes to browsing for music and
controlling playback.
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stable indeed, especially after installing
Tomato.
I am hoping there will be an equivalent golden combination for the
.11n draft 2 spec. with dual-band support. But I am not aware of it, if
it exists.
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to be the front-end controlling what is to be played through
your Squeezebox.
More generally, your hack provides a method of slaving Squeezecenter to
another media player, with ogg/flac as the lossless stream format
between the two systems.
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to be the front-end controlling what is to be played through
your Squeezebox-equipped audio system.
More generally, your hack provides a method of slaving SqueezeCenter to
another media player, with ogg/flac as the lossless stream format
between the two systems.
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on a track, select properties, and check the
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of relevance, since I will not be
tempted away from my Squeezebox system which is working so well. But it
interested me to learn that the UPnP/DNLA approach to serving music
doesn't have to suck as badly as my previous experiences had caused me
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that one
of these will cause the problem to vanish. If so, you will know a
great deal more about where to look to finally solve the issue.
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but higher cpu utilization to decode it?
Or am I working with faulty assumptions here?
I assume your iThing reference is properly documented below...?
http://www.bosey.co.in/2008/09/apple-launches-ithing-nobody-knows-what.html
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dsdreamer;441901 Wrote:
Simple question: what do the two numbers on the SB3 buffer fullness
diagnostic screen mean? I see a display line with something like 1.7 /
9.9 seconds.
I am tempted to interpret these as the reading and writing pointer
positions in the buffer translated from
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are directly handled by the
Squeezebox (exceptions being AAC/AAC+), which means the limited RAM
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be of interest
to others as well, so I am wondering if you plan to make it available to
the public? And will it support higher sample rates?
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/index.php/SqueezePlay
SoftSqueeze is written in Java and mimics the appearance, UI and
playback capabilities of a number of hardware based players. SoftSqueeze
is community supported these days.
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Nevertheless, it remains my contention that splitting the network
buffer in two and using double buffering to start pre-buffering the next
track earlier would make for a more robust system.
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controller, but as such it would be excellent for someone who
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have evidence
that the bug will be very hard to reproduce on demand to allow decent
investigation.
Is that enough data to open a Bugzilla bug report?
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Streaming in 7.3.3 seems less robust than previous versions of SC
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13092
You can vote for the bug, and add details of your own experiences with
this problem. If enough people put info there, QA should start to take
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over an imperfect network requires reverting to a previous
version of the product firmware or using the old streaming protocol.
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I can't comment about the mechanical aspects of the problem, but I
wanted to make sure you don't neglect the issue of WiFi signal strength
when embedding a small device like the iPod Touch in a wall.
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-guide: WEP keys consist of a string of ten or
twenty-six digits or letters A through F.
If you have an alpha-numeric key, try using this: http://wepkey.com/
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approach.
Which version of SqueezeCenter/SlimServer is giving you stability
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router.
Several users here have reported success with HomePlug type powerline
adaptors, and this would be worth considering as well.
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player and not the other).
If this sounds like it might be relevant try a recent 7.3.4 nightly,
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players and report if the
problem stays with the same player or is somehow location specific?
I know this may seem tedious but, it may help diagnose the problem.
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)?
It shouldn't matter where they are in physical space, the
player-specific settings should be retained just as if you had
power-cycled them without moving them.
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If the problem is player-specific and not location specific, you should
try a factory reset if you haven't already done so.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Hardware_Reset_commands#Squeezebox_2.2C_Squeezebox_3.2FSqueezebox_Classic
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, but there is also inconclusive evidence
to the contrary, which makes it worth investigating.
As to people who want to draw conclusions already, based on the little
we know right now... well, let's just say that depending on your
profession, it might be a worrying trait.
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(now an enhancement
request) here: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10393 . The
enhancement request currently has 10 votes and is targeted for release
8.1.
It was also quite a long thread in these forums a little while back.
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3) If an Airport Express can implement (selectable dual-band) 2x2 MIMO
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In hindsight that is about the only thing that makes sense, given one
player could succeed and the other not. But I was assuming you had used
DHCP, so I didn't go there.
Glad it is working properly now!
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, repeatable way. Then I
could gather some meaningful information about the robustness of the
current generation of SB h/w and f/w. But as a private end-user with
limited financial means and limited time to play, this is not something
I can realistically get done.
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. The trouble with distributed random
testing in the user community is that it is not repeatable or
controlled, and unless something is grossly wrong, the feedback is
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maggior;446250 Wrote:
dsdreamer -
I gave up and had to finally resort to Google to determine the source
of you signature. It was driving me crazy because it sounded so
familiar but I could NOT figure out where it was from:
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unscrupulous listeners from all
over the work make bit-perfect recordings of whatever takes their fancy
and burn them to CD (or add them to their FLAC collections).
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to native ogg/vorbis (not flac) that causes the SB
to reboot and make a nasty noise for a few seconds, would you be kind
enough to mention it here or send me a PM? If not, don't worry, just
enjoy the music!
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for all those nostalgic postings:
http://www.ominous-valve.com/sounds/bbc0.mp3
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, what Mnyb is saying, if I understand his post well.
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