w3wilkes wrote:
> Good idea on swapping PS with the other receiver. I've always done the
> reset on the controller from Advanced settings with no issue though. I
> will put your method in my "treasures of truth" if I need it in the
> future.
:)
I think both methods are the same, the '+'/power
w3wilkes wrote:
> Pretty sure you need one of these to fix the stop and starting
> receiver;
> https://www.amazon.com/Belker-Adjustable-Universal-Household-Electronics/dp/B07NKZCWT1/ref=sr_1_6?crid=3RG7CETPEO02F=9v+dc+power+supply=1669308396=electronics=9v+dc+%2Celectronics%2C116=1-6
>
> On
bpa wrote:
> .
>
> There are a limited number of developers and they only have limited time
> to look after issues. So if a fix for this issue is offered by a user,
> it will be checked and probably accepted.
I appreciate you giving it some thought and hypothesizing on what might
be
Redrum wrote:
> .
>
> I really just wanted to confirm that I saw what the OP saw, as I dropped
> it months ago, but I can recreate exact steps if requested.
>
>
It's easy to create. see the image below. I selected planet radio to
"play" (top of cue). I adde
bpa wrote:
> The issues is probably (I haven't analysed the streams). - 1.FM does not
> include metadata in the stream so metadata is being supplied by Tune-in
> (aka Radiotime). LMS detects when a Radiotime stream is being played
> by the top level playlist URL (i.e. opml.radiotime.com ...)
d6jg wrote:
> But itÂ’s not a playlist is it?
> A playlist plays items in sequence.
> You are treating it as a collection of favourites.
> Why should the developers (Michael) code for an unintended use when
> favourites does exactly what you want - albeit you might have to
> manually create them
Hi Jim (d6jg) - I disagree on the bizarre comment, I actually thought it
would be great if it worked (back when I tried it). In a way, it could
be thought of as a list of presets. Let's say you have 50 stations of
all genres, in a folder structure. You want to create a playlist of your
5
kidstypike wrote:
> There for me under 3rd party plugins, I use piCorePlayer.
>
> .
Me too.
I have seen plugins disappear (seriously) from the plugin page. Try
restarting LMS then refreshing your browser.
I think it has happened when a plugin is selected, then "apply", and
"restart later"
slartibartfast wrote:
> I think you also unwittingly misled us in the first post when you said
> you were adding new music folders to LMS. I am pretty sure a lot of
> people thought you were trying to add more top level folders not album
> folders inside the existing Music folder [emoji3]
>
>
d6jg wrote:
> NO!!
>
> I know you are trying to help but he shouldn't change *everything*
> recursively unless he knows why the problem has occurred. He could
> easily make things worse by doing so.
ok, my bad, but you had pointed out to do it with the recursive
checkmark, and when Tony
Tony, Jim is "the fixer" :) Happy you have it figured out.
Note that if you check the recursive box of the parent (folder) , it
should change the attributes for all of the children (subfolder and
files). You mentioned that you changed individual files, should not be
necessary. In fact, maybe
tonymac wrote:
>
>
> .When it comes to allocating user access to the sub folders within the
> MUSIC folder on the USB , my NAS does not allow sub folder permissions
> on external drives
maybe try just putting a bunch of music files in the root directory on
the external drive?
Also, this is
tonymac wrote:
> Jim just tried - .flac and .mp3 do not appear to be valid file
> extensions on the forum, cannot upload
Im not following Jim's (d6jg) suggestion. You mentioned it's the folders
that cannot be navigated to, right? So, you can take, say files from
inside the problem folder and
d6jg wrote:
> Forget Revo Uninstaller - that's for Windows software.
>
>
Thanks, and again, I know nothing about NAS, and I said "like" revo. (as
in similar to). Is there an alternate he can try?
Jim
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tonymac wrote:
> I have uninstalled/reinstalled LMS from my NAS a few times since the
> problem began without any joy. Admittedly the uninstalls took place
> using 'Applications' built into the NAs and not Revo Uninstaller. Would
> be prepared to try that route if someone can tell me how?
I'll
mherger wrote:
> .
>
> Hmm... player <-> MySB should not have changed. LMS <-> MySB did.
I never actually connected to mysb.com, rather, after a
controller/receiver factory reset, after logging into network, usually I
get the message that it registered to , change/continue? This
time it
Thanks to Michael and everything for continued development of LMS :)
This question is just a curiosity, no action needed. I am wondering if
something changed with player authentication and mysb.com?
I ask because I had to do a controller/receiver factory reset on a
couple receivers I have
Tony;
I am wondering if you have thought of uninstalling LMS from your NAS,
and reinstalling? It shouldn't be that hard, and the biggest time
consumer will be the initial scan. I think the key will be to get a
complete uninstall, maybe use something like revo uninstaller.
I am thinking that
tonymac wrote:
> Hello again Jim,
> My Logitech Server on my QNAP is Version: 8.3.1.
>
>
> Lots of distractions today (vistors) but I finally got LMS on Windows to
> scan my QNAP Music folder and ALL my albums are visible and playable!!
>
> I think it's a step forward in some way? However to
tonymac wrote:
> Relatively inexperienced with digging into LMS - I have a QNAP NAS,
> which has been working very well for quite some time. Just recently I
> have noticed when adding new Music Folders to my NAS, they are not
> appearing in the LMS. Permissions for all my music folders are
>
tonymac wrote:
>
>
> Something has obviously changed on the NAS, but I don't know what or
> when, despite following everyone's suggestions. It's driving me to
> distraction
This is worth fixing, you have a lot of 10cc in your library :). One of
my fav's...
I have never owned a NAS and know
slartibartfast wrote:
> Did you browse to the folders in LMS Basic settings Media Folders?
>
> Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
this is a good point (offered twice :)). By browsing and selecting, you
eliminate the possibility of syntax errors, and also expose if LMS can't
access your
Paul Webster wrote:
> First step is simply to read the scanner, and maybe server, log via the
> LMS web interface to see if there is any clue.
@tonymac, since you are rather new to this, perhaps a little more detail
as to what Paul is suggesting:
You can get to the standard LMS UI: :9000/?,
slartibartfast wrote:
> From "The only workaround I've found is to just play the music on a web
> browser on my computer and use "Stream What You Hear" to stream it to
> LMS. But that way I don't get any control over the music nor am I able
> to see the name/artist of what's playing." I think
If you don't mind using a pc or other as the source for control, you
might try this:
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108937-Stream-What-You-Hear-and-Squeezebox
I have not tried it, but others have. If you run into trouble, maybe
post on that thread...
Jim
isr2002 wrote:
> Somewhere in my mind was the idea that SBR has DLNA capabilities... :(
maybe the dim memory came from the fact that the touch could play local
music out of the box, with it's built in "Tiny LMS", which is limited,
out of date, and only works if you don't try to ask it to do
embryas wrote:
> I was not sure whether I should see the subfolders when browsing, but of
> course it must be possible which I realized later. So you see I am
> really a beginner...or the blind squirrel...
happy for you! note that my "blind squirrel" reference was to myself not
directed at
Man in a van wrote:
> No need to thank me, *@MrC* did the work, I just did the pointing :)
>
> ronnie
Yes, but you are the master Ronnie :p:cool:
So, my suggestion to use browse in the media folder selection would have
uncovered the problem?? Even a blind squirrel...:eek:
Jim
Here's a picture of my setup, Samba section of pcP on the left, windows
explorer on the right. You enter in the server name, and share name,
then use it to access it in windows. Be very careful - CASE SENSITIVE.
You will need to use the UN (tc) and set a pw.
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Here is how I use
muggo wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> Yes, it's the Seagate that looked like it was mounted but wasn't
> addressable. I'm keeping the LMS data on this drive & can't see an
> option of storing it elsewhere. What's an SD?
> By unmounting & mounting, is that the Map Network Drive/Disconnect
> Network Drive
Is that Seagate drive shown in your first post the one you are looking
for? If so, try unmounting it, then mounting it again. Even if it
"looks" like it's mounted. Also, where are you keeping the LMS data, on
this drive, or your SD?
A while back I was storing my LMS data on an attached USB
gstalnaker wrote:
> I Googled for a Squeezebox Touch manual before I replied. The one I
> found
> at Logitech shows it does have RCA inputs:
>
>
I think the shortage is everywhere. But, you don't necessarily need the
latest and greatest. I run one system on a 4, the other on a 3b+ and I
only really notice any difference during library scan and for me it's
insignificant.
Others can chime in, but I think you can actually run it on just
DavidBullock62 wrote:
> Thank you for the replies.
>
> I do agree that the RPi is a very tempting solution. The only reason
> that I am not really considering the RPi route at the moment is that I
> changed jobs two years ago, and unfortunately at the moment I am
> exceedingly time poor with
nickey wrote:
> in my experience playback sometimes comes to a complete stop for no
> apparent reason when a new player joins. I use the YouTube plugin quite
> a lot and if you are in the middle of a long track or a playlist of
> tracks and the problem happens, it's then quite challenging to
bpa wrote:
> If you can describe a method to reproduce your problem on another system
> then the problem can be checked.
>
> If it is just the radio playlist then a copy of the playlist file and
> descriptions of actions/symptoms may be all that is necessary to
> reproduce.
>
> Internet
Zombie wrote:
> I use duct tape when LMS is broken :cool:
I don't have the cache for duct tape :)
Jim
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bpa wrote:
>
>
> So a question has to be asked - are these realistic scenarios ? To
> resolve the problem may add complexity to the plugin which in practice
> will never be used.
Agree, I need to reiterate that these are observations, not meant to
create work, but rather to point out a use
did some testing, continued over here:
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?116205-Multiple-Radio-Stations-In-The-Queue-Observations-and-Unexpected-Behaviour=1051646#post1051646
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RobbH wrote:
> If it were my system, I would probably be in a panic to get a
> non-essential feature working again.
I like to think that I personally am in recovery from that very same
affliction, always prone for a relapse. :). I think that's why I feel
the need to recreate the failure
RobbH wrote:
> Jim, have you cleared the playlist/queue on EVERY player in your system,
> including any group players? If not, that might be worth a try. (Not
> that I'm holding out a lot of hope...)
yes, thanks, tried it again, no go, but I ran into another oddity
:confused:
I went through
Just thought I would post an update, if even just to document for my
purposes. Please feel free to see this post is from me, roll your eyes
and move on. Even I am skeptical of what I am experiencing :confused:
Up to this point: something happened while switching between multiple
radio stations
RobbH wrote:
> Lots of references to Radio Paradise streams in that log, but that's to
> be expected, if you were trying to reload them. The log begins with a
> reboot at 12:39 pm on March 28.
>
> I don't know enough to say if the errors in the log tell us anything
> useful.
That's what I saw
@RobbH
Thanks for the thoughts, I'll give them some consideration. BTW, my log
file is attached to an earlier post. Im not a great log file
interpreter. :o
My LMS is running fine, I just cannot queue radio stations, no big deal.
I also don't mind rebuilding a test system on a pi3B+ that I have
RobbH wrote:
> Are older logs available? I don't know if piCorePlayer handles logs
> differently, but many Linux distros keep zipped versions of older logs
> for some time.
>
> Here's what I find in the log folder on RaspberryPiOS:
>
> server.log
> server.log.1.gz
> server.log.2.gz
>
mherger wrote:
>
>
> Oh well... this posting is almost as long as the first one...
Well, I am the self proclaimed "king of the run on sentence" I never met
a comma I couldn't place :o
I apologize, I did the best I could, but a multistep process created the
situation. I'll also stop using
mherger wrote:
> Could you please summarize what issue exactly you're experiencing which
> would "break" LMS?
Hi Michael, I explained in the first post, but here's an "executive
summary"
-I added all four genre FLAC regular RP streams to the queue
successfully. I was switching between them by
I'm afraid it only has logs from after I broke it, illustrating my
subsequent thrashing around...
Jim
+---+
|Filename: server.log.zip |
|Download:
LMS 8.2 on a pCP 7
Nothing like doing some testing track down an issue, only to break
something else :)
Member @RobbH and I both noticed some album art/information and timing
issues when adding multiple internet radio streams to the queue, then
selecting them to play, as a pseudo set of
dileo65 wrote:
> Well, since the mouning process was succesfully within in pcp, it stuck
> within LMS, so it could be a LMS problem also.
How about a clarification? When you say that within LMS the device
cannot me mounted or scanned, do you mean in setting->basic settings,
you cannot browse
GeekDragon wrote:
> Mark, that's genius! Totally went over my head to do this. I've set this
> up and tested it with great success and now I can automate this action
> with a Zigbee button attached to the frig so my GF can simply shut
> everything down.
>
> Thank you again and if you have any
GeekDragon wrote:
> .I'm recently retired so have the time to work with it.
>
Congratulations! Welcome to bliss! :cool::D
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epoch1970 wrote:
> In the preferences for each player, sync section, you can find:
I also thought of that, but he said he wants to turn off all players
regardless of if they are grouped/synced or not. He wants an "all of"
(or so it seems).
Jim
I have never used it, and don't know if it's still viable, or current
LMS supports it, or all players (basically, I don't know
anything)...but.
There is a 3rd party plugin called "allQuiet", here's some info
https://tuxreborn.netlify.app/slim/allquiet
Jim
Man in a van wrote:
>
>
> Are your Daff 's out yet ?
>
>
Hey Ronnie,
yea, just poking their little heads out, maybe 1-2". Makes me smile,
I've got allot of them. But, its not May yet, so they usually get a
little snow on them :(:confused:
Jim
one last thought - backup the entire micro SD on your pi. I don't know
about debian, but I use picoreplayer and it has a backup feature that
allows you to back up the entire SD to a mounted drive or network
location (maybe?) without removing the card.
Jim
Man in a van wrote:
> .
> Wipe the SD card, download a fresh image of pCP and install a new LMS,
> reconfigure the server.
>
I prefer to use a new SD card, just in case I make things worse!
:mad::confused::(
You can always go back to where you were...
Jim
radekker wrote:
> These are exactly the same symptoms I experienced after a power
> failure.
> I rebooted pCP (and thus LMS) and everything was fine again.
>
> In the situation I'm referring to there was no power failure and *both*
> FLAC streams didn't play until I restarted LMS.
> This
This one has me scratching my head a bit...
Can you tell me, restart is required for which of these, or all? - FLAC,
FLAC Interactive, 320kbps, and all of the flavors (main, rock,
mellow...)
I am the guy that had issues with power failures. My symptoms were
this:
Flac Interactive would not
TheCoyote wrote:
> Thanks @Redrum, that's giving me some pointers. :) As for the plugins,
> I'll probably just write down which ones I use and the necessary
> configurations.
I have done a screen shot of the setting->plugins page t
I can't give you the definitive answer, but can tell you what I know.
Everything is in the slimserver->cache and ->prefs folder where your LMS
data is stored
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For example, in the prefs, favorites.opml contains the favorites, and
this file is portable (i.e. I copy it to other machines, no
Paul Webster wrote:
> It needs to be a SlimDevices or Logitech branded player for it to work
> because they are what Logitech has the agreement from Pandora to use.
> Working with a different device via sync is a fortunate side-effect of
> having a real player in the sync group.
this is really
musicalrower wrote:
> Players were definitely connected to network - could see them in
> mysqueezebox .
Just to be clear, players show up in mysb.com if they have ever been
connected, even via different network, etc. Even if they are gone. They
just stay there until they are deleted. I have
musicalrower wrote:
> Thanks for the detail. LMS was definitely running - I can see the UI on
> port 9001 of my NAS. But autodiscovery just isn't happening for some
> reason.
> The manual step of connecting to remote library and giving it my NAS ip
> address is doing the trick though. In doing
In rereading the first post, I don't see any indication that you
confirmed that LMS is running? @bpa, is there a way to do that other
than the UI or a player? Maybe find the ip address and add :9000/? and
see if the UI pops up?
Jim
I read your post earlier and since I didn't have a definitive answer, I
thought I would just let one of the heavy hitters (the ones who know)
chime in...:)
You should not need to use remote libraries. You also really should not
need to have the mysb.com integration working to use lms.
Really,
muggo wrote:
> It all now appears to be working.
Happy to hear Paul. I was about to mention an option that I have used
before - get a new SD card and start over :). Sometimes when something
gets messed along the way, you don't make the same mistake the second
time, and learn something along
Andy, I'll send you a pm to address some other items in your post, so as
not to distract from the discussion. Look for it. I say that because I
sent you a pm before, not sure if you got it :) "Notifications" right
next to "welcome "
Jim
mherger wrote:
>
> What exactly are you missing?
I'm not exactly sure either. Andy's first post reported an issue, where
mysb.com/LMS no longer synced favorites on desktop with LMS (i.e. you
could favorite a tune in station on your desktop/phone, and it would
show up in LMS). I did not know
muggo wrote:
> when I take the configure LMS or LMS web page options, it refuses to
> connect.
>
directly above those two options does it say "LMS is (or is not)
Running"? I'm betting no.
Jim
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here is what I am thinking, here's a shot of my setup regarding setting
the location where LM looks for it's data (cache and prefs)
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before you mount your HDD you should have one location, the pCP boot
disk. This entry should have the black selection thingie. When you mount
your HDD then
kidstypike wrote:
> What kind of disc is this? Sounds like there's not enough power to spin
> it up. Can you power it from a powered hub?
Im probably wrong, but I am reading it differently. To me it seems like
LMS doesn't start because it can't find it's prefs or cache. By default
it's on the
muggo wrote:
> Thanks guys
> I've mounted the USB drive as per the instructions from Redrum (thanks
> Jim)
> I'm now forced to rescan the whole library which will take an hour or
> more so I'll report back later.
> ;)
progress!
It may have been mentioned before, and
maybe I can offer an alternative approach to using the ip address in
explorer. I have always followed the instructions here to mount the
drive, configure samba, and create a windows network location (note the
how toos might be a bit outdated):
https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/add_usb_hdd/
andybflo wrote:
>
> Plus, Redrum, I think we might be neighbors-ish. I'm just north of
> Buffalo, in E Amherst... :)
>
Wheatfield here, close to Amherst border (NF Blvd). We can meet at
Elmo's for wings! :)
There are far better members here for deciphering logs. I also never
kn
andybflo wrote:
> I am signed in to both; I just changed and updated my PW on My
> Squeezebox/TuneIn. Just in case in the past nearing 20 years since I
> jumped into Squeezeboxes I might have changed it.
>
> In LMS, I only seem to have an entry for UID under Advanced/TuneIn Radio
> (correct?),
@troffasky - Did you ever confirm that you are seeing this on your local
library? My referencing to timeout/disconnect was really just to mention
what reliable/persistent addresses with podcast streams, which I think
it irrelevant for local (LMS->player) streaming (as mentioned
previously)
Jim
Just thought of something...
Are you using the power save plugin?
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I really don't understand the details of what "power" means, as there is
no hard power off other than press and hold or unplug. But maybe this
"power" causes the queue position to be discarded?
Note that the settings are
troffasky wrote:
> Yes, time offline does make a difference. This morning the one that was
> fine when I tested it is now back at 0:00. "Resume - 14 minutes left"
> works as expected.
> So I guess after some time LMS gives up on the client and forgets where
> it was. Simply suspending and
troffasky wrote:
> Well I am trying to reproduce the issue I thought I had and of course, I
> can't. I am testing by pausing playback, suspending my machine, resuming
> it. It looks in the web interface like like it has forgotten, but then
> about 30s later it resumes from where it was [without
I don't mean to distract the conversation, but it seems like you are
indicating it happens on more than BBC sounds?
If this is the case, I had something similar with playing podcasts. I
would go halfway through the podcast, and either stopped or paused. If I
did not resume within a reasonable
just for grins, I changed the podcast index to gpodder and it also
worked. I noticed that it is a https url, maybe that's it if the LMS
version is quite old?
OP, what version of LMS are you on?
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maybe djringjr is trying to manually add the url through the standard
LMS->settings->podcast interface rather than a material skin search.
However, I just tried it and was successful:
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Does my feed provider make a difference?
Jim
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I'm not sure the OP is really taking the time to understand and try the
advice he is given. Regardless, I read back through and @Gordonb3's post
#19, second paragraph, could possibly be what is going on, why the OP
feels files are missing, needed files are being removed.
It might be worth a try
Annie Body wrote:
> .Installing 7.9.0 and 8.2.0 on their own do not work due to missing
> files!..
Nobody else seems to be having a problem installing 8.2. That's why Robb
asked his question and I asked, where are you getting 8.2 from? Can we
start there?
Jim
.. and I realize I missed pages of posts, and my last post seems so out
of touch with the discussion :confused: Is this the twilight zone
thread? What happened to email notifications?...oh, never mind, carry
on
Paul, buy a pie, install pcp with LMS, it will make you happy as it has
so many
muggo wrote:
> Thanks Jim,
> Yes, I had noticed that due to the worldwide chip shortage I might
> struggle to get the lastest Pi.
> Until this is all over, I might have to stick with rebooting my Odroid
> server as at least it works most of the time.
> I imagine Picoreplayer is my optimum
muggo wrote:
> .
> Please can you advise me exactly what to buy? Pi4? Version? Operating
> environment?
> Many thanks
> Paul
Hey Paul;
You are in good hands with Ronnie. He will answer how you could add LMS
to one of your pi's running squeezelite. I can tell you how to do it if
you were
@Annie Body (great screen name btw!)
How about we start with where you are getting the LMS 8.2 download from.
Can you supply a link?
Jim
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Man in a van wrote:
> Leave it out!!!
>
> ronnie :p:)
wow, this might be the first time I have ever seen a video posted. Think
of the possibilities! Members with problems filming and posting their
futility, rather than describing it in print and pictures:p
Jim
slartibartfast wrote:
> I sometimes wonder why I bother with a sound system [emoji1787]
>
because you like hearing "will you please turn that down!"? :eek:
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@slarti..
I just bought a used copy of Zaireeka on ebay (cheap - $6USD), so, while
I wait for my copy to travel, figure this out and I'll give it a try!
:)
Jim
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I thought this would be fun to play with, then I realized I don't own it
:( I have an already mixed version. Didn't realize I had that until I
looked!
One thought to simplify - mix each disk 1-4 down to mono, then mix 1/2
and 3/4 into stereo. Use 4 radios (A-D), setup to use a pair of radios
to
agbagb wrote:
> I never really knew that! I do habitually re-boot, though I never
> really knew why! Very useful to tuck away, that advice - thanks!
Agree, this has been a good read, thanks Jim and @Gordonb3.
But I think we lost the OP @Annie Body, perhaps because the issue is
resolved?
agbagb wrote:
> As a dedicated Windows user, I don't have much to add to what's already
> been said as to trying a completely clean install of the latest LMS
> version. But I would add this - I've used LMS and Squeezeboxes of one
> sort or another for *decades* on Windows (currently 11) with
Annie Body wrote:
> Originally posted this on the Squeezebox forum. Moved to here following
> a feedback suggestion.
>
> I had to restore a Win 10 backup due to one of the regular problems
> with it not working!
> After which I noticed the Tray Icon was not appearing after restart
> any more.
philippe_44 wrote:
> . So you end up with crappy SW created by monkeys (and there a lot of
> these in sw, they are just randomly typing on keyboards hoping for
> something to happen).
Thanks for the laugh out loud! I once worked with a person who felt if
her code (written in 'C') compiled,
I have been thinking of doing something similar, so I bought a Amazon
Fire 8" tablet I didn't need on Black Friday for, I think about $60USD
(currently about 90). You can currently get the 7" one for about $50.
The Fire tablets are inexpensive in part because Amazon is selling you
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