Mnyb;538308 Wrote:
If would also like to get some senior members interest in this topic,
maybe it could get patched somehow if you have programming skills and
can read the code (it is open source after all).
I don't have programming skills at all so I can only report my
findings.
I can not
perose;538258 Wrote:
OK WIFI pretty much sucks for security
Not really. Use WPA2 with a strong passphrase, change your router's
default name and password, and you're in pretty good shape. What sucks
for security are the half-assed band-aids like hiding SSID, MAC
filtering, WEP, etc.
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Got my touch last week, and been playing with it - overall, very nice,
though some things are a bit odd.
1. Is there a reason that volume control should be slower than on a
Classic? It just seems like it takes forever to go from full - half
volume, say. Like when the keyboard repeat rate is
metalbob;538311 Wrote:
The first one somehow ends up switching SBS to another drive somehow.
What drive? Is it an actual drive, or a phantom? If it's a phantom,
then the SBT has probably just gotten confused and you should be able
to solve it by rebooting the Touch, and if that fails, doing a
Got my Touch on the 12th and overall love it. I'm sure it sounds better
than the SB3 as a digital transport, and it's performed virtually
flawlessly whilst addressing my external USB HDD.
For all that, I've had a strange issue pop up a couple of days ago. In
short, the Touch doesn't seem to
You might get that if you have two partitions on the same drive. Go to
settingsadvancedUSB and SD STorage and click devices. See if there
are two shown. You might have sda1 and sda2 OR sda1 and sdb1.
John S.
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plympton;538331 Wrote:
1. Is there a reason that volume control should be slower than on a
Classic? It just seems like it takes forever to go from full - half
volume, say. Like when the keyboard repeat rate is too slow. Any fix?
I'm running the 7.5.1 nightly, so that could be part of it,
JJZolx;538337 Wrote:
I never use the volume control on the Touch, instead preferring to use
my preamp's volume control. It's very fast using the Touch interface,
but I see what you mean if you're using the IR interface. It's
unusually slow.
Bummer. I was hoping I was doing something
erland;536878 Wrote:
Touching the title Now Playing 1 of 12 will show you the context menu
where one item is the year.
I don't think it's possible to show it directly on the standard Now
Playing screen. With the third party Custom Clock applet you can
design your own Now Playing screen
Mr_Sukebe;538335 Wrote:
Got my Touch on the 12th and overall love it. I'm sure it sounds better
than the SB3 as a digital transport, and it's performed virtually
flawlessly whilst addressing my external USB HDD.
For all that, I've had a strange issue pop up a couple of days ago. In
Where is the code available for download? I heard that it's written in
Perl. I'm not a Perl developer, but I'd still love to look and see what
they're doing that is causing performance problems.
Pick the .tgz flavour to get all the code:
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.5
or
Yes, the custom clock applet is just for viewing, no buttons.
You COULD always go into the lua code for the now playing screen and
change the size of things, you just have to make sure that everything
you want on the screen still fits. Changing the size of an existing
object is a lot easier than
I also noticed a nice sonic improvement via toslink transmission when
using a glass-fiber cable instead of plastic (thanks again to John S.
who originally helped me to discover this). For SB3 users: Since the
SB3's coax digital-out apparently suffers from its internal EMI
supression filter (a
bigbwb;536618 Wrote:
From my quote above, in answering your question, yes I am using the
analog outs of my touch into a parasound preamp and feel it sounds
great on its own!
That's what I need to know.
When the SBT arrives in Australia, my plan is to stream from my NAS
(with the appropriate
Bummer. I was hoping I was doing something wrong. Volume really is
something best controlled either locally or physically - I hate my
Ergonomics education! Anyway, mayhaps something can fix it.
Are you seeing a delay when using the Touch UI (with your fingers) or the
remote control?
As stated earlier my setup is cabled and I am rexperiencing minor
stutter. Therefore I am cinsidering reencoding my 24/96 collection
before it gets too extensive (4 albums). Only worry is that reencoding
to compression level 0 will result in reduced sound quality. But if I
understand the various
I have a couple of 24/96 albums downloaded from HDTracks on my
Drobo,which is connected directly into the Touch with USB,I have no
network.The tracks will play,but If I skip,the track will pause for 2
or more seconds,and the Touch says it is rebuffering.The track will
then play fine.
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nicoleif;538360 Wrote:
Only worry is that reencoding to compression level 0 will result in
reduced sound quality.QUOTE]
Reencoding from lossless to lossless should not result in reduced sound
quality.
Reencoding between lossy formats is a no no
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I'm seeing it with the remote. I wouldn't call it a delay, really, as
the response is instantaneous, but it takes a long time to accelerate.
As near as I can time it, it takes a full seven seconds to go from 100%
to 50% using the remote.
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slate;538367 Wrote:
nicoleif;538360 Wrote:
Only worry is that reencoding to compression level 0 will result in
reduced sound quality.QUOTE]
Reencoding from lossless to lossless should not result in reduced sound
quality.
Reencoding between lossy formats is a no no
All my HD
I've had the same issue a couple of days ago - a restore of factory
defaults solved the issue and - once again - kept me busy reconfiguring
for a while. I wish I could save my setup somehow...
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Using the remote my Touch is a bit hit miss, on most occasions I have
to press off (on the remote) several times. works fine from the Touch
screen.
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Maybe an obvious suggestion, but check the selected screensaver when
off. I think under settings \ screen or similar. It may be set to now
playing in which case you'll get what you are seeing?
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lrossouw;538392 Wrote:
Maybe an obvious suggestion, but check the selected screensaver when
off. I think under settings \ screen or similar. It may be set to now
playing in which case you'll get what you are seeing?
Good suggestion, but not correct unfortunately. I did check that.
I'll
Hi Folks,
I'm trying to share the USB HDD attached to my touch with my Windows-7
PC so that I can keep my music library on the PC and the USB drive
synchronised.
I have enabled sharing in the USB SD storage Sharing menu.
Sharing account and sharing password remain at the default values.
When
bonze;537592 Wrote:
Ordered one from the Logitech site at the weekend (used my voucher)
Got a shipping message from UPS today and it said the package would
arrive Wednesday.
Just arrived :)
Addressed from Luxembourg
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TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3 - SqueezeCenter Version: 7.6.0 -
One drive, no partitions. Only one shows up as connected. I did a
factory reset on a few occasions thinking that the Touch wasn't
scanning my collection, but I think it was, but as the second drive.
The scan took about 55 minutes, but it is possible that it was a lot
longer as it had been
plympton;538340 Wrote:
Can the custom Now Playing screen include buttons? For starters, I want
to get rid of the repeat button, and maybe make some of the other
buttons bigger.
Not in the current version, but I'll put it on the list of possible
enhancements in a future version.
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In answer to my own question...
Apparently I'm doing nothing wrong.
I restarted the touch and it magically appeared on the network.
Libraries and syncing happily in the background as I type. :O)
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My SSID is hidden (let the vegetable throwing begin) and my Touch has no
issue automatically reconnecting to it every time I reboot the Touch.
Linksys WRT54GL, WPA2-AES
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toby10;538420 Wrote:
My SSID is hidden (let the vegetable throwing begin) and my Touch has no
issue automatically reconnecting to it every time I reboot the Touch.
Linksys WRT54GL, WPA2-AES
Hey you can do whatever you want, but if you have issues and that is
not the first thing you change
Mine wouldn't go into standby with the remote this morning - however,
that was shortly after a power cut and it wasn't connected to the
server, so I don't know if that's related. Squeezebox Server runs on a
Mac Mini in my set-up.
Since the Touch has arrived there have now been two power cuts in
m1abrams;538430 Wrote:
Hey you can do whatever you want, but if you have issues and that is not
the first thing you change do not ask for help ;).
Heck I do not care if you like shoving bamboo under your finger nails,
just do not come to me asking how to solve this extremely painful
Phil Leigh;538217 Wrote:
unless you are using wired ethernet with Cat 6 shielded cable (which you
should not be using!) The Touch s/pdif ground is isolated from mains
ground...
Clarification please. My house is wired with Cat6 ethernet cable
(standard stuff, same as we use at the office).
i have decided to re-format my music files for my new touch. i have my
files currently in apple lossless and have decided to re-format them to
flac. i will do this on my mac using NCH's 'switch' audio converter.
before i get too far i would like some input on the best settings to
use.
#1. what
JohnSwenson;538191 Wrote:
The variability in reports is interesting. I can play 24/96 -8 flacs
from an external server, wired or wireless, VU meters on without any
problems. Stopping, starting, changing files etc. It works perfectly.
Yet others are having problems with -5 files wired without
After the disaster known as the Squeezebox Duet why would anyone get a
Touch? To go thru the same troubles all over again? No thanks to the
power of ten
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notec;538465 Wrote:
After the disaster known as the Squeezebox Duet why would anyone get a
Touch? To go thru the same troubles all over again? No thanks to the
power of ten
For one, they're not remotely similar in the way they're set up or in
the way they operate.
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Jim
Thumbs up ^10 from me, superb device (and not just for the money)
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ratso;538462 Wrote:
i have decided to re-format my music files for my new touch. i have my
files currently in apple lossless and have decided to re-format them to
flac. i will do this on my mac using NCH's 'switch' audio converter. my
files will be stored on my new vortexbox appliance
notec;538465 Wrote:
After the disaster known as the Squeezebox Duet why would anyone get a
Touch? To go thru the same troubles all over again? No thanks to the
power of ten
I can understand the sentiment toward the Duet, but it's not warrented
toward the Touch. I own both and can say
very useful info jim, thanx. i'm not sure if switch automatically keeps
the original format or not, can't locate much documentation on the
software. it asks you to select your preferences or use the default
settings for compression/sampling which assumes that it changes your
files into whatever
I have the same issue with a UK based touch.
Is this actually by design, or a bug?
The reason I ask is because currently I am thoroughly confused on what
should be happening.
Sometimes I get unknown squeezebox.com username etc and other times it
works.
Here's to being confused :)
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Strange, I'm using my Duet for somewhat two years now, moved twice, had
every server version between 7.2 and 7.5 (except 7.4.x) on 4 machines
with 5 different OS configurations, 5 different network setups and 3
different routers (3 different i-net providers and some weeks in
between without
SJobson;538438 Wrote:
Mine wouldn't go into standby with the remote this morning - however,
that was shortly after a power cut and it wasn't connected to the
server, so I don't know if that's related.
I think it's related. I had the same issue in my thread
notec;538465 Wrote:
After the disaster known as the Squeezebox Duet why would anyone get a
Touch? To go thru the same troubles all over again? No thanks to the
power of ten
First, I have a Duet and it works fine. The initial software/firmware
for the controller was a bit flaky but was
If you look at the OP's past posts you see a trend of being pretty
negative.
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Squeezeboxserver is written in perl ?
Squeezeplay is written in Lua (the software running the controller).
ideally you want to look into both to track issues.
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Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J and assorted
The point of the prior post can be illustrated by analogy to the reason
O.J. Simpson is currently incarcerated. He claimed at his trial that
he was attempting to retrieve his own property when he invaded a hotel
room in Las Vegas and grabbed property by force and threat. However
the court made
Touch is good release and a very good product ? it has some issues
ofcourse.
But works right out of the box for most users.
This is a much better than the initial Duet debacle.
Kudos to Logitech for getting closer the goal regarding smooth releases
( from customer perspective )
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I seems to be missing 40-50% of what i see via Itunes library.
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notec;538465 Wrote:
After the disaster known as the Squeezebox Duet why would anyone get a
Touch? To go thru the same troubles all over again?
First off your opening statement is completely false and untrue. The
Duet was not a disaster. I have two of them and they have worked
flawlessly for
Mnyb;538514 Wrote:
Squeezeboxserver is written in perl ?
It sounded strange to me because I thought Perl was just a scripting
language for Web pages. However 'Wikipedia says'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezebox_Server), The Squeezebox
Server software is written in Perl, and will run on
Hi
I'm trying to get my universal remote (One For All URC 7556) to work
with the Touch. It works fine with my SB3 (using the JVC DVD code 0623)
but it seems to do absolutely nothing with the Touch.
I found this rather odd since the SB3 and Touch remotes appear to be
largely interchangeable i.e.
gellie;538524 Wrote:
I seems to be missing 40-50% of what i see via Itunes library.
Can we have some more information so we can narrow this down and try to
help you? Are you talking about the Touch when using SBS or TinySC? What
version of SBS and what firmware is the Touch running? Are you
on one of the missing album art songs, go into itunes, right click on
track, go to properties, album art tab, and you'll likely see your
itunes art there. Right click on the art, then immediately paste into
the same box. Now the artwork is embedded in the tag. You can do this
album at a time.
JJZolx;538378 Wrote:
I'm seeing it with the remote. I wouldn't call it a delay, really, as
the response is instantaneous, but it takes a long time to accelerate.
As near as I can time it, it takes a full seven seconds to go from 100%
to 50% using the remote.
I'm getting about the same -
Logitech Harmony range work fine.
I've got the 525 model which you can get cheap and it's a big step up
from
One for ALL.
I've just treated myself to an 8GB Ipod Touch and installed Ipeng.
Now this is premier league quality ... nice
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JohnSwenson;525936 Wrote:
There is nothing in the touch menus that will do that, but there is a
way to do it. You ssh into the touch and type the command:
iwconfig wlan0 txpower off
This shuts the radio off completely. Unfortunately it goes away when
you unplug the touch. To always have
iPhone;538529 Wrote:
Can we have some more information so we can narrow this down and try to
help you? Are you talking about the Touch when using SBS or TinySC?
What version of SBS and what firmware is the Touch running? Are you
looking at your iTunes library on the PC and actually in iTunes
servies;538444 Wrote:
I never heard Red Hat or Suse complaining... or Logitech...
Do you think there was a reason why Logitech selected to use BSD for
the player software instead of the GPL license as they've always used
on the server ?
I'm not really against GPL but I can understand why
Thank-you wimpf i saved 3% memory by not loading the modules.
I might not be much but Touch do not have that much memory.
And since i pulled cable to it i wont be using wlan on it.
I have wlan on SB3 Radio and Controller , so I'm not gone over to the
aluminum foil hat crowd ;)
Just wants to
That seems rather a strange design decision. Is there any particular
reason why, given that it used to work?
Also why does the SB3 remote still control the Touch? Is it outputting
two sets of IR codes?
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erland;538547 Wrote:
Do you think there was a reason why Logitech selected to use BSD for the
player software instead of the GPL license as they've always used on the
server ?
No clue: for the owner, I think GPL is better (it means no one can take
the code, make it work on their own hardware
I'll post my experience here just in case others are curious and don't
want to experience my pain. :-) I'm sure there's an easier way.
The files you want to modify are on the Touch itself, not the server.
This is new for a SB3 hacker like myself. You need to enable
SSH/Remote login from the
iPhone;538523 Wrote:
Is the Duet WiFi Network sensitive, in my opinion it is. Ninety-five
precent of all issues with the Duet can be traced back to an improperly
setup WiFi Network or one that has interference or is performing poorly.
This is in no way Logitech's fault or the Duet's for that
Hiding your SSID is a COMPLETE waste of time and only encourages
problems. It is one of my 25 things NOT to do when using SB or other
wi-fi products.
Please ignore at your own peril...
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You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't what you'd call
With local pushes, it goes from the screen, and Lua interprets it
locally, sending the result to the server for processing.
With the remote, the hardware takes in the IR code, sends it to the
server for processing, which sends the result back to the Touch for
display updates? Essentially a 2nd
notec;538465 Wrote:
After the disaster known as the Squeezebox Duet why would anyone get a
Touch? To go thru the same troubles all over again? No thanks to the
power of ten
0/10
Boring
Bye.
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You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't what
Is he a Sonos employee?
;)
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iPhone;538523 Wrote:
Ninety-five precent of all issues with the Duet can be traced back to an
improperly setup WiFi Network or one that has interference or is
performing poorly. This is in no way Logitech's fault or the Duet's for
that matter.
I agree. I bought my Duet more than a year
if you want to tightly integrate your already existing code with
something released under GPL you will have to release the source for
your code also under GPL even though it was originally released under
some other license.
That's only true if you want to distribute it to other people,
Ah, so I'm guessing you mean that the SB3 (etc.) remote only ever used a
non-JVC code?
This is a real pain since now at least one quite popular brand of
universal remotes that used to work with SB kit now no longer does so.
What's most frustrating is that I don't think anyone ever knew (from
Thanks, Mitch. It does seem like the Touch has some difficulties with
ALAC files. I can work around the bugs so far. However, the fact that
the Touch can play some files but not others based on tagging seems
like a fairly major issue.
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Should the hard drive that I've attached to my Touch be visible on my
wifi network? If so, I'm not seeing it.
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Havent tried myself yet but there is a sharing setting to turn on
So it would not just happen because you lugged in th drive.
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Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J and assorted amps SiriuS,
Classe'Primare and
Out of the box, I spent an evening getting the Touch set up with my
network (45 mins) and scanning my music (from iTunes, the Touch was
still scanning when I went to bed).
Last night was my first opportunity to listen, and based on the first 3
solid hours I am over the moon with the sound
servies;538444 Wrote:
Not quite right, when you distribute the binaries compiled from the
code, everybody can ask for the code/modifications and use that again.
How do you think CentOS creates its distribution. It's an exact copy of
Red Hat Enterprise, recompiled from the sources.
Really,
I have exactly the same issue. I can't find anywhere to enter the
username/password.
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mortslim;538516 Wrote:
The point of the prior post can be illustrated by analogy to the reason
O.J. Simpson is currently incarcerated. He claimed at his trial that
he was attempting to retrieve his own property when he invaded a hotel
room in Las Vegas and grabbed property by force and
after turning on sharing Settings/Advanced/USBSD Storage/Sahring
you can see the drive (on Windows XP) in File Explorer under: My
Network Places\Entire Network\Microsoft Windows Network\Workgroup\[name
of Touch]
the path may vary depending on your network.
mine is wired but don't think that
I have now have a Touch,
the CSO Resound recording of the Bruckner 7th Symphony (conducted by
Haitink)
as a 16/44.1 CD and
as a 24/88.2 download from HDtracks.
I guess it's time to learn what difference(s) I can discern.
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I ran a factory reset and everything is now working perfectly again.
Took me around 5 mins to change the settings to how I want, but that's
not that hard. It re-scanned my music collection in under 10mins, so I
assume it was just doing a sanity check.
The idea of being able to save settings on
mr-b;538576 Wrote:
This is a real pain since now at least one quite popular brand of
universal remotes that used to work with SB kit now no longer does so.
What's most frustrating is that I don't think anyone ever knew (from
the forum posts I've seen anyway) that the proper codes weren't
Well the same thing has happened to me today. It has worked fine for 2
days but today when I got home I found we had suffered a brief power
cut too and interestingly my SB touch was on and would not turn off by
pressing the soft power button.
After a few mins of fiddling I did a factory reset
erland;538588 Wrote:
Really, where does it say that ?
As far as I know you are only obligated to give the source to anyone
that you have given/sold the binaries to. Of course, you can't forbid
them to redistribute it to someone else but if you haven't got the
binaries no one is forced to
psp;538587 Wrote:
Out of the box, I spent an evening getting the Touch set up with my
network (45 mins) and scanning my music (from iTunes, the Touch was
still scanning when I went to bed).
Last night was my first opportunity to listen, and based on the first 3
solid hours I am over the
putte_xvi;538595 Wrote:
Does this mean that it's no longer possible to customize IR codes on the
server?
My Boom to accept commands from my Philips stereo remote thanks to a
custom IR/philips.ir. Has this capability been removed with the Radio
and Touch?
Definitely you can't customize on
maggior;538596 Wrote:
Fast foward to today and the Duet is a much better and stable product.
In my mind, part of the success of the Touch is due the stability and
maturity that the Duet has attained. Am I out in left field again?
Not really.
And you left out the Radio, which also uses
DigitalMitch;538401 Wrote:
Accepting that, I'm on the path of trying to optimise but I am
struggling to understand/isolate issues which are library size related
and others which could be settings/setup/bugs.
I understand your 3 examples are clearly directly based on library
size, I have
The OP is obviously 0/10 and shouldn't be fed.
Nonetheless, the replies are quite interesting and would provide good
information for a would-be customer.
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Mnyb;538539 Wrote:
should it not be rcS.local file ?
Yes, typo on my part. Sometimes the fingers just do their own thing!
John S.
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I'm having a similar problem with my URC MX-950 in that it controls my
SB1 but not my Touch. I had to manually learn the codes from my Touch
remote but even with that process not all buttons work. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.
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wimpf;538324 Wrote:
Hi
and after reboot check with:
ifconfig lsmod
You can see there is no more wlan0 interface up and also no loaded
modules.
Greetings,
wimpf
Most of the drivers on the Touch are compiled into the kernel, not
loaded at runtime so they don't show up in the lsmod
Alll this may have been known about for years by certain ppl, but the
JVC vs proper remote code thing has been a complete revelation to me
(SB user since SB3).
I'm not in any way an OFA remote fan-boy, but the fact that that their
supoort dept has offered several times (to me anyway) to create a
sckramer;538212 Wrote:
those vu meters (or all the graphics) seem a little challenged on their
own... is there room to optimize the graphics layer as we go, is that
the plan :) ?
They do look challenged, don't they? The meters are using minimal CPU
resources so that they don't break
Hey, it works! Even on my Mac. Thanks!
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snarlydwarf;538619 Wrote:
Not really.
And you left out the Radio, which also uses much of the same code.
'SqueezeOS' is maturing.
(Of course, it helps that the operating model of the Radio and Touch
are also simpler: there isn't a headless device they need to talk to...
there is no
Muele;538626 Wrote:
The OP is obviously 0/10 and shouldn't be fed.
Nonetheless, the replies are quite interesting and would provide good
information for a would-be customer.
What better way to derail a troll than turning it into a productive
discussion.
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Daverz;538658 Wrote:
I do wish the Touch were more like the Duet, with the touch component
in the remote and the transport just a box like the Duet receiver.
You could accomplish that by purchasing a SBR (the player part of the
duet) and controlling it with your Touch. With the Touch, you
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