Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie with Questions for the Experts

2011-02-21 Thread alexlark
I've noticed that the SB Touch can be a bit fussy with the WIFI signal. My signal was dropping to abot 30-40% and playback was getting interupted (no other devices using WIFI). I set up another router in the same room as the Touch, configured as an access point and wired into the main router. My

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Instructions for connecting USB DAC to Touch

2011-02-21 Thread OGS
hirestech;612262 Wrote: Today, I did some testing with all three current models of Music Streamer and the Touch. So far, with current firmware in the Streamers, they all (Music Streamer II, Music Streamer II+ Music Streamer Pro) seem to work just fine. I will do some more work over

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Multi CD sets tagging help

2011-02-21 Thread alexlark
garym;612557 Wrote: 3. Select just disk 1 files, right click and choose extended tags, second icon from top on left panel is edit field. Select Disk or disknumber and edit field icon. Change value to 1, or 2, or whatever. (if disknumber field doesn't exist, one of the other icons is add

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Multi CD sets tagging help

2011-02-21 Thread JJZolx
alexlark;612739 Wrote: For a twin CD, for example, do you number the discs 1 and 2 or 1/2 and 2/2 ? I use the latter and could not get it to work correctly until I added an extended tag called COMPILATION and set its value to 1. I did this for all my multi disc sets and it worked. Just

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Multi CD sets tagging help

2011-02-21 Thread Phil Leigh
JJZolx;612745 Wrote: I would not use 1/2, 2/2. Set DISC or DISCNUMBER to 1, 2, etc. For multidisc COMPILATIONS you must set COMPILATION=1. That's just a small bug of Squeezebox Server. +1, but as Jim says you only set the COMPILATION tag to 1 on actual compilations/multi-artist sets, not

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please

2011-02-21 Thread DaveKen
garym;612690 Wrote: You gotta love Tschaikovsky and Chuck Berry in the same list...Roll over Beethoven! Not sure about the error, but it appears there are no actual scanning errors, so you probably do have all your music now scanned properly. I note the foobar in the directory. Do you also

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please

2011-02-21 Thread garym
DaveKen;612767 Wrote: Hi Gary, Yep, it's fair to say that I've got eclectic tastes in music but you won't find much post 70s pop in there!! And Yep, there is a fairly close tie-up between foobar and SBS totals, but not exact. At this point I am again about to expose my numptieness. I know

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Multi CD sets tagging help

2011-02-21 Thread garym
alexlark;612739 Wrote: For a twin CD, for example, do you number the discs 1 and 2 or 1/2 and 2/2 ? I use the latter and could not get it to work correctly until I added an extended tag called COMPILATION and set its value to 1. I did this for all my multi disc sets and it worked. Just

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie with Questions for the Experts

2011-02-21 Thread Mnyb
alexlark;612736 Wrote: I've noticed that the SB Touch can be a bit fussy with the WIFI signal. My signal was dropping to abot 30-40% and playback was getting interupted (no other devices using WIFI). I set up another router in the same room as the Touch, configured as an access point and

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please

2011-02-21 Thread toby10
IP conflicts can be very intermittent but also very troublesome to your networked devices. This must be fixed to have a reliable network. -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My Album Art went poof!

2011-02-21 Thread rktdi
kidstypike;612658 Wrote: I think I see the problem. I've just downloaded the file using Internet Explorer, and I get a .zip file, it should be a .bin file. Do you know how to change the file extension from .zip to .bin ? Or you could try downloading the file using another browser, I've

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My Album Art went poof!

2011-02-21 Thread rktdi
rktdi;612787 Wrote: haha fantastic - I downloaded the file via my Opera browser instead - before i got a .zip file that unpacked into a new folder, with 4 subfolders. With Opera I got a .bin file - and my Touch is updating nicely now :-) i hope 7.6 is an improvement.. THANKS FOR ALL

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please

2011-02-21 Thread Phil Leigh
What do your iPhones connect wirelessly to? If you don't resolve your IP conflicts, you are in for a world of pain. On each PC you have, open a command prompt (run - cmd) and type ipconfig... this will tell you how each machine is configured. Each machine needs its own unique IP address, the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Haven't had this much fun since . . .

2011-02-21 Thread magiccarpetride
Phil Leigh;612226 Wrote: These folks are almost certainly one diskette short of a full install... You mean floppy? -- magiccarpetride magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Instructions for connecting USB DAC to Touch

2011-02-21 Thread rblnr
Sorry if this is already covered: are the instructions on the original post still current? Anything else I should know about doing this hack? I'm computer literate but not programming adept. Planning on using my modified SB w/an asynchronous USB to S/PDIF converter into a Berkeley DAC. thx

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please

2011-02-21 Thread DaveKen
garym;612774 Wrote: Do you have a SINGLE router? How does the internet get to your house? Cable? DSL. And do you have, for example, cable modem feeding a SINGLE router. If you are getting IP conflicts, it may be because you have more than one router on your network handing out IP

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please

2011-02-21 Thread asdti
Just wanted to second Toby10's comment, so forgive me if you already know this. Most routers 'out of the box' dynamically allocate IPs to devices as they attach. But that isn't the way it has to be. In your router's setup pages you'll have a way to allocate each device an IP. That is REALLY

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Any Hardware/Memory Diagnostics available?

2011-02-21 Thread steve781
I'm still being plagued by this issue. It happened again last night when I attempted to change from one favorite to another. The slimserver process was running at 80% again, so it is definitely some kind of hang. I need to determine if it is a hardware problem or a bug in the latest Touch server.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please

2011-02-21 Thread garym
based on what you said, you have a single ROUTER attached to your modem, and the router is handing out IP addresses via DHCP. This is ok. (I do prefer to setup all my nonportable items with a fixed IP address, but we can save that for later if needed). So it sounds like you now need to get your

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please

2011-02-21 Thread DaveKen
garym;612875 Wrote: based on what you said, you have a single ROUTER attached to your modem, and the router is handing out IP addresses via DHCP. This is ok. (I do prefer to setup all my nonportable items with a fixed IP address, but we can save that for later if needed). So it sounds

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please

2011-02-21 Thread garym
DaveKen;612890 Wrote: Hi Gary, ATM I have a Netgear 834G Modem Router as the first 'stop' on my incoming ADSL path. As you may know this has both wired and wireless capability. I have 3 x Cat 5e cable connections going to various rooms in the house and one Cat 5e cable going into the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Instructions for connecting USB DAC to Touch

2011-02-21 Thread JohnSwenson
johann;612553 Wrote: The contents of my /etc/asound.conf is: # more /etc/asound.conf pcm.usbdac { type hw; card DAC; } pcm.plugusb { type plug; slave.pcm usbdac; } ctl.plugusb { type hw; card DAC; } pcm.!default plugusb Cheers Johan Try using card 1, frequently there are

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Print List of all my Albums?

2011-02-21 Thread souwalker
Mnyb;612715 Wrote: album view on iPeng on my iPad . And i use random regurlarly. I also use random song as an alarm with my boom, this could induce heart attacks but it is always a surprise. Or use album catalog creator 3, never used it but it has been around the forum a while

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please

2011-02-21 Thread DaveKen
garym;612891 Wrote: OK. All good. .. ...before you do the factory reset, see if there is a menu item in TOUCH. SETTINGS ADVANCED NETWORKING (maybe here you can switch to ethernet) Hi Gary, The above is exactly how I have been trying (and failing) to get the ethernet connection. FWIW

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Instructions for connecting USB DAC to Touch

2011-02-21 Thread johann
JohnSwenson;612898 Wrote: Try using card 1, frequently there are problems using the names. T file you have is using the plug interface, this should work no matter what, but at least with several async interfaces it causes ticks and pops. At least with the HRT music streamers I had to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Suddenly, no music from Touch

2011-02-21 Thread guidof
ralphpnj;612616 Wrote: Next time this happens (which I hope is never) try just turning the Touch on and off, if you haven't tried that already. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the suggestion. Guido F. -- guidof *Front End*: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge; Cambridge

[SlimDevices: Touch] Stream won't play: rtsp://129.65.35.106:8000/stream.sdp

2011-02-21 Thread thomasharris
Hi all, Trying to play this radio station stream from a local radio station- but they warn on their site that not all players can play the stream as it's AAC/MP4, presumably better fidelity. The three options they give is a QuickTime QTL stream, a RealPlayer RAM stream and the above. No luck so

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Any Hardware/Memory Diagnostics available?

2011-02-21 Thread steve781
It just happened again. This time I just powered up a SB Radio and then tried to play a stream directly on the Touch. Here's a snippet of the log at the time of the hang. Any idea how I can get this in front of the right person who can decode the entries? Is there enough here to file a bug? Feb

[SlimDevices: Touch] Further Dim Display on 'When Off' Screensaver

2011-02-21 Thread smithkyle1992
Hi Guys, I'm trying to work out if there is a way to set the screensaver to be minimum brightness when on the 'off' screensaver however have a different minimum brightness whilst is been used? -- smithkyle1992