? And are you using the
Touch's analog outputs or digital?
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Yeah, I think that getting the menu from the top bar disappeared with
7.6.x. I don't know if it was deliberate or if it's a bug.
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You mean the stricter treatment of upper/lower case in tags? You only
have to fix your tags once, and then you're done with that. Imo, even
though 7.6.0 created problems for a lot of users (fortunately it went
smoothly for me), the upgrade to 7.6.1 is worth it.
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, such as the internet.
The standard setup is to use a home network router. The computer
connects to the router, and so does the Touch. Done.
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connect to mysqueezebox.com.
There are more complicated ways to avoid the update prompts, but the
approach above is simple and works.
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psp;650857 Wrote:
Where do you go to download previous SBS versions? (I've searched for
~45 min and come up empty.)
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/
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. With that arrangement you should
be able to keep the music playing even when the router reboots,
especially if you have static IP addresses for the server and Touch, or
at least reserved DHCP addresses. It would be much easier than
configuring the computer with two network cards.
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of the WNCE2001 alone. But if you still don't want to go
that route for some reason that's certainly your choice.
And yes, by all means try it with your existing router and WLAN first.
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in the lower left hand side of the SBS web interface.
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For Touch you want the file that begins with 'fab4' and ends with
'.bin'. Which version (eg, r9408, r9471) you want is up to you,
depending on which version of SBS you're running.
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bitstopjoe;647656 Wrote:
I just copy the bin file to the root of my attached USB drive and I
don't have to reboot or power off the touch snip
That's exactly how it has worked for me, too.
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stick/card is recognized, do Settings Advanced Software Update on
the Touch's menu and see if it takes. I'm not 100% sure that this will
work, but I'm sure it won't break anything.
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answers for that particular NAS in that thread than you are here. Good
luck (and that's sincere).
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tried it said that performance is lousy. If you know your way
around Linux a bit and want to try it, search these forums for Touch
and NFS.
If you can't or don't want to leave the pc on overnight, have you
looked into letting it go into suspend or hibernate overnight?
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to come out of hibernation than it does to come out of suspend; the
downside of suspend is that the continues to draw some minimal power to
hold everything in RAM, and that might make the fan come on.
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for Windows and OSX. But if
you're not familiar with it then batch search and replace is as
automatic as it gets for fixing a situation in which you've moved the
track to a completely different place from where the playlist says it
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Yes but offering an update to a version to that below the server is not
normal, is it?
No, it's not. But I was responding to the OP, whose problem is
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the reports I'm seeing from both newbies and
experienced users, it's still only beta quality in far too many
environments.
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trying these simple steps
and/or returning it.
And please do tell what (different) device has the features you cite
and costs the same as an externally-powered USB drive or powered USB
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that ships with the
Touch? You should at least try 7.5.5, and if problems continue, try
7.6. But if you can't meet the basic suggestions already given re
powered USB drive, partitions, etc, then you are very likely going to
continue to be frustrated with it.
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Do a wipe and rescan on the Touch. That will rebuild the database,
wiping out the references to deleted tracks.
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heat :-(
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connection.
Strictly speaking, there is also WoWLAN (Wake on Wireless LAN), but as
far as I can tell that is still pretty obscure (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN).
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computer. The hard part has already been done, in that
someone has figured out how to do it and posted the instructions.
Usually it's fine if you follow instructions carefully and keep your
patience. Even so, some people end up deciding that it's over their
heads and go the pc route instead.
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may prefer the sound of
the Creatives.
Most of all, there is no substitute for actually listening to the
speakers, using music with which you are very familiar. And ideally,
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Playing is active
will cycle through the selected screensavers. One of them is the VU
meters. There may be a way to cycle through them using the IR remote,
but I forget how.
You can also customize various other VU meters with 3rd party applets.
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maybe any -- have gotten mine via bugs.slimdevices.com.
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-- including adding new files -- from any other
computer on the network.
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By changing libraries do you mean changing servers? Or changing between
SBS and mysqueezebox.com? It sounds as if one of the libraries is using
the current SBS version (7.5.4) and the other is using an outdated
version. Update the one with 7.5.1 to 7.5.4 and the Touch will be
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that's just a guess, and easy enough to test if you have the A5s and
any device with a battery that charges via USB.
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Sounds like you're connected to mysqueezebox.com instead of to SBS. As
Mnyb suggests, try choosing My Music on the Touch and then connecting
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Yes, yes, and a very big yes on the last one.
Try them all. You won't break anything.
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Also, it may not be a 2.0 vs 3.0 issue at all. Does the thumb drive
have more than one partition, say for example, a special partition that
includes some bundled software such as backup or encryption utilities?
The Touch needs to see a single partition on USB-attached drives.
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want to use the stick with the Touch.
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a playlist and
don't save it -- or try to save it but don't succeed for some reason --
then the playlist is only in active memory (ie, not written to disk)
and will get wiped out by a clear and rescan.
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else. I bet you won't see it if you browse the folder
using a regular file browser (not SBS). So it is definitely a
permissions issue.
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of SBS is to choose which genres
to include in your random mixes. For example, I usually don't want my
handful of comedy albums, holiday albums, or classical music coming up
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and if you don't see it there, make sure the associated plugin is
installed. You can check that in the web ui using Settings Plugins.
It's a Logitech plugin (not 3rd party), and I thought it was installed
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Which same Music Library File? If you mean folder, the answer is no.
The location of the database (index) varies depending on the
operating system. You can find yours by going to the SBS web ui and
selecting Settings Information and scroll down to where it says Cache
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What version of SBS are you running? The beta 7.6 has some DLNA support,
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you have that's wrong, post back here
with some details about exactly which unwanted files are creeping into
the album, and what the contents of the tags are.
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Lynxo;634863 Wrote:
I don't see why it does not save the file to the hard drive for quicker
playback.
In fact it does save the database to your hard drive.
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No time zone setting is bizarre. I thought all current Linux distros had
a time zone setting, although not all of them are very obvious. Are you
sure it isn't buried somewhere in an environment variable or timezone
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Yes, TinySBS has a max playlist size of 100 tracks. Unlike regular SBS
there is no way to alter this on TinySBS. Well, maybe you could hack
the code in TinySBS. But the 100 track limit was put in place for
performance reasons, so even if you hacked it you might not like the
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that you can also sync by using Settings Synchronize on the
Touch (and, presumably, on the player menu for the iPad).
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.
Finally, are all of the tracks in a given compilation album in the same
directory/folder? SBS counts on that to keep compilation tracks from the
same album together.
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it can be damagin. And it can't be SBS because
SBS has the ultra-safe feature of never writing _anything_ to your files
(SBS is strictly read-only).
Or there's Mr Hyde
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you re-attach the USB drive to it.
Good luck sorting out the main problem.
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, as that thread is specifically
about 7.6.0, which has a completely different scanner. Unless you're
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inactive for a while. If I connected a USB drive directly to
the Touch I would probably use spin-down mode, and leave the drive on
but sleeping when not in use.
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with genres you don't wish to
use and re-tag them. Or if you don't want to eliminate those tags, then
would browsing by genre do? If neither of those help you, you may want
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Alternative firmware? Is one of the trimmed down debian versions
available for your LS? That's what I've used when I used to run SBS on
older LSs. That could resolve both the safe mode limitation and the
outdated version problem.
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RichardLittlewood;631768 Wrote:
You're right, straight internet radio doesn't require it.
Neither do services like Soma, Pandora, etc. Pretty sure Deezer, too,
though I can't say for sure because it's not available where I am. Just
use them all via SBS running on the LinkStation.
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to that. The
software players are not as full-featured or robust as hardware
Squeezeboxes, but they are a great way of trying things out before you
buy. Or before you buy again :-)
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I haven't tried it. Does a build of TrueCrypt exist for the Touch's ARM
processor? That would be step one.
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they supply happens to leak. But it's worth a try.
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It is more important that you use a nearby server.
+1
And note that http://www.pool.ntp.org has nothing to do with the
generosity of the Debian people. ntp.org is not a Debian enterprise.
It's a public resource that is put out there to be used.
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(http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html). I'm not sure if
it works with Radio and Touch because those have fewer settings exposed
in the server, but it's worth a look (though the site appears to be
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with the correct URLs.
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off via a power strip or switched
outlet. I'd say leave it in standby. In standby it draws about 3-4w.
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server. It's a hack, but it seems
like it should work. For more info, see post #13 in this thread
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of the puzzles
about why SBS is not working for you when it really _does_ work for
most people.
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. Then the request
needs a minimum number of votes to be confirmed -- so far it has only 2
votes.
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users find the Net::UDAP too
confusing/daunting and give up. I think you shouldn't have a problem as
long as you're able to follow instructions carefully, and check here for
help in case you get stuck somewhere.
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Nothing high-end, but music anywhere I want it, and it's '100% wind
the minority like you that
rely solely on TinySBS, many probably don't use the clock function. And
the subset that does use the TinySBS + clock arrangemetn are always late
getting to where they're supposed to be.
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that shows up as having problems in your current log.
Finally, if you haven't already done so, search in the Beta forum for
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can still access your files via My Music Music Folder.
Then try to sort out the scan failures via the small test library I
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masochism.
And doing it on a ReadyNAS Duo is purely nuts.
And if your scans were working on 7.5, you may want to just go back to
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I suppose Sonos is the better solution for some people. But to be fair,
let's not overlook the fact that you were trying to run SBS on a system
that is borderline at best wrt minimum system requirements. Just
sayin'
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, but if there is it may depend on what menu path you use.
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money, but if it saves you
some time jockeying files and drives then it may be worth it. And the
drive will still be useful for something else later.
And as always, be sure you have a backup, remembering that RAID is not
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new problems. That doesn't make it right, but I
would think it would influence your expectations.
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Okay, then amend my earlier statement to naïve with a good sense of
self-deprecating humor and irony.
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, but if you haven't
tried iPeng yet you may wish to give it a try. It costs $10, but it's a
very slick piece of software.
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on your PC. You don't
need to uninstall SBS from the NAS, just change the Touch to connect to
the PC's instance of SBS instead of the NAS's. Then see if you get the
same lags and interruptions when using the iPhone when it's your PC
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setup again when switching from wifi to wired.
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Zonker92;629008 Wrote:
Gotta love intermittent problems ...
...but only sometimes
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or roll it back to whatever version you were using before the update.
See http://downloads.slimdevices.com, the same site where you'll find
the nightly builds of 7.6.0 beta.
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already with
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. And electricity consumption
can be comparable to a NAS, or even better if you employ power
management features that are standard on a PC but often missing on a
NAS. I put together a simple headless pc for under $300 -- and that was
2+ years ago, you could do much better now.
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Nothing high
Linux for my box because (a) I think *nix is a lot
better than Windows for set-and-forget server applications like SBS,
and (b) the price was right (free). Initially I was using Ubuntu Linux
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be looking at a
corner case.
I agree that losing 4 minutes in 2 weeks is a lot for an electronic
device. I am annoyed that our new kitchen range (which cost 10x the
Touch) loses 3 minutes a week. But like the Touch, I think it's great
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://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17164). I didn't see any
bug reports for Touch not routinely updating time via internet, nor any
enhancement requests for adding time and date to the settings menu.
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. Or, as nicolas75 uses it, to access
internet radio and online services going through TinySBS instead of
connecting explicitly to mysb.com.
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