Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-17 Thread pierrepfeffer
Mnyb wrote: Note the Touch can't play alac natively for rates 16/44.1 But the server can , so you have to let LMS transcode ( and be running LMS on a machine with working transcoding ) So if using touch with analog out - no dac involved - what server setting gets me beyond 16/44.1 when

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-17 Thread Mnyb
pierrepfeffer wrote: So if using touch with analog out - no dac involved - what server setting gets me beyond 16/44.1 when playing a 24/96 alac file through the touch? Does that server setting then need to be changed in order to play alac 24/192 files using EDO and DAC? Disable the native

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Annoying 'dropouts' using SBT with USB hard drive

2014-01-17 Thread toby10
Fizbin wrote: Try WAV files. No converting = less processing.. There is no processing/transcoding when using Touch's TinyLMS, Touch isn't capable of it. toby10's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] LMS can't see Touch, until connection with ethernet cable..........

2014-01-17 Thread toby10
Sure Touch is connecting to the correct WiFi router? Any other networks/routers showing up with same name? toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] LMS can't see Touch, until connection with ethernet cable..........

2014-01-17 Thread jimbobvfr400
Have you tried restarting the router? I get occasional issues like this, not just with the Squeezebox but other devices as well, almost without fail a router restart will fix it. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Annoying 'dropouts' using SBT with USB hard drive

2014-01-17 Thread bpa
Fizbin wrote: Try WAV files. No converting = less processing. (Obviously a space-hogging format, but try it nonetheless) With network connection playing WAV files on SBT has been measured to have a higher processing load than playing Flac due to more than double the amount of data to be

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Annoying 'dropouts' using SBT with USB hard drive

2014-01-17 Thread SqueezeboxAbe
Thank you very much for your responses. Let me take up the various points: 1. Just for information, the scanning time for the disk is in the 10-15 minute range if I have simply added a few CDs or if the system has been powered down for another reason. If I erase the database and start afresh,

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] LMS can't see Touch, until connection with ethernet cable..........

2014-01-17 Thread Cut-Throat
jimbobvfr400 wrote: Have you tried restarting the router? I get occasional issues like this, not just with the Squeezebox but other devices as well, almost without fail a router restart will fix it. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk Good Idea !! . This will probably fix it! I'll

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-17 Thread warpeon
I am currently using devialet 110 (xmos USB chip). When I plugged in the dac, squeezebox recognizes it. But when I select the xmos USB, squeezebox gone into an infinite reboot loop. I have tried every kernel, is there something I could do?

[SlimDevices: Touch] 3rd Party Plugins Vanished from LMS Control Panel Settings ?

2014-01-17 Thread adamg
Can anyone help me resolve the disappearance of the 3rd Party Plugins from my control panel. I have just changed servers / computers (moving from wireless to ethernet). This resulted in the Triode Spotify applet disappearing from the device and the official plugin reappearing after I swapped

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 3rd Party Plugins Vanished from LMS Control Panel Settings ?

2014-01-17 Thread garym
adamg wrote: Can anyone help me resolve the disappearance of the 3rd Party Plugins from my control panel. I have just changed servers / computers (moving from wireless to ethernet). This resulted in the Triode Spotify applet disappearing from the device and the official plugin reappearing

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 3rd Party Plugins Vanished from LMS Control Panel Settings ?

2014-01-17 Thread adamg
garym wrote: have you ticked the box in LMS SETTINGS PLUGINS, show all 3rd party plugins? Also, note that triode's spotify plugin is at the top of the list rather than under spotify alphebetically That option is missing too ? Not a word of 3rd Party plugins on the page ?

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 3rd Party Plugins Vanished from LMS Control Panel Settings ?

2014-01-17 Thread garym
adamg wrote: That option is missing too ? Not a word of 3rd Party plugins on the page ? I'd probably turn everything off (computer running LMS and router), then restart router, let start, restart computer, let fully start, then start LMS. If LMS starts automatically with computer, I'd

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] LMS can't see Touch, until connection with ethernet cable..........

2014-01-17 Thread Cut-Throat
Well, this morning when I turned on my Laptop, LMS was not finding my SB Touch. This time I reset the router, and upon startup I got a message from windows that there was an IP address conflict. So, I restarted the Touch and my Laptop. No IP address conflict, but I still could not see my Touch

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-17 Thread pierrepfeffer
PasTim and Mnyb, thank you for your input. I was unable to get the dac to play (register) anything beyond 96 sample rate while playing 192 sampler rate alac files no matter what combination of server settings I chose. I shouldn't be too surprised given Triode's disclaimer.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-17 Thread PasTim
pierrepfeffer wrote: PasTim and Mnyb, thank you for your input. I was unable to get the dac to play (register) anything beyond 96 sample rate while playing 192 sample rate alac files no matter what combination of server settings I chose. I shouldn't be too surprised given Triode's

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-17 Thread pierrepfeffer
PasTim wrote: On my system, streaming only PCM (from my FLACs, but could just as well be your ALACs, streamed as FLAC or PCM), I can play 24/192 tracks via coax from the Touch. However, with my DAC I cannot use optical or USB at this quality level. What output are you using from the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-17 Thread Mnyb
pierrepfeffer wrote: It is a dacmagic 100 (on the approved list). I tried both optical and USB without work around. Optical simply did not register any signal with 192 files, and USB registered 96. Edit: Dacmagic supports to 192. Try the coax ! Opto does not always support 96k . Did

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Annoying 'dropouts' using SBT with USB hard drive

2014-01-17 Thread Fizbin
toby10 wrote: There is no processing/transcoding when using Touch's TinyLMS, Touch isn't capable of it. Interesting. I'll have to try FLAC then. :) I'll report back later on my findings. (Sound quality, etc) Fizbin's

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2014-01-17 Thread pierrepfeffer
Mnyb wrote: Try the coax ! Opto does not always support 96k . Wondered about that. Will purchase one today and try this evening. Did you try with flac ? No. Will convert a couple 192 alac files to test this evening. With transcoding on the server the source format should not really be an

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Annoying 'dropouts' using SBT with USB hard drive

2014-01-17 Thread Fizbin
My issue is that with every firmware version after 7.7.1 (and including the latest 7.8.0), I missed this part when I first read your post. So with 7.7.1, you have no dropouts. Interesting. I have never tried firmware beyond 7.7.1. I was thinking about trying something below 7.8 (7.8 requires

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Goodbye!

2014-01-17 Thread Cut-Throat
gw43 wrote: After so much hassle over the years with the software, drop-outs (even using ethernet), Spotify implementation being a nightmare I took the plunge and sold my Touch and got a Sonos. I actually got more on eBay for the Touch than I paid, and the Sonos seems so much more