pdorsey;598450 Wrote:
> Why on earth do people insist on making things complicated when there's
> a simpler solution?
That's why we're here. Albeit somewhat puzzled by exactly who are these
insistent pe
planning to end the line soon.
Looking over the longer term, however, it's easy for me to imagine
Logitech not introducing anything new in the SB line. I think the Revue
is more indicative of where their attention will be for the next few
years. But this is all pure speculation on m
mysqueezebox.com by itself will not play anything on your computer
speakers. If you want to stream it to your computer (instead of a
Squeezebox) you need to use one of the "software SB players", such as
SqueezePlay, SoftSqueeze, or squeezeslave.
m this right now, but I
think it's correct.
You may want to see about getting a Touch remote as a replacement. They
are available in many countries -- but not all -- from the Logitech web
site for about US$20 + shipping and handling.
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ew firmware without needing to press the Brightness
button. However, in either case, the SB3 wants the fw that corresponds
to whatever version of the server software it is connecting to.
To avoid switching every time, do as Mnyb says
consider
running SBS 7.5.2 on your computer when you want to listen to local
music, and then switching over to mysb.com when you want to shut the
computer down.
Note that these are only temporary measures, until whatever bugs are
plaguing you on the ReadyNAS are resolv
Which model SB?
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Sorry, I don't have a good answer for you for a Boom. The kludge answer
is to record the sound, save it as an mp3 file, put it on your server
as a Favorite, and then choose that favorite for the alarm. It will
work, but I hope someone has a better solution for you.
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Don't know. I doubt there's a magic URL you could use, but you could try
picking apart the firmware file with a hex editor or something.
It's easy on the Radio, where usually the opposite procedure is what
people want, ie, replace the fallback alarm with something bette
ustomize
which items appear on the Touch's home menu via Settings > Home menu.
Also, SBS 7.6.0 (currently alpha/beta) allows for some more
customization. I know it allows re-ordering the home menu, but I don't
remember if it also
skin,
which was designed for the ~5" screen of that handheld device.
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in the pantry (see
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=285125#post285125). I
added wall-mounted volume controls so you can adjust the volume even if
you can't find the remote. But every home is different, as are
everyone's needs, so certainly do what works best for you.
e into the list on the mysb web
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So you're already doing the best thing I could think of. Then it sounds
like your choices are (a) train your son not to delete favorites, (b)
limit your son's access to the favorites/remote/pc, or (c) hope someone
else has a better solution. Good luck!
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MusicIP and MusicBrainz are completely different things. MusicIP is now
owned by AmpliFIND Music Services. See
http://www.amplifindmusicservices.com/ (look in the downloads section
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ers.
Going up a notch or two (or three) in price and quality, I've heard
good recommendations about offerings from Tannoy, Paradigm, and B&W.
Search on these forums for "ceiling" or "in-ceiling" and you'll find
quite a f
Nick_G;604045 Wrote:
> It'd be nice to create folders directly on mysqueezebox though.
Well, you can vote for 'bug/enhancement request 8692'
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8692). It's been open for
2.5 years and I don't expect much to happen on it, but
Actually it sounds closer to 'Bug 2431'
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2431) to me.
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#4 & #5 seem to be an artifact of the particular file sharing service
you're using. I don't think changing URLs would be an issue with
ordinary web server space.
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players it shouldn't matter much.
Also note that you can use SqueezePlay both as a player on your pc, and
as an additional remote control that controls other SBs on your network.
Use the "Choose Player" setting to det
When testing I noticed that the mysb.com web remote control doesn't
seem to know how to handle the opml file in mysb Favorites. I almost
never use the mysb remote control, so it's not a big deal, but I am
curious if others are seeing the same thin
. Maybe the author of one the current plugins, such as The
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It depends on the interface you are using. Where are you looking (SBS
web ui, mysqueezebox.com "remote control", SB Controller, Touch screen,
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the hardware button on the front panel instead.
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bythecshore;604777 Wrote:
> Oh - the Squeezebox Boom.
Push the center knob, scroll to More Info. Push the center knob again,
scroll to bitrate.
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The universal way to disable the popup is to accept the update. But if
you don't want to do that, deferring the update depends on which
device/interface you're talking about.
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On the Radio, press the back (left arrow) button and hold it for about 2
seconds until it backs out. But the popup will come back. On the SB3 I'm
not sure -- is it prompting you to press the Brightness button?
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LC Crouzet Millenium XD26 smarthome system, but it does achieve the
same objective. You shutdown the SBs via the existing system, and after
X minutes the server does a clean shutdown as well.
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r to sleep after X minutes of no SB
activity. If your HP box is only running SBS this could be an
alternative solution for you. If the HP box is used for other things
then it gets a little more complicated making sure that the computer
doesn't sleep while you're doing non-SB t
a lot of people
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ter value for money multi-room audio than
the SB line. The only thing I can think of that's less expensive is the
Apple Airplay, which comes with more limitations.
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Nothing high-end, but music anywhere I want it, and it's '100% wind
powered' (http://www.cleancurren
). It runs on all platforms (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
3) with the SqueezeCommander app for Android phones. I don't know if it
works for a Galaxy tab as well, but see this page for details:
http://www.squeezecommander.com/
e that the utility requires Perl
to be installed on the computer running the utility.
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me difficult ways to do it,
such as combining them into a single file.
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In that case, if one wants to keep local favorites then backup the
favorites.opml file before uninstalling. I don't know where it resides
on WHS, but it's usually in the prefs folder. Then restore after
updating SBS.
t ads or monthly limits, but you will only get 128kbps to your
SB, as the 192kbps Pandora One streams only go to Pandora's web-based
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o ads
- Higher quality audio (192kbps only avail on Pandora's desktop app,
_not_ Squeezebox)
- More skips
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Right. That's how it works if you click on the speaker icons at either
end of the volume "LEDs". But you can still jump in steps of 10 (or
more) by clicking directly on the "LEDs" themselves.
That was 'bug/enhancement request 8763'
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com
It would be good to know where you are located, as no services are
available in all countries. Overall, other than a few internet radio
stations, very few services stream at 256kbps or higher. Maybe Spotify?
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find more information than can be
summarized here.
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'Andy has previously confirmed'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68422) that Rhapsody is
192k MP3
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$$ isn't worth the extra hassle to them.
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Then you'll need to edit your Word file to conform,
save it as an m3u file (saving as plain text, not Word doc), put it in
your playlist folder, and have SBS rescan for playlists.
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restarting
SBS.
Still need to try to isolate problems and check logs.
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Re Option 1, the ServerPowerControl plugin makes this extra easy -- you
can set it to switch selected players (eg, the ones the kids use) to
mysb.com and suspend/hibernate/shutdown the server after X minutes no
activity from SBs.
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you can't use it at a wired location even temporarily while you diagnose
the problem.
Until you can determine whether it's wifi or something else you'll just
be shooting in the dark.
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GeeJay;612574 Wrote:
> Any luck figuring this one out? I've been having recurring issues with
> this as well.
It hasn't recurred lately (knock wood).
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jimzak;614252 Wrote:
> Perhaps Apple can lure a few young folks away from white earbuds to
> audiophile equipment. I see that as a good thing.
Me too, but I'm a bit puzzled by the leap to 24-bit. I mean, does
iTunes store even offer anything lossless yet, even in 16-bit?
always be running the latest official release of SBS.
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way you want. It is easy to construct such tags using mp3tag. So,
for example, your ALBUMSORT tag would be composed of
ARTIST + YEAR + MONTH + ALBUM
or if you are already using ARTISTSORT to deal with (lastname,
firstname) sorting, it would be
ARTISTSORT + YEAR + MONTH + ALBUM
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pec for under $300. Requiring a separate drive for the OS
(which no average-Joe computer user does anyway) restricts the choices
slightly, but it can still be done. Shuttle, MSI and other brands have
some good offerings in this part of the market (
c stored on the drive (ie,
what is the directory structure), and (2) what specifically do you mean
by "sort" by lossless/lossy?
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I haven't been following 7.6 closely, but 'this thread'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85896) deals with
MusicIP, among other things.
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Yes, my mistake. Thanks for the correction.
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complicated, the interfaces and issues vary from one country
to another.
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names is if you browse "Music Folder" -- other than that the
sort order you see in Windows is completely irrelevant to SBS.
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The only other option is the mini-remote that comes with the Boom, and
is also sold with the Radio battery accessory pack.
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>From the web page it looks slightly different from my Touch remote. And
it also appears to say "Transporter" on the bottom. It's surprising
they would do a run for that? Is it real, or is it Photoshop?
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/speakers-audio/wireless-music-systems/devices
., 10,
11, 12 then a strict sorting based on the characters is 1, 10, 11, 12,
2, 3, . But if your tags are correct it won't matter (except for
Browse Music Folder).
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new router could be in
"G only" mode, or using WPA encryption, or some other configuration
that's incompatible with SB1. If that's the situation you'll need
either to connect the SB1 via ethernet, or change the router settings.
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able to see your entire library in either
program, be able to tell lossless/lossy and bit-depth, etc. without
memorizing anything.
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a Samba server for network file sharing.
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to add tracknumbers to the filenames IF you have the track number tags
in the files. Use a good tagging tool like mp3tag (freeware from
www.mp3tag.de) and you can rename 1000s of tracks to add the
tracknumber to the beginning in abou
epoch1970;616245 Wrote:
> For me, I wouldn't get a remote without the brightness button.
Except they are increasingly hard to find. Do any of the current IR
remotes have a brightness button?
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I can't speak for everybody's success with Moose, but it works for me,
and considering that it interacts with SBS exclusively through the
command-line interface it's really hard to see how it could be the
source of the stuttering unless you hav
xilinx is a chip that is in your SB3. To reset it, unplug your
Squuezebox, press and hold "1" on the remote control, then plug the SB
back in while holding down the "1" button.
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player you want to control. If you like, you can put "Choose Player" on
your Squeezeplay "home menu" via Settings > Home Menu.
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sorted the way it is now as 'Hendrix', as that seems like the natural
place to me (note albumartist precedence over artist), but if you
really want it under 'T' or 'J' or even 'E' yo
first glance you may not see the various sort tags in
mp3tag. You need to use the function to view extended tags, or customize
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le in the same folder as convert.conf. But I have no idea what
those "appropriate entries" should be in your case.
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27;t transcode. But it will play MP3 natively.
Since you refer to the MP3s you have, what would you transcode them to?
The more common situation is users in limited bandwidth environments
having the server transcode from lossless to MP3 (see 'bitrate
limiting', which i
iguring
it out you may find that an easier solution is to use a hardware SB.
Your present SBs are just crying out for a new brother or sister....
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Phil Leigh;618366 Wrote:
> why do you need both? - doesn't Moose on its own work?
Does Moose have a player?
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card in the Radio's very
customized Linux environment. But the Radio can benefit from the N
router/AP even while operating as a G device.
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That's right. If they are different streams, then you need one SB for
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that is only on mysb? If so, is it the same as 7.5.4?
Fyi, the fw of these players when on SBS is 133; I haven't looked to
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initely still lend some appeal to the free Amazon solution.
Not "like" but WOL, but WOL, pure and simple. And there's no setting,
other than the power button on the Boom (or the Boom's remote). When
the Boom (or other SB) powers on it sends a WOL "magic packet"
spooley;621858 Wrote:
> Can you confirm that you can use the analog and digital outputs from one
> SB at the same time (for the same stream).
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Agreed it would be sheer madness to put one's only copy of something in
Amazon's storage or any similar service. But I can't imagine people
uploading everything to the cloud and then proceeding to delete all
those files from their hard drive
Hold down the left arrow button for about 5 seconds until it takes you
into the setup menu. From the setup menu you should set it to
automatically update firmware. After that firmware updates should just
happen, and you won't need the Brightness button.
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I'm pretty sure you need triode's Spotify plugin to play Spotify on an
SB3/Classic. That means you also need to be running Squeezebox Server
on your computer or NAS. Check the 3rd Party Plugins forum for more
info.
though I'm not getting it on the Boom. Not sure about my other SB2 (in
a closet installation) or SB3 (son's room).
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andyg;622934 Wrote:
> This is fixed in 7.5.4.
Hmm, mine was definitely flickering last night. It wasn't as frequently
as every minute, but several times over an hour. The SB2 was "off"
(standby), with a blank screen as the screensaver. This was with 7.5.4
and fw
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