Re: [slim] Thread on Sonos board
I regularly sync 7 SBRs playing flacs. It works great but my units are all connected via Ethernet. Running only wirelessly you might run into issues when adding more and more players. I used to have SB1s in the mix but they caused sync problems so I got rid of them. -- ptrainer ptrainer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65086 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New "Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch" spotted !!
Sike;436921 Wrote: > Been there, done that. > > What I was saying is: If it will be availible in 3 weeks, why not tell > us about it so we have something to look forward to. > > The Duet was announced about 5 months before it was readily > availible... It was more like 2 months for the Duet (January to March, 2008). Maybe it wasn't "readily available" where you are until later, but obviously they're going to announce it before the *first* ones are available. The early announcement coincided with CES 2008. Since they seem willing to bend the rule about early announcements for cases like that, are there any big consumer electronics shows coming up soon on the calendar? -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64706 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New "Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch" spotted !!
aubuti;436931 Wrote: > It was more like 2 months for the Duet (January to March, 2008). Maybe > it wasn't "readily available" where you are until later, Ok.. I might of just felt like 5 months.. but it was more than 2 months in switzerland.. very frustrating if you think that Slim is now a Swiss company :) -- Sike Sike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2458 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64706 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New "Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch" spotted !!
Pale Blue Ego;436735 Wrote: > Maybe it's set up so any USB drives plugged in are immediately added to > the database? That wouldn't work too well if, for instance, a friend > drops by and hooks up his 1TB hard drive to play a few songs. So when > he leaves, the database contains 50,000 tracks which are no longer > present? > > So maybe SqueezeCenter creates a separate database containing just the > songs on the external drive, and then wipes it after the drive is > removed. That seems more realistic to me, I was asking as I read 'this post' (http://www.avforums.com/forums/streamers-network-music-players/1021607-avforums-squeezebox-touch-discussion-thread.html#post9810312) on another forum -- dave77 dave77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=26269 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64706 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New "Logitech MM STREAM Squeezebox Touch" spotted !!
Pale Blue Ego;436735 Wrote: > Maybe it's set up so any USB drives plugged in are immediately added to > the database? That wouldn't work too well if, for instance, a friend > drops by and hooks up his 1TB hard drive to play a few songs. So when > he leaves, the database contains 50,000 tracks which are no longer > present? > > So maybe SqueezeCenter creates a separate database containing just the > songs on the external drive, and then wipes it after the drive is > removed. That's something I've seen discussed on the developer forums, and as far as I can remember, the idea was to use a database per musical folder (given multiple music folders would be supported, and a USB device would be considered as one musical folder). The question at the time was where the associated sqlite db files should reside, either at the root of the musical folder, or in another (SC) folder. Some people argued it would be nice to store the db files on the root of the folder, since the db could then be moved with a removable device, but others argued their musical folder was read-only and they intended to keep it that way. -- sebp System : Mac Mini for ripping to FLAC (XLD) > SqueezeCenter 7.3 running on a ReadyNAS NV+ Living room : Transporter > NuForce IA-7 v2 > KEF iQ9 Bedroom : Squeezebox 3 > Beresford DAC > NAD C315BEE > KEF iQ3 Kitchen : SB Receiver > Trends Audio TA10.1 > Celestion F10 Bathroom : SB Boom 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/sebp) sebp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11768 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64706 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] limiting the number of tracks to play from a playlist
I have been trying to set up a playlist to use as an alarm. What I'd like to do is play one or two random tracks from a playlist then switch to a radio station for the news. I've managed to make a playlist that will play a specified track, then the radio station (which is saved as a favourite), but I need to add the track to the playlist in advance and I'd like to start the day with a bit of a surprise. I've also made a dynamic playlist which plays random tracks from a playlist, but the only way I've found to switch to the radio is to have it set as another alarm ten minutes later. I'd rather not do this because it means that the music will stop in the middle of a track (I know I can switch by pressing a button, but I'd rather not have to move and if I like the music that's playing, I might not switch over!). I've got a suspicion that the answer might lie in limiting the number of tracks in the dynamic playlist to one or two, but I'm not sure how to do this. Any ideas? Neil -- NeilT NeilT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=24306 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65109 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thread on Sonos board
my 2 cents...I don't own Sonos but my friend does...money wasn't an issue. The main issue that kept me away from purchasing a Sonos is the luck of features and especially the ability to create clever mixes (see MusicIP or Genius). Having said that, there have been times that I wanted to throw my SC system out of the window and I will admit that there have been many occasions when I was so close in going to Sonos...If they supported MusicIP or Genius or something similar I would be very tempted. You are right it's all about Music in the end, but sometimes the frustration can take the best out of me. -- panos_k75 panos_k75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18149 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65086 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] limiting the number of tracks to play from a playlist
How about two alarms - 1st alarm with playlist and 2nd a few minutes later with news. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65109 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running SC on $100 Linux Wall Wart
If you follow this thread in the 3rd party hardware section, you can see that people are working on this, don't be confused about the Pogoplug/Sheevaplug name confusion, they are nearly identical and runs the same sw. Slim devices Pogoplug thread : http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62273 Openplug Squeezecenter thread : http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=415130473b221af0a7a8e92a2e077cee&topic=446.0 Very interrested in this device myself, but I have not got hold on one yet. -- bebop Regards Bebop SC 7.3.3 on Ubuntu 8.02, Duet SBC&SBR + Boom1 + Boom2 bebop's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17061 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60617 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Driver to stream PC output to Squeezebox?
bpa;436697 Wrote: > Linux is straightforward using Pulse. Do you have documentation on that? -- citoyen citoyen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running SC on $100 Linux Wall Wart
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.4 The squeezecenter+perl-armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi file will run on the Sheevaplug. This is a stripped-down version of SC though, and does not include the web UI, some transcoders, etc. We are working on fixing that. This also includes our optimized build of Perl 5.10, you will need to run SC using that version of Perl, not any other version of Perl already installed. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60617 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thread on Sonos board
> pippin writes: > AAC and higher bitrate flac causes trouble with more than two since my > server has to transcode then and runs into the limit of it's capacity Is the server transcoding independently for each synced player? That seems like a bug.. greg ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Driver to stream PC output to Squeezebox?
You need the basic plugin WaveInput for Linux ( see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49584 ) There are a number of discussion about using Pulse with WaveInput. A search of the forum will find them but you could start looking at post #35 onward in the above thread. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Driver to stream PC output to Squeezebox?
Thanks! I didn't know that plugin worked with Pulse Audio. -- citoyen citoyen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65080 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running SC on $100 Linux Wall Wart
Thanks for the links guys. Looks like I might wait a bit longer until the setup/installation is a bit more mapped out or "plug 'n play". I'm no developer or expert with command lines ;-) In happier news, my Transporter arrives Friday :D -- SamS SamS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60617 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Running SC on $100 Linux Wall Wart
SamS;437043 Wrote: > Thanks for the links guys. Looks like I might wait a bit longer until > the setup/installation is a bit more mapped out or "plug 'n play". I'm > no developer or expert with command lines ;-) > > In happier news, my Transporter arrives Friday :D Same here. What I think I see so far are the all the parts w/o any instruction manual. Having a Pogoplug I can get into the little guy and see what's installed and the general lay of the land. And there seems to be a different packaging structure, at least it's not deb, based on what I find at the Openpogo repo site http://openpogo.com/repo/ And I've got no breadcrumbs to lay down in case I get lost and really screw things up. The folks at Pogoplug haven't provided a "factory reset". So, I supposed I'll await docs before I try anything. p.s. if anyone's got a good scheme to launch pogoplugfs on Linux after a wireless connection happens, let me know. I figure there must be something in Linux that flags a successful connection so I can use cron or something else to make the process as automagic as Windoze. -- sjschaff sjschaff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20566 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60617 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst
jo-wie;436692 Wrote: > It's not very common to have a Domain Name Server in a home network > installation. Your provider DNS do not know the local names. > > It's possible that your systems support resolving host names by using > Microsoft NetBios protocol, but that's not supported by every system. Possibly, but my firewall ZoneAlarm talks about "DNS" Lookup when you put computers into the trusted zone. It can lookup my 2nd pc bunt NOT the SqueezeBox. So why does the SqueezeBox not work like other PC's or Macs. Note that my brother inlaw has a Belkin router that displays the name of his laptop. This implies that the router is operating a local DNS. My router does the same thing. Where software requires hardcoded DNS server entries, the router DNS is used. The router knows about my ISP's DNS settings. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Thread on Sonos board
gregklanderman;437034 Wrote: > > pippin forums.slimdevices.com> writes: > > > AAC and higher bitrate flac causes trouble with more than two since > my > > server has to transcode then and runs into the limit of it's > capacity > > Is the server transcoding independently for each synced player? > That seems like a bug.. > > greg Not sure. But I see it's having trouble streaming 96/24 material to the transporter and at the same time sending transcoded 48/24 to other players. May well be a server bandwidth issue, as I said, it's not really powerful. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65086 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst
Declan Moriarty;437084 Wrote: > Note that my brother inlaw has a Belkin router that displays the name of > his laptop. This implies that the router is operating a local DNS. > Those names are typically taken from the hostname field in the DHCP handshake. SBs populate that field with the player name (at least, all mine do). I've never seen a consumer router with a local DNS server (as opposed to a proxy), but they might exist. -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Controlling Squeezecentre with a Nokia phone
Hi There, same again nokia 5800 but will not let me connect to server enter my ip example http://192.168.0.5:9000/handheld/ and also tried nokia 770 but keeps on coming with no gateway reply. I have had this working on both my PSP & XDA Orbit but can not seem to get it working on my Nokia please help what am i doing wrong. Thanks -- brijus123 brijus123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18304 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59033 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] PDA controller solution
Downloaded SlimControl last night and I'm very impressed - running on an old T-Mobile MDA with 3000+ artists and the speed is exceptional. Have only played around it for an hour or so far but have a few suggestions before I forget them: 1. A shuffle button (next to the repeat button) on the playlist screen would be nice. Can I shuffle from elsewhere at the moment? 2. The three buttons for adding/inserting etc. to the playlist are intuitive I thought and are perfectly good. 3. It would be nice if that after the very first time I select an artist it doesn't go off and fetch all 3000+ album details straight away, but recognises this is the first time I'd seleced an artist since loading so just goes and fetches the album details for that artist. Maybe go and get the rest of the album details after the software recognises I haven't touched it for a couple of minutes? 4. Love the touch scrolling, but like others I'm accidentally select songs etc. quite regularly. Is it possible to invisibly split the screen in half vertically, and have the left hand side for selecting and the right hand side for scrolling (with selecting disabled on the scrolling side). Otherwise superb - love it! Cheers, Paul -- mertles mertles's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62486 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] PDA controller solution
mertles;437227 Wrote: > > 1. A shuffle button (next to the repeat button) on the playlist screen > would be nice. Can I shuffle from elsewhere at the moment? > Hey mertles The shuffle button is implemented in version 0.96 which is coming up. I need some beta testers actually. > > 2. The three buttons for adding/inserting etc. to the playlist are > intuitive I thought and are perfectly good. > Good, I was hoping people would find them intuitive. > > 3. It would be nice if that after the very first time I select an > artist it doesn't go off and fetch all 3000+ album details straight > away, but recognises this is the first time I'd seleced an artist since > loading so just goes and fetches the album details for that artist. > Maybe go and get the rest of the album details after the software > recognises I haven't touched it for a couple of minutes? > Yeah, you're right. I will try and have Slimcontrol skip the complete loading, when you select albums of a particular artist. (or artists for a particular genre) BTW, v.0.96 caches all that album, artist, genre information. > > 4. Love the touch scrolling, but like others I'm accidentally select > songs etc. quite regularly. Is it possible to invisibly split the screen > in half vertically, and have the left hand side for selecting and the > right hand side for scrolling (with selecting disabled on the scrolling > side). > Good idea, I'll consider it. -- Locuth Use your PDA as SqueezeBox remote -- http://www.sciatec.de/SlimControl Locuth's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29693 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62486 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst
pfarrell;436776 Wrote: > rfreedman wrote: > > This is known as "Static DHCP", and I can confirm that it works > quite > > well in this situation. > > I do this on all the things in my house. All my laptops, squeezeboxes, > > transporter, etc. I do leave normal DHCP available for an occasional > guest who brings their own laptop. > > I highly recommend it. > > pat > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/ Same thing I do. Works great. I'm not sure all routers have the option to use mac address reserved addressing. Some you may have to go all fixed addresses. I like have the option for guests or new devices to test before adding them to the reserved list. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst
Declan Moriarty;436678 Wrote: > One problem why dynamic IP Addresses can possibly be difficult using the > SqueezeBox products is that SqueezeBox doesn't use DNS! I have 2 PC's. > Both have different computer names. I refer to them using the names not > the IP Addresses. My firewall uses the name of my 2nd PC NOT its IP > address. The squeezeBox uses the IP Address since it dowsn't appear to > have a DNS entry! There is a player name in SqueezeCenter but this is > only in SqueezeCenter and not the DNS! Considering people have > connectivity issues with Duets/Controllers this seems to be a major > design oversight. > > No wonder people are using static IP's - they have no choice! This isn't correct. The SB device name is defined inside Squeezecenter, not in the SB device itself. Therefore, when the player first asks for an IP address from the DHCP server (within the router or elsewhere), it has no name yet, only a numeric MAC address - so the assigned - via DHCP - IP address is what displays in the router DHCP table initially. You will see the player name in the router DHCP table if the lease renews or reconnection occurs (because now the machine name is known amd passed in the DHCP request from SB device to router). Machine/device names are always optional for this very reason. It is the MAC address that defines physical uniqueness for IP assignment in the first instance. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
