Re: [slim] hung up on Connecting in China
Quick update - my old SB3 mysteriously started connecting to SqueezeNetwork both directly and via the server software about a week ago. Have no idea why after almost 3 months it came alive, but I'm not questioning it. Also the network seems more stable on my Boom as well. Maybe someone at Squeeze tunneled under the Great Fire Wall here? -- robchel robchel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69745 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] redirect pc audio stream to play on squeezebox
Dear All, i control my squeezebox in the living room more often from my laptop and the www interface then using the duet's remote control (i'm working at the laptop often). The music then plays over my home stereo set. Now and then i play something from the web (e.g. YouTube) and then the sound is very low quality coming from my laptop speakers. Is it possible to "redirect" the audio stream such that it will be played by the squeezebox? Would that be possible somehow? I'm using Linux Ubuntu. Regards Rein -- rvdb rvdb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71885 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] redirect pc audio stream to play on squeezebox
Hi, Wave Input Plugin http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezeCenter_Repositories -- vasik vasik's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21285 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71885 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] redirect pc audio stream to play on squeezebox
However the wavinput plugin isn't very useful for playing audio from YouTube, as there will be second or so delay between the picture and the audio, thanks to buffering. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! andynormancx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17417 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71885 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Duet: CNET's Best digital audio streaming system less than $500
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-home-audio-devices/?tag=TOCmoreStories.0 -- jimzak http://zzzone.net http://have-a-nice-day.org http://www.last.fm/user/zzzoneDOTnet Rip: dBpoweramp Server: SBS 7.4.1 on dedicated Atom-based machine running Windows XP SP3 Music: 2 Booms, 1 Radio, 1 Duet, 1 extra controller jimzak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71887 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Policies are getting interesting.. What Next?
At one time the Slim Devices group concentrated on being the most effective route to play a digital music library connection. I am a little worried with recent developments. The third party developers seem restless, issues of support and commitment from Logitech management - some seem to be giving up there involvement. As a music player it was Erland who got effective random plying to work, Triode to get Alien BBC and Pippin to create the best remote control (IMHO). Server Power Control from GHarris addressed the Server power issue most comprehensively. We used to have a party mode (albeit declared as beta). Now in the Duet forum it is declared DEAD by the QA function in Logitech and the thread is CLOSED. No debate. Instead we get apps with Flicker and Facebook. Where is the focus, is this product suite for playing music effectively or is it a lifestyle system? If the latter when can we expect the video squeezebox or the camera controller! I understand it must be difficult for Logitech to handle this type of forum environment, but it exists, it is part of what they bought, and it handles most of the usage cases where incomplete documentation leads to confusion by users. In the past it also, through the eager development community, it made useful music related features available and supported to the whole user community. Where are we going? Is it time to reconsider investments in streaming products. Dave -- DaveWr DaveWr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71888 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] HowTo- Install SqueezeSlave as a Windows Service
The goto start restarts squeezeslave if it exits or crashes. The sleep 10 just waits 10 seconds before restarting, that way if ss is continuously crashing, I can control-c to exit the loop. The computer sleeping will not be fixed by the above, it looks like there's a problem with squeezeslave recovering from sleep, still looking into that issue. -- ralphy ralphy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3484 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62031 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Without being too overbearing.
Thanks for the support Rich! I know that there are many many Squeeze lovers out there. And, I know that I am "pushing it"when I express my positive and passionate feelings for the Squeeze system. The music, the talk, the sports,the services are just so awesome to me. I guess it must be that I'm just a little country guy who is just discovering the world around him. Happy Thanksgiving! -- Ikabob Ikabob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71856 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DSBridge - A simpler way to stream Spotify
essercizi;489433 Wrote: > Yup, I have the same problem, both on SBS 7.4.1 (on a Buffalo > Linkstation Live with Debian Lenny) and on SC 7.3 (another LS Live under > Freelink). I updated to the latest DSBridge just in case, but no luck. > It definitely used to give me the Spotify title and cover art, but now I > just get "DP_LocalAvatar" and a black screen, though the audio's fine. A > quick dig in the DSBridge and Spotify binaries doesn't seem to show > "DP_LocalAvatar" anywhere, so I don't know where it's coming from. The > only explanation I can think of is that Spotify's behaviour has been > changed somehow (I think it updates automatically?) I might take a look > at the DSBridge source to look for clues. > P.S. DSBridge is really cool - thank you, chp ! No idea why, but it's just started working perfectly again! :) Cover art, title and artist all appearing on Controller and Web interface. -- essercizi essercizi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21561 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64590 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DAB streaming Wavefinder and DABAR users
As the user is running 1.3a, I think it's fine. In fact, I think an upgrade to 1.4 Dev 10 would be worth doing: http://www.dabbar.co.uk/betatest.htm -- vinnielo RADIOFEEDS UK & IRELAND..[/B] AN UP-TO-DATE RADIO DIRECTORY FOR YOUR SQUEEZEBOX/TRANSPORTER CLICK: [B]HTTP://WWW.RADIOFEEDS.CO.UK/SQUEEZE With over 400 registered users, it's available for mysqueezebox, Squeezebox Server, SqueezeCenter AND SlimServer! vinnielo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14510 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71825 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does MusicIP still exist in latest 7.5 nightlies?
Thanks Wirrunna and bobertuk, I am reluctant to make many changes to MusicIP without guidance. The last thing I want to do is to have to rescan my music collection. This took well over a month the first time I did it. In the end I cured the problem, albeit temporarily, by selecting all my music files and removing them from the library, saving the library cache and then adding the files back. A SBS clear and rescan then saw all my MusicIP icons exactly where they should have been and MusicIP working correctly. Then I made the mistake of rebooting my computer. Now MusicIP has disappeared entirely from SBS. I don't even have the erroneous M icons on playlists. :-( BTW. It seems that my default.m3lib resides in my Windows MIP program directory and not Docs and Settings. I'm not too sure why. And the MIP gui now lists a reasonable number of files without MIP tags. However, when I look at the files in a tag editing program it can be seen that the MIP tags do exist. :-( MC -- ModelCitizen Think the third party Squeeze plugins and applets are important? Then 'vote for bug 14194' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14194) so more can be made. Last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71756 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does MusicIP still exist in latest 7.5 nightlies?
Another reboot and MIP is back again. Lets hope it's here to stay this time. MC -- ModelCitizen Think the third party Squeeze plugins and applets are important? Then 'vote for bug 14194' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14194) so more can be made. Last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71756 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool
Thanks for this thread everyone. I just configured my receiver on vista (wired & dhcp) in about 5 mins !! I just did not need the controller, however nice it looks !! -- Blisteringblue 'What am I listening to?' (http://www.last.fm/user/blisteringblue) or 'Twitter Ramblings' (http://www.twitter.com/blisteringblue) Blisteringblue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22946 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57861 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does MusicIP still exist in latest 7.5 nightlies?
If MIP is set in preferences to 'Archive analysis...' and the music file tags really do contain the fingerprint, rebuilding the database from scratch should be quick. There is no need to re-analyse the files - MIP will just take the data direct from the tags. Worth experimenting with a few files perhaps? I have found occasionally that MIP doesn't write the analysis to the tag though and have to redo those files. I usually do this by deleting the individual files from MIP then re-adding them - that seems to work. Oddly when it happens, it's always with track 6! Bob -- bobertuk 1 x Duet - SC 7.4.2 - SSOTS v4.1 1 x Boom Lavry DA-10 DAC QNAP TS-509 3.1.2 build 1014T Starfish Pre-amp : Based on NAIM Heavily modified NAIM NAP 250 Power-amp Behringer DEQ2496 Linn Isobarik DMS bobertuk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30376 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71756 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] WDS + Mac Filtering problem
I discussed this already in another thread but guess I may have more success if it's in its own proper thread. I have a WDS setup at home. The Master router is connected to a small LAN which has my Squeezebox Server connected as well. My Squeezebox is closest to this router, so I would like to force it to connect to this router. A method that supposedly works is to use Mac Filtering on the other router to deny the Squeezebox access to that router. For some reason this doesn't work. The Squeezebox insists on connecting to the Slave, where the connection is denied and the Squeezebox then acts as if it can't connect anywhere (i.e. blank screen) without trying the Master. The only way I can get the Squeezebox to connect to the Master is by powering off the Slave router, then the Squeezebox finds the Master and connects to it. If I then power up the Slave router again, I would notice after a few days that the Squeezebox went blank again because it tried to connect to the Slave again. Is anyone else having this problem ? Why doesn't the Squeezebox just try the Master if the Slave doesn't work ? Or is the fact that both have the same SSID (WDS requirement) cause the problem ? The weird thing is that in the past I had a setup where I wanted my Squeezebox to always connect to the Slave, and so I used a MAC Filter on the Master. This has always worked. -- Squid Squid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71898 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] HowTo- Install SqueezeSlave as a Windows Service
ralphy;489717 Wrote: > The goto start restarts squeezeslave if it exits or crashes. > > The sleep 10 just waits 10 seconds before restarting, that way if ss is > continuously crashing, I can control-c to exit the loop. > > The computer sleeping will not be fixed by the above, it looks like > there's a problem with squeezeslave recovering from sleep, still looking > into that issue. Got it. The only issue I've really had is the recovering from sleep. Thanks for the continued work...with ipeng it's just what I needed! -- fphredd fphredd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62031 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] $20 off VortexBox Appliance
johnas;489509 Wrote: > Do you take Paypal at Small Green Computers? We don't. You can order on ebay > if you want to use PayPal. -- agillis rip, tag, get cover artÂ… All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexbox.org agillis Lead Developer VortexBox agillis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21140 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71797 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Policies are getting interesting.. What Next?
Well at least the Party Mode thread in the Duet Forum is no longer closed. -- DaveWr DaveWr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71888 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DAB streaming Wavefinder and DABAR users
can you post how you get on, i have give up with dab, kept crashing when the muxes changed at 8 am cheers gary -- gary gary's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=269 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71825 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does MusicIP still exist in latest 7.5 nightlies?
mc and bobertuk, you can list tracks that don't have their analysis archived by creating a new filter - in the MIP gui, right click in the Filters/Playlist column, select New Filter, then in the box select 'Stored Analysis' from the first drop down list, select 'is missing' from the second drop down list, click Add Condition, select 'Status' then 'is' and enter "Analyzed" and click OK. This will list tracks that are analyzed but not archived. You can archive the analysis by selecting the tracks then right click and select 'Archive Analysis (modifies files)'. mc, the location of default.m3lib moved at some stage to enable multiple libraries, i.e. each user could have their own default.m3lib -- Wirrunna A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Wirrunna's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3225 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71756 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox Static IPs?
aubuti;485906 Wrote: > Alternatively, someone has written up 'this detailed description' > (http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7664&d=1245939354) > of assigning static IPs to the SBC and SBR by using the trick of > temporarily disabling your router's DHCP server. Disabling DHCP... Great idea and it works. Many thanks ! -- didjean SB3 + Cambridge Audio 640R + Cambridge Audio DAC Magic + Q Acoustics 1050i / Duet + Yamaha DSP A595 + Morel Applause MKII / Boom / Red Radio / Windows XP SP2 / Squeezebox Server 7.4.2 - r29019 didjean's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71398 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ReplayGain manual adjustment
OK, thanks Rick. Actually, I'm really not comfortable with foobar. I tried again, but that's not the point, because as I said, I did change the values... I finally found out why SqueezeCenter was still seeing and applying the original value : I modified the replaygain values in the ape tag. But for this album, the values where also present in the ID3v2 tag, and this one (still unmodified) was read by SC. So I removed these redundant infos. I'm going to check my other files, and take some time to clean everything up, just in case... -- Stan Pulsar Stan Pulsar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71696 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.
Hello all, I bought my wife the new imac for Christmas and will be retiring the old Dell PC. Currently I have the SB3 running SC on the PC. I have grown a custom to using Media Monkey to edit and create playlists and etc for my SB player. Once I switch over to the mac, what are my best options? Some basics from my setup: I have many FLAC files and the rest are mp3's. 80GB worth roughly. So my specific questions are this: How can I get my FLAC files to work(I am very new to apple and no novice with a pc either). Are there similar programs to MM for a mac? I can utilize parallels to run Windows & the Mac OS simultaneously if need be too. I hate itunes and would prefer not to use it for playlists and etc for Squeezecenter. Thanks for your help! Brandon -- bigbwb bigbwb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17407 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71904 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does MusicIP still exist in latest 7.5 nightlies?
>If MIP is set in preferences to 'Archive analysis...' and the music file >tags really do contain the fingerprint, rebuilding the database from >scratch should be quick. > I wouldn't recommend Archive Analysis (or writing anything to tags from MIP) - it can cause some tag data to be lost. eg. if you store multiple artist tags, MIP will only read the first one, then when it writes the archive analysis tags, it stores all data that it read, but as it didn't read the extra artists, it doesn't write them back. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] hung up on Connecting in China
Quick question. Are there no services within China that you could connect to for testing purposes? -- eganders eganders's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=25846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69745 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Play system sounds and stream music?
I don't have any squeezebox device but am considering purchase. I need to be able to play any windows OS sounds at all times---in addition to streaming mp3 files. I have a windows home server which contains all music files. I'd like to stream the music files AND hear any system sounds at the same time. So, for example, if I get new email, my server will sound an alert. I need to hear that alert over all my squeezebox devices. And, should i start playing an mp3, I still need to ALSO hear the system sounds over the squeezebox. Is this possible? I noticed a waveInput plugin which seems it might do the job. But, I don't have the squeezebox software or hardware to test and confirm. Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you... -- jk12 jk12's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34566 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71908 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Duet: CNET's Best digital audio streaming system less than $500
Daddy likes. -- pski real stereo doesn't wake neighbors (it enrages them) pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71887 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] No sound after upgrading to 10.6.2
sound cut out during Thanksgiving dinner last night after playing for several hours and I have been unable to get it to work again. There seems to be some issue with the Squeezebox Server on OS X Snow Leopard - the control panel for the server was frozen. I rebooted and the control panel seemed normal again but no sound comes out of the speakers. The Slimp3 looks normal - it shows the track playing information and all, but no signal comes out of the RCA jacks on the back of it. I spent several hours f'in around with this last time and I've about had it. This application is broken. Any suggestions? Anyone else experiencing problems with Squeezebox Server on OS X 10.6.2? -- shiggi7 shiggi7's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71298 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announce: New Squeezeslave 0.9 Release available on sourceforge
I am having problems under Windows 7 64. I can start it and specify the pc to connect to but nothing happens. How do I get other info to help diagnose? -- Mike C Mike C's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34507 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63966 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Policies are getting interesting.. What Next?
I'm hoping that after the Touch is released they'll focus on getting some of the ol' Mojo back. They can start by resolving the issues concerning the 3rd Party Developers. A vibrant developer community is the surest way of staying ahead of the rest of the pack. -- GeeJay GeeJay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71888 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] hung up on Connecting in China
If by service you mean a Chinese network stream I'm not aware of any - but honestly I've not searched. -- robchel robchel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69745 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool
Any one have some ideas? Thanks much! -Neal I was able to get properly connected without the controller by interacting with Logitech support. They apparently fixed the database entries on their end and now all is working fine for me. -- lbryanray lbryanray's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33749 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57861 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.
welcome to the world of apple- computers for people who have much higher standards, expectations and sadly, price points. seriously though, your life will most definitely improve by working on a mac. However, the world of squeezebox is heavily skewed towards pc. and i know of nothing in the mac world that is the equivalent of media monkey. the best that i can recommend is the sbooth family of programs. their link: http://sbooth.org/ there you will find tag, play and max. three programs that should cover all of your music ripping, tagging and metadata changing needs. good luck and may you never have to open a microsoft program or internet explorer ever again. -- exile exile's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71904 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.
exile;489920 Wrote: > good luck and may you never have to open a microsoft program or internet > explorer ever again. I confess that, despite being about as fervent a Machead as you can find, that I use dbpoweramp (running in a WinXP virtual machine) to do my ripping and initial tagging. I'm eagerly awaiting Steve Booth's Rip application to get out of beta, but even then it won't have the multiple metadata sources that the registered version of dbpoweramp has. I don't know if it will do multiple conversions and compute track and album gains either; my dbpoweramp chain spits out FLAC and m4a simultaneously, with ReplayGain computations to boot. I don't know of any ways to make playlists for SBServer on the Mac outside of SBServer (unless you use Itunes integration, which I don't for other reasons). Maybe somebody else does... -- kmr kmr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71904 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.
exile;489920 Wrote: > > However, the world of squeezebox is heavily skewed towards pc. That's not really fair - the problem is that up until now no-one has made a decent mac ripper/tagger/manager because of the dominance of iTunes. It's not Logitech's fault that Apple won't support AccurateRip or FLAC. Having said that, I'm glad to see Rip and Max are finally filling the gap! -- radish 'HELP ME RAISE MONEY FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH!' (HTTP://WWW.ADAMREEVE.COM/24IN24/) http://www.last.fm/user/polymeric radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71904 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.
radish wrote: > exile;489920 Wrote: >> However, the world of squeezebox is heavily skewed towards pc. > That's not really fair - the problem is that up until now no-one has > made a decent mac ripper/tagger/manager because of the dominance of > iTunes. It's not Logitech's fault that Apple won't support AccurateRip > or FLAC. I was wondering about @exile's claim. I haven't run Windows associated with my SqueezeBoxen for many years. My SBS server has never been a Windows box. (Not Mac either, I speak Linux) and even my primary web browser to talk to the SBS pages are from Linux. Rather than being skewed towards the Windows world, one of the prime attractions, and the main thrust of SBS server and usage models is not being tied to Windows. If you are talking about ripping utilities, sure, Accurip is Windows-only, but that is (1) not required and (2) even if you like it, its only used during the first minutes of when you get a new CD. I've never looked at iTunes, but I do understand that it is wildly popular despite a lot of known flaws. To the OP, have you considered just keeping your now old and obsolete PC and using it as the SqueezeBoxServer? Either with Windows or with Linux? There is nothing that says your server has to be the same OS as what you use on a daily basis. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Help/Sad - SB3 just "bricked"
About two month ago I had my Squeezebox2 fail on me after years of operating without a problem. One day the Squeezebox would not turn on, similar to the description in this forum post. I could see that the device was getting power since the red LED was emitting from the optical audio port. After searching the net for possible solutions to what might have happened (I thought the display might have gone bad), I came across a post suggesting that the WiFi card might be bad. After removing the Wifi card sure enough the Squeezebox display came back to life and I was able to communicate with it over a wired Ethernet connection. The WiFi card used in my Squeezebox2 was a PCI style WiFi card with an Atheros AR5213A chip. In looking for a replacement I searched for possible compatible solutions. The best solution that I found regularly available on ebay for about $12 (card and S/H) that appear to be 100% compatible with the Squeezebox is a "Samsung AR5004G AR5213A Wireless Wifi PCI BG card" available from accessory4you. The card that I needed to replace was a NL-3054MP PLUS ARIES2, the Samsung card even has the antenna connections in the same location, so the replacement/repair is a snap. So far so good the Squeezebox is back up and running with WiFi. The important thing to note is the Atheros baseband IC AR5213A, if you have the chip and are experiencing similar problems chances are that the above-mentioned solution will work for you, and the nice thing is that the repair is easy and won't break the bank. Good luck for anyone experiencing a similar problem, Ossian -- Ossian Ossian's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34568 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67357 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.
my reason for stating that the squeezebox has been skewed towards the pc is based on music editing programs such as media monkey that are predominantly pc only in develoment and the number of plugins over the years that were built only for the windows environment (i.e.-moose). but I would say too that to operate your server on a platform other than what you use everyday for your normal computing seems needlessly inconvenient. also, are you actually serious pat that you've never even taken itunes for a test drive? that's quite precious of you if it's true. -- exile exile's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71904 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.
exile wrote: > my reason for stating that the squeezebox has been skewed towards the pc > is based on music editing programs such as media monkey that are > predominantly pc only in develoment and the number of plugins over the > years that were built only for the windows environment (i.e.-moose). Most people on this planet who use computers, and most in the Logitech target market (North America, Europe, Pacific Rim, etc.) use Windows. Most developers use Windows. But I reject your claim that the SqueezeBox is biased towards Windows. I specifically selected it, way back when I bought my first SB-1, because it was not biased towards Windows, and all the rest were. > but I would say too that to operate your server on a platform other > than what you use everyday for your normal computing seems needlessly > inconvenient. You are entitled to your opinion, but servers have different needs. My first SlimDevices server went over 18 months without being touched, and without a reboot. That is rare if not unheard of for either OS-X or Windows. Right now, I'm beta testing 7.5 and while the server is fairly stable, I'm not getting the months of constant service that I used to when I ran production slimserver/squeezecenter/squeezeboxserver > also, are you actually serious pat that you've never even taken itunes > for a test drive? that's quite precious of you if it's true. Yes. Never touched iTunes. It has zero appeal to me. First, it requires an operating system that I chose to not use. I will use Windows if someone pays me to, and as a professional developer, sometimes I am paid to do so. Been doing it since Windows/386 2.11 was current. Use o my Squeezeboxen, from SB1 to Duet to Transporter to Boom and Radio, is not something I do when being paid for professional development. Second, for ages, it was all DRM'd lossy music. I care neither for DRM'd anything, and I don't bother with lossy compressed music. All of my 856 albums with 10444 songs by 530 artists are flac. Once you have used a dozen or so operating systems, as I have, going from one to the next is really not that big of a deal. Sure, the commands are different, but the concepts are universal. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Improved Squeezebox config availible for Harmony users.
Why not user Server Power Control plug in from GHarris - it will do most of what you seem to want? Dave -- DaveWr DaveWr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67769 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.
kmr;489921 Wrote: > I'm eagerly awaiting Steve Booth's Rip application to get out of beta, > but even then it won't have the multiple metadata sources that the > registered version of dbpoweramp has. I don't know if it will do > multiple conversions and compute track and album gains either; my > dbpoweramp chain spits out FLAC and m4a simultaneously, with ReplayGain > computations to boot. I was perusing the Rip / Max / Play etc site, and it appears that Rip does support ReplayGain, both track gain and album gain. Not sure if you can adjust the target value or not as you can with dbpoweramp. Max can handle conversions to different formats. Maybe I should look into these tools again... -- kmr kmr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71904 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Going from a PC to a Mac...have questions.
For ripping and tagging on the Mac you might want to look at XLDhttp://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html. This usually does the trick for me in both flac and mp3 formats on the same ripping pass. Tags are pulled from CDDB and you get the chance to fix them before committing. If you subsequently find you need to redo any tags then "Tag" from the aforementioned Stephen Booth (http://sbooth.org/Tag/) works well. As for playlists I have had some success using VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html) which allows you to drag and drop files from the Finder to form a playlist which can then be saved as an m3u file in your designated Squeezebox Server folder. A quick playlist rescan and you'll find the list available for use. davep -- davep davep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71904 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
