Re: [slim] The Future of Squeezebox Product Line-Up
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 Question: Would you buy a new Squeezebox player if it became available? - Yes , if less than $100 - Yes, if less than $200 - Yes, if less than $500 - Yes, if less than $1000 - Yes - price is no object; I just want the best sound - No - I would NOT buy another Squeezebox player I was close to buying one or two Squeezebox Touch-es when the announcement came out, but instead of locking myself in to the Squeezebox hardware I've instead picked up an iPod touch, which I'll use with iPeng in a mini-hifi-with-dock in the kitchen, and resurrected my old G3 Powerbook on which I'll use Squeezeslave (thanks for the G3-compatible build, ralphy!) in the living room. But the Powerbook only has a headphone output socket, so I won't be getting optimum sound quality out of that - I'm no audiophile, 16/44.1 is fine for me and the hi-fi isn't anything special, but I'm guessing I might notice the difference with something better. If there was some indication of ongoing support and development on the Squeezebox/LMS ecosystem, I might be prepared to pay a Squeezebox Touch sort of price for a Squeezebox Touch sort of player. But then again, the web interface via the Powerbook is perfectly OK, so I could make do with a cheaper, headless audio receiver. Sort of like the Airport Express, in fact. Meanwhile in the kitchen, getting up to use the iPod in its dock to change tracks is OK, but if there was a small, cheap, headless audio receiver I could plug in to the hi-fi then I could pick up the iPod and just use it as a remote. Something sort of like the Airport Express, in fact. It's possible for third party software to stream to AirPlay hardware - Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil does. If I wanted to keep Squeezebox/LMS going as a home-server-based multi-room-capable audio solution then what I'd look at is how to get it to play to Airplay as well as to hardware and/or software Squeezebox players. I don't know if synchronisation would be good, or even possible, but it would at least solve the problem of Logitech no longer making the kind of hardware that some of us want. And I realise it wouldn't satisfy the audiophiles who want 24/192 or whatever the current state of the art is, but I think we've already agreed that's a niche within a niche, and if some of you are prepared to pay over $500 for it then someone in their back room ought to be able to make a living out of filling it :-) nekomatic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How does Apple AirPlay compare to SqueezeBox in functionality?
If anyone's looking at Airplay as an alternative to Squeezebox, it's also worth looking at Rogue Amoeba's 'Airfoil' (http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/) which gives you selective control of which app(s) send audio and allows Macs, PC's, iDevices and Android devices to act as receivers, as well as AirPlay hardware devices. From my experience so far it doesn't have quite the same remote-control capability as you get with Squeezebox or with Apple Remote controlling iTunes playing to real Airplay devices - so you might need to access the computer that's sending the audio from time to time, which might be a pain if it's a headless server - but it's an option. There's also 'AirServer' (http://www.airserverapp.com), which despite being marketed as a way of using your computer as a big display for iOS games works perfectly well to turn your PC or Mac into an AirPlay audio destination. nekomatic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96726 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Future of Squeezebox Product Line-Up
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 Question: Would you buy a new Squeezebox player if it became available? - Yes , if less than $100 - Yes, if less than $200 - Yes, if less than $500 - Yes, if less than $1000 - Yes - price is no object; I just want the best sound - No - I would NOT buy another Squeezebox player nekomatic wrote: I was close to buying one or two Squeezebox Touch-es when the announcement came out, but instead of locking myself in to the Squeezebox hardware I've instead picked up an iPod touch, which I'll use with iPeng in a mini-hifi-with-dock in the kitchen, and resurrected my old G3 Powerbook on which I'll use Squeezeslave (thanks for the G3-compatible build, ralphy!) in the living room. But the Powerbook only has a headphone output socket, so I won't be getting optimum sound quality out of that - I'm no audiophile, 16/44.1 is fine for me and the hi-fi isn't anything special, but I'm guessing I might notice the difference with something better. I guess you have two options for the living room: 1. Get a second iThing with a dock and iPeng 2. Use an external DAC with a USB input such as the Audiolab M-DAC together with Squeezeplay on your laptop Pascal Hibon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7969 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Future of Squeezebox Product Line-Up
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 Question: Would you buy a new Squeezebox player if it became available? - Yes , if less than $100 - Yes, if less than $200 - Yes, if less than $500 - Yes, if less than $1000 - Yes - price is no object; I just want the best sound - No - I would NOT buy another Squeezebox player toby10 wrote: Well, Fusion's low end streamer starts at $995. Another possible road block is they may have planned all of this prior to Logitech announcing the end of SB. I'd want that clarified and how they intend to support a local server absent LMS and online streaming absent MySB.com before I plopped down $1k on one of their players. It's been posted here since August. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?96231-What-a-time-to-launch-a-new-SqueezeBox-based-producthighlight=fusion FYI: I emailed Fusion last week asking about their current and future support of that streaming hardware tied to SqueezeBox LMS and MySB.com. They have yet to respond. My guess is they can't respond because they have no answer, likely because they were also caught off guard by Logitech ending SqueezeBox. A $1k player that is rack mount only and has no WiFi, tied to (essentially) a defunct architecture with a very questionable future? No thanks. :) toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] The Future of Squeezebox Product Line-Up
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 Question: Would you buy a new Squeezebox player if it became available? - Yes , if less than $100 - Yes, if less than $200 - Yes, if less than $500 - Yes, if less than $1000 - Yes - price is no object; I just want the best sound - No - I would NOT buy another Squeezebox player Pascal Hibon wrote: I guess you have two options for the living room: 1.Get a second iThing with a dock and iPeng 2.Use an external DAC with a USB input such as the Audiolab M-DAC together with Squeezeplay on your laptop Yeah, those would both be options. Though I was thinking more along the lines of a USB or Firewire audio interface at £100 or less, rather than a £500+ DAC :D nekomatic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng, your iPhone Squeezebox Remote, gets even better with version 2.0!
What about for LRC files, just displaying the text (maybe stripping out the timing tags)? That way, we could get the lyrics from there. I've got some LRC files already, and would actually prefer to manage lyrics outside of the tags associated with the audio files. Haven't paid much attention to them, but would if iPeng could display lyrics from there, even as static text that I could scroll myself. DubMarc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56796 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng, your iPhone Squeezebox Remote, gets even better with version 2.0!
No, because iPeng would not see them. Remember, the files are not on your iThingy, whatever iPeng can use needs to be understood and served up by the server Which pretty much brings us to a plugin pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng, your iPhone Squeezebox Remote, gets even better with version 2.0!
pippin wrote: No, because iPeng would not see them. Remember, the files are not on your iThingy, whatever iPeng can use needs to be understood and served up by the server Which pretty much brings us to a plugin Clearly. Sorry, not sure what I was thinking. DubMarc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56796 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How many of you have spare squeezeboxes?
Mnyb wrote: Consider the used market , but wait a year or two the prices are very high rigth now, would be lower when all but the enthusiast forgot the squeezeboxes :-/ Got a Touch couple months ago from Amazon for $239. Got a SB1 for $30 and a Boom for $100 from Craigslist last couple weeks. ply3908's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38634 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96198 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Seem familiar? Boxee Box Dropping Support
Some squeezebox users may also use Boxee Boxes. They are also dropping the original (only 2 years!) product and moving to a new product that is not backwards compatible. They promise continued maintenance only for the old Boxee software, but no one knows what that really means. And there are lots of bugs that have never been fixed. Like the title says, sound familiar? http://blog.boxee.tv/2012/10/16/boxee-box-past-present-and-future/#idc-container garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96798 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Seem familiar? Boxee Box Dropping Support
garym wrote: Some squeezebox users may also use Boxee Boxes. They are also dropping the original (only 2 years!) product and moving to a new product that is not backwards compatible (and has less functionality for most users). They promise continued maintenance only for the old Boxee software, but no one knows what that really means. And there are lots of bugs that have never been fixed. Like the title says, sound familiar? http://blog.boxee.tv/2012/10/16/boxee-box-past-present-and-future/#idc-container Ooooh ... they ARE angry those boxeesters! castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96798 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] iOS app update still doesn't work!!!
My iPhone 5 just updated the squeezebox app for the iPhone. Just like before, it scans for players and doesn't find any. All you have is a blank screen, just like before. Did they even test this before they released it. Comon Logitech bobpenn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30445 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96802 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng, your iPhone Squeezebox Remote, gets even better with version 2.0!
Well, it's not that clear after all you can't know what's available from the server. But in reality it's just music and metadata for that music, no additional files. pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96749 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Seem familiar? Boxee Box Dropping Support
castalla wrote: Ooooh ... they ARE angry those boxeesters! They even removed the ability to play local content in their new product :O . Logitech did not dare that (yet) on the UE platform ,that be proactive as most support and bugs arise from badly running local server and misstaged flaky libraries... :P And they are Angry, btw thanks for the heads up I think I still can find a boxee in stores near me . Was thinking of getting one of those to ? I think I have a new line of work ,every product i fancy will fail in the market any venture capitalist can PM me I and we may have an agreement :) Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96798 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How many of you have spare squeezeboxes?
ply3908 wrote: Got a Touch couple months ago from Amazon for $239. Got a SB1 for $30 and a Boom for $100 from Craigslist last couple weeks. Cool :) the SB1 may not be the most useful has some limits but for 30$ ok . Go for SB2 and onwards . But as collectors item I would like an Slimp3 and a SB1 Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96198 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
