Re: [slim] MusicIP Mixer server status

2013-07-24 Thread audiomuze

Just ran GenPUID to analyse some tracks and it's working fine.  I don't
think Gracenote has any incentive to block access to the MusicDNS server
because people using it enrich the MusicDNS database which Gracenote in
turn uses for commercial purposes.



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*'Linux finally gets a great audio tagger'
(http://www.ubuntugeek.com/linux-finally-gets-a-great-audio-tagger.html):
'puddletag' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/)* - now packaged in most
Linux distributions.

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Re: [slim] Problems playing FLAC

2013-07-24 Thread Viragored

Apesbrain wrote: 
> This will work, or you can do the conversion with 'foobar2000'
> (http://www.foobar2000.org/):
> 
> HR TO REDBOOK
> 
> 1. Do a "Full" installation of foobar2000 and its "'Encoder Pack'
> (http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack)"
> 
> 2. Open foobar2000 "File" > "Preferences" - "Components" and drop the
> "'SoX Resampler'
> (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=67373)"
> installation zip file on the open window
> 
> 3. Restart foobar2000 and drop your hi-res files on its main window
> 
> 4. Configure your file conversion:
> 
> - highlight the music files in foobar2000
> - right-click and select "Convert" > "..."
> - "Output Format": Format: FLAC, level 5. Dither (always), output
> 16-bit
> - "Destination": Output folder: ask later. Output type: tracks into
> individual files. File name pattern: /%artist%/%album%/%filename%
> - "Processing": Resampler (SoX): configure Resampler for 44100 "Target
> Sample Rate"
> - "Other": When finished: ReplayGain-scan output files as albums
> * IMPORTANT - Save this configuration as "HR To Redbook" preset so you
> can easily use it again
> - Press "Convert" -- BE SURE TO SPECIFY AN OUTPUT FOLDER DIFFERENT FROM
> WHERE THE ORIGINAL FILES ARE LOCATED
> 
> 5. [OPTIONAL] Good hygiene with 16/44 files is to check for Sector
> Boundary Errors (SBEs) which can cause problems if you ever burn these
> files to CD.  You can use 'Trader's Little Helper'
> (http://tlh.easytree.org/) to do this.
> 
> If you want to maintain some of the "hi-resiness" of these files,
> convert them to FLAC 24/48 which Squeezebox can handle natively: in
> steps above, change "Output Format" to 24 bit, turn Dither off;
> configure SoX resampler for 48000 sample rate.  Save this preset as "HR
> To 24/48".

Thanks for all the detailed steps, I couldn't have asked for more!  I
did all you said above with foobar2000, and am now listening to the
previous problem tracks with no problems at all :)  

When I went for the SoX resampler I was a bit confused about which of
the options to pick, and opted for the "normal version 0.8.3".  Since
all seems to be working well, I guess I didn't make too bad a choice.  

One problem remains, likely till the next re-boot of my main PC.  I
burned the problem tracks to a CD with Media Monkey Gold, and all seemed
well.  But Windows Media Player produced only silence, and the 'eject'
command produced an error message.  Pressing the eject button on the CD
drive didn't work either, so the CD is going to have to stay in the
drawer till the next re-boot!  And I thought that was going to be easier
than foobar...



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into Speakercraft MZC-66 for whole house system. Library is mostly FLAC,
on external USB drive; Squeezecenter 7.7 running on VortexBox (built on
an elderly Dell PC).  Ethernet between Squeezebox and PC; controller
uses wireless via router.

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Re: [slim] Problems playing FLAC

2013-07-24 Thread Viragored

garym wrote: 
> duet will only play 24/48 files and these are 24/96 or 24/192. That
> said, LMS  should automatically transcode the files on the fly to reduce
> to 24/48.  A couple of thoughts:
> 
> 1. Have you changed any of the file type settings in LMS > Settings >
> Advanced > file types from default (e.g., to have FLAC decoded on the
> server vs the player, etc.).
> 2. You say they work on windows media server, served by LMS on your
> vortexbox but do not work when coming from same LMS to duet.  I'm a bit
> confused. Windows Media Server is not a software SB player so I'm not
> sure how you are feeding it with LMS.  Are you using the DLNA part of
> LMS to serve the files to WMS?  Or do you simply mean you play the files
> on WMS by pointing WMS to the actual files that are stored on your
> Vortexbox (but LMS is not actually involved)?
> 
> I might experiment with installing LMS temporarily on a regular
> laptop/desktop and put these files in a small library. Then play to the
> duet from this temporary LMS.  Do they play correctly then?  Finally,
> some have reported odd issues with HDtrack files that were solved when
> converted from FLAC to new FLAC files. But it seems you've tried this
> (although not sure where the mp3 conversion plays into thisyou
> should convert from flac to flac.  dbpoweramp or foobar2000 would
> certainly work for this. but the MM software should toonot sure how
> it handles hires files.

Thanks once more for your helpful input, Garym.  It seems that the
problem I've got must be lack of horsepower in the ancient PC hosting
Vortexbox and LMS.  
1.  No, I've not changed anything in the advanced settings.
2.  The last - I just meant Windows Media Server on my fast PC was
getting the flac files over the network from the ancient PC where LMS
is, and LMS wasn't involved.  

Sorry for the red herring with mp3.  I converted those first just to
check that there was valid music in the problem files.  And forgot to
delete the reference to mp3 before posting.  

And I conclude that neither Medie Monkey Gold nor FlicFlac offer
conversion to 'simple' flac.  At least, I couldn't find any
configuration options that suggest they do.  Since the output files from
both give the same faulty play via the SB Duet, I guess the files are
coming out pretty much the same hi-res as they went in.  And as you'll
see from my next post, Foobar2000 did the trick.



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an elderly Dell PC).  Ethernet between Squeezebox and PC; controller
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[slim] Media player takes over

2013-07-24 Thread wp steve

Hi folks, 
We just moved our playlist over to another computer via an external hard
drive which we are using to play the music, We will put the files on
permanently later.  The playlist which are m3u files show up as media
player files and slimserver will not accept the playlist. When we try to
play it it shows as 0 files in the playlist.. The music files are  all
there on the ex drive .  If we click on an album  in the music folder
and make it a playlist it again shows as a media player file but will
play even thou it shows as a media file.  ( the existing playlists will
not play ) Trouble is we can not get the existing playlists to play.  We
have tried everything!  We use  xp pro  slimserver 6.5.4 and the music
files are saved as flac  saved using windows word 2007
As I said we have tried everything, we are now trying to get rid of
Media player hoping that will help.  Everything has worked for years,
why media player has reared it ugly head we can figure out
Any suggestions and help would be grateful, redoing the playlist is not
a option as it is custom sorted with song placed in specific order (
3469 songs )  
Thanks   Steve



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Re: [slim] Google Chromecast

2013-07-24 Thread Roland0

Labarum wrote: 
> 
> Google has just launched a new streaming system.
> Has anyone sight of the technical specs?
> Now it must handle Google Play's 320b/sec MP3, but hopefully will do
> much better, and if the stream can be routed to a decent DAC . . .
> The first hardware - the HDMI dongle - looks rather restricted, but
> maybe other hardwares will appear.

Information can be found 'here' (https://developers.google.com/cast/).
Very restricted system - no local streaming (audio only via Google
Music, video from Youtube etc. - you can't even send e.g. pictures from
your mobile/tablet), limited media support (e.g. no flac, xvid), only
HDMI output, Apps have to specifically support it, etc. 
It might be possible to build an app to implement the missing
functionality, but I don't see the point in doing so - a regular android
stick (or even a Raspi) is much more versatile (and open), and basically
the same price



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Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-07-24 Thread JJZolx

Has anyone seen this yet? Future Electronics has developed an adapter
card to fit a touchscreen LCD to the Wandboard. It plugs into the
expansion headers on the Wandboard's stock carrier board.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVt8eh6bnRE

http://www.futureelectronics.com/en/technologies/development-tools/development-tool-hardware/Pages/9032471-FWBADAPT-7WVGA-PCAP.aspx?IM=0

Are these expansion headers being considered for the Squeeze board?



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Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-07-24 Thread JJZolx

FYI, Future Electronics and others are now selling the Wandboard CPU
modules in 10 packs for projects just like this. The price savings isn't
huge, but it's something.

Hardware question:

If you wanted to mount the CPU module and carrier board in a larger
chassis, could they be laid out side by side and connected with a cable,
or do they have to be piggybacked directly through the EDM connector?



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Re: [slim] MusicIP Mixer server status

2013-07-24 Thread SlimChances

You may be right. I didn't do any scans but tested the connection in
Options and it said unable to connect. Would be a pity if it stopped
working but I have my musicIP tags archived



Logitech Media Server Version: 7.8.0 - 1372836728 @ Mon Jul 8 01:00:43
PDT 2013
Operating system: Debian - EN - utf8
Platform Architecture: x86_64-linux
Perl Version: 5.14.2 - x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
Database Version: DBD::SQLite 1.34_01 (sqlite 3.7.7.1)
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[slim] MusicIP Mixer server status

2013-07-24 Thread talvola

Not specifically Squeezebox related, but close.   For anyone still using
MusicIP Mixer...

Just recently (last night and today), MusicIP Mixer can no longer
connect to its server, and gives the message 'The MusicIP server cannot
be reached.  If your internet connection is not ready, you may wish to
fix that before continuing, otherwise analysis will take longer.'

I use MusicIP mixes a lot (even though I like SmartMix) - and would make
me sad to see this finally go away.   Anyone else having issues?   Tried
it at work and at home - so don't think it's my network setup.

--erik



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[slim] Google Chromecast

2013-07-24 Thread Labarum

Is this a game-changer?

Google has just launched a new streaming system.

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Chromecast?id=chromecast

Has anyone sight of the technical specs?

There is almost nothing visible to the likes of me.

Now it must handle Google Play's 320b/sec MP3, but hopefully will do
much better, and if the stream can be routed to a decent DAC . . .

The first hardware - the HDMI dongle - looks rather restricted, but
maybe other hardwares will appear.



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Re: [slim] Spotted on Amazon UK - apparently new SB3s at decent price

2013-07-24 Thread d6jg

I meant as opposed to the ridiculous prices being asked for a new SB
Touch. That price isn't all that much higher than they used to go for
before Logitech ceased the range.



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Re: [slim] Pre-Announcement: ickStream Music Platform

2013-07-24 Thread PasTim

As an LMS (Touch) user, I have been looking at alternatives.  The main
listening is done in my lounge, remote from the music server, connected
via Ethernet.

The closest I got to a working alternative that can make use of custom
tags (for classical music) was:

- flacs still on my Vortexbox as usual (but not using the DLNA server
provided)
- foobar2000 on my main deskptop Linux PC (under Wine), reading the
flacs from the Vortexbox, with the UPnP plugin, using foobar's
customised DLNA menu facility (which can read custom tags) and acting as
the server over Ethernet
- one or another UPnP controller on my (wireless) laptop Linux PC or
SmartPhone controlling foobar2000
- my hi-fi pre-amp supports UPnP (over Ethernet) but the menu is worse
than useless, hence the use of a laptop (or smartphone) as a controller

This all almost works, except that the controllers are all very
unreliable (crashing regularly, failing to read the menus, and so on),
so near useless for regular listening.  

foobar2000 is a wonderful, peerless, tool, and I wouldn't be without it,
even with LMS.  I use it for playing music near the server, checking
tags (set using puddletag or mp3tag) and format conversion. I have built
up (filter) menus not unlike those I have in Custom Browse in LMS.  

I can listen to my music in other rooms via wired PCs and foobar2000,
without using UPnP.  This doesn't provide any synchronisation, but I
have rarely wanted to do this except to prove LMS can do it well.  If I
have to I could also run foobar2000 on my laptop in the lounge, plug the
laptop into the Ethernet, and play music out via the async USB DAC in my
hi-fi, but that leaves wires all over the room which I don't like.

The reason for describing how my non-LMS system would work is that I
wonder whether ickStream will have the ability to plug the main hole in
this solution, i.e. provide a reliable UPnP Controller, or provide some
other solution to drive my pre-amp direct without using my LMS Touch,
with customised tags and menus.



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another room), digital out to a Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC. Old wireless
laptop running Linux Mint Debian controls server using Chromium. 
Squeezelite on Ubuntu & Windows desktops plus the laptop.  Meridian
Explorer USB DAC to listen directly to Vortexbox & other PCs as
required.  Spare Touch in loft!

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Re: [slim] Problems playing FLAC

2013-07-24 Thread Apesbrain

Viragored wrote: 
> one suggestion that I've not tried is to burn a CD from these files,
> then rip it back in with Exact Audio Copy
This will work, or you can do the conversion with 'foobar2000'
(http://www.foobar2000.org/):

HR TO REDBOOK

1. Do a "Full" installation of foobar2000 and its "'Encoder Pack'
(http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack)"

2. Open foobar2000 "File" > "Preferences" - "Components" and drop the
"'SoX Resampler'
(http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=67373)"
installation zip file on the open window

3. Restart foobar2000 and drop your hi-res files on its main window

4. Configure your file conversion:

- highlight the music files in foobar2000
- right-click and select "Convert" > "..."
- "Output Format": Format: FLAC, level 5. Dither (always), output
16-bit
- "Destination": Output folder: ask later. Output type: tracks into
individual files. File name pattern: /%artist%/%album%/%filename%
- "Processing": Resampler (SoX): configure Resampler for 44100 "Target
Sample Rate"
- "Other": When finished: ReplayGain-scan output files as albums
* IMPORTANT - Save this configuration as "HR To Redbook" preset so you
can easily use it again
- Press "Convert" -- BE SURE TO SPECIFY AN OUTPUT FOLDER DIFFERENT FROM
WHERE THE ORIGINAL FILES ARE LOCATED

5. [OPTIONAL] Good hygiene with 16/44 files is to check for Sector
Boundary Errors (SBEs) which can cause problems if you ever burn these
files to CD.  You can use 'Trader's Little Helper'
(http://tlh.easytree.org/) to do this.

If you want to maintain some of the "hi-resiness" of these files,
convert them to FLAC 24/48 which Squeezebox can handle natively: in
steps above, change "Output Format" to 24 bit, turn Dither off;
configure SoX resampler for 48000 sample rate.  Save this preset as "HR
To 24/48".



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Re: [slim] Spotted on Amazon UK - apparently new SB3s at decent price

2013-07-24 Thread rbz5416

£210 a decent price?



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Re: [slim] Problems playing FLAC

2013-07-24 Thread garym

Viragored wrote: 
> It looks like I've bumped into the same problem.  Someone has given me
> some tracks they bought in flac format from HDTracks.  My Duet stumbles
> over them, with the music coming out slower than it should and sounding
> as if the musicians are stuttering!  The tracks play OK in Windows Media
> Player on a fast PC, served by my old PC running VortexBox and Logitech
> Media Server.  But they don't play properly on the Duet, served from the
> same source.  Looks like the old Dell PC can't handle the transcoding on
> the fly.  
> 
> The bit rate shown in the file's properties are around 3500kbps, with an
> audio sample rate of 96kHz.  And the files are huge, 1.5gb for the 13
> tracks on a 62-minute CD.  So I guess I need to transcode and save files
> that won't need transcoding during playback.  So could I please get some
> practical help with the steps to do that.  The tools I currently have
> are Media Monkey Gold (MMG), and flicflac (FF).  
> 
> What I've tried so far: Used both MMG and FF to convert to wav, and to
> mp3 320k.  Then I've converted the wav back to flac using both FF and
> MMG.  And I'm no further forward, the files still won't play properly on
> the Duet - and they are still huge.  
> 
> I've googled quite a bit and one suggestion that I've not tried is to
> burn a CD from these files, then rip it back in with Exact Audio Copy. 
> That makes me think there must be a way to do the same thing but without
> using a physical CD.  
> 
> Can somebody provide practical tips on what to do next?

duet will only play 24/48 files and these are 24/96 or 24/192. That
said, LMS  should automatically transcode the files on the fly to reduce
to 24/48.  A couple of thoughts:

1. Have you changed any of the file type settings in LMS > Settings >
Advanced > file types from default (e.g., to have FLAC decoded on the
server vs the player, etc.).
2. You say they work on windows media server, served by LMS on your
vortexbox but do not work when coming from same LMS to duet.  I'm a bit
confused. Windows Media Server is not a software SB player so I'm not
sure how you are feeding it with LMS.  Are you using the DLNA part of
LMS to serve the files to WMS?  Or do you simply mean you play the files
on WMS by pointing WMS to the actual files that are stored on your
Vortexbox (but LMS is not actually involved)?

I might experiment with installing LMS temporarily on a regular
laptop/desktop and put these files in a small library. Then play to the
duet from this temporary LMS.  Do they play correctly then?  Finally,
some have reported odd issues with HDtrack files that were solved when
converted from FLAC to new FLAC files. But it seems you've tried this
(although not sure where the mp3 conversion plays into thisyou
should convert from flac to flac.  dbpoweramp or foobar2000 would
certainly work for this. but the MM software should toonot sure how
it handles hires files.



*Location 1:* VortexBox Appliance 4TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Transporter,
Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet)
*Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom,
Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
*Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > SqueezePlay
*Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER
*Controllers:* iPhone4S (iPeng), iPad2 (iPengHD & SqueezePad),
CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop
Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Spotify

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Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!

2013-07-24 Thread Wirrunna

slartibartfast wrote: 
> I'm sure they will but that tour was last year :-)

Oops!



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Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!

2013-07-24 Thread slartibartfast

Wirrunna wrote: 
> 
> In this case it is " Le Tour de West Wisconsin" -
> http://orangebikelabs.com/orange-bike-labs-is-going-on-tour/ - they'll
> be back.

I'm sure they will but that tour was last year :-)



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Re: [slim] Problems playing FLAC

2013-07-24 Thread Viragored

It looks like I've bumped into the same problem.  Someone has given me
some tracks they bought in flac format from HDTracks.  My Duet stumbles
over them, with the music coming out slower than it should and sounding
as if the musicians are stuttering!  The tracks play OK in Windows Media
Player on a fast PC, served by my old PC running VortexBox and Logitech
Media Server.  But they don't play properly on the Duet, served from the
same source.  

The bit rate shown in the file's properties are around 3500kbps, with an
audio sample rate of 96kHz.  And the files are huge, 1.5gb for the 13
tracks on a 62-minute CD.  So I guess I need to transcode.  So could I
please get some practical help with the steps to do that.  The tools I
currently have are Media Monkey Gold (MMG), and flicflac (FF).  

What I've tried so far: Used both MMG and FF to convert to wav, and to
mp3 320k.  Then I've converted the wav back to flac using both FF and
MMG.  And I'm no further forward, the files still won't play properly on
the Duet - and they are still huge.  

I've googled quite a bit and one suggestion that I've not tried is to
burn a CD from these files, then rip it back in with Exact Audio Copy. 
That makes me think there must be a way to do the same thing but without
using a physical CD.  

Can somebody provide practical tips on what to do next?



Squeezebox Duet digital into Yamaha RX-V2700 and Jamo speakers; analogue
into Speakercraft MZC-66 for whole house system. Library is mostly FLAC,
on external USB drive; Squeezecenter 7.7 running on VortexBox (built on
an elderly Dell PC).  Ethernet between Squeezebox and PC; controller
uses wireless via router.

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