Re: [slim] I'm surprised! But I'm happy!!
Deano;464211 Wrote: Just upgraded to 7.4.1 from 7.3.1 ps. Font is too big on controller :) This sounds good. I didn't buy a Duet because I thought the Controller would have far too small fonts! The idea of larger fonts in the Controller sounds very good! It is a pity that other product manufacturers (mobile phones hint hint) don't do likewise and increase font size! The large fonts on the SB3 are what made me buy one. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68722 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Firmware v103 issues with SB3
This is worring. I am on firmware v127. Why would they go back to v103? Presumably other SB3 owners have upgraded successfully? -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68577 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox + Spotify + PS3 = ???
Yes it does work with the free version. You have to use the address in the brouser of:- http://serverip:5800 where serverip is the ip address of the server you are using. You can also use the name of the server if it has a name. The VNC server will download a Java applet to the browser that has to be installed. After this happens it does an authentication check if you have set it up. After that it puts up another window with the desktop. This presupposes that the PS3 will allow you to run java applets! -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68267 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox + Spotify + PS3 = ???
That won't work! What he wants is to control SPOTTIFY with the PS3 not SqueezeCenter! I use VNC on my second PC. I think that VNC can use a web interface? I haven't tried it. You have to have a VNC server running on the PC you want to remotely control. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68267 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] KFI AM 640 Los Angeles
If you download the BBC iPlayer plugin and use the Tune In URL option on SqueezeCentre the link will work. The BBC iPlayer option can play flash streams. You can download the BBC iPlayer plugin using the extension downloader. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68342 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] HowTo: Prevent server from suspend/hibernate while Squeezecenter playing?
You might want to look at Windows: Prevent Standby plugin. The reason it is for windows is that it uses the Win32::API with the kernel32 command. If you change this command in the Plugin.pm file in the C:\Program Files\SqueezeCenter\server\Slim\Plugin\PreventStandby directory (this will be in the ../SqueezeCenter/server/Slim/Plugin/PreventStandby directory on Ubuntu). With the SqueezeCenter directory being where programs are normally stored in Ubuntu. If you cange the Win32::API command to a linux command to switch off power management you should be OK. Probably the best thing to do is to copy the PreventStandby directory to something like PreventStandbyLinux and make the change to the Plugin.pm file. Note that there is an install.xml file with xml detailing the plugin name etc. One of the first lines in this file is an id tag that looks like this:- idBFACABFD-6334-4743-95BA-43A60E159560/id How this is generated I don't know. Would a coppied plugin break if this line ws coppied? If one got rid of it would the plugin still work? How was it generated in the first place? The plugin was wirtten by Julian Neil. He might be able to give pointers on these matters. If you did copy the plugin it would be polite to add a revision in the header of the Plugin.pm file stating that the plugin ws adapted for Ubuntu. Note that the last line of the install.xml file has:- targetPlatformWindows/targetPlatform Note this is the second to last line as the last line has the /extension tag on it! You will need to remove Windows from the targetPlatform tag and replace with Linux. This presupposes that there is a linux bash shell command to switch off suspend mode! -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68248 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DSBridge - A simpler way to stream Spotify
It won't work with SqueezeNetwork. DSBridge streams (broadcasts) spottify over you lan from your PC. Spottify normally runs from your PC anyway. If you don't use DSBridge you have to use the Wave Input plugin. DSBridge generates an mp3 stream from anything that uses DirectSound. It also makes DirectSound sound better! Since SqueezeNetwork doesn't use your PC you can't use it with Spottify or DSBridge or Wave Input Plugin. All these things require SqueezeCenter. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 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] Best of Luck - moving on...
I am happy with my SqueezeBox 3. The touch sounds interesting. The only thing that worries me about is is the fact that it requires a USB drive to be plugged in if using the built in server. This would mean scanning a large music collection would be dreadfully slow compared to a server using internal IDE drives. Also since the internal server of the Touch is operating on the Touch only (no web interface), if something happens to the Touch display you are stuck. At least I can control SC from my computer and my SqueezeBox. I would only be able to control the built in SC on the Touch from the Touch. Although I would be able to play it on my PC using SqueezePlay. I wouldn't have the option of using SqueezeSlave with a web interface. Surely something like intergrated CD/ripping/server solutions that are sold by places like cooltipia or ripcaster are better than the touch since no USB drives lying arround (faster DB scan). Another point about Sonos. Surely the Sonos has less information than SqueezeBos is untrue. This is exactly the same as the duet. The reciever has no display the display is in the SBC/iPhone. And Sonos has an iPhone client. Sonos has a controler (and has a new touch controler). I chose the SB3 because I couldn't read the Sonos controller and couln't try out the SBC but realiesed it was probably going to be extemely difficult to use. With the new server software in the Touch, it appears that anybody having an existing installation can't use the Touch without transfering there library to the Touch and USB drive combination? And a Touch would'nt like a SB3 + Boom + SC server installation? -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67040 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Support for ASX starttime and WMA stream seeking
OPML is an XML varient that is used in RSS feeds and Podcast feeds of course. I tried to copy it as a playlist and that didn't work. I then tried to insert it as a repository on the extension downloader. None of these worked. Then I added the feed to the podcasts menu. I went into settings- podcasts and inserted the feed. The system understood it. On the podcasts menu in Extras it has the KEXP Archive option as a menu item. I was able to play some programs from it successfully. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54130 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Now what?
Probably not, but keep the CD's! You don't know how good you backups are and it is another line of defence if the worst happens. Sell the vynal you might get more for it! Why people seem to be getting excited about LP's now seems stupid. They sound boxy and you have all these problems with them that you don't get with CD's. Old records are usually scratched a lot whereas CD's if kept properly will be just as good condition as when they were bought. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66387 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play music files from outside music library ?
Sorry about that. I have checked on my Ubuntu System on a USB drive that I use occasionally and I cannot create a symbolic link. You are using an external USB drive for you music library. I tried to make a symbolic link on to a USB stick and failed. The stick ws formatted to FAT-32. It think this may be the problem. Creating a symbolic link in the linux system works fine. Using the GUI to create it if fine. But using the GUI to move the link to the USB stick doesn't work. You might have to try a USB stick formatted to ext3 to see if that would work. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65386 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] need help in displaying song titles
Yes you can display song titles only rather than going into Music Library-Album route. You have to go into squeezecenter on the PC and goto Settings then Player and Basic Settings and Menus. This will bring up the Menu Customisation page. There is a list of items in the Home Menu at the top of the page. There is a list of Inactive Menu Items lower down the page. One of these is Songs. Select this and click the Add button. The Songs entry will now appear in the Home Menu. This will present a list of all the songs in your music library. Note it lists all the track 1's then the 2's etc. It dosn't do it is Album order! Declan Moriarty. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65088 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play music files from outside music library ?
You can do this. Make a symbolic link to the desktop in your music directory. on the comand line you can use the ln -s command:- ln -s desktop directory music directory/desktop Then go into squeezecenter and check if it is seeing it. Go to Music Library and select the Music Folder option. The contents of the Music Folder should be displayed. Then look for your Desktop symbolic link. Click this and you should see the contents of the desktop. Then verify this on your player. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65386 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezecenter on Pc stops
There are entries for Last.FM in 7.3.3. I have 7.3.3 installed and there is a Last.FM entry under Music Services. This has an error saying I should sign up on the Last.FM website. Uder Settings for the server there is an ertry for Last.FM Audio Scrobler that has a Unsername/Password login page. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65389 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Is it safe to keep an SB3 in stand-by all the time?
I have a second hand SqueezeBox 3 that came with a UNIFIVE power supply that gave up the ghost. I replaced it with the more modern replacement power supply whitch is far better! It doesn't get nearly as hot! However the power supply does get warm but not overly so. The squeezebox gets warm. Should I unplug it when not in use? Some people say they see red lines in the display. This isn't happening to mine yet. Does keeping it on (in stand by) make this more likely? Thank you in advance. Declan Moriarty. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65399 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 Constantly Rebooting
If you email Patrick Dixon who runs the At-Tunes website www.at-tunes.co.uk he will supply you one. It costs £6.50. He accepts PayPal and Bank Transfer. I got the newer SB3 power supply that is far better than the UNIFIVE one (it doesn't get nearly as hot)! Declan Moriarty. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65293 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 Constantly Rebooting
The SB3 is very reliable as far as wireless connections are concerned. Are you sure it is software related? This sounds like what my SB3 was doing just recently. It was the power supply cutting out. I had the old UNIFIVE power supply in the UK. I replaced it with the more modern power supply from At-Tunes in the UK. It works far better now. The power supply doesn't get nearly as hot as the first one. No spontainous cutting out and restarting. My one got gradually worse after it started doing it. The times to the cut outs from initial plug in were getting smaller each time. Declan Moriarty. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65293 ___ 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] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst
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! -- 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] Slim Services Squeezebox 3 Power Supply cutting out and getting hot
How do I get a modern SB3 (Classic) power supply the Logitech shop (priced in US $) doesn't have a Classic power supply for sale. I can get Boom, Reciever and Duet Remote power supplies but NOT Classic. However I can get a replacement Classic remote control and an IR Blaster kit. Is the Classic power supply the same as the Slim Devices SB3 power supply I currently have. Where are the specifications of the Reciever and Boom power supplies, ie. the input power and output power requirements? what are the plugs that go into the players like? Note I can also get an International Power Plate Kit that are the connectors for different mains leads arrount the world. Thank you very much for your help so far. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64867 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] BBC Completely Unavailable
KMorgan, grepped means using the grep UNIX command to find text in a file. dbuk is using a LINUX box to run SqueezeCenter and is unable to resolve www.bbc.co.uk? This is very odd. Editing BBC.pm while solving the imediate problem may cause new problems in the future if the normal BBC website becomes available and the domanin name without the www may fail in the future? I don't know if this will happen, but not being able to reslove the normal BBC website is a BIG problem in itself. I haven't had any problems accessing BBC radio using Alien BBC or BBC iPlayer plugins. They seem to be much better since the upgrade to 7.3.3. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64415 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slim Services Squeezebox 3 Power Supply cutting out and getting hot
I have a Slim Services Squeezebox 3 I bought on ebay in February and the power supply is getting hot and has started cutting out quickly. It more often than not will not work at all. It is a UNIFIVE power supply with Input Power: 100-240V 50/60Hz 0.3A Output Power: DC 5V 2A. Is there a better power supply than this available in the UK? The idea of a hot power supply does not appeal. I have been unplugging it when not in use. The Squeezebox works OK Thank God, it is only the power supply that is the problem. Your help very much appreciated. -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64867 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Visually Impaired
I am registered blind in the UK and have bought a Slim Devices squeezebox 3 (with Slim Services) on the front from eBay. Very good product. I did research on these products and found the Squeezebox was the best for my requirements. I wanted to connect it to my Hi-Fi. I chose not to get the Boom because I wanted to connect the device to the Hi-Fi and having speakers built in wasn't necessary and was too expensive. The Duet was out because the remote I felt was difficult (very hard to read - no magnification available). I tried to see the remote in action but was unable to do so. I saw the Sonos remote in action but it was impossible to read so that was out. There is an Internet Radio from the Blind available from the British Wireless For The Blind Fund in the in the UK but they wanted £27 or so I think par year for the privilege of Internet Radio that I wasn't prepared to pay. (To be fair they were offering Talking Newspapers and RNIB's streaming Talking Book Service (although you have to pay for that separately)). I do have some sight so can read the display of the Squeezebox and the large fonts are marvellous. Even the smaller fonts are readable up close. The viewing angles are good, and the remote control is good. Having a Duet controller that could talk to you or one that could be magnified would be useful. You could then control Squeezeboxes, Booms and receivers. The idea of buying a mobile phone and Talks software just to control a music player whose remote control is unusable doesn't appeal. I have just replaced my 10 year old inaccessible mobile phone with a Motorola F3 Fone that is excellent. It doesn't have wi-fi internet capabilities but it was less than £20. I have found it immensely difficult to get accessible mobile phones in UK. The shops no nothing and don't take responsibility! Audio feedback as to where you are in menus seems a good idea at first. But I wonder how useful it would be in practice (I use print not Braille). The problem is that nearly all the menu options are either your music collection or internet radio stations. The way Rock Box solves this is to have Voice Files for fixed menus and .talk files that go into your Music Library and are played every time you select a menu item. As you scroll down the menus the .talk files are read out to you. Rockbox is open source firmeware for MP3 players. I have an iAUDIO X5 which is great with Rockbox! The comment about Harmony remote controls was interesting. Checking on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0012RHQN4/41208-21/?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE I find it is a touch screen remote! Again small type on the screen and poor contrast. The rest of the remote looked OK, but because of the touch screen and the small type it would be useless for a totally blind person and very difficult/ next to useless for someone who has severe sight loss. I worry about how long the Boom will be in production given the emphesis on the Duet. What are the supplies of VFD's like? Note although you can control these players using a laptop, I didn't go down that route since I wanted a stand allone music streamer not a fully fledged laptop. To have to buy a laptop just to access a Reciever because I couldn't use the Duet controler rather defeated the purpose. Finally the Squeexebox 3 is an excellent product - the only affordable accessible Internet Radio/Music Streamer on the market. The Boom replaces it in this category. However the Boom has it's own speakers. For someone like me who has a Hi-Fi already this is a bit disappointing. You have to get it online new where you can or go second hand. (Although Second Hand is cheaper). The idea that the SqueezeBox 3 could disappear to be replaced only with the Boom or unusable Duet; or Very Expensive Transporter doesn't appeal. One final general suggestion would be to make the players Squeezeboxes/Duets/Receivers/Transporters use DNS names. This would allow people to use DCHP servers properly without having to re-configure things each time the player had it's address changed. The player name at the moment is used by the server and is not part of the DNS system. My firewall has my 2nd PC's DNS name programmed in, but my Squeezebox IP address. Again the Squeezebox is a very good player. And again a talking/magnified Duet would be VERY useful. Being able to use the database in the Music Library in SqueezeCenter is very good. In Rockbox when you use the Database this items are spelled out to you. Although there is no speech in SqueezeBox being able to read the menus in large print on the display and navigate in Albums rather than through the Artist/Albums Directories that I have in my Library is very welcome! -- Declan Moriarty Declan Moriarty's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23670 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63422
