Re: [slim] new radio -- are these known issues?
dblack wrote: > How do you plan to get firmware/software updates with no internet > access? My other squeezebox devices take their firmware updates from the server on the network (which is updated once in a great while), not over the internet. The device should not, in general, be so buggy as to require frequent firmware updates. If it is, then I will put it in the box and send it back. The reason for my inquiry was to find out if it is known to have shipped before it was done and is therefore still a work in progress. I'm willing to wait a bit for it to settle down and stabilize. > My radio had the problem with the burst of noise when the alarm > went off when I first got it, but it no longer does that...I presume it > was fixed with a firmware/software update. What firmware version does yours show? Mine took an update immediately on first powerup, but since it did have internet access at the time, I'm not sure where it came from. It claims to have "7.4.1-r7915" installed now. Thanks, Owen ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] new radio -- are these known issues?
Just took delivery of three radios, took one out of the box, and noticed the following: - The radio tries hard to make me create a mysqueezebox.com account, which I don't plan to do, since these will get used on a LAN with no internet access anyway. - After switching tracks, I often get very noisy (scratchy) skipping for several seconds. (All I'm trying to do is play my own music collection from SBS running on a linux machine -- these tracks play fine on my SB3. You guys do still test the Vorbis decoder, right?) - When an alarm goes off, I get a loud, jarring ~250msec blast of sound (perhaps a buffer emptying?) before the audio silences AND THEN fades in. - The LCD doesn't seem to display Japanese/Chinese fonts at all. Are these known issues, and is the radio still a work in progress? The FAQ doesn't seem to cover any of the above -- just basic stuff like walking you through the install process. I'm seriously considering returning them if this is par for release quality software. Thanks, Owen ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Japanese fonts
andyg wrote: > Non-ASCII chars are handled by creating a bitmapped version of the > character from a font file. So at smaller font sizes these can look a > bit weird I guess as less pixels are available to render the character. > I have some Japanese tags and they look fine to me. Maybe you can take > a picture and show what you mean? I managed to reproduce my original problem while experimenting with SoftSqueeze and SBS on Windows. Something is simply wrong with the font rendering/scaling. The graphics must be provided by the server (?) because the problem follows the server, not the player. Reinstalling the server eventually seems to make the problem go away. Here are screenshots of a SoftSqueeze "Transporter" displaying the same artist (Yoshimura Yumi, FWIW) correctly (connected to SBS 7.4.2 on Ubuntu) and incorrectly (connected to SBS 7.4.1 on Windows). http://owen.theemrys.com/sb_jp_fonts/ Regards, Owen ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] softsqueeze hangs at the end of tracks
Hello, and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere. I'm using SoftSqueeze 3.8 (on WinXP) with server 7.4.x (on Ubuntu) and have found that playback often hangs at the end of tracks. I see lots of options in the debug log but don't know what red flags to look for among the reams of data. Any assistance with further debugging would be greatly appreciated. What I know so far: - the player switches to "stop" at the end of certain tracks instead of advancing to the next track - roughly 1/3 of my tracks cause this behavior (all of my library is stored in Vorbis (.ogg) files - any given track either hangs with 100% reproducibility, or works correctly 100% of the time (i.e. the hang depends entirely on the track) - the files are not corrupt, were ripped recently, encoded with mainline oggenc, and decode just fine on my (real) SB3 - the hang behavior is the same regardless of whether the SoftSqueeze is connected via LAN, tunneled over SSH built-in, tunneled over a Putty SSH connection, or connected through a VPN tunnel (i.e. I don't think network problems are involved) - I tried the Windows server (7.4.1) with the same result, so I don't believe it's a server problem. Thanks in advance for any help! Regards, Owen ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Japanese fonts
andyg wrote: > Non-ASCII chars are handled by creating a bitmapped version of the > character from a font file. So at smaller font sizes these can look a > bit weird I guess as less pixels are available to render the character. > I have some Japanese tags and they look fine to me. Maybe you can take > a picture and show what you mean? Alas, I am now unable to reproduce it. I regressed all the way back to nightly build 7.4.2~29410 (SB3 firmware 130) and the Japanese fonts still look good. My wife confirms they weren't working before -- so I'm not definitely crazy. :-) -Owen ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Japanese fonts
andyg wrote: > Non-ASCII chars are handled by creating a bitmapped version of the > character from a font file. So at smaller font sizes these can look a > bit weird I guess as less pixels are available to render the character. No, it's not that. They really are borked. To me it looks like when a smoothly-aliased grayscale font has been forced to a 2bpp rendering. (The glyphs show up as mostly black, with vestiges of the strokes.) > I have some Japanese tags and they look fine to me. Maybe you can take > a picture and show what you mean? I fixed it by reverting to servers 7.2.1 and 7.3.4 (which installed SB3 firmwares 113 and 127, respectively). Still closing in on the version that broke it, but it definitely was broken with server 7.4.2 and firmware 130. I will post a photograph when I manage to break it again. -Owen ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Japanese fonts
I can confirm that Japanese fonts aren't displaying correctly on my SB3 (firmware 130). The tags are correct (UTF-8) and they look great in the server (7.4.2 on Ubuntu) but on the SB3 display they show up looking badly aliased. To me, it looks like they were transferred as graphics and poorly resized on the fly. They're almost legible with the largest font size, but anything smaller shows up as mostly black. Thanks in advance for any help! Regards, Owen ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
