Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?
My next system will be the replacement Touch I just ordered in case my current one dies. ;) I don't use any online services, don't even do multi-room syncing; just play my local library. The only features I use are new music and random. I reckon I've got years before I need to worry about a replacement. :) Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I love my Squeezebox!
Ditto just about all of the above. I missed the Slimp3 model (had a Barix Exstreamer at the time) but have gone through SB1-3 and it's far and away the best piece of equipment I've purchased - both VFM and functionality-wise. I rarely use the radio functions but the ability to have all my music on-tap, if I can't decide what I want I can randomise tracks or albums and let the thing decide for me, etc. Magic!! -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 Benchmark DAC1 Bel Canto S300iu MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44569 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Loving SqueezeCentre 7, however....
The library scan time is way longer than 6.5.0. My server is a lowly 1GHz VIA Epia but a full rescan took roughly 45 minutes. My first scan on 7 completed last night, took 48 minutes for the music and 1:05 for the cover art All I've done is uninstall 6.5.0 and install 7, no other system-wide setting changes - wassup with that 2 hour scan time? I like the new Default skin but could there be a stop button included :D All my plugins (LazySearch, Alien, Magnatune, Weather Date Time), even though they're beta versions, appear to be working fine, the only one I couldn't test yet was LazySearch due to the scan not completing until after I'd retired for the evening :) -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44256 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Loving SqueezeCentre 7, however....
That's fair enough I guess ;) I do a full rescan at 4am every day so it won't impact me too much. And in case you ask, I do a full vs a changed scan as I've had the odd problem in the past where I've changed a tag and it hasn't picked up correctly or given me slightly erratic results when just doing a new/changed scan. It was a while ago now so I may try it again. So how about that stop button then ? :) -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44256 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Loving SqueezeCentre 7, however....
Check that, LazySearch works fine as well :) -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44256 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Loving SqueezeCentre 7, however....
Same here, from Internet Radio it works fine but not from Favourites. Not a biggie for me TBH. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44256 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Rumor: Microsoft to buy Logitech?!
DennyL;260091 Wrote: I hope you are right. I agree that one can stay with one's hardware and current version of Slimserver, and I might do that. Microsoft has a record of being dishonest and ruthless in manipulating products to maximise its profits, and I fear that Slimserver, in a future of repidly diminishing CD sales and increasing downloading, would be a powerful tool to bring us all into the sort of digital rights management environment that the corporates dream of. I think paranoia is taking over a bit TBH. MS are no better/worse than any other business in my working experience. Most will do what they want to get where they want to be; MS just happens to be huge so comes under more public scrutiny and it seems to be the thing to criticise them. For me personally I have no beef, I have 3 machines at home that all hum along nicely and all do what they should reliably. In work (both within and without IT) I have to use their products through popular demand and generally have no issues. That's a whole other story though. As far as DRM, even if they somehow maniplated things so that every piece of music from now till doomsday had some form of DRM applied, I still have 1000 CDs in my loft with none; I seriously doubt they'll 'fix' things so that all CDs ever previously produced won't play on their hardware/software. As a consumer I have a choice whether to buy music under the evil RIAA umbrella or independent music, and again I seriously doubt MS would change things to such an extent that a non-DRM WAV file is unplayable. Millions of previous recordings, mobile ring-tones, personal diary audio blogs, whatever suddenyl unplayable - don't see it myself. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42018 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Interest Check: UK Silver Wired SB2
Before I stick my perfect condition, fully boxed, wired SB2 with UK PSU on the bay, if there's any interest around here drop me a pm. I'm not sure exactly what it's worth so any reasonable offers will be considered. Obviously it's Slim branded for those that care about such things ;) Sorry if I'm breaking any un-written rules (couldn't see anything) -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Interest Check: UK Silver Wired SB2
And it's gone :D -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB3 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 20% of all Logitech products (may be UK only)
Excellent, totally spur of the moment purchase but a black SB3 will look better in my living room than my silver SB2. £178, people are paying more than that on the 'bay. Cheers. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Does not advance to next song in list
Couldn't be related to pausing near the end of the track at all, could it? I get similar symptoms if I pause roughly 30 seconds before the end of a track, when I resume it'll play the rest of the track then nothing without skipping forward or stop/play. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36835 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Very annoyed and disappointed (not with SD - read on...)
I'll worry about it when I turn on my SB and it announces over the speakers Squeezebox, brought to you by Logitech Otherwise, can't say the brand worries me one bit. But to the OP, it's so annoying when people's communication is so [EMAIL PROTECTED] :| -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36331 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where does everyone buy their online music from?
amcluesent;203362 Wrote: Magnatune, good source of FLAC encoded (plus MP3 etc.) music I like their attitude as well, you don't actually buy as much as donate so you can choose the amount. And they are quite happy for you to distribute to upto 3 friends. RIAA anyone!!?! -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Bel Canto S300iu [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35446 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slimserver will not accept mapped drives, UNC paths for music, playlists
I think if you go into the Slimserver service properties and select to logon as administrator that'll cure it. I had a similar issue with my collection living a drive hanging off a different PC to the one Slimserver was installed on. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus Pre Xvs [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus X-Power [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35130 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can you permanently assign a drive letter in XP?
Instead of drive letters you can map them to an empty folder if you're using NTFS - that's what I do for my SB. In Disk Management, in the properties of the drive in question, remove the drive letter then add a mapping to your empty folder. Each drive will need it's own but both could be sub-folders of a 'master' folder. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus Pre Xvs [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus X-Power [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34974 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playing 24/48
To check you need to go into server settings and file formats. See what's ticked for the FLAC format, for mine I have FLACWAV so the decoding is done server-side but for some reason the server streams pure white noise (no music I can hear) on 24/48. But the SB can play 24/48 client-side with no trouble. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus Pre Xvs [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus X-Power [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34783 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playing 24/48
liffy99;197894 Wrote: Is this correct ? Should I just be ticking one of the three ? For example Flac to Flac ? Thanks I think it depends on how many players you have. If you only have the one player then you can just tick one box for each. Assuming you want to stream WAV, then you can tick MonkeyWAV, FLACWAV, MP3WAV, etc - and untick the other options, the server will do all the hard work. Otherwise, if you're happy for the SB to do the hard work with it's inbuilt support you can leave the formats native, so FLACFLAC, MP3MP3, and so on. Default is normally letting the SB do the work. At the risk of adding confusion :) if you have more than one player, the format used depends on the bit-rate limiting you've applied to each player. So for me all my music is in FLAC, I have FLACWAV and FLACMP3 set. My SB has no bit-rate limiting so it receives WAV, for when I use Winamp on my laptop as a player I have bitrate set to 320 so the server automatically feeds me MP3 @ 320. -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus Pre Xvs [NVA Soundpipe] Cyrus X-Power [Chord Rumour 4] MA GR20 Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34783 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playing 24/48
Are you streaming WAV or FLAC (i.e. is Slimserver or the Squeezebox doing the transcoding)? I've got an outstanding bug where 24/48 FLACs play fine when transcoded by my SB2, but white noise when done by the server. I prefer to have decoding done server-side as IMO it sounds marginally better. -- Rangdo Gronda Gronda Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34783 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 24/96 PCM to SB3 not so good.
In the meantime, why not just decode on the server side and stream WAV? -- Rangdo Gronda Gronda Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34451 ___ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 24/96 PCM to SB3 not so good.
Oops, good point - I raised that bug too :D What I've done for now is just retain the WAV file until that one is fixed - it's been a little while so I'd forgotten. Obviously I lose the tag information on those tracks but otherwise they play fine. -- Rangdo Gronda Gronda Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34451 ___ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Media Center PC as remote
I've got a HP Compaq slimline business desktop that functions very nicely. Very quiet, hooked up to my LCD telly with a 5m VGA cable so the PC is actually inside my hifi cabinet. Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse for when I need to use them, otherwise I control it via VNC from my laptop. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29810 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Media Center PC as remote
My mistake, I'd assumed you'd have already seen topics such as this one http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29789highlight=mce posted yesterday which discusses whether you can control SS via MCE. MCE is just Windows XP but with a full-screen application optimised for viewing on a TV (large icons, easy navigation using the included remote, etc). If you want you can hook it up to a normal monitor, or a TV - my TV is my sole monitor hence the reference to VNC if I want to use the PC as a PC. There is a plugin that allows MCE to act as a browser (quick Google will take you there) together with zoom functions for easy reading at a distance but navigating the SS web interface isn't great via remote, you'd need a wireless mouse for that. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29810 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Do you backup your FLACs (or other lossless files)?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28360 Question: Re. my lossless music files: - I back them all up to another drive - I don't backup don't see any point. - I don't backup because I don't have enough disk space - I don't backup hadn't considered a drive failure As you said, HDD's are cheap so I've got 2 400GB drives for my FLACs, both in USB2 enclosures - one is connected to my server this is mirrored to the other drive which is then stored safely. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28360 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Do you backup your FLACs (or other lossless files)?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28360 Question: Re. my lossless music files: - I back them all up to another drive - I don't backup don't see any point. - I don't backup because I don't have enough disk space - I don't backup hadn't considered a drive failure I've got to admit I don't do it automatically. Initially I just copied everything from one drive to the other (drag and drop) then once a week I add any new files in the same way. My collection isn't growing rapidly and as I have to manually plug the back-up drive in anyway I can't be bothered trying to put anything intelligent around the process. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28360 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Where did bitrate limiting go?
It's in the player settings, under audio. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28221 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SS doesn't advance to the next track after pause
Probably relates to this bug which is marked as fixed http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169#c12 Basically if I pause a track within the last ~30 seconds SS doesn't advance to the next track unless I press next on either the remote or web interface. I had this with 6.3 and I've now got it with 6.5 (which was a fresh install). Is anyone else still experiencing this; this is now my only bug-bear (no pun intended and only a minor issue at that) -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28188 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
Not sure if I've missed someone say this but I've noticed the same problem today - a small handful of albums I've ripped recently have duplicate entries. The only difference between old and new rips is I've started saving the cue file in the same folder. The only albums with dupes had a cue file, not all of the albums with a cue duped and there doesn't appear to be any obvious pattern to which ones dupe and which don't. I've deleted the cue files from the respective album folders and the dupes appear to be gone (at least the 2 offenders that hit me today aren't duping now) :) -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.3.0: Many Duplicate Albums Listed (as well as duped New Music, Album Art, etc)
Fair do's, thanks for the replies ;) Shame I didn't look on the forum *before* spending an hour this morning figuring out what was causing the dupes. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25070 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Shuttles New Slim PC
These have an external power brick that is silent, just like my Shuttle Zen. So the only fan is the one on the CPU heatpipe - no idea how noisy that is but my Zen is pretty quiet (albeit inside my TV cabinet behind a glass door) -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24582 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!
FWIW, jumping in at the end, I've just tried updating to 6.2.2 from 6.2.1 on my XP MCE server, got the same problem. Reverted to 6.2.1 after uninstalling, same problem. Rebooted routers didn't help. Reset holding the + key didn't seem to help. I'm now working again with 6.2.1, the only difference was that I normally manually enter the network details, final time I let them pick up via DHCP. Plucking up the courage to try 6.2.2 and use the auto-DHCP part again. -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23389 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2.2. OK now! This is fun! NOT!
And it worked :) -- Rangdo Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23389 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
