Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox: Product Name
There's a lot of good suggestions here, but I think there's a few principles that ought to be adhered to that will cull about half the list. 1. It shouldn't encroach on someone else's name/trademark/IP. - "BelCanto" is out: as has been mentioned, there is a hifi company by that name. - You'll probably get a nastygram from Logitech if you were to use the phrases "Squeeze" or "Slim" or the like anywhere in the title. 2. Googling should yield relevent results. - Doing a search for "juice box" or "music box" is going to give you a lot of results for anything but the device. ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97975 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Newbie setup questions
aubuti;531441 Wrote: > Yes, but the OP isn't describing an external USB hard drive, he is > describing a NAS. The Touch's built-in SBS will not access libraries on > a NAS. You're right. I got mistaken because the first product the OP linked to is just an ordinary USB drive. I think the Touch ought to be capable of connecting to a NAS (I think I read somewhere that Samba is installed on it), but doing so almost certainly isn't officially supported and wouldn't be easy for a newbie. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Newbie setup questions
The Duet can't directly access an external hard drive - it has to connect to a computer running the Squeezebox Server software. The Squeezebox Touch can do what you describe. It can play files directly off most external USB hard drives. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76956 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox & Unbuntu not recognising music folder
What I believe is happening here is that when you insert the pen drive into the Linux machine, it's being mounted with permissions that are too strict for SBS to use them. When you copy the files to your server, the files keep those strict permissions. I believe the solution is to either run that command every time you copy music from the pen drive, OR I believe that changing how the drive is mounted might solve your problems once and for all. You'll have to make some changes to your fstab. What is the filesystem on the pen drive? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab for more info. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75662 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Integration with DropBox
erland;528087 Wrote: > I might be missing something but my Dropbox appears as a regular > directory on the local hard drive which is continuously synchronized > with the DropBox online account. Shouldn't it be enough to just create > a shortcut/soft link in your music library that points to that > directory ? I believe the feature being requested here is integration with mysqueezebox.com, so you could listen to songs on a Dropbox share without having to run your own server. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76495 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Integration with DropBox
A month ago, one of their developers posted that they would be releasing Linux ARM builds this year, but gave no ETA: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17384#post-108742 So, even if it's impractical to get it officially supported, it could be a really neat DIY project for the Touch. I'm not a Dropbox user, but I like the idea. One reason I'm a little averse to Dropbox is because I caught them astroturfing their service on Digg a while back. In fact, the guy I caught appears to be the same dev I linked to above. See timeserena's comment on this story, and his comment history. http://digg.com/software/Dropbox_GDrive_Killer_finally_launches_plus_Linux_iPhone http://digg.com/users/timeserena/history/comments He couldn't have been the only Dropbox person in that Digg thread. The comments on that page are just stuffed with generic platitudes about Dropbox. They also seem to employ Zed Shaw. I'm already a bit OT here, so I'll just stop with that. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76495 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Trying to get Squeezebox to send Now Playing to Trillian Astra without writing a app
mkanet;515983 Wrote: > Please dont beat me up for saying this... because it might make you > pretty upset, but lets face it, Pidgin badly needs a complete overhaul > to update itself for modern OS's; and, also really could use the ability > to run in a browser without having to install a client... even Meebo > does that. Why would I be upset? I'm a Linux guy. I use ugly software all the time, and I like it that way. :) As for a fancier default interface for Pidgin... that's not going to happen. See: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#LookFeel They have the typical open-source attitude of "If you don't like it, the source & config files are located over there." Open source developers are also hostile toward scope creep, which is why you probably won't see them doing a web service like Meebo. All that being said, you can probably change GTK themes to make Pidgin blend in with your desktop a lot better. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75125 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Trying to get Squeezebox to send Now Playing to Trillian Astra without writing a app
mkanet;515965 Wrote: > Its hard to believe Logitech Squeezebox isnt popular enough for Trillian > Astra to support it. SBS usage accounts for only a tiny slice of all media player usage, and Trillian is similarly (un)popular. The intersection of users of both applications is vanishingly small. If you're willing to switch IM clients, I believe there are plugins for Pidgin that will pull info from Last.fm and apply it to your profile. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75125 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] professional grade router
iPhone;515559 Wrote: > A Linksys WiFi Router that can have outside firmware loaded on it > something like Tomato should work. Specifically, the Linksys WRT54GL. The trailing 'L' denotes compatibility with 3rd party firmware. I have mine loaded with DD-WRT, and it's been rock-solid for years. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75074 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad?
pippin;511068 Wrote: > Maybe if you have some weird Hi-Speed server. On my machines the Web UI > is simply way too slow. My server setup is somewhat good (Linux, 2.2Ghz dual-core mobile cpu, 3GB RAM, however it is connected via wireless), but that's only half the story: good Javascript performance is also essential, and by all accounts the CPU in the iPad is pretty remarkable. I've got an 8 year old laptop that I sometimes use to access SBS, and it's eminently usable. It's a Pentium III-M with 512MB RAM, and I've got it loaded with Knoppix and Chrome. If I had it loaded with a fully patched XP and tried to load the Web UI in IE, I know I would have the same complaints as you. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74572 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad?
Is a specialized app really necessary for something this size? Wouldn't it be easier just to load up the normal web UI in Safari? I'm genuinely curious; I've never even held an iPhone. I'm a Duet owner, and I've found that when I have a laptop and the Controller in the same room, I generally prefer to use the laptop to control my Squeezeboxen. I find it easier to conduct searches and manage playlists via the web UI. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74572 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Love My Squeezebox! What's The Equivalent For Video?
MelonMonkey;483483 Wrote: > With Myth you are either running the server in place of a client or > you're running another PC as a client. Both solutions require a PC > capable of decoding the streams you're sending to it. A lot of the capture cards do MPEG encoding, so the backend just has to be capable of dumping the stream to disk, doing commercial flagging, and running the database. Just about any PC with a lot of storage would work. > NVIDIA's ION platform has a lot of promise, but it's (currently) > over-priced and all solutions with it in a small form factor are > currently extremely costly, completely obliterating the promise it has > as a viable extender platform earlier this year (it was easy to > predict). Newegg has a fanless ION mobo/Atom CPU combo for less than $120. You could put together a near-silent (or possibly even totally silent) front-end for well under $500. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40689 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB + Audioengine + anyway to get a line in....
If the Touch could be extended in such a manner, would the audio still sync with the video on the TV? As for the OP, if he doesn't have variable audio outputs on the TV, he probably needs a preamp. I'm also dealing with a similar setup, and I've been looking high and low for a budget preamp with a remote. It's almost bizarre that such devices are few and far between. About the only active preamps with a remote that I can find for less than $500 are Emotiva's USP-1 ($400) and Firestone Audio's MASS preamp ($220). -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70942 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Simplify Media, UPnp and Squeezebox
If a plugin exists that would work, forget my idea. It's too complicated. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70248 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Simplify Media, UPnp and Squeezebox
As far as I can tell, squeezeboxserver will only scan one folder location. No promises that the following would work and if it did, it would be an ugly hack: djmount is a linux program that mounts a upnp share as a filesystem. You might be able to get it working on your mac with macFUSE. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70248 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Love My Squeezebox! What's The Equivalent For Video?
epoch1970;454147 Wrote: > In case you want to decode about any format in high-def, you'll need to > use software decoders in the CPU. I think a Core 2 is ok for anything > 720p and a big quad is necessary for 1080p @ very high bitrates as found > on a blu ray movie. > (A big quad won't do for a nice htpc, imho: power = heat = noise.) Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't video playback single-threaded, making a big quad a little bit of overkill? Dollar for dollar, I think you're probably better off getting a dual core with a fast clock than a quad, especially when you also consider power consumption. I built a MythTV box about a year ago with a e8400 (3GHz C2D) and it's more than fast enough to handle all of the high-bitrate, hi-res video that I've thrown at it. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40689 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Contribute your squeezecenter server to world peace
radish;427083 Wrote: > But it's not really a "background program" - these things are > specifically designed to take 100% cpu when the machine is otherwise > idle (which for a typical file server is almost all the time). It does > of course depend very much on your machine, something like an Atom has a > max usage of around 4W so a 50% change is largely irrelevant. A faster > processor however could have a much bigger range - mine is running on an > Athlon LE-1640 which has a max usage of 45W, compared with an idle usage > closer to 10W - the difference there is obviously much greater. My guess > is that more people are running SC on old P4 boxes (which use huge > amounts of power) than Atoms, so the difference could be quite > significant. > > Add to that the fact that you're running the thing at max temps which > may cause interesting issues depending on how good your cooling is (as > well as increasing noise). > > I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from contributing if they want to, > just making sure people are aware that it's not "free" computing power, > it costs you some extra amount of money and it costs the environment > some extra amount of carbon emissions, even if your machine is normally > on 24/7 like mine. This depends a lot on the hardware, OS, client, and power consumption settings. It is possible to run one of these programs without significantly altering the power consumption of the machine. The laptop I run SC and fold...@home on cruises along at 800Mhz most of the time. It instantly scales up to 2.2Ghz (or any of the notches in between) if a process with a high priority demands it. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63681 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play files at work with just webbrowser
Depends on your browser configuration. When I access stream.mp3 with my browser, a browser plugin launches which let me listen. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63065 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Play files at work with just webbrowser
If you can already access the web UI from work, you've already won half the battle. Otherwise, you need to adjust your home networking gear to forward the necessary Squeezecenter ports to your server. Make sure you have LAME installed on your server. When at work, I'm assuming you'd be accessing the web UI by using the URL of http://yourhomeipaddress:9000/ To listen in, point whatever media software you have on your work PC to http://yourhomeipaddress:9000/stream.mp3 You may need to adjust some settings by going into the SC settings, going to the Player tab, and selecting your work player from the drop-down list. You may need to adjust some security settings under the Advanced tab. After that, you should be able to control it just like any other using the web UI. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63065 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] mp3HD
I'm not sure I see the need for this format. Disk space on a PC isn't a consideration, but disk space on portable devices still is. I'd have both a flac and an mp3 on my PC than waste space by using this on portable devices. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61694 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Grooveshark??
As long as you're willing to use a computer to control it, the WaveInput plugin would work. Optionally set up a VNC connection if you want to control the playback from a computer other than your server. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61116 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Harmony, Receiver, SB3 confusion
Well, I'm 2/3 done with a hack of the type that both you and I are on the same page about. I worked at it for a little while about a month ago, and just haven't gotten around to finishing it. I have a Linux HTPC, a Harmony One remote, and an SBR. I have set up the Harmony to emulate the SB3 remote. I have set up LIRC to recognize these SB3 IR codes. I have also written a few simple scripts that are sent to Squeezecenter and control the SBR. The scripts are as simple as the following, which is a pause/play toggle. Code: #!/bin/bash echo '00:04:20:16:1a:65 pause' | nc mythbox 9090 -q 1 The MAC address is the SBR, and mythbox is a box running my Squeezecenter. The CLI documentation is all that's needed to simple variations on this. The only thing I have left to do is to write a config file pointing to those scripts for LIRC's irw program, and I also need to get irw to start on boot. You could do the same thing... LIRC does run on OS X. This isn't entirely trivial stuff though. IMO, LIRC is a complete PITA to configure. I guess it's necessarily so, because everyone is trying to use a different IR receiver, a different remote, and are trying to control different programs. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60873 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Harmony, Receiver, SB3 confusion
No agillis, the SBR doesn't have an IR receiver. One possible hack to get the SBR responding to the Harmony is to add an IR receiver to your server, then throw together some scripts to tie button presses to the Squeezecenter CLI. However, this approach would generally only work if your server is in some proximity to your SBR. In your case aiken, why not match the SBR with the powered speakers, and the SB3 with the A/V receiver? Otherwise, it's probably simplest to just get another SB3 and sell the SBR if you don't need another player. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60873 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Adding extra functionality to the Harmony remote
You'll probably have to program a sequence to do this using the Harmony software. Under the activity you set up for Squeezebox listening, go to Customize Buttons > Additional Buttons > Add Sequence. I think the maximum length that a sequence can be is 5 commands, so this may not work too well if it takes more than 5 button presses to do whatever you're to program. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59896 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Fastest path from ripping to playing
I have yet to try it, but the AutoRescan plugin might be a solution: http://www.hickinbottom.com/autorescan -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53788 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Best practices: SqueezeCenter (flac) to iPod
For Linux users, I've found MP3FS to be a very elegant solution to this problem. You point MP3FS at a directory full of FLACs, and it creates a virtual directory full of MP3s. Only the MP3s don't exist anywhere on a disk, but are transcoded on-the-fly from the FLACs. Only downside to this approach is that it's pretty resource-intensive operation. -- cooppw02 ---- cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49392 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Minnesota Public Radio 128 Stream
Thanks so much for the advice on looking up an alternate URL. I hadn't even been aware that the regular URL stopped working. I've had a Duet for a few weeks now, and have found that I listen to MPR's The Current quite a bit. I'm afraid that this might be an effort to lock out hardware streamers, as I'm also able to stream the station on my computer using VLC. I do believe I've read in some other threads that some internet radio stations are starting to block access to hardware streamers. As for your volume issue, I'm afraid I'm not any help. I use the volume control on the SBC quite a bit, so I can't even confirm that there is a difference. -- cooppw02 cooppw02's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45916 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
