Re: [slim] SqueezeBox Duet : No more sound after FW upgrade
same problem here!!! must be something serious. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50489 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
grrman;349175 Wrote: Still a bug, see 9638. Pete nope. that one does not apply to this problem. in that case, mov123 won't decode at all. in this case however, it decodes only rubbish. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
bpa;349918 Wrote: Have you logged your problems as a bug ? if not then they will not be solved. yes. read this thread :D -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple's FairPlay DRM - Songbird can play it. Why not SqueezeCenter?
toby10;347773 Wrote: LOL:) Publish it! Do't forget to publish it with someone who offers DRM. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple's FairPlay DRM - Songbird can play it. Why not SqueezeCenter?
@ModelCitizen: No need to get rude here buddy. Keep it calm. I don't see why iTunes would have to be running on the Squeezebox itself. As far as I understand, Songbird uses Quicktime to decode the DRM files (which in turn have had to be played and authorized at least once from within iTunes before this works). So my guess is it would be possible for SqueezeCenter to do the same, e.g. use the installed quicktime components to decode the file and then stream it to the SB in whatever format you wish. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple's FairPlay DRM - Songbird can play it. Why not SqueezeCenter?
First, we are not here to discuss why people buy from iTunes store, are we? At least this was not my intent when I opened this thread. People buy from there for a reason. It's convinient, especially if you are an iTunes user anyway. If it's wrong or right is not the subject of this thread, so let's put this discussion elsewhere. Most SB owners don't buy from iTunes is just another assumption. No way to prove that, thus unnecessary to further discuss. All I want here is discuss the technical possibility - can it be done, yes or no. I don't think you have to have iTunes running in the background all the time. At least that's not the case with Songbird. It just uses the quicktime components that are installed on the system anyways. So instead of SC calling mov123 or faad to decode a file, have it call quicktime. What's the big deal? And if you can (obviously Songbird can, so I don't see why SC could not) decode the files using quicktime and at the same time get pass the DRM, great. Why not do it? Because some people have political/moral objections? I think those SB owners who buy from iTunes store would really really welcome it if SC was able to stream those protected files. I for one would welcome it. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple's FairPlay DRM - Songbird can play it. Why not SqueezeCenter?
autopilot;347317 Wrote: Well im not a mind reader, and if you open a public thread you invite a response, which sometimes wont be within the exact parameters you wanted. And for what it's worth, i do think it's relevant to a degree - the number of people wanting this would have a bearing on how the likeliness of it happening. And i have spent enough time on these forums to make an educated guess that it's pretty low. So you take it for a given that the users on this forum represent the majority of all SB owners? How many of all SB owners do you think come to this forum? All assumptions again. But never mind. I was trying to suggest looking into this because it might be worthwhile. I didn't think there were so many stubborn anti-DRM-advocates in here that paint everything DRM in black. DRM files are rubbish, people who buy the rubbish shouldn't complain afterwards. I get it. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Apple's FairPlay DRM - Songbird can play it. Why not SqueezeCenter?
well no matter how they do it within songbird - they do it. and that's what counts. I've long been annoyed by the fact that my Slim setup can't play those files (no offense against Slim Devices, I know why they can't). But now seeing that others are doing it, I am eager to get something like this going in SC. It can be done, and it's been a while that they've been doing it, so I guess the legal stuff does not seem to be a problem. It's just a technical question. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
any news on this? this bug STILL exists, even in the newest version. mov123 still only outputs hiss unless you change the endian setting. and the custom-convert.conf still gets deleted upon SC upgrades. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8434 -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Apple's FairPlay DRM - Songbird can play it. Why not SqueezeCenter?
Hi, you might or might not know Songbird, the mozilla based media player, which has a plugin that enables it to play back AAC files protected by Apple's Fairplay DRM. So if others can do it - why not SqueezeCenter? Go for it! -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Completely uninstall 7.x
No, I am talking about a different bug. #8444 and #8434. So how do I uninstall SC cleanly enough that I can be sure a new install will in no way be affected by the previous install? Thanks Sascha -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53089 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Duet Controller does not upgrade to SC 7.2 firmware - error message
Hi, after upgrading SC to 7.2 my controllers tell me a software update is available. It tries to copy the update from the server, but fails. In the SC log file I get this: Slim::Utils::Firmware::downloadAsyncError (500) Warning: Firmware: Failed to download http://update.slimdevices.com/update/firmware/7.2/jive_7.2_r2873.bin.sha (Validation of firmware /Users/sascha/Library/Caches/SlimServer/jive_7.2_r2873.bin failed, SHA1 checksum did not match), will try again in 10 minutes I tried waiting 20 minutes and do the update again, but it still fails. Any thought? Cheers Sascha -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53137 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Completely uninstall 7.x
badlyread;344670 Wrote: How do you 'right click' with a mac mouse? Press the CTRL key, hold it, then press the mouse button. Or get yourself a two button mouse (or more). Makes live easier. Basically any USB mouse you find on the market will work on your Mac. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53089 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Completely uninstall 7.x
Hi, I've been having tons of issues with m4a files on my SC on Mac OS X. Bug was filed, but never resolved. So I am thinking about completely removing the software, every single bit of it, and reinstall and reconfigure. Go fresh, so to say. Now how do I get rid of SC? I guess the usual uninstall will leave some bits and pieces on the system. I seem to remember I read an article about it a while ago, but can't find it no more. Any clues? Thanks Sascha -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53089 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
bpa;315052 Wrote: Don't change convert.conf. If you put these lines in the custom-convert.conf file in the same folder as convert.conf. SC will reads the custom file after the the convert.conf and use the faad rules. Restart SC and check Setting/Advanced/Filetype that faad is being used for mov. that's strange now... I just upgraded 7.0.1 to the 7.1.0 release. gues what. my custom-convert.conf was deleted. so was the faa binary that I copied to the server's bin directory. I thought that at least the custom-convert.conf would be preserved? -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
A bug was already filed. Thanks for your help though, I appreciate it!! Cheers Sascha -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
bpa;315052 Wrote: From thr Wiki entry on AAC [...] Ok so I tried the fadd stuff. Put it into custom-convert.conf as you said and restarted the server. Now everything in the file type section of the web inerface is greyed out. See attached screeshot. I also tried commenting out everything related in the convert.conf, just to make sure, but I get similar results. +---+ |Filename: Picture 1.png| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5367| +---+ -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
bpa;316139 Wrote: Greyed out means SC couldn't find the faad application you just installed. So either the faad applications is called something other than faad or else it is not installed in a directories which Sc looks. Was the application called faad or faad2 ? If it is called faad2 then the custom-convert.conf needs to have [faad2] and not [faad]. That did it. faad was not in SC's path. Copied it over to SC's Bin/darwin directory and now it's working. And you know what? It's working perfectly. No hiss, perfect quality. So my files are all right and this has got to be a bug in mov123 or whatever. Strange that no one else has noticed this yet? -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
bpa;316146 Wrote: All mov123 does is call QuickTime libraries to decode so the problem is in QuickTime. Variations of this problem have been reported from time to time on Windows platform but it seems to only affect a small number of systems. Well please excuse my ignorance here but simply pushing this to Quicktime is sort of easy. I doubt it is a quicktime problem. These files play well in quicktime and/or iTunes and in fact any other app here that uses quicktime. Except for SC/mov123. I rather suspect this to be an issue with SC or how SC uses mov123. As I have reported in another thread a couple of times already the default configuration coming with SC still makes use of big endian even though you must not do this on an Intel based platform. No one seems to care about this either. This may or may not be related, but it gives you some sort of clue as to how Slim Devices seems to handle the Mac platform. I personally wouldn't be so arrogant (no offense) to simply push the problem elsewhere. Something is wrong - out of the box for paying customers - and that should be investigated. If the next update is not going to fix this problem and I will have to resort to the faad hack, I am going to carry that little box back to Logitech so they can keep it. I bought support for AAC on Mac and it's not working. Sorry, I don't mean you. I just hope someone from Logitech is reading this. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Are there any updates on this? There is still tons of noise here and I don't want to mess around with faad and the config files. This should work fine right out of the box -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
bpa;315047 Wrote: It is worthwhile to try the faad solution if only to identify the source of the noise. If the noise is eliminated when using faad rather than mov123 is used then the problem is probably in Apple QuickTime libraries. Quicktime problems have happened on some Windows installations and have been fixed in a later QuickTime point release. If the faad solution does not get rid of the noise - then it is clear the noise is introduced elsewhere in the decoding process. Ok I can try, but someone needs to help me set up the right configuration. I have faad installed on my Mac, but what do I need to put in the convert.conf? -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Thank you very much for the detailed response. I am going to try this and let you know what happens. Appreciate it! Sascha -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Nonreality;313047 Wrote: I meant actually switching the files to flac. Just convert all your aac files to flac that way you won't lose anything and then you can play them and have fast forward and rewind capabilities. They won't be true lossless but will sound as good as they can with no transcoding to another lossy format problems. Oh ok... Got it :) Can't do that though. I am one of those retarded mac fanboys who uses iTunes to manage his music collection :-D iTunes + flac = no. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
ChrisOwens;312633 Wrote: I went ahead and created a bug for this issue: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8444 Thanks for opening the bug Chris. Why did you target the resolution for the 7.2 release? Isn't that kind of far away? -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
@rdefelice: No offense, but could you please open another thread for this? I am more than sure that your problem is a different one than mine. I am not even using faad or Linux. Thanks -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Any instructions on how to use faad? Is it even available for Mac? -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
rdefelice;312837 Wrote: If you have darwinports installed, you can get it that way. See http://faad2.darwinports.com/ for more info. If you prefer not to use darwinports and have the developer tools installed, you can download the source code from http://www.audiocoding.com/downloads.html. Once you grab the zip or the .tar.gz file, you can decompress it and follow the instructions in the README.linux file. I just confirmed it compiles just fine in OSX for me. Once you install it, change your convert.conf so that it uses faad instead of mov123 under the mov mp3 * * entry. Also, you might need to play with the -r and -x flags in the lame usage flags depending on what byte order faad outputs on your system. -r As a matter of fact I have darwinports installed :) But did I get it right that by using faad I will re-encode to MP3? I really don't want to do this... While we are at it: How does SC decide which entry in the convert.conf to use? I can setup multiple decoding entries for a single file type (same thing in the SC webinterface, where I have three choices per filetype). How do I tell which one is being used? Thanks, btw... -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Can faad just decode to WAV or something else uncompressed (FLAC, whatever)? -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
well I would love to encode to flac. But I need some help setting it up with faad. Once this is configured, is there a way I can prevent SC upgrades from overwriting my convert.conf? -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
seanadams;312385 Wrote: Based on the comments here it seems pretty clear that this is a server side problem with mp4 decoding. There's nothing involving volume settings or cabling that could cause noise to occur for only one format. To the people who just said that it sounds OK on their system: what is your OS and CPU type? If there is some byte ordering or alignment issue, it is conceivable that perhaps the top 8 bits are OK and the lower 8 bits are garbage. That would case a lot of white hiss, while still hearing the music over it. That really sounds like it makes sense. As I said, this problem was only introduced recently, I think it started with some of the early 7.x builds. Maybe there is some sort of incompatibility between the mov123 component and the recent Mac OS updates (10.5.x, Quicktime 7.x). Plus there is this problem with big vs. little endian being set the wrong way in the default convert.conf file, for which I already opened a bug (nr. 8434). If anyone from Slimdevices, ehrm, Logitec for that matter, needs more detailed information about my setup, please let me know. I am happy to help and get this fixed, because at least 50% of my music collection are AAC/MP4 and it's really no fun right now. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
never mind, I found the setting. however, regarding to the tooltip help for that this is only applied to analog outputs. I am using digital outputs. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
pablolie;312019 Wrote: what is your amp or loudspeaker setup? also, have you modified the gain settings either in the files themselves or in SC (preamp volume control being a possible culprit?)? not that I knew of. I didn't know you can do that in SC. Where is it? -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Mnyb;312090 Wrote: And the gain settings for files is not only for analog outputs ? they would aply if you allow digital volume control. well I just repeat what the documentation says: for analog output only. Yes, I am using volume control because that's what I need. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Mnyb;312106 Wrote: Where is your normal listening volume ? Your hopefully aware of that the digital volume is reducing bits so the noisefloor is creeping closer. No, I am not aware of this. What exactly does it mean? What amp or dac is the SB connected to you could just try the volume on that instead, and use the full volume of the SB to see if the problem goes away. It doesn't matter to what it is connected to. I have three SBs around the house. One is connected to a high end Denon AVR4306, the other to an Apple Hifi speaker system, third is not relevant right now. I get the hiss on all the amps, no matter how I tune them (tried upping the volume on the SB and lowering it on the amp, and vise versa). Also, I really would like to press that this only happens on MP4 files, not on MP3. Looks to me as if there is something wrong with the MP4 decoding. Also, might the wireless connection introduce noise? I feed the SB over WiFi. I don't have the spec for the SB digital volume in my head. In conjuction with the built in dac i think it operates from 24bits so this will only be a problem with low volumes. It is very present at any volume combination. No matter what I do. The noise only start when a track actually start playing. When the track is finished, there is no more noise. There is also no noise when paused/stopped. Do you have a very loud system ? with lots off gain and efficient speakers. In one case, yes. Denon AVR4306 feeding large Dynaudio Contour high end speakers. I really appreciate you trying to help me here! :-) Sascha -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Dynaudio rocks :-)) I also have an old model (the 3.3) but I am more than happy with them. Ok, so digital output is actually bad if I get it right. Reducing the bits sucks. I am going to switch to analog. Maybe this will eliminate the problem. Cheers! -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Mnyb;312112 Wrote: I last note How do you transcode ? mp4 is not native to the SB3 so it's trancoded on the server. I suggests transcoding to flac. this will be a lossy encoding to lossles trancode. mp4 to mp3 tracoding is lossy to lossy and this IS known to introduce artefacts. check your file types settings. I am using the default setup, so I guss it's already transcoding to flac. Didn't chang anything there. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
The thing is... I want to use the volume control of the SB. If I have to go to the amp and fiddle with the volume there, that doesn't make much sense to me. Destroys the whole concept of the Duet (one controller for everything). I have the Duet controller and want to do everything from there. And if digital volume control is cutting out bits, that's a total no go for me. So I will definitely switch to analog. I checked the MP4 transcoding settings. It says it is using mov123 for the transcoding. There is no other setting available. The other thing is I am using Mac OS X on intel processors. With each new release of SqueezeCenter I have to change the setting for the transcoding from little endian to big endian because the SC people just don't get it that little endian was used back on the PowerPC days (might be the other way around, from big to little, I don't remember). If I don't do that, all my MP4 don't play at all. Maybe it's got omething to do with that. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Hi, to clarify: These files are top notch quality. They play without any hiss on any other player (like from within iTunes or on my iPod or through Winamp on Windows). So it's only on the SB Duet where the files are causing problems. ReplayGain is turned off in SC. I also don't seem to have had this problem a while back, so I am guessing it was introduced with one of the recent SC upgrades. I tried 7.1 today, but I get the same thing. The noise also seems to dynamically adjust. e.g. in portions of the track that have limited volume, the noise is going down. When the track builds up, the noise builds up. I have attached a track to this thread which will perfectly show this behavior in the first couple of seconds of the track, where two or three chords of piano are played, with silence inbetween them. As soon as the piano chors hits the silence, you can hear how the noise increases and then goes down again once the piano chord is over. Please note that SC is running on Mac OS X (Intel based). Maybe that's of importance. Every new version of SC that is released for Mac has the wrong conversion setting in the convert.conf. It is telling FLAC to use big endian instead of little endian. Big endian is not working on Intel based processors, it is only working on PPC processors. See my seperate thread for this in the developer subforum. Maybe this is related. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
pablolie;312258 Wrote: File sounds fine on my setup. So the hiss starts when you play this file, and the setup is silent otherwise, or is there a high noise floor all the time? Is there hiss when powering off the Squeezebox? Make sure there are no adverse power effects. No. As I said earlier. No noise when paused, stopped or turned off. Hiss is only present when playing MP4 files (mov123 to flac conversion). Everything else is perfect, no noise when playing other formats. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
Hi, I recently noticed that a lot of my tracks being played over a Duet (server 7.01 on mac os x) have a lot of backgrond noise, like white static or as if you would play old tapes. When listening to these tracks with iTunes or whatever, I don't get that noise. I think I can pretty much rule out bad encondings. They are all high quality rips directly from digital media like CD or from iTunes store. Also, the Duet is connected via digital link, not analog, so I think I can also rule out bad cables or analog interferences. Maybe this is related, but I really have to pump up the volume of the speakers/stereo connected to the Duet. As if the server would send the tracks at really low volume. Maybe the static is coming from that. Any ideas what might be wrong here? Thanks Sascha -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
what do you mean? where? on the controller? no. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] lot's of backgroud noise like tape hiss
andynormancx;312011 Wrote: Do you have the Volume Adjustment turned on, if so try turning it off. tried that already. doesn't help. I think it's only with mp4 files. I don't seem to have his issue with mp3. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48877 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Turn off motion sensor in controller?
That's awesome! Thanks Dean! -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46878 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Turn off motion sensor in controller?
Hi, while the motion sensor in the Duet controller is nice in certain scenarios, it doesn't make much sense if you tend to carry the controller around with you in the house. I tend to have it in one of my pockets to always be able to control my system, no matter where I am. So what happens? The motion sensor is triggered by each and every move I make, preventing the controller to dim down it's screen or go into sleep mode. Result: Battery is dead after only a couple of hours. Can the motion sensor in any way be configured or turned off? Thanks -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46878 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] m4a files give me white noise only
thanks. I am pretty new to this so I would appreciate it if you could tell me where to find that convert.conf file. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41784 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] m4a files give me white noise only
never mind, I found it. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41784 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] m4a files give me white noise only
all right. mine was using big endian too. changed it to little and now it's working fine :) thanks a lot! cheers -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41784 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] m4a files give me white noise only
hi, I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden my SB3 (etherenet connection) will not play any m4a files any more. Those files were either ripped by myself or are purchased iTunes Plus files. Instead of the music, I get a very harsh and disturbing white noise at full volume. I think this started with server version 6.5.4, not 100% sure though. I upgraded to the 7.x branch but that did not help a thing. Any ideas what might be wrong? Thanks. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41784 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] 6.2.2 scan needs hours and hours to complete
Hi, I am very new to the Slim System. In fact I just installed a squeezbox3 and slimserver on windows just a couple of days ago. first time. so here is a problem right away: slimserver needs several hours to scan my library (816 albums with 9443 songs by 225 artists). During that time the whole system becomes very unresponsive, slim.exe taking up 90-100% of the CPU. It gets so tough that I can't even log into the web interface anymore (so: no, I can not look at the debugging logs). The first couple of times I thought the software is choking on something and just crashes, but after like 2.5 hours it suddenly finished. Now... the REscan, which should take less time to my understanding, is taking just as long. There must be a bug or something in my music files that the server doesn't like. Any ideas? Any help appreciated. Thanks! -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2.2 scan needs hours and hours to complete
yes foobar also takes long, but we are not talking about hours here. I mean, Slimserver = several hours! foobar maybe 10 minutes for the same amount of files. something is not right. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2.2 scan needs hours and hours to complete
thanks. I'll try that. I think I have a couple of playlists that lead to nowhere. However, since the webinterface becomes unresponsive, I have no chance to look at the logfile (as that is being served through the web interface and I couldn't find any traces of it on the disk). cheers btw: as mentioned above, the platform is windows, squeezbox3 (wireless), slimserver 6.2.2 -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2.2 scan needs hours and hours to complete
trid that as well. the log file refresh stops way before the server starts to choke. so no help really. I am going to dump out my playlists and try a full new scan. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2.2 scan needs hours and hours to complete
well this obviously didn't do the trick. I deleted all playlists as well as the database file. Now Slimserver is doing a rescan at 99% CPU and it's webinterface stopped responding. What a great product! I give this one more hour of fiddeling around. After that it's goodbye Squeezbox! :-( -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: 6.2.2 scan needs hours and hours to complete
I just installed the lates 6.3 nightly build and voila, it works. took 7 minutes to scan the library. thanks for all your help guys, I appreciate it! :) -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24085 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] server database is case sensitive and that's bad. read why.
Hi, I just noticed the following: Say you have one album of one artist. Now also say for whatever reason, one of your album tag within the same album is all lower case, while the rest of the tracks are upper case. Like this: track: 1 artist: david bowie album: heroes track: 2 artist: david bowie album: HEROES Slimserver treats this as two different albums, even though it's just one. So I end up having two heroes albums by mr. bowie, one containing one song, one the rest. one could argue go fix your tags but I would reply what for, I have a computer. That being said... can this behavior be changed? if not, take this as a feature request. thanks. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24093 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: server database is case sensitive and that's bad. read why.
ceejay Wrote: Actually, I'd much rather the database did remain case sensitive, thank you very much! And yes, the answer is fix your tags :) Ceejay No offense, but may I ask why? I can't figure any reason why there should be a difference between David Bowie, david bowie and DAVID BOWIE. It's all the same artist. Or album title or whatever. Oh and on a sidenote, fixing tags might be reasonable on a small collection, but in my case it would mean to go through more than 10.000 tracks. Not really funny. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24093 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: server database is case sensitive and that's bad. read why.
smc2911 Wrote: Atter spending a lot of time finessing my tags (and it's not finished yet!) See, that is EXACTLY the problem: I do not WANT to spend a lot of time finessing tags. I don't have the time. I want to listen to my music, not do some geek tech stuff. My tags are all right enough to contain the right artist/album/title information. Some of them have mixed up capitalizations for which I couldn't care less. Because David Bowie IS DAVID BOWIE, and his album hErOes IS his album Heroes. Period. No matter what tech geeks will tell me about this. If a piece of software is treating the same artist or the same album as multiple artists/albums, because the caps are different on some tracks, then (and please excuse my language) this software is too stupid to follow human thinking logic. See I do not want to adapt to how computers think. I want computers to think my way and work for me. That's what they're here for. It's not the other way around (aka spending months of time fixing tags). No offense. For me as a human being with some logic in thinking, David Bowie IS the same as DAVID BOWIE, no matter what anyone tells me. And if Slimserver makes his single album Heroes into two different albums, because one of the tracks has the album tag heRoEs, then Slimserver plain and simple sucks. But I am going to check out that thread you linked to. Maybe there actually is an option to change this. Thanks. -- funkahdafi funkahdafi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5608 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24093 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
