[slim] SB hardware yet with embedded SB Server?
I heard some rumors that a future product will have SB Server embedded. Is this every going to be true? I hate leaving a PC on all the time so I can control my Receiver via Crestron/iPhone/etc When is it coming?! -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78487 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sonos marketing? What does this mean?
If I am using the SPDIF on the SB Receiver is it pure Digital? or does it do D/A conversions internally? Just curious, I doubt anybody could hear any difference either way. -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73069 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] netbook as music server running Squeezebox
I think the market will in 6 months be flooded with atom bases nettops that do a great job of running sbs at the 100 dollar price point. -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73602 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Live Music Archive
Can we use the RSS feed? The Rss Feed can be found here: http://www-tracey.archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?collection=GratefulDead Maybe I could write a program that would download the RSS nightly to our local SBS, and then we could add this local RSS feed. That way it will load quickly and be very responsive GUI. I think if sling trys to load http://www-tracey.archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?collection=GratefulDead it will be too slow and unresponsive. I am good at programming, but new to SB... so need some guidance. Could I build a Dead app? It could expose several browse methods: Year Charlie Miller Rating Quality (soundboard vs mic vs fm) Search Ideas? Would it be better to convert the RSS data to OPML data? I think it would be nicer to have a proper App, because of the sheer amount of dead recordings is staggerleeing. -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54348 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] EPG whats on for all streaming stations
According to Will (the Radiotuna administrator) he said This is on the road-map and development is currently underway. So someday we will have good metadata for all the online radio stations! Please help the cause by going to vote for this feature request here: http://feedback.radiotuna.com/pages/34411-general/suggestions/426757-now-playing-epg-metatdata-so-we-can-see-what-song-is-playing-on-our-bookmarks?ref=title -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72869 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sumoh TinyAmp S30
I have been looking for an amplifier similar to this for a long time, so I could add zones to my whole-house digital music system. I am having trouble locating an amplifier with the following characteristics: 100 watts output per channel single digital input 2 speaker output volume control controllable via serial rs232 or ethernet IP. price near $300 Is anybody aware of such an amp? In all my main zones I have bought Marantz SR6001 because the main zones are all 5.1 (good for watching movies). It is just the other zones like hallways, garage, etc where I need an amp like this. If anybody could help, please advise. Thanks! -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70902 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Is the Squeezebox Receiver gone?
i did the same as ahc, got mine yesterday! -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73006 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] EPG whats on for all streaming stations
That is great. I created some bookmarks on the radiotuna website, but it was not showing me the currently playing song... is it working for you? I am not sure they actually poll up to the minute for their metatdata, it looks like they are storing data as people tune in or something like that. Not sure yet though. I asked them to do it also. THey could provide the metadata for bookmarks as an RSS feed, that will make it easy for plugin developers to integrate it. Please vote for the idea here: http://feedback.radiotuna.com/pages/34411-general/suggestions/426757-now-playing-epg-metatdata-so-we-can-see-what-song-is-playing-on-our-bookmarks?ref=title -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72869 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Best of Luck - moving on...
Many of you will say this is overkill, but if you really want to troubleshoot things, here are the steps to identify the problem. If you are experiencing issues, here are some steps to see if the Duet problem is purely wifi/environment related: Make sure your SB receiver is plugged into a wired ethernet connection directly on the router switch port! No homeplug, no wifi, a real old fashioned ethernet wired connection. Use a very long ethernet cable if you need it! Install SB Server on a dedicated machine that is not doing any tasks except serving SB. Password protect it so nobody in the family can use it. Make sure you install SB Server on a clean OS install, not an old pc with ten million shareware apps that are hogging resources. The machine should have good specs, at least 2 gb ram, 1.0ghz cpu. Unplug all wireless devices in your house including phones, wireless doorbells, ham radios, etc. Anything that uses a radio should be shut off. Disable all laptops that are using wifi. Make sure nobody on your home network is using the network/internet, especially video sharing, ip cameras, etc, streaming audio/video, VOIP, Vonage etc. Make sure your wifi access point is not located near any metal objects, especially anything with electronic components. For testing purposes, put it right in the middle of your testing room. Make sure your wifi access point is high quality device, not a 20 dollar special. Think of all the engineering that goes into manufacturing a wifi access point, there is lots of quality issues if you have a poor device. Make sure it has good clean power from a UPS. At this point, you have a pristine environment to test the duet handheld controller. Now it is the ONLY device on the wifi network and it is just sending *very small* data commands to the receiver (ie Play, Next, Up, Down, etc). This is known as a dedicated wireless control network because the wireless network is dedicated to only sending very lightweight commands, it is NOT competing with a million other bandwidth robbing things. Make sure your wifi access point is very close to the duet handheld controller, this will ensure that the signal is very strong. If you have a weak signal the battery has to work overtime on the controller and it will drain faster. The closer / stronger your signal is to the wifi access point the better control signals you will be sending. Ok, lets assume everything works great for a few days, you have no audio drop outs, the controller is very responsive, everything works perfectly. Now you can start to do things like turn on your house phone. Then test it for a few more days and slowly add more things to the environment till you find the devices/human behaviours that are causing the performance problems. Another thing you could do is create a control only wifi network that is dedicated 100% to the duet handheld controller. No other devices (laptops, etc) are allowed to use this wifi network. That way its resources are dedicated 100% to the controller traffic. -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67040 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezePlay and Controller
my understanding from research and testing is that you *may* have buffering problems if you try to use a software player. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezePlay I have been using squeezeplay for a few days now while I have been waiting for my receiver to arrive. By the way, you can buy the receiver as a standalone device, you do not need to buy the remote control. I have been having often buffering/timing issues where things sound slow or fast and it is hit or miss. Is this happening cause it is software/soundcard related problems? Is anybody able to say their softplayer works 100%? What is a recommended soundcard with spdif output?? -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72862 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Best of Luck - moving on...
you could have tried wrapping your house in tinfoil before you got rid of it also do not forget the new OralB toothbrush that has a wireless timer. Bad news. -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67040 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SqueezePlay and Controller
Thanks for the info, things change so often in this scene it is great to get such fast responses. Right now I have ordered my SB Receiver from logitech.com and I think it may be out of stock because it has been a few days waiting and I paid extra for next day delivery. So, in the meantime I am using SqueezePlay beta. I have set up my SB Server, and configured it to run on Windows Server 2008 as a Windows Service. I have rebooted several times and it is working great. Now, I would like to set the SqueezePlay.exe player to start automatically at system startup, so if the server gets rebooted it will start up automatically and start sending audio out the soundcard. Any ideas how to do this? My thinking is that i will find the Powertoy that allows user to login by default at system startup. Then I will write a batch file to wait 2 minutes so the player will start up after 2 minutes. I guess I am getting bored.. lol -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72862 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] EPG whats on for all streaming stations
Paul Webster;497734 Wrote: People might be interested in this related project ... RadioTuna http://www.radiotuna.com Launched recently from a kitchen in Brighton, they collect Now Playing information from around 20,000 internet radio stations (e.g. by processing the status page on SHOUTcast servers) - and make the results searchable. You can search by artist and it will list stations that are currently playing (and recently played) tracks. You can also tune in. They check local database for cover art and links to buy. I've dropped them a note to see if they might be interested in making info officially available. Yeah, that is exactly what I was thinking. Logitech should do this, it would be such a great feature. -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72869 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Open-Source Crestron Module
Hi guys, I added support for Favorites. Has anybody else made any additions to the 0.2 release? I hope we do not get out of synch with the files. I will be adding more features soon. Can anybody post their SMW and Vtpro application? I need to start testing it with a vtpro app. Right now I am just testing using Crestron toolbox debugger and it works good now with favorites... +---+ |Filename: crestron-squeeze_0.2.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=| +---+ -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54943 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] EPG whats on for all streaming stations
I think you mean RDS. Thanks, I was not really expecting to get much. I was hoping that since mysqueezebox.com is in the cloud it could pulse all the common stations like shoutcast, radioIO, internet radio, etc. And then if the users personalized Pandora/slacker stations could be kept alive in the cloud so that the metadata for the currently playing song would be stored in the cloud. That way, we could have whats playing now metadata for ALL our favorite stations without having to press so many buttons! As a 3rd party software developer, will SB support this? For which services/apps Just XM/Sirius?? -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72869 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Open-Source Crestron Module
hi Jwmelvin, I would love to start enhancing the module. I want to add the Favorites functionality as this is what I use the most. Could you please add me as a commiter to the repository? -Tom -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54943 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] EPG whats on for all streaming stations
1) Does SB have now playing metadata support for all the apps and internet stations? I am looking for the EPG data similar to how tv companies store whats on - now playing in their EPG. Assuming I have these favorite preset radio stations, which of these support cover art, now playing EPG 2 Pandora stations 3 Shoutcast stations 5 Sirius stations 1 Xm station 1 Slacker station 2 Last.FM stations 5 Live Music Archive concerts (from archive.org) 7 RadioIO stations My goal is to build a very simple UI. The UI will simply show all the consolidated favorite internet stations and the now playing EPG info. When he selects the station he wants to listen to, the cover art will be available. Since many of these stations do not have proper cover art, the SB should use the Amazon app to display cover art based on the keyword of the artist (from EPG metadata). Hope this makes sense... I realize this may be asking for a lot more that what it was intended so please bear with me. -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72869 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
