Re: [slim] Testers wanted
d6jg wrote: > Ive been building a radio station and have now got to the point that it > needs some stress testing. > > > > Juke Radio What technology are you using ? I've experimented with liquidsoap few years ago and it was not too bad. George Touch->Denon AVRS530BT ->Triangle Celius Synology->Duet->Denon AVRS530BT->Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, Transporter, Chromecasts Zenphone -> NAD Viso, Sony WH1000XM3 2 servers -> Ubuntu Linux, NUC and Synology 1 Bay matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115087 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Finding duplicate tracks?
rkrug wrote: > Hi > > LMS runs on Linux, I use a Mac. How can I find duplicate tracks > (preferably with some fuzzy matching in tags)? > > MusicID does it, but I did not get around installing and running the > analysis yet. > > Cheers, > > Rainer > -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation > Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology > Stellenbosch University > South Africa > > Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 > Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 > Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 > > Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 > > email: Rainer (AT) krugs (DOT) de > > Skype: RMkrug > > PGP: 0x0F52F982 I wonder if track chromaprint fingerprinting can help you. I've been looking into python beets scripts lately. One of the plugins is for track duplication detection, I have not used it so can't comment how well it works. I have been using however chroma plugin for fingerprinting of tracks and I'm quite impressed at the functionality. Once you fingerprint all your tracks, it should be rather straightforward to identify duplicates. http://beets.io/ George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Denon AVRS530BT -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter OnePlus3 -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro, NAD Viso 2 servers -> Ubuntu Linux, NUC and Synology 1 Bay matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105776 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Which Streaming Music Service works best for You and your system?
left channel wrote: > I use Qobuz only for streaming, but I believe with the help of the Music > & Artist Information plug-in you can view PDF booklets that accompany > download purchases. That topic is currently under discussion here: > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?95494-Suggested-plugin-PDF-viewer Thanks for the heads-up, I will of course install that plug in. Still, what I would really like is to be able to browse the pdf when streaming, same as in qobuz web player. I don't download much these days. Qobuz metadata for an album does contains link to a pdf booklet if available (it is called "goodies"...) so one would think perhaps there is a way to use this link. Assuming that qobuz api allows this. Perhaps Michael H. can comment on the possibilities ? George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Denon AVRS530BT -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter OnePlus3 -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro, NAD Viso 2 servers -> Ubuntu Linux, NUC and Synology 1 Bay matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109230 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Which Streaming Music Service works best for You and your system?
Surprisingly nobody has mentioned qobuz.com... Yes, I use it for the last 3 or 4 years and it works well. I like their catalog and booklet availability on their web player. If only LMS would support somehow pdf booklets... George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Denon AVRS530BT -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter OnePlus3 -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro, NAD Viso 2 servers -> Ubuntu Linux, NUC and Synology 1 Bay matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109230 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Large Backups on a Cloud
lostboy wrote: > I use Crashplan as part of tiered backup strategy, and have done for > past five years or so. It's $60 p.a. for unlimited encrypted storage for > one PC, so a little cheaper than Amazon with current exchange rates, but > backup specific. They will backup anything 'local' to a licensed > machine, and provide a sensible background backup application (backup > sets, file version retention including deleted files, etc.). Their app > will also allow backup to other PCs including across the net, so if you > have friend with a 24/7 server (their free version has this > capability - you only pay for central cloud services). > > I've found it reliable and it's saved my bacon on more than one > occasion. I find it quicker to find/restore the odd file from the cloud, > than go to local backups. However, full disk restores are _much_ quicker > from physical drives. In my server I use a disk pooling app with file > duplication as well and have found that this has taken care of wholesale > disk failures - Crashplan helps me when I've done something stupid and > haven't noticed at the time (deleted the wrong file and so on). > > I wouldn't contemplate remote backup without a fast internet connection, > and at the moment my unlimited fibre connection isn't so fast that I'd > be prepared to do without local backups either. I'm not sure that the > cloud backup would work well from a machine that is only on for short > periods. > > Chris Another Crashplan user here, I have 2.5TB backed up. As mentioned already, the software runs in the background, does incremental backups, its throttled. The original backup took about 3 months, 24/7, as I throttled the uplink to 500KB, but it was eventually done. Incremental backups, especially for flac (I do not backup movies) do not require much time, I'm throttling at 250KB 24/7 - this is far from fibre but gets the job done and it does not affect my web usage experience. CrashPlan desktop app provides a control on the uplink speed. I'm also with an ISP provider where upload does not count against your bandwidth. If you are in US, you can mail a harddrive for an initial, seed backup, there are restrictions for mailing hard drives across borders so I did not bother. I had to recover a small portion of my files once and it was very easy, painless experience. I'm on linux and there were some changes to be made to config files to allow more than 2TB of backup data but there was enough support from CrashPlan to do so. Overall I'm quite happy with this solution, I have reduced much of the backup clutter that I had after moving to a smaller place. And unless CrashPlan crashes, I don't have to worry about hard drive crashes :-) George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Yamaha RX-V673 -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom RIP, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter OnePlus3 -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers -> Ubuntu Linux, NUC and Synology 1 Bay matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107345 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool
robinbowes wrote: > Something like this should work: > > > Code: > > > $ git clone https://github.com/robinbowes/net-udap.git > $ cd net-udap > $ cpan Log::StdLog Term::Shell Class::Accessor IO::Interface::Simple > $ ./scripts/udap_shell.pl > UDAP> discover > info: <<< Broadcasting adv_discovery message to MAC address 00:00:00:00:00:00 on 255.255.255.255 > > > Robin, since you are here, I wanted to thank you for the Net::Udap, I actually prefer it to the remote... Saved 2 receivers so far. George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Yamaha RX-V673 -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Nexus 5 -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers -> Ubuntu Linux, Zotac ZBOX-CA320NANO-P and Desktop hardware matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57861 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool
cobbr2 wrote: > I'm sure that I'm just going insane from having no music where I'm > working on this... but. > So I figured I'd try to install 1.0.x. However, the "download in other > format" links no longer exist on the Trac browser (in fact, the links > all over the wiki now fail; there is no > https://projects.robinbowes.com/Net-UDAP/trac/browser/branches/1.0.x . > https://projects.robinbowes.com/Net-UDAP/trac/browser/Net-UDAP/branches/1.0.x > appears to be what I'm looking for, though -- but, no download links I > can see on that page.) > Few days ago I have resurrected my duet with verions 1.0_01 from github https://github.com/robinbowes/net-udap George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Yamaha RX-V673 -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Nexus 5 -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers -> Ubuntu Linux, Zotac ZBOX-CA320NANO-P and Desktop hardware matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57861 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Chromecast Audio ideal for Squeezebox replacement hardware?
CommanderROR wrote: > Now we know what's inside the Chromecast Audio > https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Chromecast+2015+Teardown/50189 > > Looks decent enough to my untrained eye... Is this a decent DAC ? AKM AK4430 192kHz 24-Bit Stereo DAC George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Yamaha RX-V673 -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Nexus 5 -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers -> Ubuntu Linux, Zotac ZBOX-CA320NANO-P and Desktop hardware matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104383 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Tidal - not very good for classical music enthusiasts
Squeezemenicely wrote: I have had Wimp/Tidal Hifi for a while now, lossless streaming is a good thing. But content - to me - is even more important. With Tidal the selection of classical music is rather limited. Actually so limited, that it is more like a service for someone who once in a while wants to listen to mainstream classical recordings. I've disconinued TIDAL not only because it's classical catalog is not that great, but becasue it is a Spotify clone where the SONG rules and composer is an ARTIST. Given the new ownership, I firmly believe this model will get even worse. I use qobuz where the concept of album is nicelly used. Somebody on another group brought to my attention a streaming service from ArkivMusic, it is avaliable in US only and mp3 at 320kbps. I love their website organization and categorization into Conductors, Composers, Artist, Ensembles etc., the drill down funcitonality works very well. Since I don't live in US I'm not using the streaming service, but perhaps this is the future of classical music streaming. Worth supporting. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Nexus 5 - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103459 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Qobuz - lots of buffering
Furry wrote: I'm getting lots of buffering on Qobuz (UK) this evening; the service is basically unusable. Anyone else? I've used the serice at my evening (6 hours later) no issues, no issues now either at 10:54 am EST. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Nexus 5 - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103443 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Tidal or Qobuz?
Furry wrote: Do these findings correspond with others'? Any other points I should consider? TIA. My experience is quite diferrent from the previous response, but that's what you get when you ask for opinions :). It is quite possible that this depends on the music type you are after. My listenning is mostly classical and jazz and I find qobuz catalouge impressive. I also prefer qobuz webplayer (desktop player does not work on Linux even under wine, of course it should be fine on Windows). Playlist management is much easier, for example, if you have multiple albums in your playlist then they are clearly displayed as albums on the top. I tried Tidal for about a day, seen Spotify like interface and cancelled immediatelly. I suggest to have both for a month or two and then choose. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Nexus 5 - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102633 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Tidal or Qobuz?
CommanderROR wrote: @matka That's surprising. I listen, almost exclusively, to classical music, and had trouble finding stuff, in part dur to the search engine, in part due to the catalogue. Interesting... ;) I'm not overly happy with the Wimp Android App either though. Ease of use, catalogue and so on, it's hard to neat Google Play Music, even with the unofficial API and Plugin, but they don't have lossless... Hm..., I just did a search on qobuz.com for Star Trek and got 4 albums directly related and bunch of other somehow related, got more for Harry Potter. I don't have access to the plug-in now (@work) to verify search there, but if I remeber there is an option in the plug-in settings that works for some people but it did not work for me, so I turned it off. I also have to admitt that quite often I search on the web, grab the release id from url and use this to search in plug in. Also, try qobuz webplayer (and desktop if you run Windows or Mac), much superrior to the Spotify or Tidal offering... I will get to ickStream bit later, busy with other things. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Nexus 5 - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102633 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] squeezebox touch for sale
paul tucker 73 wrote: hi all, got a squeezebox touch for sale, was gonna put it on ebay but thought id put it here first, is there a buy sell section on these forums, regards, paul. so am I, send a pm. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Nexus 5 - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102422 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?
wortgefecht wrote: Unhappy with the sound quality of my mobile...Now I hook the Fiio DAC with my Beyerdynamic to it and am completely happy while travelling and staying in hotels :) Long story short: What is your mobile setup and what are your experiences with it? Were you dissatisfied with flac from your phone ? Is DAC a must ? In case the above is not true, very happy with subsonic server streaming from home to where I happen to be, flac or ogg or mp3, from cache or real streaming, easy to set up especially if you like to tinker. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Nexus 5 - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102419 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] OT - What's your mobile music setup?
wortgefecht wrote: I thought of a streaming solution, too. But since I use my phone for internet access most of the time while travelling, I decided not to do so. Sorry but I don't see the conflict here. If you need to preserve the bandwith (either becasue you use it or don't want to pay for it) then cache permanently when at home with wifi, it is fabously fast and beats manual download. An offer, if you want to try streaming from subsonic, pm me and I will give you an url/user id/password. I usually use ogg -q6 but I can stream in any configuration including flac which is really an overkill. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Nexus 5 - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102419 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Qobuz in financial trouble
mintaudio wrote: Anyone who uses their services knows that this would be a very sad loss.. http://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/medias/0203728864010-qobuz-place-en-procedure-de-sauvegarde-1036504.php Definatelly a loss, I always had doubts that they would survive for long (a strong catalog of classical music is not a growth industry, no matter how much I care). Let's hope that French governement will support them, my streaming and downloading depends on qobuz. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102061 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Need recommendations for music subscriber service
I'm using qobuz.com for few years now, mostly because of 2 factors: they stream in flac and classical catalog is strong. Using your criteria: Works with my SB3s, Duet and Touch Duet, Touch and Transporter, should work with SB3 in flac or mp3 but I have not tried it (can't find my SB3...) Must be able to sync on multiple devices qobuz allows multiple connections but I have not tried syncing Needs to have a large library, mostly mainstream pop, country, classic rock, etc., although for me I like to stray from the hits. Check the catalog, seems sufficient to me, I also found indie catalog quite good. ]Must sound good on my mid-fi system...I don't need lossless, but I don't want 128k, either. You can choose mp3 at 320kbps or flac, mp3 is cheaper, both sound great Needs to still be able to do all of this a year from now. This one is tricky, I'm with qobuz since plugin has appeared (couple of years ?) and they seem to be expanding to other countries than France, but I have no idea what is their financial position or market share, not knowing that, I pay monthly instead of yearly. If you can not set up streaming account via web because your country is not supported, send them an email and they will set your account with France attribute. You can try the service for 1 month free. Good luck. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101578 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Qobuz streaming (inc FLAC) and download site.
local.bin wrote: Thanks for the quick reply netchord. Do you use a VPN to stream once the account is registered and paid in french? I was hoping it would allow streaming without the VPN once setup, or does it act like a spottily holiday and cut you off after a month on holiday, with the ip being seen as outside of france? In my experience, once you signed up, no VPN or geolocation spoofing is required. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97058 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Qobuz streaming (inc FLAC) and download site.
local.bin wrote: Has anyone outside of France signed up for the french streaming service at all? Want to sign up, but don't want to get cutoff mid term! I'm with qobuz for more than a year, once you sign up (some people use VPN, some send an email to qobuz) you should be ok. I queried once my setup and my location was set to France. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97058 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 8 TB Storage and more...
jimzak wrote: The Mediasonic hard drive enclosure has really helped decrease the complexity of my server. However, it has not been without a few glitches. The main one being that it's firmware is finicky about USB 3. Initially the enclosure only connected to the server laptop at USB 2 speeds which really makes transfers and backup exponentially longer. I updated the laptop BIOS and found one setting for USB 3 that could be varied (I cannot remember what it was, and I don't want to reboot the laptop to find out what that setting was because it's a shoutcast server also). I changed that setting and since that time the enclosure has connected consistently at USB 3. The setting change was not intuitive. I just go lucky. I have been using a USB 3 single hard drive docking station as a backup device, and I adopted '\Backup Maker\' (https://www.ascomp.de/en/) as as my backup tool for the following reasons: 1. Wizard setup of saved backup profiles for each drive 2. Incremental backup 3. Freeware (with a nag at the end of each backup.) So once the complete backup of each drive was completed, subsequent incremental backups take only a few minutes once a week. I'm also implementing a new server computer as per another thread which has led to whole new series of technical challenges (lesson so far: don't buy HP laptops). Jim Thanks for an update. Did you consider eSata ? Speeds are compatible and it is an older technology, probably more stable. I'm using eSata on mine without any driver issues (all linux). George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100561 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] MOG was the last straw: Moving to the dark side (Sonos)
JJZolx wrote: I think people who are primarily interested in playing streaming online music services should probably be using some other platform. Don't know about spotify as premium is still not available where I live, but qobuz plug-in works great, flac or mp3, your choice. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100901 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 8 TB Storage and more...
jimzak wrote: I'm currently copying all the files over to the new enclosure. I have about 2 TB more to go. I've been copying files for about 48 hours now. I got two 3 TB Red drives on sale, and I already had 4 other drives lying around. That will give me plenty of room to grow. Now I need an incremental backup software application. I have used Macrium in the past for disk images. Does Windows 7 do incremental backup? Suggestions? I'll be backing up to an external hard drive dock over USB 3 or eSATA. Thanks again. I'm on linux and use rsync. It is a great utility that can do incremental backups among other things and it is for free. I believe rsync was ported to Windows but I do not have a personal experience using it on this environment. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100561 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 8 TB Storage and more...
jimzak wrote: *storage:* Mediasonic 8-bay hard drive enclosure (USB-3/eSATA) with four to eight 3-4 TB hard drives installed If you have further comments or suggestions, let me know. Happy Holidazed. Jim You might want to check mediasonic user forums, I believe you can upgrade firmware on these boxes and this should improve performance. I have also seen posts about people reverting the firmware to older version if they did not want drives to spin down. Ideally you should do that before you have actual data on the devices. George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100561 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] 8 TB Storage and more...
jimzak wrote: I'm currently using a laptop with 4 external 2 TB drives for storage of 215,000 Flac and MP3 files. Things are a bit unwieldy and backup is time consuming. Each drive takes 12-24 hours to backup over USB 2.0. I need to add another drive soon as I am running over about 7 TB of actual files. Any ideas as to what would be a more efficient system for storage and backup (and possibly the server)??? I've thought about getting a custom-built server computer with at least 10-15 TB of internal storage and backup via a USB 3.0 external hard dock. The hard drives would be of the slower energy efficient variety and I would specify an energy efficient processor. I'm not crazy about a NAS because of the vagaries of running LMS on a nonstandard OS and a very low-power processor. Let me know your thoughts. Happy Holidaze. I have 6TB but not all is taken as I prune video rather quickly, however my setup might be of interest to you. I've got Mediasonic Raid box that can take up to 4 drives, I know they have enclosures that can take up to 8. In a common raid 5 configuration with 3TB drives that will give you potentially 20TB give or take. This enclosures have their own raid controller and connect to a PC either via usb3 or eSata. I have my 6TB connected to a simple Acer nettop which serves it to the network as a NFS storage via gigabyte (it could be served via Samba for Windows). You do not need a lot of power to run network storage. My slim server runs on another server (with more horse power) so scans and directory browsing is snappy. Acer nettop runs linux. Mediasonic Raid enclosure that I have does not provide great write speeds after a while when data is fragmented among the drives, but after initial backup, rsync should (or the other canned programs that do the same) relatively quickly sync your backup and main storage as it only goes after the differences and not a mirror backup. You could use Mediasonic as your backup device, I'm using it as a main storage server and have rsync backups to docked drives via usb2. Would like to purchase another Mediasonic just for the backups but I'm trying to economize. Good luck and how many hours do you need to listen to all that flac that you have ? :-) George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius Touch-Yamaha RX-V673 - Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers - Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100561 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Paid streaming service recommendations
Qobuz.com fits most of your requirements: 1. Very agnostic: Needs to work on: SB3, SB Boom, SB touch, iPad, Android phone, plus Mac and PC desktops I have run the service on SB Boom, Touch, Android, Windows Desktop. I'm pretty sure there is a client for Mac and iPad/iPhone 2. Supports off line dowloading I have used offline downloading on Android and Desktop. When downloading flac on desktop (you can stream flac on SB and Desktop), downloaded files are encrypted. Did not check mp3 on Android. 3. (Not sure if any service does this) supports offline downloading AND moving the mp3s to other devices (i.e. ipod classic) I'm not aware of such integration. Also, downloaded desktop flac are of no use outside of desktop app, again, I'm not sure of mp3 on portable devices. 4. Has the ability to support 2 users on at the same time. Supports multiple users. You can sign up for a free month and try it out, there are 3 plans to choose mp3 all flac classical only flac all It also depends what kind of music you are after, please check the offered cataloque. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98798 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Paid streaming service recommendations
maggior wrote: Rhapsody will support multiple users. I've had multiple squeezeboxes playing different things at the same time. I'm not sure what the limit is, but I've had 2 squeezeboxes playing different music from Rhapsody. You won't be able to use the files from any service on an iPod classic. Spotify leads you to believe that you might be able to do this, but you can't. I don't have Spotify (and can't have it, geoblocked) hence the question. Is it because Spotify uses ogg or because it is encrypted/mangled to play within an app that downloaded it ? matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98798 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Qobuz plugin incorrenctly reports that music cannot be streamed.
mandryka wrote: Hi everyone My qobuz plugin sometimes reports that an album is unavailable for streaming to my Squeezebox classic when I can stream it to my computer via the qobuz desktop. This has happened for J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 Artist -- Davitt Moroney, and for Ludwig van Beethoven : Variations Diabelli, Artist -- Andreas Staier. Any ideas how this can be fixed? I'm using the plugin described here http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97146-Qobuz-com-streaming-plugin I have a similar issue with http://www.qobuz.com/album/andrew-manze-richard-egarr-jaap-ter-linden-js-bach-violin-sonatas/0093046725020, it streams fine via desktop. Qobuz streamable metadata is not very consistent, sometime there are 2 editions of the same work with diff attributes. I will write an email to them about above album, maybe they will fix it, if you want, you can email about yours as well, help them a little. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98722 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where to buy music online? Anyone still using emusic.com?
Julf wrote: Just a warning about the studio masters - I don't think Qobuz does any real integrity checking on the material they get from the record labels, so just like HDTracks they often end up selling hi-res stuff that isn't - there have been far too many cases of hi-res turning out to be upsampled from 44.1 kHz and zero-padded from 16 bits to 24. Personally I have only experienced this with HDTracks, but I am not sure Quobuz is any better. After similar experiences with HDTracks, I have given up on buying hi-rez, plus I don't think that I can hear the difference anyway. My warm endorsement of qobuz comes with a little bit of waring and I should have done it earlier. Once you download, check the spectrum. On couple of occasions I've got transcodes from mp3, once on a brand new recording (Brentano Quartet Beethoven Qt). I have contacted qobuz, they admitted that there is a problem and replaced with a recording of my choosing in Masters. I have to concur that they sell what is given to them by record companies. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98363 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where to buy music online? Anyone still using emusic.com?
Pascal Hibon wrote: ...Many on-line services tend to sell either a lossy version or a high-res version but no CD quality version... Quite frankly I have not seen a service selling either lossy or high-res and no standard CD quality. Which service/shop is doing that ? matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98363 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where to buy music online? Anyone still using emusic.com?
garym wrote: itunes and amazon sell lossy but no standard CD quality (lossless). My fault, I misunderstood the poster Many on-line services tend to sell either a lossy version or a high-res version but no CD quality version as a single service selling lossy and high-rez of the same recording without selling a CD quality. Obviously that's not what the post meant. Sorry. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98363 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Vortexbox NAS hardware recommendations?
ajkidle wrote: What then *is* a backup plan? I'm not sure I understand this line of argument. If my HDD fails, I lose my FLAC library ... which I have spent countless hours ripping, tagging, etc. How is a secondary back-up drive a more robust solution than RAID 1? And although I understand the off-premise argument, I'm not interested in taking it that far. If my house burns down, I'll have bigger problems to worry about. As others pointed out HD will fail sooner or later, most likely the RAID controller will eventually fail also. You can use Raid to protect against HD failure but to protect against RAID controller failure (or the little device that you are running) you need to take a backup once a while, a simple USB drive enclosure will do. I have 6TB array and backup via usb things I really do not want to loose. As far as fire is concerned, I have a friend whose basement was flooded waist deep. He said I have mud in my drives. His most priced data that he lost were pictures that were not replaceable, so once a year I run an usb backup on important stuff and take it to my office. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98350 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Where to buy music online? Anyone still using emusic.com?
amatos wrote: Hi, Wondering where everyone is buying music online nowadays. I'm not really interested in spotify and other streaming services - I prefer to own my music files if I can. I had a look at emusic.com and it seems almost perfect - it has most of the stuff I listen to, I like the subscription concept and tracks seem fairly cheap. I listen to lots of music, and a emusic subscription seems cheaper than buying albums from Amazon, Google music or Itunes. The only drawback is that it doesn't seem to have much classical music. But no one seems to be talking about emusic anymore, or about buying music online for that matter. Last posts I can find here in the forum are from 2007. Emusic seems to get a lot of bad rep nowadays, with that merger with the ebook company and so on. Got the the feeling it will not stick around for much longer. Has everyone moved to the likes of Spotify? If not, where do you buy your music? By the way, I listen to a wide range of styles, but mostly electronica, world music, jazz and classical (baroque). I'm only interested in whole albums. Very short answer to your needs - qobuz.com. Fantastic catalog in classical and jazz, you can download in mp3, flac or high rez on occasions. But even better, qobuz has flac streaming and we have a plug-in! I bought streaming subscription and could not be more satisfied, there is so much too choose from. If you don't have French, use Chrome to browse the site to translate on the fly. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98363 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Vortexbox NAS hardware recommendations?
ajkidle wrote: I've been running my Vortexbox on a headless Atom based MSI Nettop 100 box for the past few years, and recently have gotten the itch to protect my data by setting up a RAID 1 configuration. The on-board controller on the MSI doesn't seem to support this, and there are no expansion slots available for adding a 3rd party card, so I'm investigating new hardware. Anyone have any recommendations? I'm looking for something low power that I can tuck away in a closet somewhere. It just needs to be able to run Vortexbox, have gigabit ethernet, and 2 hard drive bays minimum (4 preferred.) Oh, and it needs to support RAID 1. Or at least have a PCI slot so I can add a controller card. Assuming that you want a Raid 1 for HD failure (other pointed out that this is not a backup) I see that your box has 2 SATA controler and from the picture I can also see a pci expansion slot. If you could add an eSata controler (or maybe somehow hookup esata cable to existing controler ?), then you can add an external array box like this http://tiny.cc/r4dbuw. I have it hooked up to an older Aspire Nettop and is working fine, don't feel the need to replace. I'm running in a Raid 5, same hd failure protection but more space than Raid 1. 6TB. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98350 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] FLAC Stream Quality a Mixed Bag
Memford wrote: At the moment, Absolute Radio 70s is testing lossless. http://icecast.as34763.net/absoluteradio.co.uk/a7flac.ogg in your media player When I began writing this follow-up post, at least one of the other streams was still encoded as lossy. I fully expect the RED (Radio Engineering Dept). at Absolute will have all streams rolling full soon. But again, as I've stated elsewhere, these streams won't be 24/7 unless more of us use them regularly. the ogg extension, is that just a container ? Also, when I captured some streams mplayer was reporting 128kbps. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98293 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Which online services do you use (if any)?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98255 Question: Which online services do you use? - Deezer - Internet Radio / TuneIn - Last.fm - MOG - Pandora - Rhapsody/Napster - Slacker - Spotify - Other (i.e. one I've forgotten) - NONE - I don't use any online services Mnyb wrote: I would sign on to Qubuz if given the possibility and if information was aviable in an language I could understand ;) ( you rarely see Swedish only websites from Swedish companies , but it's quite common in France and Germany with national language only sites ? Cultural anachronism ). Qobuz. You can use Chrome automatic page translate, works quite well for me (English). You can establish an account with Qobuz even if you are not in France. The trick is when signing up for streaming, that's were you need French ip, as you probably know that's not difficult to do. Once signed up, you do not longer need French ip to stream. The above is my experience from Canada. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98255 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Which online services do you use (if any)?
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98255 Question: Which online services do you use? - Deezer - Internet Radio / TuneIn - Last.fm - MOG - Pandora - Rhapsody/Napster - Slacker - Spotify - Other (i.e. one I've forgotten) - NONE - I don't use any online services BBC and Qobuz, the last one representing maybe 90% of my online service activity. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98255 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?
I use qobuz plug-in extensivelly. erland wrote: One limitation I still want to apply is that with one online streaming account you will still only be able to stream a single song to one device or to multiple devices synchronized, basically no possibility to play different songs to different devices simultaneously as this usually is prohibited by the streaming providers and won't change in the future. I think I streamed by a mistake 2 diff songs to 2 diff devices behind NAT. Did not know this is an issue. The questions I'm wondering about is related to if you have separate premium streaming service account for each family member or if you are using one account for the whole family. It is really only me who uses the account, the rest of the family does their own things and barely pay attention to what I do with music. I don't think we will ever converge. If you have separate accounts, is the main purpose of that to be able to stream simultaneously or is it mainly to be able to keep track of individual favorites and playlists ? If you have separate accounts, do you feel it would be important to be able to listen to the music from one of the account on all player devices in the house ? If you have separate accounts, do you have accounts from different streaming providers or does all family member use the same streaming provider ? If you have a single account for the whole family, are you severely missing the ability to keep track of individual playlists or favorites for each family member ? N/A Do you have any ideas how you would like online streaming services to work on your Squeezebox and portable devices from a family perspective ? How would your dream system handle it ? O yes, I do, here are the basics: choice of streaming quality, up to lossless. No lossless - I'm not a customer. correct and rich metadata embeded in tags, including proper classical tags rich search criteria based on metadata db lookups, not tags streaming not only music but also supporting content - booklets, bios, discographies, reviews, etc. cloud for my own cd's or audio files including lossless music marketplace for files and cd's matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98198 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Buffering problem with Duet
I had a similar problem when using qobuz plugin, duet and transporter would badly buffer. On some advice I found on this forums I have changed MP3 streaming method for the player from Direct Streaming to Proxied Steaming and it worked, even when qobuz plugin was streaming in flac... I believe this somehow increased (or created) a buffer size on the server for the player. I've set this up via server settingsplayeraudio matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97350 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Qobuz streaming (inc FLAC) and download site.
JohnB wrote: Also registering on the site enables you to download albums in 24/96, 16/44.1, 320 kbps mp3. The prices are sometimes the CD prices for FLAC downloads, but can be fairly reasonable - very reasonable indeed compared to download prices on the Linn website. Not only that but they appear, from time to time, to have extremely cheap multi-disc set downloads - my interest in in classical and there have recently been Peter Hurford's Complete Bach Organ Works (17CDs) and Aeolian Quartet's complete Haydn String Quartets (22CDs), both for 7 Euros. (Sadly I registered too late to take advantage of those offers.) I've been using qobuz for more than a year, when browsing I use Chrome Web Browser, it translates the whole page on the fly if you wish. Unfortunately, this does not work with the annoying, jumping graphics that they use often (Flash ?). As far as prices are concerned, my first stop for download is Presto (your backyard I believe), however Presto selection of downloads is not as impressive as qobuz. One word of warning for major labels that belong to Universal Group. I have found on few downloads from Harmonia Mundi that the flac files are altered by watermarking. If you open a flac file in an audio spectrum viewer (for example Audigy), you would see a thick bar of frequencies at around 19.5 kHz. I could not hear the inserted frequencies, also did not have CD's to compare, but they are clearly manipulating the files. The suspicion is not on qobuz manipulating the files but rather on Universal when selling to resellers. Particular download I'm referring to is Schubert Quintet with Arcanto Quartet. http://tinyurl.com/c5fuhjj Flac dowlnoads are advertised as an exact copy of CD, so for me this has disqualified UG flac downloads and the resellers. Back to CD ripping if I need flac. This might not be important to you, but I think we all should be aware that this file manipulation happens. matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97058 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Playback on Android Phone
TurnipMan;626236 Wrote: Subsonic does a great job of streamin music to your android phone. If you library is flac then it will transcode it to mp3 (even ogg I think). The files stay on the phone too so next time you want to listen no streaming required. Does require a donation for use over a month thoough. Tom You don't have to donate, all you have to do is point the server url to your own server and port, instead of subsonic domain. I donated regardless, it is a great app. -- matka George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3 Sansa Clip Plus, iPhone4 - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro Fedora Core Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87114 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Anyone using WD TV HD media player?
Audiofile;625454 Wrote: Just ordered refurbed one for $50 mainly for showing photos on TV. It's not the live version so no streaming, just play from portable hard drive or USB drive. It plays videos and FLAC music files too and has an optical out for plug into external DAC. Anyone try this? Audio results? I use it for video and pictures. It plays all kinds of formats uncluding 720p mkv, have not had yet a video format or audio synching issues. Pictures browsing is also great, if you have large flat screen good pictures look amazing, it made me to go back to Nikon DSLR from the small cameras. Besides portable harddrive/usb you can also play from network connected storage, even Linux storage via Samba works well. Also there is upnp option. As far as flac playing, it does play but I have not used it a lot as squezeeboxes serve this purpose. -- matka George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3 Sansa Clip Plus, iPhone4 - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro Fedora Core Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87035 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Stream music from squeezebox server to smartphone
StuRat;618978 Wrote: Hi I am in the market for a new smartphone and would like the ability to stream music on my Smartphone from my Squeezebox server (running on a ReadyNas duo) like I currently do to my Nokia E63. Either a device running android or windows phone 7 would be good. Thanks I'm using subsonic, it is a free media streamer (although they encourage donation). I'm using it on iPhone but they have clients for Android also. I like the control of users and bit rates on server. I'm using client called iSub (I think I had to pay for it). I organize my music into a directory tree (example classical/Bach JS/Keyboard/Schiff/some album) and subsonic/iSub shows folders as they are on the server. It also buffers played music for you (with control how much space you can use) so you do not download same album twice. 3G data usage adds up quickly. Also, iSub displays cover.jpg. Overall very useful. -- matka George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3 Sansa Clip Plus, iPhone4 - Sennheiser HD 380 Pro Fedora Core Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86417 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What's next for VortexBox???
I'm not a vortexbox user as I'm comfortable with dyi linux server, but my friend expressed interest and the following might increase the appeal for the appliance: 1. easily configurable rsync backup to usb or a network drive. By easy config, I mean a page with combination of cron and options (remote,local, rotating snapshots perhaps). Once people start ripping their data, fast and reliable backup is top priority. I have seen your command line help but I think this is to tech for an appliance market 2. Provide a batch mass conversion tool from audio codec to audio codec while preserving artwork and tags. There was a post few weeks ago (I believe that was a vortexbox user) asking for help mass converting from m4a to flac. I did eventually came across Perl Audio Converter that will probably do the trick for this user, but it would be nice to have preinstalled script that fits into distro 3. Remote desktop or VNC as a backup way of performing some tasks that are not possible via web interface or for a feature that was not requested/coded yet. Again, command line as today probably shuts some potential users off. Plus some people might be surprised to see how attractive Fedora desktop is... -- matka George Transporter-Pathos Logos-Triangle Celius 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3 Sansa Clip Plus - AKG K 420 Fedora Core Linux matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74637 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
