Re: [slim] I don't want to pay for trackstat !
I thought that Erland put in all those hours over the last 5 years in the vain hope to get some beer money - when in fact it was burger money! shame on you Erland!! -- mmca22gr - SBS 7.7 WHS, 1 SliMP3, 1 SB2, 1 SBC, 1 DUET, 1 BOOM, 1 RADIO, 1 TOUCH - mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90975 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] I don't want to pay for trackstat !
An interesting discussion. I am sitting here reading while listening to some music (using DynamicPlaylists) and drinking red wine. I like the legal stuff, great fun. I paid the money - not because I use the plugins, but I recognised the efforts that Erland puts into this forum and the software. I thought a few quid for him to buy a beer while I sup red wine is not much to ask. There is also option 6. Dry your eyes! There are worse thieves out there overcharging for crap products and service. BTW, running Dynamic Playlists - most played songs and it just threw up a Radiohead song that I have never heard before!! I also see a robbie williams song in the Q. Jesus wept, what has the world come to. Erland, you're fired! Give me back my beer money! -- mmca22gr - SBS 7.7 WHS, 1 SliMP3, 1 SB2, 1 SBC, 1 DUET, 1 BOOM, 1 RADIO, 1 TOUCH - mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90975 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Sync fun
So, I had a party on Saturday and thought that I would get the players to sync. I run 7.5 on WHS. I have the full range of players from SliMP3 to a brand new touch (which was used as a controller). The Sync worked a treat for most of the morning before anyone arrived. After a few hours the Sync failed so I removed the SliMP3 from the sync and restarted, I suppose I was a little hopeful in thinking that the Slim could keep up the pace! All the players were wired ethernet except for the radio which I had moved into the garden. I was playing from Napster and a local playlist and it all worked great. Then as more people arrived the radio in the garden dropped out - I suppose due to the a weak WiFi signal. I never really got the hang of the volume with synced players! all in all, it was reasonably successful - but I feel that it is better to have the players hard wired. -- mmca22gr -- SBS 7.5 WHS, 1 SliMP3, 1 SB2, 1 SBC, 1 DUET, 1 BOOM, 1 RADIO -- mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77596 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Controller battery. Where to buy if not in US?
I am trying to email support about a replacement battery for my Duet which is still within 2yrs. I get this response: Account Creation Failed The email address you provided is already in the database OK, I must have registered already and forgot my password. SO I click on the link to email me my password again. Unable to Email Password The user ID you supplied does not appear to be valid. And so the loop goes! -- mmca22gr -- SBS 7.5 WHS, 1 SliMP3, 1 SB2, 1 SBC, 1 DUET, 1 BOOM, 1 RADIO -- mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77300 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Napster - Sky.Songs - Spotify ?
why not switch to £5 a month with Napster - you then only get 5 free MP3s per month, but with £10 a month you should be getting 12 free songs. I think Napster has a larger library and works with Boom etc, while the others do not. -- mmca22gr -- SBS 7.4.1 WHS, 1 SliMP3, 1 SB2, 1 SBC, 1 DUET, 1 BOOM, 1 RADIO -- mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73554 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hardware Beta Testers Take Note
Interesting. So what value do you put on a beta SB Touch or radio? Certinaly not the MSRP, else Logitech would have just put them out to market without beta testing. If HMRC or the IRS really want to spend their time trying to chase people for a benefit in kind tax charge on a barely working product, that - when it does work - is about £150 (SBR) then they really do have far too much time on their hands. SBR: £150 BIK tax would be based on the cost for Logitech to provide it? £50 taxed @ 20% = £10 -- mmca22gr --- SBS 7.4 WHS, 1*SliMP3, 1*SB2, 1*SBC, 1*DUET, 1*BOOM --- mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69819 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: Napster UK Now �5
In truth, I have been using Napster with SB for around 8 months. I have had some rebuffering problems, but that was with mainly with my SliMP3 and a Mains ethernet kit, so not too concerned. Actually some of the posts on the Napster boards are very critical, but for £5, I think their expectations are too high - It's less than minimum wage! FFS, if you were on the dole, you might even sign up! FOr £60 a year including 60 downloaded DRM free tracks, plus the ability to stream to any/all your squeezeboxen - then I would not be too concerned about how good the Customer Service Dept are. In fact for that price, I would expect them to be farmed out to the cheapest place that Napster can put them. Actually I'm surprised that someone like Virgin have not bought them out, or tried to replicate - Take out our superfast 50MB broadband and stream any 8m tracks for free! The way this streaming media will pan out is that we will go back to paying per MB of usage. If people think that they can use BBC iPlayer all day or downlad movies from Apple TV, without eventually having to 'pay the ferryman' will be in for a shock! To get back to you original question... I though it was a good enough service to pay £10 a year for, so I am very happy that I can get the same service for £5. In fact, local.bin, PM me your address and I will send you a crisp BoE £10 note and you can have a free 2 months - I'll just pretend that they have not reduced the price until December! Am I the only Squeezebox owner who thinks that £5 to stream any of 8m tracks to your player is a no-brainer? -- mmca22gr --- SBS 7.4 WHS, 1*SliMP3, 1*SB2, 1*SBC, 1*DUET, 1*BOOM --- mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69272 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: Napster UK Now �5
Siduhe;473264 Wrote: I wish that the Napster Library (i.e. the repository of tracks you've played or saved to your library) still supported Album view (you can now only view by track or artist) but that's my only minor niggle. Yes, the biggest problem!! How hard would it be to fix!? I am stunned that they a) don't fix, or b) think that it is OK as it is! -- mmca22gr --- SBS 7.4 WHS, 1*SliMP3, 1*SB2, 1*SBC, 1*DUET, 1*BOOM --- mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69272 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: Napster UK Now �5
local.bin;473273 Wrote: Thanks for all your input. I'm struggling with the Napster / Spotify decision, rather than the £5 decision really. There is no iphone client for Napster, but there is great Slimserver support, while the opposite is true for Spotify :-/ Of course if the service is good I'll never need support, but with Spotify I can cancel the service by opting out in my account and their service is great. You have to go via customer services with Napster and I've heard varying reports about that service. If the service is indeed good, then £5 is a bargain :) Its also a pity that my music seems to be on Spotify but only in the US Napster site... Have any of you tried m.napster.com site? does it also work well? Thanks again. I have not tried m.napster.com I agree that an iPhone client would be useful, although for me the streaming to squeezeboxen is the main focus for Napster. My offer of £10 still stands ;-) As for the opt out. I subscribe via a credit card. I subscribe to the If i signed up online so I should be able to cancel the same way school of thought. I was not aware that Napster made you call up to cancel. Dear Naspter, How can I phone up to cancel if I am deaf and dumb? I 'm almost certain that I emailed then to cancel my last subscription with no fuss. I think Spotify wil be dead in a year and Naspter might limp along for another year after that. The money in the music industry is to be made in touring, but that is a small % of total music sales. How can the record industry go from charging me £10 for Hendrix-Axis Bols As Love on Vinyl to £12 on CD to £5 to download to £5/8million (0.06p) per month to listen to it. I believe that music will become low bandwidth fodder as a free addon to your ISP. The record companies will survive by getting us to buy digitally remastered, top notch, super duper, MP3 files of the Albums I have on record, tape, CD etc. for yet more money. I'll end up paying 4 times for the same record. Excuse the diversion ;-) -- mmca22gr --- SBS 7.4 WHS, 1*SliMP3, 1*SB2, 1*SBC, 1*DUET, 1*BOOM --- mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69272 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: Napster UK Now �5
I would tend to agree that @ £5 a month it seems a no brainer. You also get to download and keep 5 MP3s a month. -- mmca22gr --- SBS 7.4 WHS, 1*SliMP3, 1*SB2, 1*SBC, 1*DUET, 1*BOOM --- mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69272 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox + Draytek router: No Internet radio
I have a similar setup. Vigor 2900 with SC running on a Windows Vista box. I don't have any route issues and can listen to BBC iPlayer and NApster with no problems. -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65952 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANN] Squeemote 1.2, now with device sync!
Luke, How do you play something in the Napster playlist? I am also unable to play using iPeng, but was able to do so using Squidgy. Both iPeng and Squeemote just show details of the song etc but I can't figure out how to actually get a song to play! -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60720 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANN] Squeemote 1.2, now with device sync!
pippin;402598 Wrote: For iPeng I can help: You have to touch-and-hold an item (1s). Works with any playable item, including whole albums. mmm... I thought I had tried that and it did not work with Napster. It seemed the logical option for both iPeng and Squeemote. I will try again tonight if I get the chance. -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60720 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANN] Squeemote 1.2, now with device sync!
Thanks for the update, power toggle was top of my list. It works great now! -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60720 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeemote 1.0 available on the iTunes Store
Luke, No sign of an update yet? -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56778 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeemote 1.0 available on the iTunes Store
Thanks for the update. I hope that future releases will include control of the player. -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56778 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeemote 1.0 available on the iTunes Store
joelwright;378674 Wrote: I don't see the problem here with authentication, if you set your server as username:password@server-ip everything works just fine. Joel. Thanks Joel, Tried it and liked it very much indeed! -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56778 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeemote 1.0 available on the iTunes Store
Luke Redpath;374702 Wrote: Thought you might like to know that this evening I've got authentication up and running so it will definitely be in the next release (along with music service/internet radio browsing). iTunes connect is closed for Christmas so its unlikely any updates will be submitted to Apple this week, but at my current rate I expect to have Squeemote 1.1 submitted to Apple by the end of next week, and in the store the week after (touch wood). Great to hear. Look forward to the update in the new year! -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56778 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Best iPhone Remote
Chippy;374566 Wrote: I took a look at the Sonos iPhone demo on their site. I have tried iPeng, Squidgy and waiting on auth before I try Squeemote. So far I prefer iPeng, but I really do prefer the graphics used by SONOS. My father has a SONOS system and it does work very well. The graphics etc just seem much more professional. Pity Logitech did not go that route also, and invest a bit of time and money into an app. iPeng - it just works. Simple as that. Squidgy - it works also but I don't like waiting on the DB to build so rarely use it. -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56876 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeemote 1.0 available on the iTunes Store
Luke Redpath;373788 Wrote: No support for authentication as yet. Will add it to my list. Waste of £5 for me so far then. Will take a look again when authentication is implemented. -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56778 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeemote 1.0 available on the iTunes Store
Luke Redpath;373865 Wrote: Sorry about this; if you'd like a refund, drop me an email and I'll see what I can sort out, otherwise I'll try and get a new release out with authentication support ASAP. No problem. I can wait for the update. -- mmca22gr mmca22gr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=474 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56778 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2
First thing I did was plug in a pair of PC desktop powered speakers into the headphones jack and found that there was a constant crackle and pop making it unusable. I'm in the UK also, although I don't think that should make a difference! -- mmca22gr ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Headphone connection on SB2
Also got mine from Multitask. Have not done anything yet so far as I was not planning to use the headphones socket that much. Think I will drop both Multitask and SLim Devices an email detailing the problem. M -- mmca22gr ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB availability
Looks like mine is on its way today also :-) Happy Weekend!!! -- mmca22gr ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: SB availability
I ordered mine from Multitask on 21st March and believe that I will get my SB2 in the batch supposedly to arrive in the UK next week. Bit of a pity that :-( -- mmca22gr ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
