[slim] SB3 Left channel has gone very quiet.
I have two SB3s. I've just noticed that the left channel on one of them has become very quiet (almost, but not quite, silent - perhaps 40dB down?). This affects both the analogue (phono) outputs and the headphone jack - I've not tried the s/pdif output yet, but I'm guessing that the digital output will be okay. My other SB3 is fine. To the best of my knowledge there has never been a balance control in SB/SBS, so I presume that this must be a hardware failure. Am I likely to be able to find/fix anything if I dismantle the SB? Is it possible that this is caused by a flash failure (I updated to f/w 135/SBS7.6 just a couple of days ago)? I brought the units with me from the UK to Philippines when I emigrated three years ago. I am not aware of any marketing/sales/service activity for the Squeeze devices in the Philippines. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 Left channel has gone very quiet.
Mnyb;598830 Wrote: Try a xilink reset Thanks for the advice - it certainly sounds like a good place to start my only problem is not knowing how to perfarm a Xylinx reset on an SB3. I've searved the forum and the wiki, but not come up with anything! -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 Left channel has gone very quiet.
Thanks for the pointer. I did manage to find that myself, after I posted it helps if I spell Xilinx correctly! Unfortunately, none of that improved matters. However, further searches led me to this posting about a very similar problem: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71914 With the help of the schematic, and the suggestions there, I am convinced that it is the coupling capacitor on the output from the dac (C7 on SB2, C20 on SB3) which has failed. The rms voltage on the output from the cap is an order of 10 lower than the voltage from the dac. So, looking at replacing the coupling caps on both channels, I came across the modifying SB3 thread, here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19822 From this, it seems that I would do well to eliminate the output driver op-amp and replace the coupling caps with better quality devices. If I can obtain the better spec'ed dac here in Philipines, I may well change that too. If all goes well, I can then apply the same mods to my other SB3. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SB3 Left channel has gone very quiet.
Mnyb;598874 Wrote: Cool, if you got the soldering skills and EE skills Well, back in the 70s I did obtain a BSc in Electronic Engineering and, although I spent most of my working years doing IT, I have always dabbled in electronics Anyway, as a quick fix while I find suitable caps, I removed the offending (de)coupling cap, lifted one leg of the decoupling cap between op amp o/p and the output sockets, and connected the dac output to this second decoupling cap. Thus, I've eliminated the op amp from the circuit, but retained one of the original decoupling caps and the passive low pass filter. I repeated the same mod on the other channel. My SB3 is now back to full working order! :) -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84395 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement Squeezecenter 7.2.1
Having given up waiting, I installed from the .tar. This has resulted in an installation where the version is reported as 7.2 - 23630. The web interface is still telling me that a new release is available. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54045 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox without a computer...
... but this means that any locally stored music has to be sent up to squeezenetwork, and back down to your squeezebox again. I guess that you have a reliable and fast connection. I might have tried this while I lived in UK, but Internet connections are so unreliable here in Philippines that I wouldn't contemplate such an arrangement. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54163 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement Squeezecenter 7.2.1
Has anyone running Ubuntu been able to fetch version 7.2.1 as the stable release? I keep trying and am always told that 'squeezecenter is already the newest version'. Who is able to fetch it and who cannot? -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54045 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement Squeezecenter 7.2.1
kevmacmills;352334 Wrote: Super! When will we see this in debian stable (http://debian.slimdevices.com stable main)? I still get 7.2... Same problem here ... I'm told that the installed version (7.2) is the latest. This using either the Update Manager or sudo apt-get update/sudo apt-get install squeezecenter -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54045 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcement Squeezecenter 7.2
There appears to be a problem with the 7.2 release which is causing problems for some plugins - WeatherTime, for one. It has been stated that the problems did not exist with the last nightly immediately prior to the formal release. Can someone investigate this, please? -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51633 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Can No Longer Find IP Address
Could this be an instance of the SB3 MAC address becoming corrupted? If you've secured your wireless network by allowing only trusted MAC addresses, and the MAC address changes, you would get a failure to connect. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29809 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nothing works as it should.....
ceejay;153739 Wrote: Well, the firmware has changed... 6.5.0 has v64, my 6.5.1 from a week or so ago has v67. Yes, as I wrote, I did wonder whether the firmware makes a difference. However, I am unsure whether SN imposes a specific version of firmware, by download, in the same way that SS does. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29540 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Nothing works as it should.....
If I understand correctly, Pete is saying that everything works fine with his local SlimServer, but is less than healthy when connected to SqueezeNetwork. I don't see how moving from SS 6.5.0 to 6.5.1 is going to make any improvement to the SN connectivity. PS. Whereabouts in Austria? I hope to be visiting Zell am See again at the end of February! -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29540 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Slim Devices at What Hifi Show, London
hickinbottoms;153207 Wrote: I noticed one promo girl walking around wearing a I Mount Anything shirt. Yes, that one grabbed my attention too! She did seem to be rather conscious of the brief nature of her shorts and was constantly attempting to tug the hems down! On a more sensible note, it was, indeed, good to see representation from SlimDevices and Progressive at the show - Jez and Paul. ... and playing with that 'knob' was an interesting experience! -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29106 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is the hardware really as bad as the software?
PaulR;150900 Wrote: I use it a lot for Internet radio streams. I presume that since the squeezeboxes sync at the start of each song it wouldn't work great for internet radio since the two would eventually drift out of sync. Can anyone confirm this? - or do they do something clever in this case like resampling the data going to one of the squeezeboxes? I note that the 'progress bar' in the web interface whilst playing a radio stream (in the case that I've just tested) seems to reset to zero every approximately every 220 secs. I wonder whether the players would re-sync every 220 secs? -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29158 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Ethical question - stolen CDs backups......
The other point to consider is that if the value of your CDs is not included in the value of contents for which you pay insurance premiums, and the loss adjuster becomes aware that you had CDs, the insurance company may decide that you were under-insured to the value of the CDs and adjust the total of any payout against the items for which you claim. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29003 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Stuttering, and the File Types page
Much the same here - Wireless signal strength runs at around 90%, network test shows 99+% at 4000, yet I get spells of stuttering. :( -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28681 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Where/how is gain adjustment carried out?
From these responses, I gather that the gain adjustment is performed at the player, but that it is done in the digital domain. This implies that it must be a 'lossy' process and should be turned off for best quality reproduction. This is a shame, because it does seem to me that, for the analogue outputs, it ought to be possible to adjust the analogue gain in response to the replaygain value and maintain a lossless reproduction. I guess that I'll leave Volume Adjustment turned off on my main system, but leave it turned on on the other SB which is used for casual/background listening. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28462 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Where/how is gain adjustment carried out?
Josh Coalson;144740 Wrote: --- peterbell peterbell.2femkn1160386801 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com wrote:[color=blue] analogue amplification is also lossy, the question is always whether or not it's audible. the flac replaygain synthesis code does dithering with noise shaping, so you should ABX test it to see if you can hear a difference first. also, the noise shaping is controllable via switches in one of the conf files; you can spend more processor time to increase the quality. Josh Oh yes, of course there is loss of information (and addition of false information) in the anologue domain but I would guess, unless there are some very serious non-linearities, the effect is seldom as obvious as the infidelities which could be introduced in the digital domain. However, it may be worth, as you suggest, setting up an ABX test so that I can judge for myself. I guess that, from a purist point of view, having elected to use FLAC coding for all my music, it goes against the grain to, knowingly, introduce unneccessary digital processing. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28462 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Where/how is gain adjustment carried out?
I have all of my CDs encoded using FLAC. I recently added replaygain tags to the files. My first question is: Does the gain adjustment get performed at the Server or the player? Secondly: Obviously, if the first answer is 'Server', then the adjustment is carried out in the digital domain. However, if the adjustment is performed at the player, is this done in the digital or the analogue domain? If the adjustment is performed in the digital domain, then it must be a 'lossy' process and not conducive to good perfect reproduction of the original waveform. However, if the adjustment were to be carried out in the analogue domain, then it would probably not be detrimental to the sound. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28462 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Is 6.5 perfect?
autopilot;141472 Wrote: My SB3 has really changed my music life more than i ever thought something like this could, it's brought me and my girlfriend much pleasure. How sad is that? :p -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28115 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Tag problems with 6.5.0
Siduhe;140161 Wrote: I downloaded a small program from the MusicIP site called ID3TagCleaner I went to the MusicIP site looking for this but cannot find it - I must be stupid! Can you please provide a link??? -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27848 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: small bug details in 6.5.0
Yep, I've also been aware of the confusion between IP and number of players. I can't swear to it, but I think it was there in 6.3.1 also (I'm not going back just to check!). -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27677 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wish List for SlimDevices
Ah, no extra wiring. I just unplugged and unbolted the OEM CD changer, and fitted the PhatBox in its place. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27696 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Wish List for SlimDevices
florca;138468 Wrote: What you need is the late, lamented empeg... Ah yes! I haven't heard from/of Hugo Fiennes for quite a long time. I wonder what he's up to now. -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27696 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Easy connect to another slimserver
Hmmm - difficulties here! I've just installed the 6.5 final release on my PC. Switching the Squeezebox to that was fine - it connected, updated firmware to 64(?), and worked straight away. When I connected back to SlimServer (6.3.1) on my QNAP, the player firmware 'upgraded' again, to 55. Then it forced me to go through the full network configuration - what a pain! -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27560 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Elapsed time jumps backwards just before end of song
No replies to this, so I guess I'm the only person to experience it? After some experimentation, I think that this may only occur after using fast forward/backward (ie press hold the forward/reverse skip button). -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27366 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Elapsed time jumps backwards just before end of song
Is it just me ... or perhaps this is a known bug which I haven't picked up on. Im running Slimserver 6.31, originally on Win XP, but latterly on a Qnap (therefore with f/w 55 in the SB V3), using FLAC encoding exclusively. Quite frequently I notice that the elapsed time displayed in the Now Playing screen saver jumps backwards to a much lower value (but not zero) shortly before the end of a song/track. This jump backwards is evident in both the digits and the graphical display. I have not yet determined any consistent pattern to the occurrence of this feature. I would check the Bugzilla lists, but I don't appear to be able to log in! -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27366 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Official 6.5.0 Beta 2 - Please Test!
I presume that those of us running SlimServer on a QNAP can't just install this new version, but have to wait on Progressive to do the necessary? -- peterbell peterbell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27259 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
