[SlimDevices: Touch] While waiting for Touch saw Pure Sensia
Hi, Was considering getting a Touch to add to my collection of SB3, Duet and Radio, when I saw this in a John Lewis store: http://www.pure.com/products/product.asp?Product=VL-61294 and to be honest I was blown away by it, it seems to combine the best parts of the Touch and the Radio with a larger screen and for the same price! I'm sticking with the logitech kit for now, but I'd be interested in any comments from existing Touch users? I have noticed recently that John Lewis (UK) are now stocking a range of wireless streamers, this is where I saw the Pure Radio and they have the Sony and Philips ones in now, but they don't have ANY Logitech wireless stuff at all, though they used to sell the SB3. They do have other Logitech items, but no Duet, Boom, Radio or Touch - odd? kantblue -- kantblue kantblue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19236 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71680 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] While waiting for Touch saw Pure Sensia
yuk. it's so retro and wouldn't look out of date in a 60's modern home or in lost in space -- Lou1z Lou1z's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12985 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71680 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] While waiting for Touch saw Pure Sensia
Hi andynormancx Thats interesting, I did notice that the touchscreen was a bit non-responsive, certainly not in the ipod/itouch league. Thought it was probably just me. I didn't have a huge amount of time to play with it, but it actually struck me as a possible replacement for the radio - at least the battery pack is available for it, it looks as if the Squeezebox radio battery back won't be available until next year, which, for me rather defeated the object of purchasing one. Lou1z, I'm not sure about the style either, I assume its because the 60's are in now, or is the 70's or the 80's or 90's I can't remember which is the new black at the moment! kantblue -- kantblue kantblue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19236 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71680 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch screensaver options ?
usch;488028 Wrote: . Yet another account to be created. *sigh* Agreed. That has always bugged me about the bugs (ha!). :) I wish they could just accept validated/registered MySB.com accounts as slim.bugs accounts. Seems they would get much more user input within slim.bugs if they didn't require another login/account/registration. :( As for the NP screens on Touch, I'm hesitant to say much as this is still in Beta. But suffice it to say they have many interesting NP screens in current testing, plus erlands customized NP layouts. More to come. :) -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71637 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] While waiting for Touch saw Pure Sensia
Wonder how the synchronization is when using multiple Sensia units? -- upstatemike 6x SliMP3, 1x SB1, 2x SB2, 10x SB3, 2x SBR, 4x SBC, 1x Boom upstatemike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6409 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71680 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] While waiting for Touch saw Pure Sensia
I'm a beta tester. I find that the screen on the Touch echos my motions very well indeed. I'm quite pleased with its responsiveness :) -- Keymaster Keymaster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30281 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71680 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
[SlimDevices: Touch] Touch and PC simultaneously connected to the same extnl. HARDDRIVE
Hello. I'm looking for an external harddrive solution, so I can access files on the harddrive from my computer and access music files on a Squeezebox touch at the same time. 1. It is possible: one external hard drive with 2 USB ports - one port for the SQBX Touch and one for my PC? 2.Or is there a file browser for the PC that let me access a hard drive that is connected to SQBX Touch through the USB port on the back ? 3. Or can SqBX Touch find an ethernet connected harddrive on the local network ((Ethernet Switch))? 4. WHAT IS YOUR IDEA ???!!! (USB, Ethernet or Wi-Fi? - does not matter - but only ONE harddrive - which external harddrive to buy ??) (I'm NOT looking for an expensive NAS solution, but an easy and cheap solution, for having my squeezebox-mp3´s and other files on the same hard drive, both accesable from PC and the Touch at the same time) What should I buy? Recommendations? Thanks for your replies :-) Dr. Akoya +---+ |Filename: squeezebox_back_low-150x150.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8751| +---+ -- Dr. Akoya Dr. Akoya's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71703 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch and PC simultaneously connected to the same extnl. HARDDRIVE
The SB Touch runs a Samba (file sharing) server. So you can connect any standard external USB HDD to the SBT's USB port, and the drive contents will be seen by the rest of the network. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71703 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch screensaver options ?
usch;488219 Wrote: I just noticed that despite the higher pixel resolution, the physical width of the Touch display is much smaller than that of the old players. With a decent font size that can be read from across the room a lot of horizontal scrolling will be required to display the same amount of text. I wonder how that will turn out in practice. The display area of the Touch is much larger; all that should be needed is simple word wrapping. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71637 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch screensaver options ?
Hm. I was hoping that the additional space could be used to display more information simultaneously, instead of switching between different screens. For example: Line 1: Title Line 2: Artist Line 3: Album Line 4: Genre / Rating Line 5: Bit Rate / Sample Rate Line 6: RSS News Ticker If you wrap one of the lines, that would push other information off the screen at the bottom, so scrolling might be the better alternative. I just hope there will be a scroll once and stop setting. -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71637 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch screensaver options ?
usch;488219 Wrote: erland Wrote: The Information Screen applet/plugin should work both on SqueezePlay and hardware players. However, it needs you to install both the Information Screen applet (in SqueezePlay through Applet Installer) and the Information Screen plugin (in Squeezebox Server through the Plugins tab). Yes, I had them both installed. The applet showed up as a screen saver in SqueezePlay, and the server plugin appeared in the web interface with the advanced and per-player settings pages. Still the screen saver displayed just a blank screen. I did not delve further into it because SqueezePlay itself is so full of bugs that it cannot be used as a desktop player anyway. I'm using SqueezePlay during development so it should definitely work. If you decide to give it another try and get the same problem, post the server.log file in the 3rd party plugins section of the forum and we can investigate it further from there. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71637 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Has the Touch release date been delayed?
themrock;486704 Wrote: Yesterday i got a message from Amazon (Germany) that my Touch will be delivered to me between 10 and 20 December. Unfortunately today i got a message that the touch cant get delivered and that my order is canceld -- themrock themrock's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20824 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71178 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch and PC simultaneously connected to the same extnl. HARDDRIVE
If your computer will be on whenever the Touch is being used you can setup a traditional Squeezebox Server on the PC and plug the external HD into the PC. Both the PC and SBS can access files on the HD. If the PC will not be on when the Touch is being used you either have to have the server running on a NAS, or use the internal server and External drive. Some NAS solutions are not too expensive, a Vortex box works very well and comes preloaded with SBS. If you all ready have the external HD you can get a SheevaPlug ($99) and install the SBS software and plug in the existing HD. This works well but takes a little effort to get setup. Or as has been mentioned you can plug the external drive into the Touch and access it over the network from the PC. Since the Touch is primarily designed as a music player you might not get super high performance as a file server, especially if the Touch is playing music while you are trying to remotely access the files. I'm not sure any body has actually tested the performance as a file server. (It works, I'm just not sure how fast) John S. -- JohnSwenson JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71703 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
