Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Initial Buffering
OK thanks for your advises I will also buy 1GB RAM and see if the result is better. But I'am not going to give up with the WIFI, this is so convenient. I let you know... -- Chrobrego Chrobrego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15230 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79979 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Audiophile Touch mods - take two
Let's see: I have no intention of using the USB or SD features,as I run music from a dedicated SBS server. I generally only use the digital out of the Touch, as I've got an external DAC. My Touch is close enough to my router that I have no problem connecting wired, and I think wired gives better performance anyway. I don't plan on disconnecting the screen. But if the software mods improve the sound, why not? For me the point of the Touch is to give me high quality native decoding of hi-res from a music server, and give me the user interface (including browser interface). That's what I need. YMMV. The hiface is probably a great product. But to use it instead of the Touch you need a DAC, and some kind of user interface so that you can acutally play the music. -- firedog Tranquil PC fanless WHS server running SqueezeServer; SB Duet through Empirical Audio Pace Car; MF X-150 amp, MF V DAC3, Devore Gibbon Super 8 Speakers; Mirage MS-12 sub; Dual 506 + Ortofon 20 (occasional use); sometimes use PC with M-Audio 192 as digital source. SB Boom in second room. Arcam CD82 which I don't use anymore, even though it's a very good player. firedog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80013 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
[SlimDevices: Touch] Non-ASCII unicode, issues or fixes?
I have had trouble browsing music folders of USB drive attached to the Touch that had non-ASCII unicode characters encoded by UTF-8. I think it has to do with either the setup or the kernel of the Unix coming with the Touch. When I ssh into the touch, and type ls, it pops up something like this: ls ./directory/file No such file when either directory or file had accented characters or other non-ASCII characters. In some cases even I did not see any non-ASCII characters the file is still reported to be missing. My question is, is there a modest upper limit for the number of characters in each file? The characters are showing correctly in my Mac Terminal or Linux machine, meaning they are correctly encoded in UTF-8. -- chzhzhang chzhzhang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38322 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80036 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Now Playing/Artwork lags behind
I just noticed it this morning but I'm running a USB attached hard drive. -- carib carib's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34240 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80014 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Now Playing/Artwork lags behind
I see it occasionally on my Radio, but not clear on how to duplicate it. It -seems- to be related to pausing, but I may be imagining that. -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80014 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Internet radio artwork missing
mullet;556619 Wrote: Just got myself a Touch a couple of days ago and it is a very nice little beast. Lovin' it except for one thing. I have a lot of shoutcast stations in my favorites and only one shows the artwork, that being Radio Paradise. The favorites are stored via mysqueezebox.com I didn't think shoutcast stations displayed artwork. Radio Paradise does seem to be an exception though. Have you tried adding your favourite stations using the main search engine, instead of shoutcast? For example, GotRadio Blues via shoutcast is... http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=4214 Bit via the main search it is... http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s49671partnerId=16 With this one you should see the station artwork. I'd be curious to see how this goes. -- thunderlips thunderlips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38129 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79873 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Internet radio artwork missing
If you use erland's Custom Clock screensaver/helper, it's possible to setup a screensaver which then can use LastFM images. I added to my Radio now playing screensaver. I've got it setup to alternate between the album art, and LastFM artist images. The result is if I play a radio stream where I don't get artwork (the album art), I still usually get images from the LastFM artist images. It's not perfect in this case - I still see the radio icon, but at least I still get some interesting images. If you are using mysqueezebox.com, I'm not sure if it works (although as an applet, you may be able to setup using squeezeboxserver, and then it may work after that on Mysqueezebox.com). -- tcutting tcutting's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17402 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79873 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Now Playing/Artwork lags behind
snarlydwarf;558138 Wrote: I see it occasionally on my Radio, but not clear on how to duplicate it. It -seems- to be related to pausing, but I may be imagining that. I'm fairly certain it happens to me during every listening session, pause or no pause. -- Fatman Fatman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38930 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80014 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Audiophile Touch mods - take two
I have been working with tweaks on the Touch, how its used, how to get the best out of it for quite sometime. I have been primarily focusing on the analog signals coming out rather than the digital out. Soundcheck was also working on optimizing the the Touch, he took some of my stuff and added some more of his own. I have been trying out his tweaks for awhile as well as my own and combinations of the two. As I said I was primarily focusing how these have affected the analog outs, so when I see references to these tweaks that is what automatically comes to MY mind, tweaks for the analog out. You are right, his page does talk about them as tweaks for the digital outs, so yes I could easily see how you could make the assumption that they are only for the digital outs. I can say that they are very effective on the analog outs as well. These software tweaks and some simple hardware changes produce analog outs that are astoundingly good, IMO way better than anything else you can get for $300. Now that I see where you are coming from I can comment on the digital side of things. Yes they DO affect the digital out. Whether you are going to hear that depends very much on the DAC its driving. Some DACs have much more imunity to differences on inputs than others. Unfortunately immunity to input differences does not necessarily go hand in hand with the best possible sound. There are certain methods for improving input immunity that degrade the sound from all sources. Some DAC designers have deliberately NOT used these techniques, the result is that using a really good source will give better sound than any source if using some immunity techniques. So IF you have one of these DACs that will give exceptionally good results IF fed from an exceptionally good source, these changes to the Touch WILL increase the sound quality. Whether the increase in SQ is worth giving up a local disk or the screen is entirely up to you. Now on the M2Tech HiFace. I know it well, I know how it works, what it does and how it performs. I also know the Touch as well. I have plenty of measurements I've made to back up any listening impressions. The upshot is that the Touch is actually a better S/PDIF source than the HiFace (not by a huge amount, they are both well designed devices). I has slightly lower jitter and does a better job of matching the impedance specs. Does this mean it will always sound better than a HiFace? No it does not. The truth of the matter is that very few DACs have inputs that even come close to meeting the S/PDIF pecs. The upshot is that the source that sounds the best for a given DAC is probably going to be the one which most closely matches the input characteristics of the particular DAC, not the one which most closely matches the spec. And because those input characteristics vary so much, its pretty much a crap shoot as to what source is going to sound the best. For a very good DAC which has a proper input implementation the Touch is going to be one of the best sources available. These Tweaks make it even better. Because of this crap shoot in compatibility between source and input, I still think someone that is aiming at REALLY good sound would be better using the Touch's analog outs with these software tweaks and the two hardware changes (disconnecting the display and bypassing the output caps). The results are extraordinarily good and would take way more money to achieve other wise. BTW the HiFace has two different digital outs, S/PDIF over RCA and AES/EBU over BNC. There is a thread over in the Audiophile forum comparing the digital out of the Touch to the BNC out of the HiFace connected to the BNC input of the Transporter. Note that the BNC out of the Touch is AES/EBU not S/PDIF. The BNC input of the transporter is also AES/EBU. Is it any wonder that the transporter sounds better being fed by a source that is of the type it was designed for? The primary difference is the voltage level, the S/PDIF out is 0.5V but the AES/EBU output is 2V. An AES/EBU input will work with the S/PDIF input, but it works much better with the voltage level it was designed for. I don't see that as proving the HiFace is inherently better than the Touch, just that in the configuration tested it more closely matches the input characteristics of the device being driven. John S. -- JohnSwenson JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80013 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Chumby?
How does the Chumby sound? Is anyone streaming to it? -- djfake --- www.itjerk.com www.progressiverock.com djfake's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8111 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68036 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Big problem + Choosing usb hd for Touch...
ste1;552642 Wrote: Samsung S2 portable - 500gb 2.5 hdd. works fine for me with 300gb of flac; self powered, silent, small, cool running, quick scans, no software obligations, spins down automatically, nice Touch-complementing black finish as well. No major errors yet (fingers crossed). The only issue I have experienced is severe buffering on 24bit/96k flac files - but I beleive this is a wider problem and there may be workarounds. Hi, when you say self powered do you mean it's got it's own plug or it's powered through the usb? i've just ordered one and i'm sure it's powered through the usb, i hope yours is though the usb and it works ok. cheers -- silvermilnec silvermilnec's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38940 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79083 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Big problem + Choosing usb hd for Touch...
Bus powered means it gets power over the USB bus. Self powered means the device (disk drive in this case) means it has its own power source other than the USB bus. With the Touch there is an intermediate approach which is to use a powered hub. The drive can still be bus powered, but the Touch isn't supplying the power either, it comes from the hub. John S. -- JohnSwenson JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79083 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
[SlimDevices: Touch] Guidance Needed
Hi All, I am trying to figure out how to get SBS and the Touch to play back 24/96 WAV files at full resolution. When I look in the window on the left in the remote windows interface I see the following statement Bitrate: 4233kbps CBR (Converted to 705kbps FLAC). Does this mean that the wave file is being converted to a FLAC? How do I set it up correctly? Brian -- Astroimage Astroimage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38571 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80042 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My thoughts on the sound quality of the Touch
I am also interested in the quality of the analog out. To save money I am thinking of connecting the Touch directly to a power amp. The Touch is my only source so a preamp seems superfluous. -- Henry66 Henry66's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77649 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My Touch is loosing time
4 days in, the clock on my Touch is now about 22 seconds behind ntp.ubuntu.com. It's been more than 15 seconds slow for more than 9 hours. slimserver.pl has been running for nearly 5 days. FWIW, my Touch currently isn't even connected to TinySC as a music source -- but it sounds like that shouldn't matter, that so long as TinySC is running (as it is), the clock should drift no more than 15 sec from MySB. I suppose there's a chance that MySB is 7 seconds off ntp.ubuntu.com, but that seems pretty unlikely; I have rarely seen more than about 2 sec diff between systems using NTP. I'll keep investigating and open a bug if this continues. -- 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) 'DenonSerial' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/DenonSerial.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=79894 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Guidance Needed
You need to connect to your server's webUI and set the file types. Once you bring up the WebUI click on settings. Then click on the Advanced tab. Then click on the arrow to the right of the pulldown on the left (it usually says Formatting to begin with. Select File Types. You now have a page that covers a bunch of file types. The left column is the file type, the middle is the stream type and the right is what program does the conversion. So for wav scroll down to WAV in the left column. You should see three choices for stream type, FLAC, MP3 and PCM. In the right column set FLAC and MP3 to disabled and PCM to native. Native meens the server won't do any conversions, it assumes the players will use its native decoder to decode the stream. For FLAC you have some choices. You can stream as FLAC or PCM. I personally think FLAC sounds a little better but others will disagree on that. Its up to you, try it and see which you like better. John S. -- JohnSwenson JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80042 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My 24/96 stuttering problems are gone with latest server/firmware
chzhzhang;558033 Wrote: Even it said scanning, I don't think scanner is running at all after I disabled the autorescan: the database files are not changing, and some 24/96 files are actually OK. I will try to recode 24/96 flacs back to wave and see whether it solves the issue. Sorry for interrupting, but how do you disable the auto rescan? -- vinhattieu vinhattieu's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35921 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79830 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
