[SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
Sometimes I have problems with finding the cover-art (SBT and Synology NAS) SO I would like to know what is the best way to store the cover-art: as a jpg in the same folder as the music or embedding it into each file? -- Lapiovra Lapiovra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=45340 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
I don't think one is more foolproof than the other. Squeezebox Server has always struggled to find and display artwork. But SBS 7.6 (in beta testing) is much better than previous versions. I prefer to use cover.jpg files in the album directory, as I think they're a lot easier to manage than embedded images. If you want to replace a cover it's a simple matter to replace a file. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SB Touch says Nothing when playing some musics
pumabr;619428 Wrote: I contacted the technical assistance of the Squeezebox and I reported this problem. By the research they did, this is a software bug, a new version of firmware will solve this problem... I wonder if the fix is already in latest firmware? This bug is actually quite annoying and it tends to happen when I browse through the music folder instead on selecting songs using the database. -- hwaitung hwaitung's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39441 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85777 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
I find that embedding the artwork is rock solid, at the expense of more disk space used. It doesn't require a full rescan to spot changes to artwork this way, as it will detect the changes to files after a regular scan for new and changed, so is definitely the simplest way to manage your artwork. -- paulster paulster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Very basic questions, no doubt - which one and how
Thanks for all the points everyone. I'll re-evaluate things from here and may use PC/laptop with server installed if NAS installation is too wretched. I'm risking another question, which'll probably again show my lack of understanding, BUT could I install the SB Server on my laptop, point it at the music files on the NAS and run it through to the Squeezebox? Thanks. Steve -- octafish octafish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=45270 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86717 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SB-Touch and FritzBox
djitts;622599 Wrote: I have just installed a new modem/router call FritzBox 7390 (this has an in-built NAS, allegedly uNpN A/V compatible) and find that the SBTouch just cannot see it on the network. The Touch can see the other two computers and also a VortexBox. But I want to access music files through the Touch without having to run a computer. My Yamaha amplifier can read it (the Fritz NAS) just fine. Looking for help on this Forum, I saw many entries but, alas, they were in German and I do not understand that language. Any advice on how to make the Touch play nice? En Anglais? Cheers. Hello, Squeezeboxes, the Touch included, do not talk UPnP. At least not yet. They require a special server software called SqueezeBox Server (SBS) running on a computer within the network for playing your local files, or to connect to MySqueezebox.com (MySB) online for internet radio / online music services. The Touch has its own TinySBS which can be used when connecting a storage device to the USB port, or using a memory card. The reason it sees the VortexBox is that it does in fact run SBS among many other things. Just try on the browser on your pc: http://[ip_of_vortexbox]:9000 and you should see the SBS Web UI. Now, it may be possible, by manually configuring the Touch, to connect to the Samba share on your Fritz NAS device, but that is not how it officially is intended. You would need SBS running on your NAS. I don't know if it is possible. -Skinny -- Skinny This sentence says less than a list of audio equipment. Skinny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21538 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86745 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SB-Touch and FritzBox
djitts;622599 Wrote: I have just installed a new modem/router call FritzBox 7390 (this has an in-built NAS, allegedly uNpN A/V compatible) and find that the SBTouch just cannot see it on the network. The Touch can see the other two computers and also a VortexBox. But I want to access music files through the Touch without having to run a computer. My Yamaha amplifier can read it (the Fritz NAS) just fine. Looking for help on this Forum, I saw many entries but, alas, they were in German and I do not understand that language. Any advice on how to make the Touch play nice? En Anglais? Cheers. The touch won't see your NAS unless it's running Squeezebox server; it is not a UPnP client and therefore won't see it just because your NAS is a UPnP server. Sorry. this is a repeat of the information in the post above ... we replied at the same time! -- coyrls coyrls's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44253 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86745 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My new SB Touch won't accept WEP password
Have done nothing overnight. Squeezebox server auto updated to 7.6 software this morning. If I look in Server Settings, I now see both Touch and SB3 listed together, for the first time. Touch asked for approval to update its software.when it re-started, for about five seconds I had the Sqeezeserver GUI showing, then it reverted to the mysqueezebox interface. When I select My Music, it tries (and fails) to connect to my PC. -- NMarshall NMarshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14924 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86696 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Very basic questions, no doubt - which one and how
octafish;622646 Wrote: could I install the SB Server on my laptop, point it at the music files on the NAS and run it through to the Squeezebox? Absolutely. In fact that's the perfect solution. Use the NAS for its intended purpose (storage) and use the laptop for what its intended purpose (running applications). -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86717 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My new SB Touch won't accept WEP password
I think you are confusing www.MySqueezeBox.com (MySB) and SqueezeBox Server (SBS) on your computer. Each player can only be connected to one server at a time. Each server has it's own web UI control. Your player is on MySB if: - you go to MySB web UI Players and your player is listed as Connected - you navigate player to My Music and it tells you to switch to SBS server - MySB web UI Remote Control actually controls the selected player Your player is on SBS if: - you navigate your player to My Music and your music is there - SBS web UI actually controls the selected player Your SB3 will tell you which server it is connected too when viewing the Home Menu. -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86696 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My new SB Touch won't accept WEP password
I know the difference between the two servers, and how to confirm which player is playing which. -- NMarshall NMarshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14924 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86696 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My new SB Touch won't accept WEP password
NMarshall;622667 Wrote: You would surely accept that the two players could be connected to seperate options, but both are recognised in the squeezeserver settings? I would accept the first part, but not the second. If a player is connected to mysqueezebox.com, the player's settings definitely do not appear under the web ui's Settings Players tab. The player will appear on the web ui's player dropdown list, but it will be clearly indicated as connected to mysqueezebox.com, whereas SBS-connected players will be clearly shown as connected to the local server. See the screenshots for examples of both (the top is what I get when trying to look at the settings for player Basement SB2, which the lower one shows clearly is connected to mysb. +---+ |Filename: player-select.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11627| +---+ -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86696 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie with Questions for the Experts
I just noticed when using iPeng on my iPad the album art is not filling the the whole display anymore. It now fills the bottom 60% of the display. It displays as the whole image plus a portion of the same image mirrored upside down below and with the mirrowed image somewhat greyed out. I prefer this because the image looks crisper, so I'm not complaining. I was wondering if I inadvertly changed a setting to get this type of display, but I can't find where I would do this on iPeng. -- tmauceri tmauceri's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41450 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83244 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My new SB Touch won't accept WEP password
I immediately deleted that post as it didn't seem logical. However, I was able to see both players in squeezeserver settings, the Touch having the mysqueezebox GUI (not playing).you don't think that's possible? As you can see from the attached, I can see both players in squeezebox server and can now control the Touch...ie stream music chosen from the squeezeserver GUI onto the Touch, which then displays the following menu options - Now Playing/My Music/Settings +---+ |Filename: Choose.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11628| +---+ -- NMarshall NMarshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14924 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86696 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My new SB Touch won't accept WEP password
NMarshall;622676 Wrote: If I select Squeezebox Server on the Touch, under Advanced, i am told that 'neither Squeezebox Server nor the scanner are running'/'detects no attached storage device'. Ah, now I think I've got it. That's the wrong menu path for what you're trying to do, but a very understandable mistake. That is the Touch's built-in server that is not running, not the SBS running on your PC. If you want to reconnect your Touch from mysb to SBS running on your pc, on the Touch's screen go to Home My Music and you will be prompted to connect to your pc. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86696 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
JJZolx;622615 Wrote: I don't think one is more foolproof than the other. Squeezebox Server has always struggled to find and display artwork. But SBS 7.6 (in beta testing) is much better than previous versions. I'm glad to hear that. I'm mainly on older devices that don't use artwork, but the artwork has been so flakey that I wonder why I keep cleaning it up. I'll never understand why they went with the goofy layout with placeholder art instead of just making the text bigger when there was no artwork. When the artwork isn't there the majority of the interface is just wasted. -- sander sander's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10737 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie with Questions for the Experts
I just updated my 15 yr old Cambridge Soundworks computer speakers at work with the Logitech THX 2.1 system (http://www.logitech.com/en-us/speakers-audio/home-pc-speakers/devices/7321) at work. I have been using iTunes and the SB player to play MP3s. These new speakers are a big improvement but obviously not real high end. If I went to FLAC at work, using the SB Player do you think I would hear a difference. What if I got a NuForce uDac-2? -- tmauceri tmauceri's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41450 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83244 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My new SB Touch won't accept WEP password
And you can avoid future confusion by turning off the Touch SBS, which runs automatically when the Touch boots up. SettingsAdvancedSqueezebox ServerStop Squeezebox Server. -- Peter314 Peter314's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14028 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86696 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
paulster;622626 Wrote: I find that embedding the artwork is rock solid, at the expense of more disk space used. It doesn't require a full rescan to spot changes to artwork this way, as it will detect the changes to files after a regular scan for new and changed, so is definitely the simplest way to manage your artwork. With respect to embedded cover art and its impact on file size I'm fairly sure that the metadata in flac files is stored at the beginning the file and that a certain of space is allocated for this information. Therefore how large (in kilobytes) can embedded cover art be before it has an impact on the overall file size? The reason I'm asking is that I try to obtain cover art (either by scanning or downloading) which is has close to 1MB as possible. I like high resolution cover art because I use Moose (http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove/) as the front end for controlling my various Squeezeboxen and high resolution cover art looks great when using Moose. At present I do not use embedded cover art instead place in the same folder as the flac files in a file named cover.jpg. Everything works fine except that getting SBS to recognize new or revised cover art usually requires a full clear and rescan. Which of course raises the question of when will SBS,s scan function be updated to handle new and revised cover art without having to do a full clear and rescan? -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Snatch - The Transporter - Transporter 2 (oops) - Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
[SlimDevices: Touch] FW update every time
Allmost every time i turn on the touch, it want me to update the firmware. Im have installed the new firmware many times now, but cant get rid off it. Im using the logitech harmony one to control it. Nad cant see any activites that would prevoke this? -- hairball hairball's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43246 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86761 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question
rgro;622241 Wrote: Embedded art works fine, but every once in a while it can cause a little problem. I recently downloaded an album from HDtracks that had embedded art in each track. Unfortunately the art was 1400 x 1400 (238kb) and the large size of the image caused SBS/Touch to have a big hairball. The result was a huge burst of static when I tried to play the tracks...no music whatsoever. I had to use MP3tag to remove the embedded art from each track and then put a smaller jpeg in with the traditional cover.jpg file and all was solved...So embedded art, unless you put it in yourself and are careful with file and image size, can cause this sort of issue. OK, I ran into that STATIC thing you were talking about last night. But here is the deal. Yesterday while browsing through this forum I saw a mods link where the modder said to go into your setup for SBS and go to Advanceddrop down and select File Type go to the FLAC section and change FLAC from Native to disable and this allows all the decoding to be done at the server. I did that and last night when I went to play music I've had for months occasionally I would get the big burst of static that you were talking about. I went back and changed FLAC to native and the problem has gone completely away. -- edmondwolfman edmondwolfman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40367 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86658 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
ralphpnj;622695 Wrote: With respect to embedded cover art and its impact on file size I'm fairly sure that the metadata in flac files is stored at the beginning the file and that a certain of space is allocated for this information. Therefore how large (in kilobytes) can embedded cover art be before it has an impact on the overall file size? The answer is there is no answer! When the metadata is written to a FLAC file it can be truncated right at the end of the metadata itself, or it can be written with some buffer space to allow for updates. Depending on how a FLAC file was created and what last edited it, I've had adding a single character to a track title cause a complete file re-write whereas on other occasions adding a larger image was just able to use the buffer space available. Essentially, you can trim your FLAC files down to be just the metadata, no spare room and then the music, so if you do that then of course having the image embedded is going to increase the size of the files. I don't worry about it though, even though I use high-quality artwork in my files. It's only a bit of an issue in my shadow MP3 library when I want to copy some stuff onto an iPod Nano (and quite why we have one of those is beyond me anyway) when the size of the albums limits how many you can fit on. The disadvantage of filesize was completely outweighed by the fact that SBS works perfectly with artwork in this setup, and also that my shadow MP3 library (maintained by flac2mp3) would also transfer over all the images seamlessly, which further means that iTunes automatically updates the images. And I never have to do a full clear and rescan. I couldn't have done all this with cover.jpg. -- paulster paulster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
paulster;622715 Wrote: The answer is there is no answer! When the metadata is written to a FLAC file it can be truncated right at the end of the metadata itself, or it can be written with some buffer space to allow for updates. Depending on how a FLAC file was created and what last edited it, I've had adding a single character to a track title cause a complete file re-write whereas on other occasions adding a larger image was just able to use the buffer space available. Essentially, you can trim your FLAC files down to be just the metadata, no spare room and then the music, so if you do that then of course having the image embedded is going to increase the size of the files. I don't worry about it though, even though I use high-quality artwork in my files. It's only a bit of an issue in my shadow MP3 library when I want to copy some stuff onto an iPod Nano (and quite why we have one of those is beyond me anyway) when the size of the albums limits how many you can fit on. The disadvantage of filesize was completely outweighed by the fact that SBS works perfectly with artwork in this setup, and also that my shadow MP3 library (maintained by flac2mp3) would also transfer over all the images seamlessly, which further means that iTunes automatically updates the images. And I never have to do a full clear and rescan. I couldn't have done all this with cover.jpg. Thank you Paul for very thorough answer. Since I have just under 15K of albums in my music library I'm not about to re-edit all the file tags to include embedded cover art so I'll just have to hope that some future version of SBS includes improved handling of cover art. I can also hope to win the lottery since there's a much better chance of that happening than SBS finally getting improved handling of cover art :) -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Snatch - The Transporter - Transporter 2 (oops) - Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
It would actually be reasonably easy to write a script to traverse down the directories and call metaflac to embed the cover art in each flac file in directories which have a cover.jpg file. You could always leave cover.jpg there afterwards for the benefit of Windows, as SBS will then ignore it. It might be worth considering, and then your library will be self-maintaining thereafter, without relying on SBS 7.6 being a panacea. -- paulster paulster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My new SB Touch won't accept WEP password
Unfortunately, it won't connect to my PC from My Musicclearly I have a confused path somewhereand as Squeezebox Server won't connectI can't turn off the Touch SBS -- NMarshall NMarshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14924 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86696 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
paulster;622724 Wrote: ...without relying on SBS 7.6 being a panacea. I think SBS 7.6 with respect to improved handling of cover art is more of pipedream than a panacea. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Snatch - The Transporter - Transporter 2 (oops) - Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
Exactly. That's why I was thinking of a script! What you need to do is to recurse into each directory down your music path and execute the following: metaflac --import-picture-from=cover.jpg *.flac That will import cover.jpg into all the flac files in that directory. -- paulster paulster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
paulster;622728 Wrote: Exactly. That's why I was thinking of a script! What you need to do is to recurse into each directory down your music path and execute the following: metaflac --import-picture-from=cover.jpg *.flac That will import cover.jpg into all the flac files in that directory. Thanks! I'll give it a little test run before to see how I like the results before I run it on my entire music library. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Snatch - The Transporter - Transporter 2 (oops) - Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] My new SB Touch won't accept WEP password
NMarshall;622676 Wrote: I can switch back to mysqueezebox.com (with all the standard menu options) if I release Touch from the squeezeboxserver by selecting the other player. You don't 'release' a Squeezebox when you change players in the web interface of Squeezebox Server. All you are doing is selecting a different player to control from the interface. The other player(s) remain connected to the Squeezebox Server. So the issue is the Touch finding my PC/server, not being controlled by my PC/server. I've seen the situation numerous times where I can control the Touch from the server, the server thinks it's connected to the Touch, but the Touch doesn't realize that it's connected to the server. It's exactly like you describe - I'm unable connect to the server if I select it on the Touch's screen from My Music. It plays music, but the Now Playing screen on the Touch is never displayed. It happens also on the Radio, so must be a SqueezePlay thing, which continues to have connectivity problems. For some reason it's only ever been a problem with 7.5.x servers and usually the situation clears up by itself eventually. No idea what causes it. If I select Squeezebox Server on the Touch, under Advanced, i am told that 'neither Squeezebox Server nor the scanner are running'/'detects no attached storage device'. This is referring to the _internal_ Squeezebox Server that can run on the Touch if you have an attached USB drive or SD card. Ignore it if you're using a Squeezebox Server on your network. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86696 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
bliss will also embed existing cover.jpg files: 'Embed from cover.jpg' (http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2010/08/24/embed-album-art-existing-image-files/) Disclaimer: it's commercial software (although free up to 100 albums), and I write it. Just another option for you there. -- elstensoftware 'bliss' (http://www.blisshq.com) - fully automated music library management. 'Read the music library management blog' (http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/) including 'how to use bliss to manage Squeezebox album art' (http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2010/09/14/album-art-squeezebox/) elstensoftware's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31345 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question
Ah, but the question pertaining to this thread would be: did the files that caused the problem have embedded artwork larger than 500 X 500? If so, then it becomes a question of trading off any perceived SQ benefit in shifting the decoding to the server vs. having (or deleting) the large embedded art files. As an aside, that mod can be one of a set of (Soundcheck's) mods that some folks here (me included) say have made a noticeable difference in the Touch's SQ, though if done one at a time, people may or may not perceive any differences with an individual mod. -- rgro Rick System information Main: PS Audio Quintet Touch (wired) via spdif coax Rega DAC Marantz PM8003 VA Mozart Grands REL Acoustics R305. Home Theatre: SBR (Wired) Pioneer VSX 919 Energy Take 5 Classic 5.1. SBS 7.5.3 r31815 running on a Vortexbox Appliance, V 1.7. Touch w/Hardware V.5. Touch: FW 7.5.3 r9283. Duet: FW 67. rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86658 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Album Covers sometimes appears question
rgro;622754 Wrote: Ah, but the question pertaining to this thread would be: did the files that caused the problem have embedded artwork larger than 500 X 500? If so, then it becomes a question of trading off any perceived SQ benefit in shifting the decoding to the server vs. having (or deleting) the large embedded art files. As an aside, that mod can be one of a set of (Soundcheck's) mods that some folks here (me included) say have made a noticeable difference in the Touch's SQ, though if done one at a time, people may or may not perceive any differences with an individual mod. It happened on 2 different songs that it had never happened on before. I only remember 1 of them,it was Ella Louie and the album art is 600x600 which I don't think would be considered large. I got the tweak from someone's toolkit 2 or similar. -- edmondwolfman edmondwolfman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40367 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86658 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
Mp3Tag will do automated embedding of album art from folder jpgs: http://www.geektonic.com/2008/02/automatically-embed-album-art-to-large.html -- Peter314 Peter314's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14028 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
Cool! I use mp3tag all the time and I didn't know it could do that. -- paulster paulster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Best way of storing the cover-art?
paulster;622626 Wrote: It doesn't require a full rescan to spot changes to artwork this way, as it will detect the changes to files after a regular scan for new and changed, so is definitely the simplest way to manage your artwork. You can accomplish the same thing by bumping the mtime on the music files. SBS will rescan the files and the new cover.jpg is picked up and precached. I only use embedded covers where I absolutely have to, and the only software that I've ever used that requires them was iTunes. When I had an iPod I embedded covers in my MP3 mirror library, but since dumping the iPod it's no longer necessary. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86747 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] FW update every time
Are you switching the Touch between MySB.com online and your SBS server on your computer? If yes, that is what is causing the updates. -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86761 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie with Questions for the Experts
You would probably not hear any difference between FLAC and well ripped MP3's on a $150 computer speaker set. But as with all things audio it is subjective. It's also easy to try for yourself, rip a couple of FLACS and compare them to their MP3 sibling. ;) -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83244 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Very basic questions, no doubt - which one and how
That's it then, that's the way I'll go. Again thanks. Steve -- octafish octafish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=45270 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86717 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SB-Touch and FritzBox
Many thanks for your responses. I am beginning to dislike the Touch already! -- djitts djitts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42741 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86745 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SB-Touch and FritzBox
djitts;622801 Wrote: Many thanks for your responses. I am beginning to dislike the Touch already! The touch is a marvelous piece of kit for an unbelievably cheap price for what it does. But it does require a decent server. A low powered NAS is networked attached storage (Not A Server). Try it with SbS running on a computer to get a feel for what it can do. -- garym garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86745 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
