Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch and the digital rot
magiccarpetride;623984 Wrote: > Got a bit of an unpleasant shocker yesterday. Came home from work, eager > to listen to some nice tunes on my system. Started playing some albums, > and got startled with a very unpleasant sounding presentation. Harsh > glare, thin midrange, loud but at the same time somehow shallow and > abrasive bass. What the...? > > Something sounded seriously broken. My heart sank. I'm in love with my > audio system, and to hear it broken like that... well, I don't have to > explain how hard it was on me. > > Anywho, started doing a bit of troubleshooting. It did happen to me on > several previous occasions (throughout a number of years) that my > preamp would get to the point of sounding muddy (this happened very > rarely). All it takes is to turn it off and back on, and the muddiness > gets cleared away. So I tried it last night -- no effect. I turned my > power amp off and back on -- same difference. I did the same to my > outboard DAC -- no change. > > Finally, unplugged my Touch, plugged it back in, and voila! the sound > returned to normal. Full bodied, sweet bass, rich midrange, silky, airy > highs. > > So what gives? Why did Touch end up sounding so toxic all of a sudden? > Any explanation? Both my SB-Radios have done something similar a couple of times. I have no doubt whatsoever that its a software-glitch. Its a computer, reboot it once in a while. -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Softsqueeze (at work), SqueezeCommander on Se X10 mini and HTC Desire. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad (Yes I know most phones have more cpu-power these days, but it gets the job done). Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86893 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] A touch remote?
I have an SE X10 mini and a HTC desire. Just about the opposite ends of screen-estate available on an android-phone. I actually tend to prefer Squeezecommander on the x10 mini over the Desire. The Desire requires less focus to hit the right "touch-spot". But the x10 mini just fits my hand better. The Desire for me is more a two-handed device. Oh. And I recommend Squeezecommander for Android-based devices by the way. One of the neatest features is that it doesn't require Wlan to work. It can work across the mobile internet as well. -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad (Yes I know most phones have more cpu-power these days, but it gets the job done). Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83583 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox touch DLNA & UPNP?
By the way, out of curiosity for other reasons: How did you find these forums? Was there a link on the logitech website, did you google for it, or some other way? -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad (Yes I know most phones have more cpu-power these days, but it gets the job done). Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79319 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox touch DLNA & UPNP?
Short answer: No, The touch is not a upnp/dnla client. No, Popcorn hour will not run the necesary squeezeboxserver software. So you will have to look for another solution. I recommend setting up a server of some kind that can serve both pop and touch. It could be an old scap-laptop running the software from vortexbox.com. Or just a netbook. The squeezeboxes support wake on LAN, so if the pop does as well, you could suspend the server when not in use and have it wake automatically when needed. You could also plug an external harddrive into the touch and let it serve itself and the pop. But from what I hear, that solution is not working optimally due to the touch's limited hardware. -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad (Yes I know most phones have more cpu-power these days, but it gets the job done). Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79319 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What can i do with an unused laptop?
My experience with vortexbox is that it works really good. But the version that I used was unable to use a musiclibrary on a usb-disk, without serious Linux-knowledge. That may have changed since then. I recommend just installing SBS on the vista you have and see how it does. If it performs overly well try adjusting the power options, ecreasing performance, will save power. Find the right balance. If it runs badly on the vista, you sure can pull some extra power out of the hardware be installing vortexbox instead. For me, Windows XP, without a running anti-virus does the trick, on really low-speck hardware. But that is ofcourse risky, if you doen't implement security elsewhere. My server is some old pentium three or four running 800 mhz with just 384 mb RAM. But my music collection is much smaller than yours. So obviously your experience will differ from mine. Bottom line: The laptop you have will suffice for musicserver. Just find the right software configuration for it. -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad (Yes I know most phones have more cpu-power these days, but it gets the job done). Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79290 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] And Now The Touch?
The OP is obviously 0/10 and shouldn't be fed. Nonetheless, the replies are quite interesting and would provide good information for a would-be customer. -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad (Yes I know most phones have more cpu-power these days, but it gets the job done). Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77701 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Remote Libraries?
Gave my vote. -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad. Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77501 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] If touch is gnu
If you by GNU mean any well-known Linux-distro, It is not. Logitech made their own distro for the squeezebox line. SqueezeOS But as Erland stated there is plenty of fun to toy with and lots of stuff you can program for it yourself if you want to. -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad. Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77480 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] March Madness: Touch Release Pool
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76494 Question: March Madness Pool: When do you believe the Touch will be released? - April 15-30 2010 - May 1-15 2010 - May 16-31 2010 - Summer of 2010 - Fall of 2010 - Right before Christmas 2010 I'm voting/hoping Q1 :) I've just bought another Radio, so my SB quota has been used for Q1. Hey, it's alomost Q2 now ;) -- Muele BR Mogens 1 Radio, 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad. --- Another Radio and Battery on order. The Radio is seems out of stock in Logitech.dk yet shipped the same day. Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76494 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Unofficial official Release Date
iPhone;526752 Wrote: > Troll. 0/10 for being silly enough to post that dribble (definitely no > more then 1/10 because he didn't us any of the keywords, maybe a 2/10 if > he said the girlfriend had the ability to fold space it see into the > future). Everybody should automatically ignore all posts that start out > with, "I have a relative in Taiwan..". His post doesn't even make > good April Fool's fodder. > > The Touch is a huge move toward making Squeezebox mass consumer ready. > Since it doesn't use the expensive VFD it also probably has a better > profit margin then the SB3. And TinySBS removes the need for an external > server and allows one to just attach a USB drive containing ones local > music library. > > And oh yeah, did I mention that the Touch is stacked up in warehouses > ready to ship when the word is given. Amazon is dying to start shipping > them as well as the other large Internet Seller. Logitech has to much > time and money invested in Touch to scrap it even without the fact that > there has already been a production run of product. You rate it 0/10, yet spend time answering it? :D -- Muele BR Mogens 1 Radio, 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad. Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73231 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] amazon cancelled today
Sure a lot of people would be content with the touch as it is. But for Logitech I think it is really important that is in a really good state when launched. Reason: There will be a gazillion reviews right upon launch. Launch with mediocre software will result in bad reviews, that will haunt the product forever even if the software is fixed two weeks later. Logitech mised the holliday season and now they just want it to be bloody perfect when released. For not-yet-customers it doesn't really matter if sales starts two months later if they haven't heard about the product yet anyway. Just my 0.02$/ on the matter. -- Muele BR Mogens 1 Radio, 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Served by an old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad. Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74273 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Has the Touch release date been delayed?
jeffstake;494131 Wrote: > What do I do to get the 20% pre-order discount? What is the price after > discount? > thanks! It was a general logitech discount code that expired october 31. -- Muele BR Mogens 1 Radio, 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Running off old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad. Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 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] Has the Touch release date been delayed?
amcluesent;485578 Wrote: > Is the "Grandad" market segment so attractive? Well, judging by this excellent thread it is just about the right segment to go for. That is not "grandad", but anyone who were listening to music when Freddy was still alive. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60808 -- Muele BR Mogens 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, 1 Squeezeplay. Running off old 800 mhz IBM T21 Thinkpad. Muele's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21310 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
