Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Question from a new Touch owner
You shouldn't have to unplug/re-plug the drive to transfer your files. That is an inconvenience that you don't need to live with. It's probably best to get the Touch's built-in file sharing (Samba) sorted out, but even if you don't manage that, you can probably use WinSCP to transfer any music files. You only need to navigate to the music library via WinSCP, as opposed to navigating to the location of the server.prefs file. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90673 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Question from a new Touch owner
Also, did you make sure that the Squeezebox Server program was stopped before you tried to edit the prefs file? I don't use TinySBS, but I know that on regular SBS any edits to server.prefs won't take unless SBS is off when editing the prefs file. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90673 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Question from a new Touch owner
verycd;660837 Wrote: > Where can I find the autoscan file in winSCP, which seems to have a > different interface? > > See #11 in this thread > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79830&page=2 That post that you reference has all the information you need. There is no "autoscan" file. As explained in that post, autoscan=0 or autoscan=1 is a line in the server.prefs file, which lives in /etc/squeezercenter/prefs/. The part that is different is how you edit the file. Instead of using the Touch's built-in editor 'vi', you can use the edit functions in WinSCP. WinSCP is much easier because it works like a regular graphical interface text editor, whereas vi uses very cryptic keystroke commands. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90673 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Problems regarding transferring new files to attached USB drive
Yes, Samba is the sharing function on the Touch. It seems to me that most often the connection problems are simply getting the sharename, username, and password correct, but that alone could be reason enough to use ftp instead. If you're not using Samba on the Touch, you may as well turn it off. Some people believe that it degrades the Touch's performance by burning unnecessary CPU cycles. I'm not convinced of that, but I am sure that turning off an unused function can't hurt. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90438 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Problems regarding transferring new files to attached USB drive
Gillinger;660561 Wrote: > Download WinSCP, which is an FTP app. I'm curious: what, if any, advantages are there to using ftp instead of the Touch's built-in Samba server (SMB)? Is ftp any faster? -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90438 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Proximity sensor on SBT
I wouldn't hold my breath -- I don't see it as a high, or even a medium, priority for development. In the meantime, just go that extra 1-2cm and touch it to get the same effect. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90617 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Proximity sensor on SBT
Actually the proximity sensor is disabled in the Touch's normal operation. It seems it never quite worked out in practice the way it was planned. Search in these forums and you'll get more info, but this thread sums it up fairly well: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77356 -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90617 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to queue a next album/playlist on touch without losing current
Just use the standard press-and-hold on an album or track to bring up the context menu. See post #2. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89721 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie SB Touch Help Please.
Gareth82;657802 Wrote: > Thanks for all the replys and help. It's now all starting to get abit > clearer now. So many peolpe talk about using NAS drives all of the time > but it shows that you still can't beat a good old pc for the job. > > With the Vortexbox i noticed that you can download the software for use > with your pc. Does the Vortex software replace the need for the > Squeezebox server or does it work with the squeezebox server? > > Also are there any pc or laptops that you would recommned that would be > silent on operation when in use? > > Is it best to create a WOL server? > > Thanks PCs have really improved when it comes to low power options, so the NAS's advantages in that aspect have eroded. And in general these low power PCs are so much more flexible than NASs. You will pay more for a completely silent pc -- I think a better solution is to use a non-silent pc, but put it somewhere out of the way where you can't hear the noise. I use a "headless" pc, based on the same hardware as the Vortexbox Appliance. It has no monitor or keyboard, and I login to it remotely from another computer on the home network. Note that Vortexbox software is a replacement operating system, based on Fedora Linux. It includes SBS and lots of other useful audio-related utilities, such as CD ripping software. Any new computer these days supports WOL (although many/most NASs don't). Putting the server to sleep when it's not serving, and then waking it up via the SB is a good way to go. : -- aubuti Nothing high-end, but music anywhere I want it, and it's '100% wind powered' (http://www.cleancurrents.com/). 'MSI single-core Atom mini-desktop' (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167032) (Debian Lenny 5.0.6) feeding: Living room: SB Touch > 'NAD C325 BEE' (http://nadelectronics.com/products/hifi-amplifiers/C-325BEE-Stereo-Integrated-Amplifier?products/hifi-amplifiers/C325BEE-Stereo-Integrated-Amplifier) > 'Vandersteen 1' (http://www.vandersteen.com/pages/1clit.html); Kitchen/Dining: 'SB2' (http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20050428023747/http://www.slimdevices.com/) > 'AudioSource Amp100' (http://www.amazon.com/AudioSource-AMP-100-2-Channel-Bridgeable-Amplifier/dp/B00026BQJ6) > 2 pair of 'Polk RC60i' (http://www.polkaudio.com/customaudio/rci/index.php?s=rc60i); Basement: 'SB2' (http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20050428023747/http://www.slimdevices.com/) > 'JVC JA-S44' (http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=204813) > 'ESS Tempest LS8' (http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/205237-ess_tempest_ls_8_speakers/); Bedroom: Boom; Study: SB Radio; Backyard deck: 'SB Receiver' (http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080124175538/http://www.slimdevices.com/) > 'AudioSource Amp100' (http://www.amazon.com/AudioSource-AMP-100-2-Channel-Bridgeable-Amplifier/dp/B00026BQJ6) > 'Polk Atrium 45' (http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/atrium/index.php#atrium45); Kid's bedroom: 'SB3' (http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20051210015952/http://slimdevices.com/) > 'Klipsch ProMedia 2.0' (http://www.klipsch.com.cn/na-en/products/promedia-ultra-2-0-overview/); Roaming controllers: iPod touch with iPeng, 3 'SB Duet' (http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080124175538/http://www.slimdevices.com/) Controllers, 'Nokia N800' (http://www.nokiausa.com/find-products/phones/nokia-n800-r6); Limbo:one more 'SBR' (http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080124175538/http://www.slimdevices.com/) http://www.last.fm/user/aubuti/ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90372 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Need a little advice before I purchase
Two things to consider if you're thinking about self-amplified speakers are (1) getting power to the speaker(s), and (2) running the line-level cable from the Touch to the speaker. Neither are rocket science, but they're easy to underappreciate. For the power, you just need to look good about hiding that extra wire for the power, while also complying with building codes about running electrical lines in walls. For the line-level cable, keep the run as short as possible, and be sure not to run parallel to any AC lines for any distance or else you run the chance of picking up a 50Hz hum on your speakers (or 60Hz, depending on where you live). -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90326 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can I play songs from Touch's attached USB drive on a radio?
Sorry, I can't answer that one for you because I run the server software on a mini pc, not on the Touch. But I'm sure someone else will be able to help. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90316 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can I play songs from Touch's attached USB drive on a radio?
Yes, wow. You understood it correctly. As for what the Touch will display, that's actually up to you. Both the Touch and the Radio are players, but they can also act as controllers (ie, remotes) for other SB players. In your situation, I am guessing that you will be choosing things to play on the Radio by using the Radio itself. In that case, the Touch will not show what is playing on the Radio. On the other hand, it is possible to use the controls on the Touch to choose something to play on the Radio, skip tracks, control volume, etc. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90316 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can I play songs from Touch's attached USB drive on a radio?
The term is "serving". The Touch is using its built-in music server software to play the music through the Touch. That music is also available to any other SB on your network. On the Radio, go to My Music, and it should ask you which server to connect to -- in your case, the only one would be the Touch. Note that the Touch can still be playing tunes at the same time that it is serving music to the Radio. It can be synchronized, or it can be a compleletely different track/playlist. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90316 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Which audio out?
1) yes 2) It depends on the DAC in the amp, and your personal preferences for the sounds of different DACs. All of the SB outputs work at the same time, so you could connect both the digital and the analog to your amp, and then switch back and forth over as long a period as you'd like to see which you prefer. Be sure to match the volume on the two, or else your comparisons wont't be much use. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90318 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Two simple ideas to make Touch standalone with TinySBS (and why not SBS ?) acceptable
nicolas75;656824 Wrote: > actually it seems slower to enter a folder where I have about 80 files. Slower than what? Browsing by artists, albums, etc that have already been scanned after you went into their folders, or something else? -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90147 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Active speakers for Touch
Now that I think about it, a Touch probably wouldn't like being left outside all the time either. Now that Mnyb has brought up Polk Atrium speakers, I'll chime in that that is what I use outdoors on my deck/patio, and I'm very happy with them. I have a SB Duet Receiver connected to an AudioSource Amp100 in the basement, and only run outdoor-rated speaker cable out of the house and to the speakers. The music is controlled by SB Controller, iPeng on an iPad Touch, or a laptop. Of course, in my climate indoor speakers and a SB Touch wouldn't last long outside, even if sheltered. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90268 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Active speakers for Touch
As always, it depends on the budget, and also how loud you'll want them to get. A lot of people around here are extremely happy with AudioEngine self-amplified speakers. For an outdoor setting you would probably want to look at the A5 model, which goes for about $350/pair in the US. I'm not 100% sure about the wisdom of self-powered speakers in an outdoor setting. It may be fine, but I honestly don't know. In addition to wet/dry, you also need to consider temperature extremes, especially cold. If you're in dry climes, with very moderate temps you'll probably be okay. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90268 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Tagging questions (maybe?)
Have you done a rescan in SBS after adding new tracks? Also, have you tried using the "Music Folder" browsing in SBS to confirm that SBS can see the "new" tracks that the Random Mix isn't picking up? Finally, have you selected only certain genres for the Random Mix, and if so, are the tracks that aren't playing in those genres? -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90250 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Hide directories on touch USB drive?
Sure. You can rename all the directories you want hidden so that they begin with a dot. For example, hide your "photos" directory by renaming it ".photos". That's the standard way to hide a directory in *nix, and it keeps the TinySBS scanner from looking there. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90122 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Coupling Touch and Boom
Yes, you can have the Boom stream music from the Touch. At present the "replacement" for the SB Boom is the SB Radio. It is not known whether or not there is a "Boom 2" in the works. Personally, I doubt it. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90120 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squezzbox with NAS
pallfreeman;651982 Wrote: > Sorry if I seem to be hijacking this thread but it seemed appropriate. > > As a new Touch user, with a stash of several thousand MP3 albums on a > NAS of some kind, which I usually access from my Windows box, should I > expect my Touch to be able to deal with this? Without having to install > SBS on my computer? Yes, if you install SBS on the NAS and use that as the server. You cannot easily use the Touch's built-in server (TinySBS) to reach out to the NAS for the music library. Some people have done it with connecting the NAS via NFS, but performance wasn't very good as I recall. Search the forums on "NFS" and "Touch" and you'll find the relevant threads -- I think there are at least 2-3 of them. Here is one of them: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77604 -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89735 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to queue a next album/playlist on touch without losing current
You mean the stricter treatment of upper/lower case in tags? You only have to fix your tags once, and then you're done with that. Imo, even though 7.6.0 created problems for a lot of users (fortunately it went smoothly for me), the upgrade to 7.6.1 is worth it. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89721 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to queue a next album/playlist on touch without losing current
Yeah, I think that getting the menu from the top bar disappeared with 7.6.x. I don't know if it was deliberate or if it's a bug. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89721 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Time to give up on Touch's server?
ozzymilton;65 Wrote: > Yes, I would say the ethernet connection provides better dynamics, > frequencey response and soundstage compared to going wireless ,it is > not subtle. Okay, I'll bite. Have you disabled the wifi module (a la soundcheck's toolkit), or merely connected via ethernet? And are you using the Touch's analog outputs or digital? -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89673 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to queue a next album/playlist on touch without losing current
I vaguely recall that functionality, but never used it much. I'm pretty sure it's not a plugin, so maybe the functions just changed (especially hard to say because you don't mention what version of the software/firmware you're running). You can do what you want by touching and _holding_ the desired album/track on the touchscreen. That will give you a context menu, with options such as play, play next, and add to end of playlist. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89721 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Giving up, so I ask you to help me starting again with something different
Solrac;650938 Wrote: > I think you got it right! The configuration I'm thinking of is having a > regular installation of Win 7 Ultimate on the dedicated computer. This > computer would run the Squeezebox Server, while connected directly via > Ethernet to the Touch. Every now and then, I would perform the basic > maintenance both on the OS and the Squeezebox software via wireless a > remote desktop from my laptop. Yes! For the record, I like soulkeeper's suggestion of connecting an ethernet switch to the router, and then connecting both the server computer and the Touch to that switch. With that arrangement you should be able to keep the music playing even when the router reboots, especially if you have static IP addresses for the server and Touch, or at least reserved DHCP addresses. It would be much easier than configuring the computer with two network cards. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89674 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Time to give up on Touch's server?
psp;650857 Wrote: > Where do you go to download previous SBS versions? (I've searched for > ~45 min and come up empty.) http://downloads.slimdevices.com/ -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89673 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Time to give up on Touch's server?
Sure you can go back. You can back out of the prompts to update by holding down left arrow button on Touch's remote or doing a L-to-R swipe on the touchscreen. If you don't want the prompts then it's also advisable to (a) turn off the automatic software updating option, and (b) never, ever connect to mysqueezebox.com. There are more complicated ways to avoid the update prompts, but the approach above is simple and works. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89673 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Giving up, so I ask you to help me starting again with something different
Solrac;650781 Wrote: > I see your point, but I'm not ready yet to give up my original idea. Of > course, if I don't find the necessary information on how to figure it > out it is doomed. My reason for a direct connection is that given the > characteristics of my place in the world and my internet provider, I > need to do the unplugging and plugging of the router too often and I > would like to avoid as many playback interruptions as possible. Thanks for the kind words. So if I understand you correctly (and it's very possible that I don't), you want your dedicated Win7 server to be connected directly to the Touch via ethernet, _and_ you also want that server connected to the rest of your network so that you can manage it via remote desktop and do other things with it. Assuming that the server's connection to the network is also wired, that means you're looking at a server with at least two network cards. Is that correct? And that one of the network cards will be configured to be a part of your home network, and the other will be configured to be part of a "special" network consisting of only the server and the Touch. I am reasonably sure it is possible to set things up that way, but I am much more certain that I couldn't walk someone through the process without actually sitting at the computer. I get crosseyed even thinking about configuring two network adapters, and most of my experience with it has been trial and error. Maybe someone else will be able to help. Good luck. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89674 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Giving up, so I ask you to help me starting again with something different
Strictly speaking you can connect the computer or NAS running SBS directly to the Touch via ethernet, but that really is doing it the hard way. Configuring the network settings for a direct connection is a pain, especially if you also want the computer to connect to other things, such as the internet. The standard setup is to use a home network router. The computer connects to the router, and so does the Touch. Done. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89674 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch and Duet Controller and Wifi Off in Touch?
You can use the Controller with the Touch's wifi disabled. As you surmise, the Controller doesn't "talk" directly to the Touch, it goes through your wifi router. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89648 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch with WLAN & no performance hit ???
bluestang;650083 Wrote: > If I were to go this route in would definitely be a new 'N' router and > 2.4GHz interference shouldn't be an issue. Then homeplugs would no longer cost more. Actually, I hadn't realized until I just looked that you can now get a pair of homeplug adapters for the cost of the WNCE2001 alone. But if you still don't want to go that route for some reason that's certainly your choice. And yes, by all means try it with your existing router and WLAN first. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89617 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch with WLAN & no performance hit ???
bluestang;650070 Wrote: > Thanks, but HomePlugs would cost more plus I'd rather not go that > route. > > I have no doubt everything will work great with the built in WLAN, but > I have some 24/96 FLAC (level 8) albums and I don't want to have to > worry about stuttering. And the added benefit of better sound quality > by turning off WLAN is a plus. You are conflating two different issues. One is whether or not to use the Touch's wifi adapter. Some believe that the wifi radio in the Touch has an adverse effect on the Touch's output, and there is some quantitative evidence that it makes a difference on the analog outputs. Some people can hear that difference, others can't. Whether you will hear a difference will depend on your ears, your audio system, your listening room characteristics, the type of music you listen to, etc. The second issue you mention is stuttering. If you get stuttering, that means that your network cannot handle the data throughput. It shows up on wifi but not wired connections because wifi has a lower theoretical maximum throughput, and more importantly, because real world conditions such as distance from router/AP and interference from other sources prevent it from getting anywhere near the theoretical maximum. Your proposed solution will address the first issue, but will do nothing for the second issue. If your wifi signal to the Touch is too weak, simply sticking the WNCE2001 in-between won't make it any stronger, with one possible exception. If your wifi router is an 'N' router, then running 'N' from the router to the WNCE2001 may give you more bandwidth. However, it's still limited to the 2.4GHz band, so if you have problems with interference, those aren't likely to go away. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89617 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Piss poor customer service
flemo;649477 Wrote: > Will there be an official announcement by Logitech when it's released? It is usually announced in these forums (for example, look at the first entry on this page, announcing 7.6.0: http://forums.slimdevices.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2). You should also see notification in the lower left hand side of the SBS web interface. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89534 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox touch downgrade in standalone mode?
For Touch you want the file that begins with 'fab4' and ends with '.bin'. Which version (eg, r9408, r9471) you want is up to you, depending on which version of SBS you're running. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89361 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox touch downgrade in standalone mode?
bitstopjoe;647656 Wrote: > I just copy the bin file to the root of my attached USB drive and I > don't have to reboot or power off the touch That's exactly how it has worked for me, too. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89361 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox touch downgrade in standalone mode?
Try downloading the firmware from http://update.slimdevices.com/update/firmware/ and saving it on a USB stick or a SD card. Note that you want the filename that begins with 'fab4' and ends with '.bin'. Take note of the release number (eg, r9408). Then insert the USB stick or SD card in the Touch. After the stick/card is recognized, do Settings > Advanced > Software Update on the Touch's menu and see if it takes. I'm not 100% sure that this will work, but I'm sure it won't break anything. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89361 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running Touch without PC being on
I ran my first Squeezebox server on a LinkStation NAS when I had very limited Linux experience. Most of the NAS installs I have seen are a bit complicated, but in my opinion they don't require advanced Linux experience _after_ someone else has already figured out how to do it. Installation can usually be accomplished if (a) you follow instructions carefully (assuming someone has already blazed the trail and posted clear instructions), (b) you are patient and don't panic if something goes wrong, (c) you're willing to look in other forums to learn what you need to know about Linux, and (d) you understand the risks involved, the biggest being "bricking" your NAS. If that looks too daunting, then it probably is, so trust your gut and look for a different solution, such as using TinySBS with a USB drive, or running SBS on a pc. TinySBS is not a sure thing -- it was a good idea that wasn't implemented well because the Touch's hardware is marginal for running SBS. It works for some, it doesn't work for others. As for running SBS on a pc, you may want to consider running SBS on a separate, low-power small form factor pc. These are available for the same cost as a basic NAS, but they are much more flexible and installation of SBS _is_ as straightforward as on a regular pc. As for clarification about the specific install instructions, I suggest you post your questions in that same thread, rather than splintering it off to this thread. You are much more likely to get people who know the answers for that particular NAS in that thread than you are here. Good luck (and that's sincere). -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89286 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Playlists 'Not portable' like Music Library ?
Cut-Throat;646413 Wrote: > Yup, I did that, but I was wondering if there was a more 'automatic' way > to do this. If you're familiar with 'sed' (stream editor) then you could process all of your playlists with a single command line. sed is a standard utility on *nix and ports are available for Windows and OSX. But if you're not familiar with it then batch search and replace is as automatic as it gets for fixing a situation in which you've moved the track to a completely different place from where the playlist says it is. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89300 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running Touch without PC being on
PaulEast;646276 Wrote: > Do you think there is anything unusual in what I am trying to do? I > would have thought there would have been hundreds (or even thousands) > of SB users trying to do exactly as I am. > > I quoted the make and model of the NAS because I was beginning to fear > that "all NASs are not equal" but I rather hoped that a big company > like Western Digital wouldn't have just launched a new NAS product > without it being capable in this area. > > Can anyone tell me whether installing Squeezebox Server on a My Book > Live NAS is a viable option? > > Thanks for the suggestion of hibernating the PC. I will try it again > but the problem last time was that in this spell of warmer weather, the > fan wanted What you're trying to do isn't unheard of but it is a little unusual, and more important, it is outside the scope of the Touch. As noted, you basically have three options: (1) use TinySBS with a USB drive, (2) run SBS on a pc, accessing a music library on the pc and/or NAS, or (3) run SBS on the NAS. All NASs are definitely not created equal, but in fairness to WD, NAS stands for Network Attached _Storage_. Most consumer-grade NAS devices like that are meant to run file server software, and not music server software. And generally they do a fine job of acting as a file server. I'm not sure about your exact model, but see this thread for some info about installing SBS on a WD My Book Live: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84735 . It's not as straightforward as installing SBS on a regular pc. It sounds like you're trying to suspend the pc, not hibernate it. Either are viable options, but a big difference is that when hibernating everything in RAM is written to disk, and then the pc is powered off completely, so there can be no fan whirring if it is hibernated. The downside of hibernate is that it takes a little longer to come out of hibernation than it does to come out of suspend; the downside of suspend is that the continues to draw some minimal power to hold everything in RAM, and that might make the fan come on. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89286 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running Touch without PC being on
You can use the Touch's built-in server (known as TinySC or TinySBS, but listed on the Touch only as "Squeezebox Server") to play tracks from a USB hard drive, USB thumb drive, or SD card connected directly to the Touch. To access music on any other storage you need to run regular SBS _somewhere_. That somewhere could be your pc or your NAS, assuming your NAS is capable of running SBS. TinySC/TinySBS cannot reach out and find your files on the NAS. Actually, strictly speaking it can if you set up NFS on the Touch and on the NAS, but (a) that is pretty difficult, and (b) most people who have tried it said that performance is lousy. If you know your way around Linux a bit and want to try it, search these forums for Touch and NFS. If you can't or don't want to leave the pc on overnight, have you looked into letting it go into suspend or hibernate overnight? -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89286 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6
Cut-Throat;644457 Wrote: > Agree, that the responsible thing was to offer a Beta Version. For those who may not already be aware, 7.6.0 has been "offered" as a beta version for well over a year, with nightly updates that are publicly available for users to download, test, use, delete, report bugs, etc. Those following the 7.6 developments were generally surprised to see that 7.6 was being released with so many unresolved bugs (see the Beta forum for a sampling). I agree, even though 7.6 has been working fine for me for some time now. Most users don't want to be beta testers, and from the reports I'm seeing from both newbies and experienced users, it's still only beta quality in far too many environments. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89103 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6
Audiofile;644385 Wrote: > But doesn't listening to internet radio through SBS require that the > computer be on at all times? With MySB.com, it was just my router that > needed to be on. Listening to internet radio via SBS doesn't require the computer to be on at all times -- only all the times that you want to listen to internet radio. :-) What I'm suggesting is a workaround to tide you over until you can get your server to successfully run the same version # of the software as mysb.com. Whether you succeed with 7.6.0, or 7.6.1, whatever, who knows? Only you can decide which of the three workarounds is less inconvenient for you. This would be my preferred ordering, from most to least convenient: 1) connect via SBS (tip: you'll find that suspending the computer instead of shutting it down when you're not listening makes this more feasible), 2) refuse the firmware upgrade/downgrade by using the left arrow on the IR remote (I think a quick left-to-right swipe on the Touch's touchscreen also works), 3) switch between mysb.com and SBS, and live with firmware upgrade/downgrade shuffle. When things get back to something resembling normal then you can resume switching between SBS and mysb without doing the "firmware dance". -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89103 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6
castalla;644386 Wrote: > Yes but offering an update to a version to that below the server is not > normal, is it? No, it's not. But I was responding to the OP, whose problem is different from yours. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89103 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6
Audiofile;644369 Wrote: > I did report it there and the response was: 1.) don't use both MySB and > SBS, or 2.) live with having to reinstall teh software each time you > make the switch. Ridiculous. And the 3rd valid alternative is the one that erland offered earlier in this thread: refuse the offer to up/downgrade. 7.6.0 has a lot of problems, no question about it. But this particular question of matching player firmware to the server software has been standard practice since forever. If you don't want the firmware to switch, then don't switch between different servers (eg, mysb.com and local SBS) that require different player firmware. And it's not as if you need to connect explicitly to mysb.com to get internet radio -- connect via SBS. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89103 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Multiple copies of tracks
Do a wipe and rescan on the Touch. That will rebuild the database, wiping out the references to deleted tracks. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88978 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SB touch alternative projects
pok;642814 Wrote: > Again, I appreciate the help, not meaning to sound ungrateful - I was > just hoping someone already had said "screw it" and done their own very > simplistic software for the touch that actually works that I could steal > :) You're right that one can always hope, but no such alternative exists. And I don't think one is ever likely to, because it wouldn't be simplistic. So in the end it would cost much much more than any of the suggestions already made (that is, if the coder puts any value whatsoever on his/her time). Btw, have you at least upgraded from the firmware that ships with the Touch? You should at least try 7.5.5, and if problems continue, try 7.6. But if you can't meet the basic suggestions already given re powered USB drive, partitions, etc, then you are very likely going to continue to be frustrated with it. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88973 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SB touch alternative projects
pok;642788 Wrote: > But no, I haven't followed all of the steps in the USB tips & tricks nor > will I; I'm not buying additional HDD's, powered USB hubs etc; the cost > for that (not mentioning the headache) will be the same as buying a > different device that has the features I'm looking for. > > If I had the time and inclination I would build my own device from a > tablet; I bought the touch to have something that works out of the box > without a bazillion hours of programming and tweaking. As toby10 says, most of those suggestions don't cost anything. Nor do they involve any programming. Also, you may consider this unacceptable tweaking, but have a look at this thread (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82070), which covers some of the same basics on getting the Touch's built-in server running reliably. I agree that the built-in server doesn't live up to the advertising on the box, but if you don't want a lot of headaches, developing an alternative distro for the Touch is _not_ the path of less resistance. Admittedly, it should work right out of the box and it shouldn't be so fussy about USB drives or scanning, but it is what it is. So your best options to me look like trying these simple steps and/or returning it. And please do tell what (different) device has the features you cite and costs the same as an externally-powered USB drive or powered USB hub. I'm sure a lot of people would be interested to know. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88973 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] what is coming after touch
signor_rossi;642606 Wrote: > But wouldn't a portable device like a Boom 2 with integrated speakers > and maybe a battery be the only audio-only device that still makes > sense? I mean with the Touch and Radio still in production and the > plethora of video playback/streaming boxes around that do audio as a > supplement...? Sorry, what I wrote wasn't clear. At this point I don't really expect _any_ new audio-only SB-like device from Logitech. Not with integrated speakers, not as a separates component. I do expect that multimedia devices like Revue or its successors (assuming there will be successors) will be able to do audio more or less like current SBs. This is complete speculation on my part, based mostly on my amateur reading of these forums and the direction of the industry, with no insider information whatsoever. And it's probably more pessimistic than usual because of the extreme heat :-( -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88899 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] what is coming after touch
slippyr4;642528 Wrote: > do we actually have any evidence that logitech are still committed to > the squeezebox product line? Yes and no. They do apparently have two developers working on the software, and one person doing QA. It seems that they're looking towards "convergence", with a product like the (ill-fated) Logitech Revue, that does a range of media, including photos and video as well as audio. See the threads on LMS (Logitech Media Server), which is the direction that SBS is apparently heading. But I'd be surprised if they came out with a new audio-only device like a Boom 2. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88899 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running 2 SB Servers with a SB Touch
castalla;641778 Wrote: > 'so it may be slightly different for wireless.' > > WOL doesn't work for wifi. Correct, but just to clarify a bit: The packet may be sent by either a wired or wifi device, BUT the computer receiving the WOL packet (ie, the computer you are waking up) needs to have a wired network connection. Strictly speaking, there is also WoWLAN (Wake on Wireless LAN), but as far as I can tell that is still pretty obscure (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN). -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88871 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] NAS drive.
umapati;640918 Wrote: > Thanx a lot Terry..Yes I will be connecting Squeezebox touch to my Audio > set up consisting of an TEAC Deck, Philips amplifier & Speakers..I am > looking for installation of Squeezebox server on my Seagate HD, so that > i can Play music while my PC is switched off...If anybody can help.. You may have missed Terry's second post, the one with the link to instructions for installing on a GoFlex. I strongly suggest that you look carefully at those instructions, because installing server software on a NAS is rarely as straightforward as installing software on a regular computer. The hard part has already been done, in that someone has figured out how to do it and posted the instructions. Usually it's fine if you follow instructions carefully and keep your patience. Even so, some people end up deciding that it's over their heads and go the pc route instead. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87646 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Which speakers for Touch ?
As far as I can tell the Creatives are also powered (ie, self-amplified) speakers. If you can find for certain that they are not, then you should eliminate them. The Touch has no amplifier of its own, so you need either powered speakers or a separate amplifier + passive speakers. For your budget, powered speakers are a better way to go. And I didn't mean to suggest that the higher-priced speaker is always better. I liked the sound of the Audioengine A2 -- for what it is, a small inexpensive speaker. I don't think you'd be disappointed. But speaker preferences are very personal, and you may prefer the sound of the Creatives. Most of all, there is no substitute for actually listening to the speakers, using music with which you are very familiar. And ideally, listening to them in the place where you'll be using them. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88721 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch VU Meters
Step 1: Settings > Screen > Now Playing > Now Playing Views > make sure that Analog View Meter is selected. Others may be selected if you wish. If you want _only_ the VU meters available on the Now Playing screen, then that should be the only view selected. Step 2: Settings > Screen > Screensavers > When playing > Now Playing Step 3: set delay for screensavers via Settings > Screen > Screensavers > Delay Step 4: If you selected only the VU meters in Step 1, they will come up when the Now Playing screensaver activates. If you selected more than one Now Playing view, touching the screen when Now Playing is active will cycle through the selected screensavers. One of them is the VU meters. There may be a way to cycle through them using the IR remote, but I forget how. You can also customize various other VU meters with 3rd party applets. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88725 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Which speakers for Touch ?
Welcome to the forums and the SB-world. Every "pc speaker" I have ever seen is a powered speaker, so I don't think the distinction you make makes a lot of sense. Usually cheaper powered speakers are marketed as pc speakers. Certain brands are also more associated with computer speakers vs hifi speakers, but even there there is some crossover (audiophile speaker maker B&W sells $600 computer speakers...). Whenever one talks of "which speakers?" my immediate response is "what's your budget?" The US Amazon prices for the speakers you've listed are $83, $128, $200, and $200. The only ones I've heard have been the Audioengines, and I think you would be hard-pressed to beat their sound quality in a $200 powered speaker. But if you get the chance you really should listen for yourself, even if it means taking advantage (in the good sense) of a vendor's liberal returns policy. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88721 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Prevent rescan after power cycling
FredHS;639632 Wrote: > I changed my email once (before I realized that I would prefer to use a > temporary email address). Maybe that's all they permit? Maybe one can > only make a certain number of changes within a certain time period? > Many maybes --dunno... I don't know either, but I know I've changed already my address once, and like toby, I also have an option for New Email, as opposed to the Confirmed Email that you are getting. So maybe they require a "cooling off" period after a change? Anyway, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. You can rarely be 100% sure where spammers get your address, but I don't think many -- or even maybe any -- have gotten mine via bugs.slimdevices.com. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88598 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Prevent rescan after power cycling
JohnSwenson;639446 Wrote: > The Touch running local media really works best if you leave it on all > the time and leave the media connected. Is there a specific reason that > you need to unplug it and remove the stick so often? If you are adding > new music on a regular basis you will have to do a scan to get that > music included in the database anyway, but even that should be pretty > quick, it does a quick scan to see if there are any new music files it > doesn't know about and then only does a full scan on those new files. In addition to John's excellent explanation you should note that you don't need to remove the USB stick to add tracks, or to delete or modify the tracks that are on the USB stick. If you enable the Samba server (ie, file sharing) on the Touch then the USB stick will be available as a drive on your network. You can then manipulate the files on the USB stick -- including adding new files -- from any other computer on the network. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88598 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch continuously updating
By changing libraries do you mean changing servers? Or changing between SBS and mysqueezebox.com? It sounds as if one of the libraries is using the current SBS version (7.5.4) and the other is using an outdated version. Update the one with 7.5.1 to 7.5.4 and the Touch will be happy. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88594 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Audioengine A5 powering Touch
Thanks, I should have thought of that. It makes a lot more sense to me now. I'm also skeptical about any audible differences, but at least one of the many forum members who has A5s (I'm not one of them) could probably answer the question about whether or not the dedicated USB charger still gets power when the A5s go into standby mode. I would guess not, but that's just a guess, and easy enough to test if you have the A5s and any device with a battery that charges via USB. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88459 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Audioengine A5 powering Touch
Dontz;637771 Wrote: > Might have to build my own power cable. Especially since the Touch's USB port is Type A, which is intended for providing power, not receiving it. On that note, do you even know if the Touch will use power applied via the USB port? I'm not sure, but I'm doubtful. I am fairly sure that trying it will void your warranty. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88459 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] This is so frustrating
Sounds like you're connected to mysqueezebox.com instead of to SBS. As Mnyb suggests, try choosing "My Music" on the Touch and then connecting to your SBS. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88365 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Random (shuffle) Genre play
Yes, yes, and a very big yes on the last one. Try them all. You won't break anything. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88344 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB3.0 thumb drive/usb stick problem
Mnyb;636167 Wrote: > This extra partition may contain some mumbo jumbo thats mounts a fake CD > drive or launch some "manager" utility (spam ware all of it). The thumb drives that support U3 do something like this and I actually find U3 useful from time to time. But you're right that it conflicts with the Touch, so it's necessary to wipe out that extra stuff if you want to use the stick with the Touch. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88283 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] USB3.0 thumb drive/usb stick problem
Also, it may not be a 2.0 vs 3.0 issue at all. Does the thumb drive have more than one partition, say for example, a special partition that includes some bundled software such as backup or encryption utilities? The Touch needs to see a single partition on USB-attached drives. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88283 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Playlists
tmauceri;636056 Wrote: > When I try to save from the SBS GUI it says could not be saved. But it > shows up as a playlist on SBS Gui and on iPeng. That means it's just sitting in memory (RAM), and will get wiped out any time to do a full rescan, restart SBS, reboot the VBA, or just about anything else. I bet you won't see it if you browse the folder using a regular file browser (not SBS). So it is definitely a permissions issue. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88270 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Playlists
Usually when this occurs it is because the user under which SBS runs (username 'squeezeboxserver') does not have write permissions in the playlist folder. So first check which folder you have set for your playlists, and whether user 'squeezeboxserver' has write permission in that folder. Normally I would expect all of that to already be set up correctly for you on the VBA, but I suppose it's possible you're accidentally trying to save the playlists in the wrong folder. And no, a clear and rescan does not delete your playlists _as_long_as_they've_been_written_to_disk_. If you create a playlist and don't save it -- or try to save it but don't succeed for some reason -- then the playlist is only in active memory (ie, not written to disk) and will get wiped out by a clear and rescan. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88270 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Random Mix
souwalker;635673 Wrote: > How are the files randomly selected? Is there a formular how SBS selects > which file to play first out of all the files I have? Um, they're selected randomly. I believe it uses the 'Perl 'rand' function' (http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/rand.html) if you want to know the particulars. And remember that random means that sometimes there _will_ be cases where you get the same artist or even tracks from the same album back-to-back. Some people believe that's not truly random, but it is, just like getting 5 "heads" in a row when flipping a coin: sometimes it happens. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88211 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Does the 'index' of your Music Library reside in the same file?.....
Which "same Music Library File"? If you mean folder, the answer is no.
The location of the database ("index") varies depending on the
operating system. You can find yours by going to the SBS web ui and
selecting Settings > Information and scroll down to where it says Cache
Folder.
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Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Random Mix
and if you don't see it there, make sure the associated plugin is installed. You can check that in the web ui using Settings > Plugins. It's a Logitech plugin (not 3rd party), and I thought it was installed by default, but maybe the package for your NAS doesn't install it. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88211 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Random Mix
No, you don't need to make a playlist first. Just start playing something using Random Mix. Whenever SBS is playing it has a "current playlist". That could be a single track that is selected, the tracks of an album that has been selected, or a saved playlist. One thing you may want to do re setup of SBS is to choose which genres to include in your random mixes. For example, I usually don't want my handful of comedy albums, holiday albums, or classical music coming up in an ordinary random mix. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88211 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] New feature?
What version of SBS are you running? The beta 7.6 has some DLNA support, which may be why your Synology shows up. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88117 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT with USB Hard Drive
Lynxo;634889 Wrote: > > I do like the WD's simplicity when it comes to navigating songs by each > folder containing the albums. > > How do I play a single CD? If I go to Albums, it sometimes has more > songs in it then it should. Do I have to create a playlist for each > CD? > > If you just want to navigate by folders then you can do that with the Touch as well. Simply use My Music > Music Folder and there you are. Your problem of having too many tracks per CD is almost certainly a problem of erroneous tags. Fix them and you won't have a problem. If you need help figuring out what you have that's wrong, post back here with some details about exactly which unwanted files are creeping into the album, and what the contents of the tags are. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88143 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Time Zone
No time zone setting is bizarre. I thought all current Linux distros had a time zone setting, although not all of them are very obvious. Are you sure it isn't buried somewhere in an environment variable or timezone file somewhere. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88121 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT with USB Hard Drive
Lynxo;634863 Wrote: > I don't see why it does not save the file to the hard drive for quicker > playback. In fact it does save the database to your hard drive. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88143 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] SBT with USB Hard Drive
It should take less time to scan when you add music. To put it simply, on the initial scan it is creating a database of _all_ of your music's metadata. On subsequent incremental scans it will only be adding new information to that database from your new tracks. Don't use WAV, use FLAC. FLAC is equally good quality (the L stands for lossless), and takes up only 30-50% of the disk space of WAV. More important, FLAC has support for recognized standards for metadata (tags), to store info about artist, album, track, etc. You can force tags into WAV files, and SBS can read them, but it's definitely not the best way to go. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88143 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 100 song max in playlist using Tiny SBS??
bitstopjoe;634275 Wrote: > I DID do a search and all I saw was a config setting for SBS and 500 > playlist limit. Since I am not using SBS but the one built into the > Touch, I posted my question about the 100 playlist limit > Seems to me to be apples and oranges but I could have missed something > on a search.. So who knows.. JJ is right, my mistake. The file is /etc/squeezecenter/prefs/server.prefs and the setting is maxPlaylistLength Drag our your vi editor skills, or ssh into the Touch using a tool like WinSCP. My previous warning (and JJ's) about increasing this setting above 100 still apply. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88073 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 100 song max in playlist using Tiny SBS??
Yes, TinySBS has a max playlist size of 100 tracks. Unlike regular SBS there is no way to alter this on TinySBS. Well, maybe you could hack the code in TinySBS. But the 100 track limit was put in place for performance reasons, so even if you hacked it you might not like the results. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88073 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Empty Music Directories
Okay, I have an idea, but I can't test it because I'm literally a few thousand km from my SB setup. On compilation albums, if you browse by artist SBS will normally show you both albums in which that artist is the only artist, as well as compilation albums on which that artist has one or more tracks. If you drill down on one of those compilation albums, then it only shows the tracks on which that artist appears as a track artist, not the tracks on which the artist does not appear. This is normal (some may debate whether or not it is correct, but it's normal). When you drill down to the compilation album(s) by album artist Hifi, you don't have any tracks by artist Hifi. So maybe that's why it is showing as empty. I have an album that is similarly tagged, though for completely different reasons. It's a tribute album on which a lot of different artists do Greg Brown songs, but Greg Brown isn't on any of the tracks. I put Greg Brown as ALBUMARTIST because I want it to show up with his stuff when I browse by artist, and COMPILATION=1 because it is a compilation from different artists. When I get home I'll take a look to confirm that it does indeed show up with his other albums, and secondly, what happens when I try to drill down to the track level. In the meantime, others who know the ARTIST, ALBUMARTIST, COMPILATION interactions better than I may happen by to give you some good advice. I know what works for me, but there are tons of other combinations and permutations. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87858 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Empty Music Directories
A couple things. First, what do you mean by "showing up with empty directories"? I understand that to mean an operating system directory (aka folder) with no files in it. But you say you are browsing by artists, which doesn't follow the OS's directories -- instead it follows the SQL database that SBS creates. Where is it you see the "empty directory"? Second, are you really ALBUMARTIST tags with names like "Hifi", "Various", and "Audiophile", as opposed to an artist's name? If that's the case then I'm not very clear on exactly what it is you're trying to accomplish, so I may not be able to help much. Finally, are all of the tracks in a given compilation album in the same directory/folder? SBS counts on that to keep compilation tracks from the same album together. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87858 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Synchronizing
First you have to connect your iPad to your Squeezebox Server. And be sure that your Touch and iPad are both connected to SBS, rather than one to SBS and one to mysqueezebox.com. Once you have more than one player connected to the server, the synchronize option will not be greyed out. Note that you can also sync by using Settings > Synchronize on the Touch (and, presumably, on the player menu for the iPad). -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88044 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Numptie Appeal for Help Please
kidstypike;633770 Wrote: > Dave - FYI: Many years ago I used to hang around the Windows ME > Newsgroups, the MSVP's there absolutely refused to offer assistance to > anyone who ran anything from Norton. They regarded Norton as a bigger > threat to a computer than any virus! That's a good one: the "Windows ME" folks pointing to other software as crap. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85697 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Empty Music Directories
Ronni;633818 Wrote: > According to this wiki page this way of tagging is wrong: > http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Compilations . For some odd > reason you cannot have an album with the same Album artist for all > songs - at least one song must be tagged with another album artist - > how weird is that? If that were the case then it would be weird, but that's not the case. Rather, I think your interpretation of the page may be incorrect. You most certainly can have an album with the same AlbumArtist for all tracks; I do it all the time. However, if you have different track ARTIST tags and a common ALBUMARTIST tag for an album (eg, a tribute album or an album with one main artist and a lot of 'guest' artists) then it will be listed with the ALBUMARTIST's albums instead of with compilations. You may be able to change this behavior with the COMPILATION tag. But either way the albums and tracks should all appear. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87858 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Empty Music Directories
As for the Mystery of the Disappearing Tags, did you use any other tag-aware programs? Most programs are benign, but some programs are pretty agressive about "correcting" your tags for you. mp3tag is not one of them -- it does only what you tell it, but it's very powerful, so if you make a mistake it can be damagin. And it can't be SBS because SBS has the ultra-safe feature of never writing _anything_ to your files (SBS is strictly read-only). Or there's Mr Hyde -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87858 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Empty Music Directories
Gillinger;633037 Wrote: > Is there something in the act of copying that strips metadata from > files? Simple answer: no. The tags are part of the file. It's hard to imagine a copy operation that would strip out the metadata without completely corrupting the file. That would pretty much require either a misbehaved tagging program or a tagging program plus user error, both of which are more common than they should be in an ideal world ;-) Gillinger;633037 Wrote: > I'm still not happy, though. I've been working with computers for over > 20 ywears. If I had been an ordinary Joe in the street, buyng this > setup and expecting it to work I would have sent it back pretty > sharpish. Having a good working knowledge of tagging and a basic > understanding of unix or telnet sessions shouldn't be a pre-requisite > to buying a bit of hardware to play music on. IMHO Glad you got it working, but imho the large majority of users, including the ordinary Joes, use the product just fine without needing any knowledge of unix or telnet. Tagging is definitely important if you want to get the most out of the system, but I'd say the same is true for any computer-based audio playback, even the "ordinary-Joe-friendly" iTunes. And many who can't bother with tags get by fine with Browse Music Folder (some even prefer it). -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87858 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Empty Music Directories
If you are running the Touch's built-in server it stores logs on the Touch itself. To access the logs you need to enable remote login on the Touch, and then use ssh from another computer to login to the Touch. Unfortunately I don't remember the exact path, and don't have my Touch anywhere near me at present. To transfer files you use regular Windows network file sharing (aka Samba or SMB), not ftp. When you enable sharing of the USB drive the Touch should also tell you what the correct username and password are. Use those to mount the USB drive as a network drive using Windows Explorer (Tools > Map Network Drives). If you are on Linux or OSX you would use the analogous tool for that OS. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87858 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] newbe advice please
The Squeezebox Server (SBS) software in the Touch is building a database from the metadata in the tags of your music files (artists, album names, track names, track numbers, etc). This takes a while the first time, but you don't have to go through it every time because it saves the database on your USB drive. If you turn off or disconnect your USB drive then the server will rescan the drive, but only to check for new or changed files -- it won't do a complete clear-and-rescan unless you ask it to. Most modern drives have a powersaving "spin-down" mode that the drive uses when it has been inactive for a while. If I connected a USB drive directly to the Touch I would probably use spin-down mode, and leave the drive on but "sleeping" when not in use. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87649 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Empty Music Directories
Successfully browsing by folder but not by artists/albums/genres indicates that your scan did not complete correctly. Check your scanner.log for clues as to where things went wrong. Also, unless you are running 7.6.0 beta I think the thread that avr300 linked is unlikely to be the cause, as that thread is specifically about 7.6.0, which has a completely different scanner. Unless you're running the beta, there's no real point to posting in that thread. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87858 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Empty Music Directories
Sorry, I don't have an answer for your main problem of the Touch's built-in server (TinySBS) not finding your new files. It should work, and none of the info in your post gives me any hints as to why it isn't for you. But I did want to mention that you don't need to remove the USB drive to add new files. The Touch also runs a Samba server for network file sharing. If you enable sharing on the Touch then you can copy your new rips/downloads from your pc over the network to the USB while it is still attached to the Touch. A lot of people prefer this to the Touch's automatic rescan every time you re-attach the USB drive to it. Good luck sorting out the main problem. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87858 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Tagging Issues
Use mp3tag to be sure that the files' tags are "Vorbis comments" (the standard for FLAC files) and that you don't have any stray ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg, or any other types of tag in there. On the second one, SBS builds the genre list from the tags it finds in your files. You'll need to find the files with genres you don't wish to use and re-tag them. Or if you don't want to eliminate those tags, then would browsing by genre do? If neither of those help you, you may want to look at the Custom Browse plugin. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87803 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Buffalo Linkstation LS-V1.0TL and SB Touch
Alternative firmware? Is one of the trimmed down debian versions available for your LS? That's what I've used when I used to run SBS on older LSs. That could resolve both the safe mode limitation and the outdated version problem. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87751 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Buffalo Linkstation LS-V1.0TL and SB Touch
RichardLittlewood;631768 Wrote: > You're right, straight internet radio doesn't require it. Neither do services like Soma, Pandora, etc. Pretty sure Deezer, too, though I can't say for sure because it's not available where I am. Just use them all via SBS running on the LinkStation. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87751 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Help with NAS + Touch + iPhone
Zonker92;630854 Wrote: > It occurs to me that I can play with this issue some more, without > actually having a Squeezebox device at the moment. One of these days I > may start working one converting my files to FLAC or WAV and archiving > them on some sort of newer NAS or headless PC, clean up their tags, > then try a Touch again once I have the files working properly with SBS. > Just a thought. All fine ideas. And you can even test it without getting a Touch again. As a first test you could intall one of the SB "software players" such as SqueezePlay on your pc and try streaming from SBS to that. The software players are not as full-featured or robust as hardware Squeezeboxes, but they are a great way of trying things out before you buy. Or before you buy again :-) -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87448 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch and encrypted USB device
I haven't tried it. Does a build of TrueCrypt exist for the Touch's ARM processor? That would be step one. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87635 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Help Please!
Are you using the Touch's built-in server (TinySBS) or an external SBS running on a pc or NAS? If the latter, then you should be able to find the email address in the SBS web ui under Settings > mysqueezebox.com. For cloning settings across players you can look at peterw's SettingsManager plugin (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html). I'm not sure if it works with Radio and Touch because those have fewer settings exposed in the server, but it's worth a look (though the site appears to be down at present). -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87626 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Recommendations for USB drive
dasmueller;630332 Wrote: > I switched to running the same drive off my PC on a wi-fi network > because updating the music library is just so much easier that way. If > you run it attached to the USB port you are disconnecting and updating > the drive doing a rescan etc. which is a pain done this way. It does > work just better when attached to a network. I agree that running SBS on an external server is generally more reliable than using the Touch's built-in server (TinySBS). However, if you choose to use TinySBS then it is easy to avoid the hassles of disconnecting, reconnecting, rescanning, etc. There is absolutely no need to disconnect the USB drive from the Touch to update your music library. The Touch also runs Samba file server software, so when the USB drive is attached to the Touch it will also appear as a drive on your network. You can do all the file management you need on it from any other computer on the network. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87574 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] NTP on the Touch
MrC;630352 Wrote: > It is more important that you use a nearby server. +1 And note that http://www.pool.ntp.org has nothing to do with "the generosity of the Debian people." ntp.org is not a Debian enterprise. It's a public resource that is put out there to be used. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87588 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] DURACELL batteries leak!!!
Then you could try contacting Logitech support directly. They might be sympathetic and send you a new remote, figuring a low-cost item is worth customer goodwill. On the other hand, all batteries have the potential to leak, and it is not the fault of the device vendor if the name-brand battery they supply happens to leak. But it's worth a try. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87616 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] NTP on the Touch
No need to be embarassed. You can't expand them because the OP accidentally truncated them, most likely by pasting the shortened URL from a forum post instead of grabbing the full shortcut/URL to paste (an easy mistake to spot because I've done it myself). jean2, or someone else who knows what the URLs should be, will have to come back with the correct URLs. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87588 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] New Owner
danman;629886 Wrote: > Another question I would have is do you shut it down or just leave go > into sleep mode? What is best? Do you mean the Touch itself? If so, like a lot of electronic devices it doesn't have a true "off" unless you cut the power source by pulling the plug or switching the outlet off via a power strip or switched outlet. I'd say leave it in standby. In standby it draws about 3-4w. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87551 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Help with NAS + Touch + iPhone
Zonker92;629590 Wrote: > The tagging problems may lie with my files, although I have to wonder if > it isn't just that SBS is looking for a particular format and can't read > my files because iTunes tagged them in some particular weird manner, > viz., a compatibility problem. And the fact remains that the Sonos app > has zero problems indexing the same files, so the tagging doesn't seem > to bother that app. If a tagging defect doesn't affect the operation > of the system, is it really a defect? Why Sonos reads those tags and SBS doesn't is a puzzle to me, too. Both SBS and Sonos _should_ be looking for a "particular format" because that's how it's done. Even closed, proprietary formats like ALAC have standards that all programs that read or write ALAC tags should follow. Maybe the SBS scanner is using outdated standards. After all, Apple is known to change formats a bit capriciously, although if the SBS scanner were out of date I would expect to see other complaints, as you're not the only one using ALAC. Or maybe Sonos is more forgiving of tagging errors. I don't know. In this case snottmonster's offer to see if one of the problem files works on his SBS system could be useful in debugging things. If you are still willing to put more time into it, I also like toby10's suggestion of running SBS 7.5.4 on your computer, pointing it to the library on the NAS. That may be an unacceptable way for you to run your network audio system, but it would at least resolve some of the puzzles about why SBS is not working for you when it really _does_ work for most people. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87448 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
