Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
I downloaded and installed Version: 7.6.0 - r31169 on my computer, and then updated my touches from there. The touch that is running it's own server and accessing the wma lossless files from the WD USB hard drive hooked directly to that touch seems to operate just fine...artwork shows on the touch display. I wanted to try some more out of the ordinary wma lossless files and found that the DTS encoded ones I have play the center channel and surround channels but not the left and right mains. My preamp is showing that 5.1 sound is being received from the digital input hooked to the touch, but no sound from the left and right mains. That same wma lossless DTS encoded file plays fine when playing from the sbs on my computer through the touch, but not when using the server in the touch and the USB source. That could be a horsepower issue...the server in the touch doesn't have the power of the one running on my computer. Regular 44 khz two channel ripped CD's play fine on the touch server though, in wma lossless. One issue. The artwork does not appear on the touch display or on the Duet controller when using the sbs running on my computer. -- strindl strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
On Aug 5, 2010, at 9:25 PM, strindl wrote: > > BTW..I have two touches and one Duet receiver on my system. What effect, > if any will this update have on the duet receiver? None, Receiver only supports standard WMA and WMA Voice. ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
BTW..I have two touches and one Duet receiver on my system. What effect, if any will this update have on the duet receiver? I'll be trying it out shortly. -- strindl strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
Ok..now I understand what the purpose of this update is. I wasn't aware until tonight that I was not able to use my WMA lossless files when running the touch from it's internal server with a USB device source. It doesn't recognize the wma lossless files without the SBS software running on my computer to act as a go between. I'll give this another shot and see what happens. -- strindl strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
Can we please keep this thread on-topic? :) -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
JohnSwenson;563169 Wrote: > If you have an external server you can upgrade that to 7.6, then when > you connect the Touch to it it will automatically upgrade the firmware. > > > Alternatively you can go to: > http://update.slimdevices.com/update/firmware/7.6.0/ > and download fab4.bin. Put this on a USB stick or SD card, plug into > the Touch and reboot. Then go to the update firmware page and you > should have an option for updating from media, select this and it will > load the new firmware (including the internal server). > > Just make sure that you either delete the whole .Squeezebox directory > on the disk, or do a clear and rescan. Deleting .Squeezebox is probably > a safer bet. > > 7.6 is supposed to have a whole new artwork implementation, so it might > fix things. > > > John S. Thanks, but the artwork problem is not solved. In fact it got worse after updating to 7.6 Deleted the squeezebox directory and did a complete rescan. Result: Even more album covers are gone. When I first got the Touch, I was very happy with it. Now it feels more like a p.i.t.a Please release a firmware version that actually works and fixes problem. -- Adoto Adoto's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37794 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
Adoto;563145 Wrote: > Stupid question I guess, but how do I update the touch to 7.6? And will > it solve problems on album artwork? If you have an external server you can upgrade that to 7.6, then when you connect the Touch to it it will automatically upgrade the firmware. Alternatively you can go to: http://update.slimdevices.com/update/firmware/7.6.0/ and download fab4.bin. Put this on a USB stick or SD card, plug into the Touch and reboot. Then go to the update firmware page and you should have an option for updating from media, select this and it will load the new firmware (including the internal server). Just make sure that you either delete the whole .Squeezebox directory on the disk, or do a clear and rescan. Deleting .Squeezebox is probably a safer bet. 7.6 is supposed to have a whole new artwork implementation, so it might fix things. John S. -- JohnSwenson JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
Stupid question I guess, but how do I update the touch to 7.6? And will it solve problems on album artwork? -- Adoto Adoto's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37794 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
There seems to be a slight glitch with the artwork scan with this 7.6 version. I reverted back to the latest 7.5 beta and it did an artwork scan as a part of the initial new or changed music scan. That brought all of the artwork back to normal. I never noticed the 7.6 version doing an artwork scan. -- strindl strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
BTW...I have the Squeezebox server softwear running on a Xeon Quad Core computer running windows Vista home premium 32 bit. One Touch and two Duet receivers are hard wired with ethernet cabling playing through three audio systems. -- strindl strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
I have it installed. When I first started up the SBS with the new software, it went into scanning for new music mode, and when it was done, there were only two CD's showing up. I did a delete and complete rescan, and it finished showing no CD's at all. I then rescanned for new music and all thousand re appeared. The artwork doesn't show any longer on the Duet remotes or the Touch now playing screen. All of the artwork is in the same directory as each CD's tracks on my hard drive. The music all plays just fine. The scan ahead and back within a track does not function though. How else could I tell whether the WMA lossless files are being handled natively by the SBS? -- strindl strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
Yep, seeking works for these types. On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:49 AM, strindl wrote: > > One advantage of having native support for wma lossless would be the > ability to fast forward within a track, right? I need to download > that beta software and give that a try. Thanks. > > > -- > strindl > > strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 > > ___ > Touch mailing list > Touch@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
One advantage of having native support for wma lossless would be the ability to fast forward within a track, right? I need to download that beta software and give that a try. Thanks. -- strindl strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
OK what you're describing really has nothing to do with this, you basically did the same thing you can do with FLAC by wrapping the DTS bitstream in another container. That's the only way you can do multichannel with a Squeezebox. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
andyg;562344 Wrote: > No, because they are stereo devices. WMA does support downmixing to > stereo which I haven't yet enabled but plan to look at soon. I think > the only way to get surround playback with WMA is with a PC soundcard. > > > > > > > [/color] I ripped several of my DTS 5.1 encoded audio CD's into wma lossless format and they all play perfectly in full 5.1 DTS surround on both the Duets and my Touch. I just used the windows media player to do the ripping. The Touch and the Duets pass through the DTS encoded surround information from their digital outputs and the pre amp processors recognize that and activate their DTS decoding. My Integra preamp shows the incoming signal to be full 5.1 surround. Sounds really good too. I do have a couple DTS encoded audio CD's that have a 24 bit 96K DTS track. I haven't tried ripping any of those yet. They won't play with the Duets of course, not sure about the Touch. -- strindl strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
No, because they are stereo devices. WMA does support downmixing to stereo which I haven't yet enabled but plan to look at soon. I think the only way to get surround playback with WMA is with a PC soundcard. On Jul 17, 2010, at 1:21 AM, strindl wrote: > > andyg;562193 Wrote: >> I've spent the last few days getting native WMA Pro and Lossless support >> working on Touch (and Radio). >> >> If you have any WMA Pro/Lossless files please give 7.6 a try. You will >> need SBS 7.6 r31054 or later from >> http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.6 > > I have all of my thousand plus CD's ripped into WMA lossless and they > all play fine on my touch and duets. One thing I have noticed is in > trying to play downloaded HD tracks in wma lossless that are supposed > to be 5.1 surround, from a place like itrax for example, my Integra DHC > 9.9 doesn't see the music as surround..it sees it as two channel only. > Would this new beta version of the SBS help with that situation? > > > -- > strindl > > strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 > > ___ > Touch mailing list > Touch@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
andyg;562193 Wrote: > I've spent the last few days getting native WMA Pro and Lossless support > working on Touch (and Radio). > > If you have any WMA Pro/Lossless files please give 7.6 a try. You will > need SBS 7.6 r31054 or later from > http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.6 I have all of my thousand plus CD's ripped into WMA lossless and they all play fine on my touch and duets. One thing I have noticed is in trying to play downloaded HD tracks in wma lossless that are supposed to be 5.1 surround, from a place like itrax for example, my Integra DHC 9.9 doesn't see the music as surround..it sees it as two channel only. Would this new beta version of the SBS help with that situation? -- strindl strindl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39162 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
[SlimDevices: Touch] 7.6 testing - Native WMA Pro and Lossless
I've spent the last few days getting native WMA Pro and Lossless support working on Touch (and Radio). If you have any WMA Pro/Lossless files please give 7.6 a try. You will need SBS 7.6 r31054 or later from http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.6 -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80482 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
