Bruce S. Wrote:
I asked a question a while back whether or not the SB3 can perform
while my laptop's CPU and file system are extremely busy, since I
expect to be ripping and compressing well into '06 while listening to
my SB3. The answer came back that there would be no problem.
Now I
Just got the email from support saying get in touch. Will call them when
I get home this afternnon, they should just about be strating their
day.
I've already tried setting my router to 802.11g only, but it makes no
difference.
Will keep the forum posted with details from support.
If anyone is
...well, not so much a warning as something to look out for if you are
hyper-crytical (which I'm not).
I recently purchased a pair of these powered monitors and as they have
a spdif input they are ideal to use with the SB3.
Actually, they are excellent speakers and I highly recommend them.
I asked this question in different lanquage about a week ago and and did
not receive a reply.
I tried every thing that I could think of to accomplish folders in
playlists but was unsuccessful. Slimserverver always pulled out the m3u
files, ignored the folders, and placed them in alpahbetical
There is a bug open for this
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1740
You can add your address for updates and vote for it...
James
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not waive
I suggest you visit and possibly vote for...
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1740
which seems to cover what you want. Shown as targetted for 6.5, though
I imagine thats a target rather thana commitment.
Ceejay
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Hi,
I have had my SB3's setup for around a week now and last night 6 red
lines appeared on the display of one. The text is still clear and the
lines stay visible when the screensaver is on. I powered down and the
lines remain on startup.
Has anyone had this problem, is there a solution or is it
Of course, you could have multiple playlists but that would require
rescanning the playlists each time you wanted to change. I guess that
would not be too much of a problem if you wanted to listen to Jazz,
Classical, etc for an entire evening.
I tried this with a folder with 15 playlists and
Thanks Sean,
I'll try and get a photo up for you, I can't see this on the 2 other
SB's. This one has been running for a while longer though.
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seanadams Wrote:
The CPU is getting out-of-sync with the DAC and s/pdif interfaces - it's
unclear why at this point as we've identified no way to reproduce this,
or any unit that's done it more than once. Your call if you want to
send it in for replacement - there isn't enough data on this
Using the preamp volume control should give a good additional degree of
safety as this will limit the output level in the DAC itself - it will
also give the main volume control are more useable range. Still it's
bad practice in any system to feed an amp that can overpower the
speakers with no
You've said before that you don't recommend connecting a squeezebox
directly to an amp. I think I must have misunderstood this. I have
both my squeezeboxes connected to my integrated amp via analog
interconnects. How else am I meant to connect them, short of buying
pre-amps.
I've never had
seanadams Wrote:
Using the preamp volume control should give a good additional degree of
safety as this will limit the output level in the DAC itself - it will
also give the main volume control are more useable range. Still it's
bad practice in any system to feed an amp that can overpower
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/01/raid_on_rye/
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Fantastic. This works perfectly and I am so thrilled with the setup.
iTunesUpdate is an incredible plug in that really multiplies the value
of using iTunes as a music organizer.
many thanks for all your help.
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jonheal Wrote:
Sean (or someone), can you please tell me where I find the SqueezeBox's
Preamp Volume Control setting? Thanks.
Sean covered it in this post:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=55632
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Using Slimserver 6.2.1 I notice the following behaviour
browsing by Artist or Genre from either the player or
the WEB insterface:
Under each artist is a list of albums and, if a song by that artist
has an empty album tag there's an entry for No Album.
If that is selected, the list of songs in
If its an Apple product it will probably:
- Look Fantastic (going to struggle to beat SB3 though)
- Be easy to use (as long as you have a Mac!)
- Have a battery life you can measure in seconds
- The Battery will die 2 seconds after the warranty expires
- Not sound as good as the competition
- Be
See
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2623
I got my SS to behave by changing the Filter genres at the album
track level. setting, but this did not work for everyone on the bug
above. There's definitely a problem here...
James
Can slimserver be installed on one of these?
Usually those devices are closed to the user - no way to install anything.
Maybe somebody out there finds a way to hack the underlaying linux system
an install Slimserver as they've done with other devices before...
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Hey Paul, without wishing appear too impatient (but it is christmas
after all!), do you you know if the Qnaps shipped to you yesterday?
I'm hoping my one will arrive in time to be running my New Years Party
this time around
Cheers
Paul
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I get this with my SB2; but only occasionally and only when Synched with
SoftSqueeze.
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Cleve
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I tend to leave my stereo on while I'm gone, as I like some music
playing in the background when I return home.
As usual, today,
seanadams Wrote:
The CPU is getting out-of-sync with the DAC and s/pdif interfaces - it's
unclear why at this point as we've identified no way to reproduce this,
or any unit that's done it more than once. Your call if you want to
send it in for replacement - there isn't enough data on this
On my side, I just had lots of dropouts and checked Activity Monitor,
CPU usage was to the max. I was streaming music to the SB2 using
Nicecast. Once I selected to play directly a song and stopped Nicecast
things went fine.
Since I experienced dropouts without Nicecast before I will keep the
test
Aaron Zinck Wrote:
(Quoting Fredly)
[...] when I currently go into Browse Playlists I have several
pages (effectively every album I have). I didn't mean to create
these
playlist and just want to clear EVERYTHING and start from scratch.
What's the simplest way to clear ALL
And I feel that I was quite clear in describing the problem I would like to
see solved,
namely:
A WAY TO HAVE A SINGLE CENTRALIZED LIBRARY OF MY DIGITAL MUSIC IN A
SINGLE HIGH-QUALITY COMPRESSED (BOTH ON DISK AND OVER-THE-WIRE)
FORMAT (PREFERABLY LOSSSLESS, DEFINITELY NOT MP3), THAT LIVES
Maybe you should support the request for native DRMed AAC playback in
the SB. That's something that can't be done today even with
transcoding, would make the iTMS crowd happy and gett you your AAC
support to boot. It's all in the wording.
C.
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Thanks for all the replies on this. I had a hunch that it was
softsqueeze but I needed some reassurance. Can't wait for the SB3
hardware to show up!
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Hi
I have problems where not all my files are being scanned into the
library. Now I know they are tagged ok as I also use the Netgear MP101
and its server software and/or Twonkyvision and they can see the mp3s
no problem. I was wondering where any scan failures are logged so I can
debug the
Is it just me, or are there quite a few problems with the synching of
the devices. I'm running 1 Squeezebox2 and 4 PC's all with the
softsqueeze 2 software. It was always a little flaky, but I've just
upgraded the server to the latest version, and rather than improving
it, it's caused a delay
Thank you. That's the clarification I was hoping for. I couldn't
really see how the squeezebox could suddenly make my integrated amp go
so loud that it would start to damage things. I don't think I ever
turn my amp up to even the half way point, so I'm hoping I'm in no
danger.
Max
fuzzyT
Is it just me, or are there quite a few problems with the synching of
the devices. I'm running 1 Squeezebox2 and 4 PC's all with the
softsqueeze 2 software. It was always a little flaky, but I've just
upgraded the server to the latest version, and rather than improving
it, it's caused a
^ This is funny, but I wouldn't underestimate Apple. They tend to make
great consumer electronics that are easy to use, including on the PC.
iTunes is fantastic software, utterly fantastic, on both the Mac and
the PC. If you're their competitor, it's better to overestimate them
than
Any further info on this 'Pragmatic' product? There sure isn't much on
their website. I assume it must be Class D, given the size? Pricing?
Distribution? Comparison to the SI T-Amp?
I'm currently looking at Edirol active speakers (used to be they were
'studio monitors', now they're 'desktop
is fantastic software, utterly fantastic, on both the Mac and the PC.
You obviously have a different definition of fantastic than me :)
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Unfortunately, with my older vintage gear, I had really enjoyed the
convenience of the remote control volume control. To use this, I had
turned the gain up on my preamp so that if the volume on the Squeezebox
was maxed, I'd be using nearly all the 200 watt per channel output of my
McIntosh 2205
Cleve Wrote:
Unfortunately, with my older vintage gear, I had really enjoyed the
convenience of the remote control volume control. To use this, I had
turned the gain up on my preamp so that if the volume on the Squeezebox
was maxed, I'd be using nearly all the 200 watt per channel output of
I'm having an issue with the web interface for SlimServer 6.2.1.
I have a Squeezebox and a couple of non hardware targets in the current
player drop-down list.
For some reason if I'm trying to queue up a song or album for one of
the non squeezebox targets it automatically switches to the other
jonheal wrote:
Cleve Wrote:
Therefore, if the Squeezebox has this electronic brain fart, the
potential for equipment damage still exists. The only work-around -
defeat the SB3 volume control and go back to the old fashioned way of
getting up, walking over, and turning up/down the volume.
I
Thanx to all for responding.
Over the past couple days I have grown a little wiser and realize that,
yes, during the EAC/FLAC compression of albums a playlist is being made
within each Directory/Album folder. Hence, one playlist for each album
(300+ to date)
So.if I remove these 300+
fuzzyT Wrote:
jonheal wrote:
Cleve Wrote:
Therefore, if the Squeezebox has this electronic brain fart, the
potential for equipment damage still exists. The only work-around -
defeat the SB3 volume control and go back to the old fashioned way
of
getting up, walking over, and turning
I've got an extra Elpac WM075-1950-760 linear power supply available for
sale that has never been used. 2 weeks ago I ordered 2, one each for my
SB2 and SB3. As it turns out the SB3 needs the full 2amps so it doesn't
work well (screen flickers). If you have an SB2 this is the ideal
supply for
jonheal wrote:
This white noise issue has occurred so infrequently, I'm wondering if
it is an established fact that the SB3's Preamp Volume Control will
indeed limit the noise level if this problem occurs?
Hard to know. Would need to be able to test. As this isn't yet a
reproducible
Right. If you are prompted to enter an IP address, that means that
the player hasn't been able to find your server automatically.
Make sure that SlimServer is running on the computer and that you
have your firewall configured properly. That's usually the issue.
On Dec 20, 2005, at 6:34
Thanks for the info - I'm about to pony up the $$ for a set of these if
I can't find a better alternative. I was wondering about the
'bass-enhancement' - seems kind of counter-productive for something
that purports to be somewhat of a 'monitor'.
How big a room are you using them in? Are they
I like those, they're tiny and at $129 apiece, not too far out of reach
for me (bcoz I've several speakers, alarm clock radios around the
house...).
So, it'll be good if slimserver can stream to these devices...
Thx.
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I have the SMC2804WBRP-G router that is listed in the wiki as having a
problem connecting to the SB-3. I can verify that in all modes of
setting the router, it is not possible to connect to the SB-3. I have
the latest firmware in the router. Testing was done with the SB-3
within 5 feet of the
Hi All,
I'm using SlimServer 6.1.1 and FireFox as the browser. When I add an
entire album to the playlist of a connected Squeezebox only 1 track
shows up on the panel on the right. If I delete that 1 song it shows
the next one in the list. It didn't do this yesterday - but I'm not
sure what I've
sent you an email
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Can someone please point me in the direction of where I can find the
TOUCH SCREEN skin? I am looking @ different touchscreen options and
wants to see what options are available for the slimserver. I have
read several discussion mentioning the skin, but cant seem to find it,
would also love to
I selected a Handheld skin. Then I selected the default skin and the
playlist was back to it's normal self (showing all the tracks that were
in the playlist).
Is this normal behavior? A bug? or Operator Error? ;-)
Kevin
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JohnnyLightOn Wrote:
^ This is funny, but I wouldn't underestimate Apple. They tend to make
great consumer electronics that are easy to use, including on the PC.
iTunes is fantastic software, utterly fantastic, on both the Mac and
the PC. If you're their competitor, it's better to
If you are running slimserver, you should be able to choose it from the
interface options (server settings-interface-web interface-choose
touch from pull down menu)
FWIW, I'm actively working on a fork of Touch specifically for the
Nokia 770. Here's the thread from the dev forum--
They are great speakers for the price, especially considering that they
are active and accept both optical and coax. If you switch the bass
enhance off and they are as clean as a whistle but lacking in bass
(obviously). I can actually live with the bass enhancement switched on
as the bass it adds
jonheal Wrote:
This white noise issue has occurred so infrequently, I'm wondering if
it is an established fact that the SB3's Preamp Volume Control will
indeed limit the noise level if this problem occurs?
I'm 99.9% certain it will, because this is reported to affect both the
DAC and s/pdif
You Guys Rock
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Whats your experience with the Nokia device been like? I was actually
looking @ this for my touch screen and having a pc hidden:
http://tinyurl.com/amkqf
How big is that screen on the nokia device, seems like a reasonable
price? When will you have that skin available? Thanks again, love the
Did you try the steps here:
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#troubleshooting-sharedvolume
Ben
Ben, thanks. i tried this, but this seems to be solution only if you are
using a password on the server which i am not. i mapped the server as a
drive, but cannot get the slimserver to scan
I have a SqueezeBox 2, and I'm about to order, right at this very
minute, a SB3, but...
this question keeps coming into my head.
Why buy a SqueezeBox?
A PC or some other type of system is needed to run SlimServer. Okay,
but...
You then need either a) Softsqueeze, or b) an actual hardware
On 12/21/05, CavesOfTQLT
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Discuss. Any help on this would be extremely grateful.
In one word: interface. If all you want to do is pipe music from place
to place, you could just get a really long cable; but that doesn't get
you all the searching, browsing, and control
It's very possible that the file corrupted after it was encoded and
verified... or you had an unstable FLAC version doing the encoding that
messed it up.
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Let's assume I don't have an actual Squeezebox. If I just had a PC,
loaded up Softsqueeze, connected my PC's digital out to my amplifier,
would I really need to shell out all that money on an actual hardware
SqueezeBox?
Now the SqueezeBox has a buffer inside of it. Surely this would be a
plus
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:04 -0800, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
Why buy a SqueezeBox?
Now assume a motherboard/mainboard that has an on-board digital co-ax
or SP/DIF output; can't the Softsqueeze player output via this to an
amplifier with digital in, so negating the need for an actual
SqueezeBox?
Less noise would be my number one reason. No fans.
- Original Message -
From: CavesOfTQLT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:04 AM
Subject: [slim] Squeezebox Or Glorified PC?
I have a SqueezeBox 2, and I'm about to order, right
pfarrell Wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:04 -0800, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
Why buy a SqueezeBox?
Now assume a motherboard/mainboard that has an on-board digital
co-ax
or SP/DIF output; can't the Softsqueeze player output via this to an
amplifier with digital in, so negating the need for
On 21-Dec-05, at 4:54 PM, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
It's just that I have this nagging doubt in my head that maybe I'm
spending cash when I don't really need to...
I hear ya. I got this 42 tv a while back. I was so miffed when I
realised that I could have simply sat closer to the old one :(
-kdf
CavesOfTQLT wrote:
It's just that I have this nagging doubt in my head that maybe I'm
spending cash when I don't really need to...
The savings in your power bill from a hardware SB vs a dedicated PC w/
display factored in will probably save you cash.
Another advantage of hardware SB over
Cleve can you tell me if your playlist had a mix of 44.1 and 48 KHz
tracks?
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CavesOfTQLT Wrote:
system as above that could be used for other things in each room, say.
You just said it was hidden away in a cupboard somewhere.
I think 99% of SB owners had a PC to begin with. Also, it seems like
you are pretty much limited to listening to one playlist straight
through.
I have been looking into silent PC's for my servers and have finally
worked out a fanless solution, but it does have drawbacks and couldn't
replace a Squeezebox:
1) To be fanless, you either need just 1 x 3.5 HDD or 2 x 2.5 HDD
which limits storage capacity, more than 1 disk produces too much
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:54 -0800, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
pfarrell Wrote:
I bought mine, because the SB is silent in my audio system.
The fans and disks are in the basement.
let's say it's one of those fancy fanless motherboards, 0dB
powersupply, very quiet harddisk, and I've said all this
Is it really that likely that the file would become corrupted just sitting there in the filesystem? If so, what would cause that? I'd figure disk failure would cause large problems than an occasional corrupted file.
I think all of my FLAC files were encoded with 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 -- I had thought
Something you may want to try is appending a category or something
(whatever you would have named the folder) to the begining of the
playlist filename. Something like Jazz_Playlist_01.m3u.
You won't get quite the same effect as with folders, It will still be a
flat list, but playlists of a like
CavesOfTQLT Wrote:
I have a SqueezeBox 2, and I'm about to order, right at this very
minute, a SB3, but...
this question keeps coming into my head.
Why buy a SqueezeBox?
You then need either a) Softsqueeze, or b) an actual hardware
SqueezeBox to play your music.
You're right. I
CavesOfTQLT Wrote:
Pat, let's say it's one of those fancy fanless motherboards, 0dB
powersupply, very quiet harddisk, and I've said all this can be hidden
away in a cupboard anyways, with just the screen and mouse available.
One in each room, running softsqueeze, and all the music is held on
RE: uvox protocol support
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I created an alias to my new external hard drive and put it in my Slim
music folder. But SlimServer is not finding the music I put there. I
tried a Find New and Changed Music and a Clear and Rescan. I'm on
OS X (Tiger) and Slim Server 6.2.1. Any ideas?
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Thanks, that works for my situation.
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You then need either a) Softsqueeze,
or b) an actual hardware SqueezeBox to play your music.
If you have a PC in each location, you can run the music player s/w of
your choice. If a PC is headless (no keyboard, mouse and display), you
can control it from another PC with VNC software. (See
It's a very proprietary, closed, format designed specifically to stop
you listening on other player. So SlimServer support is very unlikely.
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Prior to installing a nightly release on a new PC, pressing Now
Playing would show the song when playing internet radio. Now it just
shows the source, i.e. radioioEDGE.
Is this a setting or should I go back to the official release?
Thanks for any help...
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I have to disagree with the SB only being cool vs. cooler Roku.
http://tinyurl.com/94pqt
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fuzzyT Wrote:
i believe that what sean is saying is that it may be unwise to directly
feed the analog outs of the SB directly into the unattenuated inputs of
a _power_ amplifier. particularly if that power amplifier, running at
full output, is capable driving the connected speakers to
Nokia 770 skin is already available for 6.5 slimserver, and I may have a
working 6.2 version tomorrow or next week. When I do, I will post that
info to the general forum. I've been talking on the dev forum only
until I get a skin working on a released code version.
This looks fantastic! Nice work.
Victor
On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:58 PM, bklaas wrote:
Nokia 770 skin is already available for 6.5 slimserver, and I may
have a
working 6.2 version tomorrow or next week. When I do, I will post that
info to the general forum. I've been talking on the dev forum
Indeed, if I was going to have a computer controlling sound output,
with a central house amp and speakers going to each room (this is the
way a lot of central sound stuff was installed not very long ago), I
wouldn't use slimserver and certainly not softsqueeze. (It's not that
I hate Java... it's
All,
I cannot for the life of me get Slim Server to play the following
stream for a local radio station:
http://live.eonstreams.com/ccri_co_denver_kbco_fm_fast
This will play in Windows Media Player and converts the http URL above
to: mms://66.250.84.31:80/ccri co denver kbco fm
Do you really need a discussion on a PC vs. a Squeezebox? We're
bickering over $250, low power, no noice whatsoever, and the (new)
Squeezebox looks sweet.
Not to mention my Squeezebox allowed me to remove 2 pieces of audio
hardware from my audio setup in my living room which is worth a couple
* Ultramog shaped the electrons to say...
I created an alias to my new external hard drive and put it in my Slim
music folder. But SlimServer is not finding the music I put there. I
tried a Find New and Changed Music and a Clear and Rescan. I'm on
OS X (Tiger) and Slim Server 6.2.1. Any ideas?
Did this memory leak ever get resolved?
I seem to be having a similar problem:
Exception in thread AudioDecoder-1 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
I already had my Max Heap size set to 128M, I have upped it to 256 to
see if the situation changes any.
With the mp3plugin SoftSqueeze
Let's assume I don't have an actual Squeezebox. If I just had a PC,
loaded up Softsqueeze, connected my PC's digital out to my amplifier,
would I really need to shell out all that money on an actual hardware
SqueezeBox?
No, you don't. There are a lot of reasons it anyway. But if you don't care
I have at least one podcast in iTunes that just won't show up in the
slimserver as an iTunes podcast. My other podcasts are fine. I've
tried a clean rescan and even deleting the sqllite database (after
stopping the server of course). The podcast episodes are in the
library because I can search
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