I have been having issues with my Remote Control for a couple of months.
When the power button was pressed the Squeezebox 3 came on, but
pressing any other buttons did nothing.
I enabled the logging of remote commands and only saw the presses of
the power button.
This hasn't been too much of a
Since the problem is mainly with internet radio - then the cause is
probably your broadband connection. Internet radio especially live
streams need a smooth flow of data. If the flow is lumpy or start/stop
(you can see this when doing a file download) - this has no effect on
browsing or
Change the battery - a weak battery has enough charge to turn on SB but
then not enough for any other button.
Check the remote is working by using a digital camera/video
camera/mobile phone camera as they are sensitive to IR light from
remote.
View the LED at the front of the remote through
Is it just me? but I seem to enjoy listening to music more when its
through my squeezebox? its more exciting for some reason?
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I hae a SB2 and a reciva radio. Undoubtedly the SB2 wins hands down but
the Reciva radio occasionally has the Internet Radio advantage. The
reciva website now has quite a few new interesting stations I have to
add manually to the SB2. I assume the basic reciva download the list
of stations is
I have a SB2 and a reciva radio. Undoubtedly the SB2 wins hands down but
the Reciva radio occasionally has the Internet Radio advantage. The
reciva website now has quite a few new interesting stations I have to
add manually to the SB2. I assume the basic reciva download the list
of stations is
Muckle_Eck;247164 Wrote:
It isn't the time taken to rip to FLAC that I have found hard over the
past few weeks...it is the laborious process of ensuring that all the
tags are correct...my collection is 50% classical and freedb is
useless...
Freedb isn't quite useless, it's just, well,
My problem is I don't remember the names of albums unless I associate
them with artist. So seeing a list of album names means nothing to me.
I'd rather have the same list of new music but show the artist name by
default, then right press to see (new) album name.
Does that make sense now?!
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peejay;248055 Wrote:
Freedb isn't quite useless, it's just, well, free... Pay for something
and then complain...:-)I think he was referring to freedb being far less
valuable when
classical music is concerned.
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I tried changing the battery, with what should have been a new one - but
I'll double check it.
I'll also give the camera trick a try.
Thanks,
Paul
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hunta;248056 Wrote:
My problem is I don't remember the names of albums unless I associate
them with artist. So seeing a list of album names means nothing to me.
I'd rather have the same list of new music but show the artist name by
default, then right press to see (new) album name.
Go to
gorman;247969 Wrote:
I'm trying to understand whether SC7 is going to provide what the
original poster asked for. So far I've had mixed answers.
Any detailed info?
Thanks! :)
I don't believe so. I run 7 (not the latest version, but fairly recent)
on my test server with one SB3 connected
Of course its more exicting, its a new toy!
For me the big bonus is that I had many CD's that I'd not heard in
years, and many more that I'd never played on my new hi-fi, so after
the pain of flaccing, its been just one happy audio trip! Instead of
spending an age trying to chose a CD to play, I
(Also the web interface is not playing well with Safari, looks rather
jumbled)
Can you provide some more information on this? A screenshot might help, too.
Just make sure you've cleared Safari's cache and fully reloaded the page.
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Okay... More oddities.
Using SC7 with leopard is causing some strange things to happen. Tracks
start at seemingly random places (ie middle of the song).
I did a clean install of 6.5.x and that cleared everything up.
Today (after finding iPeng the really nifty iphone skin) I reinstalled
the
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/07/western_digital_drm_crippled_harddrive/
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I just called Ripcaster to get myself a remote and they don't have any
backlit ones left.
I still don't understand why we have to pay £25 for a remote when they
are $20 direct ( but they won't ship to UK any more)
Tom
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Well, when I went back into safari to take a screen shot, everything
looked great! Dig the new interface!
If this should happen again I will take a screenshot. Originally all of
the icons on the (left side column) were on top of each other.
Still though, the way the songs are starting is what
Yes. Another gentlman (WhaleOil) and I using 7.0 and Leopard have two
or three threads talking about plugin issues.
The issue is that some plugins show up in the Extras tab, but not the
Settings tab, rendering some plugins useless.
The plugins that we are aware of include AlienBBC,
Doesn't look like this would impact you if you run slimserver and have
the wd assigned a drive letter, or am i wrong?
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If your remote has stopped working properly and you are still within
your warranty you should contact your regions tech support. They should
send you a replacement free of charge.
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Scaremongering
The file filtering is only when you install the remote sharing
software, and only for non authorised users.
For example, if you log into their (windows only) sharing software with
the owner account, you can get all the content. If a guest logs in, they
get the filtered list.
It
:((( Jesus... I can't believe the pains I'm going through trying to have
the damn clock function working all the times without leaving the
computer on 24/7.
Couldn't a simple clock be programmed inside the SB without the need
for Squeezenetwork or Slimserver to be running? It would surely beat a
gorman wrote:
Couldn't a simple clock be programmed inside the SB without the need
for Squeezenetwork or Slimserver to be running? It would surely beat a
blank screen any time.
No, the SqueezeBox is a SlimDevice.
It is too stupid to do anything.
Even the bit maps to display characters come
funkstar;248114 Wrote:
Otherwise, WD could be taken to court for facilitating the distribution
of copywriten content.
Industry trend?
RIAA marches on.
.
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Pascal
All the pieces are in place for this to be implemented as a plugin.
During SC shutdown, send a serv 1 command to players to tell them to
switch to SN. When SC comes back up, find all players on SN and tell
them to come back with the command: 'squeezenetwork disconnect mac'.
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andyg;248120 Wrote:
All the pieces are in place for this to be implemented as a plugin.
During SC shutdown, send a serv 1 command to players to tell them to
switch to SN. When SC comes back up, find all players on SN and tell
them to come back with the command: 'squeezenetwork disconnect
Now you see why we haven't implemented it yet... it's a lot more
complicated than it first appears. :)
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Do these entries in the prefs file have an effect on the SB's output or
are they just leftover from previous versions? (and now redundant)
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funkstar;248114 Wrote:
WD could be taken to court for facilitating the distribution of
copywriten content.
The software blocks all MP3 files, but not all such files are
copywritten. What about audio that I record myself?
Why in the world would anyone buy a hard drive that prevents them from
Slimpy, I don't seem to have that option.
SlimServer Version: 6.5.3 - 12376 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Was it introduced in 6.5.4?
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hunta;248137 Wrote:
Slimpy, I don't seem to have that option.
SlimServer Version: 6.5.3 - 12376 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Was it introduced in 6.5.4?
No, but in 6.5.x it's at Server Settings Formatting. It's under
Interface in 7.0.
There's another setting there - Show Year With Album
TiredLegs;248130 Wrote:
Why in the world would anyone buy a hard drive that prevents them from
moving around their own files on their own network?
You didn't read his post very carefully. It's only the sharing
software that blocks those file types. Used as an network-connected
NAS on the
The original SB had/has controllable bass treble. That feature has
never been reimplemented in the more recent hardware (SB2/3/TP). See
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305
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TiredLegs;248130 Wrote:
Why in the world would anyone buy a hard drive that prevents them from
moving around their own files on their own network?
But it doesn't. The WD software only prevents guest access to those
filtered files, the owner can log into it and get access to
everything.
Yes
Hi,
I have custom made an RSS feed using PHP and Mysql.
http://weather.larsdebruin.net/weather.php
It has been checked by feedvalidator.org and is ok.
Then i put this RSS feed into my SlimServer, the squeezebox
stops showing the RSS after Air Pressure.
When i open this RSS feed in my browser it
My wife dropped the remote (twice) and the shell is broken. I can't
expect that to be replaced under warrenty. Thanks for the advice
anyway.
Tom
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TurnipMan;248150 Wrote:
My wife dropped the remote (twice) and the shell is broken. I can't
expect that to be replaced under warrenty. Thanks for the advice
anyway.Tom
Ever thought of getting your wife replaced under warranty?
MC
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Does that mean I have to go back to the mother-in-law for another?
My wife is suggesting that the remotes should have been drop tested
and be made to survive successive five foot drops onto a wooden floor.
Tom
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Does that mean I have to go back to the mother-in-law for another?
My wife is suggesting that the remotes should have been drop tested
and be made to survive successive five foot drops onto a wooden floor.
My kitchen remote has survived multiple 5' drops to a tile floor,
There is a small issue with v3.5 of Softsqueeze. It won't work with 5.x
of Java, which is the default on Leopard. (6.x isn't on Leopard!)
It's easy to fix: run the Java Preferences app in utilities/java and
choose 1.4.2 as your engine, and it works fine.
3.5 adds sync support, and it works
On Dec 10, 2007, at 1:55 AM, gandt wrote:
I have a SB2 and a reciva radio. Undoubtedly the SB2 wins hands
down but
the Reciva radio occasionally has the Internet Radio advantage. The
reciva website now has quite a few new interesting stations I have to
add manually to the SB2. I assume the
This weekend, we made a playlist of almost all the rock albums we've
acquired this year, then had this playing on shuffle for many hours.
This went some way towards working out our Best of 2007 playlist
(though we haven't actually made it yet). It was *much* more fun doing
it this way than
Hi,
This might not be functionally revolutionary, but at least conceptually
very nice. There is a growing interest in running web-applications as
normal application, e.g. gmail, google docs, etc. Prism is Mozilla's
take on that. I've been running SqueezeCenter in Prism for a while
quite like it.
I have been successfully (and painlessly) running several versions of
Slimserver for a year and a half or so, on a squeezebox and a
Transporter, most recently on an old PC with Ethernet wired to the pc
and the transporter, and a wireless connection to the squeezebox. I
decided to move up. I
CSTVFM - http://cbsplayer.streamtheworld.com/?CALLSIGN=CSTVFM ||Sports
|| http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/CSTVFMDIALUP.pls ||
http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/asx/CSTVFMDIALUP.asx
KBKSFM - http://cbsplayer.streamtheworld.com/?CALLSIGN=KBKSFM ||CHR
||
Definitely not just you. My experience has been the same as Big Tony's
as I've rediscovered CDs that I'd forgotten I had. In spite of that
rediscovery I've also been buying much more music and listening much
more as well.
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BigTony;248094 Wrote:
... I just hit shuffle and enjoy what comes up!
This format absolutely allows one to enjoy the full value of one's
music collection at the touch of a button.
That fact alone is enough to keep the music playing fresh and alive.
It's become organic with me.
Anything else
At first. A little less as time goes on.
I still find it cumbersome to randomly browse through my library to
select something to play. Mostly, I think, due to the sluggishness of
browsing albums in the web interface. A wall of CD spines is still
(somewhat surprisingly) easier to use when
Paul,
The IR transmitting LED protrudes a bit from the newer candy bar
remotes. At least a couple of users (out of thousands???) have reported
the sorts of problems you describe. Take a look at this thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40113
I don't know how handy you are with
JJZolx;248200 Wrote:
A wall of CD spines is still (somewhat surprisingly) easier to use when
picking something out.
Same here except I have a master list (hardcopy) that I've compiled for
my music collection.
As my physical collection is kept outside my listening room (thanks to
networked
I had very similar symptoms and it there were small cracks in the solder
that connected the IR emitter. I re-soldered them and the remote is
working great. If you have never soldered before it is very easy.
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I was in Frys over the weekend and saw my first every Squeezebox in a
mainstream retail outlet a nice little display hooked up to a pair
of Logitech speakers (shame they still don't sell a bundled offering
with the SB3 controlling the speakers on/off etc).
two really funny things... it was
Thank you to everyone who helped. The problem was, as I suspected, a
firewall conflict. I have a Cisco VPN installed on my system to access
my work network. A kind person from here suggested via email I
uninstall this and bingo, all is well.
I am serving music through the Squeeze Box again
I've got SqueezeCenter v7 nightly builds running on my WHS (it was the
first app I installed when I was beta testing WHS and it's been the
first that went back on after every rebuild!)
It works like a dream
The only time I have to remote into the desktop is to do an upgrade
(hint: for v7,
I love my white ones - both of them ;)
I was going to order black but we were just furnishing the new house
and the wife had decreed light colours... so the TV was white, and
everything else possible was white or silver (luckily I had an Xbox360
not a PS3!)
The second one is downstairs in the
I've been spoilt by my Squeezebox. You see its given me easy access to
my whole music collection, countless radio stations from every corner
of the world and podcasts of every nature. My living room audio is
fully catered for.
Because of this, lately the bedroom clock radio is starting to get
very nice. There is a growing interest in running web-applications as
normal application, e.g. gmail, google docs, etc. Prism is Mozilla's
take on that. I've been running SqueezeCenter in Prism for a while
quite like it.
Good to know! For a short moment I've been considering including it in
andyg;248127 Wrote:
Now you see why we haven't implemented it yet... it's a lot more
complicated than it first appears. :)
Please do implement this if you possibly can, it really would be very
useful! :)
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I'll look into this. Can somebody please advise where the clips are
located to get into the PCB?
Thanks,
Paul
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It's just that the reciva database is currently used by probably more
than TWO dozen different internet radios and is regularly updated by
all the users of those radios. Consequently it seems to be the largest
database on streaming radio Im aware of. You can get the picture here
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