getting back on topic
my duet has left germany and is currently winging it's way to me for
delivery tomorrow - ordered Monday with just normal shipping. My CC has
also been charged for the correctly reduced price of £170.90,
fanbloomintastic!
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Also back on topic ...
Got a confirmation email saying my Duet is in the post as well :-)
Thanks again, Jungle.
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I use foobar with columnsGUI plugin to give a itunes like interface and
the ipod plugin to convert from flac to mp3 on the fly.
Main reason I never changed to media monkey is that you have to pay for
flac compatibility (at least you used to) wheareas foobar is free though
you have to configure
damager;318337 Wrote:
My SB3 sits, untouched, on a shelf in my den. What specifically are you
doing to your SB3 that is causing that kind of scratching?
Having recently purchased a Sony iPod Clock Radio, I discovered that it
had an audio-in port. I had unplugged my SB3 in the living-room so
Is anyone else having problems with notifications? Specifically I have
subscribed o an instant notification of this thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49597
But I have not received any notifications although new posts have been
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opchiasm;318291 Wrote:
I have 2 Squeezebox 2's that work perfectly with static IP addresses. I
just got a third Squeezebox (Classic) and, when I run through the
network setup, I assign everything, and then try to connect to
SqueezeNetwork. I then see a message Assigning IP address and it
mick_w;318124 Wrote:
It seems strange to hear people in the US complain about high fuel
prices, in the UK we're currently paying $10 per (US)gallon for petrol.
Actually it's more like $8.50 as UK gallons are bigger than US ones!
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Thanks very much! I'll give that a try.
Howard Passman;318365 Wrote:
Hi Opchiasm,
You will have to temporarily turn off DHCP in order to get the option
to statically address the receiver when setting it up.
Have a great day,
Howard
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Says 'HERE' (http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_lastfm.html):
Tune in on your Squeezebox: Go to Music Services Last.fm to find
your personalized radio stations.
I've just installed 7.1, but that option is not there in my music
services. It says it's only for UK,US and Germany. I'm in the UK.
Any
For Linux users, I've found MP3FS to be a very elegant solution to this
problem. You point MP3FS at a directory full of FLACs, and it creates
a virtual directory full of MP3s. Only the MP3s don't exist anywhere
on a disk, but are transcoded on-the-fly from the FLACs.
Only downside to this
GlenL;318361 Wrote:
Also back on topic ...
Got a confirmation email saying my Duet is in the post as well :-)
Thanks again, Jungle.
Sheesh - I didn't really do much, just helped some of you to spend your
money which alleviates my own guilt at spending mine! On which note,
good luck with
miguelk;318289 Wrote:
Do you have some suggestions as to where I can get a high gain antenna?
When I drop the mw below 250 the signal deteriorates significantly (not
only on the signal strength--it skips, and the controller won't stay
connected).
Can we get a better understanding of the
I am in a fairly large apartment. My router is at the opposite end of
the apt from where the Squeezebox is located. Laptops work fine in the
same location, and the Squeezebox itself would get about a 50% signal if
set to the default power setting. At 50%, I experienced a fair number
of
charlesr;318374 Wrote:
Says 'HERE' (http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_lastfm.html):
Tune in on your Squeezebox: Go to Music Services Last.fm to find
your personalized radio stations.
I've just installed 7.1, but that option is not there in my music
services. It says it's only for UK,US
Laptop usually have their antenna in the screen which is vertical when
in use. SBR antenna will be smaller but also is normally horizontal.
This means the router antenna being vertical - the signal field will be
seen by laptop better than SBR. Try putting SBR on its side and change
orientation
just got an email saying my order has been canceled???
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just got an email saying my order has been canceled???
Did they give a reason? Had you already been given a tracking number?
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Did they give a reason? Had you already been given a tracking number?
no reason ...just on the phone to them now
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Just tried to add the voucher - they have canceled the campaign! Worked
OK yesterday evening when I got as far as clicking 'place order' which
I did not. At £119 for a Controller I probably would have bought it but
not at £199, especially in the current climate. Shame really as it could
have been
Just upgraded to Squeezecenter 7.0.1 (from 7.0) and to my dismay, the
list of Music Services is now reduced to 2 (MP3Tunes and Live Archive)
removing the one I used daily... namely Pandora!
What's up with this? (I furthermore cannot seem to get my SB3 to
connect to the squeezenetwork services
Looks like I got lucky. I rushed onto my email to check status and
mine's being shipped today.
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Just got off the phone with Logitech and they have re-instated my order
! after i complained about the fact that they had accepted my oder
in email and then canceled it
so lucky me!!!
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had no chance to confirm operation, but yes indeed, scripting was
un-checked. Now how did that happen?
Thanks Ben!
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petemac;318399 Wrote:
Just got off the phone with Logitech and they have re-instated my order
! after i complained about the fact that they had accepted my oder
in email and then canceled it
so lucky me!!!
Did you complain that, as a Dell Employee, you expect better service?
;-)
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Did you complain that, as a Dell Employee, you expect better service?
;-)
Oddly enough i did
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I just received an email advising that my order for a Duet receiver has
been cancelled (a day after they confirmed my order).
Looks like they've wised-up to what's going on.
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simbo;318407 Wrote:
Did you complain that, as a Dell Employee, you expect better service?
;-)
I LOL'd
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Check your location is set to US in Squeezenetwork, Pandora should
reappear and you can then work out why your SB3 won't connect
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Mine got cancelled too :) - trying to get them to re-instantiate the
order based on Danish marketing laws so let's see!
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Mine got cancelled too :) - trying to get them to re-instantiate the
order based on Danish marketing laws so let's see!
I'm located in Denmark too, please let me know if it works out...
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Also, a user has recently written an applet for the Squeezebox
Controller for accessing and playing JRiver libraries. I believe it's
in early development still, but if you checkout the screencast he has
linked in this thread, it appears quite operational:
radish;318158 Wrote:
But the thing is it does work for some people (myself included) so we
need to figure out what the specific issue is in your case. Could you
post the results of metaflac on one of the files? The we can compare
with a working one.
What would you expect to get from
I wonder if there was some frank exchange of views in Logitech's
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Thanks, that was wrong ... haven't been paying much attention to the
squeezenetwork.com thing really. I can see Pandora in the
squeezenetwork site again...
I also downgraded my SC to 7.0, this gave me the Pandora (and rest)
options in the menus again.
However, when I try to play Pandora via the
Thanks, but I've already authorised squeezenetwork in the Last.fm
settings (the squeeze logo has appeared in last.fm so should be
working). I'm able to listen to my last.fm channels via squeezenetwork,
but there's no option in squeezecenter. I've checked the items available
for adding to the menu
I hope that once with UPS, Logitech can't recall the goods they've sent
out.
It sounds unlikely but I'm not counting my chickens until my duet
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Homeplug provides networking over mains.
I have a broadband modem and a wireless router so I connect the two
together using Ethernet over mains.
Broadband modem- Ethernet- Homeplug- mains - Homeplug-
Ethernet-Wireless router
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elziko;318435 Wrote:
I hope that once with UPS, Logitech can't recall the goods they've sent
out.
It sounds unlikely but I'm not counting my chickens until my duet
arrives tomorrow!
very unlikely as at that point they have entered into a contract, have
taken your money and said thank you
slimkid;318426 Wrote:
What would you expect to get from metaflac that wouldn't have been
returned by mp3tag? Which switches?
K
I trust metaflac to tell me exactly what's in the file, no more no
less. Things like mp3tag have a habit of normalising tag names,
changing capitalization, etc
skooby;318215 Wrote:
My directory structure is album name\cd1 and album name\cd2.
Then you will need to set the TPOS field on the mp3's.
Think of it this way: if you have two tracks in different directories,
how will SC know that these are two tracks from the same album, as
opposed to two
Strangely enough I got an email from SlimDevices today on this very
subject!
Set up Last.fm on your Squeezebox
- Join for free at 'Last.fm'
(http://www.slimdevices.com/redir.html?https://www.last.fm/join)
- Configure scrobbling on your Squeezebox: From the SqueezeCenter Home
screen go to
There used to be an option to forget a player in slimserver... I can't
find that in Squeezecenter, is it still around somewhere?
Basically my problem is that my SB3 keeps insisting on reporting it's
OLD ip address to the server. I recently had to change subnets, but the
SB3 is stuck on the old
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A relevant case where Littlewoods tried to get money back from a
customer who used a discount voucher found on a forum.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7063769.stm
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That email is what prompted me to give it a go!
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charlesr;318464 Wrote:
That email is what prompted me to give it a go!
Me, too. Followed the instructions. LastFM not showing as an option
under Music Services...No response yet from the reply to the email I
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snarlydwarf;318446 Wrote:
Then you will need to set the TPOS field on the mp3's.
Think of it this way: if you have two tracks in different directories,
how will SC know that these are two tracks from the same album, as
opposed to two tracks from albums with the same name?
...
How about
petemac wrote:
elziko;318386 Wrote:
Did they give a reason? Had you already been given a tracking number?
no reason ...just on the phone to them now
Ah, bad luck.
I received my 40% discounted controller six hours ago and it's now on my
night stand.
Thanks Jungle!
Regards,
amcluesent wrote:
I wonder if there was some frank exchange of views in Logitech's
marketing meeting this morning? How many Duet's have escaped to UPS?
My controller made its way here.
Am I the only one so far?
Regards,
Peter
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spinaltap;318413 Wrote:
I just received an email advising that my order for a Duet receiver has
been cancelled (a day after they confirmed my order).
Looks like they've wised-up to what's going on.
Do you think that could have anything to do with the fact people are
shouting about it a
mr-b;318032 Wrote:
Tx for the reply. I didn't know there had been a forum upgrade.
I tried loading a new RSS feed from this forum but that covers posts
from all the forums rather than one feed per forum - do you see the
same?
Could you post a sample URL?
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Unfortunately, not. My headless server is the only Linux box in my
house; my other computer is Windows XP. Perhaps if someone can take a
look at their preferences file (i.e., look at the text of the file, not
the options displayed in the GUI), they can tell me what setting works.
This is a Logitech forum? When did that happen?? :)
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Hello,
I recently put the VU meter up as a screen saver. I find though that
most digital music is recorder 'really loud' and so the VU sits mostly
above 0 in what used to be the distortion zone. Somehow that just feels
really wrong.
Is there a version of the VU screen saver that has 100% volume
peter;318477 Wrote:
amcluesent wrote:
I wonder if there was some frank exchange of views in Logitech's
marketing meeting this morning? How many Duet's have escaped to UPS?
My controller made its way here.
Am I the only one so far?
Regards,
Peter
Me too! Just arrived. It may be
patrickregan;316030 Wrote:
I'm having the same problem. I've rebooted the server a few times and
the item hasn't come back. Any other thoughts to fix this?
Patrick
Jut realized today that I have the same problem also. Am running 7.1 on
Vista. Anyone have any ideas about this??
Zevs
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Turning off DHCP on the router did not seem to work ...
What did seem to work (for reasons that I can't figure out) was
starting SlimServer. I never run SlimServer - I always use
SqueezeNetwork. I decided to start it before I tried one more time to
configure the new Squeezebox and was able to
My wife just bought a portable dock station for her Sansa Rhapsody
player. At times I use Rhapsody as well on my SD equipment. I have two
SB3's , a Duet and Transporter wirelessly networked throughout the
house. She says she doesn't want to play around with the SD player and
turning on PC's,
I've got two SB3s and the Duet, and loaded the server with all my wife's
favorite music - but she won't go near any of it. I think my wife is an
extreme case, though: She can't (or won't) get the hang of our iPod
either.
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It's a networked music player! Translation: If the network's not up,
the device is completely useless.
You can control it from your web browser! Translation: Ignore this, you
can still use a remote.
So for maximum acceptance,
The option wont be there if you have no folder set (in settings) and you
are using MusicIP or iTunes integration.
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I wonder what SD/Logitech needs to do to turn their equipment from
geekware to mainstream
Ship a version in pink?
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Make sure you're running v7.1 of SqueezeCenter. I had been running
7.0.1, and started scrobbling, but when I upgraded SqueezeCenter to a
7.1 nightly, I found I could actually listen to LastFM from
SqueezeCenter. Does require authorization through SqueezeNetwork.
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The VU balistics are very close to a real 'average' reading meter. What
you're seeing is quite accurate, since that's how LOUD everyone is
mastering CDs now. What you want is a PEAK meter, which is not the
same.
Just because the VUs sit above '0' doesn't mean there's distortion...
although
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The forget player option has been removed in SC7. You can try a
factory reset of the SB3. I don't remember exactly, but I think the
magic incantation is to (a) power off the SB3, then (b) hold down the
+ key on the remote while powering on. If that's not it, check the
wiki or search the forums.
amcluesent;318545 Wrote:
I wonder what SD/Logitech needs to do to turn their equipment from
geekware to mainstream
Ship a version in pink?
My wife *hates* pink. :-)
She never seemed to bother using the SB3, and was happy to wait for me
to turn it on, though in part this is because she's
First of all, thx for this great skin.
I have three (minor) problem with it (see attachment)
- the top of the skin is approx. 10 pixels moved down
- in the while playing screen (WPS) theres a undefined text below
the cover ($VAR1)
- skipping in the WPS works only once, another press on FW does
Yes, I've just tried it and it still works. My Duet is with UPS and made
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I have some advice: go into Squeezecenter player settings and simplify
the menus. Get rid of stuff you don't use. Make it as simple as
possible and I'll bet she'll use it. If she only uses Rhapsody, put
Rhapsody on the top menu (I think you can do that). Heck, you could
even set a seldom used
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pc4ever1;318532 Wrote:
My wife just bought a portable dock station for her Sansa Rhapsody
player. At times I use Rhapsody as well on my SD equipment. I have two
SB3's , a Duet and Transporter wirelessly networked throughout the
house. She says she doesn't want to play around with the SD
miguelk;318289 Wrote:
Do you have some suggestions as to where I can get a high gain antenna?
When I drop the mw below 250 the signal deteriorates significantly (not
only on the signal strength--it skips, and the controller won't stay
connected).
I have been advised by reply to my email that SqueezeCenter 7.1 beta is
required to access LastFM from SqueezeCenter. Otherwise LastFM is
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For the OP:
You are an enthusiast, she's not. If she doesn't tell you to turn it
off when you listen, and if she doesn't complain about what you buy
when you buy it, I don't see how there's any problem here. You're happy
and she's happy, no reason to expect your SO to have the same hobbies or
On 10/07/2008 9:17 a.m., CatBus wrote:
So for maximum acceptance, leave the computer on and show them how to
use the remote. After this, it should be no more hassle to use an SB3
than the Sansa player. They don't want to mess with a computer every
time they want to listen to music, and I
pc4ever1;318532 Wrote:
My wife just bought a portable dock station for her Sansa Rhapsody
player. At times I use Rhapsody as well on my SD equipment. I have two
SB3's , a Duet and Transporter wirelessly networked throughout the
house. She says she doesn't want to play around with the SD
pc4ever1;318532 Wrote:
My wife just bought a portable dock station for her Sansa Rhapsody
player. At times I use Rhapsody as well on my SD equipment. I have two
SB3's , a Duet and Transporter wirelessly networked throughout the
house. She says she doesn't want to play around with the SD
Rick Hudson;318586 Wrote:
If you have to do anything other than pressing the power button on the
SB's
remote then you may have missed the point of the product. Surely having
a
Squeezbox /requires/ an always-on server.
A dedicated server may be ideal for some, but I personally don't see
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I have a Pioneer VSX-9120TXH receiver and a squeezebox that I am trying
to use a Rocket fish optical cable with. It is obvious as to how the
cable connects but it will not click in to ether unit. Is there a
trick? I have pushed pretty hard to get it in but no go. Goes in about
half way then just
I've been using my SB2 happily for a while now and all of a sudden it
keeps disconnecting from both Squeezecenter/Squeezenetwork. I
repeatedly have to go through the network setup (without making any
changes) to reconnect. Looking at the 'Current Settings', everything
looks correct...MAC, IP,
On 10/07/2008 2:37 p.m., Skunk wrote:
Rick Hudson;318586 Wrote:
If you have to do anything other than pressing the power button on the
SB's
remote then you may have missed the point of the product. Surely having
a
Squeezbox /requires/ an always-on server.
A dedicated server may be
This would be handy for playing remote streams.
I use this all of the time and noticed that with 7.0, SC will
disconnect the stream shortly after playing has completed. This
results in winamp being removed from the player list. If I'm not
paying attention, I then end up adding music to the
This sounds like a corner case that was never tested. I suspect 95% or
more users of SD products have slimserver installed, even if they use
SC a lot. And of the 5% that use SC exclusively, how many use static
IP addresses.
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Phil Leigh;318542 Wrote:
The option wont be there if you have no folder set (in settings) and you
are using MusicIP or iTunes integration.
Thanks Phil, that makes sense and was the problem for me!
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Rick Hudson;318597 Wrote:
That's where I disagree. Turning on the amp, for example, is
instantaneous.
Turning on a PC-based computer is like 20-30 seconds minimum, as well
as being
an extra thing to turn on.
Yes, for normal ppl the amp switch is instantaneous, but we use a tube
amp
I was just thinking of the VU on cassette recordings where you were
supposed to keep the recording level below zero for minimum distortion.
I realise that the digital recording level is something quite different
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Millwood;318283 Wrote:
Just one user's opinion.
I really liked the mode in which visiting one of the forums was
equivalent to marking it all read.
In the rare cases when I needed to try again, the last posted date/time
was adequate to find things that I hadn't seen - but normally I'd
Since many of us use external USB drives on windows XP I'm sure there
are some of you that have seen this error.
I've searched and tried many things and it still failed.
There are many reasons that can cause this but I think a common one,
was what I ran into and finally fixed.
The problem is
Sometimes toslink cables come with little plastic protectors on each
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