Wave and Apple lossless only. I listened to both types and did not hear
any significant differences.
Jose
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What bugs me much more is the navigation, when i enter into a music
folder, and chose an artist, and start playing the album, then the
silly SC does not stay in that folder, but goes out, and forces me to
choose music folder and making it load for ages.
Choose the Now Playing (jump on wake)
The Wadia is just the transport, what DAC are you using?
I can't help but think its really just a gimik, and not a cheap one at
that.
BT
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aubuti;332120 Wrote:
Are you pressing any other buttons on the SBC after play? I just tried
doing what you described, and at the end of the track I picked up the
SBC and was right where I left off the menu. Pressing the back button
took me step-by-step back up the directory tree.
I'm not
Is there a keypad lock facility on the squeezebox controller? I would
like to pop it in a pocket when I walk around the garden... without
accidentally pressing buttons. I am aware of turning it off/sleep mode
which aren't quite what I'm after.
Thanks,
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Someone stated Lacie will not work with Squeezebox?
It will work fine as a network storage space; but although the Edmini
has an embedded DNLA server, this cannot be used to stream music to a
squeezebox.
chopper38;331980 Wrote:
So...Will I be able to play music via my
Is there a keypad lock facility on the squeezebox controller? I would
Press and hold ADD and PLAY together to lock the keys. Found here:
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Thank you. Exactly what I needed.
However, the logic is a bit strange. If I synchronize two players, A
and B, then I can choose to have A's volume synced to B's (in player
A's settings) while leaving player B's volume unsynced (in player B's
settings.)
This means that if I select player B from
Well, gradually going through the whole collection with Foobar 2000 and
adding replay gain (question : why doesn't Foobar show the RG details
in the RG column ? They appear if I look at Track Properties and if I
try to add RG again it tells me they are already there).
Most albums end up with a
liffy99;332171 Wrote:
Well, gradually going through the whole collection with Foobar 2000 and
adding replay gain (question : why doesn't Foobar show the RG details
in the RG column ? They appear if I look at Track Properties and if I
try to add RG again it tells me they are already there).
I guess you already tried clearing the browser cache?
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I've had my Transporter for nearly a year and have so far had no option
but to go wireless. I have never experienced a single drop-out playing
FLAC files from my ReadyNAS. Signal strength is 80-85%.
I will soon be installing wired Ethernet in my living room, because my
cable TV provider is
Wow - 2db ? So virtually all of my rock recordings will have been
clipped during mastering ?
Ho hum
Ok, I'll stick with defaults.
The thing I find confusing is the apparent use of different scales.
i.e. we talk about 0db as being the peak and then 89db as a level
below this that allows some
No.
(note, I use SB but even a basic wireless system is as 'fat' as
ethernet and will make no difference to your quality, regardless of the
components. However, if you won't otherwise use the wifi for computers,
then its just a waste of power, I guess.)
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I have been searching these forums and found out that there were issues
with volume control going crazy a few months ago.
I have just found out (by coincidence) that I can reproduce this error
by attempting to adjust the volume level while the Controller is
occupied by a search for an artist.
Hi, since I worked for weeks with this problem I just wanted to post how
I finally solved the problem.
Setup: Squeezebox Duet using All wireless (I use wireless router
Netgear WGT624)
Problem: OK connecting the controller to the network, and the receiver
connects too. Good WiFi signal. The
liffy99;332184 Wrote:
Wow - 2db ? So virtually all of my rock recordings will have been
clipped during mastering ?
Ho hum
Ok, I'll stick with defaults.
The thing I find confusing is the apparent use of different scales.
i.e. we talk about 0db as being the peak and then 89db as a
According to the information displayed on the Alarm page in player
settings, the fade in time is supposed to be 20 seconds if fade in is
selected. You might also want to review the alarm volume settings on
that same page.
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11db ? So peak volume =100db (which is the same as Odb ?) ?
How does that then relate to the dynamic range of the CD medium at 96db
?
And 11db isn't much when looking at peaks at all (about 12 times
louder). Think of the contrast in a drum kit - one moment the snare is
being tickled with
I think the consensus round here is to use ethernet if you have the
choice since it is **generally** more reliable than wireless. That
said, if your wireless connection has been rock solid . . .
But if an extra ethernet socket is a low- (or no-) cost option then you
will have the choice of
Sorry for slight off topic:
Mr. Minor may I ask a dumb question?
What's SBR - just when I thought I knew all the acronyms...
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Running a SB3 a Dell laptop as a music server.
The laptop is about 5 metres from the SB3 signal strength is 85% or
so.
If I connect the laptop hard wired into the router but leave the SB3
wireless, I get no problems at all.
If I have both the laptop SB3 wireless, the connection will drop
As I see it you have two choices:
1) stream using lossy compression and keep everything wireless
or
2) wire SB3 to Router
Having everything wireless AND streaming uncompressed is too much for
current wireless technology IMHO.
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You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto
Try an environment scan and look for channel collision with another
wi-fi router on the same/similar channel.
New routers (i.e D-Link DIR-655) are better at keeping wi-fi throughput
going. I tested mine with 802.11n to server and then feeding FLAC to 3
players on 801.11g concurrently without
thread;332106 Wrote:
It's 7.1.0 ... and I'd really rather find the source of the issue and
possibly lead hickinsbottoms to a fix.
I was rather hoping that the filesystem where the SqueezeCenter
database was held was full, but that appears not to be the case.
A couple of other questions:
1.
1. ext3
2. no, I don't believe I've made any mods to my my.conf. See below...
3. x86
4. It seems that I can browse by genre, artist, etc just fine. I'm
betting that I don't have all my music in the db, but what is there is
findable in this way.
Code:
#
I just upgraded to 7.1 and I must say I love the new home menu - I've
waited for that ever since I got my Duet!
However, I have two questions - one I think is a bug, the other a
feature request:
1) My remote speaks danish. But when I add a shortcut to browse
artists or browse albums on my home
Hi
Just a heads up on those of you in a different country to the norm.
I recently lost the remote to one of my SB3s. Was considering to get
the controller to replace it as I thought it seemed pretty nifty.
However when I went to order the controler (or the replacement remote)
my country was
lrossouw;332232 Wrote:
Hi
Just a heads up on those of you in a different country to the norm.
I recently lost the remote to one of my SB3s. Was considering to get
the controller to replace it as I thought it seemed pretty nifty.
However when I went to order the controler (or the
Enoch Soames;331605 Wrote:
From the 'now playing' screen, press the center button. That should do
it.
Perfect, thanks for the hepl. Makes my life a lot easier. Is there a
wiki where all these controls are stored?
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1) My remote speaks danish. But when I add a shortcut to browse
artists or browse albums on my home menu they are displayed in
english - when I use the normal music library (musik bibliotek) they
are danish (gennemse kunstnere). Is it possible to add translations
manually somehow or do I have
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Assuming the cost is not too high for the second jack I would go to
wired Ethernet. It is true that the audio quality will be no different
if you are not getting any dropouts. But, while it is true that
wireless bandwidth is plenty for these devices, it is important to know
that is it shared
bpa;331875 Wrote:
Go to Infobrowser on the SC Web page under Extras and add new entries
just like Favorites or click on pencil icon to edit exsiting ones.
Like Hammond says, there is no place to enter (or change) entries in
the information browser part - or at least some of us can't find
Al Jones;332186 Wrote:
I've had my Transporter for nearly a year and have so far had no option
but to go wireless. I have never experienced a single drop-out playing
FLAC files from my ReadyNAS. Signal strength is 80-85%.
I will soon be installing wired Ethernet in my living room, because
toby10 wrote:
Al Jones;332186 Wrote:
I've had my Transporter for nearly a year and have so far had no option
but to go wireless. I have never experienced a single drop-out playing
FLAC files from my ReadyNAS. Signal strength is 80-85%.
I will soon be installing wired Ethernet in my
When I Rescan the Library after creating new playlists, the playlists
are found. However,they don't always show up in the SqueezeCenter
Music Library. Problem appears to be random with the playlists
sometimes appearing and sometimes not.
The playlists are m3u type created in Windows Media
What version of SC are you using ?
In 7.0 - you add the entries in Settings/Plugins/Info browser and click
on the hyperlinked word edit
In 7.1 (and higher) - you edit and add entries like Favorites from the
main web UI under Extras.
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Dingostrategy;332208 Wrote:
Sorry for slight off topic:
Mr. Minor may I ask a dumb question?
What's SBR - just when I thought I knew all the acronyms...
SBR = Squeezebox Receiver, SBC = Squeezebox Controller
SBR+SBC = Squeezebox Duet.
I use my controller mostly with the SB3 in the
What version of mysql are you using? Could you post the output of mysql
--version?
Could you try commenting out the log-bin line of your my.cnf? Then
restart MySQL and SqueezeCenter and see if that has any effect. If that
helps then it might point to problems with the binary logs filling up
I have not reported this as a bug yet--you're the first person I've
heard of that's having this same issue.
After a few more clean installs, my icon is still frequently red (I'd
say even usually), but the music keeps playing and my MiP mixes work
well so I'm going to leave it alone at this
Thankyou. It's official, I am a noob.
morris_minor;332250 Wrote:
SBR = Squeezebox Receiver, SBC = Squeezebox Controller
SBR+SBC = Squeezebox Duet.
I use my controller mostly with the SB3 in the living room [for the
ultimate couch potato experience!] as wireless strength in my kitchen
bpa;332249 Wrote:
What version of SC are you using ?
In 7.0 - you add the entries in Settings/Plugins/Info browser and click
on the hyperlinked word edit
In 7.1 (and higher) - you edit and add entries like Favorites from the
main web UI under Extras.
Ahh, that's just too simple - I
I've had pretty much the same experience with my Controller. I
absolutely cannot use it with a Receiver, because the whole shooting
match falls over with constant issues with the Receiver not connecting
to the server or the Controller not connecting to the Receiver, or
both. With an SB3 in
I'm sure you can find a distributor with a more flexible shipping
policy. Logitech isn't the only place to buy Logitech stuff...
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Dingostrategy;332256 Wrote:
Thankyou. It's official, I am a noob.
Well, I've no idea what I did to earn my Senior Member status! Just
got older and more grey I suppose . . .
B
[Oh - for completeness sake: SB3 is now called the Squeezebox Classic
- which confusingly makes it another SBC; and
Yes, I understand what you're trying to do, and am equally puzzled why
it works on mine and not on yours. What are your screensaver settings
on the SBC? I have Now Playing for my screensaver when playing, a delay
of 20 seconds, and screen dimming after 30 seconds. My SBC firmware is
r2873 (saying
hey this is africa! :) haven't seen any sb3s down here, other than my
own.
And to prove myself wrong I've found it:
http://www.sybaritic.co.za/store/product_info.php?cPath=125_447products_id=14955
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Yes, cleared client side browser cache several times. Unfortunately to
no avail.
From my observations, it would appear the clear and rescan function
does not do a full cleanup of the mysql database and leaves original
entries intact. I don't understand why this is the case why it could
not be
Sounds like you need to blow away the server side cache in C:\Documents
and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SqueezeCenter\Cache
and then do a full rescan...
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maggior;332125 Wrote:
I would imagine he is referring to Hi-MD, which supported
recording/playing uncompressed WAV files.
Yes, that's certainly a possibility. I'd definitely want to test it
(somehow), though. It'd be a waste to create full-sized WAV or FLAC
files that only contained what
You need to add a new column:
right click on the coloumns --- More... --- Add New --- give the new
column a name [mine is named AG for album gain and TG for track gain]
--- in the Pattern add the following for album gain
%REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN% and %REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN% for track gain ---
what is best? itunes or folder sync of mp3?
are there any advantages of using itunes over folder organizing? I
mean, SB is only reading the tags anyway?
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Al Jones;332186 Wrote:
I will soon be installing wired Ethernet in my living room, because my
cable TV provider is switching to a set-top box that requires an
always-on Internet connection to fight piracy.
Actually, you don't even need to wire the set top box, just plug it
into the back of
thank you! got it!
I had the nokia 770 panel. it hust didnt have all the buttons!
going for the original now...
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And the answer is Squeezebox Boom
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I used to use the iTunes library file, but I found that it wasn't
honoring the iTunes artist and album sort fields, ironically. Joe
Satriani would show up under J instead of S even though I set the
sort artist and sort album artist tags as Satriani, Joe in iTunes.
When I switched to folder
I have tried to remove and change all the tags in that particular album,
but no sucsess.
I have found out that SB is adding a (2003) after the album name and
a(2004) on the other one
so squeezebox find three different years in that album allthough there
are NO different year tagging in that
Al Jones;332186 Wrote:
...because my cable TV provider is switching to a set-top box that
requires an always-on Internet connection to fight piracy.
RANT
Excuse me, but WHAT A CROCK! What if you don't even own a PC - you
have to buy a monthly net account just to watch TV? And what happens
okay. thats a nice feature, but a update library button, would make it
easyer to see if all the changes are all coming from itunes to
Squeezebox.
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Howard Passman;330560 Wrote:
I like to use Good Morning by the Beatles. The rooster never fails
me.
Howard
That's a good choice. I've used it a few times too.
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Your SB (and for that matter, SqueezeCenter) doesn't add any tags
whatsoever -- they don't have that capability, or even the ability to
write to your music files. What format are your files? If they are MP3,
I bet you have conflicting ID3v1 and id3v2 tags, or maybe even some
stray APE tags. Make
Gaaahhh.. no tosh/coax... I guess they made it that way so we need to
buy a separate sb/duet machine for hifi listening. WELL... imho this is
such an american set of mind.. waste energy and materials having to have
tons of devices for every single purpose. KEEP UP THE CONSUMPTION AND
WASTE
liffy99 wrote:
Wow - 2db ? So virtually all of my rock recordings will have been
clipped during mastering ?
Clipped during mastering is such an ugly concept.
But virtually all rock recordings are compressed past death as part of
the Loudness Wars.
Al Jones wrote:
Given that my wirelss is perfect, is there any reason to consider
wiring my Transporter?
There is no reason not to do it. The cost of dragging two wires over one
is nothing. Do it.
You will be glad you did at some time.
When I pulled wire through my house (long after we moved
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:27 AM, FB67
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I have been searching these forums and found out that there were issues
with volume control going crazy a few months ago.
I have just found out (by coincidence) that I can reproduce this error
by attempting to adjust the volume
Hi -
I've tried to check the forums, but haven't seen any info on this
problem:
From time to time, the information on the Now Playing screens is not
properly updated. It will start out correct, but if I add songs or use
the Play button to start a whole new group of songs, the now playing
gurgel2;332308 Wrote:
imho this is such an american set of mind.. waste energy and materials
having to have tons of devices for every single purpose. KEEP UP THE
CONSUMPTION AND WASTE OTHERWISE THE EARTH WONT PERISH. Shame on you
logitech.
While it's fun to bash americans (I know I've done
I used to have the same kind of problem long ago - ended up wiring the
pc that SqueezeCenter was on and have not had the problem since. With
mine when the Squeezebox dropped it was a real pita to reconnect.
Newer routers will allow you to run full uncompressed streaming
wireless as long as you
I have tagged all my A-ha albums and want the albums to be sorted
cronologigal after years.
that actually happens in squeezeCenter, but it wont update the
squeezebox?
I thought that what you saw in squeezecenter you should also see in
squeezebox? arent those similar?
or can I update the
Um, I am using linux. Which exact cache folder do I need to blow away.
I've already deleted the Artwork cache and rescanned. Is this a guess or
do you know for certain this will work? Still begs the question, why
does full scan not blow away cache? Seems to be self defeating if it
does not?
what if I was to link up my sqeezebox and my time capsule with an
ethernet cable?
No network would be needed and the squeezebox would access the music
via a cable?
possible or not?
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gurgel2;332308 Wrote:
imho this is such an american set of mind.. waste energy and materials
having to have tons of devices for every single purpose. KEEP UP THE
CONSUMPTION AND WASTE OTHERWISE THE EARTH WONT
Ben Sandee;332336 Wrote:
But the streaming media division (formerly SlimDevices) is still based
in CA and is arguably 'american' in mindset.
Perhaps. Personally, I find that, while Slim was very american in some
ways (mostly the good ways), I've stuck with them because they're very
unamerican
ctbarker32;332329 Wrote:
Um, I am using linux. Which exact cache folder do I need to blow away.
I've already deleted the Artwork cache and rescanned. Is this a guess or
do you know for certain this will work? Still begs the question, why
does full scan not blow away cache? Seems to be self
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Perhaps. Personally, I find that, while Slim was very american in some
ways (mostly the good ways), I've stuck with them because they're very
unamerican in other ways.
Good ways that they are american:
*
gurgel2;332308 Wrote:
Gaaahhh.. no tosh/coax... I guess they made it that way so we need to
buy a separate sb/duet machine for hifi listening. WELL... imho this is
such an american set of mind.. waste energy and materials having to have
tons of devices for every single purpose. KEEP UP THE
Is shuffle enabled on the Squeezebox?
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I wouldn't personally use it this way, but I can see someone wanting to
ditch a lousy old alarm clock, and then replace an existing SB3
connected to a bedroom audio system with the SB Boom.
But then again, this might simply encourage those of us Americans prone
to excessive consumption to start
Phil Leigh;332345 Wrote:
I'm struggling to imagine any scenario where you would need a digital
out on this product. It is a self-contained unit as far as one can
tell.
Oh, you know...something like semi-permanently installing a SBBoom
under an umbrella in the back yard and then burying a 30
esbrewer;332353 Wrote:
But then again, this might simply encourage those of us Americans prone
to excessive consumption to start filling landfills with old alarm
clocks.
The New-American way: Old Appliances? Don't think Landfill...think
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chopper38;332335 Wrote:
what if I was to link up my sqeezebox and my time capsule with an
ethernet cable?
No network would be needed and the squeezebox would access the music
via a cable?
possible or not?
No
The cable is the Network, the smallest possible network only 2 pionts
but the
atrocity wrote:
Even the first-generation models beat the pants off analog cassettes.
I sure wish Sony had marketed it better. When MD appeared, it was
infinitely easier to deal with than the extremely expensive and
extremely fussy computer equipment necessary to make CDs. I loved
being
Michaelwagner wrote:
Good ways that they are not american:
* open source
* open box - they always snap pictures and post them, showing us what's
inside the box so we don't have to disassemble them - although I did
disassemble my SB1s and SB3s - haven't opened up a Duet receiver yet.
* open
If it's a **really** old alarm clock, you know, steel with bells, you
could melt it. At current steel prices, it's value as scrap is probably
higher than its utility value.
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Today i got Krefel's leaflet in the mail, which had a full page of
squeeze-products including the Boom !
249 !
apparently it's on their website too :
Ta muchly - that did the trick !
Now, why can't I hear amy output ? Playing files via Media Monkey,
Windows etc all works just fine.
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peter;332369 Wrote:
Nah, they should've made PC mini disk drives from day one. Being able to
play/read, write/record and copy on a PC would've been a huge thing
back
then. Now, they were left behind by the CD which - eventually - did
allow that. Too afraid of 'piracy', of course
Peter wrote:
Nah, they should've made PC mini disk drives from day one. Being able to
play/read, write/record and copy on a PC would've been a huge thing back
then. Now, they were left behind by the CD which - eventually - did
allow that. Too afraid of 'piracy', of course
You are
Check in the preferences --- Playback --- Output and select a
different Output Device from the drop down menu, then Save All ---
Close and restart foobar until you find one that works.
If that doesn't work you ask your question at:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=27
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I've had this as well only solved it by deleting the albumn and
reconverting it from CD through EAC. The albumns that were affected
were the ones that were converted in Yahoo Music Engine.
For some reason, changing the tags simply did not work.
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atrocity;332281 Wrote:
Are you sure about that? I think Sony is still making a single
expensive portable model...or maybe there's still some old stock out
there. I haven't seen blank discs in stores in quite a while, but
they're easily mail-ordered.
Yeah, they have that one model
fuzzball76;332374 Wrote:
Today i got Krefel's leaflet in the mail, which had a full page of
squeeze-products including the Boom !
249 !
apparently it's on their website too :
Yes, it's ready for prime time now. It does a fine job of integrating a
player and browser for SqueezeCenter. Problem is, it's a bear to get it
to open a stream for the first time. It'll log into the site via the
embedded browser, but opening the stream (with:
http://site.name:9000/stream.mp3)
I speak a bit of German, so I can guess at what the following means.
When you click on where can I have this product sent to, it says
Dit toestel is beschikbaar in volgende winkels en kan aan huis geleverd
worden vanaf Donderdag 28/08/2008
followed by an empty list of places where it can be
deweysquare;190940 Wrote:
Since songbird is a browser and digital audio player in one app, it is a
great solution for remote streaming. Attached is a screenshot of
songbird 0.2.5 running on my work desktop.Do you have a page showing how you
did this and how it works with SC ?
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I have tried to remove and change all the tags in that particular album,
but no sucsess.
I have found out that SB is adding a (2003) after the album name and
a(2004) on the other one
so squeezebox find three different years in that album allthough there
are NO
I had a different volume control problem and going to 7.2 also fixed
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liffy99;332205 Wrote:
11db ? So peak volume =100db (which is the same as Odb ?) ?
How does that then relate to the dynamic range of the CD medium at 96db
?
And 11db isn't much when looking at peaks at all (about 12 times
louder). Think of the contrast in a drum kit - one moment the
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