My comments were not intended to be critical, sarcastic, or negative, so
I'm sorry if that was how they seemed to you. My opinion is different
from earlier comments you and some others had made, I was just trying
to express myself. I can't improve on pfarrel's short and sweet
comment.
I respect
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run sc when I log in or
start sc when the system starts (requires user name and password.)
It doesn't require credentials, and it doesn't say so neither, does it?
You can _optionally_ enter them if you like, but it's not required.
Michael
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See the fine title.
The other forum readers must be saints to bother to reply to a post like
this.
Wouldn't a Microsoft forum be the best place to whine?
Regards,
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Hi vitoruch - yes, you are talking about the other iSqueeze, now named
Mobile, which is a SqueezeCenter skin, whereas mine is a native iPhone
application. It is currently in the beta testing stage but should
hopefully be released on the iTunes app store in the coming months.
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bephillips;340733 Wrote:
My Artist list is pretty large too at 2,273 and on startup, after the
black screen goes away, only takes about 5 seconds to load.
That's interesting; I'll have to run some benchmarks.
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mherger;340824 Wrote:
run sc when I log in or
start sc when the system starts (requires user name and password.)
It doesn't require credentials, and it doesn't say so neither, does it?
You can _optionally_ enter them if you like, but it's not required.
I just went through the service
Hi Ross,
could you also give to ability to give the receiver and controller a
static IP a high priority - I know there is a 3. party plugin but
it's not easy to do - you need perl runtime and other stuff. And I
don't have access/password for my router. I guees that I might solve
the problem for
Nobody knows... at all?
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pski wrote:
See the fine title.
The other forum readers must be saints to bother to reply to a post
like
this.
Indeed.
I can understand that people get frustrated when something isn't
working, but surely people must understand that the manner in which one
asks
pfarrell;340843 Wrote:
lrossouw wrote:[color=blue]
One of the amazing things about SlimDevices is that Sean happily
describes whats inside the box, and the SD folks would regularly tell
folks to open it up and check the wiring.
It seems you are right. Was searching the forums and found
And here we are at the point to ask Logitech why they do not also offer
a SC integrated media server. To get a complete solution which can be
used by everybody - just to enjoy music.
A computer is a higly complex mixture of hard- and software. The simple
Windows/Linux PC do not exist.
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Feel like I'm talking to myself in this thread :)
Anyway support said I must send it back for repairs (it went out of
warranty a couple of months ago...), and given that I'm in South Africa
this was going to be a costly mission.
So I thought I'd try the headphones and as I fiddled with the
Howard Passman wrote:
I work for a company that sells BMW automobiles. We get a lot of
complaints on the iDrive feature. Is it cool? Yes. Can you do more
with it than without it? Yes. Is it necessarily progress. No, I
don't believe so. At what point would you decide that enough is
You need to enter your Windows user name and password so SqueezeCenter
can access your user library.
Without running the wizard (only looking at the code...) I missed that
one. Too strong wording indeed.
That certainly appears to be saying that it's required, not optional.
Agreed.
Michael
And here we are at the point to ask Logitech why they do not also offer
a SC integrated media server.
Because it has been asked many times before. Discussed to death eg. in
thread titled Logitech is missing an opportunity or similar.
A computer is a higly complex mixture of hard- and
lrossouw wrote:
So there is some loose connection in there somewhere. Possibly I can
fix this myself? Anyone have any experience with this?
One of the amazing things about SlimDevices is that Sean happily
describes whats inside the box, and the SD folks would regularly tell
folks to open it
I am not technically illiterate. Over the past eight years I have had
various attempts at installing lots of different flavours of Linux,
right from full blown 4 disc Free BSD installations to Michaels simple
single disc SC installation.
Every single installation has failed and all have cost me
Why run it as a service instead of a login? Just wondering. I use
Spicefly's loader for SC and MusicIp to load it in the right order and
it has always worked perfect. If you use musicip you might want to
give it a try.
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peter;340849 Wrote:
Howard Passman wrote:[color=blue]
Large parts? Not really. Not the places where people actually live. And
you would be surprised to see how quickly (cheap) modern technology
penetrates into the third world these days. In many places a mobile
phone is a lot cheaper
Themis;340691 Wrote:
Well, not THAT self-contained : it still needs a server software
installation (or a music share server software), it depends on the OS,
the firewall, the router and several other software in the same way
SqueezeCenter and SB/TP do. It also has software and firmware
I have a current spec dual core R61 thinkpad almost dedicated to serving
SqueezeCenter, and the performance is painfully slow. Slow as in
waiting 10 seconds+ for each click.
Mind you my library is 2+ titles. So is library size a concern?
I have been asking for the feature where one can
I am running Squeezecenter 7.2 on a ReadyNAS. My setup consists of two
Squeezebox 3s and a Duet. All these devices do not show in the homepage
of Squeezecenter, but do show in the player and other related menues.
Any idea what might be wrong?
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toby10;340706 Wrote:
I know Linux is on my WRT54G, but beyond admin controls via the UI, I
sure won't be hacking the code or doing any scripting. Me and millions
of others just don't do that. and nobody is asking you to do either, you're
simply allowing ignorant
bias to convince you that
Goodsounds;340813 Wrote:
I respect people who work in IT, programming, engineering, etc., no more
or less than those in other occupations. My work (not technological)
also takes years of education and experience, and is complicated,
challenging and technical. The subject matter would put an
ModelCitizen;340873 Wrote:
No one can tell me that a technically illiterate person can install/use
Linux in a standard PC user manner (we are not talking
pre-prepared/configured embedded use here) as simply as they can
Windows. Even now. MC, I've no idea what hardware you're running on, but
Goodsounds;340813 Wrote:
I respect people who work in IT, programming, engineering, etc., no more
or less than those in other occupations. My work (not technological)
also takes years of education and experience, and is complicated,
challenging and technical. The subject matter would put an
egd;340894 Wrote:
and nobody is asking you to do either, you're simply allowing ignorant
bias to convince you that using Linux necessitates hacking code and/or
scripting.
Guilty on both counts! :)
I'm more than ignorant about computers (any type or OS), it's not what
I'm into. I'm only
It's a good job some ordinary folk managed to persevere with fiddling
about with the cat's whisker in the crystal set decades back ...
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Is there a way to force the list of Radioio stations into alphabetical
or genre/type order. I just see a jumbled list of stations, which
makes finding the one that I am looking for more difficult. I wouldn't
think that this would be hard change.
Thanks
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Are they connected to Squeezenetwork? If so, you will need to switch
them back to connect to Squeezecenter before they will show up in the
Player selection drop down box of the Squeezecenter web page.
If not, can you browse your Squeezecenter Music Library with your SB3s
and Duet, is it just
Thanks, I will try that tonight. I did try it last night but may not
have been thorough enough in removing the remnants of older versions.
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Hey all,
I just upgraded to sc 7.2, and when I try to access the setting page
i'm getting a blank page when I hit the settings link - here's the
exact html returned:
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN
HTMLHEAD
META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;
egd;340895 Wrote:
You've missed the point completely, if you're intelligent enough to
identify an icon on a screen and click on it with a mouse (and I assume
you are as you use windows) you're also sufficiently technically
proficient to use a Linux distribution out of the box.
Some
I just upgraded to sc 7.2, and when I try to access the setting page
i'm getting a blank page when I hit the settings link - here's the
What exact version, what browser, any error messages in server.log?
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Hello World,
Anyone used the above? (http://www.tuneupmedia.com/index.php)
If so, I'd be interested in hearing what you think...
Thanks
Mike
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jan80;340190 Wrote:
So this bug report is not about the WOL package, but just about what
the SB does, when there's no server reachable.
In the former versions, the message appeared one time and then the
screen got blank.
Pressing any key on the remote gave you the configuration screen
Nonreality;340869 Wrote:
Why run it as a service instead of a login? Just wondering. I use
Spicefly's loader for SC and MusicIp to load it in the right order and
it has always worked perfect. If you use musicip you might want to
give it a try.
By the sound of the OP, he (like me) has SC
Hi,
never had this problem since 6.0 . After upgrading to 7.2, on occasion,
it won't start when I power on the server. I'm running win 2000. Tray
icon just keeps blinking like when it's starting. There's a message in
event log saying that subroutine main() can not be found in
slimserver.pl. As I
It sounds like part of the problem is it being unclear that leaving
user-name and password empty when setting up SC to run as a service
uses the local service account.
It would be -really- nice if there was a simple line of text that said
something to this effect on that setup panel. And even
Anyone know if it can? I'd just use a pair of the SlimDevices IR output
accessories and a simple splitter (so they'd be in parallel). Would
wiring in serial work better?
Failing that, what's the best way to get that IR out to drive a really
loud IR array.
I've got devices scattered around
Howard Passman;340882 Wrote:
snip
My son, who is scary smart and probably wouldn't have an issue,
thinks the thing is way too much trouble when he can liten to his iPod,
which I just found out has Pandora, or his computer. Believe me, I've
tried to get him hooked, but to no avail. I
egd;340898 Wrote:
Oh, and for what it's worth, I'm not an engineer, technician,
programmer, support consultant or anything else IT related or remotely
technical in nature.
It doesn't matter if it worked for you though does it? It has not
worked for me multiple times (on various computers) and
Complaints about technology have a long history, probably going back to
the invention of the wheel. Some people have difficulty using a
screwdriver, and never do learn which direction tightens or loosens.
Millions of people using VCRs and DVD players had fits trying to
figure out how to hook them
Normally this kind of behaviour would suggest an antivirus or firewall
issue - do you have either installed, and have you added a new/updated
exception for Squeezecenter after the upgrade.
I'm not clear if you have actually upgraded from 6.0 (seems unlikely!)
but if you have, you would need to
verbatone wrote:
I agree, I used the FF/REW for the first time and was elated.
Philip, the old system was never consistent. Every once in a while it
would work, but generally I would hold FF, it would go to 2x, then hold
FF again, it would go to 4x, then I'd push play, and it would restart
Howard Passman wrote:
peter;340849 Wrote:
Howard Passman wrote:[color=blue]
Large parts? Not really. Not the places where people actually live. And
you would be surprised to see how quickly (cheap) modern technology
penetrates into the third world these days. In many places a mobile
jclyle;340266 Wrote:
I just upgraded to SC 7.2, and the fast-forward and rewind functionality
is amazing!!! Gone is the 2x, 4x, 8x seeking that we had in earlier
versions. Now we have a time clock that allows us to navigate through a
track like we would on a normal CD player.
This is a
I have been reading this and similar threads with interest, because my
.m4a tracks won't play through my duet (while my mp3 tracks play just
fine). My .m4a tracks are from CDs that were ripped using iTunes. I
just set up my duet last night.
- I installed squeezecenter 7.2 on my windows home
Dogberry2;340997 Wrote:
[see Dogberry2's post above]
Awesome post Dogberry!
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Dogberry2;340997 Wrote:
When such a supposed adult instead refuses to listen or follow
directions or make any effort to work with the support staff on
diagnosing and resolving the problem, but simply throws a tantrum and
threatens to toss the product in the trash, and then follows that
agentsmith wrote:
I have a current spec dual core R61 thinkpad almost dedicated to serving
SqueezeCenter, and the performance is painfully slow. Slow as in
waiting 10 seconds+ for each click.
Mind you my library is 2+ titles. So is library size a concern?
Yes, library size is a big
Fifer wrote:
It's a good job some ordinary folk managed to persevere with fiddling
about with the cat's whisker in the crystal set decades back ...
Many decades back :-)
My dad built one for me when I was a kid. He was a geek, and did it the
old way. It was cool. Of course, at the time, you
Goodsounds wrote:
1. I see postings here from Linux users having trouble, and the
conversations involve entries and files full of stuff resembling
hieroglyphics. Are you saying one can use linux without exposure to
such things?
One can trivially use linux without such stuff. One can not setup
Nonreality;340888 Wrote:
Yeah but we slapped you a bit too. :)
Darn, you did didn't you :-)
I forgive you
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Sorry slow to respond. I don't spend that much time online and God
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jherbert;340892 Wrote:
I am running Squeezecenter 7.2 on a ReadyNAS. My setup consists of two
Squeezebox 3s and a Duet. All these devices do not show in the homepage
of Squeezecenter, but do show in the player and other related menues.
Any idea what might be wrong?
Just found the solution
maggior;340983 Wrote:
BTW Howard, your signature becomes more inaccurate the by the day :-).
You have become quite an active participant in these forums.
See what a bad influence you guys are on me :-) Well, that and
business is slow.
The typing part still goes.
:-)
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Dogberry2;340997 Wrote:
However, when an ostensible adult buys a product that clearly and
obviously is advanced technology, newly developed and just released on
the market, one would expect a certain level of awareness that its set
up and configuration might require knowledge and effort.
I have just got a Transporter and I am impressed!!
I have for a long time been ripping my CDs in iTunes using lossless,
is this ok or should I move to FLAC?
iTunes ripping is so much easier than using Toast9 and FLAC, so I
would
love to stay with iTunes, but is the quality good enough?
I have
I remember Phil was the only(?) but very vocal supporter of the old way
in the original thread in which the new way was born.
I wasn't the only person. There were quite a few threads, and bug reports
where people agreed, partially agreed or accepted that support for both seeking
and scanning
telecaster wrote:
I have just got a Transporter and I am impressed!!
I have for a long time been ripping my CDs in iTunes using lossless,
is this ok or should I move to FLAC?
I'd move to FLAC to save unnecessary transcoding, but then again I'd
probably just write a script to do the
Philip Meyer;338010 Wrote:
I've just reinstalled SC and rescanned. The whole scan takes nearly 4
hours, half of this time due to SC performing a MusicIP scan.
I changed the SqueezeCenter MusicIP plugin to work differently - I've
added an option so that it won't read tag data from MusicIP
Phil Meyer wrote:
I remember Phil was the only(?) but very vocal supporter of the old way
in the original thread in which the new way was born.
I wasn't the only person. There were quite a few threads, and bug reports
where people agreed, partially agreed or accepted that support for
Ross L;340764 Wrote:
I also wanted to suggest if anyone is willing, please update our router
status wiki page with problems you see with your specific routers or
wireless access points.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/RouterStatus
it is not very update friendly in that table
Hello,
I would recommend you to use a stable version of SqueezeCenter.
Furthermore, you will need a program to convert ALAC to a format
supported by the Squeezebox. I know that on Linux it is alac. According
to this thread (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52502),
on Windows and
Thank you for your quick and helpful reply. I went ahead and reverted
back to Squeezecenter 7.2. I know that you are right about needing
Quicktime (or apparently faad.exe), but I think it is complicated for
me because I will need to install on a windows home server (HP
MediaSmart), and maybe
My music scans would never end gracefully... In fact, they would never
end... The clock would keep counting down until the next scheduled
update (which was the default 3600 seconds from the iTunes tab), and
then start over...getting stuck each and every time...
After a lot of heartache and
You were probably the only one I remembered ;)
That, is guess is true ;)
Anyway, what's done is done, and life moves on. What we have now is useable
and good (but could be better and support more features without detracting from
the simplicity).
Phil
Hello,
Slimserver transcodes ALAC to a supported format (WAV in my case) as it
sends the data to the Squeezebox. The Pentium III that runs my
Slimserver has no problem with that kind of workload, so your Mac Mini
should not have either.
I have chosen Apple Lossless because it is fully supported
Do these audiobooks and wma files have ampersands in their filenames?
Until recently SC choked on iTunes playlists with ampersands in their
filename.
Long shot, of course.
Version of SC? Operating system?
Anything in the log files?
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Thanks for your quick reply...
No...no ampersands in any of the files... I am using SC 7.2 (which I
believe is the latest)...
I checked the log files, but they were useless...perhaps I need to
configure the logs to be more descriptive...
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pablolie;341074 Wrote:
it is not very update friendly in that table format :-)
Good point. I've added instructions which I think should help to the
RouterStatus wiki entry.
Regarding the WRT54GX4 we don't have this particular router here in
house but we have the GX2, I'll try to find time
I've had issues with using Itunes with SC7.2. It scanned ok (music is
Apple Lossless) but would not play without stutterring and pausing. So
I've unchecked the 'Use Itunes' which works.
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I thought this all sounded fantastic, have had big problems with the
long scanning times for newly added music. So downloaded your plugin,
deleted the old MusicMagic folder and extracted your files into what
then became the new MusicMagic folder. I see the new line about Read
Song Data for the
Hi All,
I followed the instruction to enable the MusicIP Pluging but it seems
to not work. Every time I activate the PlugIn and start the API Service
on MusicIP the player show me the A letter to save the playlist.
How can I active successful the plugin with SC7.2?
Thanks for any input
Cheers
I ended up uninstalling everything, then reinstalling 7.2.
After some hassle with library scanning, everything's working again.
Thanks!
MEH
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If you are running MusicIP as an application rather than a service,
there is a specific order that SC and MIP must start up in.
To test if this is your issue:
Stop Squeezecenter;
Stop MusicIP API;
Start MusicIP API;
Start Squeezecenter;
Check the MIP plugin is enabled in SC;
Do a full clear and
I think the new system is good, but I actually liked kdf's Song Scanner
better. The new method works fairly well, though if I try to FF or REW
too far before letting go of the button, it seems to poop out and go
back to the original point.
What I'd really like to see is a key combination with
There are a number of network related issues that can occur with Duet
and Controller, I could use some information in this particular case.
For anyone noticing their Controller not properly reconnecting to their
wireless network after sleep please share a few details if you have time
to help me
ModelCitizen;340989 Wrote:
If all goes smoothly then that might be a different matter... I've never
experienced that though.What you're describing is precisely what I'd
experienced with Linux up
to even two years back - I'd tried and abandoned multiple flavours of
Linux on multiple occasions
i should add the code expires at midnight. seems like a deal w/free
shipping.
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Both are fine. I prefer FLAC, but I don't own any Apple products. The
only thing you need to do is turn on Secure ripping in iTunes.
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MrSinatra;341134 Wrote:
if all i had was a SBR, could it work reasonably with it?
Not at all. The Receiver has no IR input. SB2 it should work fine,
though I have only used the Harmony 880 and One with SB players. I
assume the database should be common.
-k
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right on. so it can replace the normal sb2 remote, and is no good for
the sbr.
when comparing the remotes, it seems that the much more costly ones
only offer things like color screen, touch screen, rechargeable,
etc...
pfarrell,
Thanks for thoughtful comments. I do know some programmers, but most of
the engineer-geeks I know have moved into management/sales/marketing
type jobs, and have left their hands-on technical work behind. Most of
my friends are not geeks, which I attribute to Darwin's theory of
natural
That way everybody can be happy - the guitarist wanting to go back a
few seconds and the podcast listener wanting to skip a multi-minute
block of commercials.
No, actually my point is that I don't know an arbitrary time to jump forward
to. I don't listen to podcasts twice; I listen to podcasts
Goodsounds wrote:
I might buy you a beer or two, if you promised to leave your
mumbo-jumbo at home.
Sorry, I'm genetically incapable of doing that for long.
I'm in the general Washington DC area, or send first class airfare and
I'll go anywhere :-)
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No one should pay list for electronics :) Amazon list the 550 for $70,
so the newegg price is a good deal but nowhere near half price. Oh, and
I can confirm that the 550 (and the others) work fine with
SB1/2/3/Boom/TP.
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I have duets and a boom and really do love them - I'm rediscovering my
music. Anyway, at the risk of sounding arrogant I tend to believe that
people (we) are becoming lazy. We refuse to use our brain and to try to
just process what we have in front of our eyes. We wait for somebody
else to do it
Goodsounds;340948 Wrote:
2. It seems there are more daily trouble posts from linux users than
from Win uses, even though the first group is likely a very small
fraction the size of the second. What conclusion to draw from that? I think
Pat's answer to #1 covers this, albeit a good
michel;340817 Wrote:
Don't forget a PDF reader for booklets on your wishlist!
I know this might have to be in the wishlist category, but I don't
think it's that far fetched.
Obviously SS is already extracting images from FLAC. It should not
be that difficult to pull ALL instead of just one.
I just wanted to post a little thank you to all those that worked on
the SC 7.2 FF/REW.
I was a major critic of the FF/REW functionality - so much so that I
felt a bit guilty posting here and putting down a great product.
But now it's fantastic - of course it could still be improved, but we
hi,
i just updated to 7.2 and i am noticing a weird issue.
when i go through music library/music folder and i choose an artist and
manually choose a song to play (i hit the play button) it does not. the
window just pops up now playing nothing.
i have never seen this before. never saw this
Nice one, thanks for helping out.
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Philip Meyer;341154 Wrote:
or instead of a solid/clear progress bar to set playback position,
show some representation of the track in terms of sound (eg. volume
level over time, oscillator, peak meter).
Phil
What a great idea!
I guess it is pretty impractical from a technical
My server is also skipping some songs, basically refusing to play them
in the manner you described (tries for a sec, then bails on to the next
song)
- The problem is with the web stream only; the duet seems to have no
problem with the same songs.
- There's nothing in the log that indicates why
Can anyone confirm that they have iTunes audiobook files (m4b extension)
and can successfully synchronize using the Use iTunes option?
And also confirm that they are using Vista 32 with SC 7.2 and iTunes 8
(just to be sure it is an apples to apples comparison) :)
I am not sure why DRM WMAs
actually, i am also noticing when i go to manually play a track
sometimes it is not the right track.
can i go back and reinstall the old driver?
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Greetings,
I am Greg Walters from the tech support dept of RadioIO.com. At this
time what is displayed on the Squeeze box is a direct read from our XML
stream, The streams are listed in the order that they were brought on
line. I will mention it to our programmer and see if it can be modified
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