Thanks for the interesting diagrams - explains a lot ;-)
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> Michael, it sounds like you're headed in the right direction. Sane
> defaults, options for advanced users. It's beyond just a setup option
> -- I think it'd probably be good to have "Typical" and "Advanced" modes
> for the web UI, at least the settings pages, as I think there are too
> many visib
> i expect people to come here and complain, its totally NATURAL and its
> totally foolish to get upset about it if the way they express
> themselves offends their delicate sensibilities.
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whdean;348852 Wrote:
> I moved my Music folder from a folder on the C:\ drive to a folder on a
> new physical drive. I have MusicIP finding my music, but I am unable to
> play a previously made playlist or create a MM playlist - Nothing
> happens when I try.
>
> I suspect that there is a relatio
Millwood;342462 Wrote:
> I know this is an old topic, but I want to raise it again. I would
> happily pay for a device that would plug into the digital output of my
> receiver (which I don't use) and control my amplifier power. I suspect
> the device would be cheap to make, and the firmware cou
I moved my Music folder from a folder on the C:\ drive to a folder on a
new physical drive. I have MusicIP finding my music, but I am unable to
play a previously made playlist or create a MM playlist - Nothing
happens when I try.
I suspect that there is a relational file somewhere that points to
mskvarenina;348846 Wrote:
> I'd like to be able to turn my SB receiver on at a certain time of the
> day and turn it off at a certain time. I'd also like to regulate the
> volume based on the time of day.
>
> Can this be done and if so how?
With some work, sure. SqueezeCenter and your Receiver
WMA supports gapless: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback
However, I'd believe that proprietary formats tend to be poorly
documented, and therefore there are more likely to be mistakes in
encoders and decoders not written specifically by the vendor.
Also, there may be factors where a p
I'd like to be able to turn my SB receiver on at a certain time of the
day and turn it off at a certain time. I'd also like to regulate the
volume based on the time of day.
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>
> Now the hard part . how do I install Alien BBC onto my ..
> server or Squeezebox?
>
> I know it is probably a daft question and there is probably a really
> obvious set of instructions somewhere. So please point me in the right
> direction.
>
Plugins are only installed on server.
Currently run TP straight to Nuforce amps via analog through either
balanced or RCA. My question is this. What other jacks can I use to
output using TP DAC to say and Onkyo prepro where I bypass the Onkyo's
inferior DACs.
Something I've really never understood is when one outputs via either
anal
Cheers Chris, I'll look into those.
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Softsqueeze though it is sort of abandonware, and SqueezePlay which is
under development in terms of audio playback.
-Chris
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> This might be a stoopid question, but I was wondering if there's a
> software player I can install o
This might be a stoopid question, but I was wondering if there's a
software player I can install on client PCs so that they can play my
music library just as if they were a Squeezebox player. I have SC 7.2
installed on my Windows Home Server and have a Duet in the kitchen but
want a consistent exp
i wouldn't, which is why michaels attempt to draw an analogy was false.
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>
> i haven't been here that long, i've never contributed code and probably
> never will, and i rarely if ever take personal umbrage at criticism
> leveled at the product or software.
Why would you take offense if you have contributed nothing, and don't
intend to??
Mich
Millwood;348737 Wrote:
>
> In any case, I had a new thought - maybe a photocell watching the light
> on the front of the receiver - it goes dark when the receiver is powered
> down.
>
> Anyone tried that?
Yes, someone (not I!) has tried & succeeded.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p
It's a really old thread, and despite reading a few of the posts a few
times, i'm still not really sure what the status of gapless playback of
WMA is. Woks in some cases, fails in others. Seems a little
unpredictable to me.
I would guess that part of the problem is that Miscrosoft are so closed
a
Going by a couple of interesting diagrams I've found, I think pretty
much all of Africa's bandwidth if routed through Europe before hitting
the US.
This map shows the the data cable from SA going all up the west coast
to England.
http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/images/Cable_Map_b
I am not entirely sure, see this thread for example:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t18779.html
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Thanks - I suspected that it may be a local problem
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I think that's a good idea Sue. Perhaps something in the welcome message
when a new user signs up as well.
There is a saying on forums that the easiest way of hiding information
is to make it is sticky, so obviously that isn't the ultimate answer,
but it is a start :)
I have to say though Tommy,
Well I've just downloaded the latest 7.3 nightly for Windows at between
590KB/sec and 660KB/sec
(http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/latest/7.3/SqueezeCenter-7.3-23501.exe).
It probably depends on your ISPs routing and other weird variables that
very few understand about the internet :)
For
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong again, but I don't think WMA
files have any provision for being gappless at all, it's a bad format
in that regard.
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It would be helpful to have a sticky post that lists all the information
that is needed when someone is seeking help. Maybe be it could be
appended to the existing sticky titled "Contacting support for Help!"
I run a software forum, so I know a lot of people won't read it or see
it, but at least
and people wonder why i hate itunes.
i still think one artwork file per folder is less problematic than
embedded artwork in the file.
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I listen to the BBC in Hamburg using AlienBBC. Good instructions here
for a ClarkConnect based server (which is how mine was setup) :
http://www.ulverston.myzen.co.uk/mini-itx/pages/alienbbc.htm
More generic instructions at: http://www.x2systems.com/AlienBBC/
At the risk of committing heresy
For about $100 you can get a remote extender device that keeps an IR
sensor outside the cabinet and sends IR signals directly to the
equipment inside via a wire. I have used one for several years with
great results. It also frees you to keep equipment in remote locations
(closet etc) to avoid th
Thanks for the ideas.
Harmony won't help - the receiver and amp are in a normally closed
cabinet.
Haven't explored X10 - thanks for the idea.
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I find that the download speed of software upgrades from this site is
very slow - both the current SLimserver as well as nightlies.
I live in South Africa and our intrenet speeds are not as fast as many
countries but 12-13KB/sec is painfully slow. I can easily get up to
10X faster speeds at other
hammond;348718 Wrote:
> also:
>
> I want to give my thanks to all who uses spare time to answer dorks
> like me on forums. I have all respect and will rectanly try to be more
> informative and less whining in my future.
>
> Tommy.
Hey Tommy, Just because you're having some issues doesn't make
Thanks.
Now the hard part . how do I install Alien BBC onto my ..
server or Squeezebox?
I know it is probably a daft question and there is probably a really
obvious set of instructions somewhere. So please point me in the
right direction.
Cheers
Y
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Perhaps "Audio startup time" should be set to zero ?
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I simply use a Harmony remote, to power up various things according to
what I want to do.
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Have you considered X10 or something similar? Put the amp on an X10
switch, add an X10 sender to your SC server and run a plugin like
PowerCenter. Only obvious issue is lack of SN suport.
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MikeekiM;348725 Wrote:
> OK... so gapless is only supported when transcoding is not involved,
> and when you are not synching with other players... is that correct?
Actually, no. Gapless has worked fine with transcoded Ogg->FLAC since
I bought my first SB3 in the SlimServer 6.x days. I alway
aubuti;348729 Wrote:
> This is correct, except that I am pretty sure that gapless MP3 is only
> supported if the encoding was done with a reasonably recent version of
> LAME (sorry, forget exact version number). Other MP3 encoders and
> earlier versions of LAME won't play gapless. And yes, there
No one else frustrated?
In any case, I had a new thought - maybe a photocell watching the light
on the front of the receiver - it goes dark when the receiver is powered
down.
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maggior;348732 Wrote:
> It would be a waste of bandwidth, but what if it is streamed as WAV
> rather than FLAC? In that case, it would be a case of decoding on the
> server and streaming rather than transcode on server, stream, then
> decode on player.
FLAC -> WAV on the server is still conside
First off, what you are experiencing is not normal - it may be an issue
with your setup or configuration, but it also may be a hardware problem
and entirely outside your control. Unsurprisingly, there have been a
couple of defective controllers and receivers. Most important thing is
to try and id
radish;348705 Wrote:
> Transcoding is the process of converting one format to another. In this
> case it's specifically talking about filetypes which the player itself
> doesn't support, and which are converted to FLAC (or something else) by
> the server to allow playback.
>
> WMA lossless is n
Excubey;348151 Wrote:
> Also, would it be possible for the software to run unattended - in batch
> - where I would always agree to it "fixing up" the album art? That would
> save me a ton of time!!
>
> Excubey
Is there not a "Dont ask me again" checkbox on the dialog?
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A
MikeekiM;348725 Wrote:
> OK... so gapless is only supported when transcoding is not involved,
> and when you are not synching with other players... is that correct?
> And the gapless play is by default (i.e., there is no software "switch"
> that I need to set to get gapless playback)...
This i
HUEY;348622 Wrote:
> Turns out it was because the units were sync'd. All is well now.
> Thanks for the help.
> Rob
OK... so gapless is only supported when transcoding is not involved,
and when you are not synching with other players... is that correct?
And the gapless play is by default (i.
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This information, once we determine the actual behavior, would be a
great addition to the Wiki - it looks to have only a description of a
clean SlimServer Mac install, so if folks with Macs can help clarify
the clean and upgrade behavior on SqueezeCenter, we'll have a place to
point people in the
Hi ezsurfing. How about you start a new thread with something like 'Help
please from Mac upgraders to SqueezeCenter' so that our fellow
proper-computer users get the message? I too am interested in what they
might say as I've been waiting around a while now, dithering about
taking the step from Sl
also:
I want to give my thanks to all who uses spare time to answer dorks
like me on forums. I have all respect and will rectanly try to be more
informative and less whining in my future.
Tommy.
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Excubey;348151 Wrote:
>
>
> One question - for a typical album with 10 songs, why does your
> software prompt 10 times, when the album cover would be the same for
> all 10 songs?
>
> Excubey
There are two different approaches to storing album cover art: one is
to do it at the level of the alb
thank you for replying.
I must first say I apologize, and don't under any cirkumstances want to
whine and be a "typical" bad customer.
second, it must be alowed to say what someone feels about a product.
third: I know I might have a problem elsewhere in my system, and I
might know that it maybe
Please contact support, they are best equipped to help you with your
issues:
http://slimdevices.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/slimdevices.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php
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how am i acting like one of those types i was accurately spoofing?
my beef when i said it, was that there are a lot of people here who act
like this sold for profit product's software is their software, simply
b/c they have been here a long time, or contributed code, or whatever,
and they then re
simonjedrake;347499 Wrote:
> Andrew.
> This sounds a great bit of software, does it also extract the album art
> for uploaded .mp3 files that itunes has located & stored the artwork for
> in it's proprietary folder?
> Simon
I am not 100% sure. It works fine on M4A files. Unfortunately I don't
us
AlienBBC on SC will work OK from Germany
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Transcoding is the process of converting one format to another. In this
case it's specifically talking about filetypes which the player itself
doesn't support, and which are converted to FLAC (or something else) by
the server to allow playback.
WMA lossless is not supported by the players (due,
Hello.
I have an extarnal Harmony Design ( Swedish )Dac.
It sounds lovely. But I have a problem.
My Dac has a protection curcuit that turns the Dac into standby-mode if
it doesnt gets an in-signal from my Squeezebox.
When it goes into standy-mode it makes an anoying clicking sound that I
dont
funkstar;348379 Wrote:
> Transcoded music, such as WMALossless, AAC and ALAC cannot be gapless.
Dumb question: what does it mean for a format to be "transcoded"? And
why can't WMA-lossless be gapless? (Answering the first may answer the
second.) All of my lusic is ripped in WMA-lossless and
^ditto - has it not occurred to you that the problem might be with you
PC or network (which in most cases it is)?
So now you have got that off your chest, and yes computers are
frustrating at times, some more info might be a good idea - unless you
plan to give up at the first hurdle?
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I've noticed that a handful of days of listening seem to have generated
an excessive number of plays in my last.fm data. I don't normally sync
players, but now that you mention it - I'm guessing that my players were
synced during the time that extra data was collected.
I would go back and try to
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I may be wrong but I imagine if you were to connect to Squeezenetwork
directly from your SB in Germany i.e. bypass Squeezecenter, then I
don't think it would work as your IP address would be 'German' so to
speak.
If you were using Squeezecenter in the UK with either the AlienBBC or
iPlayer plugin
Hi,
I would like to add to my SB collection by installing one in my flat in
Germany but wondered whether I can get it to receive the BBC over
there.
BBC 1,2,3,4 on Squeezenetwork all say UK only - but is there a way
round this?
Thanks
Y
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Hmm. Maybe I'm just crazy - let me verify again tonight, and we'll see
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My SB3 is the most expensive part of my stereo. So I'm not going to brag
about it.
And my SBB as well...Is it wrong that my alarm clock is worth more than
most of my stere
Hey,
sorry to hear about all of your problems. It shouldn't, and isn't like
that. Lots of people including myself run Duets with no problems at
all. So while I understand your frustration and the need to vent, I do
encourage you to post a little bit more constructive and be careful
with claims th
hammond;348655 Wrote:
> I must say I was hugely impressed with the duet the first days both
> after reading the reviews and using it myself.
>
> but then things happened...
>
> I had my family that visiting me and was looking forward to show them
> my duet and had spoken wodely about it to my t
The scrobble code only listens to the sync master when synced, so this
shouldn't happen.
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Has anyone noticed their last.fm accounts registering multiple scrobbles
for a single play when playing through synced players, both/all of which
are set to scrobble? A couple nights ago, I played an album through a
SoftSqueeze instance, which I didn't realize was synced with my living
room SB3. S
once you get past the scanning process, the fun will finally begin. I've
been running MusicIP for quite some time now on my system and it does
work very well and consistently without crashes. Also, all of the
benefits of dynamic playlists can be utilized within MusicIP. All you
need to do is set
I must say I was hugely impressed with the duet the first days both
after reading the reviews and using it myself.
but then things happened...
I had my family that visiting me and was looking forward to show them
my duet and had spoken wodely about it to my technic interessted family
members.
B
Well... after 2 nights and a full day of validating songs on my HP
server, it has still done less than 1,000 songs.
Last night I installed MIP on my quad core desktop, pointed it to the
same music, set it to use 3 cores, and let it analyze overnight. This
morning, it's done! I knew the desktop wo
autopilot;348600 Wrote:
> Napster's library is very good, much better than Ned's Atomic Dustbin
> there too - there not that obscure though, they were very popular with
> students when i was at college.
I did say relatively obscure, I mean realtive to say Coldplay or
Radiohead LOL
Didn't reali
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It seems that InguzEQ is breaking it - will ask more in the plugins
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hi mr sinatra!
actually, while filing the bug, i found the full-screen spectrum
analyzer wasnt working for me anyways. some of my vorbis files soar up
to 530 kbit/s and beyond (!), which cause my SBs to stutter and
"rebuffer" when the spectrum analyzer is running.
some of those tracks are really
Turns out it was because the units were sync'd. All is well now.
Thanks for the help.
Rob
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Mark Lanctot;348322 Wrote:
> I've also noticed that when you go right or left around in the menu that
> the "swipe" transitions have changed as well. It goes by very fast as
> it did earlier, but when you look at it, it seems "wrong" somehow at
> the moment. I'll have to look at it very closely
Should I be worried about this, with this in the SC server log file:
[08-10-10 12:01:31.7724] Slim::Control::Request::execute (1800) Error:
While trying to run function coderef
[Slim::Control::Queries::statusQuery]: [Carp::Clan::__ANON__(): Error
executing 'SELECT me.name, me.value FROM metainfor
mattybain;348216 Wrote:
> I have been amazed that relatively obscure bands like Spirit of the
> West and Ned's Atomic Dustbin are well catered for on Spotify.
Napster's library is very good, much better than Rhapsody IMO. Spirit
of the West are well catered for on Napster - 'Two Headed' seems t
MeSue;348491 Wrote:
> Does the 20% off coupon have any expiration?
"coupon for 20% off any purchase within 30 days"
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vincoz;348524 Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm stuck on Slimserver 6.5.4 (upgrade to a more recent version failed)
> and still have the 1.1.5 iPodtouch firmware - is there any chance for me
> to use your app or do I need to upgrade one, or the 2 components?
>
> Regards, Vincoz.
You can only purchase apps
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> Do you use iTunes COM or have you finally found out how to identify the
> tracks in the iTunes folder hierarchy?
On Windows it will be COM. On OSX it's AppleScript. Two distinct solutions, and
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andyg;348162 Wrote:
> FYI, SC 7.3 now supports iTunes downloaded artwork natively. So far, it
> is working on Mac. I'll be adding Windows support in a few days.
Do you use iTunes COM or have you finally found out how to identify the
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Hello,
This might have been discussed a long time ago.
I would like to have a way to set up a player (or modify settings for a
player) which currently is not connected to my squeezeserver.
In my situation I have a number of players (softsqueezes) at my
friends/relatives, which they use from time
andyg;348162 Wrote:
> FYI, SC 7.3 now supports iTunes downloaded artwork natively. So far, it
> is working on Mac. I'll be adding Windows support in a few days.
7.3 is lining up to be quite a sweet release :)
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:42:36 +0200, Goodsounds
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> Someone commented here some weeks/months ago that some of the
> forum's active participants treat this product line as if it were this
> year's project of the high school computer club. That was a scream, it
> was too tr
Thanks a lot for all your comments. Didn't think a simple comment to an
enhancement could grow to such an animated discussion. So I'll try to
summarize our current standpoint (hoping not to mix "our" with "my" :-/):
- This thread is about the new install behaviour. We're designing the "new
i
>Phil, is (has?) this enhancement going to be implemented as part of SC
>is it going to remain a patch?
It has been applied to 7.3.
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>Right... but I'm trying to do validation via the headless server (to
>avoid overwriting the cache from SC), and it seems the headless server
>has no knowledge of those exclusions which were set in the desktop
>version.
>
Oh, I understand your issue now.
I haven't noticed that behaviour myself, b
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