ericplan;350914 Wrote:
...I dislike remotes in general*. There are always issues with battery
life and robustness. And in this case (Squeezebox 3 or Duet) you loose
control when the remote fails.
I have to admit that these seem like bizarre comments to me:
(1) Battery life: the SB3 remote
ed_j123 wrote:
I'm the satisfied new owner of a Duet. It works great.
Here's my system, FYI: Yamaha receiver, Paradigm Atom Monitors (good
speakers for the size and price), and the Duet streaming audio from an
HTPC (home built).
In another room, I have a pair of Audioengine A5s (also good
Hi,
I want to minimize the text scrolling sideways on the display.
Is there a way to change the now playing info to alternate
(automatically) between track name, artist name, and record name?
Thanks
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1* QNAP TS-109, Version 2.1.0 build 0624T
pfarrell;351320 Wrote:
Different market. Its an audiophile product. A lot of those guys don't
accept that remotes are good.
I didn't know that. My Naim pre-amp had a remote and I though they were
generally considered a good thing now.
Audiophiles are a strange bunch. One of the great things
I'm sure that their inclusion was an error (much like the omission of a
usable headphone socket for the Boom).
I suggest you spend some time looking up the old threads discussing the
wish list for future products around the time that the Transporter was
in development (go back as much as
Is there a way to change the now playing info to alternate
(automatically) between track name, artist name, and record name?
You can try MusicInfoSCR from my web site
http://www.herger.net/MusicInfoSCR
Doesn't switch, but can be configured to display more information.
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The transporter is totally overengineered. The front panel is useless
for most , the double display is not of any great use.
The price break tween a TP and a SB is rediculous. The TP coulda had
the better dac and all the features of the TP for far far less. To pay
huge amounts extra for
TITLE pause x seconds clear and display ARTIST pause x
seconds clear and display ALBUM and so on. X seconds could be
defined by the user in the settings tab.
I'd like something like that too, but perhaps press Now Playing to flip through
the display modes.
I wonder if it
mherger;351394 Wrote:
The code snippet from the SqueezeJS tutorial might give you a start:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezeJSTutorial
Michael, that's too cool.
Nothing fancy, but if you put it up on a 17 monitor you could probably
read it from 20ft away:
I wonder if it might be possible to copy the MusicInfoScreensaver plugin a
few times, renaming the copies MusicInfoScreensaver1 ..2 ..3, etc.
There would be a problem with the settings, too. You'd have to rename them as
well.
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___
- You create a directory (local or remote, as you wish), say :
/SC/main.
- Then you create in this directory one shortcut for each target music
library (two in your case)
- Then you change the Squeeze Center music library by indicating the
new directory /SC/main
- You rescan (it's automatic I
Themis;351416 Wrote:
- You create a directory (local or remote, as you wish), say :
/SC/main.
- Then you create in this directory one shortcut for each target music
library (two in your case)
- Then you change the Squeeze Center music library by indicating the
new directory /SC/main
- You
and then turn yourself over to the authorities for gross breach of
copyright. Seriously, if you're going to do sh1t like this don't ask
for help here. I've no desire to see my use and enjoyment of these
products curtailed because you see fit to engage in copyright abuse or
because these forums
egd wrote:
and then turn yourself over to the authorities for gross breach of
copyright. Seriously, if you're going to do sh1t like this don't ask
for help here. I've no desire to see my use and enjoyment of these
products curtailed because you see fit to engage in copyright abuse or
sander;351321 Wrote:
A couple of questions since you brought my attention to this:
Does the controller count as it's own unit? For example, does it show
up as a unit in Squeezecenter as another player and can it playback
different from all other players?
And is the playback a feature
pablolie;351330 Wrote:
7.3 sounds oike it will be a major and great release. And because of
that I may wait it out and watch these forums to see the types of
issues people are having. :-) I have just managed to get Vista 64 to
run on an awesome home-built machine that is whisper quiet and a
funkstar;351440 Wrote:
Good point, and like egd I appologise if I'm wrong.
However, 1TB of apple lossless is at least 2,600 albums (going by my
1,300 albums in FLAC in a bit under 500GB). Thats one hell of a
collection of copyright free music.
There's a hell of a lot more than that over @
I would really like a larger lcd, say around seven inches or so, with
touch or a couplo of hardware buttons. It could rest on the table or
hang on a wall..
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flipflip's SlimServer On
WOL works great for me with my SB3 and Duet 99% of the time (apart from
the 1% when for some reason the Controller constantly tries to wake the
server until i reboot the Controller), but i always wake the PC from the
Controller - have you tried waking the PC from the Controller (menu
option 'turn
Hi
I have just had some success in synching by changing security protocol
from WEP to WPA (7.2) but now I need to figure how far I can put the
SB3 from the router (Belkin G+ not N). At the moment I am getting
30-38% on the strength meter which is causing rept drop-outs and
rebuffering.
What is
Is it possible to get squeezecenter not to scan a directory (or folder)
?
e.g is there a feature that if the scanner sees a certain file it will
ignore that directory ?
I have all my music in a folder called Music, and there are 2
subdirectories, Lossless and Mp3.
--Music
|
---Lossless
|
thanks for the quick reply, but I'm not sure it helps. Think my
description was a bit vague.
I'd like to be able to keep all my music under 1 folder, and I'd like
the squeezebox to be able to play both flacs and mp3s (which it does
very well). The problem is that for where I have a flac only
Interesting that a few of the earlier posters on this thread mentioned
TheJazz, now all but defunct.
However, the UK's JazzFM is recently reborn on digital radio - see
http://www.jazzfm.com/ - but I cannot find a URL to get this playing on
my Squeezebox. The station themselves couldn't seem to
mjb152 wrote:
thanks for the quick reply, but I'm not sure it helps. Think my
description was a bit vague.
I'd like to be able to keep all my music under 1 folder, and I'd like
the squeezebox to be able to play both flacs and mp3s (which it does
very well). The problem is that for where I
Setting Advanced File Types Disabled Audio File Extensions (if you
want to keep everything under the same folder)
You can also, point Squeeze Center directly to your Music/Lossless
subdirectory (if your flac are in a separate directory)
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peter;351424 Wrote:
There's no mention of copyrighted music in his post.
Good point, and like egd I appologise if I'm wrong. However, 1TB of
apple lossless is at least 2,600 albums (going by my 1,300 albums in
FLAC in a bit under 500GB). Thats one hell of a collection of copyright
free music.
You guys make a big deal of almost nothing. People have been borrowing
each other music for ages...
Only public sharing is piracy, let's not mix up everything. ;)
And what if the friend is the one he/she lives with ? What would you
say then ? They should have two separate rooms to listen
whitman;351470 Wrote:
Interesting that a few of the earlier posters on this thread mentioned
TheJazz, now all but defunct.
However, the UK's JazzFM is recently reborn on digital radio - see
http://www.jazzfm.com/ - but I cannot find a URL to get this playing on
my Squeezebox. The station
I can definitely see a case for it, I wondered if the developers read
these forums to get upgrade ideas ?
I checked the source code, and there is a module called Scanner.pm
which would need modifying, probably the sub scanDirectory part.
For a very basic start it could simply check to see if
This has come up several times in the past.
Not sure if there is an enhancement request in pace for it, but there
should be.
Have a look on http://bugs.slimdevices.com/
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mjb152;351465 Wrote:
thanks for the quick reply, but I'm not sure it helps. Think my
description was a bit vague.
I'd like to be able to keep all my music under 1 folder, and I'd like
the squeezebox to be able to play both flacs and mp3s (which it does
very well). The problem is that
gbruzzo;351003 Wrote:
And I wouldn't mind to have a little more than 7 to play with.
basil brushBOOM BOOM!!/basil brush
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Run network test and see if you can push 1 Mbit/s reliably - that allows
you to stream pretty much everything. Anything less than that you'll
probably be limited to compressed songs (but 256 or 320k sound pretty
good :-)
I have a remote Boom in a location where it gets about 45% signal (G)
and
peter;351424 Wrote:
There's no mention of copyrighted music in his post Good point, @big_willy:
if I'm wrong accept my apologies, otherwise I
stand by my first post.
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Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable,
monkeys can be taught to cut code, and
Porting SqueezePlay to windows mobile or other mobile phones would of
course help with the speed etc issues and still allow the use of
another device. it would also allow the streaming of your music to
yourself when you are in another wifi zone (say at work \ coffee shop \
hotel) or via
to get upset about people sharing music strikes me as ridiculous as the
now ancient metallica fight against napster.
in the digital age, sharing music is what it's all about. My friends
and I share all of our music. Why wouldn't you share? The argument
against sharing seems naive at best.
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What's the secret to get the battery door off the controller? I know
some complained that it was creaky early on. Did they make an
engineering change cause I've been pushing and pulling for a half
hour and can't get that door to move.
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RadioTime is fixed, sorry. Clear Channel asked that RadioTime remove
their stations from a new iPhone application called WunderRadio. Some
emergency gymnastics also dropped the stations from Logitech. Thanks
for the heads-up here, but pressing fix it directly on radiotime.com
is the best way
starfleetcommand;351347 Wrote:
Anyone have any thoughts?
There is always this:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53722
but it doesn't seem to have generated much interest. Probably due to
the fact that it's Vista only and requires hardware that supports it...
or perhaps I
Hi,
On the windows release I can see a Scanner.pm module and also a
scanner.exe file in the Server directory.
Is scanner.exe a compiled version of scanner.pl for windows ?
The reason I ask is that I'd like to make a change to Scanner.pm, but
at the moment I can't see that change reflected if
Never mind, I finally stuck a pocket knife in just the right location to
release the catch. Arnold Schwartzenegger couldn't have pressed hard
enough to open that door!
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The exe is indeed a compiled version of the pl file, also including the
required other modules.
For windows, you either need the Perl Dev kit to compile changes.
Otherwise, you can download ActivePerl from activestate.com. This
gives you the ability to run the .pl files directly. This also
wr420;298785 Wrote:
For me it looks like an ATT Tilt and WM6.x. I have no stereo just a
small parametric EQ w/ volume
control in the dash and a stereo blue tooth adapter. Get in the car,
hit play on the phone.
I can stream from SC but it takes a while to start the stream through
the web
how do people here utilize their MusicIP moods since these are not
visible through the headless MusicIP server?
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None of this diatribe is helping those of us who may have hard or soft
bugs with their 'Knobs'
The Transporter is what it is, the aesthetics and ergonomics are a
subjective issue. I like knobs and buttons and I'm very happy that the
Transporter has some!
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I think your W1 is interfering with your Squeezebox Receiver.
I'd say change your wireless channel on your router, but... The real
question is why are you using a Audioengine W1 when you could have
added another Squeezebox Receiver to your system (on the A5's) for the
same money?
I would
Moods always used to be available in SC. They disappeared for me for a
bit in 7.1. Then they came back.
What version of SC and what version of MIP are you running?
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42419highlight=musicip+moods
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Who am I on 'LAST.FM'
ghostrider wrote:
Never mind, I finally stuck a pocket knife in just the right location to
release the catch. Arnold Schwartzenegger couldn't have pressed hard
enough to open that door!
Actually, they changed it between the beta and production units to make
it easier to open. The beta units
Are you running on Windows by any chance?
If so, I think the problem is caused by the fact that the Moods
directory (in Windows) has moved from c:/Program Files/MusicIP to
C:/Documents and Settings/[Username]/Application Data[hidden
folder]/MusicIP.
Squeezecenter is only looking in the Program
I would strongly object to a coarser default volume step than the
current 0.5dB, but maybe one could ask for an option in SC to choose
from 0.5, 1 and 2dB steps?
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mvalera wrote:
I think your W1 is interfering with your Squeezebox Receiver.
I'd say change your wireless channel on your router, but... The real
question is why are you using a Audioengine W1 when you could have
added another Squeezebox Receiver to your system (on the A5's) for the
same
mjb152 wrote:
I can definitely see a case for it, I wondered if the developers read
these forums to get upgrade ideas ?
I checked the source code, and there is a module called Scanner.pm
which would need modifying, probably the sub scanDirectory part.
For a very basic start it could simply
I wonder if the hooks are in place to do something like this as a
plugin. That would probably be best.
There's a preference ignoreDirRE which isn't exposed in the UI. It's a
regular expression which defines file/folder names which are to be ignored. A
plugin could simply expose that value to
exile;351490 Wrote:
to get upset about people sharing music strikes me as ridiculous as the
now ancient metallica fight against napster.
As I recall, the legal action against Napster was successful and its
original business operation was shut down (for reasons everyone is
familiar with).
I definitely want a SB car radio! I've brought it up in other threads.
If data networks were reliable, all I would need is the ability to play
Rhapsody in the car. Why not Sirius/XM some have asked? Because the
quality is absolute and total crap, and because I can't choose exactly
what to
I have a 30 day trial that still has about 20 days left...
When I signed up for the trial, there was no mention of UserIDs or
passwords... No asking for credit card numbers or anything...
Three Questions:
1. When you are a paying subscriber, can you access Rhapsody both with
the SqueezeBox,
There'll be a Squeezebox under the Christmas tree this year, but next to
it will be a new flat TV to replace the nearly 30 year old dinosaur we
still use. Since my DVD's and my music files all live on the same
drive array, and the video and the music all play through the same
speakers, it sure
Having some issues with my Duet systm. Just picked up up and it works
great.
My issue is I have 1600 cds (wav) on a 2 TB external hard drive. after
scanning I am missing 20% of the albums. The albums show up in Media
center. sor do nt follow the way its arranged in my music folder.
I am
MikeekiM;351565 Wrote:
1. When you are a paying subscriber, can you access Rhapsody both with
the SqueezeBox, as well as the PC client?
Yes.
2. When you are in trial mode on the SqueezeBox, can you access the PC
client during the trial period? And if so...how?
No, because as you
I have a very large CD library. Is it possible ot have squeeze center
7.2 scan and use more than one hard disk (directory) at the same time
and then have my squeezebox acess the entire directory under XP or
Vista?
If so how do I do this?
Joel
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Joel
JJZolx;351408 Wrote:
Michael, that's too cool.
Nothing fancy, but if you put it up on a 17 monitor you could probably
read it from 20ft away:
This is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks Michael and everybody.
This gives me a few options to explore. I don't know much about HTML
but I
I just set up an Asus eee as my server. This has a 7 display. I loaded
it with SqueezeCenter. I have been using Slimserver. SqueezeCenter
seems decent enough but it is a display space hog compared to
Slimserver. In particular I don't the way it insists on creating space
for artwork. I really
MikeekiM;351565 Wrote:
3. If you decide to go with the free 25-Play Rhapsody service, can
you access those 25 plays via the SqueezeBox?
No. I remember when I was looking at the 30 day trial (quite a while
ago) the Rhapsody site was very clear about this.
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Nothing high-end, but
an option would be idea and presumably not diificult to implement if it
is not there somewhere already. Many preamps/surround processors have
such a facilty
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@mherger: Reading this thread, it seems to me that this StreamUrl was
related to shoutcast metadata, but there was a doubt in your message.
No there is no doubt anymore :).
@andyg: Talking about radio paradise, you write: provide an XML
metadata file that can be queried on each track change. Do
Logitech / Slim Devices have a policy of not commenting on future
product releases, but I would be very surprised to see them go video in
the near future.
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Nothing high-end, but music anywhere I want it. LinkStation HD-HG
(debian) feeding: Basement: SB2 JVC JA-S44 ESS Tempest LS8;
Please read up on the Icy metadata protocol if you don't understand how
MP3 streaming works.
The officially supported version of this will work for stations that
support it. WMA stations can also send metadata but there is no
defined standard for how it should be formatted. I will be adding at
I simply think that trying to regulate and restrict the free flow of
digital information is a losing proposition. I buy digital downloads of
music and I think most of the people I know also purchase music legally.
But the purchasing of music is just one way of acquiring music these
days. There
Well, regardless of your feelings on where the money goes
(artist/label/whoe ever), not paying for it *is* against the law, pure
and simple. So you're basically saying that becuase you can get away
with it and not suffer any repurcussions, we should just write the law
off the books.
In which
Im really into the folk scene, and love singer/songwriters. This girl
Laura Warshauers album just came out on September 23rd and I cant
stop listening to it. Her lyrics are really good, I can relate to most
all of her songs. Plus shes really into some of my favorite artists
like Patti Smith,
Put shortcuts to all your music locations in a folder. Point SC to the
folder containing the shortcuts. It should follow the shortcuts and
find all the music.
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And in the default skin there are text only options.
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A couple years ago, I found out about the Roku Soundbridge and snagged
one. I wasn't looking for a way to serve my own music, but for a way
to listen to Internet radio through the real stereo without having to
connect a computer. I loved it so much that I bought another one just
for the
Right now all the devices in my house, including my SC machine and all
my SB's, are hooked up to one router. This router is hooked into my
DSL modem with a static IP.
For reasons unrelated to my SB/SC stuff, I'm thinking about changing
things by putting a hub into the DSL modem, and then
LOG: 10/14/08 15:05:59 Your Subsequent Feedback
Squeezebox streams through Radiotime - are you able to stream though
this
service.
LOG: 10/20/08 10:53:12 Bloomberg Feedback Team
Hello: We have not made any updates. Our media features work best on
Internet
Explorer using Windows Media
When I switch on the controller, it just gets to the connecting to
squeezebox screen and gets stuck on that, so I don't get as far as the
menu.
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You might want to inspect your tags with a tag editing program. The scan
is looking at the tags, not the file structure.
Mike
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And hopefully never.
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*Lounge :* Squeezebox Classic - Cambridge Audio Azur 640a - Mission
701's.
*Bedroom :* Squeezebox Receiver - Trends TA10.1 Class-T - Kef Cresta
1's
*Office :* Softsqueeze - Logitech Active 5.1's.
*Kitchen :* Squeezebox Boom -coming soon-
*Roaming : *
I'm sure it's no coincidence that it's called the Logitech Streaming
Media Business Unit (not Audio), but that doesn't mean we'll see
anything soon...
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A hub (or more likely, you'd be installing a switch) doesn't do routing,
so the Squeezebox would be still be on the same subnet, just as if you'd
plugged it into the router itself. (If the router has multiple ethernet
ports, that in itself is a switch.) Whether the server has a static IP
address
I don't think a discussion of right/ wrong, legalities etc. is relevant
here. Personally I don't give a damn what people do in private (and we
all know music sharing has been around forever), but I do care when they
do things in such a way as to directly or indirectly implicate a
product/
I went through the windows media player process while ripping them
in...prior to going to vista all files showed up correctly.
I have not used a tag editor before...which one do you suggest and how
does it work
thanx!
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elziko;351496 Wrote:
There is always this:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53722
but it doesn't seem to have generated much interest. Probably due to
the fact that it's Vista only and requires hardware that supports it...
or perhaps I just didn't describe it properly!
I
Thanks- I should have figured that one out.
Joel
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Andy,
i could use your help in figuring this out...
i put this line in the sc_serv.ini file:
; ***
; Optional Parameters
; ***
StreamURL=http://www.thelion.fm/officers/webcast/streaming.jpg;
; ***
and when i shutdown
JJZolx;351616 Wrote:
A hub (or more likely, you'd be installing a switch) doesn't do routing,
so the Squeezebox would be still be on the same subnet, just as if you'd
plugged it into the router itself. (If the router has multiple ethernet
ports, that in itself is a switch.) Whether the
I have never run a Shoutcast server so I can't really be much help.
Note that this is not something sent in the server headers, but in the
Icy metadata. I believe Radio Paradise uses a homemade script that
invokes some sort of Shoutcast admin utility to change the StreamTitle
and StreamUrl
Yes I am no Windows. I tried copying the folder but i still can't see
them. Would they come up under my playlists?
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lostnthought;351598 Wrote:
Im really into the folk scene, and love singer/songwriters. This girl
Laura Warshauers album just came out on September 23rd and I cant
stop listening to it. Her lyrics are really good, I can relate to most
all of her songs. Plus shes really into some of my
lanierb;351633 Wrote:
I'm not sure if I'm not understanding or you're not. I want to move the
server so it is no longer behind ANY router. You can't do this with
most DSL connections, but with mine you can. It would definitely be
visible to the internet. That's the point. What I'm
erland;350133 Wrote:
Basically you can do any modifications you like for your personal use
but you can't redistribute them beside sending them privately to
Logitech for inclusion in a future release.
And if Logitech asks you for your modifications, you must hand them
over, and grant Logitech
Yeah, my ISP gives me 8 public static IP's, so I could in theory make it
public. The more I've thought about it, though, the more I've come to
the conclusion that it's a bad idea. I guess I will go the
port-forwarding route instead. Thanks for the info.
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Squonk;285297 Wrote:
Actually, I'd been hoping to be able to assign a unique graphic to each
stream, but it doesn't look that is possible.
I agree. Enhancement request filed:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9769
-Peter
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peterw;351642 Wrote:
It'll be interesting to see if projects like Moose and iPeng will make
common devices like the iPod Touch and iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android
handsets viable challengers to the Controller. I think there's a real
risk that the SqueezePlay license will stifle Controller
peterw;351642 Wrote:
It'll be interesting to see if projects like Moose and iPeng will make
common devices like the iPod Touch and iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android
handsets viable challengers to the Controller. I think there's a real
risk that the SqueezePlay license will stifle Controller
During 2005 I got my first iPod (iPod mini) I connected it to the music
equipment in the living room and after a while I realized I missed two
things:
- Remote control
- A screen that was visible a few meters away
In december 2005 I found and purchase a Squeezebox 3 and during
Christmas 2005 I
JJZolx;351408 Wrote:
Michael, that's too cool.
Nothing fancy, but if you put it up on a 17 monitor you could probably
read it from 20ft away:
JJolx, I was wondering how you got the artist name. I reviewed the
SqueezeJS.UI attributes and only see the following available.
starfleetcommand;351657 Wrote:
JJolx, I was wondering how you got the artist name. I reviewed the
SqueezeJS.UI attributes and only see the following available.
It's Contributors, although it gloms together both the album artist and
track artist, that may be the best you can do. Seems to be
Hi,
I have just finish to rip all my CD (around 350) to a single flac file
with an external cuesheet. It work like a charm in foobar. Now I
bought a nice Duet and seeking into a track in those file seem
imposible. It work in single flac file but not when it is associated
with a cuesheet.
Controller won't let me upgrade past 7.2 r2873. How do I upgrade?
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