[slim] 7.3.2 and Squeezeplay?

2009-01-25 Thread pablolie
Is there a new version of SqueezePlay available? And why isn't there a clear SqueezePlay download source where all the other downloadable files are? Just curious. -- pablolie ...pablo Server: 3.3 GHz Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo (8GB) - Vista Ultimate 64 Ubuntu 8.10 64 Sources: SB3 (4), SB Boom

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze better than browser Listen Now?

2009-01-25 Thread Labarum
bonze;388959 Wrote: I think the 'listen now' feature is a realmedia stream. How are you accessing through SoftSqueeze? Squeezecentre declares 128kbps CBR, WMA Internet Radio -- Labarum Brian Squeezebox 3 Classic and Virgin Cable Box Beresford DAC TC-7510 MK6/4 - Quad 405-2

Re: [slim] Slow loading of right pane (playlist contents)

2009-01-25 Thread Michael Herger
it's amazing you ask that -- i am using McAfee. The free version that comes with Comcast. Why? Is that the culprit? If you search the forum you'll see that McAfee is responsible for a lot of trouble. That right pane not loading issue is just the latest occurence I know of. Just to be sure:

Re: [slim] Where to begin with multi room design

2009-01-25 Thread dbrotzen
Your questions have already been answered, I'd just like to add a few comments. Since you have prewired your house with speaker wire, you've planned to put your amp/all your amps in one location. Long speaker wires are likely to degrade the quality of your sound, and is likely to lower the

Re: [slim] Navigation: Artist to all titles, not Artist-Albums-Titles

2009-01-25 Thread verypsb
It's a bug... http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8426 -- verypsb verypsb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17295 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58779

[slim] Navigation: Artist to all titles, not Artist-Albums-Titles

2009-01-25 Thread kapsreiter
Hallo! Is there a way to search the Artist and get all titles displayed? i only can klick the artist and must then klick the album (which is sometimes not right named) to see then the available song from this artist thanks tom -- kapsreiter

Re: [slim] iPeng, Squidgy or Squeezemote?

2009-01-25 Thread SW4Peter
I have just downloaded Ipeng and my first impressions are that it is an excellent bit of software. I was planning to by a second Squeeze controller and will not bother now, thanks! -- SW4Peter SW4Peter's Profile:

Re: [slim] 7.3.2 and Squeezeplay?

2009-01-25 Thread Letten
Perhaps because it's still Beta software. -- Letten Letten's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16718 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58775

Re: [slim] Strange Effect?

2009-01-25 Thread funkstar
And here was me trying to form a polite reply yet one that would clearly show you to be a complete idiot when I happened to look at those links :) You are a bad man. -- funkstar funkstar's Profile:

Re: [slim] Navigation: Artist to all titles, not Artist-Albums-Titles

2009-01-25 Thread kapsreiter
i use it with a pronto remote at the webinterface i see Artistname ALL tiles and the album names on the pronto i see only Artistname and the album names any ideas how i can see all titles from 1 artist? -- kapsreiter

Re: [slim] Turn Off m3u Indexing?

2009-01-25 Thread bmorejojo
aubuti;389014 Wrote: If they're of no use to you, and they slow down the scanning, why not just delete those playlists? I used to have a similar arrangement, and only had the m3u playlists for each album because that's how I had set up EAC and flac. I then deleted those files, and reset the

Re: [slim] Use Duet Controller as remote for your amp.

2009-01-25 Thread Egnos
Michael, the reason why i took sleep is that i was too lazy to design a new png image with disc on it. thanks for teh higfh contrats png image. Who is going to make a nice image for the remote. Autopilot, in the file NADIRapplet.lua you find the definitions of the keys. In my case the following

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2009-01-25 Thread SilverRS8
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 Question:

Re: [slim] Use Duet Controller as remote for your amp.

2009-01-25 Thread Egnos
Michael I changed the png and put in the disc and some text for volume. +---+ |Filename: test-ir.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6836|

Re: [slim] Where to begin with multi room design

2009-01-25 Thread aubuti
dbrotzen;389057 Wrote: Your questions have already been answered, I'd just like to add a few comments. Since you have prewired your house with speaker wire, you've planned to put your amp/all your amps in one location. Long speaker wires are likely to degrade the quality of your sound, and

Re: [slim] Use Duet Controller as remote for your amp.

2009-01-25 Thread amcluesent
How does the applet encode IR commands? My Pronto has learnt IR commands, e.g. to set the AV input on the amp is '5000 0073 0001 0010 0002'. IIRC the '5000' at the start means the rest is RC5 encoded. -- amcluesent

[slim] Can't see music library on my Boom or Squeezenetwork but it is there on SqueezeCenter

2009-01-25 Thread RazorBrades
My SBB works (almost) perfectly. It connects to the computer, accesses SqueezeNetwork and everything. The only problem is that it doesn't seem to be able to see my music library. I can see them all listed there on SqueezeCenter but they don't make it as far as my machine - where it simply reads

Re: [slim] Live Music Archive

2009-01-25 Thread sage23
I am as frustrated as well. I listen to the Grateful Dead quite a bit, and part of the rationale for buying my Duet was to tie it into LMA. From looking at the LMA plugin, it looks like it only reads the OPML files located on the www.squeezenetwork.com site. The plugin is not actually browsing

[slim] Synchronisation problems squeezebox and squeezebox2

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I have several squeezeboxes and have noticed that I get a massive delay when trying to synchronise between squeezebox's and squeezebox2's, the delay is a about 2-3s with the squeezebox's first. Should these 2 generations of squeezebox be able to sync? I am using SqueezeCenter 7.3.1 and my music

Re: [slim] Internet Archive or Slim Devices problem?

2009-01-25 Thread sage23
The LMA plugin only points to the OPML metadata files located at www.squeezenetwork.com. The OPML metadata files then point to the actual streams on LMA. To me, it doesn't look like the LMA plugin in squeezecenter actually browses LMA at www.archive.org at all! The issue seems to be that the

Re: [slim] Discrete on/off codes for Harmony 880

2009-01-25 Thread gorman
I had discrete codes working, updated the device and they got erased. Now where the heck do I learn the codes from? Before they were in the database, now not anymore. Why? Who gave permission to Logitech to delete stuff from my configuration!?! They're the same company and now things are

Re: [slim] Live Music Archive

2009-01-25 Thread andyg
The way we update our LMA database is ugly, LMA does not have a good way to export their information for us, so we use a really slow search engine query nightly to update it. Unfortunately, this server goes down a lot and appears to be down right now. -- andyg

Re: [slim] Discrete on/off codes for Harmony 880

2009-01-25 Thread lanierb
gorman;389193 Wrote: I had discrete codes working, updated the device and they got erased. Now where the heck do I learn the codes from? Before they were in the database, now not anymore. Why? Who gave permission to Logitech to delete stuff from my configuration!?! They're the same

Re: [slim] Slow loading of right pane (playlist contents)

2009-01-25 Thread eschurr
I found this post which seems to have fixed things. thanks! http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56785 -- eschurr eschurr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2007 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Where to begin with multi room design

2009-01-25 Thread lanierb
I want to second (third?) the idea of putting Cat 5 to each room instead of (or in addition to) speaker wires. This will give you lots of options, both now and in the future. For example, in some rooms you might want a squeezebox classic which displays the current music being played. Your

[slim] Mp3 Streaming won't stream

2009-01-25 Thread teeitup
Running Debian Linux. (Normal SC operation to SB3 and Duet work fine) If I use an mp3 collection streaming works. Using the flac collection I get connection but no output. Lame is installed and Squeezecenter indicates that it is. I was advised to put lame in the Squeezecenter bin folder. The

Re: [slim] Internet Archive or Slim Devices problem?

2009-01-25 Thread jehma
I entered this bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10063 some time ago, but it doesn't look like it's gotten any attention. :( -- jehma jehma's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20788

Re: [slim] Audio Problems - Softsqueeze 3.3 on Mac Leopard OSX 10.5

2009-01-25 Thread kapsreiter
is may be a older version better? i dont need a nice loking player (on my macmini is no tv) just for remote music but os it is useless :-( tried also squeezeplay, sounds ok but hangs after 5-10 minutes -- kapsreiter

Re: [slim] Synchronisation problems squeezebox and squeezebox2

2009-01-25 Thread ptrainer
The Squeezebox (SB1) has no hardware decoder for FLAC while the SB2 does. So your SB1s are definitely playing a signal transcoded by Squeezecenter. Unfortunately, they can't sync well. -- ptrainer ptrainer's Profile:

Re: [slim] Use Duet Controller as remote for your amp.

2009-01-25 Thread Egnos
For more background on the IR code see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57243highlight=infraredpage=2 Maybe this will help you to understand the LIRC files. -- Egnos Egnos's Profile:

Re: [slim] 7.3.2 and Squeezeplay?

2009-01-25 Thread pablolie
So are the nightly releases, and yet they are very easy to find. -- pablolie ...pablo Server: 3.3 GHz Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo (8GB) - Vista Ultimate 64 Ubuntu 8.10 64 Sources: SB3 (4), SB Boom (2), Duet, Accuphase DP65v CD Amplifier: Accuphase E306v Loudspeakers: Ceeroy 3-way tuned by

Re: [slim] Use Duet Controller as remote for your amp.

2009-01-25 Thread amcluesent
Maybe this will help you to understand the LIRC files. Hmm, not really obvious is it :( I think I'll wait for someone to develop a lua function which will process the pronto hex IR codes. -- amcluesent amcluesent's

Re: [slim] Use Duet Controller as remote for your amp.

2009-01-25 Thread pufnstuf
Egnos;385940 Wrote: The enclosed zipfile contains a applet to control a NAD amplifier (C 352) with the IR emitter on your Duet Controller. Great information; this looks like a brilliant piece of functionality to add to the SBC. Please keep up the great work Egnos ( Michael)! :D --

Re: [slim] SlimP3 looking for dhcp

2009-01-25 Thread beatnut88
Bingo! Plugging the SC PC into the router has cured the problem. Thanks Neil -- beatnut88 beatnut88's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22640 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Use Duet Controller as remote for your amp.

2009-01-25 Thread roe_forever
Can anybody help a complete it idiot to access the controller to copy the files in NAD-IR. I have downloaded and installed winscp as recommended in the first post. I also activated the ssh on the controller. But how do i actually log-on to the controller. When I activate the ssh i get an

Re: [slim] Use Duet Controller as remote for your amp.

2009-01-25 Thread Egnos
WinScp is not that difficult Hostname: enter the ip of your controller (in my case 192.168.1.151) Username: root Password: the password you get from the controller when you enabled SSH in my case 1234 Private key no input needed Maybe you get an error ralated to group ... ignore and continue.

Re: [slim] Synchronisation problems squeezebox and squeezebox2

2009-01-25 Thread Ben Sandee
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Neil Sleightholm neil.sleightholm.3mkxnz1232904...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: I have several squeezeboxes and have noticed that I get a massive delay when trying to synchronise between squeezebox's and squeezebox2's, the delay is a about 2-3s with the

Re: [slim] Synchronisation problems squeezebox and squeezebox2

2009-01-25 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Just after I posted this I upgraded to 7.3.2 and the problem went away. Also when I go to the track info for a playing track on the squeezebox it says the file format is FLAC, I don't have LAME installed and there isn't any other process running on the server, so I am fairly sure it is really

[slim] SlimP3 using internet radio from SC?

2009-01-25 Thread beatnut88
Can I stream internet radio from SC? I have tried and the message is that it doesn't recognise audio type stream. Thanks Neil -- beatnut88 beatnut88's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22640 View

[slim] Advice please on improving audio quality

2009-01-25 Thread trypan
I have a Duet hooked up wirelessly and I've noticed that the audio quality is somewhat sub-par. Is this to be expected? Internet streaming (Pandora, for example) sounds particularly bad. 256 bit rate AAC files playing from my computer sound a little better , but still not very good. It is very

Re: [slim] Can't see music library on my Boom or Squeezenetwork but it is there on SqueezeCenter

2009-01-25 Thread trypan
It may still be a firewall issue. To confirm that it isn't Norton, you'll need to uninstall Norton and then try the Squeezebox. At least this is what tech support had me do (make sure you have the means to reinstall Norton first). Before calling them, I also tried adding the firewall ports

Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store

2009-01-25 Thread bossanova808
pippin;388405 Wrote: I understand but so far nobody has been able to tell me what I have to do to enable this. As of the explanations I got it should already work. Well can you deduce it from this: Volume ipeng skin - neither the bar nor the arrows work colume ipeng app - the slider will

Re: [slim] Synchronisation problems squeezebox and squeezebox2

2009-01-25 Thread Ben Sandee
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Neil Sleightholm neil.sleightholm.3mle3n1232925...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: Just after I posted this I upgraded to 7.3.2 and the problem went away. Also when I go to the track info for a playing track on the squeezebox it says the file format is

Re: [slim] SB3 display flickering

2009-01-25 Thread stuart
jablonski wrote: I forgot to add that when the letters are small, the bar indicating the volume dims until it's almost dark when I change the volum. When the letters are bigger, the volume bar just flickers a little. No one? Well, my old SB has a solidly blue green display and doesn't

Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store

2009-01-25 Thread pippin
bossanova808;389297 Wrote: Well can you deduce it from this: Volume ipeng skin - neither the bar nor the arrows work colume ipeng app - the slider will bring the volume down but not back up again Overall I do find IRBlaster unreliable - it seems to get out of sync with the player at

Re: [slim] Advice please on improving audio quality

2009-01-25 Thread stuart
trypan wrote: I have a Duet hooked up wirelessly and I've noticed that the audio quality is somewhat sub-par. Is this to be expected? Internet streaming (Pandora, for example) sounds particularly bad. 256 bit rate AAC files playing from my computer sound a little better , but still not

Re: [slim] Advice please on improving audio quality

2009-01-25 Thread SuperQ
Packet loss is not an issue at all for the Squeezebox. It buffers and automatically re-sends packets. As long as the buffer doesn't get empty it will sound the same wireless or not. The buffer getting empty will cause dropouts, like a CD skipping, playing nothing for a long time (seconds). To

[slim] IE 64 and web UI

2009-01-25 Thread bflatmajor
How do I get SlimServer's web ui to use IE 64bit instead of the normal 32 bit? I'm running Vista ultimate 64 and attempting to get as many apps to be 64bit when possible. I know firefox has a 64bit app but it is still to buggy. Thanks -- bflatmajor

Re: [slim] Advice please on improving audio quality

2009-01-25 Thread trypan
Thanks for the info. I'll assume from the responses that if I'm getting a steady signal to the squeezebox, then any issues with audio quality would be associated with the source (i.e., internet stream or music file type). The CD I was referring to contains MP3 files copied from the original

Re: [slim] Advice please on improving audio quality

2009-01-25 Thread badbob
Try lossless audio, not compressed. Use fixed output from the SB. If you have a high quality CDP most likely better sound quality than the SB. Since you said the CDP sounds better than doing this won't improve the sound on SB (DAC will) - uy a stereo integrated amp to use with main channels

Re: [slim] IE 64 and web UI

2009-01-25 Thread MeSue
You can bookmark the Squeezecenter address (http://serverip:9000/) and open it in any browser you want. If you are talking about launching it from the tray icon, I would think it would use whatever is the default web browser. -- MeSue Sue http://www.last.fm/user/MeSue

Re: [slim] SlimP3 using internet radio from SC?

2009-01-25 Thread SuperQ
Please post the URL of the steam you are trying to play. Internet radio works fine with all slimdevices stuff. I still have a slimp3 and stream somafm.com streams to it. -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile:

Re: [slim] SlimP3 using internet radio from SC?

2009-01-25 Thread beatnut88
I'm just trying to pay one of the local radio stations listed in the sc radio page. cannot see any urls... Neil -- beatnut88 beatnut88's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22640 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Wrong Duration in Song: Won't play full song

2009-01-25 Thread ramshorn
I am getting exactly the same problem as described above. I have an mp3 audio file that slimserver thinks is 12 seconds, but when I look at its properties it shows that it is over an hour. The problem is evidently that the song duration that slimserver sees is incorrect. I know what the correct

Re: [slim] Linn - SkweezyDS

2009-01-25 Thread olivern
Briain;385045 Wrote: It would thus be fantastic to have a SC7 UPnP plugin but I can see one area that might require some consideration: unless Jive also performed the same trick that Linn have used (to upload the selected tracks as a playlist to the UPnP renderer) it might suffer from

Re: [slim] Synchronizing Boom and SBR Off Since 7.3.2

2009-01-25 Thread MikeekiM
H...problem seems to have gone away... Now the synch is working fine... Don't know what happened to fix it (or cause it)... -- MikeekiM 1 SqueezeBox Duet 3 SqueezeBox Booms MikeekiM's Profile:

[slim] Squeezebox and Peachtree Decco

2009-01-25 Thread trypan
Is anyone running their squeezebox thru a Decco stereo integrated amp? If so, can you comment on performance? Thanks. -- trypan trypan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23025 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Advice please on improving audio quality

2009-01-25 Thread radish
Seriously, buying an external DAC isn't going to help here. The SB is more than a match for the DAC in a 90's Onkyo amp, particularly when the CD is a re-burn of mp3 tracks. There's something more fundamental going on. Two obvious things to check - are your sources level matched? Louder sources

Re: [slim] Advice please on improving audio quality

2009-01-25 Thread seanadams
Wireless isn't the problem. Are you using the phono input? -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58810

Re: [slim] Advice please on improving audio quality

2009-01-25 Thread stuart
seanadams wrote: Wireless isn't the problem. Are you using the phono input? Oh, that's an excellent question Seandadams! The phonograph input is very high gain (do they still put these on amps?). The SB's output will surely be clipped (i.e. sound just horrible) if you do that. Of course,

Re: [slim] Advice please on improving audio quality

2009-01-25 Thread Pat Farrell
stuart wrote: Wireless isn't the problem. Are you using the phono input? The phonograph input is very high gain (do they still put these on amps?). Yes, vinyl is making a comeback and thus phono inputs are getting more popular. In addition to high gain, a phonograph input has heavy

Re: [slim] SB track progress bar remains blank

2009-01-25 Thread netwerx1
I'm having a simular issue, all of a sudden my progress bar won't display, and neither will the time remaining...when I cycle through the Now Playing displays, those two just don't do anything. It worked earlier in the day, and I did an update to 7.3.2...I don't know if the issue started at that

Re: [slim] Turn Off m3u Indexing?

2009-01-25 Thread JJZolx
bmorejojo;388918 Wrote: I'm guessing some combination of the Playlists Folder setting in Basic Settings and Settings-Advanced-File Types-Disabled Playlist File Extensions can accomplish what I want, but I'd prefer not to guess (and have to rescan each time to see if it worked).