[slim] Itunes showing empty/not playing

Frustration continues with my duet set up Has been working ok for weeks and now for some reason I cannot access my Itunes library under Music Folder - Itunes - Itunes Music - Play All Its the Play All function which doesnt seem to be working I tried to rescan and it stopped around 7,100 of

[slim] reduce the itunes library options

Hi I want to limit the number of itunes libraby options that appear on my squeezebox. the list currently contains, album, artist, playlists, genre, year, search, etc... I want to reduce the list to just album, artist and search... My squeezebox has many users and the less options the better..

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

Just an update... Well, the BBC 96K WMA streams just keep working now! Had them running at different times of day, for long periods of time, with no problems at all. I can only conclude that changing the buffer time and radio time-out fixed the issue. Chris. -- chris.mason

[slim] Snow screensaver

I've recently re-installed (clean install) SqueezeCenter (7.3.2) I can't find the snow screensaver. It's a minor issue, but can anyone shed any light? -- Phileas Phileas's Profile:

Re: [slim] Can't get Duet receiver to use ethernet

toby10;414360 Wrote: Ok, must operate differently then. :( Wild guess here: maybe try unplugging the power to the SBR, plug in the RJ45, then plug power back in. Maybe this would force it into setup again. Maybe even turn off your routers WiFi temporarily before plugging the SBR

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

Great job on 1.1! I love the way it orders the ArtistAlbum view by year, but would it be possible to have an option for reversing the year view from ascending to descending so that the newest album is at the top with the list going down to the oldest at the bottom? If I'm wanting to play an

Re: [slim] Can't get Duet receiver to use ethernet

Hi there You need to make sure the ethernet cable is plugged in before you do the factory reset to make sure SBR recognizes it. Also make sure the link LED on your router or switch where you connected the other end of the ethernet cable is on. Then either use a factory reset SBC and go through

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

so to me it would make more sense to see the albums listed that way. A feature of 1.1 is able to present server-generated menus, so you can use the CustomBrowse plug-in and create menus just as you want them. -- amcluesent

Re: [slim] Associating album art to wave files - possible?

ModelCitizen;414554 Wrote: I not dead certain about this but I'm pretty sure you will not be able to embed album art in wavs but if you have ripped each album to its own folder can you not create an image from the album art called cover.jpg or even folder.jpg (recommended 300x300pixels or

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

pippin;414417 Wrote: Hm.. Can't reproduce this. Two things: 1. Could this probably be an issue with the Boom losing connection to SN or can you still control it through the web interface? 2. Do you keep the server connection open? 1. during the entire period where the ipeng can't control

[slim] How long does SB3 retain its memory with no power

Have an SB3 that is unplugged for weeks at a time. Seems that I have to re-enter SSID, password, etc. everytime I plug back in. Does the onboard memory not hold this info more than a few days? -- garym garym's Profile:

Re: [slim] Snow screensaver

That's it. Thanks -- Phileas Phileas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20367 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62315 ___

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

I've attached a text file (log.txt). Apologies for the length of the log...not sure what I was looking for. If anyone could take a look, and tell me if they say anything useful, I'd appreciate it. This is with player.source logging set to 'debug'.

Re: [slim] How long does SB3 retain its memory with no power

That doesn't sound right. I'm sure I've had my bedroom SB3 off for a couple of months and it connected straight away when plugged back in. -- funkstar funkstar's Profile:

[slim] WMA streams cause my SB3 to crash

This was originally in this thread:http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=414622#post414622 However, the origin of that was BBC 96K WMA streams seamed to cause my SB3 to reboot, but since then I've found its not specific to BBC, but WMA in general, and not specifically from my

Re: [slim] How long does SB3 retain its memory with no power

funkstar;414626 Wrote: That doesn't sound right. I'm sure I've had my bedroom SB3 off for a couple of months and it connected straight away when plugged back in. hmmm. I'm wondering if the SB3 I have is faulty. (Note I also have two booms, one wireless and one using ethernet) and don't

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

The crash shouldn't happen, however if increasing buffered secdons helsp a bit, it sounds like an ISP traffic manipulation where the ISP is rearranging live traffic which is normally a continuous stream of packets and holding the data back and making the streams into big bursts of data some of

[slim] Time Change

I have a Squeezebox Duet running from a QNAP nas device. How do I change the time on the controller? -- Kayanbee Kayanbee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20412 View this thread:

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

Sorry Chris but I can't see anywhere where you say that the streams work on your SC PC using a normal software music player (I don't know what the equivalnet if Windows Media Player on Linux is). Do they? I've had very strange (and difficult to diagnose) problems with both the SC iPlayer plugin

Re: [slim] Time Change

I have a Squeezebox Duet running from a QNAP nas device. How do I change the time on the controller? Change the time on the QNAP. Controller will synchronize the clock. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

pippin;413982 Wrote: As Aesculus already said, this has to do with IRBlaster. It is supposed to help IRBlaster users to still be able to use volume controls. Pippin - Great release! I like the UI you have added for those of us using IRBlaster, but unfortunately the resulting behavior

Re: [slim] Time Change

Hi, In article op.ur79hyvmkpb...@meibuch-8.local, Michael Hergers...@herger.net wrote: Change the time on the QNAP. Controller will synchronize the clock. Not sure if this relates to the OPs question, but when we rolled over from GMT to BST the other week, my Controller didn't update

Re: [slim] What Anti-Virus software do you use

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Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm pretty certain its not bandwidth shaping, I don't believe Virgin bandwidth-shape, but I can check. As for software players, I haven't checked so thats a good point, but its quite difficult to do, as the problem is so erratic. For example, earlier today (1pm

[slim] Errors During Song Playback

Recently I have noticed a problem playing back my .flac files through any of my Squeezebox devices (2 SB3 and 1 Duet). During playback of a song, I hear an audible loud scratching sound or a song will stop. The noise or stopping will happen always on the same songs. I can skip to another song

[slim] Spotify Streaming for Macs

Afternoon everyone, Thought I'd offer a way of streaming Spotify to your Squeezebox - this time the method is for Macs :) In 10 easy steps! Download a program called Nicecast (http://rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/). 1) Open up Nicecast and Spotify. 2) In Nicecast, under Source select Application,

Re: [slim] Errors During Song Playback

If it is consistent with a particular track, it sounds like there are issues with that file. You could try turning off native flac decoding on the server and stream as WAV to see what is happening. Perhaps turning on some logging might be an idea, player.stream (or something like that) would be

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

The crash is definitely a bug but this changing of traffic may not be traffic shaping just a artifact of the way the backbone network treats some data flows. IT would be interesting to try a few other tests to see how the problem manifests itself. 1. Disable Windows Media native in

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

mikes;414658 Wrote: With the SB3 set to 100% fixed, when I hit Volume Up on iPeng screen the SB3 display changes to the volume indicator, but does not send IR blast. One difference that I have noticed is that with the web UI or SC when I hit volume up, the display on the SB3 does NOT

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

garym;414612 Wrote: 1. during the entire period where the ipeng can't control the boom, the boom is playing just fine. 2. played around a little more. tried it with the keep server connection open both on and off. Still have some random problems. Works perfectly sometimes and other times

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

mikes;414658 Wrote: Pippin - Great release! I like the UI you have added for those of us using IRBlaster, but unfortunately the resulting behavior has not changed. I am confused as it would seem it should now work just like the Web UI which continues to send volume up commands through

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

pichonCalavera;414685 Wrote: I modified the html code in the IRBlaster settings page to add a 99 fixed level, so I could decrease and increase the volume from ipeng just fine. Interesting work around you have come up with. Given that Web UI and SC work fine with the volume fixed at 100%,

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

bpa;414684 Wrote: The crash is definitely a bug but this changing of traffic may not be traffic shaping just a artifact of the way the backbone network treats some data flows. IT would be interesting to try a few other tests to see how the problem manifests itself. 1. Disable Windows

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

pippin;414690 Wrote: Hm. Looks like a CR against IRBlaster would make sense. Isn't that an Slimdevices provided plugin? IRBlaster is not provided by Slimdevices although Felix, the author is now a Logitech employee. I guess I would kindly disagree that this is a CR against IRBlaster since

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

OK so first of all I tried forcing transcoding WMA to FLAC and to MP3. Neither of those worked. When trying to play on the SB3 or on Softsqueeze (or Winamp for that matter), nothing plays at all. According to the SC UI, a transcoded stream is trying to play though. I tried making it transcode

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

If you're using AlienBBC to do the transcode and you are using a new Linux distro (e.g. Ubuntu 8.x) then you need a patch for mplayer.sh and also Softsqueeze 3.8 or later when using 7.3. -- bpa bpa's Profile:

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

bpa;414708 Wrote: If you're using AlienBBC to do the transcode and you are using a new Linux distro (e.g. Ubuntu 8.x) then you need a patch for mplayer.sh and also Softsqueeze 3.8 or later when using 7.3. Ah ok, can you tell me more about the patch I need? I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, and using

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

There is a timing issue which seems to happen with new Linux distros. See post #27 in this thread for the updated mplayer.sh. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=399401#post399401 -- bpa bpa's Profile:

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

mikes;414703 Wrote: IRBlaster is not provided by Slimdevices although Felix, the author is now a Logitech employee. I guess I would kindly disagree that this is a CR against IRBlaster since it works fine from both the Web UI and the SC. Can you explain why you think it should be a CR

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

Aha! Thats done the job. I just tested transcoding the Radio 4 WMA stream to both FLAC and MP3 for SoftSqueeze 3.9 on my Windows PC, and both work. I've asked Virgin Media support about bandwidth shaping, and I'm waiting to hear back from them. At the moment, the streams are working fine.

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

Thanks for SqueezeNetwork support. I enjoy iPeng. -- nowork nowork's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20453 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62245

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

ModelCitizen has pointed out that time-of-day may be significant. I know when testing for a BBC RealAudio bug I found that BBC servers used to drop data on R4 more frequency between 5.pm-7.30pm Mon-Thur, about 11.00-12.00 Sunday. This is an indication that certain parts of the network between

Re: [slim] Spotify Streaming for Macs

Nicecast has been mentioned several times over the years. But Spotify on one's computer is free, and Nicecast costs, and isn't particularly cheap. We need a Spotify plugin or the like, something that is free (or cheap) that lets us use Spotify on the Squeezebox. -- danco

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

bpa;414728 Wrote: ModelCitizen has pointed out that time-of-day may be significant. I know when testing for a BBC RealAudio bug I found that BBC servers used to drop data on R4 more frequency between 5.pm-7.30pm Mon-Thur, about 11.00-12.00 Sunday. This is an indication that certain parts

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

chris.mason;414771 Wrote: I've found however the real audio streams to be generally very reliable (and certainly don't cause my SB3 to reboot when they stop or stutter). As RealAudio isn't handled natively by any of the hardware players, any issues are going to be on the server transcoding

Re: [slim] BBC WMA Radio streams cause my SB3 to reboot

You probably find the RealAudio streams as being reliable as the stream is terminated in the PC which has bigger buffers etc. compared to WMA streams terminated in the SB3. The suggested test which make SC proxy for WMA stream was a test to see if termination of WMA stream in PC vs SB3 makes a

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

amcluesent;414601 Wrote: so to me it would make more sense to see the albums listed that way. A major feature of 1.1 is ability to present server-generated menus, so you can use the CustomBrowse plug-in and create menus just as you want them. Perhaps it's a Logitech issue as Squeezecenter

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

mortslim wrote: When attempting to scroll through these players on the Now Playing screen (because only three can be seen completely at one time), there is a little glitchiness in the scrolling behavior. It works for the most part but once in awhile I have to try a few times with my finger

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

erland wrote: After the 1.1 release I can only see three reasons to buy a SBC instead of a iPod Touch+iPeng: - You need SBC to configure a Squeezebox Receiver I know that you know this, but - for others - you don't *need* it for that... the perl util Net-UDAP will configure an SBR without an

[slim] Internet Radio won't play now..

I have had the Squeezebox3 (firmware 125) for 4 months now..Everything was fine...Today, I turned it on and internet radio will not play at all. It always says error, no items in playlist..I have tried around 20 different stations.. I have tried both Squeezenetwork and Squeezecenter.. Ialos

Re: [slim] Internet Radio won't play now..

Same issue here with a SB Boom - all my Favorites won't play only Staff Picks -- keep getting error msg saying 'error, no items in playlist' even tried to upload new software HELP -- kbodick kbodick's Profile:

Re: [slim] Internet Radio won't play now..

...seems to be a radiotime issue. No radiotime station (http://opml.radiotime...) works for me on my Duet or Boom, but Pandora, Slacker, radioio, and all the other services (that I'm subscribed to) and direct links are working okay. -- tdnuerf

Re: [slim] Internet Radio won't play now..

Yes, it does seem to be Radiotime urls??? -- full moon full moon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21689 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62340

Re: [slim] Internet Radio won't play now..

This makes no sense but I now have it working! Here's what I did - I went online and logged into the RadioTime website and bingo, now my SqueezeNetwork playlist is working! Why did I have to do this now when in 4 months I haven't had to login to RadioTime from the day I set up the website? --

Re: [slim] Internet Radio won't play now..

I logged in and mine is working too!!! Weird...Thanks... -- full moon full moon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21689 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62340

Re: [slim] Internet Radio won't play now..

kbodick;414817 Wrote: I went online and logged into the RadioTime website and bingo, now my SqueezeNetwork playlist is working! Haha! Same here! Maybe they (radiotime) fixed the issue while we were logging in and trying things on the website (I tried to play some stations that were

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.1 now on the AppStore

I'll file a bug, but wanted to note I've been experiencing some odd behavior with iPeng 1.1. It sounds a bit like the issue that has been noted with failure to consistently control SN sessions, but in my case I'm running it against SqueezeCenter. Some particulars: SC v7.3.3 - 25911 (Ubuntu);