maggior;444249 Wrote:
> It would irritate me to no end if I had to use 2 hands to dial or answer
> my phone. How the heck would that work in the car?
Hopefully they would use the tip of one finger to press the button on
their Bluetooth connected device (headset, GPS) to answer - just the
same as
andynormancx;444081 Wrote:
> No.
>
> Also, don't forget that if you rely on your home router for DHCP, then
> you will have to switch to static IP addresses when you demo it away
> from home without a router to hand out IP addresses.
I've never tried it myself but can't the SB act as a wireless
maggior;444193 Wrote:
>
> Some of us, left to oursevles, would turn our houses into
> squeezeboxatoriums!
There are so many places I want SB3s just for the screen, in areas I
already have music playing. I want.. 4 or 5 per room. Oh god help me!
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Goodsounds;444162 Wrote:
>
> I don't think this is something most people think or care about.
They don't think about it, but if made aware of it, I think they would
see how annoying it is. Actually, I've never thought about it myself.
I don't own an iPhone, but I know a few people who do. Th
Pale Blue Ego;444232 Wrote:
> I think the SB3 is the best choice even if the buyer intends to use
> something other than the IR remote to control it. The VFD display is
> really nice, and our Squeezeboxes serve as ultra-accurate clocks when
> not playing music.
Totally agree with this. I love t
Sonos makes some great stuff be remember the squeezebox open
architecture is what makes it so great. If you don't like it you can
change it!
That being said Sonos supports the full UPnP spec so you can control it
with UPnP commands. I just added the open source Sonosweb interface to
VortexBox so
I think the SB3 is the best choice even if the buyer intends to use
something other than the IR remote to control it. The VFD display is
really nice, and our Squeezeboxes serve as ultra-accurate clocks when
not playing music.
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On the downside, its dog ugly like a horrible Palm I bought the wife a
few years ago.
I would prefer bevelled edges and a darker colour. With the front
buttons "invisible" with LED back lighting then it would look less 1990s
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aubuti;444211 Wrote:
> Well, as they say, vive la différence. If I am already doing something
> at my laptop then I'll use it to control an SB rather than grabbing the
> remote, unless the SBC is right next to me. But I wouldn't seek out the
> laptop to control the SB, much less drag it into the
danull;444208 Wrote:
> I could not disagree more. The browser interface is infinitely more
> useful. I haven't touched my remote in months.
Well, as they say, vive la différence. If I am already doing something
at my laptop then I'll use it to control an SB rather than grabbing the
remote, unl
danull;444208 Wrote:
> I could not disagree more. The browser interface is infinitely more
> useful. I haven't touched my remote in months.
Depends, I don't have the server or any other of my pc's roaring in my
listening/living room so the ir remote beats running into another room
and change
aubuti;444170 Wrote:
> Keep leaning toward #1. Although you can control the SBR via browser, I
> think the SB line is really much better when you control it via remote
> (either the infrared that comes with the SB3 or with the SBC).
I could not disagree more. The browser interface is infinitel
Thx aubuti -
I was afraid somebody would say that - but not surprised :)
Thx for your feedback!
N
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Thanks. The asx links are working well. I tried the m3u links and had
trouble with them. I'll check into getting the Firebug plugin.
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FredFredrickson;444184 Wrote:
> And then when you're out of rooms, you'll want to build more rooms for
> your squeezebox addiction. True story.
You read my mind :-).
You can also talk yourself into having more than one in a single room.
I've thought about adding one to my bedroom to connect to
FredFredrickson;444184 Wrote:
> And then when you're out of rooms, you'll want to build more rooms for
> your squeezebox addiction. True story.
That just shows that the Squeezebox is good for the sagging economy.
1. Buy Squeezebox
2. Fall in love with Squeezebox
3. Buy more music to play on
aubuti;444170 Wrote:
> Don't worry too much about waiting for the next-rumored-device. After
> you have one SB you'll most likely want another. And another. Until you
> have one in every room.
And then when you're out of rooms, you'll want to build more rooms for
your squeezebox addiction. True
In my case, I dug down enough to get to Lane County, Oregon,
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=2224 and looked at the
bottom of the page. There is a 'listen' icon that points to the asx for
the stream which should work on the SB. (Can't tell at the moment since
I'm at work.)
Altern
I found this site which has hundreds of police dept and fire and rescue
scanner radio streams, but it uses a Flash player for playback. Is
there a way to find out the URL of the individual feeds so I could add
them to Squeezecenter as a playlist?
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?stid=21
http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/support/product-documentation.html
The SB3 has been renamed to 'Squeezebox Classic', so those are the ones
you want.
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drizzo4shizzo;444167 Wrote:
> Thanks for all your responses. I can see that as I suspected, (for me)
> these are all non-issues. Yay - I can move ahead with my current
> generation purchases.
>
> For now (single room), I have narrowed it down to one of two options:
>
> 1) SB3/classic to hoo
Paul Webster;444154 Wrote:
> It might be best to start a thread over in the one of the technical
> forums or maybe the newbie area where you will get only related
> responses (at least at the start ;) )
> I wouldn't hold off a purchase if the fear is that sync/non-sync and
> multiple players is n
drizzo4shizzo;444148 Wrote:
> Wait, are you suggesting that there will be problems with having
> multiple units all playing the same song? Or with multiple units
> playing different songs? These are both critically important roles to
> me.
>
> And I would like to further ask the community -
peterw;444036 Wrote:
> It looks to me like Sonos failed to understand the greatest physical
> attribute of the Squeezebox Controller -- the fact it's designed for
> one-handed use
Most people I see using electronic devices (including iPhones) do so
with two hands, whether it's one thumb fro
drizzo4shizzo;444148 Wrote:
> Wait, are you suggesting that there will be problems with having
> multiple units all playing the same song? Or with multiple units
> playing different songs? These are both critically important roles to
> me.
>
Wait a moment.
I am talking about TODAY.
TODAY, I
drizzo4shizzo;444148 Wrote:
>
> Sorry for the noob questions, but I am just considering investing in a
> bunch of this stuff. Need to decide if I should wait for new hardware.
> But most of my concerns really seem to be basic and I would expect much
> more stink on the forums if they were vali
pippin;443960 Wrote:
> Oh, I can EASILY hear the difference.
> With downsampling for more than one targets my server bails out so I
> get dropouts every few seconds when playing that stuff synced on more
> than one player (except the Transporter, of course).
>
> Sometimes number are important fo
"speech-grade" microphone? Why not just say "crappy" microphone?
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Yeah there's a bug to fix it for SN. It was not implemented with SN in
mind originally so it's some amount of work to fix it.
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andyg;443914 Wrote:
> Sorry, this is a bug. Should be fixed shortly. Recent Searches should
> not appear on SN.
Ah! Good to know. Thanks. Too bad, however, that it can't be used with
SN, as it can be very handy for re-doing Rhapsody searches (for
example), without needing to reenter the strin
maggior;444096 Wrote:
> I'm anxiously awaiting the announcement on this!
The official launch looks to be a couple months down the road.
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been easy!
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Mnyb;444097 Wrote:
> Microphone voice control maybe ?
>
>
ala Microsoft Sync :-). Could be bad at parties as somebody yells
"Michael Bolton" as Metallica plays on your SB Touch.
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Rich
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Setup: 2 SB3s, 3 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running
SqueezeCenter 7
KIDS! WOAH hold on! I was talking hypothetically!
there a long way off, I wont be able to afford any of these gadgets
when the kids come!
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trouty00;444100 Wrote:
>
> its all very dependent on how many zones you have in the house and how
> many controllers you need, you may have units in your kids rooms but
> dont think you are going to treat them to a cr200 or an iphone each
> which makes the SB items much better with the nice chea
Great to hear your success. I was really perplexed when I got my
Trnasporter because I was expecting it to be a pain to setup after
reading reviews everywhere. I already had SC running on a media server
and had the TP running in all of 3 minutes. I think the majority of
complaints come from people
I always use the touch one handed but i do have huge hands, always in
(XXL ski Gloves)
There was a great review on engadget for the cr200 controller and
raised some good points.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/27/sonos-cr200-review/
The main one is you can have a ipod touch dedicated to the ca
Microphone voice control maybe ?
Skip can you shuffle that deck of cards... argh ;)
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Wow, this test report is pretty informative.
With a built in microphone and speaker, will there be an intercom app?
:-).
Given that it is running SqueezeOS, I think it's pretty likely that it
will be running Linux just like the controller. Why introduce yet
another platform to support?
I'm anx
4mula1;444094 Wrote:
> In the Emissions Test Report it states it as being SqueezeOS, which I
> believe is what the Controller uses.
Yes this means partly open source player firmware thats a new one,
people have almways custmized and made plugins for Squeecenter and
slimserver but the old players
Mnyb;444086 Wrote:
> Cool test report :) suggests the hardware was finalized around April
> this year ? wonder what kind of OS it has, if it's running some soaped
> up variant of SqueezePlay ? If it is some kind of jumbo controller with
> better audio harware, it will be endlessly tweaked for yea
Mnyb;444086 Wrote:
> it will be endlessly tweaked for years if it running some embedded
> linux-os .
Regardless of the underlying OS or hardware, I would put money* on it
being a very hackable system that can be tweaked for years to come. Look
at the success they had with the SB2/3 hardware. It h
Cool test report :) suggests the hardware was finalized around April
this year ? wonder what kind of OS it has, if it's running some soaped
up variant of SqueezePlay ? If it is some kind of jumbo controller with
better audio harware, it will be endlessly tweaked for years if it
running some embedd
agentsmith;444065 Wrote:
>
> Going one step further, what I am trying to do is to do a user's group
> gathering and try to minimize the number of equipment. I am planning to
> connect the following:
>
> Laptop running SC with a big HDD ---CAT5 Ethernet--- SB2
> iPhone with iPeng Wireless to Sq
ralphy;443860 Wrote:
> Yes, it would be bit perfect but only for 16/44.1 as that's all
> squeezeslave currently supports. Would you be interested in such a
> version?
>
> Squeezeplay uses the same portaudio library however it's an old version
> that doesn't support the asio hostapi. It could b
OK silly me I guess I just have to try it. I can let you people know
once I tried it out.
Going one step further, what I am trying to do is to do a user's group
gathering and try to minimize the number of equipment. I am planning to
connect the following:
Laptop running SC with a big HDD ---CA
cliveb;444056 Wrote:
>
> Perhaps users of iPeng could comment - do you need to use two hands?
You CAN use it one-handed.
Especially the (often criticized) gestures help with this.
But I find myself mostly using it two-handed since it's really more
convenient.
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see iPeng, the Sq
cliveb;444056 Wrote:
>
> My daughter has an iPod Touch, and have observed that even this
> relatively small device seems to require two-handed operation. I think
> it's in the nature of touch screen interfaces - they are difficult to
> operate with a thumb, and so in order to use fingers you nee
Why is there no access to theese 2 bug reports anymore ??
I get a "You are not authorized to access bug #7502. To see this bug,
you must first log in to an account with the appropriate permissions."
when I try
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7502
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug
Let's face it: the Sonos demo really is very slick. Rather than try to
pick it apart, perhaps it would be more constructive if we urged
Logitech to come up with something equally convincing.
peterw;444036 Wrote:
> It looks to me like Sonos failed to understand the greatest physical
> attribute o
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