Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread davep
aubuti;501936 Wrote: > Not sure about the Mac version of Songbird, but on the Windows version > (and I think the Linux version, though I have to confirm), it's simply: > File > Export playlist(s) > [select playlists to export] > THEN > click the Preferences button in the Export Playlist(s) dial

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread DejanM
First of all, sorry for not using search capability of the forum. I didn't know that this subject has been already discussed in a such a detail ... Anyway, a couple of comments from my side ... i really do not know whether buying SD by Logitech was a good strategic move or not - to judge that we

Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread aubuti
kmr;501853 Wrote: > I tried Songbird out a couple of weeks ago but could not figure out how > to export playlists to an M3U; that's a deal killer for me. Not sure about the Mac version of Songbird, but on the Windows version (and I think the Linux version, though I have to confirm), it's simply:

Re: [slim] Can't get radio to work on SB3 + Mac Mini

2010-01-02 Thread ghostrider
Why don't you just wire the SB directly to the router? -- ghostrider ghostrider's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18959 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73419 _

Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread davep
kmr;501914 Wrote: > kphinney's list is good EXCEPT it left out: playlist creation tool!!! Try VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html) which comes in Intel and PPC flavours and is quite handy for playlist making as well as being a potential replacement for iTunes as a player and ge

Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread kmr
kphinney's list is good EXCEPT it left out: playlist creation tool!!! -- kmr kmr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73445

Re: [slim] SRC in Transporter Processor Loop, possible?

2010-01-02 Thread seanadams
Yes it will work. Make sure to use choose the asynchronous clock setting. -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t

Re: [slim] Can't get radio to work on SB3 + Mac Mini

2010-01-02 Thread bpa
Mac has to route between ethernet and wifi - I don't know about Mac but on Windows this needs to be enabled. Alternative config would be SB3 connected by wifi to router and have SB3 bridge Mac to Wifi (i.e. wired connected between mac and SB3). -- bpa --

Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread kphinney
Okay so at the most primal what are my/our wants: 1) FLAC 2) Mac PPC compatible 3) Edit tags 4) Import (via CD or download'd file) 5) Add artwork (less necessary) 6) FLAC !!! (It sounds a lot like iTunes minus FLAC support, but there are a host of things I don't want: a system resource hog, a b

Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread garym
kphinney;501854 Wrote: > True, as long as you don't care to use FLAC and don't mind iTunes. Most > are happy with ALAC and the functionality of iTunes. I'm not a fan of > it, but it does have pretty close to the same functions as the above > named programs. In fact, many years ago I had a G3 B

Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread kphinney
garym;501849 Wrote: > This has always puzzled me as well. Most people think of MACs as the > best for audio/video/media but there seem to be no _true_ contenders for > replacing the following programs running natively on the MAC: > > 1. dbPowerAmp > 2. EAC > 3. foobar2000 > 4. mp3tag True, as l

Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread kmr
I tried Songbird out a couple of weeks ago but could not figure out how to export playlists to an M3U; that's a deal killer for me. Play from sbooth.org has the same issue. For ripping and tagging, I gave up on Mac apps and now run dbpoweramp in a Windows VM. I tried Max from sbooth.org, but it

Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread garym
kphinney;501842 Wrote: > You'd think with all the design/film/creative geek crowd on Macs there > would be a good music management app. > This has always puzzled me as well. Most people think of MACs as the best for audio/video/media but there seem to be no _true_ contenders for replacing the f

Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread kphinney
audiomuze;501838 Wrote: > Not sure if it can be made to run on Mac, but it runs on *nix and > windoze... http://prokyon3.sourceforge.net/ Looks perfect, but no Mac support. I'm beginning to think that I need to upgrade (either to an Intel Mac or back to Fedora). You'd think with all the design

[slim] SRC in Transporter Processor Loop, possible?

2010-01-02 Thread Valentino
I'm currently using the Transporter's processor loop in a system that is set up with 44.1 kHz SF. Now, some (most?) radio stations use other SFs than 44.1, and to make my system more versatile I would like to put a Sample Rate Converter into the loop. Is it possible to do such a thing? -- Val

Re: [slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread audiomuze
Not sure if it can be made to run on Mac, but it runs on *nix and windoze... http://prokyon3.sourceforge.net/ -- audiomuze SIGNS OF THE TIMES: "No doubt they're also putting their energies into developing ever-more clever "Apps" like the deeply impressive spiffy-neato-keen Facebook interface,

[slim] Revisiting iTunes alternatives for the Mac

2010-01-02 Thread kphinney
Chander;184528 Wrote: > Just wait until MAcOSX Leopard, in a month or 2, because it will > probably handle the FLAC format natively ! Hard to imagine, but it's been three years and two OSs since we guessed in that post that Apple would include FLAC support. They haven't. I'm aware that you

Re: [slim] What are the odds....

2010-01-02 Thread bhaagensen
NikolajC;501724 Wrote: > > Mama's got a squeeze box > Daddy never sleeps at night > > WTF! - what are the the odds of that happening :) Very unlikely indeed - it seems very rear that it is actually the female rather than the male that purchases such gadgets :) -- bhaagensen

Re: [slim] Amp & SB1 volume settings

2010-01-02 Thread aubuti
Ah, I didn't know you were running via mysb.com instead of a local Squeezebox Server (SbS). The setting to which I referred is on the SbS software. I don't see any settings for this in the player configuration screens on mysb.com, and don't know if there is a setting in the player firmware. --

Re: [slim] Amp & SB1 volume settings

2010-01-02 Thread dvanleeuwen
I'm sorry, how do I get to the web interface? My Squeezebox is set to 10.0.0.102. I don't have the server running as I never need this. Do I need to install the web-server software to do this? Until now I have been using the service at www.mysqueezebox.com to play online radio and files stored a

Re: [slim] Problems with Playlists

2010-01-02 Thread Peter314
Foobar2000 will do this (and a bunch of other useful things too...) http://www.foobar2000.org/download I save my playlists as .m3u files. Not sure whether SBS will read other extension types. -- Peter314 Peter314's Profi

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread audiomuze
JJZolx;501745 Wrote: > I believe Logitech is moving away from audio-only players completely. > They have to be - they're being left in the dust by their competition in > the consumer market. Witness the two or three developers that they've > left to finish the Touch software. Obviously Touch i

Re: [slim] Control Squeezebox Classic without Display

2010-01-02 Thread garym
Aslak3;501762 Wrote: > I think you may be screwed. I had a similar issue when I had a broken > remote control on my SB2 - no way to change from WEP to WPA without the > remote. :( Not sure, but the NETU:UDAP software for setting up receivers without the controller may help you here. See this t

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread peterw
JJZolx;501745 Wrote: > > I believe Logitech is moving away from audio-only players completely. > ... Witness the two or three developers that they've left to finish the > Touch software. Obviously Touch is a relatively low priority release at > this point. I wonder if anyone at Logitech wishe

Re: [slim] Control Squeezebox Classic without Display

2010-01-02 Thread Aslak3
I think you may be screwed. I had a similar issue when I had a broken remote control on my SB2 - no way to change from WEP to WPA without the remote. :( -- Aslak3 (SB 2, SB Boom, SB Radio) Aslak3's Profile: http://forums

Re: [slim] Amp & SB1 volume settings

2010-01-02 Thread aubuti
dvanleeuwen;501679 Wrote: > I have a JVC amp, a Harmony Remote and a SB1. I have it set up so that > my Harmony will adjust the volume settings on the amp. But the volume > settings of the Squeezebox also change at the same time. In previous > versions of the SB firmware there was an option to ge

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread JJZolx
I was just looking at another of the many networked A/V player coming onto the market every day: http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Play-Media-Player-Black/dp/B002MCZJ3C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1262460507&sr=1-1 For $100 it plays video from a hard drive or network storage, plus FLAC, Ogg, W

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread Pat Farrell
JJZolx wrote: > Not a chance in a billion. Pessimist. I say its more like one in a million. Still pretty low. -- ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Way to standardize volume levels?

2010-01-02 Thread aubuti
You can vote for this bug/enhancement request: https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2431 -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread JJZolx
Not a chance in a billion. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73409 ___

Re: [slim] What are the odds....

2010-01-02 Thread audiomuze
LOL, that's some coincidence :-) -- audiomuze SIGNS OF THE TIMES: "No doubt they're also putting their energies into developing ever-more clever "Apps" like the deeply impressive spiffy-neato-keen Facebook interface, which everybody knows no world-class music system should be without." "...th

[slim] What are the odds....

2010-01-02 Thread NikolajC
Just setup my brothers SB3. Connected to our local "classic rock" station DR Rock. 5 seconds later. And I mean 5 seconds later The Who is playing: Mama's got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night WTF! - what are the the odds of that happening :) -- NikolajC ---

Re: [slim] Playlists not showing up

2010-01-02 Thread Siduhe
Using the web interface, Settings/Advanced/Logging - set (scan) - All Scan Logging to Debug and apply. Then do a playlist only scan and check the server.log file (or maybe the scanner.log file, but pretty sure it's the server file you need). Any other info? Remember to unapply the Debug back to

Re: [slim] scanner.exe error no disk

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Herger
Please see this bug description for details: https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7821 In a nutshell: most likely playlists or cue sheets which are pointing to a disk which has changed or been replaced with a card reader or similar. Make sure you don't have those playlists spread across

Re: [slim] Playlists not showing up

2010-01-02 Thread dundon00
Just tried... still not working :(. I wonder if there is further diagnostic/debugging information I could be collecting? -- dundon00 dundon00's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19271 View this thre

Re: [slim] Can't get radio to work on SB3 + Mac Mini

2010-01-02 Thread Husted
Yes, it's a wired connection between the SB3 and the Mac. I really don't want to switch to wireless since I'll loose the WOL feature. Also I seem to remember that it's not recommend to have both the server and the SB3 on wireless. Is that still the case? I have shared my internet connection betwe

[slim] scanner.exe error no disk

2010-01-02 Thread victorjr
i got an error when I rescan my libary. it says(translated form dutch) there is no disk in the station. Please put an compatible medium in the station Device\Harddisk\DR3, than ou can select: cancel, retry, continue. Than you have to press it alot, and it dissepears for a while, but I comes back.

Re: [slim] UK: Boom high street stockist

2010-01-02 Thread hunta
Thanks for the quick reply. PC World appear not to have them listed on their site either. I thought of the Amazon route as well. Think she wants it for the morning of, but I'll obviously point it out. -- hunta hunta's Prof

Re: [slim] UK: Boom high street stockist

2010-01-02 Thread Blisteringblue
I got mine from PC World about this time last year, but not sure if they still do them? Amazon.co.uk has them in stock, if they order one with express delivery they will at least get it on Tuesday 5th? -- Blisteringblue 'What am I listening to?' (http://www.last.fm/user/blisteringblue) --

[slim] UK: Boom high street stockist

2010-01-02 Thread hunta
Hi, A friend of mine wants to buy her husband a Boom for his birthday having seen my Classic. Trouble is his birthday's on Tuesday (5 Jan). Does anyone know of a high street stockist in the Herts / London area? I seem to remember Comet or Currys doing them, but they currently only have the Radio

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v2

2010-01-02 Thread SilverRS8
Rick B.;501630 Wrote: > I get an error "balloon is undefined" when I run it. Windows 7, and I > have the latest MySQL driver installed. Balloon refers to the balloon tips used by ACC. The balloon tips are the windows that appear when you hover with your mouse over the blue question marks. Ballo

[slim] Amp & SB1 volume settings

2010-01-02 Thread dvanleeuwen
I have a JVC amp, a Harmony Remote and a SB1. I have it set up so that my Harmony will adjust the volume settings on the amp. But the volume settings of the Squeezebox also change at the same time. In previous versions of the SB firmware there was an option to get rid of this. Where in the new ver

[slim] Problems with Playlists

2010-01-02 Thread andrewtott
I have just acquired a Squeezebox and am trying to edit my existing playlists. By comparing a playlist created with SB server and one created using WMP I understand that I need to change the syntax to \\[computername on network]\directory\sub directory...\filename - can someone expain what the hea

Re: [slim] access sep harddrive

2010-01-02 Thread garym
Tomas;501650 Wrote: > is it possibly to access a sep harddrive on a network without having the > computer running using the SB i have my music on sep drive and it works > fine as long as the comp is running. Only if that separate harddrive is a NAS (which is like a mini-computer combined with a

[slim] access sep harddrive

2010-01-02 Thread Tomas
is it possibly to access a sep harddrive on a network without having the computer running using the SB i have my music on sep drive and it works fine as long as the comp is running. -- Tomas Tomas's Profile: http://forums.

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v2

2010-01-02 Thread Rick B .
I get an error "balloon is undefined" when I run it. Windows 7, and I have the latest MySQL driver installed. -- Rick B. Rick B.'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8973 View this thread: http://foru

Re: [slim] Playlists not showing up

2010-01-02 Thread Siduhe
The log shows that the software is scanning the playlists, so my guess is something with the format. One thing I do notice is the case of the file path. Some OS' are case sensitive, although you look to be running Windows of some flavour? Have you tried replacing with c:\source\mp3, not c:\sourc

[slim] Control Squeezebox Classic without Display

2010-01-02 Thread t3chie
My VF Display is broken but the rest of the Squeezebox is fully functional. Is there a way of setting it up remotely? All I have is the IP address. It is not showing up in the controlcenter of squeezebox server. It would be perfect if I can switch from wired to wireless connection and setting up

Re: [slim] Can't get radio to work on SB3 + Mac Mini

2010-01-02 Thread avta
I'm a bit confused. Are you hard wired to your SB from your Mac Mini with an ethernet crossover cable? If so you might try disconnecting it then unplug the power to the SB for a minute. When you re-connect the power to the SB hold down the " + " button on the controller. This will re-set the uni

[slim] Can't get radio to work on SB3 + Mac Mini

2010-01-02 Thread Husted
Hi all I have a Mac Mini that host all my music. The setup is as follows: SB3 - ethernet - Mac - wifi - router - modem - isp Normal file playback is fine, it's only internet radio that fails. Opening the radio channels in a normal browser works fine. The Mac has internet access, I'm writing thi

Re: [slim] Wired network for Transporter & Ready NAS Duo

2010-01-02 Thread garym
Agree on the gigabit switch recommendation. I use: D-Link DGS-2208 8-Port 10/100/1000 Desktop Switch I notice that amazon.com has this currently priced at $47 -- garym garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/membe

Re: [slim] Wired network for Transporter & Ready NAS Duo

2010-01-02 Thread Aurumer
Yes, the solution with a wired switch should work fine. As prices are very low I would recommend a Gigabit Switch with minimum 5 or 8 ports. Most PCs, Laptops and NAS support Gigabit (its about 125 MB/s against max. 12,5 MB/s with Fast-Ethernet). -- Aurumer

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread bhaagensen
As others have said - probably rather unlikely. In a way its time has passed. It was a truly unique and remarkable offering when it came into existence. Today there are many other high quality solutions. And as customers our position is stronger as we can now more freely combine transports, or m

Re: [slim] Wired network for Transporter & Ready NAS Duo

2010-01-02 Thread toby10
I presume by your comments you already have a wireless router as your home network. If yes, then a simple wired switch should work fine. >From one of your routers LAN ports just run a cable to the Switch, then as many cables from the switch to your devices. One thing to be careful of is that the

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v2

2010-01-02 Thread eyeball
SilverRS8;500966 Wrote: > I just uploaded a new version of Album Catalog Creator. A tool to create > a HTML catalog of your Squeezebox server music catalog. WOW, I didn't expect a 2.0 version that soon :) Works fine for me. Thanks very much. -- eyeball -

Re: [slim] EPG "whats on" for all streaming stations

2010-01-02 Thread huytere
According to Will (the Radiotuna administrator) he said "This is on the road-map and development is currently underway." So someday we will have good metadata for all the online radio stations! Please help the cause by going to vote for this feature request here: http://feedback.radiotuna.com/p

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread rbz5416
Sadly I suspect that the Squeezebox will go the way of the mobile phone. Those that want a high quality device to do the basic job of serving high quality audio will be abandoned in favour of da yoof. So expect a device with a (poor) camera & the ability to enter text into Twatter rather than anyt

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread Mnyb
if you use the search function and you will find many treads where this is debated. And also the 192k vs 96k question is rehashed many times over. -- Mnyb Main hifi: SB3 (soon to replaced by a Touch :) It is on preorder) Bedr

Re: [slim] DSBridge - A simpler way to stream Spotify

2010-01-02 Thread sveander
No it works. I deleted old Favorites and inserted a new for Spotify and it works again. Strange because the INput is the same, but however. It works again and i am smileing -- sveander sveander's Profile: http://forums.sli

Re: [slim] How do I set the 'master' box for Synch'ing purposes?

2010-01-02 Thread Mnyb
Other players also lets you send and grab playlist between players. Thats pretty cool, If i'm listening in my livingroom and is on my way to kitchen to cook food I can just send the playlist to my kitchen player . -- Mnyb Ma

Re: [slim] DSBridge - A simpler way to stream Spotify

2010-01-02 Thread sveander
I still can not use Spotify om the Radio. I have tried several times to add new favorite with IP-adress and :8124. I got the green circle on the statusline so the bridge shold be working. I can use SB-servere to play my local music on the PC, so all adresses should be correct. -- sveander

Re: [slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread Teus de Jong
Many have already answered that question with: most unlikely. Not only is Slim Devices now a part of Logitech, but also many high end audio makers are marketing high end network devices. I hope the current transporter will stay in production; several people have even their doubts about that. Teus

Re: [slim] How do I set the 'master' box for Synch'ing purposes?

2010-01-02 Thread trautigan
thanks Pippin - I'll try that too, although now I've installed The Sychroniser which does let me do what I want in a kind of web-based clunky way, but it's always interesting to try other flavours in a solution. I'd like to be able to do the master sync-ing from the playerwill have a look an

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v2

2010-01-02 Thread Teus de Jong
I also isolated the sets that are not split in CDs: these are all albums with more than one artist (the second is displayed behind each track as Ft. ...). Attached one example of a 2 CD set. Teus +---+ |Filename: 2artists.jpg

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v2

2010-01-02 Thread Teus de Jong
Frank, I studied the mistakes more carefully (sorry for not doing this first). The first problem is only there when the disc set contains more than 9 discs. You can see a good example on the attached screen dump. There are 4 discs labeled CD 1. This should be: CD 1, CD 10, CD 11, CD 12. I'll hav

[slim] Mew Version of Transporter ?

2010-01-02 Thread DejanM
Hi, I am very curious whether Logitech planned to develop a new version of the Transporter unit ? Something that will be capable of reading native 24/192 with even better output stage ? -- DejanM DejanM's Profile: http://

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v2

2010-01-02 Thread SilverRS8
Chunkywizard;501510 Wrote: > yep, 5 works :-S > > Still playing around and I haven't had the error again. I have tried > big art, small art, big and small font for tracks and no tracks. The > only combo was big art, big font and 4 which caused the issue. > > HTH > > CW I'll look into it. Inte

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v2

2010-01-02 Thread Chunkywizard
yep, 5 works :-S Still playing around and I haven't had the error again. I have tried big art, small art, big and small font for tracks and no tracks. The only combo was big art, big font and 4 which caused the issue. HTH CW -- Chunkywizard *Squeezebox:* Boom x2 (Lounge and Kitchen), Radio

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator v2

2010-01-02 Thread SilverRS8
Chunkywizard;501487 Wrote: > Oh dear, I tried that and got: > > Error while creating ACC table in database > Error Number: -2147217887 > Error Description: ODBC driver does not support the requested > properties > Unable to continue. Click OK to quit ACC > > CW The creation of the temporary AC