Re: [slim] still no presentation-layer dedupe of albums

2010-01-20 Thread DaveWr
I agree with you about the logic, but the commercial need for this must be small. You need a third party developer, or maybe one of Erland's plug ins might help, Custom Scan + Custom Browse. Dave -- DaveWr DaveWr's Profi

Re: [slim] Logitech - please work with Pandora for 192kbps streaming!

2010-01-20 Thread bobkoure
pablolie;508478 Wrote: > ...what else are they going to do, offer FLAC streams but only to > browser based clients?). :-) Actually, what I want, as a paid subscriber, is the ability to use their "Music DNS" with my own music, the way I use MusicIP. I realize that this could be a big development j

Re: [slim] Android part of future squeezebox products?

2010-01-20 Thread JJZolx
I would hope Logitech's use of Android is a little more inventive than air mice. They've pulled 3/4 of the development, QA and support staff away from the Touch project and put them on something else. Hopefully, it's the next audio and/or video player rather than mice and programmable remote con

Re: [slim] Android part of future squeezebox products?

2010-01-20 Thread MeSue
ModelCitizen;508674 Wrote: > When the app comes out it'll be interesting to see if the Logitech > offering is better than the one I use already, Mobile Air Mouse > (www.mobileairmouse.com) which I'm very happy with. > > MC Hmm... that will be interesting. I also use Mobile Air Mouse from time t

Re: [slim] Fixed Volume vs 100 Volume

2010-01-20 Thread SuperQ
Same thing. Setting to "fixed" only prevents accidental changes via the normal volume user interfaces (web, remote, etc) -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: h

Re: [slim] FLAC problems / Squeezebox 2

2010-01-20 Thread lrossouw
Also check for under settings \ player \ audio whether bitrate limiting is on. If it is on it may be taking time. -- lrossouw Louis 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw) lrossouw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevic

Re: [slim] Squeezebox v3 support

2010-01-20 Thread aubuti
Oops, you are absolutely right, the SB3/Classic is still up there. Click on it and it takes you to a page on the abandoned www.logitechsqueezebox.com web site with some decent info about the product, including a functioning link to the user's guide. I say "abandoned" because they announced a coupl

[slim] Fixed Volume vs 100 Volume

2010-01-20 Thread Aesculus
Can someone who knows tell me if sending a volume of 100 is the same as setting the player to Fixed Volume 100%? In other words will you avoid any use of DACs if you send output over the digital connection when you send the volume out at 100 even when the player is not set to Fixed 100% volume.

Re: [slim] Love My Squeezebox! What's The Equivalent For Video?

2010-01-20 Thread lrossouw
apn;505541 Wrote: > Boxee looks interesting if one can muster up the courage to buy D-Link > hardware. Just got an ASRock ION 330 which comes with blu ray drive, remote and Win 7 (Home Premium which includes media centre). Working quite well. Running it with audio over spdif out as my HT recei

Re: [slim] Can't receive WBUR in Boston via internet streaming any longer

2010-01-20 Thread TomS
Radiotime didn't work for me (on 2 of my 3 booms). Don't ask me why - I had to put in a modified URL. See my previous post in this thread referencing the issue. Tom -- TomS TomS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/m

Re: [slim] still no presentation-layer dedupe of albums

2010-01-20 Thread chroma
I have a collection of collections used by other individuals and software. They have organization which is important to retain for their own reasons. The place to clean them up is at the presentation level, or at the very least at the scanner level. I declare a $250 starting bounty on getting th

Re: [slim] MusicIP library corruption

2010-01-20 Thread Phil Meyer
>Did this occur after you updated your library or just at some random >time? Not sure exactly when it got truncated, but I hadn't been doing anything out of the ordinary. I opened the MusicIP web server page, and it showed 0 songs. Something within 1/2 a day had caused it; no log messages, etc.

Re: [slim] Can't receive WBUR in Boston via internet streaming any longer

2010-01-20 Thread Millwood
an alternative is to access it via radiotime. go to internet radio->search, enter wbur, and select the one you want. then save it as a favorite for future use. right now, wbur fm is a 64kb ogg stream on radiotime. -- Millwood 2 SB3, 1 Duet Debian Lenny server 2 AP (netgear, linksys) wireles

Re: [slim] Android part of future squeezebox products?

2010-01-20 Thread ModelCitizen
When the app comes out it'll be interesting to see if the Logitech offering is better than the one I use already, Mobile Air Mouse (www.mobileairmouse.com) which I'm very happy with. MC -- ModelCitizen Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known Last.fm/user/ModelCitizen -

Re: [slim] Android part of future squeezebox products?

2010-01-20 Thread funkstar
funkstar;503101 Wrote: > My thoughts? > > Logitech is a big company with a lot of products and divisions. > > Would they be using Android as a platform for products, or would they > want to *create Android apps for use with other products?* An official > SqueezeBox app on the Android market pla

Re: [slim] Coverjuke - Album cover flow GUI works with SB

2010-01-20 Thread Kuben72
Have you tried mediamonkey www.mediamonkey.com -- Kuben72 /Kuben72 1 Duet, 1 SBR, 1 SB3 and 1 Boom Kuben72's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15308 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [slim] Squeezebox v3 support

2010-01-20 Thread aubuti
spedinfargo;508635 Wrote: > Also, I believe that the SB3 is now referred to as "Squeezebox Classic" > - and is still sold... maybe that's how it is referenced on Logitech's > site? No, the SB3/Classic is gone from Logitech's web site. At least it is not on the US site, I didn't check the others.

Re: [slim] using a music library BESIDES iTunes

2010-01-20 Thread aiko
garym;508640 Wrote: > I really think your question is: > > How do I organize and play ALL my music (FLAC, mp3, AAC, etc.) through > SqueezeBox Server WITHOUT checking the use ITUNES option. > > If this is correct, then see my earlier post: simply uncheck use > itunes, add your top level music

Re: [slim] using a music library BESIDES iTunes

2010-01-20 Thread garym
I really think your question is: How do I organize and play ALL my music (FLAC, mp3, AAC, etc.) through SqueezeBox Server WITHOUT checking the use ITUNES option. If this is correct, then see my earlier post: simply uncheck use itunes, add your top level music library directory to your settings

Re: [slim] using a music library BESIDES iTunes

2010-01-20 Thread JJZolx
aiko;508636 Wrote: > let me see if I can make this clearer. > > in squeezecenter there is an option to "use Itunes", and when clicked > that seems to draw info from the remnants of my itunes library to the > artist albums and songs options on my remote.. > > right now I have shortcuts to my ext

Re: [slim] using a music library BESIDES iTunes

2010-01-20 Thread garym
aiko;508636 Wrote: > let me see if I can make this clearer. > > in squeezecenter there is an option to "use Itunes", and when clicked > that seems to draw info from the remnants of my itunes library to the > artist albums and songs options on my remote.. > > right now I have shortcuts to my ext

Re: [slim] using a music library BESIDES iTunes

2010-01-20 Thread aiko
let me see if I can make this clearer. in squeezecenter there is an option to "use Itunes", and when clicked that seems to draw info from the remnants of my itunes library to the artist albums and songs options on my remote.. right now I have shortcuts to my extrenal hd's in the "music folder" t

Re: [slim] Squeezebox v3 support

2010-01-20 Thread spedinfargo
Also, I believe that the SB3 is now referred to as "Squeezebox Classic" - and is still sold... maybe that's how it is referenced on Logitech's site? -- spedinfargo spedinfargo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/membe

Re: [slim] "Album Artist" sort

2010-01-20 Thread MrSinatra
i didn't feel personally attacked, i didn't mean that, i just meant in an academic sense i was defending what i knew. i always appreciate being corrected with better info, and i appreciate what you've said. i'd be happy to update that wiki page with the root link, but what i can't do in a truly

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Receiver discontinued?

2010-01-20 Thread Kuben72
You can get it from www.Logitech.dk -- Kuben72 /Kuben72 1 Duet, 1 SBR, 1 SB3 and 1 Boom Kuben72's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15308 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.

Re: [slim] FLAC problems / Squeezebox 2

2010-01-20 Thread maggior
ajc79;508619 Wrote: > > Anyone else had this problem? > On my system, it becomes very sluggish when performing a scan. I haven't experienced droppouts in music, but I've experienced where it will go OTL (out to lunch) when transitioning to the next track, sometimes for upwards of 30 seconds.

Re: [slim] using a music library BESIDES iTunes

2010-01-20 Thread maggior
Not sure exaclty what you are looking for. Is it that your wife wants something more user friendly to navigate the library from a PC? If that is the case, you might consider Moose: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove/ I use this on occasion myself and find it very useful. Not only can you n

Re: [slim] FLAC problems / Squeezebox 2

2010-01-20 Thread kphinney
Nice find. I haven't had that issue - my server is a dual core Mac. However, I have noticed a not quite dissimilar issue when I'm using a lot of bandwidth at once, but I really have to force it. Say, watching Hulu, backing up my laptop to the server, backing up the server to an external disk, a

Re: [slim] using a music library BESIDES iTunes

2010-01-20 Thread Ben Sandee
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:59 PM, aiko wrote: > > since most of my music files are not supported by iTunes, (specifically > FLAC) is there a "library" application I can use beside ITunes? > > simple enough for me to locate what I want, this is more for the Mrs > convenience If you want and iTunes

Re: [slim] using a music library BESIDES iTunes

2010-01-20 Thread Dave Dewey
Quoting aiko (aiko.453pu01264014...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com): > > since most of my music files are not supported by iTunes, (specifically > FLAC) is there a "library" application I can use beside ITunes? > > simple enough for me to locate what I want, this is more for the Mrs > convenience

Re: [slim] FLAC problems / Squeezebox 2

2010-01-20 Thread ajc79
Ok, we might have some progress here! It seems my little Windows Home Server can't handle a music scan and playing tunes at the same time. If i have music streaming then start a scan, the music stops straight away and the Squeezebox won't start playing again till it's finished or aborted. I've

[slim] using a music library BESIDES iTunes

2010-01-20 Thread aiko
since most of my music files are not supported by iTunes, (specifically FLAC) is there a "library" application I can use beside ITunes? simple enough for me to locate what I want, this is more for the Mrs convenience -- aiko -

Re: [slim] DTS 5.1 FLACs

2010-01-20 Thread MadScientist
It suggests that you no longeer have bit perfect transfer from SC to your processor. Have you turned on replay gain or any other such ajustments? As a matter of interest are you packaging the DTS files as descibed in the wiki? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Play_DVD_Tracks MS -- Mad

Re: [slim] DTS 5.1 FLACs

2010-01-20 Thread adbrown
dsdreamer;508388 Wrote: > At risk of being too simple, you did double check that the digital > volume control is at 100%? It's best to disable it for this kind of > application, but I'm wondering if you may have accidentally adjusted it > at some point. Thanks for the suggestion. Although I alw

Re: [slim] Transporter Vs Naim DAC with Duet

2010-01-20 Thread bhaagensen
ModelCitizen;508529 Wrote: > Funny, I find at the is level it's very hard to quantify the audible > difference at all. For me the hard part is getting grips on what it is that is good, bad, or doesn't matter (that much). Also, many of the quality-measures one can listen for appear, for all inten

Re: [slim] Transporter Vs Naim DAC with Duet

2010-01-20 Thread bhaagensen
I agree. As for my reference to the listening test of the TP versus the Naim CD5x I am not implying the latter is superior by any notion of absolute measure. I should also emphasise that I suspect the Naim DAC is better than the TP in the context of a Naim system, in case it was not clear. -- b

Re: [slim] Transporter Vs Naim DAC with Duet

2010-01-20 Thread ModelCitizen
cliveb;508562 Wrote: > And yet, my foot is tapping. Naim kit can make you tap your foot to you music you don't like. :-) MC -- ModelCitizen Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known Last.fm/user/ModelCitizen --

Re: [slim] Transporter Vs Naim DAC with Duet

2010-01-20 Thread cliveb
I've not heard the new Naim DAC, but given that Naim deliberately engineer all their kit to the "house sound", it seems extremely likely that it will sound distinctly different to a TP. Not better or worse - different. Which one you like best will depend on your personal preferences. ModelCitizen

Re: [slim] Love My Squeezebox! What's The Equivalent For Video?

2010-01-20 Thread jimbo45
Hi all try the Slingbox. http://www.slingbox.com/ cheers jimbo -- jimbo45 jimbo45's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20276 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40689 _

[slim] Squeezebox server via remote RDP connection

2010-01-20 Thread jimbo45
Hi all I LIKE Saturday PM Premier League football but when I'm out of the UK I usually get those B/S messages "Due to Rights restrictionsthis prohram is not available..." on BBC R5Live. I have a decent RDP connection to my home computer over the Hotel's Wifi system. Can I set my radio up to

Re: [slim] MusicIP library corruption

2010-01-20 Thread maggior
Philip Meyer;508346 Wrote: > > Has anyone had occurances like this? Any ideas what causes the loss of > library data? Any successes in backup/restoration of musicIP data > files, to avoid long rescans? That's strange - I've been using MusicIP for quite a while and haven't seen this happen. D

Re: [slim] "Album Artist" sort

2010-01-20 Thread aubuti
MrSinatra;508427 Wrote: > and btw, i'm not intending to complain about ANY of this but if you put > me into a defensive posture then i will explain myself by pointing out > why i thought this and that which may include some criticism of things, > but i wouldn't be doing it except you seem to thin

Re: [slim] MusicIP library corruption

2010-01-20 Thread MeSue
Philip Meyer;508419 Wrote: > > Aren't there other files that need to be backed up, eg. to retain > custom filters, etc. i.e. this time I lost my music library content > (default.m3lib was 0 bytes), but not my filters. I was thinking default.m3lib did contain the filters, but you're right that

Re: [slim] two questions: AAC+ and ipv6

2010-01-20 Thread krbonne
Pablo, I work for a large ISP in Belgium and we see the consumption of IP-addresses as we have to addopt the "bogus lists" (list of IP-addresses that are not in use) every time IANA assigns additional blocks to the RIRs (like the RIPE here in Europe). It's very clear: by the end of 2011, the last

Re: [slim] Transporter Vs Naim DAC with Duet

2010-01-20 Thread ModelCitizen
bhaagensen;508510 Wrote: > Mind you, I also think that at this level, we are talking in subtle > differences where the end-result depends equally much on caring for > details all the way through the replay chain including room accoustics. > But you knew that :) Funny, I find at the is level it's

Re: [slim] "Album Artist" sort

2010-01-20 Thread aubuti
DaveWr;508426 Wrote: > Maybe some one should change the links. That's a good idea. Until someone does that (and I wouldn't hold my breath seeing how Logitech manages its website, or at least the SB part), an effective alternative would be to change the wiki, which anyone can do. -- aubuti

Re: [slim] Touch release date?

2010-01-20 Thread DaveWr
It would help if you read the Touch Forum, but here goes the latest view: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74117 Dave -- DaveWr DaveWr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9331 View th

Re: [slim] Transporter Vs Naim DAC with Duet

2010-01-20 Thread bhaagensen
ASenna04;508451 Wrote: > bhaagensen, > > You make important points here. If the DAC does indeed render all > reasonable quality digital sources equal, then why would Naim market to > sell it with the new CDX2-2 (with S/PDIF) when a CD5XS would be > sufficient? > > ASenna04 Just because its the

Re: [slim] Logitech - please work with Pandora for 192kbps streaming!

2010-01-20 Thread maggior
tomjtx;488133 Wrote: > However the majority of people can be trained to hear those diffs, as > proven through years of musicians improving their aural skills in ear > training classes. Sometimes ignorance is bliss :-). It's for this reason that I've never done serious ABX testing. On my home s

[slim] Touch release date?

2010-01-20 Thread ASenna04
When is the Touch being released. I thought it was going to be in January 2010, any date confirmed? ASenna04 -- ASenna04 ASenna04's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2696 View this thread: http://fo

Re: [slim] Logitech - please work with Pandora for 192kbps streaming!

2010-01-20 Thread DaveWr
I agree with your second statement, that indeed would affect revenues. However trying to sort their international side might provide significantly greater opportunities. i believe licensing is now slightly better. On a more positive note looks like AndyG has been on Twitter with their developer

Re: [slim] FLAC problems / Squeezebox 2

2010-01-20 Thread ajc79
pablolie;508488 Wrote: > other thoughts - > > - powercycle the player. consider a factory reset for the player(s). > > - make sure you don't have any weird file format conversions going on > (advanced/file types) - you want all native formats -especially FLAC- to > be unconverted ie stay "nativ

Re: [slim] FLAC problems / Squeezebox 2

2010-01-20 Thread ajc79
TiredLegs;508321 Wrote: > Using both Squeezebox 2 and 3 hardware, I'm running thousands of FLAC > files off a Buffalo LinkStation NAS with 7.3.3 Squeezebox server. This > server is underpowered for the purpose relative to most users' servers, > yet I don't experience the problem you're having. (I

Re: [slim] FLAC problems / Squeezebox 2

2010-01-20 Thread pablolie
other thoughts - - powercycle the player. consider a factory reset for the player(s). - make sure you don't have any weird file format conversions going on (advanced/file types) - you want all native formats -especially FLAC- to be unconverted ie stay "native". - perhaps try running the SBS at

Re: [slim] two questions: AAC+ and ipv6

2010-01-20 Thread pablolie
krbonne;508481 Wrote: > Hi All, > > > Thanks for the replies! > > > Any information on ipv6 support? The "bye bye v4" applet of HE > currently stands at 592 days remaining before ipv4-addresses run out. > > > > Cheerio! Kr. Bonne. the death of IPv4 has been looming since 1999 or so. IPv4

Re: [slim] two questions: AAC+ and ipv6

2010-01-20 Thread krbonne
Hi All, Thanks for the replies! Any information on ipv6 support? The "bye bye v4" applet of HE currently stands at 592 days remaining before ipv4-addresses run out. Cheerio! Kr. Bonne. -- krbonne krbonne's Profile:

Re: [slim] Logitech - please work with Pandora for 192kbps streaming!

2010-01-20 Thread pablolie
DaveWr;507823 Wrote: > Why you are already a subscriber, what do they gain? > > Dave Happier customers. A higher guarantee of renewed subscriptions. Offering a better, more consistent service (what else are they going to do, offer FLAC streams but only to browser based clients?). :-) I think i

Re: [slim] Announce: New Squeezeslave 0.9 Release available on sourceforge

2010-01-20 Thread ralphy
I'm curious as to what the tinkering was? The only difference to that makefile between r95 and r121 is the addition of a patch at line 43. Code: 43:cd lib/libportaudio/$(OS)/build && ${PATCH} -p0 -i ../../../../patches/badstate-pa_linux_alsa.patch

Re: [slim] Transporter Vs Naim DAC with Duet

2010-01-20 Thread ASenna04
bhaagensen;508253 Wrote: > Indeed. And on the Naim-forum I've in fact been posing the challenge > that the DAC should render all reasonable quality digital sources equal. > Obviously being in the world of hi-fi and audiophiles, this is met > with... lets say "some skepticism". > > Anyway, as lon

Re: [slim] still no presentation-layer dedupe of albums

2010-01-20 Thread DaveWr
I don't understand why you have that many duplicates in the first place. If you want the highest bit rate, just delete the rest (well move them out of you music folder). IMHO this is not a show stopper. There are many more important searching / playlisting issues. Dave -- DaveWr

Re: [slim] FLAC problems / Squeezebox 2

2010-01-20 Thread ajc79
avta;508093 Wrote: > Just a thought but you might try 7.4.2 I could give it a go. I did read the change log and there wasn't anything specific for my problem, but if it's stable it's worth a punt I guess.. -- ajc79 ajc79

Re: [slim] "Album Artist" sort

2010-01-20 Thread MrSinatra
aubuti;508398 Wrote: > I'm way too tired right now to respond in full, but a few things may be > helpful. "TinySC" (or more appropriately now, TinySBS) is a regular SBS > that has web ui disabled via the way it is invoked on the Touch (simple > command line options, I believe). TinySBS is not a s

Re: [slim] "Album Artist" sort

2010-01-20 Thread DaveWr
Well the Wiki may not be up to date. But unfortunately that is where all the web links seem to take you for nightly builds: http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/community/developer-resources.html Maybe some one should change the links. Dave -- DaveWr ---

[slim] still no presentation-layer dedupe of albums

2010-01-20 Thread chroma
I do not understand why it is necessary for me to get five first-level indistinguishable results if i have five copies (of various quality or encoding method, or from multiple users libraries) of the same album in my collection. I want a basic heuristic on the presentation layer that says: If fo