Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread Muele
ezkcdude;524547 Wrote: > I ordered an iPad this morning. Whatever the iPeng app is, there has to > be a convincing case made to me that it does more than the SC web > interface. Otherwise, I'll just use that. I think that if you stick to the web interface and and after one year see iPeng at a fr

Re: [slim] Synced Players

2010-03-12 Thread Muele
I often sync my two Recievers and Radio. I have one spot where I can hear all three players. I cannot hear any delay or echo, ever. During the last year or so I have an issue once. The radio what ~ ½ second out of sync. It was so from the beginning and two presses on pause solved it. However th

Re: [slim] Announce: VortexBox 1.2 released

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Olsen
pski;524597 Wrote: > I got a lot of return code 0 dialog boxes during upgrade. > > The first attempt ended after package resolution, so I tried again. > > After restart, choosing the Squeezebox server icon from the base web UI > tries to load > > http://:9000 > > I'll try again on another VM

Re: [slim] Squeezeplay and Squeezeslave

2010-03-12 Thread fphredd
Never mind...downloaded latest Squeezeplay build and it shows up; don't know if they're related...don't care :D -- fphredd fphredd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33133 View this thread: http://f

Re: [slim] Options for High Resolution on My Computer

2010-03-12 Thread agillis
SqueezeSlave will only do 44.1/16. Have you taken a look at VortexBox Player. It will do 192/24 and you don't need your computer on you can hook your preamp to your VortexBox NAS. -- agillis rip, tag, get cover art… All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexbox.org agillis Lead Developer Vo

Re: [slim] Squeezeplay and Squeezeslave

2010-03-12 Thread usch
Does it show up in the SBS web interface? -- usch usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76144 __

Re: [slim] Announce: VortexBox 1.2 released

2010-03-12 Thread agillis
did you reboot? -- agillis rip, tag, get cover art… All you do is insert the CD! http://vortexbox.org agillis Lead Developer VortexBox agillis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21140 View this th

[slim] Squeezeplay and Squeezeslave

2010-03-12 Thread fphredd
I touched on this on another thread, no answers, so figured I'd post it here. I would like to run both Squeezeplay and Squeezeslave on the same box, as it has a touch screen which I think would support Squeezeplay well, but I want to use the asio drivers of my soundcard, hence the inclusion of Sq

Re: [slim] Synced Players

2010-03-12 Thread GeeJay
The latest releases of SBS has improved sync quality dramatically, IMO. The players will still get slightly out-of-sync from time to time (resulting in a slight echo), but it doesn't happen nearly as often for me as it used to. -- GeeJay

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread pippin
ezkcdude;524644 Wrote: > Ok, just did. It's ticket #220. Thanks! > > I also suggested that for Wi-Fi only (non-GPS) iPads, the user could > enter in their zip code manually. > Agree, although I don't think this will be necessary unless you are in a pretty remote area. Google is pretty good at

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread ezkcdude
pippin;524638 Wrote: > Cool idea! > Could you file a ticket for this? > https://trac.penguinlovesmusic.de/trac/ipengnat/ Ok, just did. It's ticket #220. I also suggested that for Wi-Fi only (non-GPS) iPads, the user could enter in their zip code manually. In general, I think that location-base

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread pippin
Cool idea! Could you file a ticket for this? https://trac.penguinlovesmusic.de/trac/ipengnat/ -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread ezkcdude
I'll keep an eye out for it. I have one suggestion, that you may want to consider for the iPhone and iPad. (If you already have this feature, my apologies.) It would be cool to use GPS information to find upcoming gigs in the local area of whatever band you're listening to or similar-sounding ban

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread pippin
"ezkcdude" Wrote: > > > Does iPeng do MusicIP mixes? That's the one feature I really care > about. Without that ability I would never use something else. Of course it does :) That said: iPeng for iPad is still a bit out and even though I di have a general design I'm still taking suggestions.

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread DaveWr
ezkcdude;524605 Wrote: > Is that a prerequisite? Yes, no comment without experience. Dave -- DaveWr DaveWr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread ezkcdude
mortslim;524577 Wrote: > Ipeng gives so much more functionality to the system. It really makes > it a pleasure to discover and change music. > > The web interface doesn’t even come close. > > What iPeng shows that the web interface doesn’t: > > Playlist – list of songs in album or playlist –

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread ezkcdude
erland;524580 Wrote: > It's obvious that you haven't used iPeng or the other iPhone apps. Is that a prerequisite? -- ezkcdude There are 10 kind of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't. SHINYMETAL '*Site*' (http://www.ezdiyaudio.com)| '*RSS*' (http://www2.kumc

Re: [slim] Announce: VortexBox 1.2 released

2010-03-12 Thread pski
I got a lot of return code 0 dialog boxes during upgrade. The first attempt ended after package resolution, so I tried again. After restart, choosing the Squeezebox server icon from the base web UI tries to load http://:9000 I'll try again on another VM copy and type more later. P -- pski

Re: [slim] remote access to my library?

2010-03-12 Thread pski
ejance;524363 Wrote: > guys thanks so much. it was the fact that i didn't open up port 3483 for > udp. now it i can use squeezeplay to access my music remotely and im > thrilled! > > a few follow-up questions: > > what are the risks of having these ports open? a couple of you > mentioned using

Re: [slim] Options for High Resolution on My Computer

2010-03-12 Thread fphredd
bpa;524378 Wrote: > Softsqueeze doesn't play 24/96 because 24/96 is passed unchanged to > Softsqueeze as it is setup to emulate a Transporter and Javasound > doesn't support 24/96. > > You should try squeezeslave as it has a different audio subsystem. AFAIK, squeezeslave will not do 24/96 eithe

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread erland
ezkcdude;524547 Wrote: > I ordered an iPad this morning. Whatever the iPeng app is, there has to > be a convincing case made to me that it does more than the SC web > interface. Otherwise, I'll just use that. > It's obvious that you haven't used iPeng or the other iPhone apps. -- erland Erla

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread mortslim
ezkcdude;524547 Wrote: > a convincing case Ipeng gives so much more functionality to the system. It really makes it a pleasure to discover and change music. The web interface is doesn’t even come close. What iPeng shows that the web interface doesn’t: Playlist – list of songs in album or pl

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread garym
ezkcdude;524547 Wrote: > I ordered an iPad this morning. Whatever the iPeng app is, there has to > be a convincing case made to me that it does more than the SC web > interface. Otherwise, I'll just use that. Funny, I'm just the opposite. I'm thinking about buying an iPAD just so I can run a lar

Re: [slim] anyone using 7.5 embedded?

2010-03-12 Thread JJZolx
aubuti;524573 Wrote: > Wow, I'm not seeing that at all. I just compared loading album pages > (large artwork sorted Artist/year/album) between 7.4.2 and > 7.5.0-embedded and the load times are almost identical. Say around 9-10 > seconds for 50-70 albums. In the web interface it doesn't affect th

Re: [slim] anyone using 7.5 embedded?

2010-03-12 Thread aubuti
Wow, I'm not seeing that at all. I just compared loading album pages (large artwork sorted Artist/year/album) between 7.4.2 and 7.5.0-embedded and the load times are almost identical. Say around 9-10 seconds for 50-70 albums. I installed the latest nightly (r30366), did a clear and rescan, and the

Re: [slim] Synced Players

2010-03-12 Thread aubuti
I get no noticeable delay or echoing with hardware SBs. Software players (SoftSqueeze, SqueezePlay, squeezeslave) and the headphone jack of the SB Controller do not sync reliably. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.

Re: [slim] Synced Players

2010-03-12 Thread pippin
gnnash;524543 Wrote: > I'm looking to use a couple squeezeboxes as a multi-zone music system > some day (a la Sonos). I'm curious for people with multiple > squeezeboxes, how close are two players when they are in "sync"? Is > there a noticeable delay, or a sort of echoing effect? <10ms. No ec

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-03-12 Thread ezkcdude
I ordered an iPad this morning. Whatever the iPeng app is, there has to be a convincing case made to me that it does more than the SC web interface. Otherwise, I'll just use that. -- ezkcdude There are 10 kind of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't. SHINYMETAL

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.2 for iPhone now on the AppStore

2010-03-12 Thread ezkcdude
Siduhe;524517 Wrote: > Have you seen this? > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581&highlight=ipad Thanks! -- ezkcdude There are 10 kind of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't. SHINYMETAL '*Site*' (http://www.ezdiyaudio.com)| '*RSS*' (http:/

[slim] Synced Players

2010-03-12 Thread gnnash
I'm looking to use a couple squeezeboxes as a multi-zone music system some day (a la Sonos). I'm curious for people with multiple squeezeboxes, how close are two players when they are in "sync"? Is there a noticeable delay, or a sort of echoing effect? -- gnnash --

Re: [slim] anyone using 7.5 embedded?

2010-03-12 Thread andyg
Yep, embedded has a new artwork cache that is about 10x faster than the old one. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php

Re: [slim] anyone using 7.5 embedded?

2010-03-12 Thread Michael Herger
> Is your artwork embedded or cover.jpg/folder.jpg? Mine is cover.jpg and > the improvement only seems marginal to me. Certainly not huge. Yet. A bit of everything. The biggest improvement eg. is when loading the albums page. While it would have taken several seconds only to show the artwork, it'

Re: [slim] anyone using 7.5 embedded?

2010-03-12 Thread dsdreamer
- the hardware you're using Buffalo Linkstation LS-XHL (1TB disk, ARM 9 CPU @ 1.2Gz) - general size of your music collection 7.5k tracks - any noticeable speedup in the WebUI? Yes, it's faster for me on this hardware than 7.3.3 used to be on an AMD Athon XP PC. - whether it works with MusicIP (if

Re: [slim] anyone using 7.5 embedded?

2010-03-12 Thread aubuti
mherger;524304 Wrote: > > - any noticeable speedup in the WebUI? > > when artwork is involved then there's a huge improvement > Is your artwork embedded or cover.jpg/folder.jpg? Mine is cover.jpg and the improvement only seems marginal to me. Certainly not huge. Yet. -- aubuti --

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.2 for iPhone now on the AppStore

2010-03-12 Thread Siduhe
ezkcdude;524513 Wrote: > In light of this new class of devices, will we see an iPeng specifically > for the iPad? Perhaps, with the larger format, there are a whole new > host of applications that would make sense. Any thoughts? Have you seen this? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.2 for iPhone now on the AppStore

2010-03-12 Thread ezkcdude
I just pre-ordered an iPad this morning. Clearly, it (and other slate devices) could be a game-changer in that you can easily use the SqueezeCenter web interface in its full glory, something that was obviously not possible on smaller devices. Hence, the need for applications like iPeng on the iPho

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.2 for iPhone now on the AppStore

2010-03-12 Thread killie99
pippin;524382 Wrote: > > iPeng 1.2.1 has been out for a while now but the User's manual was not > completely up to speed with this release. > > Now, this has changed. Have fun! Thanks Pippin, I shall give it to my wife to read! -- killie99 Musical Fidelity KW250S, Impulse H2 speakers, SB3,

Re: [slim] nokia phone as a remote

2010-03-12 Thread hmaki
Yes, I was thinking of switching to PyQt once it gets more stable. But now that MeeGo has announced official support to GTK I'll perhaps just stick with it for the time being. I'm coding with the Scratchbox in Ubuntu VirtualBox. I got it up and running pretty smoothly with the instructions given

Re: [slim] nokia phone as a remote

2010-03-12 Thread bobkoure
dave77;524331 Wrote: > Have you considered doing it in QT as that will cover maemo and symbian? There's a 'PyQT' (http://pyqt.garage.maemo.org/) specifically for maemo. Compared to Maemo, there's a huge number of Symbian smartphones out there. No idea how many have a screen worth bothering with,

Re: [slim] Setting up 96/24 FLAC on SB2/SB3

2010-03-12 Thread dminches
bpa;519597 Wrote: > Softsqueeze is suitable because I know JavaSound only support 44.1kHz > and 48kHz sampling same as SB3 whereas IIRC Squeezeplay and Squeezeslave > used to have problems with 48kHz. I cannot get squeezesoft to play 24/96 files. They play fine on my transporter but when I list

Re: [slim] Is it possible? PC & Albumplayer (a windows media player) direct to Squeezebox

2010-03-12 Thread west_sounds
Phil Leigh;524405 Wrote: > Out of curiousity I downloaded the demo version of AlbumPlayer - here > are my initial impressions (which are obviously skewed by the fact I am > not familiar with the software!) > > 1) took 45 minutes+ to scan in my 32k Track database + about 15 more > minutes to fini

Re: [slim] nokia phone as a remote

2010-03-12 Thread bobkoure
hmaki;524329 Wrote: > I'm writing a Squeezebox remote for N900 in Python + GTK.Good going! I was looking at developing for Maemo, but setting up the development environment was ridiculously hard. Days of fussing and still problems. Switched to Android and was building stuff in a half hour. IMO No

Re: [slim] Is it possible? PC & Albumplayer (a windows media player) direct to Squeezebox

2010-03-12 Thread bernt
I'm a very satisfied web ui user. Sometimes I even prefer it over iPeng. -- bernt 'LastFM' (http://www.last.fm/user/ottovonkopp/) SB3, SB BOOM - SC 7.4.2 - vortex...@hp SFF iPod Touch\iPeng bernt's Profile: http://forums.

Re: [slim] Is it possible? PC & Albumplayer (a windows media player) direct to Squeezebox

2010-03-12 Thread Phil Leigh
toby10;524446 Wrote: > SB players are about not needing direct computer interaction for music > playback combined with excellent audio output. I’d bet the vast > majority of SB users access the web UI control mostly for management, > settings, and maintenance purposes. For enjoying their music

Re: [slim] nokia phone as a remote

2010-03-12 Thread simbo
indifference_engine;524338 Wrote: > This sounds like it may be full of eastern promise and might give us > non-iphone users something akin to ipeng. It also has the advantage of > supporting lots of devices but could be limited by the host app. Are > there any screenshots anywhere of this worki

Re: [slim] Is it possible? PC & Albumplayer (a windows media player) direct to Squeezebox

2010-03-12 Thread toby10
SB players are about not needing direct computer interaction for music playback combined with excellent audio output. I’d bet the vast majority of SB users access the web UI control mostly for management, settings, and maintenance purposes. For enjoying their music collection (or the extensive l

Re: [slim] Is it possible? PC & Albumplayer (a windows media player) direct to Squeezebox

2010-03-12 Thread alfista
west_sounds;524380 Wrote: > > there is no way i could live with that software I have just uninstalled > the lot, squeezecentre, squeezeplay and moose. as good as the hardware > is because of the software it is not for me, I will wait for an > alternative. The way technology is moving on I should

Re: [slim] Is it possible? PC & Albumplayer (a windows media player) direct to Squeezebox

2010-03-12 Thread Phil Leigh
west_sounds;524380 Wrote: > ive been playing with the squeeze centre all night and i have really > come to the conclusion now that it is terrible. I gave it a few days > just to make sure i wasn’t being unfair but the SB software is > absolutely dismal. the hardware is first class probably the be