[slim] Tray icon not showing

2010-05-13 Thread racey
I start the squeezebox server manually (due to a problem with the NAS). This works but the tray icon does show. Is there a way to get it to appear? -- racey racey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-13 Thread usch
snarlydwarf;547253 Wrote: > Add in that even if they tossed a million hours into development time, > they are really against the bar on features they can add in the limited > resources of the Boom and other ip3k devices. Just not enough > memory/flash/cpu to do much more. Besides that, since IP

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox control app for Palm webOS devices

2010-05-13 Thread wt0
Heavy or prolonged use of the pre does seem to cause random glitches to the phone in general and not just my app. The pre I'm using is just for development (I waiting for the GSM version in the US before I get one for regular use), so it's not that heavily used, but even so it seems to randomly l

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox control app for Palm webOS devices

2010-05-13 Thread sleepysurf
wt0;546886 Wrote: > Try restarting the phone. That seems to fix random glitches. And of > course, make sure wifi is on and connected. That DOES fix the problem, but I certainly don't want to have to do that on a regular basis! BTW, I haven't had time to try streaming from a USB memory stick a

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-13 Thread pski
brucegrr;547226 Wrote: > This is not an official Logitech forum. It is a user forum that > sometimes practices the art of speculation. > > Any other site linking to a discussion on this forum and considering it > an official Logitech statement...is acting quite foolishly. > > As far as I kn

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-13 Thread snarlydwarf
kdf;547227 Wrote: > They just need to follow the link posted in the original post of that > thread. There is a big difference between no further developement and > discontinued. Essentially, there is no longer any internal resource > time > that will be allocated to developing the older player

Re: [slim] Searching forums with google

2010-05-13 Thread usch
lrossouw;546988 Wrote: > For interest: > > Used to searching the forums using google with the site operator as > follows: > http://www.google.com/search?q=squeezebox+site:forums.slimdevices.com&hl=en&rlz=1C1_enIN367HK353&prmdo=1&prmd=s&filter=0 > > These days the results seem very poor qual

Re: [slim] Squeezebox randomly drops station

2010-05-13 Thread MrSinatra
and try winamp on internet streams a computer behind the sonicwall too, see how it does. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.5b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 40k+ mp3 -

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-13 Thread peterw
richman;547220 Wrote: > > Is this true? If not you might want to crush the rumor. > I don't think Logitech can crush rumors. Look at the huge thread started when someone thought he heard some low-level Logitech employee say that Receiver was discontinued -- even having senior Logitech Squeez

Re: [slim] Bye bye to Boom and Transporter....

2010-05-13 Thread kdf
> > Is this TRUE? NO. Read the bugzilla link, as it doesn't even need 'official clarification' beyond what's there. It only mentions stopping devel efforts for older 'ip3k' hardware players. Officially, you get what you have now. This doesn't preclude third party patches, at least for software-

Re: [slim] Squeezebox randomly drops station

2010-05-13 Thread MrSinatra
so you have the hardware, (what kind of SB is it?) and the SBS software both behind the sonicwall, meaning on the same LAN side? and you can't get the hardware to connect to the software? are both connections wired? sometimes it can be a pain to get them talking, you need to reboot etc... i wo

Re: [slim] Bye bye to Boom and Transporter....

2010-05-13 Thread brucegrr
richman;547219 Wrote: > Is the boom being discontinued? > Yes or no? > Please post link supporting that info, because other places on web are > linking to this thread, saying this shows they are getting rid of Boom > and transporter. Is this TRUE? This is not an official Logitech forum. It is a

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-13 Thread andynormancx
If you read that thread then you'll find that support for the Boom isn't being discontinued. All that is happening is no new features will be added to the Boom firmware. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! --

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-13 Thread kdf
They just need to follow the link posted in the original post of that thread. There is a big difference between no further developement and discontinued. Essentially, there is no longer any internal resource time that will be allocated to developing the older player UI or firmware. The limited r

[slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-13 Thread richman
I was on another forum and someone was saying that the BOOM is discontinued? Is this true? The other person gave link to a topic in this General Discussion, with Thread title: Bye bye boom and transporter http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78462 Is this true? If not you might want t

Re: [slim] Squeezebox randomly drops station

2010-05-13 Thread hellbringer616
By "hit it" i meant i can't connect the Squeezebox to SBS, and i installed it locally and while the squeezebox said it never connected. It did somehow get connected once just long enough to update. But since then, it's impossible for either device to see one another. According to the sonicwall po

Re: [slim] Spotify on Squeezebox now possible?

2010-05-13 Thread erland
mariowing;547061 Wrote: > > The most promising project I've found is this: http://h3x.se/. It is > available today as a java app and works. But the interesting thing is > that the guy is developing a new version based on the OFFICIAL Spotify > api and it is my understanding that his solution wil

Re: [slim] What is the best app to sync squeeze with apple products?

2010-05-13 Thread Chunkywizard
Me too, although I also use CustomScan to import iTunes ratings into SBS to allow me to replicate SmartList functionality with Erlands excellent plugs ins. HTH CW -- Chunkywizard *Squeezebox:* Boom x2 (Lounge and Office), Radio (with battery) *Server:* 7.5.0 for Windows Home Server (HP EX-4

Re: [slim] Bye bye to Boom and Transporter....

2010-05-13 Thread jay_cee_in_da_house
The audio out of the Radio is acceptable, but it doesn't hold a candle to the Boom. I hope they continue to have a high-quality-speaker product like the Boom. -- jay_cee_in_da_house jay_cee_in_da_house's Profile: http://f

Re: [slim] MusicIP and accented characters in 7.5.1

2010-05-13 Thread tamanaco
treble;547148 Wrote: > SqueezeCenter can create mixes with accented characters in the filename, > however it won't play them since it can't find them because of the wrong > character encoding (the error will show up in the log). Do yours > actually play? > > This character encoding has been an

Re: [slim] Duplicate posts using mailing lists

2010-05-13 Thread MrC
I haven't seen dups since mail started flowing again from the forum-to-mail gateway yesterday. There was a backlog of about 1000 messages, most of which I deleted w/out checking for existence of dups. But since then, it has looked OK. -- MrC

Re: [slim] forums -- now limited to 50 private messages??

2010-05-13 Thread Michael Herger
> I wonder if this could be related to whatever was done to fix the > recent gateway problem... The actual problem from the past days wasn't a forum configuration issue at all. It was a firewall doing its job meticulously... That said I've been looking at forum configuration options, and I did f

Re: [slim] Duplicate posts using mailing lists

2010-05-13 Thread Michael Herger
> It's even better forum post from you that are using mail to post appears > as double posting on the web forum Are they still doubled? Didn't get any duplicates today (on the mailing list). -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevice

Re: [slim] Squeezebox randomly drops station

2010-05-13 Thread MrSinatra
i don't know what you mean by "hit it." i also don't know how you updated the FW without a local SBS install. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.5b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 40k+

Re: [slim] MusicIP and accented characters in 7.5.1

2010-05-13 Thread treble
SqueezeCenter can create mixes with accented characters in the filename, however it won't play them since it can't find them because of the wrong character encoding (the error will show up in the log). Do yours actually play? This character encoding has been an issue with many versions of Squeez

Re: [slim] 02 Joggler 50 quid again

2010-05-13 Thread dave77
The sounds not brilliant but it makes a great bedside alarm clock, considering another for the kitchen! -- dave77 Boom - Controller - Touch - Joggler(SqueezePlay) - SBS 7.5 on Acer Revo R3610 Win7 dave77's Profile: http:/

Re: [slim] OpenFrame remote for SB?

2010-05-13 Thread colincliff
the £50 deal is back! http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78759 -- colincliff colincliff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36572 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthrea

Re: [slim] 02 Joggler 50 quid again

2010-05-13 Thread colincliff
would definitely recommend people pick up one of these if they can, especially with 3guk's work on the joggler squeezeplay skin :) -- colincliff colincliff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36572 V

[slim] 02 Joggler 50 quid again

2010-05-13 Thread dave77
http://shop.o2.co.uk/joggler http://www.joggler.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=430 Great for SqueezePlay on Ubuntu -- dave77 Boom - Controller - Touch - Joggler(SqueezePlay) - SBS 7.5 on Acer Revo R3610 Win7 dave77's P

Re: [slim] Bye bye to Boom and Transporter....

2010-05-13 Thread funkstar
sander;546204 Wrote: > I always thought the radio was in essence the boom 2. No a Boom 2 would be stereo I think. The Radio might gain a new core and interface, but it looses on sound and volume. -- funkstar '[project log] funkstars digital lifestyle' (http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-lifestyle/

Re: [slim] What is the best app to sync squeeze with apple products?

2010-05-13 Thread peterdgreenway
I use a very similiar approach and works very well indeed. -- peterdgreenway peterdgreenway's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37377 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] PCMag review of Touch

2010-05-13 Thread newy
IMO, the SB Radio would be better suited to a bedside headphone rig as it could double as an alarm clock (if the alarm was reliable!). I think the same applies to most desktop situations. I do see the argument for it to be wall mounted although there are probably better options... I love my SBo

Re: [slim] forums -- now limited to 50 private messages??

2010-05-13 Thread peterw
Mark Miksis;546984 Wrote: > > Your account seems to be in the "awaiting email confirmation" mode. > Did you recently do a password reset or something else that wold have > autogenerated an email from the forums that you need to respond to? If > not, let me know and I can fix your account. Tha

Re: [slim] PCMag review of Touch

2010-05-13 Thread dsdreamer
I don't particularly like it when a source component absolutely requires that I have the remote in my hand to make use of it. At least with the SB Touch, I can still use it if my remote has slipped behind a sofa cushion or gone to wherever remotes go when you most need them... There are a number

Re: [slim] PCMag review of Touch

2010-05-13 Thread toby10
newy;547066 Wrote: > .. To me, and I may be wrong, the SB Touch totally misses the mark, > whatever that mark is. I do see your point, but I respectfully disagree. Touch is packed with features and options to be used in multiple different usage scenarios. Features that may not make se

Re: [slim] PCMag review of Touch

2010-05-13 Thread newy
To me it just seems like a touch screen would be way more suited to the Radio so that I could actually use it. To each their own though I guess - I'm sure the Touch fits some consumers setups/needs perfectly. -- newy newy

Re: [slim] PCMag review of Touch

2010-05-13 Thread m1abrams
newy;547066 Wrote: > He's right. What is the point of having a touch screen if it supposed to > be used with an A/V system which is probably IR controlled? The SB3 or > Transporter are much more appropriate and easier to read than the SB > Touch and the SB Radio and SB Boom, with their built in

Re: [slim] What is the best app to sync squeeze with apple products?

2010-05-13 Thread garym
I use SB for my home music system and itunes for synching with my ipods/iphones. I'm not sure there is anything much easier for you to do, but then again, I find it pretty simple. Here's what I do: 1. My SB stuff is not connected to ITUNES in any way. That is, I do NOT use the SB/itunes integrati

Re: [slim] Duplicate posts using mailing lists

2010-05-13 Thread Mnyb
It's even better forum post from you that are using mail to post appears as double posting on the web forum -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe'Primare and Dynadio speakers (includ

Re: [slim] What is the best app to sync squeeze with apple products?

2010-05-13 Thread adamdea
Have you tried mediamonkey. I think it's very good, assuming that you are only interested in audio- it doesn't do video. It also allows yopu the prvilege of synching your iphone with any computer running mediamonkey- it doesn;t confine you to just one. I find this useful to take downloads/rips fr

Re: [slim] What is the best app to sync squeeze with apple products?

2010-05-13 Thread cunobelinus
No - using iTunes; very interested; but am without any alternatives to offer that better it, or that don't involve Parallels and Windows, so it would have been pointless to respond. Regards to you, too. On 13 May 2010, at 09:46, local.bin wrote: > > Ok so no one using apple products without u

Re: [slim] MusicIP and accented characters in 7.5.1

2010-05-13 Thread tamanaco
Hmmm, I did not noticed, until I saw this thread, that this accented character issue with MusicIP was back. I guess it came back with 7.5 as it was working fine for me with previous releases of SBS. My library has tons of World music and I have used accented characters in the tags, path, and files

Re: [slim] PCMag review of Touch

2010-05-13 Thread newy
He's right. What is the point of having a touch screen if it supposed to be used with an A/V system which is probably IR controlled? The SB3 or Transporter are much more appropriate and easier to read than the SB Touch and the SB Radio and SB Boom, with their built in speakers, are much more appr

Re: [slim] Duplicate posts using mailing lists

2010-05-13 Thread Mr_Orange
I received about 50-60 email notifications yesterday and I am only subscribed to three threads!! -- Mr_Orange Mr_Orange's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37785 View this thread: http://forums.slimd

Re: [slim] Spotify on Squeezebox now possible?

2010-05-13 Thread mariowing
erland;545237 Wrote: > I'm definitely willing to contribute to this, could we use HTTP or JSON > ? Or did you have something else in mind when saying tcp/ip ? No, that was exactly what I had in mind. Forget about my tcp/ip talk :-) erland;545237 Wrote: > It feels like the plugin part for play/

Re: [slim] Squeezebox randomly drops station

2010-05-13 Thread hellbringer616
I'll give that a shot then, When i updated the squeezebox to firmware 7.5.1I couldn't ever hit the slim server software. I was never able to hit it. But i did get it to update. Is there anyway to fix that? -- hellbringer616 --

Re: [slim] PCMag review of Touch

2010-05-13 Thread jimzak
I emailed the author of the review but I doubt this will change anything. -- jimzak http://zzzone.net http://have-a-nice-day.org http://www.last.fm/user/zzzoneDOTnet http://somethingsomethingsomething.net Ripper: dBpoweramp Router: Lynksys WRT56GL Server: SBS 7.5.0 - dedicated Atom-based nett

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2010-05-13 Thread flattermann
kc5f;545991 Wrote: > Works beautifully on the Samsung Moment - it's the first app I always > show off on my new phone! It would be nice if it recognized players > that have lost MSB connection and show up as disconnected online to be > able to "wake them up again", like the Duet Controller does.

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

2010-05-13 Thread flattermann
FredFredrickson;545499 Wrote: > Hey- purchased recently for my Droid, very nice app, indeed. > > Just thought I'd add my two cents: > Random Mix and MusicIP. > > Two things I use the most. I rarely build my own playlists or listen to > an individual artist. > > Just a thought. > > Good app, t

Re: [slim] Squeezebox account

2010-05-13 Thread Mnyb
.. they are connected to your local server. A player connects either to your local squeezeboxserver or mysqueezebox.com -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe'Primare and Dynadio spe

Re: [slim] What is the best app to sync squeeze with apple products?

2010-05-13 Thread local.bin
Ok so no one using apple products without using iTunes, or just not interested? :-/ Regards -- local.bin local.bin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22053 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevic

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

2010-05-13 Thread OppfinnarJocke
Erik L;547017 Wrote: > One thing I do not understand with DSBridge is why it is necessary to > recompress the music through Lame to MP3. This recompressing most > likely reduces the sound quality. Would it not be possible to transfer > the sound to the receiver in Redbook CD format instead? > >

[slim] Squeezebox account

2010-05-13 Thread cap_scarlet
On my squeezebox account when I look at the "my players" tab I can see my player but it says it is disconnected. Why is that - any idea? -- cap_scarlet cap_scarlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?useri

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

2010-05-13 Thread Erik L
One thing I do not understand with DSBridge is why it is necessary to recompress the music through Lame to MP3. This recompressing most likely reduces the sound quality. Would it not be possible to transfer the sound to the receiver in Redbook CD format instead? Erik L -- Erik L --

Re: [slim] Squeezebox randomly drops station

2010-05-13 Thread MrSinatra
there is a setting in SBS to allow you to force it to proxy an internet stream to the hardware, instead of the hardware handling it directly (and alone). not sure where, but its in there. (it is not a web surfing proxy, thats different and unrelated to this) in order to do that, you will need a