Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-15 Thread JJZolx
What happened to the stories of the VFDs no longer being manufactured? How do you continue to manufacture the Boom without the VFD? -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-15 Thread Mnyb
It's not the same size of vfd. Transporter uses 2 of the same size as SB2/3 . VFD's are used by other products so the display type is still made. It's only speculation but maybe that exact model that fists inside SB3 and tranporter is EOL. -- Mnyb

[slim] UK - opal.radiotime feeds down?

2010-05-15 Thread HydeTheDarkerSide
Hi is anyone else having problems accessing the BBC feeds from opal.radiotime this morning? http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s24940formats=aac,mp3,wma,wmpro,wmvoice,wmvideo,oggpartnerId=16 Tried Radio 2 and Radio 1, both time out. Tried the url in WMP and that complained of a network

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

2010-05-15 Thread orcocan
frallan10;542720 Wrote: Ok Jocke thanks for the reply. I play my spotify through mysb.com and it works fine when i start a playlist or one song. But when you change song by just dubbelclick on the song you want to play it starts for 2 sec and then starts buffering. If you pause before you

Re: [slim] 02 Joggler 50 quid again

2010-05-15 Thread dave77
yep you can swipe. It just has a headphone socket. SquuezePlay fits the screen perfectly, see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78257 -- dave77 Boom - Controller - Touch - Joggler(SqueezePlay) - SBS 7.5 on Acer Revo R3610 Win7

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

2010-05-15 Thread OppfinnarJocke
Erik L;547549 Wrote: But anyway, even though it might not be of interest to most users, how would it be possible to transfer Spotify in wav format instead? Does anybody know what could be used instead of Lame? If I just remove lame_dll.enc from the Spotify directory, what will happen? (OK,

Re: [slim] KFI 640 AM Los Angeles

2010-05-15 Thread Leo63
I just returned 2 squeeze box booms to Best Buy 3 days ago and returning one Monday to Amazon. The problem is as far as I know is that the Boom will not play AAC without the computer on using Squeezebox server. This defeats the purpose of having the radio. I was hoping the Squeeze box radio would

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-15 Thread FredFredrickson
Mark Miksis;547494 Wrote: So you're going to solve this problem by starting yet another unofficial source of information? With all due respect, IMO that's the last thing we need. Quite the opposite, I plan on gathering official information and placing it in one place. -- FredFredrickson

Re: [slim] KFI 640 AM Los Angeles

2010-05-15 Thread bpa
The issue is not Radio is unable to play AAC streams - it can play HTTP AAC streams such as those from SomaFM. The problem is with station which have decided to use Flash players which have the audio stream embedded in Flash. These streams (the format can be AAC or MP3) cannot be played without

[slim] Feature request: alarm duration extension

2010-05-15 Thread TheAbbot
Hi, I love my Squeezeboxes, largely because of the system's flexibility, but one thing I've never understood is why the duration of alarms is restricted to only 90 minutes. The only way I've found to set a longer duration (since a recent update fixed a way you could get around this in the SBS

Re: [slim] KFI 640 AM Los Angeles

2010-05-15 Thread andyg
KFI appears to only have an AACplus stream, so will work on Radio/Touch but does require SBS for older players. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread:

[slim] Last.fm recent stations

2010-05-15 Thread wireless200
I'm unable to locate recent stations in the squeezebox menu. How to access those? Basically I'm looking for some of the options available from the http://www.last.fm/listen page. It seems like it should be under My Stations but no. Under Start A Station you can enter in an artist but it

Re: [slim] KFI 640 AM Los Angeles

2010-05-15 Thread bpa
As a test the following URL for KFI works on Radio using MySB Code: http://kfi-am.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/121/19771/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/kfi-am -- bpa

[slim] OPB.org stream keeps rebuffering?

2010-05-15 Thread plympton
This is weird - I know there's a few Oregonians here that listen to OPB.org's (NPR) station. I have 2 squeezeboxes - an SB2, and a Touch - synced. Using the latest 7.5.1 nightly, and latest 7.5.1 on the Touch. The link is this: http://www.opb.org/programs/streams/opb-radio.pls 1. If I play

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

2010-05-15 Thread Erik L
OppfinnarJocke;547679 Wrote: I looked at the code... As it is written now it requires lame to do (re-)compression, it will give an error message (Could not load lame_enc.dll) if it cannot load the dll. It would be possible to program around that, but I guess FLAC would be the best choice

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

2010-05-15 Thread Erik L
I do not understand this. Now all of a sudden I managed to get DSBridge to work again. And I almost only did what I have been doing over and over again for more than an hour, with one difference. Desperately I wrote localhost instead of the IP address in the favorite address field: