Re: [slim] Searching forums with google

2010-05-17 Thread Michael Herger
Any chance of removing the robots.txt file? As soon as I'm back at the office. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Searching forums with google

2010-05-17 Thread lrossouw
mherger;548124 Wrote: Any chance of removing the robots.txt file? As soon as I'm back at the office. -- Michael Great! Will help searching for hard to find posts. -- lrossouw Louis 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw)

Re: [slim] OpenFrame remote for SB?

2010-05-17 Thread killie99
Is there a way to get the Joggler to display just the album art of the album that is playing? I have a WHS that does all the squeezecenter stuff so I'm looking for a way to 'push' the album art to joggler from the WHS. -- killie99 Musical Fidelity KW250S, Impulse H2 speakers, SB3, Duet a

Re: [slim] Touch remote for SB3

2010-05-17 Thread fcm4711
Hi there The chip / IR codes in the IR remote need to be programmed quite early in the manufacturing process, but the labels can be decided upon much later. When we developed the SB Touch IR remote we wanted to have the flexibility to assign new functions (if needed) to the bottom three buttons

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

2010-05-17 Thread funkstar
pfarrell;548102 Wrote: What drivel. The SB1 still works, and its firmware hasn't been ugraded in five years. The SliMP3 still works and it hasn't been updated for even longer. I wouldn't have put it like that Pat, but I do agree :) -- funkstar '[project log] funkstars digital lifestyle'

Re: [slim] Touch remote for SB3

2010-05-17 Thread Rhindle
That sounds like a good technical reason. Thanks greatly for the reply. Actually, it might have been better (for me, hehe) if you had used all new codes. Then I could have remapped buttons I don't use into Size and Brightness. I guess I'm mostly just bummed out that I can't buy the

Re: [slim] I am a Squeezebox addict.

2010-05-17 Thread excalibur
erland;542497 Wrote: What operations have to be possible during a party ? Are there more things that should or could be removed than the hit play to clear playlist behavior ? What interfaces have to be supported ? IR ? iPeng ? Controller ? Touch ? Boom/Radio on device buttons ? Is it

Re: [slim] finding squeezebox server on QNAP 119

2010-05-17 Thread excalibur
joopski;542552 Wrote: Hi, apologies in advance: I'm a newbye, I have a few problems. Having update the sorftware on my controllers to 7.5 I need to update my squeezebox software to 7.5 too. However I can't find the Squeezebox server on my NAS. The URLs indicated on my Duet controller

Re: [slim] Why can't I play every song from 1984...

2010-05-17 Thread DigitalMitch
I'm not at home to confirm, so I'm doing this from recall. I went through the exercise of tagging individual tracks in compilations with the correct year, using MP3Tag on FLAC files, and still couldn't get correct 'by year' behaviour. I think (but it was several months ago) that the SBS treated

Re: [slim] finding squeezebox server on QNAP 119

2010-05-17 Thread Flrbb
joopski;542552 Wrote: Any clues as to how I find the correct URL? Many thanks port 9099, I guess or use the usual login to your qnap (port 8080 by default), then go to aplications-qpgs(or whatever they are called) click on that propety button of the SSoTS package and follow the link there.

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

2010-05-17 Thread aubuti
pablolie;548099 Wrote: Has it? Every SBS upgrade -including 7.5- has always upgraded the firmware on my SB3s, which makes me wonder if they'll stay compatible with future SBS versions if the firmware is no longer upgraded. Well, maybe if you upgraded from 7.3 to 7.5, but if you went from 7.4

Re: [slim] Squeezebox control / API

2010-05-17 Thread wpervaiz
indeed using wireshark / firebug would be an option if i was running the squeezebox server. I was hoping to bypass running the server and send commands directly to the receiver. It'll save me some cpu memory on my server and take out an extra link in the chain. any ideas? thanks! --

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-17 Thread FredFredrickson
audiomuze;548068 Wrote: I've had a niggling suspicion for some time that this is inevitably where things are headed. Does anyone know of tools to trawl and duplicate a forum? I easily have the resources and ability to put together a forum.. is this really something people want? I wouldn't

Re: [slim] Squeezebox control / API

2010-05-17 Thread peterw
wpervaiz;548227 Wrote: I was hoping to bypass running the server and send commands directly to the receiver. It'll save me some cpu memory on my server and take out an extra link in the chain. any ideas? Receiver needs a server, so either you use Squeezebox Server, MySq ueezebox.com,

[slim] Squeezebox Touch reviewed at The Register

2010-05-17 Thread cbemoore
Verdict - The Touch is a useful addition to the Squeezebox range and has no real faults beyond being priced a little too closely to the Squeezebox Duet that, at only £30 more, represents better value for money and is more versatile as the heart of a multi-room music system.

Re: [slim] Is the boom being discontinued?

2010-05-17 Thread peterw
pfarrell;548096 Wrote: I tend to agree with @kdf, these forums, especially general, audiophile, touch and boom are all whine and no signal. I don't think it's that bad. I still see many users-helping-users threads, but I do agree that the negative posts are more prevalent than before.

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Touch reviewed at The Register

2010-05-17 Thread bluegaspode
While this review is better than the one from PC-Mag they still don't get the point, that you don't need to install a server anymore ? -- bluegaspode 1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet), 1xSB-Boom. 1xSB-Radio Server (7.4.1) running on SheevaPlug (Ubuntu) with attached Western Digital MyBook

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Touch reviewed at The Register

2010-05-17 Thread cbemoore
bluegaspode;548259 Wrote: While this review is better than the one from PC-Mag they still don't get the point, that you don't need to install a server anymore ? To be fair, they do say: Sign up for a MySqueezebox account and you can use the Touch to listen to Internet radio stations when

Re: [slim] OPB.org stream keeps rebuffering?

2010-05-17 Thread plympton
Mnyb;547982 Wrote: tried it, plays perfect on one player rebuffers when synced ? for me it's only an 48k stream what gives ? Are you syncing a Touch and an SB3? I'm still tracking this down - been building some (physical) doors, so no time this weekend. I *THINK* it could be a Touch bug, or

Re: [slim] OPB.org stream keeps rebuffering?

2010-05-17 Thread Mnyb
Touch,Boom,Radio in Sync . I have 100mB internet but i'm on the wrong continent it could matter. Interesting, leaving out my SqueezePlay players and syncing Boom and My SB3 works OK ? I have to note that my server Boom and Touch are wired Radio and SB3 are on wifi -- Mnyb

Re: [slim] OPB.org stream keeps rebuffering?

2010-05-17 Thread plympton
Rebuffers on Squeezeplay, no syncing, too. Sounds like Chipmunks, but at the 20 second or so mark, it rebuffers, and then every 10 seconds or so. I turned on a bunch of logging in Squeezeplay, but haven't found anything of note. I have a call into OPB to talk with one of their engineers, since

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

2010-05-17 Thread el payo
See this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78832 Thanks Michael! -- el payo SliMP3 [Squeezebox - upgraded to Squeezebox G - sold] Squeezebox 3 Boom Transporter Controller iPeng on iPhone iPad el

Re: [slim] Why can't I play every song from 1984...

2010-05-17 Thread InTheBath
pski;548063 Wrote: Year is a list like entry. If you have compilations that have multiple years, your tagging software has no idea of which year to assign to each track in the compilation. Hence: each song gets all years in the compilation. The fault is your tagging program. I don't

Re: [slim] Why can't I play every song from 1984...

2010-05-17 Thread InTheBath
DigitalMitch;548187 Wrote: I'm not at home to confirm, so I'm doing this from recall. I went through the exercise of tagging individual tracks in compilations with the correct year, using MP3Tag on FLAC files, and still couldn't get correct 'by year' behaviour. I think (but it was

Re: [slim] OPB.org stream keeps rebuffering?

2010-05-17 Thread plympton
Mnyb;548315 Wrote: Interesting, leaving out my SqueezePlay players and syncing Boom and My SB3 works OK ? So it could be a SqueezePlay / SqueezeOS firmware thing. Filed bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16233 -Dan -- plympton

Re: [slim] Why can't I play every song from 1984...

2010-05-17 Thread DigitalMitch
InTheBath, I'm no expert on CustomBrowse, but it provided Years as 'standard' and that worked for me. I'm sure I read some previous debate on the potential interpretations of year which I think is this http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15167 suggest you read and comment/vote If you

Re: [slim] Why can't I play every song from 1984...

2010-05-17 Thread InTheBath
DigitalMitch;548339 Wrote: InTheBath, I'm no expert on CustomBrowse, but it provided Years as 'standard' and that worked for me. I'm sure I read some previous debate on the potential interpretations of year which I think is this http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15167

[slim] Where does the transcoding happen?

2010-05-17 Thread rfrost
I'm almost embarrassed to ask this question, as I've been an SB user for 3 years now, but here goes... I'm finding that on my SB3, when playing .flac and .m4a (Apple lossless?) files, I get stalling on the SB3, as it'll stall, and say, Rebuffering… XX% Where actually is the stall happening, on

Re: [slim] Where does the transcoding happen?

2010-05-17 Thread Phil Leigh
rfrost;548387 Wrote: I'm almost embarrassed to ask this question, as I've been an SB user for 3 years now, but here goes... I'm finding that on my SB3, when playing .flac and .m4a (Apple lossless?) files, I get stalling on the SB3, as it'll stall, and say, Rebuffering… XX% Where actually

Re: [slim] Where does the transcoding happen?

2010-05-17 Thread snarlydwarf
rfrost;548387 Wrote: I'm almost embarrassed to ask this question, as I've been an SB user for 3 years now, but here goes... I'm finding that on my SB3, when playing .flac and .m4a (Apple lossless?) files, I get stalling on the SB3, as it'll stall, and say, Rebuffering… XX% Where actually

Re: [slim] Where does the transcoding happen?

2010-05-17 Thread JJZolx
Transcoding happens on the server. FLAC, though, isn't transcoded unless you've changed some advanced settings - it's streamed as-is to both the SB3 and Touch. Sounds like your problems are most likely to be with your network. Are the players connected wirelessly? -- JJZolx Jim

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Touch reviewed at The Register

2010-05-17 Thread ralphpnj
cbemoore;548262 Wrote: To be fair, they do say: Sign up for a MySqueezebox account and you can use the Touch to listen to Internet radio stations when your PC is switched off, as well as to access services such as MP3tunes and Last.fm. I believe that you have missed the point. What PCMag

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Touch reviewed at The Register

2010-05-17 Thread timearp
I read the Reg review this morning. I found it to have missed a number of major functions, mainly that there isn't the need to install the server software. I wouldn't purchase on the basis of that review, mainly as there are much cheaper options available. A shame that the person reviewing it

Re: [slim] Where does the transcoding happen?

2010-05-17 Thread rfrost
Sorry, Phil, I should have specified. -- rfrost rfrost's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5532 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78905

Re: [slim] Where does the transcoding happen?

2010-05-17 Thread rfrost
So the emerging consensus is that it's a network issue; I'll check that thoroughly, as I've had problems on that leg of the network in the past. It just seems odd that I'd get a slowing rather than an all/none result, as is usual in the digital world. Yet more digging in dusty areas to check the

Re: [slim] Where does the transcoding happen?

2010-05-17 Thread JJZolx
rfrost;548429 Wrote: So the emerging consensus is that it's a network issue; I'll check that thoroughly, as I've had problems on that leg of the network in the past. It just seems odd that I'd get a slowing rather than an all/none result, as is usual in the digital world. Yet more digging in

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Touch reviewed at The Register

2010-05-17 Thread cbemoore
ralphpnj;548406 Wrote: I believe that you have missed the point. What PCMag describes in the above quote is and has been possible to do with any previous SqueezeBox device. What the Touch can do that no previous SqueezeBox device was able to do is enable one to listen to one's own music

Re: [slim] Where does the transcoding happen?

2010-05-17 Thread Pat Farrell
JJZolx wrote: That's why streaming MP3 instead of FLAC will often gain you continuous playback - the same buffer that holds 30 seconds of FLAC audio might hold 2 minutes of MP3 audio. This is 100% true. Back when the SB1 was current and it used 802.11b, you could often find that you could not

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Touch reviewed at The Register

2010-05-17 Thread m1abrams
I think most of the reviewers miss the point that SB products have always had. Syncing, and centralized server. Yes I am one of the few weird people that sees having a central server as a benefit not a burden. The central server with dumb clients aspect is why iPeng will work with a Slimp3 and

Re: [slim] I am a Squeezebox addict.

2010-05-17 Thread erland
excalibur;548183 Wrote: I would think that a normal user should only be allowed to add single songs (without clearing the playing playlist). And with a power-user password or user-customisable button-presses, should open up to allow adding more than one song at a time (Dynamic-Playlists,

Re: [slim] I am a Squeezebox addict.

2010-05-17 Thread JJZolx
erland;548474 Wrote: Does this mean that we need to disallow usage of Internet radio in this mode ? Yes, it does. From the old Party Mode enhancement request: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8878 Permit playing music only from the local library. Don't allow playing of