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

Are you both on W7? Maybe even x64? There was a big update for W7 just the other day, maybe that broke something for DSbridge. DSBridge wraps the dsound.dll, maybe something was changed there... -- OppfinnarJocke // OppfinnarJocke SqueezeBox Duet, Controller FW 7.5.0 r8673, Player FW 65 I main

Re: [slim] how to setup a proper ABX test

Erland has made a long time ago a ABX-plugin for the Squeezebox. See my thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68251&highlight=ABX and http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/7.4/trunk/contrib/plugins/ABTester/ It is fun to test by yourself but others have made similar tests for you.

Re: [slim] Where does the SB Duet find NRK shows?

Østfold University College has a VERY nice service if yoiu are interested in Norwegian state broadcast streams: http://media.hiof.no/radio/ Pick your channel and get a nice streamin url. The way NRK.no SHOULD work... -- johanneswh --

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

Hi, I have the same problem as Thellit and Jorg. Since yesterday Spotify cannot be streamed by DSBridge resulting in error on SB: Connection Time Out - Bad File Descriptor. OS: Windows 7 (x64). I also use DSBridge to stream ITunes to SB: that still works! So something is changed by Spotify? MrV

Re: [slim] accessing ITunes from external hard drive

Thanks P Just to clarify, I should set up a new ITunes library within the external hard drive and then point to that new location? -- paul44birch paul44birch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3731

Re: [slim] accessing ITunes from external hard drive

paul44birch;554657 Wrote: > Thanks P > > Just to clarify, I should set up a new ITunes library within the > external hard drive and then point to that new location? You have several approaches here depending on your goals. If you simply want ONE itunes library, but now want it located on your e

Re: [slim] accessing ITunes from external hard drive

Thanks for the detailed reply. I assume once done I can then go throught the laborious (but necesary) process of re-ripping my cds as Apple Lossless, which will then be stored on the external drive? -- paul44birch paul44b

Re: [slim] accessing ITunes from external hard drive

Also do I not need to change setting within squeezebox so that it finds the new hard drive? -- paul44birch paul44birch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37318 View this thread: http://forums.slimde

Re: [slim] accessing ITunes from external hard drive

paul44birch;554679 Wrote: > Thanks for the detailed reply. I assume once done I can then go > throught the laborious (but necesary) process of re-ripping my cds as > Apple Lossless, which will then be stored on the external drive? yep, you'll be good to go. how many CDs are you talking about ri

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

I am using Windows XP. -- jorgg jorgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31332 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64590 ___

Re: [slim] accessing ITunes from external hard drive

Quite a lot- 500 plus. What is EAC and dbpoweramp? Did you get me question about changing settings in squeezebox? -- paul44birch paul44birch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37318 View this thre

Re: [slim] accessing ITunes from external hard drive

paul44birch;554700 Wrote: > Quite a lot- 500 plus. What is EAC and dbpoweramp? > > Did you get me question about changing settings in squeezebox? do you use itunes integration in Squeezebox? If so, I assume the only setting change you need is to tell Squeezebox in the settings where your itune

Re: [slim] accessing ITunes from external hard drive

Hi Gary Yes I am a bit new to all this. I have enjoyed listening to my music on a relatively hi end system over many years (Naim, Audio Innovations) and since investing in the Squeezebox duet I am enjoyng the freedom it gives to listen to more music. Thanks for all the advice. I will try some

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

Well, obviously all the new features it provides with 7.4/7.5 won't be there, especially all the context menu stuff. Support for 7.3 will also not get better in the future, even today it's very, very hard to stay compatible with several versions of the server. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Sque

[slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

I have recently changed my players to be all squeezeboxes (2 radios and a duet) and I love them. Its made me think that I would like to convert the existing music collection from WMA lossless to FLAC, and then run everything in FLAC (i.e. ripping new CD`s and, just as importantly, burning FLAC fil

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

JayLaFunk;553095 Wrote: > iPeng is a great app and looks fantastic on my iPod Touch, I also have > an iPad, I don't know how you can say it looks great on the iPad, my > text and album artwork are all blurred, what have you done for the "2X" > size to make it look good? There's an extension avai

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

Great, So I FINALLY decide to get Spotify Premium, and the moment I do DSBridge stops working! Same problem as others mention, have Windows 7, and can connect via Dsbridge on my PC via :8124, but only get a second of music, then it stops working, and cant connect via my Logitech Radio. Hope th

Re: [slim] how to setup a proper ABX test

Nando1970;553875 Wrote: > > Any suggestion? > As already said, make sure to rip to a lossless format, FLAC is good. This is a good idea even if you immediately afterwards convert them to MP3, the reason is that multiple conversions between lossy compressed format will make the music lose more q

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

Hi I have W7 x64 on my computer. J -- Thellit Thellit's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38692 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64590 __

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

scoob101;554722 Wrote: > I have recently changed my players to be all squeezeboxes (2 radios and > a duet) and I love them. Its made me think that I would like to convert > the existing music collection from WMA lossless to FLAC, and then run > everything in FLAC (i.e. ripping new CD`s and, just

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

Don't bother burning FLACs for the car. Use MP3s (or AAC if your player supports it), you'll never hear the difference between 192k MP3s and FLACs in car. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! -

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

andynormancx;554755 Wrote: > Don't bother burning FLACs for the car. Use MP3s (or AAC if your player > supports it), you'll never hear the difference between 192k MP3s and > FLACs in car. I think you may be talking about playback from a portable player like an iPod, Zune, or Sansa. There I woul

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

andynormancx;554755 Wrote: > Don't bother burning FLACs for the car. Use MP3s (or AAC if your player > supports it), you'll never hear the difference between 192k MP3s and > FLACs in car. I think it depends on the car and the persons ears. I burned a bunch of 192k songs to 12 disks so I could dr

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

All I can say is you must have a very quiet car and very special ears indeed. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! andynormancx's Profile: http://forums.sli

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

andynormancx;554755 Wrote: > Don't bother burning FLACs for the car. Use MP3s (or AAC if your player > supports it), you'll never hear the difference between 192k MP3s and > FLACs in car. But surely it is easier to maintain one set of music files than two? I wish the CD player in my car would pla

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

You're right that it's easier to maintain one library than two, but with one of the various available tools (eg, dBpoweramp baatch converter, flac2mp3.pl, mp3fs, etc) it doesn't take much more effort. And for some of us the convenience is well worth the modest incremental effort. Also, having FL

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

Any in car player that doesn't have room for all your music is the wrong idea anyway ;) *looks lovingly at the 64GB empeg in the corner* -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! --

Re: [slim] how to setup a proper ABX test

erland;554738 Wrote: > > > You don't want to end up having to re-rip your collection just because > you want better quality later and wanted to save some GB of hard drive > space. As many others I've been there and done that, it's not fun. > > +1. It took me all of 10 seconds to notice the d

Re: [slim] $25 off VortexBox Appliance

Your Welcome! -- 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 thre

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

Assuming that you're talking about burning audio discs and not data discs, check out the freeware Bun: http://www.burrrn.net/ Also, Foobar 2000 has a "burninate" extension which will allow you to burn audio discs from flac sources. I'm a big fan of Poikosoft's EZ-CDDA Extractor. Great ripp

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

Car units that play FLAC? I learn something every day. Who makes these things? (Everybody?-- boy would I be humbled..) P -- pski real stereo makes the lights dim on the bass notes. pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdev

Re: [slim] Looking for outdoor speakers

Mike Anderson;554394 Wrote: > Is the Boom loud enough to cover a small/medium outdoor area - say 25' > by 30'? Find a decent used sub and the boom works fine. I use a velodyne va907. p -- pski real stereo makes the lights dim on the bass notes. --

Re: [slim] what about a "touch" oriented skin

JJZolx;554289 Wrote: > Touch screen PCs are pretty few and far between. And, there's only been > one new web skin developed by Logitech over the last several years - the > Default skin that you see. And, the whole Squeezebox project appears to > be de-emphasized within Logitech. It's extremely

Re: [slim] Easy tool to rework audio tracks

Additionally, if your sound driver supports "stereo mix," Audacity can record whatever you are listening-to from the internet. (nod. Nod. Wink. wink.) P -- pski real stereo makes the lights dim on the bass notes. pski's

Re: [slim] Using iTunes and having high quality

copperstate;554077 Wrote: > If you are a Mac user and use iTunes, I would recommend Apple Lossless > as iTunes does not support Flac. As a non-Mac user, I chose to iTunes because you can select to encode lossless (be sure to also select to use error detection) and because you can tell it to take

Re: [slim] Using iTunes and having high quality

agillis;554193 Wrote: > The biggest advantage of the VortexBox is you don't have to have your > computer on all the time. Also you have central point to store your > music and all your files. You can also use the VortexBox to stream > music to almost any player not just your SqueezeBox. VortexBox

Re: [slim] what about a "touch" oriented skin

pski;554809 Wrote: > If the money grabbers can sell the SOOLOS and knowing how we > later-lifers who need reading glasses don't really want to use zoomed > browsers on wall-mounted plasmas, it's hard for me to believe the > simple making of a skin is moronic. I didn't say it was moronic. I said

Re: [slim] what about a "touch" oriented skin

pski;554809 Wrote: > If the money grabbers can sell the SOOLOS and knowing how we > later-lifers who need reading glasses don't really want to use zoomed > browsers on wall-mounted plasmas, it's hard for me to believe the > simple making of a skin is moronic. > It's just that Logitech won't do i

Re: [slim] Fm transmitter

I've been using a little battery-powered FM-transmitter as well. The transmitter is connected to a splitter in the SBR's headphone jack; one side of the splitter goes to the FM-transmitter, the other goes to a stereo RCA cable on a stereo set. In using an FM-transmitter, there are at least 3 i

Re: [slim] Program to Rip AND Burn to FLAC

I don't know about units made specifically for cars, but there are a lot of options with portable music players. You can use Rockbox (www.rockbox.org) to make several portable players FLAC-capable, including iPods, SanDisk, Archos, Cowon, etc. And there are some portable players that come FLAC-cap

Re: [slim] Using iTunes and having high quality

pski;554812 Wrote: > I don't understand the "have your computer on all the time." Yeah, that is a very confusing and misleading statement, since Vortexbox runs on a computer! In fact it's completely useless without a computer. I suspect agillis means if you get a Vortexbox appliance (or another c

Re: [slim] how to setup a proper ABX test

thank you everybody. Just to make you all sleep well ;-) my CD collection is ripped in FLAC using EAC for my home listening, then converted to MP3 for the iPod, and I've been advocating FLAC it's a long time now Anyway I would love to be able to do some proper ABX test and I'll investigate into