Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread Mnyb
That is clear they want complaints where the support staff are. But what is not that clear to is why there is no links from this forum to such interesting places like http://downloads.slimdevices.com/ and others like the firmware upgrade repository where can get new fw to your controller etc . ch

Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool

2010-12-23 Thread Mnyb
Marvt74;596436 Wrote: > Looks like 128 is the factory default setting. I've changed this to 1 to > set it to Wireless. (0 is wired) > > I've changed that and the lan gateway and lan network address as > advised. > > I've also done some reading and found that my wireless network region > should

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread bluegaspode
Ron Olsen;596523 Wrote: > iPad playback -- a brilliant new feature! > > I've tested it on my local music library (.flac, .mp3, .m4a, .wma), > Internet radio, Sirius Radio, last.fm, and Slacker; all are good. > > Unfortunately, Pandora requires a subscription to play to the iPad, and > Rhapsody

Re: [slim] SqueezeRemote for nokia phones

2010-12-23 Thread pichonCalavera
Just installed the application on my Nokia N8, gonna see how it works -- pichonCalavera *rip* (eac) > *convert* (flac) > *tag* (musicbrainz/mp3tag) > *normalize* (replaygain/foobar2000) > *albumart* (www/firefox) > *transport* (winscp) > *store* (debian) > *manage* (squeezecenter) > *control*

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread pippin
Nice work. But actually playback didn't "arrive" on iPad now, there's been an iPhone App that works on iPad from the beginning on and then there's another dedicated iPad App which does Squeezebox playback for quite a while now, too. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *N

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread bluegaspode
pippin;596548 Wrote: > Nice work. > But actually playback didn't "arrive" on iPad now, there's been an > iPhone App that works on iPad from the beginning on and then there's > another dedicated iPad App which does Squeezebox playback for quite a > while now, too. Yesterday I told my wife, that I

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread Ron Olsen
bluegaspode;596543 Wrote: > Hi Ron, > thanks for your thorough testing. > (I'd be happy if you report your results on the AppStore as well - I > promptly got some comments from people who didn't get it running, but > also didn't contact support *sigh*) ! > > Do you have some spare time betwee

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread toby10
I'll bet this forum simply disappears some day, sooner rather than later. :( -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php

[slim] Library rescanned automatically?

2010-12-23 Thread Zoltan
I noticed my library got rescanned this morning but I had not requested a rescan. What could have triggered this? I don't remember setting up any regular automated scan (I wouldn't know how to without researching it a bit) and even if I had, I would want it to happen during the night and not at a

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread pippin
bluegaspode;596551 Wrote: > Yesterday I told my wife, that I'm pretty sure that I'd get such a > comment from you ;) > So you knew you are claiming something, say, exaggerated? > > For most people who don't like workarounds this is still the arrival of > nice integrated playback ... You don't

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread JJZolx
toby10;596554 Wrote: > I'll bet this forum simply disappears some day, sooner rather than > later. :( I'd say probably more later rather than sooner, but who knows? Logitech is one of the most technically inept corporations that I'v even seen, and that's the biggest reason. If these forums, i

Re: [slim] Net::UDAP - SqueezeBox Receiver configuration tool

2010-12-23 Thread Marvt74
Magic, cheers fella. Looks like its a network issue then. I'm guessing it must be something to do with the various WEP/WPA settings then which i don't really understand. How can i even tell what type of code i have? All i know is its a 26 digit code made up of letters A-E and numeric values -

Re: [slim] Squeezebox can't connect via WLAN

2010-12-23 Thread mnoble_uk
Yes I am having exactly the same issue - it seems to be something around assigning IP addresses. I have just changed from a netgear router with static IPs to a homehub2 and it is driving me crazy ! I have factory reset everything and got things working several times only for the SB receivers to

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread Mnyb
JJZolx;596558 Wrote: > Logitech is one of the most technically inept corporations that I'v even > seen. If thats the case they may not have found this forum themselves to delete it ;) ssh -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +

Re: [slim] Library rescanned automatically?

2010-12-23 Thread bobkoure
If you're using MusicIP, changes there can trigger a SBS rescan, unless you disable it. -- bobkoure bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread erland
toby10;596554 Wrote: > I'll bet this forum simply disappears some day, sooner rather than > later. :( > At least the content is backed up on gmane, so if it would be shutdown we still have access to the information: http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.music.equipment.slimdevices Howeve

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread jbuccino
OK. I got the workaround to allow me to access my server. Now I can select my iPad and navigate through my music collection but when I try and select something to play all I get is a pop up saying "Playback Error - No audio data found." The music is standard mp3 and naturally plays fine on my othe

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread andyg
Could it be caused by disabling in-app purchases? I couldn't get the button to work either and I have in-app purchases disabled to keep my kids from buying all sorts of crap! -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimde

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread pippin
I don't think that's it. I get the same message when I try to access my remote server, maybe it's that. And the purchase did work for me, I can use a local server. Or it's authentication, that's another difference between the two servers. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote a

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread rkotemp
pippin;596556 Wrote: > > You don't need any workarounds to use Squeezey.But squeezey does not support > my flac files, squeezepad does. Also squeezey has no radio or apps support, squeezepad does. Just tested all the things i use, and they all work with squeezepad and playing on the iPad. Nice

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread pippin
rkotemp;596600 Wrote: > But squeezey does not support my flac files, squeezepad does. > This is wrong, both work the same way. > > Also squeezey has no radio or apps support, squeezepad does. > This is true. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*,

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread andyg
FYI Pandora blocks software players unless you have a premium account. And Rhapsody will not be possible as it's encrypted, so don't waste any time trying. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.ph

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread pippin
I also can't get Napster to work, at least not directly from MySB (haven't tried SBS). -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://fo

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread aubuti
erland;596593 Wrote: > However, there are no indications that they plan to shutdown the forum, > so let's not worry about that yet. I strongly suspect that this forum continues only because of Logitech's benign neglect. I don't imagine they have any plans to shut down this forum, but it's easy to

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread Michael Herger
> I strongly suspect that this forum continues only because of Logitech's > benign neglect. No, it still exists because some of us do really care about it. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread bluegaspode
I wouldn't say that Squeezey and SqueezePad work the same. Squeezey only supports mp3, so the LAME codec needs to be installed on the server - and anything must go through the CPU intensive mp3 encoding. SqueezePad support a lot more formats natively (and I'll implement native FLAC in some later v

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread aubuti
mherger;596613 Wrote: > No, it still exists because some of us do really care about it. I find that very encouraging. Thanks, and keep up the good fight. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.ph

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread FredFredrickson
Big companies that haven't quite embraced the web 2.0 scare me. I hate it when I love a product that they kill off due to negligence. The fact that the most vocal users in the squeezebox community are debating when logitech will drop a product is bad news. Even if logitech plans another release,

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread andyg
Napster is WMA so that's probably why. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84100

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread bluegaspode
jbuccino;596594 Wrote: > OK. I got the workaround to allow me to access my server. Now I can > select my iPad and navigate through my music collection but when I try > and select something to play all I get is a pop up saying "Playback > Error - No audio data found." The music is standard mp3 and

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread Mnyb
mherger;596613 Wrote: > > I strongly suspect that this forum continues only because of > Logitech's > > benign neglect. > > No, it still exists because some of us do really care about it. > > -- > > Michael So the community runs on your computer :) -- Mnyb ---

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread jbuccino
I turned off authentication and now SqueezePad can play my music so it looks like you are right. I guess I'll have to wait until January for a fix. Thanks. BTW I'd be happy to beta test - I have a Touch, a Transporter, a Controller and an iPad - all used frequently. -- jbuccino

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread erland
FredFredrickson;596618 Wrote: > > The fact that the most vocal users in the squeezebox community are > debating when logitech will drop a product is bad news. > Exactly, so let's try to avoid doing that. I know it can be very frustrating and I'm aware that I'm sometimes on the wrong side of th

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread rkotemp
pippin;596603 Wrote: > This is wrong, both work the same way. > Thas not wrong. Its a fact. Squeezy can not playback my flac files and Squeezepad can with the same squeezeboxserver. So they do not work the same way. It may be working with your server if lame is installed. But on my NAS there is

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread bluegaspode
Hi jbuccino, I'd be happy to get you as a Beta tester, please drop me a line at support(at)squeezepad.com so that I can provide you with further details about how to become a Beta tester. If I send you a beta build we can even fix your issue before the new year arrives. -- bluegaspode Big Scr

Re: [slim] How to find these forums from "Logitech" these days?

2010-12-23 Thread NFLnut
JJZolx;596456 Wrote: > Ever heard of a bookmark? A what? All I'm saying is that it's confusing why at least SOMEWHERE on the Logitech site there is no reference to this forum. They could bury it SOMEWHERE, but I have scoured the site and I have to date found no reference to these forums. It's k

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread ericj
Just tried Napster using my SBserver, and probably because of transcoding, it works fine. I do find that occasionally that both Napster and BBC IPlayer seem to require a touch of the stop and start control to stream. All else, FLAC etc. seems to work fine. -- ericj ---

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread guidof
The recent update of squeezepad provides a most welcome change that makes it much easier to tap the left hand side letters without inadvertently launching a track. BUT, embedded art is now privileged over cover.jpg files! This is not an improvement for those who have painstakingly inserted high-q

Re: [slim] Library rescanned automatically?

2010-12-23 Thread Zoltan
Thanks for the suggestion but I don't use MusicIP. Anyway I guess it doesn't matter too much as long as it doesn't start doing it too frequently. I was just a bit surprised that it happened and wondered if there was some automated/scheduled scan facility that I was not aware of. -- Zoltan ---

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread bluegaspode
guidof;596660 Wrote: > BUT, embedded art is now privileged over cover.jpg files! This is not an > improvement for those who have painstakingly inserted high-quality > artwork and now have to de-embed all art manually if they want to see > the higher resolution (larger), higher quality art. Please

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread bluegaspode
ericj;596658 Wrote: > Just tried Napster using my SBserver, and probably because of > transcoding, it works fine. I do find that occasionally that both > Napster and BBC IPlayer seem to require a touch of the stop and start > control to stream. > > All else, FLAC etc. seems to work fine. This

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread pippin
rkotemp;596644 Wrote: > Thas not wrong. Its a fact. Squeezy can not playback my flac files > and Squeezepad can with the same squeezeboxserver. So they do not work > the same way. > It may be working with your server if lame is installed. But on my NAS > there is no lame and it does not work with

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread guidof
bluegaspode;596667 Wrote: > Hi guidof, > > > Is there any need to keep the embedded art if it's of lower quality > than the folder.jpg ? > There are great tools that can remove all embedded art automatically at > once (Bliss being one of them - I wrote a blog about it some time ago: > http://w

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread Mnyb
Squeezeboxserver scanner prioritize embedded art over folder files so all art and thumbnails in sbs and all Squeezeplay interfaces comes from embedded art if that is present in an album. Why not emdedd the larger art in the files ? too -- Mnyb

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread bluegaspode
Mnyb;596677 Wrote: > Squeezeboxserver scanner prioritize embedded art over folder files so > all art and thumbnails in sbs and all Squeezeplay interfaces comes from > embedded art if that is present in an album. What server version are you using? At least on my (7.5.2) Radio I always see the emb

Re: [slim] SB3 display question

2010-12-23 Thread Kyle
Cheers! -- Kyle Regards, Jim Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84093 ___ dis

[slim] Should I disable unused plugins?

2010-12-23 Thread Kyle
Almost all of my plugins are enabled -- default, I guess, since I didn't do it. Does it make any difference? I hardly use any of them. -- Kyle Regards, Jim Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

Re: [slim] Should I disable unused plugins?

2010-12-23 Thread JonWill
Very good question- and as I run SBS on a very low powered NAS I'd be very interested in the answer... -- JonWill Main system: SB Classic, Musical Fidlity A1, Mission 733i speakers SB Classic into old JVC microsystem (next thing on list to upgrade!) SB Boom, Logitech Z4 subwoofer SB Radio SB

Re: [slim] Should I disable unused plugins?

2010-12-23 Thread rcampbel3
Here's my experience: I started out enabling everything - recommended and otherwise and enabled plugin auto-update. I hit some issues with auto-update of plugins where some plugin updates were causing overall issues with SBS 7.5.1 -- presumably some regressions between plugins developed for 7.6 a

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-12-23 Thread guidof
Mnyb;596677 Wrote: > Squeezeboxserver scanner prioritize embedded art over folder files so > all art and thumbnails in sbs and all Squeezeplay interfaces comes from > embedded art if that is present in an album. > > Why not embed the larger art in the files ? too > > This design make images co

Re: [slim] Should I disable unused plugins?

2010-12-23 Thread pski
JonWill;596701 Wrote: > Very good question- and as I run SBS on a very low powered NAS I'd be > very interested in the answer... If it says the source is Logitech, Good Luck! p -- pski real stereo doesn't just wake the neighbors, it -enrages- them.. -

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread Ron Olsen
andyg;596604 Wrote: > FYI Pandora blocks software players unless you have a premium account. > And Rhapsody will not be possible as it's encrypted, so don't waste any > time trying. Good to know. Rhapsody has an iPad app, so not having Rhapsody iPad playback in SqueezePad isn't a show stopper.

Re: [slim] Mirrorfolder

2010-12-23 Thread bobkoure
Interesting. I've just been using a script running robocopy that gets invoked when I stick a drive in (I've got an adapter you can just stick a bare SATA drive into, connects via e-SATA). First time ever autorun has come in handy. Moving disks manually means I'm often out of sync, but only by the

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread jhonsber...@msn.com
Ron Olsen;596719 Wrote: > Good to know. Rhapsody has an iPad app, so not having Rhapsody iPad > playback in SqueezePad isn't a show stopper. Ditto Pandora -- jhonsber...@msn.com jhonsber...@msn.com's Profile: http://for

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback arrives on iPad: SqueezePad 1.7.0 released

2010-12-23 Thread gharris999
Well done! I'm trying the test drive right now and it's working well. Just a couple of hiccups when trying to switch tracks rapidly...what you would expect given the transcoding that has to happen server-side. So...how much more work to make the flac decoding happen client-side? I'm not compla

Re: [slim] ANNOUNCE: iPeng for iPad - Your Squeezebox Remote Gets Big

2010-12-23 Thread jimzak
pippin;596476 Wrote: > Is this iPeng 1.0.3? > iOS 4.2? > How many albums do you have overall? Do you get the blue progress bar > in Albbums? Yes, latest versions of iPeng/iPad and iOS. I have 10788 CDs encoded and available at this time. -- jimzak http://zzzone.net http://have-a-nice-day.or

Re: [slim] Library rescanned automatically?

2010-12-23 Thread bobkoure
There is an automated rescan, but it's off by default. Might be worth a look -- bobkoure bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.

Re: [slim] Should I disable unused plugins?

2010-12-23 Thread JJZolx
I disable most of the ones I don't use and leave enabled only the ones that I use regularly, or that I might sometimes use. If nothing else, the server requires less memory with a minimal set of plugins loaded. The only ones that are a must for me are: Data and Time (screensaver) Random Mix Res

Re: [slim] ANNOUNCE: iPeng for iPad - Your Squeezebox Remote Gets Big

2010-12-23 Thread pippin
OK, so the problem is probably that iPeng synchronizes it's cache each time you start it up due to overnight changes to the database. Can you see whether the time the progress bar is shown under "Albums" coincides with the delays? As is true so often: upgrading to 7.6 beta would probably help, it

Re: [slim] Library rescanned automatically?

2010-12-23 Thread erland
Which Squeezebox Server version ? I think the 7.6 beta performs automatic rescans when a file in the music folder has been changed. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland).

Re: [slim] HELP! Squeezebox sync mode, some players stop playing sound.

2010-12-23 Thread squeezeb
Came back for an update: Wired everything up, and all the Squeezeboxes worked fine. Went back to wireless, and things acted up again. Tried changing the router's channel to one that wasn't used by any of the local wireless networks, and it seemed to work, but alas: no go. Tried changing channels t

Re: [slim] ANNOUNCE: iPeng for iPad - Your Squeezebox Remote Gets Big

2010-12-23 Thread belaynvnas
You have an iPad and you are a Squeezebox user? Or you do already use iPeng and you feel you sometimes need a big screen to search for stuff. The Squeezebox web interface is too slow for you? Then we’ve got something for you: iPeng for iPad is here.Of course, iPeng for iPad will give you all the f