pablolie wrote:
> So I have a sizeable library (over 30k songs), but for the first time,
> LMS will not include new songs (MP3s) I got. They don't show up under
> "New Music", and if I manually navigate to the folder, it will declare
> it "empty"... despite the fact the siongs are there. "Clear a
Is there anything in the scanner log file?
I assume your folder for the new songs is a subfolder of your "root"
music folder configured in LMS.
Is there anything special in the folder path to the new songs? You could
copy the new songs to a new dedicated folder and enter that path in
addition to
Pippin, I definitely support the idea that iPeng is worth the price you
ask for it. Even with new Euro prices. The amount of work you put into
it so far is staggering.
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Just got a glimpse of the future, and it is phone shaped.
I have been a bit late to the smartphone market. I have an old 2nd
generation iPod Touch but it was a bit sluggish with apps so did not
really go far down that route.
My cell phone contract came up for renewal and I needed to economise so
Oh, and several other things such that your home is left without a
music-system when your phone=you is not available for music-playback :)
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Also Im not reading you clear when you on one hand say you understand
Logitech for leaving a product one can get for free, and on the other
hand say that there *is* a market (for Sonos and such) to take over?
bhaagensen
Smart phone and/or tablet = controller and/or player and has done for a
long time now
Does it ever worry you that you are so far behind?
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WMP does not recognize your MP3Tag edits for genre?
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bhaagensen wrote:
> Oh, and several other things such that your home is left without a
> music-system when your phone=you is not available for music-playback :)
>
> Also Im not reading you clear when you on one hand say you understand
> Logitech for leaving a product one can get for free, and on
The lack of Napster/Spotify on non-SB devices has been the only barrier
to me following a similar path. I don't use them much, but I want to
have the RIGHT to, goddamit!
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Yes, I think I'm with you. Though I think you are overlooking one
important aspect the Squeezebox-brand [had...].
Namely a unique status as a high-fidelity, high-quality, feature rich
(almost "complete"), very reasonably priced streaming solution. Even
with todays plethora of offerings, the comp
Mick Seymour wrote:
> Do the tracks have replay gain data in them? LMS can only use it if the
> information is there. It isn't something the player does AFAIK.
When the file is encoded replay gain (RG) data has to be added for the
system to work. I use dBPoweramp with the RG "plug-in" when rippi
Well I'm 52. :-)
I've had iPhones for a few years now, and also have a Google Nexus 7. My
wife (whose phone I borrow as and when) has an HTC desire and son an
iPod.
We use iPeng on the Apple devices (although the latest update has
confused us and is very flaky on my 3GS) and Orange Squeeze/Logit
TheLastMan wrote:
> When the file is encoded replay gain (RG) data has to be added for the
> system to work. I use dBPoweramp with the RG "plug-in" when ripping
> CDs. The player can then either interpret the RG data in the file and
> apply it - or ignore it. However it is up to the player whet
bhaagensen wrote:
> Yes, I think I'm with you. Though I think you are overlooking one
> important aspect the Squeezebox-brand [had...].
>
> Namely a unique status as a high-fidelity, high-quality, feature rich
> (almost "complete"), very reasonably priced streaming solution.
> [snip]
> As I sa
Mick Seymour wrote:
> Do the tracks have replay gain data in them? LMS can only use it if the
> information is there. It isn't something the player does AFAIK.
Yes and it works fine when I am playing with my receivers or
transporter. So it is a "player" issue.
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ModelCitizen wrote:
> Well I'm 52. :-)
Ah, but obviously young at heart!
(so am I by the way)
> I've had iPhones for a few years now, and also have a Google Nexus 7. My
> wife (whose phone I borrow as and when) has an HTC desire and son an
> iPod.
> We use iPeng on the Apple devices (although t
Both of my Controllers are bricks. Won't charge. I've changed the
batteries but they just run out and never recharge. The bases are OK and
so are the devices. The connections between them make. It's baffling.
ModelCitizen's
ModelCitizen wrote:
> Well I'm 52. :-)
> ...and the Touch is just a bit of a white elephant (makes a nice clock
> though).
Not sure what you mean by that. Are you saying that you no longer use
it as a streamer? Or just that just the screen is superfluous?
If my amplifier and speakers are stati
It's both the player and the server who have to support it.
The server generates replay gain values which then have to be used by
the player.
I can only speak for iPeng but I believe it will be similar for
SqueezePlayer: there are two ways to control volume on a phone player:
you can modify the ac
You might want to check for extended tags as well. Right click in
MP3Tag.
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Bowler wrote:
> I will try WinAmp. One of the annoying things ir the genre lists in
> the various taggers don't really match up with the one used by WMP
> '''For instance, there is a "Piano Jazz" in WMP but nowhere else, it
> seems.
>
> Another gripe I've got is this: I have a number of CD's
Yes, I mean it's a lovely touch screen fixed in place by the wires to
the amp/speakers which seems inconvenient/unnecessary when you've got
use to controlling all elements of your music systems via a
phone/handheld. Obviously a different case than a Boom or a Radio which
are combined player/contr
+1 on what Aubuti says. You should control your tags not the software.
One tool I used when 1st setting up my library was to use Squeezeplay on
my PC. I could look at things such as an album showing 2x or a genre tag
I had not assigned. I found many issues there which I fixed to make my
library
While your files are in Mp3tag, highlight them and press "ALT+T" to
display "Extended Tags". You may see those files have another
"genre-like" tag uniquely written and displayed by WMP that is
superceding your edits. (This should cease to be a problem if you stop
using WMP.)
http://msdn.microso
aubuti wrote:
> When it comes to tags, and especially genres, pedantic is in the eye of
> the beholder.
>
> My advice is not to let WMP, or any other software, select your genres
> for you. Ignore whatever prefab lists of genres that WMP, Winamp,
> iTunes, and the rest of them have.
>
> *You*
ModelCitizen wrote:
> Both of my Controllers are bricks. Won't charge. I've changed the
> batteries but they just run out and never recharge. The bases are OK and
> so are the devices. The connections between them make. It's baffling.
That's a shame. When I drop mine into its dock the screen brig
One of the Controllers was from the beta program so I think it's
probably not supposed to work now. The other one was always frustrating
(dropped signal, slow scrolling, badly executed UI) so I don't really
miss them!
Orange Squeeze on the Nexus 7 tablet provides the best experience but
lacks som
Future proof consumer electronics investments are perhaps best thought
of as a lottery - it happens that they pay dividends as well as not.
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ModelCitizen wrote:
>
>
> Orange Squeeze on the Nexus 7 tablet provides the best experience but
> lacks some higher level features (e.g sync),
If you touch the tiny white triangle against one of the players, a
context menu should appear, with the option to sync players.
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ModelCitizen wrote:
> Both of my Controllers are bricks. Won't charge. I've changed the
> batteries but they just run out and never recharge. The bases are OK and
> so are the devices. The connections between them make. It's baffling.
My Controller appears to be the sa
TheLastMan wrote:
> In fact in terms of "features" (plug-ins etc) the competition are not
> even half-way there, and likely never will be as most, like AirPlay and
> Sonos, are closed proprietary protocols.
>
As long as we are talking about the currently known competitors I tend
to agree, they a
adhawkins wrote:
> My Controller appears to be the same. Sits in the cradle and works fine,
> as
> soon as you take it out, it switches off.
>
> Could be the battery failed I guess.
That's a very good guess. I'm not sure where you are, but replacement
batteries are available from Amazon in the U
I suggest you develop a system for tagging-what fields you are going to
use and how you enter data, and try to keep to it as much as possible.
You might want to have a record to refer to. Helps to be a bit anal
about it. I have been at this for about 2.5 yrs and still find issues
that need fixing.
Well to each his / her own to say the least. I for one will not move to
anything if it does not support a good base for syncs. In my house we
use syncronization lots and a phone with music player is not going to
get me there without some other technology supporting it. I have 5
rooms in my hous
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TheLastMan wrote:
>
> The phone is a Sony Xperia Tipo which cost £80 + £10 for a 32GB microSD
> card bringing the total cost to around a 1/3 that of a new 32GB iPod
> Touch and only 2/3 of a 16GB Nano! In the face of the competition how
> Apple can justify those prices beats me.
Well for a star
I sometimes edit tags and sometimes don't. As a result I have something
like 150 different tags applied to my music. Totally useless.
What I'd like would be to use maybe 6 different tags, and fit all my
music into that so I had some way of doing a preliminary sort, but I can
never figure out wh
RonM wrote:
> I sometimes edit tags and sometimes don't. As a result I have something
> like 150 different tags applied to my music. Totally useless.
>
> What I'd like would be to use maybe 6 different tags, and fit all my
> music into that so I had some way of doing a preliminary sort, but I
I have decided to revert to an older version of Squeezecentre Server, as
the latest LMS release is frequently crashing on my Window 2008 Server.
I need to find an older, stable version that supports the use of more
than one Music folder (on separate network shares). I've tried 7.2,
7.3.4 and 7.5.4
itm wrote:
> I have decided to revert to an older version of Squeezecentre Server, as
> the latest LMS release is frequently crashing on my Window 2008 Server.
> I need to find an older, stable version that supports the use of more
> than one Music folder (on separate network shares). I've tried
For Live Concert I put the location and date and sometimes the venue.
Then I know it's a live show. How do you use the Live Concert genre tag
gary ?
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Oh that's a shame as I remember 7.7.1 being pretty unstable on my server
as well. I'm sure there were earlier releases which were able to handle
folders which simply contained shortcuts to network shares. Or maybe
there was another trick to getting this to work. Does anyone
know/remember??
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dasmueller wrote:
> For Live Concert I put the location and date and sometimes the venue in
> the album field. Then I know it's a live show. How do you use the Live
> Concert genre tag gary ?
My album name is date and venue, that is: 1969-12-26 - SMU McFarlin
Auditorium
Then I put live concer
As long as Sonos has such ridiculous limitations on the number of tracks
in its database and the type and length of metatags, it will be continue
to be practically worthless for any serious music collector (basically
5,000+ album titles). A dealbreaker before even getting into any of the
technical
Have you tried 7.7.2 (regular windows install rather than windows server
version). Not sure but seems with some versions of windows server this
is needed.
7.7.2 has been extremely stable for me on win 7 machine and Linux
machine.
And thus you avoid the chatter that often comes at the beginning or end
of a track and also the intro tracks ?
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garym wrote:
> Have you tried 7.7.2 (regular windows install rather than windows server
> version). Not sure but seems with some versions of windows server this
> is needed.
>
> 7.7.2 has been extremely stable for me on win 7 machine and Linux
> machine.
Yes it's v7.7.2 that's been unstable fo
dasmueller wrote:
> And thus you avoid the chatter that often comes at the beginning or end
> of a track and also the intro tracks ?
Mostly I just prefer to listen to entire concerts if thats what im
interested in (and not hear any of these tracks when doing any random
song playlists).
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pippin wrote:
> As garym stated: you can pinch to zoom the artwork but on pre-iPhone-5
> devices it will them be overlaid by the text.
> If you look at the screen closely you will notice that making the text
> "smaller" won't help, the only option that allows to show the artwork in
> full width w
05mattjax wrote:
>
> Can we toggle between prior ipeng releases? If I can I might just instal
> latest old release to see if I miss it!
If you have a backup of the old version, you can delete the new one,
drag the old one back into iTunes and sync it to the device.
That's the only way.
I thoug
How are you specifying the shortcuts, and what OS / type of share do you
have running on the network shares?
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aubuti wrote:
> How are you specifying the shortcuts, and what OS / type of share do you
> have running on the network shares?
I'm creating the shortcuts from Windows Explorer - right click in the
folder then "New Shortcut". One of the shares is on a NAS (Netgear NV+).
The other is on a Windows
I guess the world is passing me by. Neither my wife nor I have ever had
a cell phone or tablet. Personally the thought of constantly being
available, which I think is the curse of the cell phone, repels me. I
like technology but I like to leave it at home when I go out. The
thought of texting peop
In flac files you can have more than one of each tag so multiple genre
tags should be possible .
And I also have Xmas music as a genre that I can exclude for random play
, unless it is Xmas .
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Mnyb wrote:
> In flac files you can have more than one of each tag so multiple genre
> tags should be possible .
>
> And I also have Xmas music as a genre that I can exclude for random play
> , unless it is Xmas .
Yep, I do a bit of this too, but not for live concerts. Though I might
reconsider
get.amped wrote:
> As long as Sonos has such ridiculous limitations on the number of tracks
> in its database and the type and length of metatags, it will be continue
> to be practically worthless for any serious music collector (basically
> 5,000+ album titles). A dealbreaker before even getting
pippin wrote:
> What was the problem with iPeng? Have you tried 2.0?
i will try 2.0.
Honestly, the interface didn't seem so friendly. for my friends passing
around the ipad to add songs, ipeng would add the whole album from
rhapsody instead of the one chosen song. i havent used it in a while
b
ecalcott wrote:
>
> but, for my friends passing around the ipad to add songs, ipeng would
> add the whole album from rhapsody instead of the one chosen song.
>
That was actually a design decision by Logitech. If you used iPeng the
same way as the Logi App (adding through the context menu) it di
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