Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread erland
Julf wrote: > I think the community alternative is just as likely - either as a > fork/development of the current code base, or as a complete rewrite. The > actual code is not really the problem (especially if using a real > programming language :) ), the hard part is figuring out the protocol, >

[slim] Pandora Streaming problems

2012-12-17 Thread MTU
Since the weekend I have been having issues keeping Pandora streaming on my squeezeboxen. After about an hour I receive the message the system cannot receive the info for the next track and all my devices either display "PANDORA_" or go into standby. As a test I opened Pandora on my tablet and it

Re: [slim] heard on the grapevine: replacement for Squeezebox Touch

2012-12-17 Thread erland
khewa wrote: > not sure if this is true, but there is talk that there is a replacement > coming up for the Squeezebox Touch, called the Touch Advance. Anyone > heard about this ? > If you want to spread rumors, at least post links to where you have seen them posted. -

[slim] heard on the grapevine: replacement for Squeezebox Touch

2012-12-17 Thread khewa
not sure if this is true, but there is talk that there is a replacement coming up for the Squeezebox Touch, called the Touch Advance. Anyone heard about this ? khewa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?use

Re: [slim] iPeng, your iPhone Squeezebox Remote, gets even better with version 2.0!

2012-12-17 Thread CharlieG
CharlieG wrote: > Is it only suppose to work at upper level album view? > If I select Albums>I get the scalable option. > If I select New Music>I get the scalable option. > If I select Artist>The Avett Brothers(or any artist, or All Albums)>the > album art is not scalable. pippin wrote: > Oh wo

Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!

2012-12-17 Thread pippin
Sorry, I mixed "OS" up with "Operating System". No OrangeSqueeze is not even on the top-list of power consumers, even Google Maps is more prominent although that App has done nothing but crashing on startup since I installed the update So your connection is probably down, indeed. ---

Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!

2012-12-17 Thread db122
pippin wrote: > Well, there certainly still _is_ a connection (after all, at least SP > communicates with the server) and OS/WiFi are (a distant) #2 and #4 in > the "battery drain" list at 13% and 8%. > > I'll send the logs when it happens again. Thanks. My guess is that there's only a connect

Re: [slim] What can I do now? Squeezebox classic died

2012-12-17 Thread BeerCan
Allright. The player is getting power. The network connection light on the switch illuminates when I plug it in. So it is like this thing is not booting. I tried to do a factory reset but nothing happened. (hold the + key when plugging in) ---

Re: [slim] What can I do now? Squeezebox classic died

2012-12-17 Thread azinck3
BeerCan wrote: > Thanks bpa > > I tried a couple of different psu and none of them worked. Also I > removed the wifi from this unit years ago. Man, I wish these were still > around. You can still get them used on eBay. If you want to turn your HTPC into a Squeezebox install Squeezeplay. --

Re: [slim] What can I do now? Squeezebox classic died

2012-12-17 Thread BeerCan
bpa wrote: > Does the optical connection light up ? > If not check PSU ? > If it does then try removing the wifi card as a faulty wifi card will > prevent a SB classic from booting. Thanks bpa I tried a couple of different psu and none of them worked. Also I removed the wifi from this unit yea

Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!

2012-12-17 Thread pippin
Well, there certainly still _is_ a connection (after all, at least SP communicates with the server) and OS/WiFi are (a distant) #2 and #4 in the "battery drain" list at 13% and 8%. I'll send the logs when it happens again.

Re: [slim] What can I do now? Squeezebox classic died

2012-12-17 Thread bpa
Does the optical connection light up ? If not check PSU ? If it does then try removing the wifi card as a faulty wifi card will prevent a SB classic from booting. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?user

Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!

2012-12-17 Thread db122
pippin wrote: > Yes. Actually all of what you write would be the behavior I would expect > and want. OK, good, thanks Pippin. I'm going to release a new preview sometime today, and I will add a bit of temporary logging to it that won't require you to enable 'verbose logging' to see. I'm hoping it

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng UE, the iOS App for the Smart Radio

2012-12-17 Thread pippin
There's a small update of iPeng UE now available on the App Store (1.0.1) It fixes some issues with player and server handling (you can correctly select a Radio even if you have more than one and inactive servers go away) And the "Search" menus are now also available on iPhone. -

[slim] What can I do now? Squeezebox classic died

2012-12-17 Thread BeerCan
Hi all My SB classic just died. Not sure what happened but it is not powering up. I was wondering if I could get some suggestions. The system where this died is near an htpc. Is there a way to go coax out on the pc to my amp and still use LMS? I want to keep LMS because I have a boom and a du

Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!

2012-12-17 Thread pippin
Yes. Actually all of what you write would be the behavior I would expect and want. Unfortunately, it's not what I've been seeing recently when I had SqueezePlayer running all night even though I didn't touch my Nexus and it was not connected to external power. It doesn't happen all of the time (ar

Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!

2012-12-17 Thread db122
pippin wrote: > Update: Killing OrangeSqueeze has helped and at least after killing it > also the player did not automatically restart when looking at the > lock-screen widget (it's never been my selected player there) So for 1.3.x, I would expect that Orange Squeeze would keep the local Squeeze

Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread PasTim
pippin wrote: > Um, why is that? > Apple were actually the driving force behind removing DRM from > downloaded music so if anybody helped you to actually "own" downloaded > Music, it's them. They forced it on the record companies. There are those, the RIAA for instance, who appear to claim we nev

Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread pippin
PasTim wrote: > Both :-) > from which I might subsequently borrow music, for a fee, but never own > it. Um, why is that? Apple were actually the driving force behind removing DRM from downloaded music so if anybody helped you to actually "own" downloaded Music, it's them. They enforced it on the

Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread PasTim
Julf wrote: > ...we either prefer the superior functionality the SB system gives us, > or that we resent the gilded iCage apple forces you into, or both. Both :-) To give you an example there is no way on this earth I am going to give Apple my credit card number just for the privilege of browsin

Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread Julf
Steven Moore wrote: > Moved to Apple TV a while back and don't regret it. I am glad that solution works for you, but the reason most of us are still part of this forum and community instead of hanging out in the Apple fanboy groups is that we either prefer the superior functionality the SB syste

Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread Julf
erland wrote: > My crystal ball tells me that the following will happen (sometime in the > not too distant future): > 1. Some critical problem occurs that makes LMS more or less useless for > a lot of users > 2. One of the following will happen: > - Logitech steps up and shows that they really me

Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread PasTim
I am hoping that by running LMS on a dedicated Linux box that I don't need to update in any way, I can keep LMS running for a long time. My music streaming pre-amp (a Musical Fidelity M1CLic) supports UPnP. However, having spent some time adding extra tags to my music (mainly Work, Movement and

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2012-12-17 Thread TheLastMan
A (very) minor irritation for me is that Squeeze Player will start up randomly for no obvious reason. Usually I am away from home so not using any of the three SqueezeBox controller apps I have installed, or any other music apps (Last.fm, Poweramp, Spotify) yet Squeeze Player will start up and sit

Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread pippin
Airfoil is just a hacked version of AirPlay. Can't make a "system" out of that. pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191

Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread nekomatic
I keep meaning to write to Rogue Amoeba and suggest that they consider developing their 'Airfoil' (http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/) product into a music player system that could serve as a Squeezebox replacement - they've got the streaming-audio-over-the-network bit, how hard would it be to in

Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread menno
Mnyb wrote: > > > It may not be completely trivial to make it run on any linux box in the > dockstar case it migth actually be the cpu that is the problem ? don't > know if mip server runs on anything but x86 . Ah yes, good point. It was a while ago that I looked into this, and that was actual

[slim] Get up to 30 music downloads with the purchase of select Logitech UE products

2012-12-17 Thread chipmalee
This may be a moot point but I haven't got any time to listen to my music library after getting a SqueezeRadio but here it is anyways... http://www.logitech.com/en-us/promotions/10627?WT.mc_id=amr_us_lue_email_122012_eventful_email Hundreds of popular artists. Thousands of your favorite songs. A

Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!

2012-12-17 Thread pippin
Update: Killing OrangeSqueeze has helped and at least after killing it also the player did not automatically restart when looking at the lock-screen widget (it's never been my selected player there) pippin's Profile: http:/

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Music-Playback now on ANDROID! SqueezePlayer released to the market ...

2012-12-17 Thread pippin
bluegaspode wrote: > It depends. > The server can act as a proxy and buffers Radio streams at least when > you start syncing devices (as they all need the same offset). > Even a Squeezebox Touch which is _not_ a server does that in a synced group (when used with MySB). > > Unsynced there is a

Re: [slim] ANN: Orange Squeeze 1.3.0 released!

2012-12-17 Thread pippin
jimbobvfr400 wrote: > Pippin don't know if you've seen the stop service option if you press > the little drop down triangle thingy. Should do the trick I think. > No, I've not seen that, but it's also not really what I want. I don't _want_ to have to go to the App and stop the player manually wh

Re: [slim] Now the Squeezebox is dead, what would your next system be? And why?

2012-12-17 Thread erland
eschurr wrote: > my main concern is: who will support LMS? lately my LMS scans aren't > picking up iTunes playlists, and it may be because of iTunes 11. Who's > going to keep LMS alive and well? > My crystal ball tells me that the following will happen (sometime in the not too distant future)