Re: [slim] Problems playing FLAC

2013-07-24 Thread Viragored
It looks like I've bumped into the same problem. Someone has given me some tracks they bought in flac format from HDTracks. My Duet stumbles over them, with the music coming out slower than it should and sounding as if the musicians are stuttering! The tracks play OK in Windows Media Player on

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

2013-07-24 Thread slartibartfast
Wirrunna wrote: In this case it is Le Tour de West Wisconsin - http://orangebikelabs.com/orange-bike-labs-is-going-on-tour/ - they'll be back. I'm sure they will but that tour was last year :-) slartibartfast's

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

2013-07-24 Thread Wirrunna
slartibartfast wrote: I'm sure they will but that tour was last year :-) Oops! A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Wirrunna's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3225 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Problems playing FLAC

2013-07-24 Thread garym
Viragored wrote: It looks like I've bumped into the same problem. Someone has given me some tracks they bought in flac format from HDTracks. My Duet stumbles over them, with the music coming out slower than it should and sounding as if the musicians are stuttering! The tracks play OK in

Re: [slim] Spotted on Amazon UK - apparently new SB3s at decent price

2013-07-24 Thread rbz5416
£210 a decent price? rbz5416's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12089 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99226 ___ discuss

Re: [slim] Problems playing FLAC

2013-07-24 Thread Apesbrain
Viragored wrote: one suggestion that I've not tried is to burn a CD from these files, then rip it back in with Exact Audio Copy This will work, or you can do the conversion with 'foobar2000' (http://www.foobar2000.org/): HR TO REDBOOK 1. Do a Full installation of foobar2000 and its 'Encoder

Re: [slim] Pre-Announcement: ickStream Music Platform

2013-07-24 Thread PasTim
As an LMS (Touch) user, I have been looking at alternatives. The main listening is done in my lounge, remote from the music server, connected via Ethernet. The closest I got to a working alternative that can make use of custom tags (for classical music) was: - flacs still on my Vortexbox as

Re: [slim] Spotted on Amazon UK - apparently new SB3s at decent price

2013-07-24 Thread d6jg
I meant as opposed to the ridiculous prices being asked for a new SB Touch. That price isn't all that much higher than they used to go for before Logitech ceased the range. QNAP TS419p 4Tb LMS7.6.1 Living Room - SB3 - Onkyo TS606 connected Digitally - Celestion Ditton F20s - and connected

[slim] Google Chromecast

2013-07-24 Thread Labarum
Is this a game-changer? Google has just launched a new streaming system. https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Chromecast?id=chromecast Has anyone sight of the technical specs? There is almost nothing visible to the likes of me. Now it must handle Google Play's 320b/sec MP3, but

[slim] MusicIP Mixer server status

2013-07-24 Thread talvola
Not specifically Squeezebox related, but close. For anyone still using MusicIP Mixer... Just recently (last night and today), MusicIP Mixer can no longer connect to its server, and gives the message 'The MusicIP server cannot be reached. If your internet connection is not ready, you may wish

Re: [slim] MusicIP Mixer server status

2013-07-24 Thread SlimChances
You may be right. I didn't do any scans but tested the connection in Options and it said unable to connect. Would be a pity if it stopped working but I have my musicIP tags archived Logitech Media Server Version: 7.8.0 - 1372836728 @ Mon Jul 8 01:00:43 PDT 2013 Operating system: Debian - EN -

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-07-24 Thread JJZolx
FYI, Future Electronics and others are now selling the Wandboard CPU modules in 10 packs for projects just like this. The price savings isn't huge, but it's something. Hardware question: If you wanted to mount the CPU module and carrier board in a larger chassis, could they be laid out side by

Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2013-07-24 Thread JJZolx
Has anyone seen this yet? Future Electronics has developed an adapter card to fit a touchscreen LCD to the Wandboard. It plugs into the expansion headers on the Wandboard's stock carrier board. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVt8eh6bnRE

Re: [slim] Google Chromecast

2013-07-24 Thread Roland0
Labarum wrote: Google has just launched a new streaming system. Has anyone sight of the technical specs? Now it must handle Google Play's 320b/sec MP3, but hopefully will do much better, and if the stream can be routed to a decent DAC . . . The first hardware - the HDMI dongle - looks

[slim] Media player takes over

2013-07-24 Thread wp steve
Hi folks, We just moved our playlist over to another computer via an external hard drive which we are using to play the music, We will put the files on permanently later. The playlist which are m3u files show up as media player files and slimserver will not accept the playlist. When we try to

Re: [slim] Problems playing FLAC

2013-07-24 Thread Viragored
garym wrote: duet will only play 24/48 files and these are 24/96 or 24/192. That said, LMS should automatically transcode the files on the fly to reduce to 24/48. A couple of thoughts: 1. Have you changed any of the file type settings in LMS Settings Advanced file types from default

Re: [slim] Problems playing FLAC

2013-07-24 Thread Viragored
Apesbrain wrote: This will work, or you can do the conversion with 'foobar2000' (http://www.foobar2000.org/): HR TO REDBOOK 1. Do a Full installation of foobar2000 and its 'Encoder Pack' (http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack) 2. Open foobar2000 File Preferences - Components and

Re: [slim] MusicIP Mixer server status

2013-07-24 Thread audiomuze
Just ran GenPUID to analyse some tracks and it's working fine. I don't think Gracenote has any incentive to block access to the MusicDNS server because people using it enrich the MusicDNS database which Gracenote in turn uses for commercial purposes. digital groove | Vivere DAC MKI | ATC SCA2