Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2013-12-16 Thread Pascal Hibon
pippin wrote: The 7.0.1 version is waiting for approval since yesterday, let's hope it makes it before the holiday shutdown. Great app with great support! I think your app is way too cheap for the service you provide us! 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and 2 x SB Touch - all wireless

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread reinholdk
Guess I'd prefer to use LMS on the vortexbox as soon as possible instead of doing the switch after all CDs have been re-ripped. So I'd use the folder structure as suggested above and copy the old mp3 files into it. You could turn off the old LMS (but not uninstalling yet) and get used to the

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread garym
I'll throw in another thought. I really like my Vortexboxes (I have 3). But the one thing I don't use them for is ripping CDs. The ripper in the VB does NOT use ACCURATERIP. It uses a secure type ripper that pre-Accuraterip would have been very, very good. And it still works well. But it doesn't

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2013-12-16 Thread pippin
Pascal Hibon wrote: Great app with great support! I think your app is way too cheap for the service you provide us! :) Well, then let's all remember what else you can do for iPeng 7 by rating it ;) --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2013-12-16 Thread garym
pippin wrote: :) Well, then let's all remember what else you can do for iPeng 7 by rating it ;) good point. we forget that not everyone hangs out here. I just added a review at the itunes store. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.2) LMS 7.8 Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2013-12-16 Thread Pascal Hibon
pippin wrote: :) Well, then let's all remember what else you can do for iPeng 7 by rating it ;) Done! 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and 2 x SB Touch - all wireless 1 x Wandboard behind the bedroom ceiling ReadyNAS NVX running LMS 7.7.2. w iTunes plugin iPeng on iPod Touch. SqueezePad

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2013-12-16 Thread pippin
Thank you :) --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7*

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2013-12-16 Thread didjean
pippin wrote: :) Well, then let's all remember what else you can do for iPeng 7 by rating it ;) Also done on my side. Thanks for this new version. It's great to see that the Squeezebox world is pretty well alive! Touch + Cambridge Audio 651R DAC Magic + Q Acoustics 1050i / Touch + Onkyo

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread aubuti
donmacn wrote: I haven't looked at this in any detail yet, but the issue must be the storage memory used and the bandwidth needed to play larger 'uncompressed' files? Less compression = more memory and more network traffic? That is correct, but for FLAC the difference in file sizes between

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread donmacn
Guys, thanks all - a lot of useful stuff in these replies. as it happens I stayed home today to try and shake off a bug, and not inflict it on the rest of the office. So, I downloaded dbpa to try playing / learning that, as I'd got the suggestion earlier about using a separate ripper from the

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread garym
regarding bagpipe, rip a couple of CDs and see how it handles the names. Not sure without trying. also try converting the ripped FLAC files to mp3 with these names and see if that works. For ripping, the only DSP I use when creating FLACs (or converting FLACs to mp3) is the ReplayGain DSP. I

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread aubuti
donmacn wrote: First off, I missed the 'secure' ripping option and started in 'burst' mode. I was surprised at how quick things were going by comparison to my previous process of EAC and Lame. Then I got a couple of tracks with inaccurate rips, looked a bit deeper, and found the 'secure'

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread garym
aubuti wrote: This shouldn't happen as often in dBpa as in EAC, at least not if you have dBpa set up correctly. I'm on the other side of the pond from my dBpa right now, but you want a setting that will do a burst rip, and then compare the rip (actually the checksums) to the AccurateRip

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread donmacn
Brilliant! Thanks again to all. Gary - I'll go and play with those ripper settings (Gain and 'ultra secure') and see how I go. Aubuti - I think I WAS confusing the filename and tag contents. And I'm happy that I can use 6/8s as intended! On the question of 'Springsteen Bruce' - though I

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread donmacn
probably wandering a bit off-topic here, but I re-ripped the Springsteen CD using those settings, and it was still a long process. All down to the last track. Probably about 18-20mins to do that alone. First time round it had to re-rip something like 160 frames, this time it was 300+. I left it

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread garym
donmacn wrote: Brilliant! Thanks again to all. Gary - I'll go and play with those ripper settings (Gain and 'ultra secure') and see how I go. Aubuti - I think I WAS confusing the filename and tag contents. And I'm happy that I can use 6/8s as intended! On the question of 'Springsteen

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread garym
donmacn wrote: probably wandering a bit off-topic here, but I re-ripped the Springsteen CD using those settings, and it was still a long process. All down to the last track. Probably about 18-20mins to do that alone. First time round it had to re-rip something like 160 frames, this time it

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread aubuti
donmacn wrote: On the question of 'Springsteen Bruce' - though I happily accept that LMS can interpret or display this sensibly, what's the benefit of having the additional ARTISTSORT element in the tag that might not get used? Is it simply to add it in because it's automatic and doesn't

Re: [slim] Transition to Vortexbox - hoping to do it 'right' from the start

2013-12-16 Thread audiomuze
Slightly OT, but has anyone managed to install Vortexbox from a USB stick? digital groove | 'Vivere DAC MKI' (http://vivereaudio.com/post/2013/08/16/DAC-I-is-Born!.aspx) | 'ATC SCA2' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/electronics/source-pre-amplifiers/sca2/) | 'ATC SCM100ASLT'

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2013-12-16 Thread ddewey
Pippin, thanks for the update! One thing that I can't figure out and I miss - when my phone is locked (iPhone 5s, ios 7-whatever-is-current) the album art and player controls no longer appear on the lock screen. I don't remember ever having to specifically turn this on previously, nor can I

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2013-12-16 Thread pippin
That was an option and iPeng 7 currently does indeed not have it. What the App needs to do to enable this is to stay running in the background which generally is a big no-no in Apple's App Store rules. They have never complained about it in the old iPeng and it's indeed a bit of an edge case

Re: [slim] [Announce] iPeng 7, the iOS 7 Squeezebox App for iPhone and iPad

2013-12-16 Thread Mnyb
I must applaud the dark mode :) i like that . Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: