Re: [slim] DEAD SB2, does anyone repair?

2015-10-22 Thread Mnyb
chamonix wrote: > tcutting, toby 10 > > *Well, with a proper Digital Coax, or TOSlink it is now working!!* Just > to be sure I had ordered a Digital Coax *and* a 3 foot TOSlink cable at > the same time. Both cables arrived today. I had previously tried a > regular (single) RCA cable between t

Re: [slim] The Demise of the Transporter

2015-10-22 Thread BJW
cliveb wrote: > Comments like this just go to show how badly some people misunderstand > the Squeezebox ecosystem. > > None of the Squeezebox players were ever Windows devices, and the server > software isn't an audio application - it sends packets of data via > TCP/IP to the players. You can ru

Re: [slim] Hard drive died / proof of a higher power

2015-10-22 Thread DJanGo
I dont think that the freezer trick still works on some newer drives anymore... That trick only works in the old days, where 160 GB drives were highend stuff. A drive (even if its cooled with dryice) gets hot to soon to get some data out of it. In the old days that wasnt a issuebut todays drives

Re: [slim] Hard drive died / proof of a higher power

2015-10-22 Thread epoch1970
chrisla wrote: > I could not make this up if I tried... > > I have a drive that is failing. I put it in an external enclosure to try > to > work out what can be recovered from it. > > Running a directory listing it got as far as: > > ../20070715/Pink Martini and then quit... > > Longtime foll

Re: [slim] DEAD SB2, does anyone repair?

2015-10-22 Thread chamonix
tcutting, toby 10 Well, with a proper Digital Coax it is now working!! Just to be sure I had ordered a Digital Coax *and* a 3 foot TOSlink cable at the same time. Both cables arrived today. I had previously tried a simple RCA cable between the SB3 and my amp connecting the digital coax termina

Re: [slim] DEAD SB2, does anyone repair?

2015-10-22 Thread tcutting
chamonix wrote: > Yes. Now the other speaker is powered when I swapped the red and white > RCA cables. The white RCA jack out of the SB3 appears to be dead. Sounds like a bad capacitor for the "white" output channel - fairly common failure (at least for SB3/Classics, I assume SB2s are virtually

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

2015-10-22 Thread bluegaspode
pippin wrote: > Oh, and they have one really annoying policy change they just told me > about today: In the past a metadata rejection meant that you only need > to fix the metadata and when you didn't have to submit a new build then > you'd go to review again within 24h. Now you have to queue up

[slim] Hard drive died / proof of a higher power

2015-10-22 Thread Chris Laplante
I could not make this up if I tried... I have a drive that is failing. I put it in an external enclosure to try to work out what can be recovered from it. Running a directory listing it got as far as: ./20070715/Pink Martini and then quit... Longtime followers will see the extreme irony in that

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

2015-10-22 Thread pippin
Oh, and they have one really annoying policy change they just told me about today: In the past a metadata rejection meant that you only need to fix the metadata and when you didn't have to submit a new build then you'd go to review again within 24h. Now you have to queue up again, adding another w

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

2015-10-22 Thread pippin
Oh my, that's bad. This is a real issue especially with Apps they can't easily test. The number of metadata rejections due to edge case issues I've been getting over the last year has been much bigger than in the past, too. And actually most of those were about issues that can theoretically hit ev

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

2015-10-22 Thread misternatural
Sounds like they are taking the literal interpretation of a browser. Perhaps consider changing the description an not use "browser" but instead something like "a graphical interface which provides information residing on the internet..." bluegaspode wrote: > The fix is available for over a week

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

2015-10-22 Thread bluegaspode
misternatural wrote: > How soon do you think you will have a fix for it? The fix is available for over a week now already. Unfortunately the App-update is stuck in Apples review process. Anyone want to have a laugh, then read on about how the story goes on. - Is written above Apple first com

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

2015-10-22 Thread misternatural
bluegaspode wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > thanks a lot for reporting this issue. An update has already been > created and sent to Apple yesterday. It is waiting for a review from > Apple now (typically 5-7 days). > > I'm very sorry for the inconvenience caused in the meantime. > > For those intereste

Re: [slim] DEAD SB2, does anyone repair?

2015-10-22 Thread chamonix
toby10 wrote: > Yes, and when swapped the issue switched which speaker/amp did not work, > correct? If issue was originally with L channel, L/R cables swapped, > now issue is with R channel? Yes. Now the other speaker is powered when I swapped the red and white RCA cables. ---

Re: [slim] Sound Opinions Podcast no longer working on Squeezeboxes (running LMS)

2015-10-22 Thread garym
bpa wrote: > ffmpeg can do lots of different conversion but faad just does aac. So > faad is small lightweight but can only convert files - it cannot handle > http. LMS can strip AAC from simple http stream which is why LMS can > play AAC stream such as somafm but AFAICT LMS cannot strip AAC out

Re: [slim] Sound Opinions Podcast no longer working on Squeezeboxes (running LMS)

2015-10-22 Thread bpa
garym wrote: > p.s. I'm curious about the fact that my "file types" now shows "ffmpeg" > or "ffmpeg/lame" for mpeg-4 file types and previously showed "faad" or > "faad/lame" for mpeg-4. Does this mean that my local m4a files are now > converted using ffmpeg rather than faad? And what does that

Re: [slim] Sound Opinions Podcast no longer working on Squeezeboxes (running LMS)

2015-10-22 Thread garym
Success! After fixing the line endings, all works. I can play local m4a files (as I could before) and I can now play the "Sound Opinions" podcast stream. Thanks bpa for the detailed help and on this. p.s. I'm curious about the fact that my "file types" now shows "ffmpeg" or "ffmpeg/lame" for

Re: [slim] Chromecast Audio ideal for Squeezebox replacement hardware?

2015-10-22 Thread bpa
Giza2020 wrote: > Hmmm bummer..no idea why the bbc don't offer overseas licences with vpn > ..must be some model that could work for non uk. > > Is there an android apk available to download outside the store?..thats > assuming you have an android device IIRC BBC chased away (legally) any non

Re: [slim] Chromecast Audio ideal for Squeezebox replacement hardware?

2015-10-22 Thread Giza2020
Hmmm bummer..no idea why the bbc don't offer overseas licences with vpn ..must be some model that could work for non uk. Is there an android apk available to download outside the store?..thats assuming you have an android device -

Re: [slim] Chromecast Audio ideal for Squeezebox replacement hardware?

2015-10-22 Thread bpa
Giza2020 wrote: > Bbc Iplayer radio just got casting abilities. . But BBC iPlayer is not available outside the UK so no use to me. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http

Re: [slim] Chromecast Audio ideal for Squeezebox replacement hardware?

2015-10-22 Thread Giza2020
Bbc Iplayer radio just got casting abilities. .. good news if lms bbc ever breaks beyond repair ( hopefully never will!) But for a short term fix during one of the bbc's well known ballsups I'll be glad i have one. Awesome device i must say ..shame the use case is case is fragmented apps on mobil

Re: [slim] Sound Opinions Podcast no longer working on Squeezeboxes (running LMS)

2015-10-22 Thread bpa
garym wrote: > Thanks again. yes, name was typo. I created the file with windows7 > "NOTEPAD" (text editor). It says saving with ANSI coding. Other options > are unicode, unicode big endian, UTF-8. I've attached my file from > dropbox, link below: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2740348

Re: [slim] DEAD SB2, does anyone repair?

2015-10-22 Thread toby10
chamonix wrote: > . > I did swap out the RCA cables from my SB3 to amp. Problem is one channel > out of the SB3. When cables are swapped, I get music out of my other KEF > speaker... Yes, and when swapped the issue switched which speaker/amp did not work, correct? If issue was originally wi

Re: [slim] Sound Opinions Podcast no longer working on Squeezeboxes (running LMS)

2015-10-22 Thread bpa
Mnyb wrote: > Or is there a better text editor for Windows like emacs ? Yes - Wordpad on Windows can make files with Linux line endings but IIRC it is a save option. Notepad is only useful for files intended for WIndows only. Howeve I still need to check to see if line endings is the source o