Re: [slim] Questions on alternatives to SB

2016-09-27 Thread garym
I posted this elsewhere, but relevant here too: Google Store is selling Chromecast Audio for $25 ($10 off $35 price). Also at Best Buy. If you've been wanting to play with one, this might be the time to pick one or two up. *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Rad

Re: [slim] Questions on alternatives to SB

2016-09-27 Thread bobm
garym wrote: > I bought a SONOS Connect last year just to play with. It is simple to > setup and use. (To me) there are many annoying things after being used > to Squeezeboxes and controllers such as iPeng (the SONOS controllers are > fairly rudimentary, but get the job done of course). But the

Re: [slim] Questions on alternatives to SB

2016-09-27 Thread d6jg
I have all 3 bridges Phillipe and yes the AirPlay one is the best. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk *Vortexbox LMS 7.9 music on QNAP TS419p via NFS* iThingys/iPeng/Tablets *Living Room* - SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 - > Celestion Ditton F20s - Zone 2 -> Sony TA FE 320 -> Sennheiser RS 130 & B&W P7

Re: [slim] Questions on alternatives to SB

2016-09-27 Thread philippe_44
d6jg wrote: > Phillipe's bridges are of course excellent and open up a whole range of > players to the Eco system but unfortunately they all have compromises > IMHO. hi-res, gapless playback, sync etc > The only non Logitech player that fulfills all the criteria to date > seems to be a Pi with DA

Re: [slim] Questions on alternatives to SB

2016-09-27 Thread d6jg
Phillipe's bridges are of course excellent and open up a whole range of players to the Eco system but unfortunately they all have compromises IMHO. hi-res, gapless playback, sync etc The only non Logitech player that fulfills all the criteria to date seems to be a Pi with DAC. It's the only thing

Re: [slim] Your home-made LMS API projects

2016-09-27 Thread epoch1970
ServerPowerControl has 'a thread' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?48521-Announce-Beta-version-of-SvrPowerControl) in the 1/3-party software subforum. Since GoogleCode has gone dark the repository is no longer available. You have to download manually the plugin. Then, last time I've

Re: [slim] Questions on alternatives to SB

2016-09-27 Thread garym
bobm wrote: > I made the switch to Sonos and I was pleased to see how easy it was to > stream my local music. I basically pointed Sonos at my NAS share and > shut down the LMS. Kind of sad but for our simple needs Sonos is > working out great. I bought a SONOS Connect last year just to play

Re: [slim] Questions on alternatives to SB

2016-09-27 Thread bobm
garym wrote: > Sonos server is essentially built into each unit. The files have to be > served from somewhere locally, but that can be a NAS or some sort of > drive attached to a router, etc. I assume this is the main reason that > Sonos is not willing to update their software in any significant

Re: [slim] Walk with me

2016-09-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
reinholdk writes: > scala wrote: >> It would be great to have a function like "grab music from another >> player and shut it off", if feasible, so that I don't have to always >> walk back again to the previous room to send forward the music...! > > You can use the Switch Player plugin for this.

Re: [slim] Walk with me

2016-09-27 Thread reinholdk
scala wrote: > It would be great to have a function like "grab music from another > player and shut it off", if feasible, so that I don't have to always > walk back again to the previous room to send forward the music...! You can use the Switch Player plugin for this. It can send or grab the mus

Re: [slim] Questions on alternatives to SB

2016-09-27 Thread toby10
Man in a van wrote: > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/knowhowtec/sonopi-touch-a-raspberry-pi-based-multiroom-audio?ref=category_popular > > > Doesn't look very promising. Only three actual items ordered (pledged) and those are the least expensive of the offered items. They have one

Re: [slim] Your home-made LMS API projects

2016-09-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
epoch1970 writes: > Not that I really care about Bitbar or the like, but I'd like to point > we have a great power management plugin thanks to gharris999. You are referring to https://github.com/gharris999/SrvrPowerCtrl this one? > It can do this, among a great many other things (characters une

Re: [slim] Your home-made LMS API projects

2016-09-27 Thread epoch1970
Not that I really care about Bitbar or the like, but I'd like to point we have a great power management plugin thanks to gharris999. It can do this, among a great many other things (characters unescaped for readability): Code: $ nc montreux.local 9090 srvrpowerctrl scr

Re: [slim] Playing beyond tracks

2016-09-27 Thread lightning888
Now after testing for almost 2 weeks, I still cannot nail it down as a network or a router error (despite shutting down all my 4 gigabit routers). However, I noticed the bug was more pronounced when I used iPeng to play. Once I forward a track and let the music plays in the background, it'll only

Re: [slim] Questions on alternatives to SB

2016-09-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
RSJ writes: > I switched to Raspberry Pi using Max2play and Hifiberry amps and have > never looked back. They integrated into my existing Squeezeboxes > flawlessly and I can sync everything, play anything on my NAS and stream > Spotify to all of them. I'll be slowly phasing out the older > Squeez