Re: [slim] Why shouldn't I jump ship to Sonos?

banned for life wrote: > Does Sonos support remote streaming? > > BFl Not 'out of the box' so to speak. Sonos relies on UPnP broadcasts to locate devices on the network and as UPnP broadcasts only work on a single subnet you wouldn't be able to connect to another Sonos device in a remote locati

Re: [slim] Why shouldn't I jump ship to Sonos?

ajkidle wrote: > This might be a question for the Sonos forums, but does anyone happen to > know how Sonos deals with soundtracks or compilation albums? As an > example, in the SB world I use Album Artist to group all of my > soundtracks together, and then Artist to keep track of who is playing

Re: [slim] Why shouldn't I jump ship to Sonos?

The only 'gotchas' I can think of which would prevent me personally from switching are ... 1. No multi tagging support (as mentioned by Mnyb in post #6). If you use multitagged artists, albumartists or genres, they won't work as you hope with Sonos 2. No support for the YEAR tag. Sonos does not

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

AJBek wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to fast forward through a track using > squeezecommander. I frequently listen to podcasts that can be over an > hour long and I would like to be able to pick up where I left off rather > than having to start at the beginning every time. This is

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezeCommander 0.9 for Android

> > If you're going to be making modifications to the volume control, would > there be any possibility of, say, adding minus/plus buttons (maybe at > the ends of the slider) that could be tapped or pressed to > decrease/increase volume? > > A

Re: [slim] Hi-Res Files: A few questions

nt PC (2Ghz processor or above), you could install Squeezeserver on that and see if the SB3 can play OK when connected to that. If it does, it would indicate the problem is with the Guruplug. -- GlenL GlenL's Pro

Re: [slim] anyone got any ideas on how to make player sync work

Syncing on software players is not supported. The 2 hardware players should sync though. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [slim] iPeng vs. Android apps...?

Another vote for Squeezecommander on Android here. Since downloading this app onto my Nexus One, I have pretty much stopped using the Duet Receiver. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/membe

Re: [slim] Album art file name

Have you tried Front.jpg ? If you are running Squeezeserver under Linux the file name will be case sensitive I believe. i.e front.jpg is not the same as Front.jpg You may also need to perform a full rescan after changing this option. -- GlenL

Re: [slim] Defection and challenge

for mass editing - unless I have missed > something which is quite possible. > > To be continued ... For a PC user, I would recommend MediaMonkey for mass editing, tagging etc. Slightly intimidating at first glance, but very powerful. It can also do ripping, burning and iPod/IPhone sy

Re: [slim] Scripts or Add-On to Select high bit rate tracks

I don't think it shows up by default. You have to go into the config screen of Custom Browse and add the built in Bitrate to the menus. I've just tried it and it works for me. -- GlenL GlenL'

Re: [slim] Scripts or Add-On to Select high bit rate tracks

Erland's Custom Browse plugin http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Custom_Browse_plugin should be able to do something like that I believe. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?us

Re: [slim] Best mobile phone for controlling SB?

NFLnut;442275 Wrote: > Oh .. and iTunes is the WORST music player ever! HATE iTunes! If someone > could create a slick program which easily loads/unloads music onto an > iPod, I would be interested. I believe MediaMonkey can do this.

Re: [slim] Can you use the SB3 as a wireless router?

which I am fairly sure is a plain vanilla 'straight' cable. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sh

Re: [slim] How to get Winamp to play FLAC stream from SqueezeCenter

g along in the background) -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62652

Re: [slim] Trying to Setup Classic Through Router...

iguring the SB3 and set the subnet mask incorrectly. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sh

Re: [slim] Weird Windows Vista question: Duplicated Music folder

Sounds like one of your music 'folders' is really a shortcut to the real music folder. That would explain why actions appear duplicated between both folders. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.

Re: [slim] Squeezebox networking question

Providing both the wired and wireless parts of your network are connected and all devices are on the same IP subnet you shouldn't need to keep switching the SB between wired and wireless. Where do the Mac and SB get their IP addresses from ? --

Re: [slim] Home Server - Dilemma - Any recommendations?

You might want to take a look at Vortexbox http://vortexbox.org/about/ I believe the author is a member of this site (which is always a good thing) :-) -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/membe

Re: [slim] fix for Actiontect router?

Sonos also appears to have problems with Actiontec http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=7798&highlight=verizon Looks like the issue is down to Verizon to sort out. -- GlenL GlenL's Prof

Re: [slim] Exclude Directories From Scan?

You could change the permissions on the directory so the account Squeezecenter runs under has no access rights to it. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Replay gain, equal volume.

Have you set the player to use smart/track/reply gain ? If not, you will need to go into the web interface ...Settings Button - Players menu ... Audio settings .. Volume Adjustment/replay Gain option. -- GlenL GlenL&#

Re: [slim] Sound Quality Linux vs Windows

written linux driver for it. As I say, just a guess. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.c

Re: [slim] Game On: Sonos has an iPhone app

autopilot;358696 Wrote: > Wow, that look fantastic. I need a iTouch now!!! I'm in the market for an MP3 player and this thread is definitely pushing me towards an iPod Touch :-) -- GlenL GlenL's

Re: [slim] Hard drive storage suggestions

some sort of symbolic link would achieve the same thing. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] Can I recieve BBC in Germany?

ave never tried it myself :-) -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53624 __

Re: [slim] Suggested behaviour on new install

/don't run scan, set genre seperator character etc. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

Re: [slim] Very simple NAS & SB3 network setup

outer. Obviously choose ones that are outside your router's DHCP server scope. That way if you do need to plug the NAS or SB3 back into your current network, they would continue to work without having to mess about changing IP addresses.

Re: [slim] Here is an interesting problem.

ly cut down your rescan times. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50589 __

Re: [slim] Evaluating Both Sonos & Squeezebox Before Buying - Your Thoughts

autopilot;325368 Wrote: > What forum is this then? http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1006811&page=17 Specifically post 492 -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?

[slim] Evaluating Both Sonos & Squeezebox Before Buying - Your Thoughts

hanks -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50582 ___ discuss mailing li

Re: [slim] WAV or FLAC ?

Between WAV and FLAC, FLAC no question. File sizes are just over half the size of WAVs, plus FLAC supports tags. Of course if you are an Apple user (Mac/iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPod Touch etc), Apple's ALAC format is probably a better option. --

Re: [slim] Cowon iAudio7 Flac player

Hi Mudlark, Does it display album art for the 'now playing' track ? If so does that have to be embedded in the file or can it recognize a cover.jpg/folder.jpg in the music sub folders ? -- GlenL GlenL'

Re: [slim] Ahem: UK readers - 40% discount at Logitech today

Also back on topic ... Got a confirmation email saying my Duet is in the post as well :-) Thanks again, Jungle. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Ahem: UK readers - 40% discount at Logitech today

ollowing me yet! > :-) Has your phone been wiretapped though :-) Just placed an order for a Duet. Comes to £170-90 with shipping. Thanks again Jungle, nice find. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [slim] Ahem: UK readers - 40% discount at Logitech today

a Dell employee :-) Has anybody else tried it ? Can you post the links to the original AVForums and HotUKDeals thread to see what others are saying about it ? Thanks -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevic

Re: [slim] How to make SC keep out of some folders?

the next folder/directory. Worth a try. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] Low quality on remote connection...

If you are running Windows on your server box, you can download compiled versions of LAME from here http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php If you are running Linux, this might be a good a start point as any http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.php#Binaries -- GlenL

Re: [slim] Low quality on remote connection...

is only 256K you are going to have problems. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=

Re: [slim] Getting Last.fm to Work

h individual player as well. Off the top of my head, in the player settings on the SqueezeCenter web interface there is an option to enable scrobbling. I believe that needs to be set on. -- GlenL GlenL

Re: [slim] command line help

Wild stab in the dark have you tried pausing a few seconds between each get ? I'm thinking it may be a timing issue of some sort. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=

Re: [slim] Using MediaMonkey with squeezeCenter

This thread http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21124 may be worth a look. Haven't tried it myself so I can't comment but it sounds like it might achieve what you want. -- GlenL GlenL'

Re: [slim] How can I change stream.mp3 location?

rking though. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47443 ___ discu

Re: [slim] How can I change stream.mp3 location?

what you are asking :-) -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

[slim] Questions re: bridging with SBR

FWIW Both PS3 and Xbox 360 work just fine connected to a SB3 with a standard (i.e non crossover) RJ45 cable. -- GlenL GlenL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14364 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Squeezebox silent, but Softsqueeze ok

:-) If they don't flicker it would indicate an issue with the Slimserver side of things. Unfortunately my knowledge of resolving Slimserver issues is sorely lacking so I can't offer any advice on that :-( -- GlenL --