JoeMuc2009 wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> well, you could extract a SB3 display and put it in place of a
> Transporter's display, they are identical. But I would consider it a big
> sacrifice too big to kill a working SB3 just for a display that is
> probably not really fresh anyway. Even if SB3s are c
This seems like as good a thread as any to ask my question:
If one of the displays in a Transporter dies, is it feasible to
cannibalize the display from an SB3 to replace it? That is, can someone
with reasonable soldering skills remove a functioning display and
reinstall it in another device wit
RonM wrote:
> (btw, I also archive all my recordings to small portable hard disks, and
> rotate in and out of a bank's safety deposit box -- including the
> digital downloads, as well as the ripped files. And have two local
> backups, which will be dead if a fire takes out my house.)
This is the
Nice SB2. I still have one that I use on a shelf above my workbench. The
form factor of the SB2 works better than an SB3 in that spot.
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interesting technical paper about the Loudness War at
www.sfxmachine.com/docs/loudnesswar/loudness_war.pdf.
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I suggest looking for a used SB2 or SB3 on Craigslist or eBay. If you
really don't want the display, you could just turn it off (using the
brightness button on the remote control).
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int: Apple products don't all arrive on
the same day.
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ducts don't all arrive on the same day. Apple just does the
best job of making sure (under penalty of withholding future shipments)
that none of boxes go from the stockrooms onto the retail shelves until
the appo
ive if the company ever goes
out of business.
My Squeezebox system has been up and running for years, and I see no
reason to change systems now.
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Are the players sync-ed? If so, I think you can set up the sync settings
so that the power command on any player can turn them all off.
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You could run Squeezebox Server on a Network Attached Storage device or
similar bare bones computer that would only consume about 10 watts at
idle.
But if you have a Squeezebox Touch, why don't you just plug in a USB
drive and run the "tiny" server built into the Touch?
ll be in
> Squeezebox heaven. Maybe also a flat one for wall-mounting?
+1. I've got four SB3s that I'm hanging on to. However, I actually
prefer the SB2, which is essentially the same electronically as the
SB3, but in the older low-profile form factor.
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ralphpnj;609029 Wrote:
> Quick question: what are you planning to do with the empty jewel cases?
Offer them for free on Craig's List or FreeCycle.org. Some local
musician or student might want them for whatever reason.
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ut of them, and it's not
as easy to just browse the titles on a shelf. I think the Jazzloft
cases would be better in those respects. If price were no object, I
would have bought the Jazzloft ones, but the mylar sleeves are so much
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ard sleeves, so I also bought a pack of different mylar sleeves on
eBay that are large enough to hold fatboy double CDs in their cases.
Seven shelves worth of CDs now fit in about two and a third shelves.
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You can also set Random Mix to only select albums from specific genres,
to prevent, for example, heavy metal following light classical.
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way. If it all works out, I'll be hauling a
couple hundred pounds of jewel case plastic to my local recycling
collection facility.
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ly,
and inevitably the product line will be dragged down to the
least-common-denominator level of Logitech's other products.
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reason want to search by sidemen or by instrument.
If I were to segment my jazz listening, the primary distinction would
be acoustic vs. electric jazz, although there's plenty of blurring
between the two.
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Could be that the remote control has bit the dust. Have you tried using
a remote from one of your other Squeezeboxes?
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t "next" didn't come around very quickly. If
anything, the Touch situation might have made Logitech less likely to
announce future new Squeezebox models before they really are ready to
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ncements, but even companies that say they
"never" do sometimes do.
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ceipts) that show you paid for the items and how much they were
worth. A better solution as far as insurance is concerned might be to
scan all your CD receipts, and keep those scans on the backup drive in
the safe deposit box.
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Isn't the Radio already the new Boom (at least from Logitech's point of
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on artwork than AMG
> too.
You can edit the tags and substitute other versions of artwork right in
dbPoweramp before ripping, and everything will be applied to both the
FLAC and MP3 files created.
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external and then you choose to sync
> them whenever you want.
I second the nod to SyncToy. Works great for its intended purpose, and
you can't beat the price (free).
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erland;566029 Wrote:
> That way the slimdevices.com site can eventually be shutdown.
I'm just hoping that Logitech migrates all the great content from this
forum before it gets shut down. It would be a major shame to waste all
the collective knowledge contained here.
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maggior;565522 Wrote:
> TiredLegs, if you are referring to the same FLAC Tester I've used in the
> past, it is a Windows only application and doesn't do any logging.
Flac Tester doesn't write a log file, but it displays everything in its
own window and shows a summary of
s, which I re-ripped. The
nice thing about it is that you don't have to wonder whether your files
are OK, and you don't have to wait to try to play one to discover it's
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erence purposes.
By the way, I have to say that the Miles Davis Complete Columbia Album
Collection is itself a model of compact storage: 71 discs with full
(but small) artwork in a 9-inch long box. The sleeve approach would
barely take up less sp
There a lots of options for portable iPhone/iPod speaker systems. What's
your price range? And how does your plan involve Squeezeboxes?
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Is this just an issue with the display screen going blank, or does the
whole unit turn off? Or, to look at it another way, does the SB3 keep
playing music when this happens?
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on DVD. I've used it for concert videos, as well as soundtrack music
from films like Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka.
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nowork;529623 Wrote:
> I had a wired SB3.
>
> I found a TP-LINK Wireless G Mini-PCI, SMT-GSC Connect TL-WN560G on
> ebay (approximately $18 shipped) and installed it.
>
> I now have a wireless SB3.
Did you have to add an antenn
Harmony remote works, the ADD button might produce an IR pulse that
does the trick without needing the continual stream of the Brightness
button. (You might have experiment with exactly when to press the ADD
button.)
If only the N97 had an IR emitter, it could become a really useful way
to control a whole Squeezebox audio system.
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r FLACs? (All my FLACs have
300x300 or 400x400 album art embedded.) Anything else embedded in the
FLAC tags that might gag the server?
3. Perhaps your Squeezebox server is set to transcode FLAC to some
other file format, choking the server? (Check "File Types&qu
The day I first signed on to the forums here, I had just come back from
an 80 mile bicycle ride, and, um... my legs were really really tired.
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The semantic discussion in this thread is cracking me up.
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lightly scratched CDs.
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bradcook;474369 Wrote:
> So i guess my forced power removal reset the XILIX ?See here for how to reset
> Xilinx:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Hardware_Reset_commands#Reset_Audio_Hardware_.28aka_Xilinx_Reset.29
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peterw;472413 Wrote:
> That said, the new SqueezePlay displays do make me think of this
> headline from The Onion:
> http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_90_of_waking_hours_spent ;-)
Perhaps someone should make video screens that are circular?
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gy of the low powered "dumb" player.
Does that imply that a future version of the server software will leave
SB3/Classic users stranded?
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DotSystem;465510 Wrote:
> Guess Sean knew when to bail.
Interesting thing is that Sean still posts in the forums on occasion. I
guess his heart is still with us, even if his paycheck isn't.
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: Do you want it?
- Yes
- No
The main place I'd want to use something like this would be at work. But
there's no way my IT department would let me consume that much bandwidth
on an ongoing basis.
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SqueezeNetwork, etc..
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Am I the only one who thinks Logitech should have made one more change
with this release considering everything else that got changed: up the
version number to 8.0, rather than a minor 7.x bump?
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rnal hard drive) which must also be running, isn't quoting the power
consumption of just the Sheevaplug a little misleading?
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ch cost me almost as much as a Transporter, then I
configured my system with an integrated tube amp instead of a power amp.
At that point, I no longer had a use for a Transporter even if its
function had been changed.
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a Transporter, the equipment rack
is right next to my chair. I don't have to get up at all, nor do I have
a need for remote control.
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day even if a volume default were to be implemented. Thus,
Slim Devices lost the opportunity to sell me a Transporter because of a
minor design choice that easily could have been rectified.
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ompanies, that
charge is the role of product management, which can be especially
challenging if it's a new category of product that nobody's really sure
what will make it succeed. At Apple, Jobs probably sets the strategy
himself, which is more like the w
er words.
This is a very well stated observation by dsdreamer. At the company
where I used to work, the CEO referred to this as a product's "gestalt",
which effectively means that the whole of a product is greater tha
then is open source development the best path to a
product that nails that target? (If Logitech hasn't truly answered that
question, then the software will wander at the whim of the developers.)
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ould she set it up herself. Does anybody here
believe that open source development of Squeezecenter will ever lead to
a product that is easy enough to set up that his or her mother could do
it?
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See if the homeowner will let you try to temporarily connect it directly
to his router via ethernet cable. That would just be a test to sort out
whether or not the problem is with the WiFi.
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u and the rest of
us won't see how it happened..."
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h, that is, product
preannouncements were not the cause of the company's demise. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Effect#The_Osborne_Myth
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Frankly, I agree with some of their comments regarding problems with the
Duet Controller. I bought one, then quickly sold it to pick up another
SB3.
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er seen one involving unreleased products that did not require the
participants to sign an NDA.
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I believe the liquid beverage in the photo is a new type of soldering
flux. When combined with pixie dust, it creates magical audio products.
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7;s barely noticeable.
Maybe the best way to implement something like this for the Squeezebox
would be to randomly tickle the pixels with noise.
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f other pixels that
might have been used hundreds or thousands of hours more. Perhaps it's
not the phosphorous elements, but the driver circuitry, that's affected.
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function as "pixel refresh". Is there such a function for
the Squeezebox?
Those of you old enough to remember CRTs for DOS-based computers will
recognize that this is the original concept of a screensaver, i.e. to
save the screen from deteriorating unevenly.
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to the listeners!" which was
> the whole point of developing these devices in the first place.:)
How about a "moment of music", when everybody has all their SBs playing
simultaneously?
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evenues and operating margin
could both improve as well.
This move by Napster/Best Buy is a classic test of price elasticity.
The downside risk is not because of increased royalty payments, it's
that the number of new subscribers might not be enough to make up for
the lower subscription fees.
ome more profitable just by
increasing the number of subscribers to reach a critical mass, even if
the average revenue per subscriber drops.
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its manufacturer refused to
provide a Windows Vista driver for it.
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Squeezeboxes (four of them in the
household) 10 or 20 years from now.
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Maybe there's a hardware problem with the WiFi receiver in your
Squeezebox (i.e. a defective unit). Do you know anyone else who has a
Squeezebox that they could bring over to your place to test and see if
it behaves differently?
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that makes any difference. One potential source of localized
intermittent WiFi interference could be a cordless phone in use in the
house.
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If you select to view by Artist, you can then pick an artist, and it
will show you all the albums by that artist. Is that what you're trying
to see?
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going of
business, they do not guarantee that they will provide users enough
advance notice to download all their files before the plug gets pulled
on the service.
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ed volumes accessible to an
infected computer. It was a close call that got me religion on backing
up. Your backups are not safe from accidental or intentional deletion
while they're on the network.
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dle could be designed better if the Logitech people
> would just think green. Let's focus on the tiny, minuscule,
> infinitesimal, little things, people, so we can save the planet! Get on
> the green stick, Logitech! Now I'm going to go turn the oven on to
> preheat
ut why something isn't
working.
Is anyone claiming that the Controller is a more reliable way to issue
a command than the IR remote?
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quires more
software and networking complexity than the device its controlling,
that is not a recipe for ease-of-use. The SB3 is much simpler, and it
just plain works.
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I looked at the Duet at a trade show, but decided that I prefer the
Classic. I don't need the fancy interface on the Controller. And IR
remote controls are way more bulletproof than any WiFi remote I've
seen. No lag, no configuration issues, IR just works.
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room, and den. One of the Cat5 cables pipes audio from my living room
to my kitchen, via audio baluns. I've got three SB3's, and with wired
connections I never have to worry about interference or bandwidth
issues. I also have WiFi in t
s going to get either one or two installed. The incremental
cost to get two is so insignificant that there's no reason not to.
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Anyone from Slim Devices care to comment on whether the seller of these
units is an authorized dealer, and whether the warranty applies?
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would only be available in the U.S.? The link I provided was from the
U.S. web site. Don't Logitech's international sites also sell
replacement parts?
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new
part number)
http://www.buylogitech.com/store/logius/en_US/DisplayCategoryProductListPage/categoryid.11817400
for $29.99, and states that they are compatible with both the Squeezebox
Controller and the Harmony 1000 remote.
So I guess my questions have been answered. Thanks.
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readily obtained (e.g. at Radio Shack or cell phone stores), or is it a
custom part that must be purchased from Logitech?
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I think it's hilarious that the eBay seller has a reserve price on this,
as though there's a lot of pent up demand for something that nobody
(including the seller) even knows what it does.
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zeboxes were
synchronized, and I suspected that was a factor. (I did not suspect
Random Mix at that time.) However, I have since un-synchronized the
players, and the problem still occurs.
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it was
playing at the point where Squeezecenter had already advanced. In other
words, Squeezecenter never paused or stopped the music during the period
when the SB3 was off. On that occasion, I checked the Squeezecenter log
immediately afterward, and there did not appear to be any entries or
err
ia770 skin should give about the same
> experience as well.
It looks like the PepperPad could work, but the thing is huge (about 11
x 6 inches) and costs around $700. If only Nokia had added IR output in
the N810.
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remote. The N800 does, however, have the benefit of real web browsing,
which sometimes comes in handy when crashed on the couch in front of
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s instance, the Receiver's lack of IR input and output was
the limiting factor. Yet it would be preferable to have the Squeezebox
display on the remote rather in the rack of AV gear.
Does IRBlaster let you control an entire home theater via the
Controller
, the user would still need at least two
remote controls. Logitech, of all companies, should be in the ideal
position to unify those functions into a single remote.
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