*If this is already posted elsewhere, my apologies*
John Darko has a good appreciation for the merits of Squeezeboxes and
how well they hold up against today's popular offerings.
Not sure if I can get away with posting a link, but I'll try below:
YouTube: The GREATEST music streamer of ALL
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I think this is a good thing
and I wish it all the success in the world.
I certainly don't think it is excessively priced, considering the
quality of the hardware you're getting and broad support of streaming
protocols.
I have been using a Cubox-i2ex
cliveb wrote:
> It strikes me that the Squeezebox ecosystem has already migrated to the
> technical hobbyist domain; a bit like MythTV.
> And because LMS is open-source, it is likely to remain alive and well
> for many years to come, but only within that restricted niche.
> I personally shall
Hi Guys,
Nothing lasts forever, but I am have to say I am impressed by the amount
of activity that's springing up around the globe these days basically by
hobbyists and the technically able users, but it all seems very positive
to me. Some key enablers have been Logitech's enlightened GPL
pippin wrote:
> There's another issue with Siri: it only properly works in English. Yes,
> it supports other languages, too, but the problem is it's not
> multi-lingual. So if I set it to German and then try to search for an
> album with an English name I first have to figure out what Siri
pippin wrote:
>
>
> No, the Apple TV NEEDS a remote control, it's not one by itself.
>
>
I totally understand your point, but I was wondering with Siri
integration in the new Apple TV, can we get searches inside content
known to Apps? I get the impression that voice control is meant to
I find the following combo is stable with excellent SQ
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Has anyone (in US) selected the 5 volt PSU? I have been adding the
recommended components listed on the FAQ, to my Digi-Key shopping list,
I haven't picked out a PSU. Thoughts?
Mouser #: 826-DA12-050US-M
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dasmueller wrote:
^ I believe that most if not all who have been following this thread
applaud the efforts that folks have made. Some have made suggestions
which have been perceived as more than can be done at this point.
Perhaps some or all of their wishes may be met in the future. Some who
Hi, I just wanted to voice my support for this initiative and say that
I'll be joining the ranks of testers once Mouser fulfills my order
placed yesterday.
I hope to be counted among the ranks of those who do rather than
those who whine from the sidelines. My sincere congrats to those
who've
I am very happy to see this initiative, and wish you great success with
it. It makes a great deal of sense to go for device independence, but I
hope you will have some differentiated hardware in your ecosystem, since
the digital streaming music business is quite crowded by now. I am sure
you have
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Can't agree that the graphical volume slider is redundant. The hardware
buttons are nice for people who know about them, but it's the not the
first place new users will look to control the volume.
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Since Logitech exited the SB hardware market, it would not be a
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I'm sure many of us could see the benefit of this, including the ability
have client and server on the same machine with high resolution bits out
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Well, do we seriously believe they build up all of the new
infrastructure just for a re-branded radio?
It is not such a big investment for them in these days of virtual
servers and CDNs. They could be testing the market for a simplified
(reduced functionality) device before
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perfecten...? Some special way for Mac devotees to put down those of
us who haven't moved on (sic) to bow in adoration at The Church of
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http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg211.txt
Audirvana allows iTunes to catalog FLAC files and cause them to be
played back by Audiovana's backend via creation of proxy files. All it
takes is to drag a group of FLAC files into the Add Files to iTunes
drop-zone, with the quality setting at the default of Proxies only, no
sound. This is much
3 x Touch (1 for Audio-only paired with a nice DAC, 1 for main AV
system, 1 for bedside headphone listening)
1 x Receiver (bonus room)
The recent bad news caused me to add one additional Touch, which is the
one connected to the AV system. I can't see hardware component failure
being much of an
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of a personal tech revolution. Sad that he should have to leave us so
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with SBS 7.5.x.
Ron, it looks as if you were speed-reading the OP's remarks. Pski is
really complaining that the 7.6.1 scanner is not capable of processing
certain of his artwork files and instead of skipping them with a
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Airfoil is working for you and is probably the most complete/mature
solution out there. If it's $25 that bothers you there are things like
http://www.hersson.net/raopx , which Google found for me, but looks
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2) Cambridge - 550A Integrated Amplifier
3) Marantz - PM5004 Integrated Amp
All about $500 in the US, which is more than a few $100 but realistic
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Consider MediaMonkey as it syncs to quite a few mobile phones including
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(under Advanced, Networking) to switch to
mysqueezebox.com, I can't get it to work for me.
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an atom based system is the way to go choose one of the dual core
models,install vortexbox (www.vortexbox.org) and hide it away in a
corner you wont go back to anything else
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system bottle
neck. I don't have any worries about the Carver amp, but the Adcom pre
has a 0.5dB bandwidth of 20Hz to 20kHz, and the speakers top out at
22kHz.
It's 2011 and its still well past time to settle the matter
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sorry for the likes of Linn Records and HDTracks if this
were to happen, though.
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Sometimes you can get DHCP to populate these settings for you and then
make them static by saving them with lan_ip_mode=0, which is fine if
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tracks will buffer quickly to 100%
but subsequently fail to play.
Tried the same thing on an IP3K based Squeezebox 3, and Rhapsody plays
perfectly fine.
The OP had it right, IMO. This seems to be an incompatibility of
Rhapsody with the Touch's firmware.
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http://forum.rhapsody.com/rhapsody/topics/rhapsody_suddenly_failing_on_squeezebox
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there as well. It would be a major problem to
keep multiple copies in synch.
So, I clearly need a client-server approach, which the Airtunes/Airplay
ecosystem doesn't have. I am not aware that there are any plans to
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on them (if you are on a Linux
type system) https://launchpad.net/mysql-tuning-primer
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If you're using the latest nightly builds, there were 6 new discrete IR
codes added for Harmony remote integration (presets 1-6).
I don't know if this is causing your issue.
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andyg;552973 Wrote:
but it's a large job and I don't have the tuits to work on it right now.
...and the pointy-haired boss is forcing to put your round tuits into a
square hole? (Don't answer that!)
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samples for encoding into the FLAC
file.
How about re-ripping DSOTM with that option unchecked? Just a
suggestion.
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in the first three quarters
of 2009. Those early adopter geeks seem to have quite some purchasing
power...
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has been selected, use the pull-down menu to change from Automatic
(DHCP) to Manual and and the click Add, so that you can fill out the
Address, Netmask and Gateway as well as the appropriate DNS server
address. Click Apply. Done.
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(if you use that)
Didn't try.
- any problems with squeezeslave
Didn't try.
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5 seconds latency in the buffering with
default settings.
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through a SqueezeBox system, I might begin to suspect the transcoding
s/w binaries are not working as they should (but it's odd that others
haven't noticed this).
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to leave my 40 LCD TV on
just to stream music. A lot of multi-media boxes, also do music, but
not very well. For example, I had a Western Digital TV box that played
flac and ogg, but sold it when I found out it didn't even manage gapless
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Would you mind stating your SBS version and OS platform it is running
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mode for the album art grid and allow drag-and-drop of an album onto the
playlist window taking up the other 1/3 of the space.
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that would let a user know what he is agreeing to?
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There don't seem to be any bugs open at the moment that match your
issue.
What happens when you disable native playback of AIFF and thereby force
transcoding to FLAC?
Have you tried the 7.4.2 nightly? There could have been a fix that had
the side-effect of fixing your issue.
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, although it that's what it takes,
I guess it's what I'll have to do.
At risk of being too simple, you did double check that the digital
volume control is at 100%. Best to disable it for this kind of
application, but you may have accidentally adjusted it at some point.
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the most recommendable version out today, while 7.5 is working very well
for me too.
My feeling is that the Touch will be an excellent product, and will not
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But would the official remote for such a device have to be the existing
SBC? You can't propose a displayless Transporter that needs Net::UDAP
and iPeng to make it work, so something official would need to be done.
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The web UI is noticeably faster, and even manipulation of long play
lists has become practical for the first time.
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I am doing my best to help.)
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uses them, but as an example of the kind of
signal path that could be all digital consider the following:
http://www.icepower.bang-olufsen.com/en/solutions/mobile/mobilesound3/
(The above is underpowered, for the Sonos application but the concept
still stands.)
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Normally, I also use Airport Express units at each of 3 SB locations, so
that would not count as a test. But if you need me to try an experiment
and let the Squeezeboxen speak WiFi for themselves, I am up for it.
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for your particular network; the above is _only_ an example.
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of lan_ip_mode
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perception of this product line. Hopefully,
someone gathers statistics on the average time to dismiss her when she
pops up.
The usability of any company's website is the public's first impression
of the likely usability of its products.
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Pippin,
Does iPeng 1.2 require 7.4? If I upgrade my iPOD touch to iPeng 1.2,
will I be able to use it without also upgrading my SC software? Assuming
it fails, does it fail gracefully with 7.3.4?
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If you use both SN and SBS, you will need 7.4 to prevent the firmware
repeatedly reflashing itself; such behavior is strictly forbidden in our
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It's real pity the current batch of new
products didn't anticipate 802.11n becoming official.
What bull. The products were in manufacturing before the 802.11n spec
was official. Its impossible without a time travel machine to
anticipate
or implies developers as being to blame for
this strategic decision. And if you can show different, I will certainly
appologize.
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channels that don't overlap). If this is not a problem for you now,
don't worry about it! However, if you start to see unreliable streaming,
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the clock edge to be early or late to different degrees) or random
(residual phase noise on the clock signal) or a combination of all
three.
I am not going to get into the religious/tribal invective about how
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Dean,
Glad you are willing to stick the forums and to continue the great
tradition of share and enjoy. ^H^H^H^H^H^H, I mean Free your music!
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Must be some kind of config issue on my end then. Is there a log file or
something like that I can purge that might help?
If you're using 7.3.3 you might want to try 7.3.4.
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and far-reaching. Something like -damager- just installed,
perhaps?
Sorry, normal SqueezeBox enthusiasm will be resumed as soon as
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Excellent aspiration. Very hard to do.
I noticed thet Sonos has a Design Director for User Experience in the
recent demo video they posted: http://www.sonos.com/demo/demo.aspx
Does Logitech SMBU have an equivalent role?
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a senior UI designer would normally get to do. Someone
thinking holistically about the complete delivered user experience
including, but not limited to UI, in other words.
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that's what I found with my SBRs).
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I would also mention that your original bug report is valid.
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Good info about CPU C-States here:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/611
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So if you've been playing vorbis files natively for years without
trouble, I don't know how you did it!
Anyway, if you have the flexibility to transcode or not, it might be
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CPU power to do it.
I admire the systematic troubleshooting you did. Such information would
be excellent input to a new bug report (hint, hint).
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